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Starbucks has scrapped a $250,000 limit on its CEO's use of the company jet for personal travel.
CEO Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute from his house California to corporate HQ in Seattle.
The company is lifting the cap while refusing thousands of baristas a union contract.
CEO Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute from his house California to corporate HQ in Seattle.
The company is lifting the cap while refusing thousands of baristas a union contract.
February 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Starbucks has scrapped a $250,000 limit on its CEO's use of the company jet for personal travel.
CEO Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute from his house California to corporate HQ in Seattle.
The company is lifting the cap while refusing thousands of baristas a union contract.
CEO Brian Niccol uses the jet to commute from his house California to corporate HQ in Seattle.
The company is lifting the cap while refusing thousands of baristas a union contract.
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I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens
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Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
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I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Biden himself said they were fabricated!
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you
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From what I'm hearing from folks on the ground, this is exactly correct. This regime does nothing but lie, and they respond to nothing but strength. Dems and other leaders should recognize they're weak now - ignore the propaganda and go on offense.
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:27 PM
From what I'm hearing from folks on the ground, this is exactly correct. This regime does nothing but lie, and they respond to nothing but strength. Dems and other leaders should recognize they're weak now - ignore the propaganda and go on offense.
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so about 12 hours after the media breathlessly writes “trump shifts tone” stories hes essentially encouraging assassination and threatening to jail the minneapolis mayor
January 28, 2026 at 1:56 PM
so about 12 hours after the media breathlessly writes “trump shifts tone” stories hes essentially encouraging assassination and threatening to jail the minneapolis mayor
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I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
www.theverge.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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Spectacularly pathetic. Minnesota is being attacked. The federal government literally said “ICE > MN.” We are shot to death in the street and are deemed terrorists the moment the bullet enters our back. And these self-styled Minnesota civic leaders can’t find it within themselves to pick a side.
INBOX: 60+ CEOs of Minnesota-based company call for "an immediate deescalation of tensions and for state, local and federal officials to work together to find real solutions."
No mention of ICE in the letter.
No mention of ICE in the letter.
January 25, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Spectacularly pathetic. Minnesota is being attacked. The federal government literally said “ICE > MN.” We are shot to death in the street and are deemed terrorists the moment the bullet enters our back. And these self-styled Minnesota civic leaders can’t find it within themselves to pick a side.
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He was just a regular person, and that’s fine! So am I. So are you. So are most people. We do not deserve to be murdered by the state and our reputations slandered by fucking idiots, and that’s something most of us can agree on
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
He was just a regular person, and that’s fine! So am I. So are you. So are most people. We do not deserve to be murdered by the state and our reputations slandered by fucking idiots, and that’s something most of us can agree on
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I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
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Remember last week when there were people dismissing the idea they could do illegal things to mess with elections?
Days later the administration is using violence from federal agents in the streets as a tool to try and access voter data.
Days later the administration is using violence from federal agents in the streets as a tool to try and access voter data.
Fox News: "I've gotten my hands that AG Bondi said she sent to Gov. Tim Walz. It is strongly worded. The AG calls for the governor to support the men and women of ICE, to repeal the state's sanctuary policies, and to allow the DOJ to access state voter rolls."
January 24, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Remember last week when there were people dismissing the idea they could do illegal things to mess with elections?
Days later the administration is using violence from federal agents in the streets as a tool to try and access voter data.
Days later the administration is using violence from federal agents in the streets as a tool to try and access voter data.
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He's not going to end it. You know he's not. So what are you going to do about it.
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
January 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM
He's not going to end it. You know he's not. So what are you going to do about it.
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On top of some obvious things, it's clear the dems in congress don't game anything out. What are you going to do when the murder the next person? And then the next one? and then a member of congress? It's just "vote for this and pray it goes away"
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
On top of some obvious things, it's clear the dems in congress don't game anything out. What are you going to do when the murder the next person? And then the next one? and then a member of congress? It's just "vote for this and pray it goes away"
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Many of us have been pointing out that the readiness with which these agents have drawn weapons, and gotten their fingers anywhere near the trigger, is WILDLY contrary to best practices and the sort of thing that inevitably leads to people getting shot.
“Federal agents briefly detained our reporter at the scene, who says he was tackled to the ground and had a gun put in his face.”
BREAKING: Federal agent shoots man in south Minneapolis
A Bring Me The News reporter was near the scene, and recorded multiple gunshots.
bringmethenews.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Many of us have been pointing out that the readiness with which these agents have drawn weapons, and gotten their fingers anywhere near the trigger, is WILDLY contrary to best practices and the sort of thing that inevitably leads to people getting shot.
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these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw
January 24, 2026 at 4:10 PM
these are the 7 house democrats who voted to give ICE another $10 billion on thursday btw
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Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
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It’s so cold but there are tens of thousands of people out here
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 PM
It’s so cold but there are tens of thousands of people out here
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Beyond the insanity of this interaction, we should talk more about how ICE vests all say “police” on them — when they are VERY much NOT police and don’t have actual police powers.
They are federal immigration officers, with highly limited authority.
They are federal immigration officers, with highly limited authority.
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
January 23, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Beyond the insanity of this interaction, we should talk more about how ICE vests all say “police” on them — when they are VERY much NOT police and don’t have actual police powers.
They are federal immigration officers, with highly limited authority.
They are federal immigration officers, with highly limited authority.
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Oh my god! Do the math! OpenAI needs $90bn - before costs like salaries, marketing, sales, etc- and they're only raising $57bn if they successfully raise both this round AND their next one. How about saying "it isn't clear how OpenAI covers the costs of running its business even if they succeed"?
June 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Oh my god! Do the math! OpenAI needs $90bn - before costs like salaries, marketing, sales, etc- and they're only raising $57bn if they successfully raise both this round AND their next one. How about saying "it isn't clear how OpenAI covers the costs of running its business even if they succeed"?
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I'm only half-watching this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, but it is hard to overstate how unprepared the committee's Democrats are to fight these nominees. A bunch of elderly statesmen bringing decorum to a gunfight. Pathetic. Get these losers out of my face forever.
June 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I'm only half-watching this Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, but it is hard to overstate how unprepared the committee's Democrats are to fight these nominees. A bunch of elderly statesmen bringing decorum to a gunfight. Pathetic. Get these losers out of my face forever.
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This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead
May 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead
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May 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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I don’t want to live in a world where people are in jail and barred from work for smoking weed but an unelected man actively abusing ketamine faces no repercussions for illegally seizing all of our data and making decisions that kill hundreds of thousands of people
May 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I don’t want to live in a world where people are in jail and barred from work for smoking weed but an unelected man actively abusing ketamine faces no repercussions for illegally seizing all of our data and making decisions that kill hundreds of thousands of people