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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

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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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 15h

And a step below even that is the belief that a president who kills civilians in fishing boats in the Caribbean without due process is somehow worthy of the prize.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

Colombia’s President Says Boat Bombed by U.S. Was Carrying Colombians

www.nytimes.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

Columbia’s president: “Indications show that the last boat bombed was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside it. I hope their families come forward and report it.”

The US is basically killing foreign civilians in international waters without due process. Seems like this should be a bigger story.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

Pope Leo: “And [the Catholic Church] knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

www.npr.org

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

Today on "Interesting Times with Ross Douthat," we talk with a nutjob who "believes America should be a Theocracy." Interesting times, indeed. Thank you NYT for expanding the Overton Window!

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

I heard an interview of Ro Khanna, who scolded Dems for talking about Trump's fascism. "Look at Churchill," Khanna said, "he wasn't talking about fascism all the time."

That's literally what Churchill did before the war. He was viewed as a crank until it was time to actually fight the fascists.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

FFS, Trump and the GOP have been playing this shell game with the American people since 2016. No serious journalist should allow them to continue saying this nonsense.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 1d

The US bombing campaign of Yemen under Trump led to the deaths of 224 civilians between March and the end of the campaign in May 2025.

It’d be like when Kissinger won and it was said that “political satire became obsolete.”

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 2d

Though I can say that a Chicago winter makes Boston feel like Miami.

John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 2d

I lived in Chicago for several years. I’ve seen winter temperatures there of 40 degrees below zero with the wind chill. The residents drink shots in the bars till 4 AM & eat lots of pork products. Chicagoans are a lot tougher & heartier than coastal elites. Trump may not want to mess with them.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

Michigan Avenue right now.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d

Longtime Apple veteran Willy Hodges is quite upset about Tim Cook bowing to fascists & removing ICE-related apps from the app store.

My Email to Tim Cook

It's once again time for Apple's CEO to deliver action as lofty as his language

substack.com

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 2d

“They make a desert and call it peace.”—Tacitus

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 2d

It's very revealing that Trump supporters see anti-fascists in Germany, during the 1920s and 30s, as the BAD guys.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 2d

Belichick's communication with his staff in the past two weeks has been described as "weird" and "distant" by multiple members of UNC's coaching staff. Multiple coaches were unable to get hold of him during UNC's bye week

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 2d

Has Pam Bondi seen the Trump/Epstein photos mentioned by Michael Wolff? She didn't definitively say no yesterday. Their existence would explain a lot of Trump's guilty behavior in relation to the Epstein story over the past several months.

elsievoteblue.bsky.social @elsievoteblue.bsky.social · 2d

Listen up people 💙That lying witch Pam Bondi , can keep denying anything involved Trump and Epstein!!
Michael Wolff has receipts 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#DemVoice1
#ProudBlue
#DemsUnited

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 3d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3d

Well done by @whitehouse.senate.gov

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 3d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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John Reeves @reevesjw.bsky.social · 3d

She's utterly corrupt and will literally say anything to protect Epstein's best friend for ten years, Donald Trump. It's interesting she somehow knew details about Reid Hoffmann but never seems to remember anything about Trump's close relationship with Epstein.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 4d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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