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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 55m

Bari Weiss to Head CBS News as Pro-Trump, Pro-Israel Billionaire Ellison Family Expands Media Empire

Who Is Bari Weiss? Pro-Israel Pundit to Head CBS News as Billionaire Ellisons Expand Media Empire

We speak to journalist David Klion about the Trump-affiliated right wing’s increasing grip on mainstream news media, as “anti-woke” pundit Bari Weiss takes the helm as the new editor-in-chief of CBS N...

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 52m

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 1h

The police are not really there to help us

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 1h

Why does the country keep electing and re-electing grifters and chaos agents?

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 1h

Improvement at a glacial pace, but it’s happening

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly. Don’t cave to the madmen.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22h

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

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Department of Class Solidarity @solidaritydept.bsky.social · 13d

Jeff Bezos' wealth alone would transform tens of millions of lives by itself.

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans won’t hold Trump back from his worldwide starvation campaign

stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 1h

'Like the others languishing in these camps, this was not a life Karmar chose. He was pushed into it, by soldiers who razed his village and beat his brother to death...

Life here has never been easy, he says. But since the aid cuts, it has become unbearable.'

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.

apnews.com

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans welcome ethics violators and predators into this administration

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1h

Just zero shame, these people....

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA.
Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 1h

ICE will spend money on surveillance toys and other shiny things until the US goes bankrupt

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: ICE purchased custom-made vans from a company called TechOps Specialty Vehicles (TOSV) that are equipped with fake cellphone towers designed to spy on phones.

TOSV president said the company integrates the cell-site simulators into their vans, but does not manufacture the surveillance tool.

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones | TechCrunch

The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

techcrunch.com

Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 8h

An infestation

Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 2d

Richard Spencer is correct here

Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 8h

Now we know

Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 3d

For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

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UNabla @unabla.bsky.social · 1d

Other countries have got many of their people, abducted on the high seas and illegally detained, out of Israel.

Why haven't we #DFAT and @senatorwong.bsky.social?

@matthewdoran1.bsky.social @erictlozek.bsky.social please keep them in the public's mind.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Australians in Israeli detention allege beatings in reports to DFAT

The ABC has obtained details of redacted summaries prepared by Australian diplomatic staff, including allegations that one Australian citizen was slapped and had his passport "destroyed".

www.abc.net.au

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 8h

A trillion dollar unproven technology

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

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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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 8h

AI stalking now, what horror is next?

Futurism @futurism.com · 8h

"It is scary to think what AI is doing to feed my stalker's delusions."

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 9h

Same people, now unleashed nationwide

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

January 6 was basically a training session for upcoming ICE agents.

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 9h

Don’t allow them to be built unless they can provide their own energy to operate from renewable sources

papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 9h

capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...

The Insatiable Energy Demands of Data Centers Could Increase Fossil Fuel Emissions in California

By 2030, the centers could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of L.A. to the state’s power grid.

capitalandmain.com

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 11h

Arrest these thugs and abolish ICE

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 15h

Here’s video of the incident

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 11h

I had no idea this was Link's day job. Imagine being a space lawyer and a legendary shitposter

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 11h

Read and share

Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 22h

🔥 As you may have seen, in recent days, I've been going to the Broadview ICE facility near where I live. For @vanityfair.com I wrote about those protests & the hell that the Chicago area is being put through thanks to ICE/DHS. I hope you'll read this & share it. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

Jim Aldrich🌱 @jimaldrich.bsky.social · 18h

Good Newsom thread here

West Coast Cheese 🏴‍☠️ @cheeseofthewest.bsky.social · Aug 24

Gavin Newsom, a thread:

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