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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 37m

Il commence une guerre dans notre pays, menace le Canada, le Groenland et le Venezuela et commet des meurtres extrajudiciaires dans les Caraïbes. Non, il ne devrait pas gagner le prix de la paix.

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 47m

Estragon: Well, shall we go?
Vladimir: yes, let’s go.

They do not move.

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 2h

Watch Tapper bat down female reporters who brought up that it was odd that Melania was absent from the RNC.

Anyway, I came out of this thinking less of Tapper and believing he wants a job at CBS.

a man with a beard sitting in front of a map

ALT: a man with a beard sitting in front of a map

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 3h

Tapper spent the week of the RNC talking about Biden’s age & valorizing Trump.

“If you can’t even trust the President to know all the facts & have a handle on his job…” - Tapper on Biden, having ignored Trump confusing trade/ fiscal deficits at every Economic Club.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 3h

@thebulwark.com disappointed to hear you pull punches with Tapper & ignore POTUS’ clear cognitive diminishment.

The man can’t remember which wars he’s lied about ending, couldn’t recognize Triple H … the list goes on. That he also lies doesn’t make him cognitively sound.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 3h

I believe it’s based on the Brattle Group’s approach, combining a series of “quantifiable” damages (eg lost income & personal injury)and “unquantifiable“ damages (deprivation of citizenship). I may be wrong.

www.brattle.com/insights-eve...

Brattle Consultants Quantify Reparations for Transatlantic Chattel Slavery in Pro Bono Paper - Brattle

The harm caused by transatlantic chattel slavery is vast, and its repercussions continue to resonate in the lives of the descendants of the enslaved.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 13h

It’s a classic fascist turducken!

ICE looks after CBP.
The National Guard protects ICE.
The 82nd Airborne babysits the National Guard.
Then, I guess, nuclear subs in Lake Michigan?

Live Updates: Trump
Officials Decry Protests and Demand Protection for ICE
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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 13h

Wishing you good news soon.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 16h

Yo @governor.pa.gov! check out what the Governors from Maryland, Minnesota & Kentucky are doing in this moment, rather than just posting leaf peeper pics.

Please stand up for our democracy.

Governor Shapiro’s Instagram leaf peeping pics

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 16h

A clanker-centipede, but I’m guessing the public is at the last spot?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 17h

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from immigrant families "terrorized" by fear that they and their loved ones will be rounded up and deported as the Trump administration's tactics grow combative.

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown met Wednesday with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from immigrant families "terrorized" by fear that they and the...

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 19h

Rooting for the Canucks all the way this year.

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 20h

“Some” critics. I assume the others are all investors

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago

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From the ChicagoSuburbs community on Reddit: ICE/CBP wearing Meta AI Ray-Bans at Broadview

Explore this post and more from the ChicagoSuburbs community

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 20h

LA

www.reddit.com/r/technology...

From the technology community on Reddit: A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles

Explore this post and more from the technology community

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 20h

Portland

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Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland...

Federal agents, including members of the Department of Homeland Security, the Border Patrol, and police officers, attempt to keep protesters back outside a downtown U.S. Immigration and Customs...

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago 2 weeks ago
bsky.app/profile/mrpu...

mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 15d

"Hey Meta, start live AI"

"I love the setup you have here with the sign that says 'Fuck ICE, Free Chicago'! How can I help?"

ice agent wearing the thick black ray bans with noticeable cameras

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 21h

LA: bsky.app/profile/crab...

Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · Jul 8

Are these Meta RayBans? Or?

Man wears RayBan eyeglasses, a gaiter camouflaged for the ocean to hide his face and a trucker hat.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 21h

Argentina has universal healthcare coverage and we just sent them $20b. I guess the chainsaw guy isn’t one of the rabble rousers?

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 21h

did he say anything about ICE using Meta hardware? $META

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 21h

ICE/ CBP agent wearing Meta Ray Bans in Illinois.

ICE or CBP agent wears Meta Ray Bans in Berwyn, IL

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 21h

ICE/ CBP agent wearing Meta Ray Bans in Illinois.

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 21h

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social @marisakabas.bsky.social @wired.com @kateconger.com One of the agents in the Berwyn vid is wearing Meta Ray Bans - this was rampant in LA too.

Would love to read more about the FB/ ICE partnership. How is our data being used to target our neighbors?

Thanks!

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Crabapple Jones @crabapplejones.bsky.social · 1d

if there were more English, History & sundry “rip-off” grads in the US right now, I think we’d be in a better place.

I hope your side of the world manages to stave off ghouls like Badenoch and Musk.

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ARTE @artefr.bsky.social · 1d

Aux États-Unis, les conservateurs avancent et les droits des femmes reculent ♀️

Sexe faible : l’Amérique en guerre contre ses femmes | Documentaire | ARTE

Disponible jusqu'au 05/01/2026 Le documentariste Brice Lambert parcourt le sud des États-Unis et illustre par des témoignages le recul des droits fondamentaux des femmes, dans le viseur des nationalistes chrétiens qui dominent l'appareil républicain au pouvoir. L'arrêt "Dobbs v. Jackson" du 24 ju

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