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Simon Underwood @lizardbrain-art.bsky.social · 1d

I can finally show off probably my favorite piece I've done this year--the Halloween merch design for @moviemadness.org. Beyond stoked to do more work for the best movie rental/theater/museum/temple in the world. And those practical effects are sooo satisfying to replicate in ink

A green illustration on a black background, featuring the words "MOVIE MADNESS" in a font that suggests bad VHS tracking. In the center of the image, four monsters burst out of a vintage TV set--the werewolf from An American Werewolf in London, the creature from The Thing, half-human and half nightmarish alien, the dripping Tarman zombie from Return of the Living Dead, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon reaching toward the viewer.

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The Seattle Times @seattletimes.com · 2h

Conditions inside Tacoma's Northwest ICE Processing Center have been a mystery for many. In new interviews, people formerly held there reveal what life is like.

Look inside Tacoma’s ICE detention center, where you could be kept for days or years

www.seattletimes.com

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 1h

The classic oak-tree pose: Squirrel of the Day for October 12, 2025 #sqrlpix

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PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 1h

Although black under most lighting conditions, when the light hits them just right Brewer’s Blackbirds show a green iridescence over most of their body and a purplish head. I think it’s fit for #stunday

#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography

Blackbird perched on a white stake with golden background in early morning light with purplish and green iridescence and bright yellow head

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Tori @tlc-soc.bsky.social · 4h

“Democratic Public Finance is the process of making collective capacities visible, organizing them democratically, and enabling us to care for each other”

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 1d

✨ New! ✨

"Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City"

Grab your favorite beverage ☕ and settle in for a deep long-read.👩‍💻

Democratic Public Finance: A Radical Vision for Mamdani’s New York City

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …

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Museum of Political Corruption @corruptmuseum.bsky.social · 1h

FACING FACTS - TOGETHER!
In Albany. 10/16.

www.eventbrite.com/e/2025-nelli...

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 1h

This shutdown isn’t abstract. It’s 54,000 federal civilian employees across New York — and nearly 2 million nationwide — locked out of their jobs and paychecks. It’s 37,091 people in NY-10 losing Medicaid, and thousands more on Obamacare.

Republicans’ war on healthcare is devastating real people.

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1h

Heard on the Street: The rent vs. buy debate has taken on new meaning for Gen Z thanks to soaring share prices and more investment options.

Where Have All the Young Home Buyers Gone? Check the Stock Market

The rent vs. buy debate has taken on new meaning for Gen Z thanks to soaring share prices and more investment options.

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 1h

Time for folks to drop SalesForce and for the nonprofits and academics @marcbenioff.bsky.social funds to speak out. No cooptation by folks openly calling for fascism and city invasions.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires.
We cannot have both.

NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (gift link)

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

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

Cartoon by David Horsey.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1h

Without price hikes, this is a 4.6% hit on gross and net margins for an industry that averages 6-7% EBIT margins. It's existential through countless supply chains

There is a zero percent chance we make it through 2026 without a severe economic crisis without a massive change in the administration

Nathaniel William Horadam @horadam.bsky.social · 1h

“One victim….is AlphaUSA, a Detroit-based group that makes precision metal components….the company is incurring additional costs of $250K/month because of the 50% tariff it pays on steel nuts it imports from Taiwan — a lot for a company with annual sales of $65M."

www.ft.com/content/55d7...

‘This is existential’: Donald Trump’s tariffs drive US car sector into turmoil

[FREE TO READ] Michigan’s ‘Big Three’ carmakers forecast a combined $7bn tariff-related hit to earnings in 2025

www.ft.com

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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 13h

It’s almost like George Lakoff has been right for the last (checks watch) 29 years.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 16h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 7h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Dave-Inder Comar @daveindercomar.bsky.social · 2h

In an era of climate disruption, the central task of government must evolve. In addition to defending fundamental freedoms, a core purpose of government must be to restore balance between humanity, our societies, and fragile Earth systems.

open.substack.com/pub/daveinde...

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Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 1h

Holy crap the @pemalevy.bsky.social interview is not to be missed. An eye-opening look at the Nazi-esque dual-state that SCOTUS is enabling

On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 1d

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 22h

"Mr. Trump’s basic untrustworthiness is another big turnoff for would-be turncoats. He never lets gratitude get in the way of self-interest."

True. Mafia states actually need a trustworthy mafia boss.

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 13h

There's some evident authorial cosplaying here that the interviewer uncritically gobbles down--it's quite funny, actually--but I still quite enjoyed reading this: www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...

László Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240

László Krasznahorkai was born in 1954 in Gyula, a provincial town in Hungary, in the Soviet era. He published his first novel, Satantango, in 1985, then The Melancholy of Resistance (1989), War and Wa...

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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 13h

Adding to the regrettably relevant research.

We explain how authoritarian regimes use local forms of bureaucratic hamstringing and rhetorical vilification to delegitimize opposition actors.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 59m

I conclude with some grim thoughts. Still, at least in the US and Israel, things haven't progressed to the point I describe here. They could, because no democracy is safe from collapse, but there's still a ways to go as Hirschman teaches us. And so we think, argue, and do politics. 26/26

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 2h

🧵 I'm excited to share that my article "Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of Civilian Control of the Military" has been accepted @thejop.bsky.social.

It answers the question "how ought militaries act when civilian leaders turn on democratic institutions?"

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#CivMilSky #PolTheory

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 8h

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

NEW: Driven by economic and social pressures, tens of thousands of workers from China, mostly middle-aged men, are employed in eastern Indonesia’s deadly nickel industry.

This story by @wufeiyu.bsky.social was produced by @grist.org, supported by @pulitzercenter.org @uprootproject.bsky.social.

Your Electric Vehicle, Powered By Dead Chinese Migrant Workers

A commercial street frequented by Chinese and Indonesian workers near the entrance of the industrial compound in Weda Bay, North Maluku, Indonesia. (Wufei Yu/Grist)

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 1h

“The rates at which we currently practice discounting mean that the long-term future of humanity, the living world, and the planet itself are not metaphorically but literally worthless.” — @geoffmann.bsky.social

The Price of Tomorrow | Geoff Mann

The current discount rate means that the government views the long-term future of humanity as not metaphorically but literally worthless.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 1h

The petrochemical industry is expanding production of PFAS in response to the data center boom, betting that the tech industry's toxic chemical releases face no serious prospect of regulation under the Trump regime. But campaigners know that the states have a powerful role.

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

www.theguardian.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

China is getting the headlines it wanted — ahead of Monday’s market open.

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...

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