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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 18h

They've created a need for cheap or unpaid harsh, manual labor. Gosh I wonder what kind of system would fill that void while still maintaining corporate profits.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 19h

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.

prospect.org

Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 19h

Protect the land that inspired this page.

A page from Kate Beaton’s “Ducks”. Five panels, in panel 1 we see Kate’s feet on the beach at the edge of the water. In panel 2 we see a wave wash over her feet. In Panel 3 we see a zoomed out image of the shoreline, beautiful and calm, wild and undeveloped, Kate is still standing at the shore, dwarfed by the landscape. In panel 4 we see Kate looking up and shielding her eyes against the sun with her arm. In panel 5 we see her perspective, a seagull crossing the disc of the sun.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 1d

Also why are you asking elected officials to do something? Wholly unreasonable to think they should maybe do the work they’re elected to do rather than spend the entire time they’re there sucking off corporations and clinging desperately to power long into their senility.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 1d

Love that the blocklist claiming you’re antisemitic links an apartheid ethnostate with Judaism.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 1d

MZS over at RogerEbert.com gave it four stars. And not just because Ebert gave the original four stars back in the day.

Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 1d

And I just can’t look, it’s killing meee
And taking corntrol.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 2d

When he squeezes the flute.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 2d

They are very good large stupid green birds. I think we're coming up on a breeding season too??

Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 2d

What does that post it know? Nothing, that’s what.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 2d

Oh my god, same. Suddenly I’m speaking to the back row of a packed house.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Plaster head cast privilege over here.

(This is intended to be friendly and joking!)

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Just the idea that they have to move against and in relation to each other seems like a Whole Thing.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

One labeled as “roughly Zoë sized”.

That does make sense though. Two very different approaches to the same problem using completely different skillets to solve the various issues.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Like, auditory reasons, not sound like well reasoned.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Do they do it for sound reasons? Is there something you can do to gain the same benefit?

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

If someone said this to me I would understand the reference.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Quoth Socrates, “I drank what?”

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

It is so deeply upsetting to see a psychopath in the flesh. The news will never know how to report it, always seeking explanations that aren’t there, but it is chilling none the less.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

The tactics here are also really important. Being annoying, calling them out, kicking their equipment out of reach. The kidnappers clearly want this over with quickly and they give up partly because of the attention.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Wait until they learn about class communism.

Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

"Oh so now rounding up an entire race of people, stealing their land and homes, and forcing them into concentration camps is fascist??"

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

I’m a little taken aback by how many people are surprised by this behavior. This kind of police violence happens to people of color in this country every single day.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 4d

Then some captain crashed it like 8 years later, smh.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 4d

If the police said it it’s almost certainly not true.

Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 4d

Not just dumb, enthusiastically dumb.

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