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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 18h

From 2017 to 2024, the number of data centers in the U.S. increased from 318 to 5,208.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 15h

There’s lot of Covid going around at the moment, again. I don’t qualify for NHS jabs, which are now very restricted, but I just paid £90 for one at my local pharmacy. As a freelancer, that’s a lot less expensive than having to take a week or two off if I get ill, let alone risking long term issues.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 20h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

something i learned this week! mailchi.mp/boltsmag/new...

Jane Goodall’s influence behind bars: The legendary primatologist Jane Goodall, who died last week at 91, helped inspire incarcerated people to learn more about wildlife and the environment by opening Roots & Shoots chapters inside jails in the U.S. and Italy, with some participants going on to launch careers in conservation post-incarceration. In 2015, Bolts' Alex Burness spent a day with her at the county jail in Boulder, Colorado, where she spoke to folks held there about all that people can learn from animals.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 21h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15h

U.S. law enforcement have always treated Black and Brown Americans exactly the way I.C.E. is treating the folks we’re all witnessing around the country, being terrorized, rounded up, and caged without due process—for whatever reason pops into these “deputized” doofuses’ ever-masked heads.

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HasanTheHun (automated mirror) @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social · 14h

TRUMP IS LIVE TALKING PROSECUTING ANTIFA! ADDRESSING FREE KAYA! SHUTDOWN IS STILL GOING ON! ICE CHAOS AND MORE! GET IN NOW!! TWITCH.TV/HASANABI

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Former Pingu Child Actor @heresy.bsky.social · 14h

I reckon from what I know Palestinian resistance fighters killed only a couple IOF guys on oct 7, like at most like 100 or something

rest of the 1100 is all literally just the fucking evil rabid zionists killing their own with Hannibal directive, we've all seen the graveyard of cars they hit

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Bender Rodríguez @plungerman.bsky.social · 15h

‘Andor’ Star Says Israel is ‘Gaslighting’ Us

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-gd...

by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social with award-winning Irish actor Denise Gough

‘Andor’ Star Says Israel is ‘Gaslighting’ Us

YouTube video by Zeteo

www.youtube.com

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 19h

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 22h

Dear EU,

Please don't cave in to these monsters.

"Unlike traditional trade negotiations, the US is not offering concessions in return. “It’s a one-way street,” said one EU official."

US demands EU dismantle green regulations in threat to trade deal

Washington wants American companies to be exempted from rules such as having to draw up climate transition plans

www.ft.com

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 21h

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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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 18h

I tell the Austrian radio station about the shooting of a priest by ICE. If we do another segment I’m talking about it. The world needs to know what’s happening here.

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Dog Desk Animal Action @dogdeskaction.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, it’s me, İbrahim the puppy! 🐶💛

I just wanted to say thank you for caring about dogs like me.

Your kindness means full bellies, safe beds, and second chances.

You’re my heroes. 🐾✨

#ThankYou #DogDeskAnimalAction #RescueDogs #AdoptDontShop

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 18h

Private equity firms and and giant insurers like Delta Dental have been rolling up dental practices. On Organized Money we talked to a dentist who has been fighting this, and why it should matter to anyone with teeth. Check it out wherever you get podcasts.
www.organizedmoney.fm/p/who-contro...

Who Controls Your Dentist?

Welcome to the podcast Organized Money.

www.organizedmoney.fm

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

A tweet from Mayor Brandon Johnson says Trump has tried to unjustly arrest a Black man and he’s not going anywhere. A reply from Donald Trump says the Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 17h

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 17h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 16h

Law Enforcement Baronial Class
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SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 18h

Stephen Miller goes on camera saying ICE is fighting Antifa on the streets because the country is a war zone with dangerous criminals out to destroy America and then the video will just cut to a video of a group of ICE officers suplexing a 110-year-old blind nun

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Baba NostraAdeptus @adept2u.bsky.social · 1d

A reason ICE is being so brutal is they know America will not dispense justice to its law enforcement

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