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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

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Good morning from NorCal. It's 9C/48F and the sky is full of stars. Charlotte is under the covers. Jane is on top. Elderly Cat is staring at me silently demanding treats. Devil Cat is on a kitchen chair. Visiting Cat is in the kitchen. I have delicious purple oolong tea. Have a marvelous day!

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

A Brit saying the truth out loud. Trump is their enemy now. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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It was 3.59 for diesel just 6 or 7 weeks ago in Northern California

This is today.

We paid 5.29 on Saturday morning.

"39,000 collisions and 217 deaths occurred during right turns In California between 2011 and 2022, and authors stated that this “lead us to conclude that RTOR movements are generally unsafe for pedestrians, bicyclists, and drivers and hinder the livability of streets for vulnerable road users.”

World’s most contagious disease rips across California — as more than 100 kids feared exposed in major city The alarm was sounded after an unvaccinated child, who was infectious at the time, attended the unidentified program in Sacramento County earlier this week.

World’s most contagious disease rips across California — as more than 100 kids feared exposed in major city www.aol.com/articles/wor...

Uber launches women-only rideshare option nationwide, despite ongoing lawsuit Uber's women-only feature just launched nationwide. Here's how a lawsuit in California may complicate the rollout. (AP Photo)

Uber's women-only feature just launched nationwide. Here's how a lawsuit in California may complicate the rollout. (AP Photo)

One Gas Station In California was charging $8.29 gas per gallon, up from $4+. Felon Dump did that 😝🤬🥶

* Iran Warns of $200 a Barrel Oil if Strikes on Its Infrastructure Don’t Stop

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Our love & respect for our Jewish friends & neighbors continues to be strong & separate from our feelings about the actions & policies of the Israeli government, regardless of the personal opinions or immigration status of those friends & neighbors.
#FirstAmendment #NoAntisemitism

[1/2] Like authoritarians everywhere, Trump and his powerful billionaire enablers are choking off major news media that might criticize him. After new CBS leadership censored 60 Minutes to please Trump, they have his favor to take over CNN. Washington Post is shrinking...

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

At an emergency meeting, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called the war “a significant burden on our ⁠economy, which is highly dependent on global trade and energy imports from the Middle East.” trib.al/3ZEPM3x

ICE arrests of immigrants without criminal records surge in Northern California Agents arrested about five times as many people who did not appear to have criminal records in the first nine months of 2025 as in the entire year prior.

www.mercurynews.com/2026/03/08/i...

Oil surges above $100 as Gulf states cut back production; WTI nearly touched $120 a barrel at high Gulf Arab oil producers are cutting production as they run out of storage space because they can't export through the Strait of Hormuz

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Congressional Democrats demand reversal of Russian oil sales into India as energy prices soar Russia is reportedly helping Iran target U.S. forces in the Middle East, and could now benefit from a windfall of new oil and gas sales.

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How are you supposed to just work and pretend things are normal when you’re grieving the death of a parent? Some days I wake up and all I want to do is go back to bed and cry all day.

grief isn’t linear & there’s absolutely no timeline. please be gentle with yourself. 💙🫂💙🫂

Temporarily banning data centers draws interest from some state, local officials • Missouri Independent As communities’ concerns grow over rising electricity prices and the environmental effects of data centers, some local and state officials want to halt development of the facilities.Lawmakers in at le...

".. As communities’ concerns grow over rising electricity prices and the environmental effects .."

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The Space Needle at dawn

Good morning, Bluesky!

A crisp, cool morning to start the work week in the Seattle area.
📸Theresa Arbow O'Conner

Fee on health insurers to fund abortion services debated in WA Legislature • Washington State Standard Certain insurers in Washington state could soon need to foot the bill for additional abortion grant funding.

Fee on health insurers to fund abortion services debated in WA Legislature washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/03/09/f...

Cocoa beans rot and West African farmers seek other options after commodity crash West African cocoa farmers are facing a squeeze after the price of the global commodity crashed on the international market in recent months.

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Scott MacFarlane, CBS News’ Hard-Charging Justice Correspondent, to Exit Scott MacFarlane, CBS News' Hard-Charging Justice Correspondent, to Exit

MacFarlane is a BEAST of a reporter.
I'll be watching for his next chapter.

@macfarlanenews.bsky.social @variety.com
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Canada Is at War ... With the United States Pete Hegseth took time out from the chaos of the Iran war to make an announcement that Donald Trump has renamed the region from Mexico to Greenland as “Greater North America.”

The United States is at War... With Canada open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
Believe it.
The USA is the enemy of decency.
A death culture like Russia.

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are realizing that Trump (and by extension Musk and Ellison) are very poor investments.

Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.

‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says

‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell