Ray Pride
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Siddhant Awasthi and Emmanuel Lamacchia, the Tesla executives in charge of its Cybertruck and Model Y programs, are leaving the company.
They're the latest in a string of high-profile executive exits.
They're the latest in a string of high-profile executive exits.
The Tesla Cybertruck And Model Y Bosses Both Just Quit
Tesla has lost several top executives across divisions in recent months. They seem to be leaving on good terms, but the rate of executive turnover seems high.
insideevs.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Siddhant Awasthi and Emmanuel Lamacchia, the Tesla executives in charge of its Cybertruck and Model Y programs, are leaving the company.
They're the latest in a string of high-profile executive exits.
They're the latest in a string of high-profile executive exits.
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The independent web needs and deserves your support. And sites like Stereogum inspire everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The independent web needs and deserves your support. And sites like Stereogum inspire everyone.
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the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.
November 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
the democratic party establishment hasnt learned a damn thing since they voted to allow george w bush to invade iraq. not one thing.
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I don’t want Chuck Schumer out because of his no vote to end the shut down. I want Chuck Schumer out because he couldn’t control his caucus and 8 of the people in it defected to the fascist side and voted with them!
He needs to be gone as Senate minority leader like yesterday!
#Maddow
He needs to be gone as Senate minority leader like yesterday!
#Maddow
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
I don’t want Chuck Schumer out because of his no vote to end the shut down. I want Chuck Schumer out because he couldn’t control his caucus and 8 of the people in it defected to the fascist side and voted with them!
He needs to be gone as Senate minority leader like yesterday!
#Maddow
He needs to be gone as Senate minority leader like yesterday!
#Maddow
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Joyce Carol Oates just pulverized him, didn’t she?
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Joyce Carol Oates just pulverized him, didn’t she?
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Fair.
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Fair.
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Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
November 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Christian Nationalists:
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
QUESTION: How often is Jesus mentioned in the Constitution?
ANSWER: Zero times.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
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Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
November 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Help mom I’m being bullied by 87 year old novella writer Joyce Carol Oates again can you pick me up
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Hackers is truly one of my favourite films, and the costume design is impeccable. So cool seeing behind the scenes polaroids www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/arti...
Never-before-seen Polaroids from the set of cult cyber classic Hackers
25 years on from its release, costume designer Roger K Burton remembers the film that helped put cyberpunk style on the map
www.dazeddigital.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hackers is truly one of my favourite films, and the costume design is impeccable. So cool seeing behind the scenes polaroids www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/arti...
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Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.
www.latimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Even though this happened two weeks ago I just saw it. ICE shoot a US Marshall. This is how untrained these idiots are.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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Worth wondering how many different major British institutions have to be deeply malicious, for a story like this to appear.
Treasonous human rights laws mean special forces now can’t even murder scads of civilians in a series of bloodcurdling war crimes and lie about what they’ve done while the government covers it up, without facing a lot of impertinent questions
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Worth wondering how many different major British institutions have to be deeply malicious, for a story like this to appear.
Special champagne still chilling.
You know, it would be really funny if *it* happens this week, and just wipes the slate clean for Dems.
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Special champagne still chilling.
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Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
November 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Imagine killing 600,000 black and brown people with a few keystrokes and not having a care in the world but one little old white lady drags you on Twitter and you spiral for a week.
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I feel like there’s a good chance Bovino will just refocus energy back to LA and rejoin the current goons for the completely cynical reason of the weather being nicer.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 AM
I feel like there’s a good chance Bovino will just refocus energy back to LA and rejoin the current goons for the completely cynical reason of the weather being nicer.
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"She doesn’t watch TV news. She doesn’t know the major players on the air. She doesn’t know the ratings," one insider commented to Status. "So where and how does she develop her interest in, say, Bret Baier?" www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
Weiss’ Anchor Wishlist
Bari Weiss’ interest in high-profile journalists under contract at rival networks has struck insiders as naïve, and raised questions about her recruiting tactics. Meanwhile, CBS News staffers are bra...
www.status.news
November 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"She doesn’t watch TV news. She doesn’t know the major players on the air. She doesn’t know the ratings," one insider commented to Status. "So where and how does she develop her interest in, say, Bret Baier?" www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...
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This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
“Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago”
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 AM
“Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago”
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Feels pretty crazy being on the exact same page as Republicans in this regard.
November 11, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Feels pretty crazy being on the exact same page as Republicans in this regard.
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I knew those cowards would leave after the first cold day here
CBS News Exclusive: Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say.
Gregory Bovino and Border Patrol agents plan to leave Chicago area, sources say
Some Border Patrol agents could soon leave the Chicago area, after taking a leading role in the Trump administration's controversial immigration operations in the nation's third-largest city, officials told CBS News.
cbsn.ws
November 11, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I knew those cowards would leave after the first cold day here
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The CFPB was created. The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate it, despite the fact that Congress has passed no law enabling it to do so.
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds reut.rs/4p5bX6x
US consumer watchdog says it is legally blocked from accessing funds
The top U.S. consumer watchdog said on Monday it was legally prohibited from drawing cash from the Federal Reserve to support continuing operations, but that its current funding should last through the end of this year "at least."
reut.rs
November 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The CFPB was created. The Trump administration is seeking to eliminate it, despite the fact that Congress has passed no law enabling it to do so.
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Presumably a mistaken suspension of a journalist who is a very anodyne poster over here, @aaron.bsky.team and co. What's the best way to reach the team who can look into it?
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Presumably a mistaken suspension of a journalist who is a very anodyne poster over here, @aaron.bsky.team and co. What's the best way to reach the team who can look into it?
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What the fuck? Why is BlueSky suspending political journalists? She’s said nothing incendiary. This is frightening, honestly. We came because it wasn’t Twitter and now it seems like it’s slowly but surely trying to turn itself into Twitter
In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:51 AM
What the fuck? Why is BlueSky suspending political journalists? She’s said nothing incendiary. This is frightening, honestly. We came because it wasn’t Twitter and now it seems like it’s slowly but surely trying to turn itself into Twitter