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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26m

and here at Spotify:

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 26m

New Shareholder Primacy podcast! Me and @activistinvestor.bsky.social talk about the new Activision decision, and whether corporations are people.

Here at Apple:

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M&A litigation, corporate personhood

Podcast Episode · Shareholder Primacy · 10/08/2025 · 32m

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 36m

do people just, like, have these costumes, in case an opportunity for ludicrous protest arises?

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 41m

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1h

"The invitation to the 'Future of Pharmaceuticals' summit prompted consternation among some drug-company representatives, who worried that the gathering signaled that the White House wants them to work with the little-known BlinkRx because of its ties to the president’s family"

Trump Wants to Overhaul Drug Sales. A Company Tied to His Son Stands to Benefit.

The family members of President Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are poised to benefit from efforts to remake the pharmaceutical industry.

www.wsj.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 12h

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 14h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 1h

🇪🇺 🇺🇸 US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

FT www.ft.com/content/678f...

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1h

My "ballooning private markets not a systemic risk" t-shirt has a lot of people asking questions that are already answered by my shirt.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

SEC’s Atkins Says Ballooning Private Markets Not a Systemic Risk

The head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission said he does not view private credit as a systemic risk, the latest signal of the regulator’s openness to more activity in the fast-growing market...

www.bloomberg.com

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 1h

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2h

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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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1h

"A federal prosecutor told a Mass[] judge ... that the government has returned a phone it seized from an immigration lawyer but does not intend to delete data it pulled from the device, prompting the court to raise concerns that the information could be used to identify and arrest immigrants."

Judge Concerned As Feds Keep Immigration Atty's Phone Data - Law360

A federal prosecutor told a Massachusetts judge on Tuesday that the government has returned a phone it seized from an immigration lawyer but does not intend to delete data it pulled from the device, p...

www.law360.com

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 12h

Can't land due to lack of ATCs. Sigh.

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 14h

On time!

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 14h

On time!

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 15h

Ngl Id have mixed feelings

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 15h

It has to have actual glycerin and be a genuine medical threat to count

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 15h

Candy corn. Black licorice.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 15h

THE LISA MEME WAS THE SINGLE WORST MEME TEMPLATE. IT JUST DECLARES THE CREATOR’S OPINION BUT SNOOTILY. AMERICAN CHOPPER UNIQUELY DEMANDS A BEST EFFORT AT REPRESENTING MULTIPLE VIEWPOINTS bsky.app/profile/jack...

ProSKULL Haram ♂🎃👻 @jack-hoff.bsky.social · 16h

And it was just a reinvention / marginal evolution of the Don't make me tap the sign / Lisa's presentation / Jim's whiteboard / PewDiePie pointing at the TV "memes."

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

jumpscare on instagram @dandekadt.bsky.social

some instagram account has posted a screenshot of dan's post that says "My wife and I never talk baby talk to our kid. We enforce academic seminar norms and jargon. My child isnt even 2 yet and can interrupt presenters on the first slide. Adults at family gatherings are shocked when my child asks a questino that turns out to be more of a comment." it has THIRTY SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE LIKES

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 16h

My flight leaves in 1.5 hrs. The previous flight has already landed. The app says I'm on time.

Over/under for on time departure?

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 16h

i mean, i'd have done that, but i am not dr. brunkow

Kate Holterhoff, PhD @kateholterhoff.com · 1d

We are all Dr. Brunkow 😴
“Dr. Brunkow said she did not expect to win a Nobel Prize. ‘My phone rang, and I saw a number from Sweden and thought, well that’s just spam of some sort, so I disabled the phone and went back to sleep,’“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 16h

My genuine question is what constituency does this play to? Is the implicit reasoning that federal workers are Democrats? That Democrats care more about workers pain? What's the strategy?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 22h

A new White House memo says that furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.

This is clearly against the law, which guarantees furloughed federal employees back pay for the duration of a government shutdown.

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 22d

Fairfax County, VA
Spencer went missing 2 years ago. His human spent that time looking for him, even hiring search dogs.

Just last week, Spencer came through FCAS's doors.

Luckily, he was microchipped and they were able to contact his papa.

Look at this reunion.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1d

well that's one heck of a picture

Jessica Shortall 🧂🥴 @jessicashortall.bsky.social · 1d

“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25

9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times

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