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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 7h

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 7h

Does the Eagles loss make me feel a little better about the Packers last two games? Yes, yes it did

a man wearing a green bay packers jersey and a white hat is clapping .

ALT: a man wearing a green bay packers jersey and a white hat is clapping .

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 7h

Not that I’m an Eagles fan but

Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 7h

Up later then usual and just saw the Eagles-Giants score…excuse me WUT

a man is sitting on a couch eating something from a tin can

ALT: a man is sitting on a couch eating something from a tin can

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The Open Notebook @theopennotebook.bsky.social · 2d

How to:
🔘 Understand reports on trans youth health care
🔘 Report on EOs targeting trans Americans
🔘 Report on polls about trans issues

From TON and @transjournalists.org, here’s a free collection of resources for all journalists. 🧪 www.theopennotebook.com/resources-fo...

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Sam Stein @samsteindc.bsky.social · Sep 9

NEW: Nine months ago, Elon Musk's nascent, DOGE effort killed off a beloved pediatric cancer initiative in the govt funding fight. I circled back to see where those bills now stood. What I discovered was less scandalous but no less depressing.

www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-...

Elon Musk Torpedoed a Beloved Pediatric Cancer Bill. It’s Yet to Recover.

Sometimes, a good piece of legislation fails to become a law for one simple, stupid reason: congressional inertia.

www.thebulwark.com

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Jelloeater @jelloeater.bsky.social · 1d

The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Era of DEI anildash.com/2025/10/07/d...

The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Era of DEI - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 10h

Resources designed for journalists, media practitioners, journalism educators, and journalism students in the US and worldwide who face attacks for reporting truthfully on marginalized communities. mediaengagement.org/dangerous-so...

Dangerous Solidarity - Center for Media Engagement

An internationally-engaged research project on why solidarity is often dangerous for people practicing it and how to address these dangers.

mediaengagement.org

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 16h

“The neurotypicality is stored in the foreskin”

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 17h

stood on a kitchen stool and managed to remove the battery from a very high up chirping smoke alarm before it drove our dogs and me to insanity without falling on my ass, ain't nobody can tell me nothin today

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 18h

And most importantly, imo, is "Why add a legal arrow to the quiver of a government that already is acting to control the internet and what we see on it through the use of targeted economic and political pressure?"

Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 2d

"Haidt’s thesis is broader than just 'new thing bad.' In The Anxious Generation and his public commentary you find a dismissal of young people as a thinking, feeling group: they are anxious because of phones, they empathize with Gaza because of phones."

now is not the time to ban phones

why Jonathan Haidt sucks

howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 18h

They are saying NJ congresswoman is among the “Antifa-aligned left-wing violent extremists” facing federal charges. newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/07/n... JFC. There is VIDEO of the whole damn thing.

NJ congresswoman's attorney objects to fed officials comparing her to antifa • New Jersey Monitor

Federal officials in public statements have improperly compared Rep. LaMonica McIver to antifa, McIver's attorneys say in a new court filing.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 18h

Yep, literally what we just went over in my class in NJ as well.

Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 1d

Six federal circuits—the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th—all agree that the First Amendment protects the right to record police performing their duties in public.

Taught my students last week that they have a First Amendment right to record in Pennsylvania. So do folks in Chicago and Portland.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 19h

Important series, I look forward to following.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 19h

I really, really do not like the fact that nobody has any other explanation as why his tickets were canceled beyond the obvious. So they are going to threaten professors they will kill us in front of our students and then block our exit from the country? JFC

Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve been waiting for someone to take down the “intellectual diversity” argument bullshit (among other things) because it is just so incredibly facile. Thanks for writing it!

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 19h

This!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, the NJ gubernatorial election is less than a month away.

If the Democrats here want to start rolling out any kind of ad campaign that tells voters what Mikie Sherrill will do, that'd be super.

And no, "I can fly a helicopter" doesn't count.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 21h

Is America great now

NPR @npr.org · 21h

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. n.pr/3KIfcSn

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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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21h

Janitors and cafeteria workers _contracted_ by the federal gov’t will likely see no backpay at all.

“It’s so sad that they think they can play with ppl’s lives,” said Smithsonian Museum of American History cleaner Audrey Murray. “Stop this. Stop messing w/ppl. We have families who depend on us.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 21h

WIC, which for decades has fed kids and new moms, could run out of funding within two weeks.

Furloughed federal workers are stressing about bills and seeing promised backpay threatened.

The regime’s mass deportation operation, however, continues on uninterrupted during the shutdown.

Priorities.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 1d

"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 21h

Dear god

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Charles N. Davis @charlesndavis.bsky.social · 1d

This should hang in the Louvre

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34

Wasn’t really sure what to expect from Chapel Bill. But after that drive, I have him as second best college coach I’ve ever seen, just below Saban.

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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 22h

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h

I’m not saying that the Washpost’s new Opinion editor was sent on a mission destroy that section’s reputation.

I’m just saying that if someone were sent to destroy the Opinion section’s reputation, they’d be doing exactly what this guy is doing.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 22h

"A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats that intensified after...Turning Point USA ...accused him of being “a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 22h

Well this research is absolutely none of my business

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 22h

New research suggests #sports fandom has hidden costs to physical #health:

Devoted fans are more likely to binge drink, eat unhealthy foods and engage in emotional eating (especially if your favorite team loses a lot)

buff.ly/om5A6Qk

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