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Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.

If he offered anything in return for the money, even just conversations with his father-in-law, then he would have violated U.S. bribery laws and the foreign agent statute. trib.al/aYl2OWe

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NEW: A ProPublica data analysis shows that delays resulting from USPS’ cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots mailed in rural areas. Counties that voted for Trump in 2024 have been most affected.

NEW: A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to deny them benefits. with @cascadepbs.org

AI is like a child - capable of incredible things but easily led astray by those in power. Let's raise it with care and wisdom, not control and profit.

Private hosting gives a company control over who can participate. When the forum is public, access then depends on private discretion. Standards for those forums must be constitutionally mandated so public rights do not rest on a company’s choice. techstory.in/tiktok-perma...

The right of the individual and the good of the whole have to remain in balance. Protect property, speech, enterprise and association vigorously while building constitutional machinery strong enough that none of them can be converted into ownership of the Republic. www.facebook.com/share/1JgLFc...

It's funny/not funny how everyone who demands a plan says they HAVE THE ONE but then offer no action for each individual besides what those who care are already believe they are taking? We've been body/brain-snatched by our own need to follow false leaders to be saved when they are who stop us!?

President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Watch @amoghvaz.bsky.social break it down 👇

From the war in the Middle East to undermining our allies & threatening our national security, the stakes could not be higher! We cannot afford to sit this election out, as our national security, our communities, and our future are at risk. Time to get out & vote. Our future depends on it!

The gap is real, but a snapshot of paper wealth is a blunt tool. The real gap is structural: the wealthy borrow against assets, never sell, and heirs get a step-up in basis. Treat large loans against appreciated assets as a sale and end step-up. Tax real transactions, not guesses.

Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning: Work faster, or the company might fire her. She said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers.” (Published April 2024 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

The constitutional implications are staggering and clear. A constitution binds government power. When those limits fail to bind, officials can treat rights as permissions they may revoke. That is the opposite of constitutional government. newrepublic.com/post/215177/...

Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Charged With Fraud, Lawsuit Says www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

Most Americans of any party want files open. AP says the Supreme Court will hear a Trump team appeal. It has not ruled. CREW says FOIA covers Musk's DOGE; the administration calls it an exempt advisory body and opposes acting chief Amy Gleason's deposition. apnews.com/article/supr...

Semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company GlobalFoundries Inc. says it plans to open two chip-making factories in Malta, New York, financed by an investment of up to $21 billion from Japan.

We really need to get money out of politics.

We scoured social media, court records and local stories for instances of immigration agents holding citizens against their will. The administration doesn’t track these cases. So we have. We’re sharing our database with you.

SpaceX suddenly throttled access to Starlink with no warning, Ukraine says. trib.al/rZAjLWp

Watch the CNN & Jubilee Town Hall with James Talarico Wednesday, October 14 at 8p ET on CNN and stream live with an All Access subscription. cnn.com/allaccess

It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.

Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

"I get along with him," the president said of the North Korean dictator.

For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.

After a company owned by the billionaire Moroun family erected a concrete plant in their quiet neighborhood, Detroit residents said they began battling air pollution so thick they could “taste the dust.” They say local and state officials have been little help.

Have this guy on too @patricklovellpresentsthecleannewdeal.com 😉

Hegseth's announcement to a far-right podcaster Wednesday was the first time many in the Army and Pentagon heard about the idea of a firing squad execution of the convicted Fort Hood mass shooter being made public, three sources familiar with the matter told CNN. https://cnn.it/3VIseF2

We The People give & take away immunity..BY refusing TO PROSECUTE our own Govt officials crimes that our Congress KEEPS POLITICAL IN LEG BRANCH vs Oversight passed on to JUDICIAL BRANCH that REPLACED Impeachment Clause...but WE ALLOW OUR OWN POLITICIANS IGNORE AS LAW...as a NATION OF LAWS #1!!

NEW: America’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a nationwide ban on raw dairy products, warning of the serious health risks, particularly for children, as well as pregnant and immunocompromised people.

Totally possible! It reminds me, and I hope others see, of what being American really entails...it takes collective effort to be united...not united by political party, but by being UNITED as a NATION, as a Democratic Republic, regardless of our issues and differences!

@annapolis1873.bsky.social 57% is only 3% away from our 60% we need for The People to take our power back!

TY! The annual justice rotation to Chief Justice in their 9th year is FABULOUS! Your writing skills need to be nationwide revered! It's the most informative documents I've read in a very long time! Congratulations! Excellent work!

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Breaking News: Paramount officially closed its deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, creating a vast media empire.

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com As faith-forward James Talarico leads in Senate polls, “is the era of Democratic decline at an end?” our columnist David French asks. “But there’s a question that’s even more important: Will Talarico’s religious faith help put him — and his party — over the top?”

NEW: Following our investigation with @readfrontier.bsky.social, an Oklahoma oil company has plugged a well that was potentially leaking toxic waste. We revealed that state regulators had approved the well in violation of rules meant to protect public drinking water.

Breaking News: The U.S. rushed to withdraw its B-1 bombers from an air base in England after commanders received new threats about an Iran-backed plot against the installation, officials said.

When they are PROVEN having committed CRIMES....who will ARREST & PROSECUTE THEM????? Nobody That's who!!! We cry about CORRUPTION to THE CORRUPT IN GOVT? CRIMES require criminal LAW ENFORCEMENT...CRIMES INVESTIGATED, ARRESTS, PROSECUTED or NO CRIMES PROVEN IN A CT OF LAW & CRIMINALS= "INNOCENT"

Supreme Court to weigh whether oil companies can be forced to pay for climate damage

At a time in history when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, democracy, and decency, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction — fawning over the most dangerous authoritarian America has ever witnessed. Do not forget this.

Democrats running for the U.S. Senate have forged leads or dead-heats in five traditionally Republican states – momentum that suggests the party has increased its potential for flipping the chamber for the remainder of Trump's term. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

By focusing on "core" inflation, which exludes food and energy, the Trump Admin and most media are ignoring the fact that the top drivers of economic distress for average Americans are food and energy prices. Including food and gas, inflation in Sept was 3.6% -- much higher than wage growth.

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

The District 11 debate between Scott Wiener and Connie Chan will be held at 7:30 p.m. in front of a live audience at KQED’s headquarters in the Mission District and streamed online.