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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 50m

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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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 7h

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 11h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 15h

At Tech Week in SF, an AI startup screens a torrented and ad-polluted copy of The Social Network, in between the most cursed trailers for the most hellish AI "films" imaginable....and ORB IS ON IT: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/initiating-t...

Initiating Tech Week

Social Networking with Zingroll, Marina Theater, Monday Night

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 17h

Let's see how things are going on TikTok

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Brad Johnson @ahablives.bsky.social · 20h

I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store.

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Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

How many videos have you seen of protesters being brutalized? Pretending this imagery still changes the math the way you wish it would is an insult to the people whose bodies you would treat as props. Ghandi's era was more complex than many of you make out. This is not the 60s either. Things change.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 1d

There is way too much going on Greater Oakland this week, inshallah we all make it through. www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/oakland-revi...

Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, October 7 - October 12

last minute signs with children's markers

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Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 2d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of can’t believe this Bari Weiss quote is even real, and yet www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

“I know that there are some people in this room who don’t believe that my marriage should have been legal … and that’s ok. Because we’re all Americans who want lower taxes.”

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

Oh word

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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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

it's worked before!

Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

yep. not to deny that a nice democratic president and even a divided gov't would give a lot of people cover to pretend, but yeah, trump def broke something.

Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

There are the hardliners that WANT the situation to continue on this path, of course, because they know they're doing a genocide, and want to, but most of those that support them (esp from a distance) want for the situation to go back to being something they can ignore, and they wrongly think it can

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 1d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know what it MEANS, practically speaking, that Israel has made it impossible for the world to ever go back to thinking it's a "normal" country, but that's the thing its defenders refuse to understand, that there's no coming back from this

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

a thing I've been turning around in my head is that people who see that what Israel (and its allies) are doing is genocide UNDERSTAND something about the world that those who delude themselves into thinking it is not, do not understand, which is: that this situation is not stable and won't stabilize

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

I will say, though, that in isolation, that's not the WORST critical proposition I've ever heard

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

which is not unlike the MCU fandom, too, or any fandom, but I feel like the content of the songs structure so much of the affective force of it

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

as very much an outsider to it, it feels distinctly and persistantly allegorized to interpersonal relationship mode, such that admitting to someone outside the circle that Taylor fucked up would be like talking shit about a best friend to a mere acquaintance

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

"If you are a billionaire buying a media organization to consolidate your power, you could not find a more eager servant than Weiss, someone blissfully captured by the richest people alive, and invested in smashing the last vestiges of liberal power in this country" 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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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

"The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content."

Defector @defector.com · 1d

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 1d

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The movement to ‘Abolish ICE’ is heating up – and going mainstream | CNN Politics

Calls to eliminate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, for years relegated to the far-left corners of progressive activism, have been thrust this week into the mainstream of Democratic pol...

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