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Karen Lillis @bookstorememoir.bsky.social · 2h

In July, DT & Senator McCormick made a big show of promising huge $$ for “investments in AI” in Pittsburgh & PA.

Question: What the F good does big $$ investment do if it leads directly to layoffs? What does “investment in AI” actually MEAN to We, The People?

WESA @wesa.fm · 1d

Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute is a federally funded research center focusing on artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. It has worked with the U.S. Department of Defense since 1984, according to its website.

Carnegie Mellon lays off 75 from Software Engineering Institute

The 75 positions make up about 10% of the Software Engineering Institute’s staff.

www.wesa.fm

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 9h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 9h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Pittsburgh's Public Source @publicsource.org · 1d

Two separate lawsuits filed in federal court today allege civil rights violations by Ambridge police in conjunction with ICE-related arrests in July. buff.ly/oj94Kkg

Lawsuit: Ambridge police unlawfully arrested protesters observing ICE-involved patrol

Following a surge of ICE arrests in Beaver County, protesters allege police used excessive force and violated their civil rights.

buff.ly

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 3h

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Pam Hemphill @pamhemphill53.bsky.social · 3h

Tonight at Portland ICE facility!

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 4h

Folks, I say this unironically, but we're just flat-out going to win. The Russians just...don't have the moxie.

WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 4h

Troops of the 28th Mechanized Brigade “Knights of the Winter Campaign” turned a Steam Deck console into a remote control for a machine gun at their position.

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 3h

Oooooh, some fishing boats are gonna get it today...he's gonna be mad bigly.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

www.theguardian.com

Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 3h

Tried reading this absolute felching by the NYT but couldn't get through its thick slather of aggrandizement of the nepo princeling semi-criminal Kushner.

Also, how many times can one use "deal guys" in a sentence?
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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 4h

Look, Spain needs that money to support its cocaine habit. Have some respect.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 12h

You know what fascism looks like? Attorney General Letitia James getting criminally indicted on literal trumped-up charges by the criminal who she fought to hold accountable for the actual crimes he committed and is now using the full power of the US govt to seek vengeance.

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 4h

I support the Frog Movement!

Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 8h

Last night it said 100+ bought in the past month. Tonight, 200+. The legion grows.

screenshot of amazon page that says Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume. 200 plus bought in past month

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12h

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 4h

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 13h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21h

Trump’s Gaza deal may bring a welcome pause to years of bloodshed — but let’s be clear: one ceasefire doesn’t make him a peacemaker.
While he chases a Nobel Prize abroad, he’s been stoking violence at home.
Peace isn’t a brand. It’s a character test.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The "Peacemaker" Who Thrives on Chaos

Trump’s Gaza deal may earn him applause — but his record of stoking violence at home shows he’s no champion of peace.

open.substack.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11h

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 16h

So, I and millions of other US tax payers are going to lose our access to affordable health insurance bc Trump Regime has claimed it "can't afford" to extend the ACA subsidies; yet, we can afford to give $2O billion to the weird El Vez lookalike who runs Argentina?

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration finalizes economic rescue plan for Argentina

The announcement came after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and U.S. officials have huddled in recent days with Argentine officials.

www.politico.com

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 16h

Will be fun watching another of Beach Bunny, Esq.'s cases get tossed unceremoniously. Her arguments are more stretched than her g-string.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Letitia James has been indicted on one count of bank fraud in Virginia, charge brought directly by Lindsey Halligan, just like the Comey indictment.

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 16h

Seems like our PA Senator voted no to Congress reasserting its authority over war powers, in light of the Trump Regime's new habit of wantonly assassinating people in international waters, because he doesn't really want to have to work at his job and take any real responsibility for anything.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 16h

Sounds like there's a federal judge out there who JUST MIGHT make a pretty good rapper themself, what with THAT bumpin' vocabulary...

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 16h

"The reasonable listener of 'Not Like Us' would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations."

“Not Like Us” is replete with profanity, trash-talking, threats of violence, and figurative and hyperbolic language, all of which are indicia of opinion. A reasonable listener would not equate a song that contains lyrics such as, “Ain’t no law, boy, you ball boy, fetch Gatorade or somethin’, since 2009 I had this b**** jumpin’,” with accurate factual reporting. Accordingly, the reasonable listener of “Not Like Us” would conclude that Lamar is rapping hyperbolic vituperations.

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Millie(let) says FREE PALESTINE @gyro.bsky.social · 17h

*please* excommunicate JD Vance, it'd be so funny

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Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant @mexicanrestaurant.bsky.social · 19h

Pope Leo said go to hell neolibs

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 23h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

Rep. Jamie Raskin has sent letters to four of the nation's largest banks demanding information related to "more than $1.5 billion in suspicious financial transactions flagged by the banks tied to sex trafficking crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell and their co-conspirators."

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 21h

Whoever can bootleg and stream a hate-watch party online is king.

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 21h

“Melania” was directed by Brett Ratner in the filmmaker’s first film since he was accused of sexual assault in 2017. In the wake of allegations from several women, Warner Bros. severed ties with Ratner, where his production company RatPac had been set up."

Lol. Of course it was.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

“.. Step inside Melania Trump’s world as she orchestrates inauguration plans, navigates the complexities of the White House transition, and reenters public life with her family,” the official synopsis reads.

@thewrap.com
www.thewrap.com/melania-trum...

Amazon MGM's Melania Trump Documentary to Be Released in Theaters in January

Amazon MGM Studios will release its Melania Trump documentary "Melania" in theaters in January.

www.thewrap.com

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Witamy Paçzki @hmullphoto.bsky.social · 21h

In the unlikely case of Trump deciding to send troops into Pittsburgh while Corey is in charge, we are fucked.

He's no Pritzker. Lol.

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