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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

this is so fucking gross i don’t even have words to process how fucking gross it is

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2d

The most cogent walk-through of the Ellison takeover of Paramount I've read.

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a good blog: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector

On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

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K.H.I. @sheridesabike.bsky.social · 5d

🫡 the anon hero responsible for this.

A large handmade sign reading “public safety” in capital letters in a park that has been fenced to prevent anyone at all from enjoying it. It’s a beautiful sunny day in Seattle by the way.

The other side of the same handmade sign, this one reading “mission accomplished”

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 3d

absolutely brutal

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4d

‪From “THEY’RE VIOLENTLY CAMPING OUT, SEND THE SWAT TEAM” to “where are the young protestors doing peaceful civil disobedience to stop authoritarianism 🥺‬”

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty incredible own goal by liberal institutions and many Democratic electeds to crush the exact type of protests in 2024 that would’ve been the most effective way to slow or stop ICE incursions into American cities in 2025

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Tyler @tylsim.bsky.social · 4d

ai boosters on the bad site are fucking wild. "AI's electricity only takes 1/16th the amount of GDP that we spend on labor (food/all human existence). even if it were useless it's so much more efficient than us meatbags, gotta bump those numbers up and replace human existence with AI!"

keysmashbandit
@keysmashbandit • Oct 3
In China they would just build the solar farms or whatever and not whine about it
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unusual whales
@unusual_whales • Oct 3
"Sam Altman's OpenAl will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined," per FORTUNE

RKing @ryanssking1
Some #'s suggest 1600TWH, we use 4020TWH a year in the US. But electricity is only 2.5% of GDP, this suggests Al gets powered by only .625% of GDP allocation of resources. Labor requires about 10% of GD (food.)
Al doesn't add to traffic, need clothing or housing, etc. Very little added productivity required to justify feeding it with that electricity as such a small % of GDP. The whole "more power than X city" is a useless metric.
What do we get in return for the power and what does the power cost relative to the gain?
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Zeeshan Aleem @zeeshanaleem.bsky.social · 4d

A jaw-droppingly stupid meeting of the minds.

Bill Maher: "Critical race theory" explains how the left thinks about the Middle east.

Van Jones: No, no -- pro-Gaza sentiment can be explained by Qatar and Iran hijacking TikTok with a secret campaign to ... show us dead children in Gaza.

Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 4d

Van Jones is giving us a preview of the campaign Bari Weiss and Oracle will run to justify their coming censorship of CNN, CBS News, and TikTok.

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Tyler @tylsim.bsky.social · 4d

remember when we were a real country with vaguely #resist corporations www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJCc...

PEPSI Kendall Jenner So Controversial Commercial

YouTube video by Los mejores anuncios de siempre y de hoy

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HasanTheHun (automated mirror) @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social · 4d

it has been 18 hours since trump ordered israel to stop bombing gaza to implement the “peace plan” and predictably israel has yet to cease its bombing of gaza.

trump then followed up and made it seem like israel has stopped its operations on the strip.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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James Myall @jamesxmyall.bsky.social · 5d

So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away.

A completely needless tragedy.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 7d

ICE lied about the person it shot, claiming he was a "criminal," but NBC finds that he had no criminal history whatsoever. Not even traffic tickets in 12 years! It also lied about the extent of the injuries to its agents....

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 4d

This is pretty big if it goes through well enough. We haven’t had good regional rail in a century, literally.

I hope Lebanon joins.

One day, a free Palestine too.

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Syria, Turkey, and Jordan Vow to Revive the Historic Hijaz Railway

Turkey, Syria, and Jordan have announced an agreement to revive the Hijaz Railway, as part of their efforts to restore overland and railway connections and to facilitate trade movement between them. T...

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Tyler @tylsim.bsky.social · 4d

Bruce Harrell has gotten very good at talking about progressive things that happened in the city despite his administration and touting them as if he had anything to do with them

when really his prerogative is treating graffiti as the highest priority municipal issue

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David Kroman @kromandavid.bsky.social · 5d

The chief of Seattle’s new police alternative “CARE” says police officers are systemically waving off crisis responders in what staff call a “pattern of subversion”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Seattle officers ‘undermining’ city’s police alternative, report says

The CARE team has become a darling both inside City Hall and among candidates for office, but Seattle police often aren't using this resource, records show.

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Dragon Moll Z 🎃 @dopestatistics.bsky.social · 5d

Im a broken record but now more than ever end the war on drugs

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the latest strike on a boat near Venezuela that he says was trafficking drugs. The strike comes after President Donald Trump declared the U.S. is in "armed conflict" with cartels.

