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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 1h

🔴America Must Save Britain’: MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News’ New US Show

It features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump as its hosts tell the American audience that the UK needs to be ‘saved’
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'America Must Save Britain': MAGA-Mania and Conspiracy Theories Broadcast Nightly on GB News' New US Show

A new daily GB News programme broadcast from Washington features climate denial, vaccine misinformation, and non-stop praise for Donald Trump – as its hosts tell the American audience that the UK need...

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2h

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

This is all bullshit, by the way. There is no imminent risk of rotting crops, according to experts and farmworker unions. It's a ploy to cut wages (even below state minimum wages) for foreign workers, which will eventually hit U.S. workers too.
So much for America First!

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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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
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As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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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.

prospect.org

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h

They’re just gonna do a little lite slavery.

In addition, the new rule allows farm employers to charge H-2A workers for their housing, which was not allowed before. "It's a way for employers to continue to house workers and also charge them, and bring down effective wages," said Marcos Lopez of the Labor and Community Center at the University of California, Davis.

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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 1h

“In all, 580 hikers and more than 300 guides, yak herders and other workers were stranded. About 350 hikers were able to descend by noon Monday and the rest had arrived by Tuesday, state media said, citing the local government.”

12 On Your Side @12onyourside.com · 1h

Hundreds of hikers rescued from Mount Everest after severe snowstorm #nationalnews

Hundreds of hikers rescued from Mount Everest after severe snowstorm

About 900 hikers, guides, and staff stranded by a snowstorm on Mount Everest's Chinese side have reached safety.

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12 On Your Side @12onyourside.com · 1h

Hundreds of hikers rescued from Mount Everest after severe snowstorm #nationalnews

Hundreds of hikers rescued from Mount Everest after severe snowstorm

About 900 hikers, guides, and staff stranded by a snowstorm on Mount Everest's Chinese side have reached safety.

www.12onyourside.com

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1h

Under Nazi rule, clergy who refused to support the regime were surveilled, arrested, assaulted, and in some cases, executed. The Nazis publicly aligned themselves with Christian values while targeting religious figures who defended the vulnerable or spoke against state violence.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

Let's note that Christopher Caldwell, who gets to defend Hegseth’s rabidly bigoted, sexist speech in the New York Times, wrote a whole book about how the Civil Rights Act constitutes an illegitimate departure from the Constitution.

So, of course he is on board with imposing white male domination.

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Mo No Salad @monosalad.bsky.social · 3h

🫵🏾 Put that work in.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t believe there will be an invasion of Venezuela. Trump has 6,500 troops deployed to the region. The last time the US invaded a county in the region, Panama, 27,000 were deployed, including 13k on bases the US already had in the country. Venezuela is 12x the size of Panama.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 2h

It happened. Last night I was feeling despair about a lot of different things and I realized I needed to enlist my dog’s help to make me feel better.

I present to you Maggie the Pug as Cher Pugowitz.

Maggie the Pug is majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh. She’s wearing Cher’s classic yellow plaid ensemble.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 3h

This reminds me of the fragments in the archives I have encountered of slaveowners, overseers, and colonial officials working themselves into paranoia and panic about colonized and/or enslaved people playing music or dancing.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Adoptable Dogs @adoptabledogs.bsky.social · 2h

Finley 🦮
Baby female Labrador Retriever mix
Adoptable from Houston Cares Animal Rescue (Houston, TX)

https://www.petfinder.com/dog/finley-78656975/tx/houston/houston-cares-animal-rescue-tx1981/

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine that.

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Gwenefar @gwenefar.bsky.social · 5d

I gotta say, it's a wild time to be taking a class about ethics in public administration. Research results using government sources end up looking like this.

A screenshot from GovInfo.gov's page "Budget of the United States Government" with "The President's FY 2026 Discretionary Budget Request," broken down into such sections as "Cuts to Woke Programs Fact Sheet," "Ending the Green New Scam Fact Sheet" and other very mature titles for the leader of the free world to use in official documents.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2h

Public Services don't work, because then you have to pay for Private ones that do.

People really need to understand that this isn't an error, the Private owners pay the politicians to make sure the Public Services don't work.

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 2h

‘“For this movie to make any sense at all, one has to believe the United States, today, right now, is a fascist dictatorship,” wrote David Marcus at Fox News.’

Damn, this movie must make a lot of sense.

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie”

While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 2h

Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa, Briton Richard Robson and American Omar M. Yaghi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing a new form of molecular architecture.

U.S. scientist among trio awarded chemistry Nobel for developing new molecular architecture

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi's work was likened to Hermione's handbag in "Harry Potter."

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Saeed @saed-in-gaza.bsky.social · 2h

Hello, I'm Saeed from Gazan currently displaced with my family in Al-Mawasi Khan Younis. We urgently need your support to cover rent (500$) and food for the week (200$). Can we make it happen today?

Plz Donate via GoFoundMe:
gofund.me/a0a540b8

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Larisa Aitch @llarisah.bsky.social · 3h

Such a cool thread, amazing work

Mean Maria @drmariamitchell.bsky.social · 16h

The third 60s dress:
Im still not sure what pattern I want to use for my next dress so Im trying a 3rd pattern:

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3h

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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