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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19m

If you want to see the TikToks of a student documenting the horrifying fact that her professor used AI to "write" the textbook she subsequently published and forces her students to use/buy; but also some truly unprofessional behavior from the prof on being caught:

www.tiktok.com/@liaaa.bia/v...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 23m

The TPUSA “alternative” halftime show hasn’t booked acts yet.

But it has already revealed how their fans are, to put it gently, a bunch of losers.

MAGA wants to win the culture wars. But this whole debacle shows why they are doomed to fail.

www.salon.com/2025/10/15/m...

MAGA's fake Super Bowl halftime show reveals their real failures

Turning Point USA's followers are pitifully out-of-touch with pop culture

www.salon.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28m

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1h

“On any given week, the administrator of CMS could speak for a few minutes before a shirtless Russell Brand calls in from what appears to be a bathtub, or a former member of The Pussycat Dolls argues that the COVID-19 vaccine destroyed her ability to dance.”

www.notus.org/health-scien...

'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad

A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Thomas Reese @thomasreesesj.bsky.social · 16h

My @rns.org column: #PopeLeo stresses Scripture as foundation of Christian concern for poor #DilexiTe
religionnews.com/2025/10/14/p...

Pope Leo stresses Scripture as foundation of Christian concern for poor

(RNS) — Leo wonders, ‘even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor.’

religionnews.com

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Gaslit Nation @gaslitnation.bsky.social · 38m

Abolish ICE – anyone who supports ICE is a fascist. It’s that simple.

#oligarchy #dictatorship #dictatortrump

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 41m

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 1h

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 32m

Definitely not Nazis bsky.app/profile/pale...

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Emily (I'm not leaving) Feiner @emilyjaynef.bsky.social · 14h

This is who and what the Republicans are: misogynistic, antisemitic, and racist. My Congressional Representative Mike Lawler is in pictures embracing at least one of these guys (the one who wants to send people to gas chambers). But, sure, I'm the radical lunatic.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 46m

Time to welcome him to the Senate race.

292 accounts block Seth Moulton, myself and Atrios are the only two recent ones

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

In any discussion of food and farming, unless your solution can be scaled to feed 8 billion people, you shouldn't be taken seriously. Unfortunately, cottagecore fantasies that would feed only the richest consumers, leaving billions to starve, are all too common.
www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

www.monbiot.com

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BratKnitsWithYourEntrails @bratknits.bsky.social · 45m

Not you. I'd vote for email guy before I voted for you.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 48m

his announcement post has 7 likes. be sure to drop a block on @sethmoulton.bsky.social so his posts aren't tempting to interact with.

Seth Moulton announces his run for US Senate, 1 repost, 2 quotes, 7 likes

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 1h

Robert De Niro urges Americans to 'stand up and be counted' in anti-Trump protests

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Robert De Niro urges Americans to ‘stand up and be counted’ in anti-Trump protests

In video, the two-time Oscar winner also invoked the pledge of allegiance to say ‘we’re all in this together’

www.theguardian.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 52m

NEW: Despite federal law, disabled students in Idaho sometimes can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms.

With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

Disabled Idaho Students Lack Access to Playgrounds and Lunchrooms. Historic $2 Billion Funding Will Do Little To Help.

Despite federal law, disabled students can’t access playgrounds, lunchrooms, classes and bathrooms. With added funding, school districts are still unable to make necessary fixes.

www.propublica.org

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BratKnitsWithYourEntrails @bratknits.bsky.social · 52m

Is there a bat signal we can use to find @joekennedyiii.bsky.social 🦇

WBUR @wbur.org · 2h

Rep. Moulton is challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, saying it's time for a new generation of leadership in the Democratic party.

Congressman Seth Moulton announces run for U.S. Senate

Moulton is challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, saying it's time for a new generation of leadership in the Democratic party.

www.wbur.org

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 15h

LET HIM.

Coliseum of Comics @coliseumofcomics.com · 16h

Laurence Fishburne wants to play Charles Xavier in MCU's version of the X-Men

Laurence Fishburne wants to play Charles Xavier in MCU's version of X-Men

Laurence Fishburne is pitching himself to play Professor Charles Xavier in the MCU's version of the X-Men: 'What do you think about Laurence Fishburne as Professor X?'

ew.com

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Lizzie,MPA @lizzieinratcity.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve never seen a race where I think Massachusetts loses in either scenario

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans: We’re not Nazis.

Also Republicans: I love Hitler.

www.thedailybeast.com/appallingly-...

Appallingly Racist GOP Group Chat With 251 Slurs Is Leaked

One Republican operative reportedly wrote, “I love Hitler,” and referred to Black Americans as “the watermelon people.”

www.thedailybeast.com

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1h

We haven't really even worked on a system of public shaming outside of their work hours. Not being pessimistic. It's really a capacity issue.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 13h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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