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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

In 2024, Kroger made 35% of its net income from the “precision marketing division," which sells customer data to other companies, according to Consumer Reports.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

The ruling class isn't even hiding it. They sometimes just say this shit in public.

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CNBC Accidentally Admits Why Employers Love AI

It's all about suppressing wages.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

The beauty of this for bosses is that AI doesn't even need to be good enough to actually replace you. All they need is the threat that it could replace you just over the horizon. That's the three years. Better not ask for a higher salary since AI *could* replace you.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

AI is arguably the most powerful wage suppression machine of my lifetime. You just hang it over every employee’s head.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

I’m guessing the reason to say this in advance over such a large stretch of time is to instill fear and get more compliant workers who won’t ask for raises.

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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

This bill would abolish ICE, DHS, and CBP, transferring legitimate customs duties to other departments. It would sunset Section 219 of the INA close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility and shutter all immigration detention centers. You have my sword, milady.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2h

"it's against the law for you to not love me" is the prevailing attitude among most people with actual power, and thus they beclown themselves at every opportunity

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 4h

Montana Dem Sam Forstag just refused to throw trans people under the bus in the MT-01 debate: “Keep politics the heck out of it.” He said government has no business in sports or telling parents what to do. It’s the most competitive House race in the country. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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“Keep Politics The Heck Out Of It”: In Toss-Up MT-01 Race, Dem Sam Forstag Refuses To Throw Trans People Under The Bus

The Democratic candidate accused his republican opponent Aaron Flint supporting people who would “pick our pocket” by distracting voters with anti-transgender attacks.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 3h

The Dem I want winning in 2028 is the one whose campaign platform is "10 generations from now their families will still be talking about how they were punished"

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 3h

every single person involved in this needs to be gone after using every federal act and resource imaginable. Examples must be made that will be remembered for the next 500 years

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SusanneMc @sumac914.bsky.social · 2h

Good discussion. “The lesson that I want Democrats to take away from this is that this is an opportunity. Now is not the time to focus only on affordability and quote-unquote kitchen-table issues. Because voters are opening up their minds about all the other problems, it’s an opportunity”

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3h

More of this

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 6h

Celebrities need to start recognizing that they have armies of social terrorists at their disposal and that is a tremendous responsibility not a cute lil quirk (from the @vulture.com interview with the shop owner)

Can I ask about something not controversial, which is what happened afterward? It seems like this has been a huge nightmare for the business.
Kelly Clarkson has put us in danger. People are getting threatened on the street, and the worst part is we didn't know this was going to happen but Kelly Clarkson did. Anyone who expresses admiration, positivity, or sympathy for Art of Play is getting attacked by trolls. People were coming by almost entirely in support. On Monday, when we were closed, people were bringing pastries and cupcakes, according to the press that was staked out here. But our friends are getting attacked, and our fans are getting attacked. We're concerned on behalf of our shopkeepers.
What are the trolls doing?
They're calling. They're emailing. They're leaving reviews on every platform, they're review-bombing, they're attacking anyone who mentions us on social media. They're shouting, they're screaming. They show up, they shout, "You're racially profiling Kelly Clarkson!" This was out on the sidewalk, so neighbors called the police, and when they filmed the neighbors their followers doxxed the neighbors. This was Sunday. We turned off the phone, but all day long, these comments come up on the point-of-sale iPad while we're ringing people up.
There's so much hate speech, so many threats of violence. If an actual customer tries to get in touch with us right now, they will never be able to.

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Strait of Hormuz Traffic @hormuz-traffic.bsky.social · 6h

We're seeing 2.7 commercial transits per day through Hormuz right now, down 97% from normal. Even with incidents grabbing headlines, the real story is how little is actually moving.

Hormuz Strait daily vessel transit chart. Source: IMF PortWatch.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

You know it kills them that they can’t just call Democrats pedophiles anymore, for reasons. Though they might just go for it anyway in their current try everything mode.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 6h

STOP LETTING JD VANCE MEET POPES

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

“the only place I can have good conversations about AI is the nazi CSAM factory so I’m going back to posting there” should maybe make you think a little bit

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

a big reason (though not the only one) that so many elite institutions capitulated to Trump immediately in early 2025 is they had learned through long experience that Dems are too chickenshit to punish them for basically any reason. but things can change!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h

the combination of the Obama-Biden "look forwards, not backwards" approach to white collar crime plus Trump's vindictive punishment of anyone who pisses him off is a real bad one

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 9h

This was a $180 million budget film with a $100 marketing budget directed by a two-time Academy Award winner led by one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars. Please stop rushing to defend the rich and powerful and let them take their lumps like the rest of us.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 9h

Mike Rogers, Abdul El-Sayed's Republican opponent for U.S. Senate, was caught on a leaked audio mocking voters' concerns about rising costs. “Oh my gosh, coffee went up,” Rogers says on tape, “You know, horror!”

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Leaked Audio Features Michigan GOP Candidate Mike Rogers Mocking Voters’ Affordability Concerns

Rogers minimized worries about rising costs due to Trump administration policies as “derangement.”…

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Jamie Dyer @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 10h

Note that they're not saying it's morally repugnant and inhuman.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

I’ve said before that the entire thesis of Trump is “I can just force you to do what I want at any moment”, and every time this collides with reality, they have genuinely no idea how to react (see also: their attempts at martyring Charlie kirk)

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 8h

Li’l bro doing homophobia from like the early ‘90s. Step up your shithead game man! You’re the vice president!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

The Trump regime is paying your tax money to Elon Musk through lucrative government contracts, and then Musk is giving hundreds of million of dollars to the Republicans so they'll keep doing that. It's how oligarchs and Republican politicians scam the rest of us.

