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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 15h
A look into the operational life in an aircraft carrier near the Strait of Hormuz. The earnest professionalism of those interviewed is something missing from those that put them in their position. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Rare access on board U.S. warship fighting Iran
Reuters was given rare access to the USS George Washington aircraft carrier in the Strait of Hormuz as it conducts military operations against Iranian targets.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026
Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, there has been an absolute explosion of 287(g) agreement since Trump took office; more than 1,000 new ones. Multiple GOP-led state legislatures have actually mandated that local police departments signed these agreements, even if they don’t want to.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.
A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Important warning about this year’s super El Niño and the violent weather changes it will cause over the next 18 months, all around the world. Governments have some time to prepare, but not much. The Trump administration has its collective mind on other things. Link via @davidho.bsky.social
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Political Quarterly @politicalquarterly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How do ordinary people gradually get used to extreme ideologies? Katja Hoyer speaks to Anya Pearson about why it was so important to her to tell the real-life stories of local residents in Weimar, Germany, during the rise of Nazism. politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/we-need...
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"We Need to Understand how Ordinary People Gradually get Used to Extreme Ideologies": Interview with Katja Hoyer
Anya Pearson interviews Katja Hoyer, the German-British historian, journalist, and author whose acclaimed book Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe was published earlier this year. Drawing on...
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
>It is already exciting and fun to chant “Let them drown!” on land. How much more fun would it be, and how much more exciting would it feel, to see your legitimate concerns addressed by being able to chant “Let them drown!” into the wet faces of dying migrants as they actually drown in front of you?
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Much to think about here from @froomkin.bsky.social. Assuming Democrats are successful in winning House and Senate majorities this November, what do they do with them? The amount of damage Trump and his pet Republicans in Congress have done in the last two years makes this a difficult question. 🧵
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cambridge's William Hurst argues that not all empty urban projects in China are the same, and that the differences among them imply a different distribution of political and economic costs.
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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Spend time with this extraordinary column because figuring this out is essential to our city's future -- www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Frontier models: dangerous enough to make bioweapons, too inaccurate to write Anthropic et al a full productivity suite including email, spreadsheet, slides This may actually be true though: some problems are tractable with our nifty cross between wikipedia and jackhammer that weren't before.
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
says ai is scary and dangerous for years founds company for making ai says ai hacking things is scary and dangerous makes hacker ai says ai bioweapons are scary and dangerous what do you think happens next?
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very quick and dirty Jev test for hiring bias. One resume for a Wall Street job; asked whether the applicant should get a first-round interview. 76 evaluations, changing only the first name. 19 of each: White-associated men/women, Black-associated men/women. console.typesafe.ai/playground?s...
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 18/09/2026
Hello Montreal
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The 80th Congress -- famously called "the Do Nothing Congress" by Truman when he used it to propel his stunning 1948 victory -- had actually accomplished quite a lot. It passed the Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, National Security Act, Taft-Hartley and more. Truman *still* ran against it and won.
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1/ 1) AI will not eradicate humanity. Humans survived an ice age, the Black Death, two world wars, and (so far) the advent of nuclear weapons. Anyone who is loudly warning of AI-caused human extinction should not be taken seriously.
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Don’t do tax abatements for data centers unless you really know what you’re doing.
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Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oh look at your fresh new record ridership in the East Bay, Lyft Bike!
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
She's right. You'll find all the blueprints for ethnic cleansing of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza laid out in the Israeli media (usually in Hebrew). WSJ, NYT, WaPo and the usual US broadcast outlets all feel strongly that their readers and viewers don't need to see or hear any of this.
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Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 04/09/2026
You often hear that if only CAHSR had let the French take over, it would be built by now. They're on the team now, but what did SNCF actually say back in 2010? We did a deep dive into the French HSR operator's original proposal to set the record straight. 🧵 calelectricrail.org/the-true-sto...
Selected Co-development team
from June 1 CAHSR CEO report. Teams include SNCF Voyageurs, Jacobs, CDPQ Infra, Systra...
Team capabilities: Global infrastructure investment, high-speed rail development, rail systems integration, passenger rail operations, ridership and revenue strategy, commercial management, public-private partnership strategy
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The 100 wealthiest Americans now own more than the bottom 50% of the country.
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In my day, conservative governments might stick to social messaging like “don’t take drugs” or “abstain from sex before marriage.”
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just as a minor observation amidst all the upper class discourse on here this morning, statistically, they probably voted Labour.
You gov polling, showing Labour and left wing/liberal parties generally performing best amidst household incomes over £50k
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I mean, there's clearly something wrong with this guy. He's unfit for office and needs to resign.
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Presumably, some people who had to do this silly work pushed back. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon temporarily rescinds guidance on testosterone screening for US troops
The Pentagon is temporarily rescinding recently published clinical guidance for a new, mandatory testosterone deficiency screening policy for service members ​aged 30 and older, a U.S. official told R...
