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And if they bow to the pressure to introduce right to work checks quickly - before Digital ID is ready - to please Reform voters they are going to whack the economy. We'll all pay, yet again, a high economic price for indulging anti-immigrant sentiment.

What a mess - and all driven by bigotry.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

#CritterMode

Hundreds honor Vietnam War, Secret War veterans

Hundreds gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of Southeast Asian conflicts during the Cold War era, including the Vietnam War and the Secret War.

Drones targeted Russia's Sterlitamak petrochemical plant in Bashkortostan

The facility is almost 1,500 km inside Russia. Local authorities claimed that during a "terrorist attack of two UAVs," their "debris" fell in the area of an auxiliary workshop, not affecting operations.
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Spelman College, CAU get $38 million donations from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott Since the 2019 announcement of her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Scott has made significant investments in HBCUs across the country.

MacKenzie Scott gave $38 million to Spelman College, an all-women’s historically Black college, and another $38 million to Clark Atlanta University, the first historically Black university in the US to confer graduate degrees. This is her second time giving to both schools.

685,000 NYPD stops on the predicate of collecting guns. Only 2% produced weapons. 85% of stops involved Black & Latino men. 3 terms with Bloomberg. Now these same wealthy New Yorkers insist that young & working class voters defer to the alleged “superior” judgment of the millionaires & billionaires.

this is such a great encapsulation of why this race feels existential even to people outside NYC. Cuomo as the final boss of everything wrong with the current Democratic Party, Mamdani happily grabbing the third rails everyone’s told are too dangerous to touch (trans people, Muslims, socialism)

It’s insane to talk through this shit out loud. “Children should starve because it might make their moms less likely to sleep around in the future.”

US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.

Wild. More norms out the window.

“Our negotiators had never seen this before in any international talks,” said one European official.... “People being summoned to the U.S. Embassy in London — intimidation, threats of cessation of business, threats of family members losing visas.”

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸Trump: Putin really wants to do business with the U.S. He wants to make a lot of money for Russia. I think we will get that war done in a couple of months.

"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

Area Man Afraid Some Woman Might Come Out Of The Woodwork To Hold Him Accountable For Something

Area Man Afraid Some Woman Might Come Out Of The Woodwork To Hold Him Accountable For Something https://theonion.com/area-man-afraid-some-woman-might-come-out-of-the-woodwo-1820345646/

What We Choose to Nazi The Department of Labor is posting Heroic Realism propaganda. What, exactly, are they telling us?

“But it’s not the use of AI that’s giving everyone pause, of course. It’s that these pictures, released by the Department of Labor social-media accounts and bearing the department’s seal, are uncomfortably reminiscent of posters from the 1930s.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-ch...

Of course the Republicans want this book banned because this is a true tale of what happens when a fascist felon wannabe dictator gets into power, and he is enabled by the entire Republican Congress, SCOTUS, and the billionaires

it gets tiring to keep explaining what it means to be poor to people.

it is not that poor people don’t know that cooking is cheaper:

cooking costs time. it costs pots and pans. it costs a working stove and your utilities on. it costs you’ve been on your feet all day and your babies are tired.

“Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass and emailed and hand-delivered a second letter on Thursday. The request was denied, according to a statement from the village of Broadview. No reason was given.”

“Joined by hundreds of people, the group previously attempted to provide communion to those inside the detention center on Oct. 11 and were denied. DHS eventually cited the need for a one-week notice.”

15 years ago today, Coloradans elected me governor. We brought our state to near universal health care coverage – getting 500,000 folks insured.

Now, Republicans are skyrocketing premiums and making it impossible to stay on.

This still rings true: health care is a right and our fight isn’t over.

"We're not engaging in regular business right now..."

That's an understatement.😒

The thing about Johnson not swearing in Grijalva is that’s it a test for 2026.

If you think they will accept an outcome they don’t like, they will just Grijalva it.

So what’s the plan when the GOP says “we ain’t leaving, fuck you, make us.”

Because that IS what they are going to say.

Pretty much this is everything

How the US is preparing a military staging ground near Venezuela The US military is upgrading a Cold War base in the Caribbean it abandoned 20 years ago. Experts say it’s a step towards sustained operations in the region.

How the US is preparing a military staging ground near Venezuela reut.rs/4oNN5jy

Grind on all the things

That wasn’t my take. My take was purple is practicing the ass grind for a later run in with otherwise equipped humans. But I’m nasty that way.

Good thread.

businessman on unicycle with laptop in right hand and umbrella in left hand

AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

Dunning-Kruger for everyone!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvml... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251031-ai-... - podcast

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The Telegraph Headline: New Covid virus found in wild Brazilian bats Subhed: The discovery of a ‘furin cleavage site’ suggests the mutation which helps the virus adapt to humans is naturally occurring

Sad day for the folks who staked their reputations on lab leak conspiracy theories.

www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

There will be a reckoning