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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 8h

guys i'm beginning to think they haven't thought this through

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 16h

“It’s as if you were driving an old jalopy and somebody gave you a really high-performance sports car. You have to learn how to drive very differently. Our musicians have had to learn to play an entirely new instrument.”

www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/a...

The $550 Million Question: How Does David Geffen Hall Sound? (Published 2024)

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Sokolowski @petersokolowski.bsky.social · 17h

spidermanicule

Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 4d

#EarlyModern meme! #BookHistory

The bottom of a page of printed text, showing three hands (or printers' fists) pointing at each other.

The spiderman meme: three spidermen pointing at each other.

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Ketracel Black @ketracelblack.blacksky.app · 17h

Another example of why we need to replace the police with real emergency responders. People trained to provide medical care rather than pass racist judgement.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18h

"The man with the most power has expended enormous energy targeting those with the least"

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 19h

“Thanks to the solidity of bearded vulture nest structures and their locations in the western Mediterranean… they have acted as [ #archivists], conserving historical material in good condition."

A shoe made from twigs and grass is 675 y.o. while a basket in the nest was woven about 150 years ago!!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 19h

Conservatives in the 90s: We should cut government funding for higher ed and let them operate more like companies.

<Universities adapt to a more corporate system, substantially increasing costs>

Conservatives today: Academia is broken, so the government should fix it by dictum!

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

Does this make more sense?

headline adjusted to read: Academia is Broken. Trump University Can Help Fix it

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Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.bsky.social · 20h

A detail buried in the article that bums me out:

"OpenAI reached a deal last year to lease 90,000 square ft in the building, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal."

So when the AI bubble bursts (soon) the Puck Building will be a flagship Spirit Halloween 🙃 gothamist.com/news/rei-shu...

REI shutting down SoHo store, its only NYC location

The company's Paramus location is also closing.

gothamist.com

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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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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 19h

one piece of pharmacological evidence pointing to at least a continuity between compulsive eating and substance abuse

is the ability of GLP-1 agonists (eg Wegovy, Ozempic) and GLP-1 / GIP agonists (eg Mounjaro)

to reduce cravings for alcohol as well as appetite

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 20h

People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack.” But can someone really be addicted to food?

There is a consensus emerging that food addiction is a real phenomenon, explains an addiction psychiatrist with experience in treating eating disorders and obesity.

buff.ly/W63WyWv

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 20h

RIP "Checks and Balances" and "Judicial Independence"

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20h

The Supreme Court of the United States is not a legitimate body.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 21h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 20h

"But at a time when refinement is considered elitist, and disciplined simplicity stodgy, the leaders of this renovation have, through an exercise in design populism, dumbed down one of New York’s most iconic structures; we now pass through an overture of mediocrity on our way to Beethoven."

Dang.

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 20h

"The ground floor now looks like an airport hotel lobby, with patterned carpets and comfy couches, and the main, three-story atrium starting on the second-floor mezzanine, now painted a dark blue, recalls a ’60s discotheque."

hudsonreview.com/2023/01/geff...

Geffen Hall: The Wrong Note | The Hudson Review

hudsonreview.com

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 20h

"Lincoln Center had a sculpture in search of a space and the airport had a space in search of a purpose"

www.nytimes.com/2023/10/13/a...

Moving a Masterpiece to La Guardia Is a High-Wire Act (Published 2023)

www.nytimes.com

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · Aug 3

Jazz haters suck

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 20h

That's Geffen Hall to the right of the fountain. My wife and I reenacted this scene last night before the show, and our accents were spot on.

youtu.be/BLoJ9A-wpDg

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

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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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...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Edward Banatt @armavirumque.bsky.social · 21h

Smdh

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 1d

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 23h

If ye see a white one, split your lungs for him!

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Ryan Godfrey @ryangodfrey.com · 23h

SARS-CoV-2 zoonotic spillover researcher:

Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 1d

T f is going on with these bats

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 22h

#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...

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