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Renee Cascada🥄
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@cascada57.bsky.social
Blue dot awake in red state, Gardner, mom, & grandmother. Climate change is real. Vaccines Save Lives #SlavaUkraine🌻 PUSH BACK-Don't Comply, "We had whistles, they had guns"
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The utterly sociopathic entitlement of these tech freaks. Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco has given the UK government a 12 month deadline to quash public outrage over data centres, or they will... flounce off with their debt? Go on, then. Off you fuck. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Note how you NEVER see an expectation or suggestion that prices will go down, despite companies trying to get rid of more than a quarter of their workforce because they don't want to pay them. AI's only purpose is to turn the wages of workers into profit for capitalists.
Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence.
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So what is the plan here for the capitalists and AI supporters? There aren't 60,000 tech jobs to replace these jobs. Prices aren't going down so these employees won't be able to live on nothing. People keep talking about AI making jobs easier, but it is getting rid of jobs without replacing them.
Microsoft offers redundancy to 60,000 of its 223,000 staff
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A quick partial list: Anwar Sadat (Peace, 1978) Naguib Mahfouz (Literature, 1988) Ahmed Zewail (Chemistry, 1999) Mohamed ElBaradei (Peace, 2005) Yasser Arafat (Peace, 1994) Omar M. Yaghi (Chemistry, 2025) Tawakkol Karman (Peace, 2011) Aziz Sancar (Chemistry, 2015) Orhan Pamuk (Literature, 2006)
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An estimated 23,000 Texans have HIV and don’t know it. The state wants to cut new cases in half by 2031, but the CDC just ended outreach funding for at least 13 Texas groups that find people and get them tested. Kit O’Connell has the full story: thebarbedwire.com/can-texas-fi...
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We are imprisoning Maryam, Eissa, and their teenage son not because they are a threat to national security—but because of something a family member did before any of them were born.
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Spoke to @MarioNawfal about the KSA/Pakistan/Turkey-Iran meeting in Tehran today, why Iran didn't respond to Israeli breaches of its airspace over the weekend, and very important comments by Walid Jumblatt... www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ugO...
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An Arizona woman is sharing the story of how her toddler son was pronounced dead at the hospital early this year only to be found, hours later, stirring in the morgue. https://www.kxan.com/news/family-of-toddler-found-alive-in-hospital-morgue-to-file-lawsuit-i-just-want-justice-for-my-son/
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Bexar County election officials are urging voters to double-check their ballots amid complaints of voting machines changing selections during early voting. Read More👉 ebx.sh/hCo8SS
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South Carolina's former governors Jim Hodges, a Democrat, and David Beasley, a Republican, shoot a joint 60-second ad endorsing Annie Andrews for Senate. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARZ5...
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Valero generated more net income in the last three months than in 2024 and 2025 combined despite refining shortage and global conflicts. Read More👉 ebx.sh/chqZUj
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Imagine telling someone in December 2024 that the Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, whose husband is a registered AI data center lobbyist, is endorsing a Democrat for a statewide race.
Mattie Parker, the Republican mayor of Fort Worth, has endorsed Democrat Jon Rosenthal for Texas Railroad Commissioner over Bo French - who for years ran the Republican Party in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth. She's the latest current/former GOP official to endorse a Democrat this cycle.
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This actually wouldnt be THAT shocking. In November 2024 there was significant GOP backlash to him calling opponents gay/retarded. And barely a year ago, local Congress reps wanted him out for asking if Jews or Muslims were bigger threats. A lotta people have loathed him for a lotta time.
Imagine telling someone in December 2024 that the Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, whose husband is a registered AI data center lobbyist, is endorsing a Democrat for a statewide race.
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Eric Lipton. below, has led an effort over the past two years to document the destruction of environmental protections under Trump II. It has gone for the most part unnoticed compared to, well, many other things, probably because it’s happening far from the Oval Office. But it’s very important.
Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.
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Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com
And of course, here is the story. These documents posted via these threads are a companion of sorts to the story. They also show the kind of work that goes on behind our reporting. You don't just go out to the field. You dig. For months Turn every page, Caro said. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...
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Love this story from Larkin Cleland & Madhumita Dutta about Ohio residents in a rural area who have to decide whether to take a payout & escape the crush of data centers built up around them. The man profiting from the land underneath those data centers is... Les Wexner. prospect.org/2026/10/26/d...
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Todd Blanche, in His Underwear, in Disgrace emptywheel.net/2026/10/26/t...
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"The same people who insist on policing public bathrooms to protect little girls from sexual predators are also smearing an actual child rape survivor." And not just that. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:
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NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers. In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients. The CEO was just indicted for fraud.
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I honestly feared they would be better at manipulating gas prices before the election.
gas prices fell in over half of states in the last week, while they surged in the Great Lakes, offsetting decreases, leading the national average to be the same as it was a week ago- $4.24/gal. meanwhile, diesel rose 4 cents to $6.34/gal. Brent oil prices at highest since April.
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“don't forget SpaceX gets *paid* to provide both Starshield and Starlink to Ukraine by NGOs, governments, etc. Poland is a big customer so is U.S. Pentagon.” It seems highly improbable that private contractor a contractor could legally do this without 1/ warning the alleged party in breach and
Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...
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Replying to @realjakebroe.bsky.social
Sanctioned Russian Energy Giant secretly Laundered Money by Funding US Gas project in Alaska The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash While Blocking Alaskans Vote in election. The Trump🇷🇺 Oiligarch family!
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Replying to @realjakebroe.bsky.social
This was mentioned in August 2025. No one made a big deal about it, and then it just faded out. Of course, it was a huge deal to me. It's just another layer of evidence to add on. There's no way anyone can have doubt. He cares nothing for the US citizens. He's appeasing Putin. That's his goal.
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Replying to @realjakebroe.bsky.social
Full update video here: youtu.be/esTUQ2cbx9o
Wow, unbelievable even for trump. No, I shouldn't say that because NOTHING is beyond his traitorous corruption!
This is the biggest corruption scandal in American history. The Trump crime family is trying to sell the future natural gas rights of Alaska to the Russians in exchange for $25 billion in cash for themselves today.
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