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Josh Scherr @joshscherr.bsky.social · 2d

Print edition @theonion.com ads don’t miss

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 2d

Here's Rep. Gregory Meeks, top Dem on the House Foreign Affairs Cmte, after a briefing with DOD officials about Trump's now-routine killings of people on supposed "drug boats":

"Incredible" for "how completely absent any credible legal rationale was for the admin's" strikes.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

man, it sure looks like republicans are using threat of federal government force to try and silence journalists

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2d

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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 4d

Finally! The truth is spelt out officially.

“Let’s recognise our failure.”

“The truth is that we have failed to avoid an overshooting above 1.5C in the next few years. And that going above 1.5C has devastating consequences.“

www.theguardian.com/...

#ClimateCrisis

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 7d

Without having followed the link, I’d like to think this might not be mutually exclusive of David Graeber’s bullshit jobs analysis. Doubt it. Also, I’d rather pay a person well to do work that needs to be done than subsidize margins for machine owners sucking up energy & water while rent seeking.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 7d

the lies and disdain for labor are bad enough, but the way the culture treats these unremarkable men like they're sociologists is salt in the wound

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

So that's where we're at.

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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 8d

"They don’t like to cover the FBI as a political police force. I mean, part of the reason why J. Edgar Hoover was so successful was he had the media behind him. And it’s still the same way."

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‘Decades of National Security Policy Have Gotten Us to Where We Are’: CounterSpin interview with Chip Gibbons on Trump's plan to crush the left

"It's not just that it's written in such a way that it opens the door to political policing. That was the original intent."

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 8d

I'm just burying my head in the past (and very dry satire of its foibles in what was nearly realtime or accurate speculative fiction then), in the form of Graham Greene stuff.

Of course, it turns out there's nothing new.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 8d

Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. —Dr. Benway, in Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 8d

looked up the wikipedia article and album notes on an album i'm listening to and (a) woah, it's a pynchon reference. i should have gotten that. and (b) holy fuck, i know someone who played on it!

Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 10d

More like a dump.

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Alex Lawson @alaw202.bsky.social · 10d

As feckless and useless as he is, Rand Paul is correct here.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10d

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Nick Schwellenbach @schwellenbach.bsky.social · 10d

“the real culprits are huge profits for health care investors, a gigantic bureaucracy deployed to extract those profits, and health services skewed to what’s profitable rather than what’s needed.”

Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 10d

A really important piece. The problem, as always here, is generating the politics that supports a move to the right policy. www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/h... via @statnews.com

The U.S. experiment with profit-driven health care has failed

“The market competition, managed care, and ‘corporate efficiency’ that economists prescribed as the cure for health care inflation instead accelerated it.”

www.statnews.com

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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me · 10d

The White House demolition is being privately funded by Google, Lockheed, and others, according to The Hill.

If the President can just privately fund whatever government programs lack appropriations, that's another nail in the coffin of the Constitution.

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 11d

What happens when we all put our heads in the cloud: https://machination.org/2025/10/21/what-happens-when-we-all.html

Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 11d

Another important qualifier, in my book, about humor and insults in general: are you punching down or punching up?

Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 12d

Running a contact center and maybe your CRM or telephony or other contact points... or all of 'em went down with the AWS us-east outage? It might be a bad day for you if you didn't have a plan. I've been through it.

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 12d

I am a technologist but a morning like this encourages my Luddism (understanding technology’s impact, valuing autonomy, adopting it intentionally). I had cash; while Venmo was down, our visit to the PTSO coffee table outside school happened anyway & The Childe did some practical math.

Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 14d

A wide shot of a folks at the No Kings rally today. Signs say "Defend Democracy: It's Time For A General Strike", "EAT (struck-through), TAX THE RICH", "IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE." A free DC t-shirt can be seen, a man wears a shirt with multiple "rock on" hand signs in different colors, it says "we rock together."

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 14d

A woman holds a bust (possibly meant to be a worn worn) of the Statue of Liberty above herself. Lady Liberty has a look of dismay on her face. Next to her, a sign says We The People in Declaration-style script. A sign held by an onlooker says "RIF Vought."

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 14d

I appreciate the ecumenical critiques. Not to “both-sides” it: there are significant differences and fairly one-sided undemocratic reasons for the complete deadlock, but this sign could very well stand the test of time. I had my ear out for process and not just content critiques from the stage.

A woman in a wheelchair holds up a sign that says “Clippy helps more than this congress,” with a printed illustration of the infamous Microsoft Office software help agent.

Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 16d

I have to wonder, with Donald Trump’s particular enthusiasm for McDonald’s, and his self-aggrandized narrative about his role in real estate, does Trump play their Monopoly game?

Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 23d

I took metro this morning. Got on a Silver Line in the direction of Ashburn. Operator pronounced it ASSburn.

Yeah we’re all on the train to ass burn these days.

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Institute for Public Accuracy @accuracy.org · 24d

Taxpayers File Legal Charges Over Gaza Genocide Against U.S. Government
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[AP reports: “The United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the Gaza war two y …

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 24d

Broadly, it still seems to me that Republicans tend to disenfranchise voters. Democrats tend to disenfranchise candidates. It is still all fucked up. Neither argue for actual democracy and pluralism, as party policy at least.

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Matthew Bradley @machination.org · 24d

Listening to SCOTUS arguments, and to Paul Clement admit Republicans have a hard time finding voters who want to join Republicans in court to have standing to support Republican complaints about (what in my mind amounts to) voter enfranchisement.

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