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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, America - the president is telling you you’ll be paid to take your meds.

FFS

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 6h

Also they fucking rammed a "suspect" before this alleged assault-on-motor-vehicle occurred? Was that suspect committing the crime of being brown near gestapo?

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 6h

Probably a pure fabrication but if it isn't, it sounds like she assaulted a car, not a person.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 11h

If the pictures taken by bus lane cameras are available for public review, I'm fairly certain we can find the last time he and his Charger were near a bus, in the bus lane.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 12h

These folks all deserve each other.

Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 12h

Some of the most fervent volunteers for Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign are Republicans who voted for and still embrace Trump.

Cuomo’s Last-Minute Push Takes Him Into MAGA Territory

The former governor courts Trump fans, finding common ground in dire warnings about a future under Mayor Mamdani.

www.thecity.nyc

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 12h

Three newly published books argue that cars are destroying society as well as the planet.

Is the world finally ready to rein in the automobile?

My essay, in @bloomberg.com (gift link below)

‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.

A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.

www.bloomberg.com

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 1d

So too the question "is he really that racist?" Surprise! Answer is still yes.

Kudos to all the republicans who knew he was this way but saw personal profit in supporting a racist, stupid, crook.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Without comment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 1d

The answer to the questions "could he be that stupid?" and "could he be that corrupt?" is always, always, always "yes."

That any of this surprises us is a testament to our unwillingness to just look at the guy and listen to the words he says.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 2d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, about the suspension of his account after J6. Meritless case.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 2d

I am reconsidering my relationship with Google and the Android ecosystem, but I am finding that Apple isn't much better? And those are the options, unless you go dumbphone or know significantly more about computers/programming than I do.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 2d

Hey maybe it's Not Good that the only options you have as a casual smartphone consumer are Apple, who is doing ICE's bidding, and Google, who just paid Trump off in the YouTube settlement.

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 3d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 3d

Three cheers for multimodal transportation!

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Kelsey McKinney @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social · 4d

"If you are a billionaire buying a media organization in order to consolidate your power, you could not find a more eager servant than [Bari] Weiss."

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Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 4d

The contrarian got the job by convincing the third-richest man in the world, a key supporter of the sitting president, that she shared his worldview

NPR @npr.org · 4d

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News. n.pr/4o634cr

CBS' next top editor to be Bari Weiss of The Free Press

CBS' parent company will buy The Free Press and install Bari Weiss, its contrarian founder, as editor in chief of CBS News.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 7d

"While I am no longer your colleague, I ask that each of you continue to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons. Follow the facts and the law. Stand up for what we all believe in our Constitution and the rule of law. Our country depends on you"

www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/p...

You may have heard that Wednesday was my last day after nearly 20 yours of serving as a career employos at the Justice Department. This news may have come as a surprise to you, as it did to me when I received a letter stating that I had hoon terminated immediately, without cause, It appears that my termination was based on little more than a single social media post containing false information
I am disappointed to leave behind a national security and puhbu safety mission that I truly believed in. I am even more disappointed to see what has happened to this office and the Department of Justice in just a few short months. The decisioni in remove experimod career officials from US Attorneys Offices, the FBI, and other critical parts of DOI undermines mar country's ability to mnter terrorist crganizations, malign nation-state actors, and countless ethers that seek to harm our nation and its citiems
I am proud of the work I have done on behalf of the American people. I am humbled arrated the victims of crime and their families in ensuring that the criminal justice system provided a mesure of clans. I am sroubled that I was removed an abruptly in the middle of important work, including the prosecution of Mohammad Sharifullah, the only person to face justion in the United Stann for the homhing at the Abbey Ciate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport. This prosecution meant to bring justice to the 13 United States service members and suns of civiliam killed and mjwed. While I have the utmost confidence in my on-name, my aheupt, apparently thoughtless removal with as period of transition will hurt this case. This eximybe highlights the most troubling moet of the current operations of the Department of Justice the leadership is more concerned with peamishing the President's perceived enemies than they are with pertesting our national security. Justice for Americans killed and injured by our enemies should not be contingent on what someone in the Department of Justice ane…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7d

What an utter disgrace. Noem's actions to "vacate" Secretary Mayorkas' grant of TPS over the direct command in the statute that no early termination can be done was flagrantly unlawful. And yet the majority offers not a SINGLE word of explanation for why they think she could do that.

Shameless!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: SCOTUS (again) allows Sec. Noem to proceed with ending Temporary Protect Status for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, over the objection of the three Democratic appointees.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A326
KRISTI NOEM, SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, ET AL. v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR A STAY
[October 3, 2025]
In March of this year, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California entered a preliminary order postponing the effective date of the Secretary of Homeland Security's decision to remove "temporary protected status" (TPS) from Venezuelan nationals living in the United States. See 8 U.S. C. §1254a; 5 U.S. C. §705.
In May, this Court stayed that order while the Government appealed. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately affirmed the District Court's preliminary order. Last month, the District Court entered final judgment in respondents' favor, holding unlawful and setting aside the Secretary's actions effectuating her decision— namely, her vacatur of a pending extension of TPS for Venezuelan nationals, and her termination of that status itself.
See 5 U. S. C. §706(2). (The District Court also concluded that the Secretary unlawfully vacated a TPS extension for Haitian nationals. The Government now seeks to stay the portions of the District Court's judgment pertaining to Ven-ezuela, but not Haiti. See Application 7, n. 6.)
The application for stay presented to JUSTICE KAGAN and by her referred to the Court is granted. Although the posture of the case has changed, the parties' legal arguments and relative harms generally have not. The same result that we reached in May is appropriate here.

NOEM v. NATIONAL TPS ALLIANCE
JACKSON, J., dissenting
The September 5, 2025 order entered by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, case No. 25-cv-1766, is stayed as to the Venezuela vacatur and Venezuela termination, pending the disposition of the Government's appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such writ is timely sought. Should the petition for a writ of certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and JUSTICE KAGAN would deny the application.
JUSTICE JACKSON, dissenting from the grant of application for stay.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 7d

"Spelled b-u-c-k-e-t"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7d

"Every synagogue in the world is a valid target unless they actively release a statement rejecting Israel to this person's liking" is the same logic of "Every Palestinian person is a potential terrorist unless they actively denounce Hamas."

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 7d

Too many lines to quote, but I always loved Jay's flow on this:

Huddlin' over the oven, we was like brothers then (What?)
Though you was nothin' other than a son of my mother's friend

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 7d

Same in NYC. Didn't have cable but Mr. Bean, Keeping Up Appearances, and Fawlty Towers were the best on our local PBS station.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 8d

"Contrarian" is killing me, the whole premise of the Free Press is telling rich elderly and middle-aged men that they're right about everything

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 8d

Great thread, and more reason to be excited for the Court Street bike lane going in as we speak! These lanes make the streets safer, and not just for cyclists.

A picture of Court Street with white lines on the left indicating the installation of a bike lane and cars parked between that indicated bike lane and the vehicular lane of traffic.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Trump obtains another settlement as YouTube agrees to pay $24.5 million

Alphabet settles with Trump instead of fighting lawsuit over January 6 suspension.

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 11d

Fascinating story, which also provides an answer to the question "why do I keep seeing Fisker Ocean's w/TLC plates in NYC."

www.theverge.com/transportati...

When this EV maker collapsed, its customers became the car company

Meet the Fisker Owners Association.

www.theverge.com

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