Hegseth announces latest strike on boat near Venezuela he says was trafficking drugs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he ordered a fourth strike on a small boat in the waters off Venezuela, according to a social media post.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 5d

Jfc if you don’t understand that this is the Gestapo kidnapping our neighbors to be put into concentration camps by now… I don’t know what to tell you

800 arrests amid Chicago immigration 'blitz' of helicopters and midnight raids
Federal agents rappelled onto an apartment building from Black Hawk helicopters in a recent raid. Hundreds more arrived masked in trucks.
Michael Loria and Eduardo Cuevas USA TODAY
Updated Oct. 3, 2025, 6:35 p.m. ET

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 9d

To single out abortion as the place for compromise is to ignore the political reality of the last three years.

And in a moment when the stakes are so high—as women are literally dying—being both confidently wrong and hugely influential is straight up dangerous. jessica.substack.com/p/ezra-klein...

Ezra Klein is Wrong About Abortion

Abortion *is* a big tent issue

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 9d

This headline from Politico is incorrect and feeds into anti-abortion scare tactics: doctors aren't 'anonymously' prescribing abortion pills - their name just isn't publicly visible on the pill bottle.

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Tyler @tylsim.bsky.social · 9d

Seeing Canadians on Reddit widely disparage postal workers and the union for striking (to maintain home delivery that Canada Post wants to end) and talk about how they’d rather mail just be killed off is wild. Americans would never, even the average GOP-voter loves their mail carrier and USPS

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11d

ICE arrested press tonight. They threw a tear gas canister into the press last week. This was not an accident.

Release Steve Held.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 11d

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

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Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE

Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 11d

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12d

Horrific: Doctors Without Borders is suspending medical work in Gaza City due to Israel's violence, including airstrikes & tanks less than 1KM from their facilities.

Comes same day Netanyahu used his UN speech to scold dozens of nations for accusing him of committing war crimes.

The intense Israeli forces offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, is putting our staff and patients at risk.
• The unacceptable level of risk has led us to reluctantly decide to suspend our lifesaving activities in Gaza City.
• Israeli authorities must immediately guarantee unhindered access and security for humanitarian organisations operating in Gaza City.
GAZA - The relentless Israeli offensive in Gaza City, Palestine, has forced Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to suspend vital medical activities in the area due to the rapidly deteriorating security situation. The situation includes continued airstrikes and advancing tanks less than one kilometre from our healthcare facilities. The escalating attacks from Israeli forces have created an unacceptable level of risk for our staff, forcing us to suspend lifesaving medical activities.
"We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces," says Jacob Granger, MSF Emergency Coordinator in Gaza. "This is the last thing we wanted, as the needs in Gaza City are enormous, with the most vulnerable people - infants in neo-natal care, those with severe injuries and life-threatening illnesses - unable to move and in grave danger."
While large numbers of people have fled south due to evacuation orders, there are still hundreds of thousands of pople in Gaza City, who are unable to leave and have no other option but to stay. Those who are able to leave face an impossible choice: either remain in Gaza City under intense military operations and the deterioration of law and order, or abandon what's left of their houses, their belongings, and their memories, to move to areas where humanitarian conditions are rapidly collapsing.

At the same time, partially functional hospitals across the Strip are overwhelmed due to severe shortages of staff, supplies, and fuel. Patients also face enormous obstacles reaching care, often arriving late and in critical condition.
Last week alone, and despite the mounting offensive, our clinics in Gaza City carried out over 3,640 consultations and treated 1,655 people with malnutrition. We have also treated patients with severe trauma injuries, burns, as well as pregnant women and others requiring ongoing medical care who are unable to leave the city. This shows the scale of medical needs. Although we have been forced to suspend our activities in Gaza City, we aim to continue supporting key services in Ministry of Health facilities, including Al-Helou and Al-Shifa hospitals, while they continue to function.
Access to and the provision of safe drinking water, food, shelter and care is increasingly restricted. People in Gaza City have been repeatedly and relentlessly bombed. They are exhausted and are being deliberately deprived of the essentials needed to survive.
We call for an immediate halt to the violence and concrete measures at the necessary scale to protect civilians. Israeli authorities must immediately guarantee unhindered access and security for humanitarian organisations operating in Gaza City, and acceptable conditions for the safe and sustained delivery of medical care and humanitarian aid, conditions that are clearly not in place today.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 16d

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

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