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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 31m

How Trump's research cuts affect a 4-year-old in heart failure www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Parents are standing guard at schools. Neighbors warn neighbors. Some restaurants have stopped delivering food or simply closed. “Every single person who looks brown is scared,” And fear of ICE ripples across Chicago

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Neighbors Warn Neighbors as Fear of ICE Ripples Across Chicago

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 4h

My kids and I are trying to find a synonym for cinnamon.

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 5h

OMFG from a chat fisher: "I want to start a conversation that feels meaningful from the beginning so I can hook the other person in – but also I don’t want to spend too much time on it"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

These modern day takes on Cyrano really suck.

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 1d

I heard he was a Christian

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking the law so he can endanger the nation, Russ Vought arches an eyebrow as he strokes a white Persian cat on his lap.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 1d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 2d

While the bottom line is correct, I think this response takes the administration's allegations too seriously. The response should be a brief "we don't take orders."

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 2d

= "a reactionary version of Christianity with aggressive ethno-nationalist sentiment. ...defined by a sense of grievance – by a perception that “our” country (“real America”) is being taken away from “us” (white Christians)."

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. This episode of the Daily had me yelling and spitting. Vought is a Christian nationalist extremist, not a small govt conservative who happens to be Christian.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 3d

Tonight, with @climatena.bsky.social & the Climate Mobilization Project, learn how training in mental health care can support mutual aid, survival organizing, & local resilience! You might like it! www.eventbrite.com/e/community-...

Community climate resilience: Integrating mental health skills & mutual aid

The Climate Mobilization Project will describe their work at the intersection of mutual aid and climate action + more.

www.eventbrite.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 2d

“Military occupation doesn’t make our city safer. Resources and investment makes our city safer.” thank you Bri and all the other protestors who took the time to speak with me last night in Chicago.

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Pete Dominick @petedominick.bsky.social · 3d

I host a daily podcast. There are no ads. I recap the news with clips and talk to the smartest people around.

Today I have Con law prof @espinsegall.bsky.social

standupwithpete.libsyn.com/1455-eric-se...

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 2d

Very true. However the new Mamdani profile in the New Yorker tells a convincing story of how his Palestine politics met the moment and got him where he is now: what many people see as the future of the Democrats

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think the most important thing with Gaza, Israel-Palestine, or the Middle East more broadly is what they say about US domestic politics.

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New York Communities for Change @nychange.bsky.social · 3d

Local Law 97 of 2019 is rocking. As of 2023 data, 92% of buildings were already below the law’s initial annual pollution limits, which started in 2024. We will see data on 2024 soon, and it’ll be close to 💯

Huge improvement!

www.urbangreencouncil.org/what-we-do/e...

Local Law 97 progress - Urban Green Council

How close are NYC's buildings to meeting their LL97 carbon limits?

www.urbangreencouncil.org

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 3d

So many are teens and tweens. The Anxious Generation? F that! This is the courage generation

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 5d

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 4d

The Plot to Enslave America

Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 4d

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4d

“The greatest weapon that the forces of regime change possess is the fear of inevitability...

The best defense against this weapon is solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions, but who agree on the need to keep America democratic…“

Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 4d

@himself.bsky.social talking sense, as usual. Notably: “The administration would have played its cards differently if it had a stronger hand.”

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social · 4d

how we should see economics doughnuteconomics.org/tools/the-ev...

The Evolving Doughnut | DEAL

A report by Kate Raworth on the Doughnut's evolution since 2012, with the latest Doughnut diagrams available to download

doughnuteconomics.org

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