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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 1h

Oscar Amaya has been held in federal immigration custody for over six months after receiving a final order of removal, raising serious constitutional concerns about how long the government can detain people.

'Louisiana Lockup' detention center is punishing immigrants for the same crime twice, new lawsuit says

The Trump administration is detaining undocumented immigrants indefinitely for prior criminal convictions. Now they’re being sued.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

Exclusive: Two-page 1957 manuscript signed by author linked to his classic of beat literature, On the Road A “very significant” unpublished story by Jack Kerouac described as “a lost chapter of the On the Road saga” has been discovered after languishing in the files of an assassinated Mafia crime boss for at least 40 years. The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before his classic of beat literature, On the Road, was published. Continue reading...

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 1h

“These types of influence campaigns have a rather more negative effect than a positive one,” Asle Toje, deputy leader of the Nobel committee, explained.

“Because we talk about it on the committee. Some candidates push for it really hard, and we do not like it.”

Trump only really wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize for one reason: Obama

President loses out to Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado as his dream of surpassing Barack Obama’s achievements continues to elude him

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 1h

Ms. Machado can call Trump anything she likes, as long as it's not Nobel Peace Prize winner.

She paid good odds despite becoming a late favorite at sportsbooks. The house made money on a fools bet on Trump to win. Anyone who bet on a wannabe dictator for a Nobel got what they deserve. Nada.

Nobel Peace Prize winner hailed Trump as ‘visionary’ just days before her victory

Maria Corina Machado was given the award for promoting democracy in Venezuela and says that the US president is the country’s best chance for regime change

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 3h

"There is no defined plan. Anything that's said has like literally changed the next day," Gabe Modert, owner of a custom tooling manufacturer in Michigan told WBUR.

"But when it's a constant moving target, how do you deal with that?," the small business owner asked of inconsistent Trump tariffs.

How Trump's tariffs are squeezing small businesses

President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again tariff strategy has created uncertainty around the world. Can America’s 35 million small businesses stay afloat?

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 3h

“It’s almost impossible to get through to anybody to figure out what is happening,” said Ashley Freberg, who said she is missing several boxes she shipped via UPS from England in September.

“Are my packages actually being destroyed or not?”

#Tariffs
#SmallBusiness

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UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 3h

"Ongoing volatility in U.S. tariff policy is creating significant economic uncertainty," said Hackett Associates founder Ben Hackett, a global port tracker, Reuters reported.

#Tariffs

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 3h

Farmers across the U.S. are grappling with unsold produce as they navigate higher costs from the Trump administration tariffs. CBS News' Lana Zak spoke with farmers who are worried about their livelihoods.

#Tariffs

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Farmers speak out as Trump's tariffs slam crops

Farmers across the U.S. are grappling with unsold produce as they navigate higher costs from the Trump administration tariffs. CBS News' Lana Zak spoke with farmers who are worried about their livelih...

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 3h

The states most impacted are the ones more reliant on agriculture and manufacturing. Those sectors are more likely to be impacted by tariff increases, Zandi says, Axios reported.

#Recession

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22 states are in a recession or close to it, new analysis finds

Twenty-two states are either in a recession or on the precipice of a downturn, according to a new analysis from Moody's Analytics.

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 15h

Encouraged by Stephen Miller, and Pete Hegseth, "What he is doing," writes Charles A. Ray, "is actually making the situation worse by angering residents of the city and setting the stage for a potentially catastrophic incident, similar to Kent State in 1970."

#Chaos
#Violence

Why Troops on the Streets of our Cities Degrade National Security; It’s a Lose-Lose Proposition

The Steady State | Charles A. Ray

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Know your rights. Guard your tone. Protect your neighbor. Panic is surrender in advance; knowledge is armor.🔥👇
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Thursday accused the White House of attempting to “defund the police” by withholding $34 million in antiterrorism and security funding for the New York City subway and regional railroads, stoking a continued feud with the Trump administration.

Hochul Attacks Trump for Withholding $34 Million in Security Funding

The New York governor criticized the Trump administration for withholding federal grant money New York relies on to fund counterterrorism efforts on mass transit.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17h

When it comes to Trump’s immigration policy, cruelty has always been the point. But now anti-immigrant animus is being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 16h

“He is holding my swearing-in hostage to what happens in the Senate,” Grijalva told Cronkite News by phone from Tucson. “Apparently, our democracy right now hinges on whether Speaker Johnson agrees with you politically or not.”

#Epstein
#GOPElectionSupression

Speaker Johnson accused of delaying Grijalva’s swearing-in to protect Epstein files

Sen. Ruben Gallego, confronting Speaker Mike Johnson with Sen. Mark Kelly over his delay in swearing in Adelita Grijalva, accused him to his face of doing so to avoid release of the full Epstein files...

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 20h

Notice the move here: they smear Democrats as “helping illegal immigrants” — then equate that with “trying to overturn election results.” This is already setting up a narrative to invalidate 2026 and 2028 if the Left wins.

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 20h

A Wall Street wake up call, finally?

“If we’re up to October 22, October 23? That — to me — is almost a cutoff point where we should start to think [that] we’re probably not going to have an October CPI,” Omair Sharif, president of analytics and forecasting outfit Inflation Insight, told Politico.

Government economic data was in trouble. Then came the shutdown.

The quality of Labor Department reports guides everything from investment decisions around the globe to Federal Reserve deliberations on interest rates.

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 20h

“For Christians, the problem of the poor leads to the very heart of our faith,” Pope Leo says, because “the poor are not a sociological category, but the very ‘flesh’ of Christ.”

“No Christian can regard the poor simply as a societal problem; they are part of our ‘family.’ They are ‘one of us.’”

Pope Leo in first major document: Love for the poor is not optional for Christians

“I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor,” Pope Leo XIV states in his first m...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

GM relaunches affordable Bolt EV reut.rs/4q84Iw6

GM relaunches affordable Bolt EV

General Motors said on Thursday it was bringing its affordable Bolt electric vehicle back, as the Detroit automaker looks to widen its offerings in the space.

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 21h

Jim Acosta: Corporate media is paralyzed with fear to report on Trump’s cognitive decline. My interview of Jim about how the corporate is failing to cover Trump's cognitive and physical decline. deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/jim-acosta...

Jim Acosta: Corporate media is paralyzed with fear to report on Trump’s cognitive decline

We need independent media more than ever!

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 1d

10/8/25💪Mark & Ruben confront grindr johnson about Adelita Grijalva, 218h epstein vote🇺🇸🙏

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Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 21h

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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Speaker Johnson, swear in Adelita Grijalva. Or are you too scared that Trump and your other GOP buddies are in the Epstein files?

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 21h

"All the reporting that we have gotten, assuming that it is true, is that career professionals and political appointees alike looked at the evidence in this case and concluded that it was not sufficient to meet DOJ standards for bringing an indictment," said former federal prosecutor Kristy Parker.

Transcript: Trump Threats to Jail Foes Darken amid Damning DOJ Leaks

As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how his corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resistanc...

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 21h

Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt warns AI models can be hacked: 'They learn how to kill someone'

"There's evidence that you can take models ... and you can hack them to remove their guardrails," ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt said.

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Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 21h

“We know that the president seems to care a lot about where he won votes and where he lost votes,” Tung Yin, a professor at Portland’s Lewis & Clark Law School who studies national security law, told CNN. “And he seems to be out for some kind of payback for the places that he didn’t do well in.”

Trump has had his sights on Portland, Oregon, for years. This is how we got here | CNN

The president has taken aim at some of the country’s largest Democratic-run cities, sending in federal officers and, in some cases, the US military to aid immigration enforcement and root out what he ...

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