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stellz @piss.beauty · 1h

Y2K is the ozone hole of software

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

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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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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1h

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 51m

No thanks

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe this is naive of me but I had figured that if the fed gov straight up blew some people up it would *have to* provide an explanation to Congress, statutorily. Is “yeah we did that shit and we won’t answers questions about it” really an option under the law?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 3h

lmao everything is video game and airplane pricing

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Andrew Beaujon @abeaujon.bsky.social · 3h

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Andrew Beaujon @abeaujon.bsky.social · 3h

Here is today's roundup. Today is a 🔴 for your fleece vest. Also, everything else is pretty bad.

Trump’s Shutdown Antics Vex Republicans, Ireland Hopes to Sell Its DC Embassy, and Renaissance Festival Sues Most Foul Varlets - Washingtonian

Good morning. Rain this morning yields to windy weather and a high around 73. A low of 49 overnight as cooler weather approaches.🚦Fleece vest traffic control system🚦: (A new fall feature on Washington...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should ask what Miller was doing between 2021 and 2025, why David Horowitz recruited him to the foreign policy team of the Trump campaign, why the Democrats never followed through on their 2017 investigation of alleged lies on Miller's SF-86 clearance forms, but no one asks real questions

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 14h

Reaping

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14h

“The American Farm Bureau Federation projects per-acre losses this year of $169 for corn, $114 for soybeans, $111 for wheat and $379 for cotton.

“Higher farm safety net programs passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill won't begin paying out until a year from now.”

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Ag Groups Press for Aid While Some Raise Concerns About Long-Term Tariff Damage

President Donald Trump and members of his administration continue to tease that an aid package of up to $15 billion for farmers could be announced this week. More than 200 farm organizations wrote the...

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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 14h

This story isn’t really about the program, and what it is about is deeply grim

Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social · 14h

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

This Program Rescued Army Recruiting

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Gino (The Manager) @littlegino.bsky.social · 14h

Removing the 14 Amendment from all copies of the constitution like the 13th floor from buildings.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

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

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's @cooperlund.online who first pointed out that they're not so much interested in fascism as generating fascist content

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.