john
@johnamitchell.bsky.social
Multi-genre writer, esp. speculative fiction.
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"Many of them, he said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents.
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
With all the excitement about the election I don’t want this story to get lost. This morning 8 car wash workers in Boston were kidnapped by federal agents in the largest workplace raid in the area in recent memory.
The details are horrifying.
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
The details are horrifying.
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www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/04/m...
Immigration agents raid Allston car wash and detain several workers - The Boston Globe
Many of them held legal status but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents, according to their manager.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"Many of them, he said, held legal status, but were unable to immediately produce their documentation to the agents.
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
“Some people left their property, their work permits in their lockers here,” [their boss] said. “I could bring it to them and get them released. But I don’t know where they are.”"
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By today, nearly 11 million SNAP participants should have received *full* benefits for November. They haven't.
By Friday, this jumps to about 20 million.
(estimated using state participation data and issuance schedules from USDA FNS)
🥗 🛟 🩺📊 #econsky
By Friday, this jumps to about 20 million.
(estimated using state participation data and issuance schedules from USDA FNS)
🥗 🛟 🩺📊 #econsky
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
By today, nearly 11 million SNAP participants should have received *full* benefits for November. They haven't.
By Friday, this jumps to about 20 million.
(estimated using state participation data and issuance schedules from USDA FNS)
🥗 🛟 🩺📊 #econsky
By Friday, this jumps to about 20 million.
(estimated using state participation data and issuance schedules from USDA FNS)
🥗 🛟 🩺📊 #econsky
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Scott Jennings melted down on CNN over Zohran Mamdani’s likely win — ranting about “socialists” and tossing out a bizarre new slur, “Islamo-Marxist”
Then David Hogg calmly torched the whole charade:
“People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country.”
Then David Hogg calmly torched the whole charade:
“People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country.”
November 4, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Scott Jennings melted down on CNN over Zohran Mamdani’s likely win — ranting about “socialists” and tossing out a bizarre new slur, “Islamo-Marxist”
Then David Hogg calmly torched the whole charade:
“People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country.”
Then David Hogg calmly torched the whole charade:
“People are tired of being lectured by men with Rolexes on CNN about affordability in this country.”
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“As we’re seeing our world warm and water vapor in the atmosphere increase … it activates something that doesn’t look like anything most humans have seen before.”
wapo.st/4oklfvh
“As we’re seeing our world warm and water vapor in the atmosphere increase … it activates something that doesn’t look like anything most humans have seen before.”
wapo.st/4oklfvh
Deadly rivers in the sky
A new Washington Post investigation reveals where climate change has supercharged the movement of moisture through the skies.
wapo.st
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Gift link
“As we’re seeing our world warm and water vapor in the atmosphere increase … it activates something that doesn’t look like anything most humans have seen before.”
wapo.st/4oklfvh
“As we’re seeing our world warm and water vapor in the atmosphere increase … it activates something that doesn’t look like anything most humans have seen before.”
wapo.st/4oklfvh
"The inflation report was delayed due to the government shutdown and the White House said there will likely be no report next month..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsA3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsA3...
What happens when no one trusts a country’s economic data
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"The inflation report was delayed due to the government shutdown and the White House said there will likely be no report next month..."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsA3...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsA3...
$40 billion isn't enough.
Trump will have to keep pouring US tax dollars into Argentina to keep it afloat.
www.digitaljournal.com/business/arg...
Trump will have to keep pouring US tax dollars into Argentina to keep it afloat.
www.digitaljournal.com/business/arg...
Argentina's central bank intervenes to halt run on peso
Argentina's central bank said Tuesday it had sold $45.5 million dollars on the foreign exchange market to try and halt a run on the peso days ahead of
www.digitaljournal.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 PM
$40 billion isn't enough.
Trump will have to keep pouring US tax dollars into Argentina to keep it afloat.
www.digitaljournal.com/business/arg...
Trump will have to keep pouring US tax dollars into Argentina to keep it afloat.
www.digitaljournal.com/business/arg...
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“You don’t have to squint hard to see that extreme weather events are […] affecting labor markets, supply chains, insurance markets, and inflation dynamics in ways that are pronounced, prolonged, and pervasive.”
Senior Fellow Sarah Bloom Raskin, in @bloomberg.com
Senior Fellow Sarah Bloom Raskin, in @bloomberg.com
Companies in the business of preparing or recovering from natural disasters are outperforming the S&P 500.
Asheville's rebuilding after Hurricane Helene shows them in action. Read The Big Take ⬇️
Asheville's rebuilding after Hurricane Helene shows them in action. Read The Big Take ⬇️
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
bloom.bg
October 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
“You don’t have to squint hard to see that extreme weather events are […] affecting labor markets, supply chains, insurance markets, and inflation dynamics in ways that are pronounced, prolonged, and pervasive.”
