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Todd Kolod💙 @toddkolod.bsky.social · 8h

Good idea.
We are anti-fascist, not antifa.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 14h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Ukraine War Brief Podcast @ukrainewarpod.bsky.social · 7h

This is a fantastic Reuters article detailing how “layoffs” work (or don’t) in Russia. Unemployment is at record lows because Russian companies tend not to fire, but cut job hours or wages.

1. Cemros, largest cement maker, 4 day workweek.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Russia's industrial titans furlough workers as its war economy stalls

From railways and automobiles to metals, coal, diamonds and cement, some of Russia's biggest industrial companies are putting employees on furlough or cutting staff as the war economy slows, domestic demand stalls and exports dry up.

www.reuters.com

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Makonori @makonori61.bsky.social · 7h

ABSOLUTELY.

These scumbags carry out crimes against unarmed, peaceful citizens.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11h

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 6h

lol, lmao

qkww.bsky.social @qkww.bsky.social · 10h

Halligan is now riding the rocket docket. She's not gonna get any time to learn how criminal justice works, but she's gonna find out all the same. First batch of discovery is due October 20 in the Comey matter.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 5h

Aid to Ukraine and whats needed to replace US part. Some could do more I think?

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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 4h

Gun rights folks are seething. They want Pam Bondi fired. And I gotta say - I don’t blame them.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 7h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 4h

At night, Russia launched 118 drones and one Kh-31 missile at Ukraine overnight. Air defense, electronic warfare, and mobile units shot down or suppressed 103 drones across the north, east, and south. The attack is still ongoing in several regions.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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MB Barber @mbbarber916.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago priest arrives at the ICE facility with all the priceless fancy stuff and looking like a procession straight out the Da Vinci Code. Requests to bless its inhabitants. Not let in.

Priest ain’t happy.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 16h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 6h

I’m feeling super grouchy about the crime hysteria on X and some folks calling for the National Guard. It’s astonishingly dangerous. It’s like training the Eye of Mordor on San Francisco. STFU! Especially Marc Benioff who seems to think he can paper over his bad behavior with a huge donation.

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 1d

Personal suffering aside, the regime that doesn't feed it soldiers have historically been short-lived

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Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I'd have to say the first hint was when Bennioff build that giant tower in the shape of an uncircumcised d*ck... that could be seen all the way in the Richmond district across the city because it broke the old heigh limits

(Looking at you too Scott Wiener and #SB79...😠)

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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David Whitehouse, Ph.D @davidw38.bsky.social · 1d

He absolutely knew what he was doing. Salesforce has had a near monopoly on sales/customer management systems but that monopoly is now being challenged by newer, AI-centric solutions. Benioff want's a seat at Trump's tech oligarch table.

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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder too A lot of homes are starting to enter foreclosure.

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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

The Ukrainians are on the verge of destroying the Russian oil industry which is the main source of revenue.

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Deadline @deadline.com · 1d

The upcoming fourth season of Showtime's Yellowjackets will be its last.

‘Yellowjackets’ To End With Season 4 On Showtime

The upcoming fourth season of Showtime's Yellowjackets will be its last.

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Mary McNamara @marymcnamara.bsky.social · 1d

And just a couple of strikes away from the collapse of their oil industry, according to CNBC.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

I like this too. www.etsy.com/listing/4301...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

This is the stuff. www.etsy.com/listing/4320...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Is This Thing On? review – Bradley Cooper’s comedy of comedians is a charmer

The actor’s third film as director is a gentle romcom of divorce and standup comedy with standout turns from Will Arnett and Laura Dern

www.theguardian.com

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CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

Joshua Morgenthau is the third-generation owner of Fishkill Farms, a historic Hudson Valley apple farm.

"I feel a sort of duty to preserve the land," he says.