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The social media platforms were doing the GOP a favor by booting vile bigots off their services. Now that they have largely given up, the bigots are the party's problem.

Wonder if they regret making such a stink about "deplatforming."

The Slow Collapse: How ICE Is Gutting America’s Construction Workforce ICE raids and mass deportations are gutting U.S. construction: projects halted, crews vanished, costs soaring, America’s bridges and homes are going unfinished.

America’s construction industry is unraveling as immigration raids empty job sites, workers disappear overnight, and billions in projects remain unfinished while the nation’s builders vanish from sight.
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Why I Am Voting for Mamdani - Wired State Me at the "No Kings" march in NYC with my home-made non-union sign.

wiredstate.verisimilitude.net/2025/10/30/w...

Amazon announces 14,000 job cuts as company prioritizes AI over human workforce Amazon eliminates 14,000 corporate jobs while increasing AI investments, offering 90-day transitions as CEO Andy Jassy shifts focus to technology.

Amazon eliminates 14,000 corporate jobs while increasing AI investments, offering 90-day transitions as CEO Andy Jassy shifts focus to technology.

So they won't get this. And they will rely on AI because they didn't go to Catholic grammar school and learn how to diagram a sentence and learn the parts of speech, nor will they have read "Elements of Style". So here we all are. Another plan is needed here.

Yeah, that. The problem is, people under the age of, oh, 30, is it? Before the Internet? Will not understand what it means to have that brain/hand/thinking/writing peacefully without distraction/re-writing before I write experience. I mean, they have evolved to be able to type with their thumbs FFS

Russian envoy Dmitriev openly admits that Russia has no intentions of restoring Ukrainian territorial integrity:

People say, no, Russia has to completely withdraw to its borders.
So they set it up to fail.

(And Russia still says it's Ukraine and Europe who want war).

Wikipedia sees decline in visitors as users get accustom to AI Wikipedia is seeing a decline in human traffic as more people turn to artificial intelligence tools and social media for information, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.

Wikipedia is seeing a decline in human traffic as more people turn to artificial intelligence tools and social media for information, according to the Wikimedia Foundation.

What’s Left of William F. Buckley Jr. The conservative movement he built is now besotted with the kinds of characters and urges he repudiated.

"The right today has joined the age-old assault upon America, deprecating its system, impugning its honor, and abandoning its unique place among the nations of the Earth." From the archives: www.thebulwark.com/p/whats-left...

NEW: The Kremlin is attempting to use all available informational avenues to convince the US, Europe, and Ukraine to acquiesce to the Kremlin’s demands by convincing them that a Russian victory in Ukraine is certain when it is anything but.

More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025

First World Series between two cities threatened with invasion or invaded by a U.S. president.

It’s barely even a Ponzi scheme. There’s no guarantee that Amazon is actually making profit on this! $105bn in capex! Perhaps they’re building capacity to provide it to OpenAI in yet another money losing revenue stuffer that will end with nobody getting anything but an IOU

UK probes possible Russia-linked hack that exposed files on US military bases The files contained information on RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall, and home to thousands of American personnel and their families.

"British defense officials are investigating whether hackers stole hundreds of sensitive military documents containing details of eight bases in the country, including two used by the U.S. military, and posted them on the dark web." @starsandstripes.bsky.social
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We'll keep marching.

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.

one category of show prep material for TRMS staff is something we've always called "subway reading".

it's something that's not exactly current events or new reporting... but nevertheless relevant food for thought given the news we're in.

today's subway reading:

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I'm fine. It was only pixels.

💥 Simferopol, massive drones attack on Crimea!

🇺🇸‼️🇷🇺 Senator Lindsey Graham announces broad Senate support for new "bone-crushing" sanctions on Russia, with 72 colleagues backing a bill to impose tariffs up to 500% on nations buying Russian oil, gas, and key products, - Bloomberg

🇺🇦 Ukraine has started mass production of 30-km fiber optic coils for drones, company representatives told Defence Express.

❗️Ukrainian company 3DTech has successfully tested its new coils with ranges of 25 and 30 km. All stages of production are fully localized in Ukraine.

CEO Pay Is Up 50 Percent Since 2019 Compared to 0.9 Percent for Workers A new Oxfam analysis also warns that the global working class faces a new threat in the form of Trump’s tariff regime.

The Oxfam International analysis examined figures from nearly 2,000 corporations across 35 countries where the average pay of chief executives reached $4.3 million in 2024, up from $2.9 million just five years ago.

How the constitutional order delivered Trump:

- Wins control of major party with plurality of vote in 16 primary
- Wins electoral college in 16
- Senate refuses to remove 2x
- Supreme Court intervenes to prevent prosecution
- Senate cripples Biden's BBB agenda
- No mechanism to replace Biden

Trump replacing Watlz as national security adviser, Rubio takes place for now Trump said he's nominating Michael Waltz to be ambassador to the United Nations, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as interim national security adviser.

For an unknown period, Marco Rubio is going to be both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor. Just as well neither of them are demanding or time-consuming roles and that we're in a period of unprecedented global stability. abcnews.go.com/Politics/mic...

Julie Davis to serve as top US diplomat in Ukraine, State Department says U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have identified Julie Davis, currently the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, to serve as charge d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump and Rubio have identified Julie Davis, currently the U.S. ambassador to Cyprus, to serve as charge d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Thursday.

www.reuters.com/world/julie-...

#usa #ukraine

U.S. and Ukraine announce signing of contentious minerals deal The deal’s language marks a win for Kyiv, which has been seeking any concrete show of support from the United States since President Trump returned to power.

“So I think it’s more symbolic than anything else right now.”

“The bottom line is Ukraine has deposits of a variety of critical minerals being valued at essentially imaginary numbers...”

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Incredible

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Okay, I support Trump's third term now.

"Putin is going to test us and drive the hybrid war more forward."

Military Historian Sönke Neitzel calls in his interview with DW for "strong statesmanship… to make clear that we are not willing to live under Russian hegemony":

"Putin is going to test us, it's definitely clear.⤵️

Hi Catherine: No it doesn't 'need' the lithium as there are lots of world supply sources.

The deal is not as awful as I feared but it is still a Trump aggrandizing extractionist pact, with plenty of opportunities for self-dealing.

Ukraine deserves a lot better.