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What's up, chat! Group chats are rolling out today in the new v1.124 update. This is our first feature built for communities, and there's more to come.

A group chat staffed entirely by the Bluesky team's pets, who are very excited to tell each other that group chats now exist.

Since republicans insist on bringing up COVID I'd like to remind everyone of a few things. Donald Trump held an unmasked, in person rally attended by Herman Cain who contracted COVID at the event and died. He did debate practice w/ Chris Christie, infected him and Christie ended up in the ICU. /1

Not easily. Historically, Iran has projected power via proxies. Now they’ve learned they can also just attack the gulf states and hold the global economy hostage. They’re weaker militarily, but far stronger strategically than they were prior to this war. They know they have the leverage.

I actually understand Beshear’s stance on this. If they want to drag it out until Tuesday and then admit he’s dead or incapacitated, let them. An empty seat and one less GOP vote until January sounds pretty good to me. Nobody seems to think he’s coming back to the Senate either way.

But the severity of Trump's narcissism (and resulting lack of empathy) prevents him from having the ability to put himself in someone else's "shoes". In the context of war negotiations, these disordered symptoms present as an inability to conceptualize the other party's wants/needs/motivations. 4/

I made dinner for my abuser a bunch of times. You have to play nice while you're planning your escape so you don't get dead. Max Miller is a textbook abuser.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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So, I’m off walking in this totally zen Celtic sanctuary in the woods and come upon this little stone building. Inside was a plaque explaining that it was modeled off of a fourteenth century ‘scriptorium’ in the Scottish Highlands. 1/2

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"Nothing Moves the Needle." For me, this is one of the most successful attempts to explain what's happened to the fourth estate as Trump and his movement try to wreck it. The essay is long, but worth it for the way writer Craig Unger @craigunger.bsky.social redescribes the crisis in journalism.

Craig Unger@craigunger.bsky.social · 5d ago

@noupside.bsky.social @jayrosen.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social The ground journalism was built to stand on stopped being solid under everyone at the same time. Find out why investigative reporting can't touch Trump the way Watergate touched Nixon! craigunger.substack.com/p/nothing-mo...