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National Association of Letter Carriers @lettercarriers.bsky.social · 1d

After 40 years with the Postal Service, Andre Laliberte's neighbors ensured he retired with a proper send-off! Laliberte's customers, who knew him well after 38 years of walking the same 11-mile route, lined the road with signs expressing gratitude for his years of service. #MemberMonday

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 2d

Excellent @JosephPolitano look at how tariff exemptions fuel the US AI Boom & economic growth in 2025: www.apricitas.io/p/the-tariff...
"The US is at the technological forefront of a rapidly expanding industry because of the free trade policies that this administration ostensibly despises.$

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 2d

In case you're no longer on X...

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David J. Lynch @davidjlynch.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a Path Out of This Divide www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Opinion | There’s a Path Out of This Divide

www.nytimes.com

David J. Lynch @davidjlynch.bsky.social · 2d

Craft Breweries Struggle as Sales and Appetites Wane www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...

Craft Breweries Struggle as Sales and Appetites Wane

www.nytimes.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

WTF?

Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission

Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 2d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d

What it's like to grow up unvaccinated, by Trisha Thadani.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

But for 26-year-old Emma Sonas, a childhood bout with whooping cough was so debilitating that she is still dealing with the consequences.

Sonas, who was delivered in a home birth, said she did not receive a single vaccine growing up. When she was 13, Sonas, along with her mom and siblings, caught whooping cough, a highly contagious respiratory infection that leads to uncontrollable coughing fits as the person gasps for air. Sonas’s symptoms were so severe that she slept upright in her bed for months. Otherwise, she’d wake up and feel like she was drowning.

“My respiratory system has never been the same,” she said. “The idea that a choice my parents made has resulted into something like this has been really hard to understand and deal with.”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d

The opinions of Judge Young (a Reagan appointee) and Judge Immergut (a George W. Bush U.S. attorney) are a reminder of a Republican Party that believed in the rule of law.

But the fact that so far as I know no current elected Republican has praised those opinions suggests that old GOP is long gone.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. leadership asked for ‘large, beefy’ agents to conduct an arrest of Comey ‘in full kit,’ including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo.”

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-arr...

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d

Among other things, it remains extremely weird that the [checks notes] director of the FBI uses phrases like “ass clown factory” in public statements posted on his official account

FBI Director Kash Patel * ®
@FBIDirectorKash
X.com
BREAKING: MSNBC still an ass clown factory of disinformation. Same circus animals that slobbered all over perp walks of Stone, Navarro, Bannon...
MSNBC has no facts and no audience
In this @fbi, follow the chain of command or get relieved.
& Barb McQuade @ @BarbMcQuade • 15h
DOJ policy prohibits "perp walks," in which arrestees are paraded before the cameras.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3d

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

“[t]he freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state.”

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Red Sox @red--sox.bsky.social · 4d

2025 was one hell of a ride.

Simply put, we love you, Red Sox Nation. ❤️

Credits to: @RedSox

#RedSox #BostonStrong #MLB #FenwayPark #BaseballNation

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 4d

There remain many people of good will in the U.S. govt, men and women who believe that

–official statistics should be true and not just whatever Trump wants them to be;

–decisions about vaccination should be based on science;

–the former FBI director up on bogus charges should not be perp walked:

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said."

www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

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David J. Lynch @davidjlynch.bsky.social · 3d

Foreign Policy says The World’s Worst Bet “offers a compelling, if sprawling, history of an idea that promised a brave new world and seemingly delivered dystopia instead…a wonderful read.”https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/03/globalization-worlds-worst-bet-economics-us-china-trump/

Is Globalization a Lost Cause?

How an idea that promised a brave new world seemingly delivered dystopia instead.

foreignpolicy.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Serge Egelman @v0max.bsky.social · 4d

I remember 2.5 years ago, when I was invited to a DHS advisory meeting with senior officials, who stated they couldn’t proactively monitor *public* posts on social media for violent domestic extremism without a warrant due to the Privacy Act.

Those were quaint times.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team

Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

www.wired.com

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David J. Lynch @davidjlynch.bsky.social · 3d

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Analysis | Trump pushes definition of national security to expand tariffs on goods

President Donald Trump is using a 1962 trade law to impose the tariffs that are seen as less vulnerable to legal challenge than country-specific levies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David J. Lynch @davidjlynch.bsky.social · 4d

American Prospect review of “The World’s Worst Bet”

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4d

A new book looks at several presidents' failures to shield American workers from globalization. Sid Mahanta writes, "it is a Greek tragedy of messianic, world-shaking hubris, starring an elite class of politicians whose betrayal of working-class Americans helped trigger a populist surge"

America’s Greatest Mistake

Globalization left millions behind as a policy and transformed the world politically, a new book argues.

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WhoWhatWhy @whowhatwhyorg.bsky.social · 4d

Tune in for a conversation with journalist
@davidjlynch.bsky.social
.
Lynch reveals what he saw on the ground in the 1990s, why the bipartisan consensus seemed unchallengeable at the time, and how the promises made to American workers were repeatedly sacrificed.

whowhatwhy.org/podcast/glob...

Globalization and Its Discontents: How the World’s Greatest Bet Went Wrong - WhoWhatWhy

The bipartisan bet that created unprecedented prosperity for the world also delivered Donald Trump to America.

whowhatwhy.org

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David J. Lynch @davidjlynch.bsky.social · 5d

What Women Heard in Hegseth’s Remarks About Physical Standards www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

What Women Heard in Hegseth’s Remarks About Physical Standards

www.nytimes.com

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 6d

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 6d

If you are following the story of The Pentagon's new policy, nicknamed, "you must check with us before you dream of doing any journalism," you may enjoy this update from @status.news

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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 6d

Yet another in a string of recent national security stories that you wouldn’t have read if the @washingtonpost.com didn’t break them www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks

The Pentagon is planning to require thousands of uniformed and civilian officials to sign nondisclosure agreements and submit to random polygraph testing.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 6d

!!

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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