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Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social · 15h

This interactive map of citibike usage in nyc is fascinating: bikesharemap.com/newyork/time...

Usage of citibikes in new york represented by different size dots

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

when you try and get your PhD advisor to review your manuscript 😂

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 5d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

“Supreme Court will let Trump _______ _____ _____ _____ for now”

(Mad Libs, 2025 Edition)

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L. Noem broke the law by revoking the temporary protected status of Venezuelan and Haitian immigrants.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 4d

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

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

Documents show that 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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Megan Greenwell @greenwell.bsky.social · 5d

BAD COMPANY
Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream
bookshop.org/a/109816/978...

"There are 19,000 private equity funds in the US. There are 14,000 McDonald's in the US. How are there more private equity funds than McDonald's? That's actually crazy, right?" KKR & Co. partner Alisa Wood said Wednesday at Bloomberg's Women, Money and Power event in London. "Capital coming back is really important. The mark-to-market paper gains only take you so far."

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5d

This is the essential value of a union contract.

Without one, the boss always has the right to change terms and conditions.

With one, both sides are legally bound to the agreement and changes have to be negotiated. If management wants a change, they have to make it worthwhile to employees.

For the last few years, employees have had a four-day, 32-hour workweek. The crux of the contract fight has been around codifying this provision so that management cannot unilaterally take it away.

“They continue to say, ‘We have no intention of returning to the five-day workweek, but we want to be able to reserve the right to,’” said Dannel Jurado, a senior software engineer at Kickstarter who has worked there for more than six years and has held several union leadership roles. “If you have no intention of it, why do you need to reserve the right?”

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Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social · 5d

Awww thank you!!

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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 5d

Really enjoyed this piece by @jjlee.bsky.social on the @kickstarterunited.org strike: what the union is fighting for, and why it matters to all of us. medium.com/labor-new-yo...

Kickstarter Employees Launch Strike Over Four-Day Workweek, Pay Floor

The union wants the company to pay an $85,000 minimum salary to its workers.

medium.com

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Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Kickstarter United went on strike yesterday morning over compensation and codifying a four-day workweek.

medium.com/labor-new-yo...

Kickstarter Employees Launch Strike Over Four-Day Workweek, Pay Floor

The union wants the company to pay an $85,000 minimum salary to its workers.

medium.com

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Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social · 5d

@thexylom.com doing the good work as usual. H-1B are not just used by rich tech companies!!! Wild how much misconception I’ve seen from people I thought would be better informed

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 13d

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this…

www.thexylom.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Daily Union Elections @unionelections.bsky.social · 7d

NLRB website is completely down due to the shutdown, so won't be any new organizing filings for a while. I'll try to get data from the state public sector relations boards to still have some content for the time being.

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Julie J Lee @jjlee.bsky.social · 7d

Another journalist hit his head in the fray: “he was seriously injured … he was semiconscious, but he didn’t move from the position for 35 to 40 minutes.”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband.

Today they attacked two journalists.

We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork

ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

www.amny.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 7d

New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Roshan Abraham @roshanabraham.bsky.social · 16d

SCOOP: I FOIA'd economic development agreements & the ground lease for Meta's massive data center in Louisiana and found the state secured no explicit mandates for Meta to create locally-hired full time jobs to receive property tax breaks
www.wired.com/story/louisi...

Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center.

www.wired.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 9d

Police in Chicago have open a criminal investigation into a malicious assault carried out by Trump's secret police on a CBS News camera crew. This is one of more than a dozen incidents of assaults by ICE officers against journalists in the last week. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Criminal investigation launched after feds fire pepper ball at CBS Chicago reporter's truck

CBS News Chicago reporter Asal Rezaei said she was turning away from the facility's fence when a masked agent shot a pepper ball at her truck.

www.cbsnews.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12d

1. Great news for trans students in Chicago.

Chicago Public Schools has announced it will defy Trump's demand to ban trans youth from bathrooms.

Trump will now pull millions in federal funds.

"Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right."

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Chicago Public Schools Defy Trump, Reject Trans Bathroom Ban Demands

The school system has refused to capitulate, despite Trump pulling back millions in federal funds.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Matthew Champion @matthewchampion.bsky.social · 13d

“I kept comparing it to a natural disaster. But it wasn’t natural. Just a stampede of wide-eyed, confused government employees moving files around and looking over their shoulders because they think maybe Elon was creeping behind them with a chain saw.”

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers

WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.

www.wired.com

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 13d

At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting

A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing

xtramagazine.com/video/anti-t...

At least 43 outlets shared anti-trans misinfo after Charlie Kirk shooting: TJA | Xtra Magazine

A report from the Trans Journalists Association found that 43 outlets published misinformation about “transgender ideology” after Charlie Kirk’s killing

xtramagazine.com

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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 13d

I’ve met with thousands of workers across the country - not one of them has said that the government should be ripping away people’s health care.

But the Trump administration wants to use AI to deny Medicare patients the treatment they need.

Private health insurers use AI to approve or deny care. Soon Medicare will, too.

A pilot program testing the use of artificial intelligence to expand prior authorization decisions in Medicare has providers, politicians and researchers asking questions.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13d

“Ultimately, the outcome was the agency was left broken and understaffed,” said Chad Becker, a former GSA real estate official. “They didn’t have the people they needed to carry out basic functions.”
—
Incredible waste and incompetence

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE

Hundreds of laid-off federal employees who managed government workspaces are being called back to their jobs as the Trump administration walks back plans to slash its real estate portfolio.

apnews.com

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Office of NYC Comptroller Brad Lander @nyccomptroller.bsky.social · 14d

⚠️NEW REPORT⚠️

Excessive force complaints against the NYPD have surged in past three years to highest since 2013—a dramatic increase during Mayor Adams's tenure.

Comptroller finds NYPD force complaints way up under Mayor Adams

The complaints are also concentrated in Black and Latino neighborhoods, the report finds.

gothamist.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 16d

Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center. www.wired.com/story/louisi...

Louisiana Hands Meta a Tax Break and Power for Its Biggest Data Center

Mark Zuckerberg’s company faces backlash after rowing back promises to create between 300 and 500 new jobs to man its subsidiary’s new data center.

www.wired.com

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Andrew Kreighbaum @kreighbaum.bsky.social · 15d

The Trump administration has released a proposal to replace the current H-1B visa lottery with a weighted selection process favoring higher wages and skill levels.

#H1B #visas #immigration #tech

Trump Plans H-1B Lottery Replacement With Wage-Based Rule

The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of the selection process for H-1B visas heavily used by the tech industry, basing allocation on skill-level required and wages offered for a posi...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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