Senior Fellow Sarah Bloom Raskin, in @bloomberg.com
Senior Fellow Sarah Bloom Raskin, in @bloomberg.com
“These individuals have a heightened risk of long-term health complications...their classification as having obesity is clinically appropriate.”
I get it, but a public policy hater reads this and thinks: We can eliminate hunger by declaring everyone obese.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I get it, but a public policy hater reads this and thinks: We can eliminate hunger by declaring everyone obese.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Almost 70% of US adults would be deemed obese based on new definition, study finds
Medical experts have called for new way to more accurately measure obesity, although definition has yet to be adopted
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
“These individuals have a heightened risk of long-term health complications...their classification as having obesity is clinically appropriate.”
I get it, but a public policy hater reads this and thinks: We can eliminate hunger by declaring everyone obese.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
I get it, but a public policy hater reads this and thinks: We can eliminate hunger by declaring everyone obese.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Under a regime of massive, ideological-driven deregulation it's reasonable to expect we'll see more, probably many more, toxic industrial disasters at factories, processing facilities, and on surface streets and interstates -- and along every other mode of transport.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
Large fire erupts at Los Angeles-area Chevron refinery in El Segundo
Officials say a large fire at a Chevron refinery in El Segundo, in Los Angeles County, has been contained and there are no reports of injuries.
www.cbsnews.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Under a regime of massive, ideological-driven deregulation it's reasonable to expect we'll see more, probably many more, toxic industrial disasters at factories, processing facilities, and on surface streets and interstates -- and along every other mode of transport.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...
The value of U.S. beef sent to China fell to just $8.1 million in July and $9.5 million in August, Chinese trade data showed, compared to $118 million and $125 million in the same months a year earlier.
October 3, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The value of U.S. beef sent to China fell to just $8.1 million in July and $9.5 million in August, Chinese trade data showed, compared to $118 million and $125 million in the same months a year earlier.
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the hypocrisy is evidence of their privilege! idk how people still don't understand that
October 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Nails why accusations of hypocrisy never land with MAGA: “But the real secret is locating the animating impulse behind contemporary fascist sexuality: Hedonism for me, puritanism for thee.”
I wrote about The Hunting Wives, Erotic MAGA, and the literally libidinal appeal of fascism for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World
A high heel, jammed into a human mouth, forever
Sean T. Collins on The Hunting Wives
www.welcometohellworld.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nails why accusations of hypocrisy never land with MAGA: “But the real secret is locating the animating impulse behind contemporary fascist sexuality: Hedonism for me, puritanism for thee.”
Will the real Victor Davis Hanson (lol) please stand up?
The farm sector chose to help bring Trump to power, and play this like a dictatorship.
Because they saw it as a good way to get easy money.
I know we have a folklore of farms being, like, the traditional beating heart of democracy.
That's a nice idea! But this is what's really happening.
Because they saw it as a good way to get easy money.
I know we have a folklore of farms being, like, the traditional beating heart of democracy.
That's a nice idea! But this is what's really happening.
October 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Will the real Victor Davis Hanson (lol) please stand up?
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Your health care bill is about to explode.
The notices will start arriving next month.
A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000.
Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up.
We need to fix this. Now.
The notices will start arriving next month.
A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000.
Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up.
We need to fix this. Now.
September 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Your health care bill is about to explode.
The notices will start arriving next month.
A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000.
Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up.
We need to fix this. Now.
The notices will start arriving next month.
A $7,000 bill could jump to $24,000.
Democrats are fighting to stop this. Republicans are fighting to guarantee your costs go up.
We need to fix this. Now.
Yeh! Good news.
A rare discovery, equal to one in 30 million, was made by someone shopping for groceries, according to the New York Aquarium.
Rare orange lobster saved from supermarket
A rare discovery, equal to one in 30 million, was made by someone shopping for groceries, according to the New York Aquarium.
www.kktv.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Yeh! Good news.
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seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade
September 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade
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KASH PATEL: you falsify that evidence with messages that are anti-ICE in nature yet?
LOW LEVEL FBI AGENT: sure did, boss. wrote the words "ANTI-ICE" on them nice and big, just like you asked
KASH PATEL: what
LOW LEVEL FBI AGENT: sure did, boss. wrote the words "ANTI-ICE" on them nice and big, just like you asked
KASH PATEL: what
Hours after a shooting of ICE detainees, the FBI says “early evidence” of messages on the rounds are “anti-ICE in nature.”
Here is a picture FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted of “the unspent shell casings recovered…engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.”
Here is a picture FBI Director Kash Patel just tweeted of “the unspent shell casings recovered…engraved with the phrase ANTI ICE.”
September 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
KASH PATEL: you falsify that evidence with messages that are anti-ICE in nature yet?
LOW LEVEL FBI AGENT: sure did, boss. wrote the words "ANTI-ICE" on them nice and big, just like you asked
KASH PATEL: what
LOW LEVEL FBI AGENT: sure did, boss. wrote the words "ANTI-ICE" on them nice and big, just like you asked
KASH PATEL: what