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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly did think at one point that Benioff was one of the few CEOs able to at least mouth progressive words. Another one succumbs to the tech bro group chat circle-jerk.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1d

Marc Benioff went full Tom Cotton to @heatherknightsf.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 1d

Ft Hood (Cavazos) soldiers in line at the food bank

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Oregon Journalism Project @oregonjournalism.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon’s Most Dangerous Job is Not What You Might Expect.

Health care workers are much more likely to suffer injuries on the job.

Read our latest from @krathore.bsky.social:

www.oregonjournalismproject.org/oregons-most...

Oregon's Most Dangerous Workplace — Oregon Journalism Project

www.oregonjournalismproject.org

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 1d

Need to know how this compares to viewer stats for the Jeffrey Epstein satire doc by @theonion.com

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 1d

It is always reason enough just to support your fellow frogs

Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 2d

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. The IPO was approved by SEC juuuust before gov shutdown (that is, rushed by Trumpists). And I didn’t realize uni endowments have stakes in the PE firms doing this IPO. Smells bad for many reasons.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 2d

This is truly the height of fashion now of days 😍

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 2d

Kid’s high school is doing a fundraiser where the adults go on a bus tour of Portland dive bars… while wearing vintage formal dress? Is this some kind of ironic upper-middle-class GenX thing? I hate it.

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 2d

The app somehow has been copying all its data to a datacenter in Russia

RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 2d

Someday we will learn that Trump has been getting the Presidential Daily Brief through a vibe-coded TikTok clone that delivers 100% AI slop videos in a feed curated by Stephen Miller screaming prompts at a 22-year-old staffer

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

lol each of Neel Ghost's Zohran videos is more unhinged than the last one. this is an instant classic www.tiktok.com/@neel.ghost/...

na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Zohran #sketchcomedy #zohran #batman

TikTok video by neel.ghost

www.tiktok.com

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3d

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 3d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 3d

Anemona Hartocollis? AYFKM?

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 5d

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 9d

This credulous moron specifically. You can block him before he ever posts! @ianwardreports.bsky.social

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 9d

Commandeering the Forest Service website to lie to me about why the government is closed 🤬

Screenshot of the official US Forest Service website, with a banner at the top reading:
“The Radical Left Democrats shutdown the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions.
President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.”

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 10d

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 10d

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 10d

This is why I had to mute him

RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 11d

Totally believable that NYT spent only a single paragraph on Trump’s speech before the generals, and did not mention that he declared war against Americans as the sole reason for using the military.

But somehow I’m still shocked.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14d

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

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RalphBo @ralphbo.bsky.social · 14d

This includes you, Progress for Portland

Jonathan Maus @jonathanmaus.bsky.social · 14d

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout.

They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14d

War-ravaged Portland

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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