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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1h

This is the sort of things that happens when you start screwing with markets. It constantly lurches from one side to the other as you try to get it back in balance, only making it more and more unstable.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

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.

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Antti Gronow @anttigronow.bsky.social · 3h

Pure evil.

"A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030."

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 4h

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.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1h

The most telling thing is that they knew they were being recorded. They didn't care. Because they know that there will be no consequences.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 14h

Here’s video of the incident

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 12h

Can you imagine going through life as a quadriplegic because your parents were too stupid and evil to vaccinate you?

Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 3d

Six young children died, one facing amputation of limbs, all unvaccinated, all from measles.

Protect your children.
belaaz.com/news/11-mont...

11-Month-Old Charedi Baby Faces Amputation After Severe Measles Complications - Belaaz News

An 11-month-old infant from Beitar Illit, hospitalized at Hadassah Medical Center after contracting measles, is scheduled for surgery to amputate all four limbs due to necrosis, according to a Tuesday...

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Department of Angela @angelaisms.bsky.social · 12h

“The man who attempted a violent coup—who fomented an actual insurrection—will invent a fantasy insurrection to justify overturning the rule of law and deploying the U.S. military against civilians.”

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h

NEW: "I don’t like sending out 'emergency' newsletters, but I’ve had my eye on the situation in Chicago all day....This moment has elevated the crisis so that it is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states."
www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 14h

Here’s video of the incident

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1h

Toying with a post on this, but in meme form:

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1h

ICE is currently reminding of the SA, also know as the Brown Shirts. They were dumb violent thugs who flocked to the Nazi banner early on. They eventually faded in favor of the SS, who were far worse, being well-organized violent thugs.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

It’s not Kristallnacht. That was bigger, involving more people in multiple locations, and left about 90 dead.
But the regime’s repressive paramilitaries hunting a scapegoated ethnic minority, violating rights, smashing property, harming citizens and noncitizens alike, is disturbingly Kristallnachty.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 14h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Erik of Portland, Legal Calvinball Disliker @erikgunderson.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes good people have made moral missteps in the past; sometimes they weren't as morally good in the past as they are now and they had to learn from their mistakes. Such people should get grace.

Other people continue to repeat their past misdeeds and don't reform. They shouldn't get grace.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1h

Glad Honest Trailers immediately hit on the best thing about Tron Legacy: Daft Punk's soundtrack. I rated it #5 on my best all time sci-fi movie soundtracks. youtu.be/LSsYT0utKHw?...

Honest Trailers | Tron: Legacy

YouTube video by Screen Junkies

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1h

The moral hazard of knowing the government will bail you out.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the thing about AI slop: I don't see where any money is being made. I mean, sure you can maybe hit on a lot of YouTube views (or fake them with other bots) but YouTube doesn't pay much -- about $3 per thousand views. And companies are going to figure out how to not run ads for AI viewers.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

Only four coaches in history have won both an NFL title and a National Title. And one of those did it in 1942.

Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 18h

CFB people were all over this, but there were a lot of NFL "knowers" convinced that he'd just run the ACC for some reason.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18h

……. Maybe I am showing my ignorance of large swaths of sports media, but were people hyping this up? The vast majority of college football people seemed to clue onto it being a disaster from the start

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

Another thing to notice: Ejae tilts her head back and opens her mouth and throat to hit that high A5. This is the exact way Rumi is animated to do it in the movie. Singing coaches noted this in reaction videos: that the animators clearly watched how the singers actually sang the notes for reference.

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

I'm at work so I am [checks] wearing pants today.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

All-day zoom meeting incoming.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

This is why, when I teach, I don't give out group assignments. Too many Ethans out there and not enough people willing to let you know that Ethan didn't pull his weight.

Startling Lady of Gore @postnatodepression.bsky.social · 18h

I have a group project due in tomorrow and everyone’s done their part except for Ethan, who has three blank powerpoint slides in the middle

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

THIS RIGHT HERE

(Re Mike Johnson)

Dark Academia otter @acerbicotter.bsky.social · 12h

he's NOT like Ned Flanders, when push came to shove Ned actually loved his neighbors, just like the Good Book told him. Ned was a better Christian, I daresay, than anyone in the upper echelons of government now.

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Kenneth Deuel @kendeuel.bsky.social · 12h

Somebody said he's like Ned Flanders without the charm, but it's even older than that, he's like a walking parody of the Nixon-era Silent Majority from 50 years ago. I can't believe anyone from Louisiana is this much a white bread square, even they are a white guy from Shreveport

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h

Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12h

The First Amendment explicitly guarantees:

-the right of the people peaceably to assemble
-to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
-the free exercise of religion
-freedom of speech

If this priest had also been press, ICE would have violated all five 1A freedoms at once.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 14h

Here’s video of the incident

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 2h

Biggest scandal of his lifetime since the XYZ affair.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

It's important to remember that anti-vaxxers aren't just liars. They're also incredibly dumb.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 12h

What do antivaxxers think autism is

A man and a woman are sitting in chairs near a TV screen that says “SCIENTISTS ARW MYSTIFIED AS TO WHAT IS CAUSING AUTISM.” An elephant with 12 hypodermic needles sticking out of it is sitting on the floor next to them looking forlorn and wearing a button that says “I HAVE AUTISM.”

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

Smart of Noem to bring along a guy who you absolutely know will cut and paste anything anyone says and claim it as his own.

David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 14h

The "antifa army" that Noem stared down 😂😂😂

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Jerry-ATX @jda5id.com · 4h

Thank goodness for our Antifa special forces.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 11h

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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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

Rick Beato talked about these songs and that the studio versions exhaust his ear because they've laid down several hundred tracks to get the sounds just right.

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