@brianscott65.bsky.social

Father of 3 & Grandpa of 3. Detroit Tigers & Lions fan. Collector of sports memorabilia. Blue dot in a Red State. Never Trumper

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1 week ago

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AI is key driver behind layoffs at fintech company Block, CEO says Shares in the financial technology company Block soared more than 20% in premarket trading Friday after its CEO announced it was laying off more than 4,000 of its 10,000 plus employees, reconfiguring ...

"The core thesis is simple. Intelligence tools have changed what it means to build and run a company," Jack Dorsey said in a letter to shareholders in Block, the parent company to online payment platforms such as Square and Cash App. https://to.pbs.org/4kWSGmO

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He was supposed to serve 10 years and pay $36 million in restitution for defrauding investors. Never served a day. Not Somali.

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LOUISIANA: ICE officer pleads guilty to sexually abusing Nicaraguan detainee for
Months “while she was under his authority”

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The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.

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I have a very bad feeling about this...

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Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅
Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅
Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅
Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅

#Ugh🤢✅

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4 months ago
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Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It. Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

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5 months ago

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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5 months ago

There are some great indie journos on the ground in Chicago with up-to-date information as it happens.

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Front Page of the Day:

He will not be deterred.

#ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

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That would be awful. Don’t share this.

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Something spicy & delicious as a taco has gotten under Trumplestiltkin's thin tangerine skin. Seems the master of mean, juvenile nicknames can dish them out but when directed towards him, he can't take it, angrily calling it "nasty."🤣

Good to know. (you know what to do!)

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Trump Republicanism at its finest.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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•••••WARNING•••••

In Trump’s frenzied rush to summarily “deport,” immigrants in America are being denied “due process under law” — and U.S. citizens could be next.

Judges warn of a gradual erosion of due process resulting from the Trump regime’s mass deportation…

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Defendants are presumed innocent unless convicted. Every US Atty (or so I thought) knows you can’t weigh in on guilt like this.

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Here’s a preview of the coming clash with SCOTUS which has already confirmed noncitizens are entitled to due process. “Sudden deportation” violates the Constitution.

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PA Senator McCormick appears to haven't ever watched/ listened to NPR and is only capable of parroting MAGA talking points given to him to read.

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This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them. The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending…

The Flex Loan, a new type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial in Tennessee, allows residents to borrow up to $4,000 at a 279.5% interest rate.

It has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders.

By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, with @tennesseelookout.com

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“Donald Trump hates me because I fight hard, and I fight for free and fair elections. I insist on fighting for democracy in court, fighting for voting rights in court, and insist on telling the truth about what the outcome of the 2020 election was,” says lawyer Marc Elias. cbsn.ws/43btfGV

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Trump’s 48-hour scramble to fly migrants to a Salvadoran prison The administration rounded up some of the Venezuelans two days before the flights took off, pressing forward even as Venezuela agreed to accept deportees.

“Despite the Trump administration’s claims, many of the immigrants sent to El Salvador had entered the United States legally and were actively complying with U.S. immigration rules.” The more we learn about ElSalvadorGate, the worse this outrage gets. . .

www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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I predicted Harmeet Dhillon would destroy the DOJ's Civil Rights Division and reverse years and years of progress.

"The division changed mission statements across its sections to focus less on racial discrimination and more on fighting diversity initiatives and anti-Christian bias."

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The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, went to pay his respects to the servicemembers and civilians lost in Pearl Harbor on “June 7th, 1941.”

It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th.

It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class.

Only the best people, right?

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The mainstream media keeps trying to bring Sec Def Hegseth down by accurately reporting things he did.

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He’s weakening our country. He’s weakening our economy. He’s weakening our alliances. He’s weakening the free world. He’s weakening our influence around the world.

And Putin keeps smiling every single day.

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A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

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Trump approval rating dips; many wary of his wielding of power, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds President Donald Trump's public approval rating edged down to its lowest level since his return to the White House, as Americans showed signs of wariness over his efforts to broaden his power, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Monday found.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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