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taco.cat

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“iconic mountain view chase bank”

Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 21h

Jeanine is right! Why would should we allow a historic Chase Bank on El Camino Real in Mountain View to be destroyed for housing when "no one can afford housing in MV anyways!"

Haven't you heard? There's a housing crisis... so why are we building more housing?!

November 13, 2025 at 5:06 AM

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Democratic Women’s Caucus

@demwomencaucus.bsky.social

¡El fin! After 50 days of Speaker Johnson delaying her swearing in, we can finally welcome our new Democratic colleague to the House, Rep. Adelita Grijalva.

November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM

taco.cat

@taco.cat

To put this in perspective, this $5.8B windfall from the world’s most valuable company is just over half the $10.3B that SoftBank lost in WeWork.

CNBC International @international.cnbc.com · 2d

Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.

Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8

November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM

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spontaneous symmetry breakdance

@t8erboi.bsky.social

The 3 types of build systems:

- "Run configure, make, make configure, autoconf, & automake in precisely the right order. Oh, it's broken? Skill issue."

- "Have you ever wanted to murble your Flumps? At enterprise scale? Now you can, with Xooply."

- "Categorically speaking, what IS a dependency?"

November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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Anthony Oliveira

@meakoopa.bsky.social

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · 2d

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

QT of @avidreader1000
Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

November 11, 2025 at 6:31 AM

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Health Nerd

@gidmk.bsky.social

This is one of the most remarkable academic debacles I've ever seen.

A large RCT got published in BMJ. There are currently 44 Pubpeer comments, mostly about the data, including...well. Read for yourself.
pubpeer.com/publications...

PubPeer - Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart fail...

There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Prevention of acute myocardial infarction induced heart failure by intracoronary infusion of mesenchymal stem cells: phase 3 randomised clinical trial (P...

pubpeer.com

November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM

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Human Rights Campaign

@hrc.org

Thanks to the hard work of HRC and our partners, marriage equality remains the law of the land through Obergefell v. Hodges and the Respect for Marriage Act.

We won’t let up. We will keep fighting until all of us are free.

November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM

taco.cat

@taco.cat

LYMAN: “The law of large numbers says we got to win one one of these days, right?”

November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

BREAKING: The First Circuit denies DOJ’s stay request in the SNAP case, refusing to stay the Nov. 6 enforcement order.

Justice Jackson’s 48-hour clock started just before midnight Sunday, meaning the administrative stay she issued Friday ends at the end of the day Tuesday.

But the district court did not order the government to
use the Section 32 fund until November 6. It did so after it
concluded that the government had failed to comply with its
October 31 TRO. As a remedy for that noncompliance, the court
ordered the government to make the full payment of November SNAP
benefits by November 7. Thus, even if we were to stay the second
TRO, the government could not obtain the relief that it seeks unless it also meets its burden under the stay factors as to the
enforcement order.
For the reasons that follow,
we conclude that the
government
has
failed
to meet the stay factors as to the
enforcement order, and we deny a stay of that order.

In any event, the district court has now found that the
government failed to comply with that October 31 TRO, from which
no stay was sought and no appeal was taken that would have
prevented the order from taking effect during the period of alleged
noncompliance. Thus, for present purposes, the question that the
government's motion to stay the enforcement order presents is
this: Has the government made a strong showing that it is likely
to succeed in establishing either (a) that the district court erred
in finding noncompliance with the October 31 TRO or (b) that,
insofar as it did not err in that regard, it could not order full
funding in consequence of that noncompliance?
As we have explained, the answer is no. In the single
paragraph it devotes in its stay motion to addressing the
enforcement order, the government does not make a strong showing
of likely success in either respect. And in the only other passage
of the stay motion that could be read to address the finding of
noncompliance, the government fails to grapple with the actual
basis for that finding.

November 10, 2025 at 5:43 AM

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Ro Khanna

@rokhanna.bsky.social

Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced. If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing for Americans, what will you fight for?

November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM

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Chris Geidner

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 3d

Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis

For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare

We will keep fighting

November 10, 2025 at 4:23 AM

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Chris

@chrissayshi.bsky.social

I have been on a crusade against the UberEats version of these little fucking freaks and I can promise you that pissing off the cyclist community is picking the wrong fight

Momentum Magazine @momentummag.bsky.social · 3d

DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes.
momentummag.com/doordash-pla...

DoorDash Plans to Send Autonomous Robots into Bike Lanes | Momentum Mag | Momentum Mag

DoorDash has begun rolling out Dot, its new autonomous delivery robot — a sleek, all-electric bot that can hit speeds of up to 20mph.

momentummag.com

November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM

taco.cat

@taco.cat

You have not started fighting. It’s time to retire, Chuck.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 3d

Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis

For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare

We will keep fighting

November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain?

MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.

November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM

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Elizabeth Warren

@warren.senate.gov

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM

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Brian Tyler Cohen

@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.

November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM

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Mikie Sherrill

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social

My statement on the proposed Senate deal

November 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM

taco.cat

@taco.cat

Bleak.

Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 3d

POLITICO Poll: Here’s who Democrats think is their leader.
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251109

November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM

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Emily C. Hughes

@emilyhughes.bsky.social

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 5d

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

www.statnews.com

November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM

taco.cat

@taco.cat

So the son of the bodega owner turned KitKat into a meme coin with slop art and a market cap of $2.2M.

San Francisco, baby.

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November 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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Warren Wells, AICP

@warrenjwells.bsky.social

A cyclist was stabbed by a Tesla driver today in the Marin headlands.

This is a developing story. I'll post updates as I learn them.

www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...