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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
MissingThePt ("Missing The Point") wrote:

The next President should turn the White House Ballroom into a publicly-accessible permanent display on the Epstein files.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
UnicornRiot ("Unicorn Riot") wrote:

A demonstrator fitted with frog gear spoke about the "Portland frog" as 100,000-plus people were leaving the #NoKings event in Minneapolis on Oct. 18, 2025.

"The frog is a symbol because the idea that they have rolled out troops and ICE in Portland is ridiculous. Like, like there's no need to send the National Guard to Portland when Alaska is flooding ... And they're not doing anything. So, like, it's ridiculous. And the frog represents how ridiculous the whole thing is."

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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
carstenfranke ("Carsten Franke") wrote:

Last time we needed the Canadians to burn down the White House... This time we are doing it ourselves...
#trump #whitehouse #nokings

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
toyotabedzrock@mastodon.world ("Jim") wrote:

Arizona Sues U.S. House Over Speaker Johnson's Refusal to Swear In Rep. Elect Grijalva - Democracy Docket https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/arizona-sues-u-s-house-for-speaker-johnsons-refusal-to-swear-in-rep-elect-grijalva/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Dems in Congress should take a page from Stacey Abrams’ playbook: if a committee refuses to hold hearings in Congress, hold them anyway outside of Congress and invite the press.

hold your own damned hearings, don’t just sit around moaning & waiting for someone who says they hate you to ask you to dance. we are in “lead, follow, or get out of the way” territory now.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ProPublica@newsie.social wrote:

Democrats in the House and Senate announced plans for a wide-ranging investigation into immigration agents’ detention of citizens after a ProPublica story found that more than 170 Americans have been held by immigration officials this year.

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-ice-americans-detained-joint-congressional-investigation?utm%5Fsource=mastodon&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcampaign=mastodon-post

#News #Democrats #Congress #USPolitics #Immigration #Law

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
blamellors@mstdn.party ("Blamellors") wrote:

POLISHING YOUR PITCHFORKS

41 Million Americans eating or a ballroom, jets for DHS dog killer and Golf.

Here's when the rubber meets the road for poor MAGA : The one's who buy the racism but thought EBT was going to end for those people.

#trump #ebt

Hold fast Democrats this is the blackmail portion of the shutdown.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

it is hard to demonize a dancing frog

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/us-protests-inflatable-costumes-9.6947593

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

33 US physicians in the process of migrating to 1 midwestern Canadian province? Not A Good Sign for the US health care system

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/us-physicians-doctor-recruitment-9.6946001

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this smells like a contract that was really just another grift

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-ukraine-light-armoured-vehicles-9.6947629

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
uglyreykjavik.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("Ugly Reykjavik") wrote:

During World War II, the British installed fuel tanks in pits in Öskjuhlíðin. Between the pits, there are these walls and convenient steps for crossing over. The fuel tanks are, of course, long gone.#Iceland #Reykjavik #photography #naturephotography #nature #landscape #trees #history #WW2 #WWII

Boosted by jwz:
gilduran.com@bsky.brid.gy ("Gil Durán") wrote:

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago. She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish." It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:waplkqr2wuy2c4qbge6h6ed4/post/3lzm3dyh5js27

The Woman Who Predicted Tech F...

Boosted by jwz:
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:

Shaming businesses who do business with the Trump regime is righteous work. https://www.thebanner.com/economy/growth-development/aceco-donald-trump-white-house-east-wing-demolition-ballroom-JYH3KX4SYVAG5KWWZZ2NSSPUPE/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@verge @owa Seeing this happen, on a loop, is so maddening.

https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/

Boosted by jwz:
dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

If you are a California voter, I implore you to back Proposition 50, a hopefully temporary measure to block the Trump-Republican scheme to rig U.S. House districts for perpetual GOP control.

