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Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S. "Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."

New: marc benioff told international employees who traveled to a major salesforce meeting in Vegas that ICE is watching them. Cool joke.

"employees are going absolutely apeshit about how completely awful it was"

Read the Slacks:

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Slack messages: some staffers complained about Marc Benioff making jokes about ICE at a Salesforce event, including about ICE surveilling employee travel (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

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wait wait wait ...

TUMBLR.

THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST.

Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

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'Man down:' Watch Amazon delivery drone crash in North Texas An unexpected collision cut the "life" of an Amazon delivery drone short earlier this week. See the clip.

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halfsies?

sir will lewis welcome to the resistance

i am … guess i need to change my bio tho huh

Great piece. Important reporting. Gift link: wapo.st/4kpCBGc

It’s actually pretty easy to beat Isaac Chotiner if you know what to do (wait until he completes his third attack sequence, roll behind him, use Flame Dart until you’re out of mana, hide under the gargoyle head until his Rage Wing Spin finishes, stun him with a Sylvan Dagger, equip the Thallslayer w

Inside Musk’s bet to hook users that turned Grok into a porn generator Under pressure to boost its popularity, Elon Musk’s xAI loosened guardrails and relaxed controls on sexual content, setting off internal concern.

Exclusive: To increase Grok’s popularity, xAI embraced making sexualized material, rolling back guardrails and ignoring internal warnings about the risks of producing such content, according to more than a half-dozen former employees of X and xAI.

liked from my iphone 13 mini

a microgrid of one's own

pitchbot: golf should be illegal

I got a surprise bag from Whole Foods for $6.99 and it’s all great except for … well, you guess

Why We’re All Trading Happy Hours for the Bathhouse The sauna industry is hot and only getting hotter — but the boom reveals more about happiness than it does about health.

lot going on atm but i have to say — insane to write this entire article and not call these people by their true title: sauntrepreneurs

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the r/nursing subreddit altered its profile picture to feature Alex Pretti, seen in scrubs by an american flag.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

i'm at the McDonalds
i'm at the Palantir
I'm excited about the opportunity to follow my lifelong dream of working at the combination McDonalds-Palantir

ride the great highway again just like the good old days

ICE officer fatally shoots woman during Minneapolis operation A shooting involving an ICE officer took place in a Minneapolis neighborhood amid increased enforcement operations, Mayor Jacob Frey said.

"There’s little I can say that will make this situation better, but I do have a message for our community and our city and for ICE. To ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis. We do not want you here.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’ WASHINGTON—Reaffirming the Trump administration’s promise to crack down on individuals providing supervision and instruction to youngsters across the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi ...

This story is two months old. What did we know and when did we know it?

lowkey gonna put this on my resume

Key source says story that prompted Trump tirade against Somalis is erroneous The writers of a City Journal story alleging a connection between Minnesota fraud and al-Shabab say they stand by their story.

In November, a conservative website published an explosive claim: Al-Shabab is largely funded by money stolen from Minnesota. But the story's only named source who connected fraud to terrorism told me the story is “bullshit": www.startribune.com/city-journal...

Technology can’t kill this popular Midwestern bar game Pull tabs, legal in Minnesota and a few other states, have been a cherished Midwestern tradition for nearly 50 years.

Important news out of the Midwest from @ceodonovan.bsky.social

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ICE heads to Minnesota as the triple dip polar vortex starts

Minnesota, known for a warm welcome, turns icy for Somali immigrants Minnesota has been a magnet for Somali immigrants for decades and now has America’s largest population of people of Somali descent.

yes and somehow i've been in minnesota ever since

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GOP faces a familiar dilemma: What to do about Obamacare? Republicans are racing to craft health-care plans ahead of a planned vote, as the deadline looms to act on soon-to-expire Affordable Care Act subsidies.

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new personal low: downloaded the dropbox app to my phone

Good to see the country moving on from identity politics