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Weird meme stuff piped directly into the armed forces. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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US Pentagon issues clinical guidelines on troop testosterone screening to start immediately
According ​to the guidance, men age 30 and older will receive ​mandatory testosterone blood tests, while younger men will be tested only on ‌request ⁠or if clinicians identify warning signs.
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Teacher compensation matters. We can design much better teacher compensation systems with the information we already have--systems that would raise overall pay and create incentives to help raise teacher quality, especially for kids who need it most.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For reasons that I believe need examination and explaining, credible news organizations have not made this their lead story every day this summer. If a Dem president did this in one red state it would be nuclear level coverage.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Lake Ontario name change is insanely unpopular: just 14 percent support it. By point of comparison, 14 percent of Americans also believe that the moon landing was fake.
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The world sure is a strange place, isn’t it? This is one reason I don’t read American papers or magazines anymore. Reuters is the best value in the business. Here’s the grand total of Piker mentions, most in passing: a correct amount.
A screenshot of a search for “piker” in Reuters with five total results. Only one has him on the headline, in the Reuters anti-misinformation section.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Between July 2025 & June 2026, SNAP enrollment in Louisiana fell by 21%. Almost half of the roughly 170,000 Louisianans who lost food assistance were children. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer was arrested at his citizenship application interview and has been held by ICE for two months. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Loreto Javar, a green card holder who’s lived in the United States for over three decades and is being treated for Stage 4 prostate cancer, has been held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma for more than two months. 

A 76-year-old retired hotel worker who lives in Fife with his wife and daughter, Javar was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials June 23 during an interview for his U.S. citizenship application in Tukwila. He was receiving ongoing cancer treatment when he was taken into ICE custody, his family said, and has missed several medical appointments since his arrest.
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lots of people have forgotten the GFC, but I remember. Perhaps we could have trimmed our sails a bit, but this would have been letting perfect be the enemy of good.
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
At some point, I’d like to see an interview with policy makers who greenlight tax abatements for data centers and whether they are satisfied with how it benefited their constituents.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 27/08/2026
I liked this @goldkorn.bsky.social piece about going back to China after many years because I saw my own travels reflected back at me. One of the things that I can’t escape when I’m there is the feeling that part of China’s appeal is the gig/app economy here turned up to 11 and he captures that well
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App Life in China
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovi...
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If Serbia insists on burying Maladić with state honours, that is its sovereign prerogative. However such a move would be entirely inconsistent with being a candidate for EU membership, and the accession process should be formally suspended as a result.
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The slaughter on the high seas continues. The U.S. killed four more civilians in its recently renewed boat-strike murder spree -- this time back in the Caribbean. We're tracking every strike @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tax policy absolutely does matter in siting decisions, but I’m of the opinion this kind of tax competition is bad policy (even if I think charging sales tax on servers is a little silly: no VAT system would do that. It is not “consumption” to tax, it’s an industrial input)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There are many stupid reasons this can exist, but at least one stupid reason I suspect is to put Trump over Lincoln specifically.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Official monthly data is in today, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 20% compared to this time last year!
a graph of US monthly solar generation
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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Coming back to this I always knew the annoying texts were a bit scammy but I very much did not appreciate how much they'd function as a scam on the elderly I heaped scorn on MAGA for aggressive donation scams, and just like we react to abusers in Our Party differently, we must destroy this utterly
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ending TPS for Haitians in the US is sending people to their death. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
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Dozens Massacred in Haiti, Officials Say, Heightening Fears of Gangs
Gangs targeted a key community on the outskirts of the capital, raising fears about the gangs’ next move. The mayor said at least 25 people had been killed, but the U.N. put the death toll at 47.
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 25/08/2026
Teachers educate 50 million kids a year, but in every state they're paid far less than comparable college graduates. New estimates from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org @ceprdc.bsky.social
map of the US states titled "The teacher weekly wage penalty is at least 25% in 25 states: Regression-adjusted estimates by state, pooled CPS data for 2020-2025"
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I got one of these flyers today, trying to sell closing the new, popular linear park “sunset dunes” at the beach as a car safety thing… so they drive there, not hitting you. No other way to solve that ofc. @nextdoorsv.bsky.social @nilo.bsky.social www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
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From the sanfrancisco community on Reddit: The people pushing to close Sunset Dunes park are trying to frame it as a traffic safety measure (meanwhile crashes in the Sunset are down since the park ope...
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Daniel Farina @danfarina.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I would like a survey of these guys (it’s usually guys) and their elementary to high school education. I’d guess 70% never experienced firsthand evidence of the birth lottery: private schools and exclusive public school gerrymanders.
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