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Elon Musk becomes biggest political donor of US midterms cycle with $366m spent

Musk’s midterm donations, mostly for rightwing candidates and causes, surpass his contributions to Trump in 2024

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h

If we let republicans get away with this like we let them get away with throwing out Bush, democrats deserve their future losses

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

I assumed that had to be a badly photoshopped image and NOPE just more of the Mar-a-Lago cult's creepiness

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 9h

This is gross (and, as is typical, juiceless) but also betrays how hung up they are on Talarico. They genuinely don't know how to handle his candidacy.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

The most indebted corporations in America right now are, at their core, computer virus companies. They think the computer viruses are their girlfriends, so they think this absolves them of guilt. Let's find out!

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Anthropic warns AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices

Anthropic's latest research adds to the growing safety concerns around AI from the ability for models to carry out cyberattacks to the technology going rogue.

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José @josebird.bsky.social · 11h

I had heard rumours of this being in production a while back, and that Ben Shapiro's name was specifically kept hidden on the script. I wonder when some of these people found out who they're working for. deadline.com/2026/10/dail...

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Daily Wire's 'Confession': Details Revealed For James Franco, Rob Lowe Film

'Confession': Details Revealed About Under-The-Radar Daily Wire Project Starring Rob Lowe, James Franco, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nick Nolte & More

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 8h

If and when Dems are able to take back power, I cannot tell you how much any question about the debt or deficit needs to be met with loud mockery and extreme derision. Just an aggressive, ‘Oh NOW you care about the debt? GTFOH.’ Over and over and over again.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Things got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.

All this time, while Defendants have refused to identify Does 4 and 5 or respond to Leo’s discovery requests, the six-month statute of limitations on his FTCA claims has nearly expired. So, on October 6, Leo sought Defendants’ consent to file an amended complaint that (1) adds his FTCA claims against the United States and (2) adds the names of Does 1, 2, and 3. These minimal changes are shown in a redline attached to this filing.
Defendants, however, refused to consent to Leo’s amendments because there is not a protective order in place. One of Defendants’ positions with respect to the protective order is that the “full legal names” of all government employees “should be confidential.” (ECF 109, at 2). That position, apparently, means that Defendants even oppose Leo identifying specific officers in his lawsuit against those very officers based on their misconduct in carrying out their public duties. Because Defendants will not consent to Leo’s amendments, Leo has filed this motion for leave.

Justice also requires granting Leo leave to name the Doe officers as defendants. Despite DHS’s remarkable position that all government employees’ names are confidential, parties routinely sue government employees by name. In fact, Rule 10(a) “requires a complaint to ‘include the names of all the parties.’” Doe v. Frank, 951 F.2d 320, 322 (11th Cir. 1992) (per curiam) (quoting Fed. R. Civ. P. 10(a)). “Lawsuits are public events.” Id. Rule 10(a) “protects the public’s legitimate interest in knowing all of the facts involved, including the identity of the parties.” Id. Only in an “exceptional case” can a party’s name be withheld from the public. Id. And that bar is even higher for public employees since their employment “diminishes their privacy interests” given “the corresponding public interest in knowing how public employees are performing their jobs.” Stern v. FBI, 737 F.2d 84, 92 (D.C. Cir. 1984);

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 6h

Does seem like “we did intentional torts to further our criminal scheme” should knock you out of sovereign immunity in some way

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

like, all of this malice was done in the name of attempting to illegally withhold FEMA funds, they knowingly and deliberately tried to destroy this woman in the service of breaking federal law

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

this kind of thing should carry some severe personal liability that isn’t shielded by being a federal employee. like, she should be able to sue them individually and collectively for a fucking shit ton of money

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

"If these people take over Congress, they're going to use its powers exactly how the Founders intended! Can you imagine that? Congress doing its job?! Heaven forfend!"

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 11h

Congress also just straight ban DOGE employees from obtaining federal contracts (including Elon Musk).

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 11h

Yes. Congress should also refuse to extend an invite to the President to give the State of the Union. He can write a Truth Social.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10h

To be clear, there is zero chance Zacharia took the Chinese bar exam. She doesn't speak Chinese and only Chinese citizens can take it.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATE: Trump was asked what state Zacharia passed the bar exam. Trump deferred to Zacharia to answer. Zacharia said, "When I moved to China." Which makes absolutely no sense. She appears to waive away follow up questions. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 14h

In case you were busy yesterday celebrating indigenous people, or their tormentor, I published my investigation into a reign of terror led by local police departments working with ICE in York County, Pa. My probe into the arrests, and fear among Haitians and Latinos www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...

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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the Eastern U.S. | Will Bunch

Local cops working with ICE in York County have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 11h

Hellmann's mayo McCormick spices Cholula hot sauce Frank's RedHot What do these products have in common? One company could soon control them all. I have concerns that McCormick and Unilever's $45 billion merger could increase YOUR grocery prices.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

the year is 2026. it’s unclear if the white house press secretary knows how to read.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

Holy shit. Rick Jackson didn’t just duck a debate with Keisha Lance Bottoms. He left her debating an empty podium. And the moderator made damn sure everyone knew it. Moderator Jeff Hullinger: “Mayor Bottoms, you may now ask a question to your opponent represented by the empty podium.”

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