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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 9h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 42m

Also hobbies are nice

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 42m

As a professional anxious person (I've had pretty regular panic attacks since ~5yo), exercise, remembering to eat and drink water, and decent sleep hygiene. Exercise is the biggest one, since it helps with the other two since your exercised body will yell at you if you do not feed/water and rest it

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 2h

got a buddy who works on self-driving tractors that refers to all of them as 'robits' in the same way one would refer to a 'terlet'

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · Sep 6

Was talking to someone from another state yesterday who couldn’t believe it but yes, Ohio law not only requires public school buses to transport kids to private schools, it actually *prioritizes* public bussing for private school students over public school students. Total insanity.

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thousands of Ohio students left without a school bus ride as private school transport expands
by Julie Carr Smyth
apnews.com/article/scho...

Thousands of Ohio students left without a school bus ride as private school transport expands

A scramble is underway in Ohio over a staple of the back-to-school season: rides on the big yellow school bus.

apnews.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 2h

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Absolutely made up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 4h

me and the lads (gender neutral) on our way to enforce the will of the Bishop of Rome by any means necessary (we are going to Costco to get water bottles for border crossers and then we're going to find translators & community resources for them)

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 3h

*Having children* is described as being profound. Pregnancy and birth, universally among the women I've known who have gone through it, is described as sucking shit.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 11h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 5h

the miracle of life! i saw it throughout my childhood and it entirely put me off pregnancy lol.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

Oh: @clairegiangrave.bsky.social with an exclusive:

Pope Leo, in addition to urging U.S. bishops to speak out about mistreatment of immigrants, also told a group of U.S. Latino Catholics who work w/immigrants their job is important — "perhaps especially" in the U.S. religionnews.com/2025/10/08/i...

In private audience Pope Leo XIV encourages Latino Catholics serving fearful U.S. immigrants

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ‘He treated us like dignitaries. He sent a message by having us there. He lifted us,’ said Elizabeth Román, president of the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 5h

ai logo carcinization except instead of crabs its buttholes

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 6h

the only way that a punitive system would work and not be a massive human rights violation is if you did complete family abolition and some serious gender rebalancing, and not in the way that men would enjoy.

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 6h

we've even had practice (clubbing during pride)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 6h

did he offer advice for being on the grindset

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 7h

Pregnancy and birth are objectively terrible

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 15h

I'm at the henge. I'm at the hillfort. I'm at the combination henge and hillfort

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 18h

many things would be greatly improved if people had more Weird Hobbies

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 20h

Ah. Well, that will fuck the ENTIRE network of flights. Not just in the US either.

CNN @cnn.com · 20h

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

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joyeux noel @aiyaruk.bsky.social · 20h

most of the salary-related expenses in healthcare would actually be in nurse/CNA salaries, since 1. there are way more of them and 2. they are actually *underpaid* on average