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Coal @coal-carter.bsky.social · 9h

Especially with threats to not even give back pay, what's the point of going to work?

Just utter chaos

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 10h

Ah. Well, that will fuck the ENTIRE network of flights. Not just in the US either.

CNN @cnn.com · 10h

There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.

Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN

There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...

www.cnn.com

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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 9h

four types of private schools in america:

1) catholic schools for racists
2) nondenom schools that dont teach you science
3) hippie schools that dont teach you to read, inexplicably 87% matriculation @ top 20 colleges
4) hogwarts, costs 55k/yr, explicably 99% matriculation @ top 20 colleges

Stone Cold Jane Austen @grayathena.bsky.social · 10h

Having gone to a really shitty private school is so funny. People hear “private school” and rightly think my parents were well off but instead of playing lacrosse or whatever I was learning young earth creationism from a Russian antisemite in portables outside a church

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 9h

I can never see mention of carbon offsets without thinking of when the VP of Facilities at Georgetown described them as "buying indulgences" at a Sustainability Advisory Committee meeting.

She wasn't wrong...

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 5h

work in PV solar/battery storage and let me tell you, it's not just the federal government that hates us, it's local plan reviewers too

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 9h

"Without aggressive and concrete efforts to curb carbon dioxide pollution, most of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh will by the end of the century experience temperature levels well beyond those considered safe for humans"

#ClimateEmergency

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orcus @goblin.news · 8h

do you want Secret Friends?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

If you are serious about guns and social justice there are groups that are having these discussions. I implore you to seek them out (I'm not going to link cause there are feds on here).

Do not hop into random people's mentions and say shit like, "that's what the 2nd amendment is for"

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Micah @vtmicah.bsky.social · 6h

Ok, war changed.

Portland changed war.

We don’t know how, we don’t know why, we can’t even figure out what.

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platinumretriever @platinumretriever.bsky.social · 7h

big fan of silly costumes as a protest tactic

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Aaron Greenspan @aarongreenspan.com · 6h

This is insane.

Completely.

Insane.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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a wicked and unusual boy @myrrlyn.net · 6h

when your enemy forages to eat, burn the fields they march upon. when your enemy posts tiktoks to recruit, ruin their desired setpiece

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 12h

You can be purely selfish and profit-oriented and still understand that diversity is wildly important. It's a shit salesman who can only sell to people just like himself

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 12h

I want the Korean dry cleaners in my community. I want the Dominican and Middle Eastern barbers in my community. I want the Indian hotels in my community. And not just service jobs, either - I want people from every country working office jobs too, because modern companies serve a global economy

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 12h

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 12h

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

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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.

southsideweekly.com

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 12h

horse bondage, on sale

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vILLAGE GENIOUS @suddenlygarmo.bsky.social · 12h

me neither but it appears that Trump ticks virtually every box for being the antichrist

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

these people worship the devil

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 3d

It’s National Poetry Day.

The greatest poem in the English language.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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David Wallace-Wells @dwallacewells.bsky.social · 12h

“Starbucks holds nearly $2 billion of customers’ money in its rewards program. That’s more than the total deposits managed by 85 percent of chartered banks, making the coffee chain one of the biggest financial institutions in the country.” jacobin.com/2025/10/bank...

Everything Is Becoming a Bank

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy, crippling pro...

jacobin.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 12h

Can we credit photographers, please? It’s not just about what’s right, now it’s also about providing the public with an easy way to check for authenticity.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 20h

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s the video of the incident

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