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Mark Paul @markpaul.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent local reporting on what the Trump attacks means for the Sacramento economy. www.abridged.org/news/immigra...

Immigration crackdown threatens key industries in the Sacramento region

The number of foreign-born workers in the Sacramento region has grown dramatically, affecting key industries as deportations increase.

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Mark Paul @markpaul.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent local reporting on what the attack on immigrants means for the Sacramento economy. www.abridged.org/news/immigra...

Immigration crackdown threatens key industries in the Sacramento region

The number of foreign-born workers in the Sacramento region has grown dramatically, affecting key industries as deportations increase.

www.abridged.org

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 3d

Does the news reflect what we die from?

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News.

In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in…

Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

www.canarymedia.com

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Mark Paul @markpaul.bsky.social · 3d

Trump has decided you only get coal for Christmas

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. The strong growth usually seen due to shipments of holiday merchandise, “we are not seeing that,” said Dale Rogers ..

@cnbc.com #FreightRecession
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/s...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3d

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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Mark Paul @markpaul.bsky.social · 4d

Republicans and the business elite were hoping that Trump would be, as Wm. F. Buckley described Spanish fascist dictator Franco, “only as oppressive as it is necessary to be to maintain total power.” They weren't reckoning on Trump & Miller's total depravity.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

I kinda remember Trump pardoning a bunch of people for this, many of whom beat up cops and put them in the hospital. I think they were yelling something about the Vice President as they stormed the building.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 4d

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 4d

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

As I recently wrote, "globalist" has long been a term that antisemites have used to attack and demonize Jews.

link.motherjones.com/public/41852...

Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

UPDATE: now DHS says "globalists" will be blocked "from ever entering our country."

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
RECAPTURE OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY!
This week, we arrested hundreds of criminal illegal aliens, terrorists, and terrorist sympathizers across our country in Portland in Chicago.
Now, we need your help. Block communists, terrorists, and globalists from ever entering our country. Go to USCIS.GOV/JOIN
@MicahBock

Screenshot from video: YOU'LL BLOCK COMMUNISTS, TERRORISTS, AND GLOBALISTS
1:03/3:09

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 4d

Stephen Miller is a dangerous madman living in a world of his own making. I really can’t believe there isn’t more discourse around the madness we are witnessing each day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 5d

More messaging like this please

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 5d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 5d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 11d

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11d

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”

Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e

Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia?

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.”

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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 11d

What really pushes this into true greatness is the "some."

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Mark Paul @markpaul.bsky.social · 12d

Klein is catching flak from the left both for not thinking about the right and for giving its spokespersons a platform. Even as someone who, like Coates, recognizes the power of the illiberal tradition, I find that unfair and an evasion of the big question: How do we win?

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Mark Paul @markpaul.bsky.social · 12d

Reading this reminds me of Saddam Hussein’s palaces. Whatever happened to that dude?

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 12d

Kept thinking about the debate between Klein and Coates and wrote down some thoughts.

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 12d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d

79. American citizen.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12d

This is really a stark example of abject political cowardice and how the administration brings it out of people

January 2025: introduces legislation making reparations for the Wounded Knee Massacre

Yesterday: I don’t have an opinion on calling it a battle

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 13d

What a coward rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/g...

Sen. John Thune said he accepts Hegseth's decision on Wounded Knee medals

Thune avoided directly stating his opinion on the medals.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 12d

1) This is disgusting, blatant propaganda that goes against everything a university should be.

2) AND, they still lost $790,000,000 even after selling like this. EVERY university, hell, every organization, company and institution should take not that conceding NEVER works.

#academicsky

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 12d

To the 300 Northwestern students refusing to watch US-Israeli propaganda: I applaud your integrity & critical analysis. I may not be able to teach & you may not be able to learn on campus. But we WILL teach & learn throughout the world to make a better future 👊🏾 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training

Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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