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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

‘The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year… Outside of the AI plays, even European stock markets have been outperforming the US this decade’
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America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Wes Miller @getwired.com · 7h

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Halloweean Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 6h

Genius lyric card that says “I leave the pussy micro-soft like Windows Vista”
From LIL WAYNE, "SWAG SURF”

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TresTiffany @trestiffany.bsky.social · 19h

“What’s your barber name?” is crazy 😂

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 7h

The threat to re-invade the base is bringing all the neighboring countries closer to the Taliban.

They were more isolated politically before this.

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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 9h

Current Taiwan wargames may be preparing for the wrong war.

A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective

In August 2025, 25 international experts gathered at Syracuse University to do something unusual: plan China's invasion of Taiwan. For two days,

warontherocks.com

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 2d

Texas once feared a phantom federal occupation. Now Gov. Abbott’s troops are helping carry it out under Trump. And Houston may be next, writes the Houston Chronicle editorial board. bit.ly/48Q3D5C

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 8h

Buttons on the phone should be reconsidered.

Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 9h

i like this time of year. Halloween weather.

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 9h

iykyk

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 9h

also, first frost advisory.

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 9h

First soup of the season. Take that, haters.

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 9h

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Carl Beijer @carlbeijer.bsky.social · 10h

Still hasn't endorsed Mamdani

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 13h

Workers at Upstate apple farm frustrated by owner's refusal to abide by contract

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Workers at Upstate apple farm frustrated by owner's refusal to abide by contract - The Chief

Despite an arbitrator’s sanction of a collective bargaining agreement covering workers at an Upstate apple farm, the company has refused to institute its provisions. The deadlock led workers at Wafle...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

US District Judge Denise Cote ruled that Musk himself had reduced his privacy interest by publicly boasting that he holds a “top secret clearance”—and discussing his drug use (including ketamine and marijuana) and contacts with foreign leaders (including Russian President Vladimir Putin).

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17h

The Pentagon has to provide The New York Times information about Elon Musk’s security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the billionaire’s own posting habits helped decide the case. trib.al/7voNtjk

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 15h

"For some, the Trump administration’s Chicago assault was a shock. But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered." interc.pt/4h2hBUd

A photo of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Black People Knew This Would Happen," and the DEK, "Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us."

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 15h

Correct. If he said CNN are terrorists then it would have been a Millerism.

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 21h

LOL. We have 700 bases overseas - If allowing us to have one of the largest air bases in the world on their territory doesnt give the host nation security then the empire is over.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21h

"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.

www.cnbc.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22h

If you had written this as a fake news headline a year ago, you would be called hysterical.

Reuters today. Fascism.

Reuters story headlines:

Trunp calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 23h

If you haven't been paying attention to the Palestine Action protest arrests in the UK, you may not realize how truly absurd things have become.

Here's a good example: You can be arrested for holding up a magazine because its cover shows the sign, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Pro-Palestine protester arrested for holding up magazine at train station

A man has been arrested for holding up a magazine cover amid pro-Palestine protests in London.

www.thenational.scot

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes you have extra

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Sensitive Grok @nasdaqistan.bsky.social · 1d

This guy is getting $100M and 100 "golden visas" for him to distribute any way he wants to fight at the white house UFC thing.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 1d

Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor has been issued an 18-month suspension after missing three drug tests

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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