private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money
20.11.2025 01:48 β π 7916 π 2000 π¬ 306 π 192@tatianalluent.bsky.social
Social scientist | Formerly Assistant Prof @esmtberlin | PhD @DukeFuqua | π«π· | Gender inequality in the economy | she/her
private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money
20.11.2025 01:48 β π 7916 π 2000 π¬ 306 π 192Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure.
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleaguesβ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. βWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,β Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Shoβ¦
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
β.. in a group Signal chat, .. he wrote in part: βI fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.ββ
@reuters.com #Chicago
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(around the Spotify logo) GET ICE OUT OF SPOTIFY ICE DOESNβT NEED A PLAYLIST. IT NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. β’ Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads β’ Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. β’ Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.
Are you still using Spotify Premium? Cancel your subscription until Spotify stops running ICE ads. There are other streaming options that donβt profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
06.11.2025 19:08 β π 725 π 304 π¬ 32 π 24The most corrupt administration in American history.
07.11.2025 00:46 β π 8339 π 3705 π¬ 400 π 245One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
06.11.2025 21:00 β π 9239 π 6033 π¬ 438 π 1297A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
07.11.2025 03:08 β π 11221 π 5397 π¬ 173 π 1006The president of the United States thinks asylum-seekers come from mental asylums.
He says it in almost every interview where the topic of migration comes up.
How is this not 25th Amendment territory? How is he not an embarrassment to this entire country?
LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social
02.11.2025 08:42 β π 3319 π 1796 π¬ 424 π 598Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
29.10.2025 17:11 β π 2087 π 412 π¬ 1 π 47I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.
29.10.2025 22:23 β π 7617 π 4021 π¬ 53 π 802In video provided exclusively to MSNBC's The Weekend: Primetime, immigration agents are seen attempting to pull a man out a window of a Chicago home. Agents also jumped a fence into the locked backyard and manhandled people doing work. Hear from the homeowner tonight on The Weekend: Primetime.
25.10.2025 19:37 β π 953 π 494 π¬ 46 π 69I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.
22.10.2025 00:33 β π 16955 π 7043 π¬ 431 π 401New developments in my 3 year Epstein investigation, this time regarding JP Morgan Chase and its CEO, Jamie Dimon. This is a long thread, but worth sticking around for.
20.10.2025 16:55 β π 10965 π 4456 π¬ 253 π 498One week in the West Bank:
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Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
19.10.2025 01:24 β π 8259 π 4600 π¬ 393 π 1113CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 80000 60000 40000 20000 0 Bernie Sanders 200000 Number of Donations 150000 100000 50000 Elizabeth Warren 60000 40000 20000 01 25 50 Donor Age 75
Hakeem Jeffries 40000 30000 20000 10000 Nancy Pelosi 100000 Number of Donations 75000 50000 25000 Suzan DelBene 2000 1500 1000 500 25 50 75 Donor Age
AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries
16.10.2025 20:50 β π 9596 π 1906 π¬ 246 π 156Trump claims ICEβs reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the βworst of the worst.β
But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.
Donβt believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
To be clear:
LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.
The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.
This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from β¦ their own govt.
bangs. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'" Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building. "They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."
βFuck them kids.β
Thatβs literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesnβt like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
Alongside @404media.co, we sued DHS demanding they hand over a copy of an agreement that shares the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients with ICE.
We believe itβs important for the public to see this unprecedented data sharing agreement.
Ohioβs new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive
01.10.2025 14:41 β π 1838 π 591 π¬ 70 π 43NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasnβt breaking any laws.
Federal agent: βWe are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.β