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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Trader Joe's Exec1: we'll sell lots of really good stuff at good prices

Exec2: that doesn't sound at all evil. We're a big company, we're supposed to be evil

Founder1: we are going to have the most inadequate, cramped, badly designed parking lots in the fucking world

Founder2: ok that works

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

look i'm just gonna say: everyone involved in this shit needs to go to jail

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 6h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Runako @runakog.bsky.social · 6h

This becomes rapidly apparent when trying to convert an AI demo into a real product/service. There’s always a deficit that must be covered by a person.

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 7h

I've realized that a whole lot of smart and well-informed people are overestimating the value and potential of "AI" tools because they underestimate how smart and well-informed they themselves are and how much expertise they bring to the interaction.

It's the curse of knowledge all the way down.

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Runako @runakog.bsky.social · 7h

Will be surprising to me if US life expectancy does not decrease over this period. Will take decades to recover.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

Measles (Rubeola)
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As of October 7, 2025, a total of 1,563 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States. Among these, 1,542
measles cases were reported by 42 jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A total of 21 measles cases were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
There have been 44 outbreaks** reported in 2025, and 87% of confirmed cases (1,355 of 1,563) are outbreak-associated. For comparison, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases (198 of 285) were outbreak-associated.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

“This is not sustainable”

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Runako @runakog.bsky.social · 7h

Is there a way you could channel this energy into getting larger groups to speak louder? Black people are a very small minority community.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 15h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 7h

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 7h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Runako @runakog.bsky.social · 16h

Basura.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 16h

They're using cop/exonerative tense for the RIF notifications

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 16h

You are being affected by a RIF” is the new “officer-involved shooting”

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 16h

To prepare for the future, we have to look beyond road expansion and beyond cars. Because if everyone who moves to Atlanta uses cars to the same extent as the current population, we'll have a huge problem. We can't sustainably increase car trips at the same rate as population growth.

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Darin Givens @atlurbanist.bsky.social · 16h

We're not going to widen this interstate and we're not going to build a double-decker expansion. Politically and financially, it's not happening. This is the fullest capacity we'll have for cars on I-75/85 through Midtown Atlanta. The same can be said for most roadways in the city.

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car congestion on about 15 lanes of highway

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 18h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Oh absolutely hell yes.

“Agency leaders who direct this work and Human Resources employees who conduct this work run the risk of being prosecuted under the Antideficiency Act, which could result in fines or imprisonment.”

democrats-budget.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

nobel peace prize is not awarded posthumously

just a little fun fact to file away for next year for absolutely no particular reason

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

The cost of homeowners and auto insurance in FL is insane, but Republicans are always laser focused on the important distractions from all that stuff.

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 1d

“A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination”
www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr. Lily @lilyanadream.bsky.social · 20h

Having a parent die is more horrible than you can imagine until it happens

We all need more community

The dominant culture can fuck itself

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 21h

As evening fell on the site of an ICE abduction at Lincoln and Foster, a lone protester held a vigil.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 23h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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