They declared war on democracy. Vote Yes. A no vote gives them what they want.

https://voterguide.sos.ca.gov/quick-reference-guide/50.htm

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

@verge @owa I mean, I'd volunteer to give the entire Verge staff a tour of web apps, come to their office, etc. etc. But they should really, *really* be talking with @owa

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Reading the latest Regulator by @verge, and they're so *so* close to connecting the dots...but it doesn't seem like either the reporter or their editor (the person interviewed) grok what web apps are, or are intentionally obfuscating how they could change the dynamic 🫠🤦:

https://www.theverge.com/column/803693/ice-epic-games-apple-app-store

/cc @owa

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
realjuddlegum@threads.net ("Judd Legum") wrote:

The New York Times describes Trump demanding his own Justice Department pay him $230 million as a "potential" ethical conflict.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

@surma Also, structured serialization/deserialization had been implemented in Chromium for long, since it's what powers e.g. worker.postMessage(). Making structuredClone() work literally took me less than a day, and this was before I worked at Igalia, so I had to wait hours for a local Chromium build.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:") wrote:

Today I was reminded of that time when I implemented structuredClone() in Chromium, and how although @surma had proposed it while working on Chrome devrel and had worked on the spec, the Chromium issue only had the OP until I set out to implement it, even after other browsers had shipped it.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Werewolf ⁂🐧🌱☕ 🎃💀🕸🐺"):
firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live ("Fireside Fedi") wrote:

Thank you again to @jaz for joining me on Fireside Fedi. Please check out Jaz and @iftas . Jaz's work in #trust and #safety on the #fediverse is absolutely vital.

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"because of an emergency he created… China has stopped buying U.S. soybeans to protest Mr. Trump’s tariffs on imports. In response, Mr. Trump plans to send billions of dollars of tariff revenue to U.S. soybean farmers who no longer have buyers for their crops. At the same time, Argentina has taken advantage of Mr. Trump’s tariffs to sell more of its own soybeans to China — yet Mr. Trump is planning to bail out Argentina, too."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/opinion/trump-soybeans-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

‘Lawyers said the nature of the claims posed undeniable ethics challenges… Bennett L. Gershman, an ethics professor at Pace University. “The ethical conflict is just so basic and fundamental, you don’t need a law professor to explain it… And then to have people in the Justice Department decide whether his claim should be successful or not, and these are the people who serve him deciding whether he wins or loses. It’s bizarre and almost too outlandish to believe.”’

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-compensation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=highlightShare

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
Herne@corteximplant.net ("Problem Fox") wrote:

My #selfhost #RaspberryPi is back in 100% #solar mode. The last test showed the battery isn't big enough to run it overnight but the 20w panel and 5ah battery are more than enough to run it during the day even with the panel in partial shade propped up against the house.

Now do I plug it into the grid overnight or go really #smolweb and only let it run with the sun?

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

truth

https://www.threads.com/@alvinfoo/post/DQELJWLiTMQ?xmt=AQF0HbpIlWx2t-eW0k9-Pvtvfy7MgoGnhncn1hF40pQEng&slof=1

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

That sound you hear is a thousand AI bros telling Cursor to add ARIA roles to the buttons in their React apps to make things work in Atlas (sometimes).

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Signed up to volunteer with #Kitsap county's fix-it fair! Next one should be sometime next year, can't wait!

https://kcowa.us/fixitfair

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

The GOP tried reining in public ballot measures in Ohio a few years back and it failed pretty widely. I would not be entirely surprised if it failed in Missouri too. Turns out the public doesn't like to be told to shut and just do what the politicians tell them.

https://boltsmag.org/missouri-amendment-on-ballot-initiatives/

jwz wrote:

Loving these breathless articles about how a brief Amazon DNS outage "cost billions". Oh noes, some people had to choose between playing Tetris or being alone with their thoughts at an extra-long lunch, and now billions of dollareydoos of made-up play-money that was supposed to materialize might be delayed by several hours. Billions! Of real things that definitely exist! Finance bros are touching their faces! They are concerned!

"lol" as the kids day, "lmao".
https://jwz.org/b/ykww

Boosted by jwz:
anarchiv@todon.nl ("Souvlaki Space Station") wrote:

I'm literally laughing and crying simultaneously as I'm typing this, bear with me for a second

I was going to do a dumb bait-and-switch on here by pretending to link to a pro-Effective Altruism think piece but then it's actually Goatse

Now, I had to find out that... the original website, the blood red chasm from which all memes were born is now home to a place where you can buy the original image with cryptocurrency and that... pretends to be run by an AI as a marketing gimmick or some shit

I am old. I am defeated. Satire is dead. The world is moving too fast. Pass the fentanyl.