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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 3h

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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 1d

The first interview by Carl Zimmer is a good one: "She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators: Kim Ballare was a research ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service until her federal grant “got snatched away.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...

She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry cites other fed prosecutions/lawsuits in Chicago and says "in the last 48 hours, in four separate unrelated legal decision from different neutral parties, they all cast significant doubt on DHS' credibility and assessment of what is happening on the streets of Chicago."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21h

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 3h

Today, we were re-routed in the air, adding an extra 30 minutes or so to the trip due to a shortage of air traffic controllers (likely made worse by the ongoing government shutdown).

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Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 4h

So I guess “Democrat programs” are the ones that keep everyone (not just Dems) alive, safe, healthy, free and enjoying the right to pursue happiness. Do I have that right?

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4h

Wet the line! wet the line!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

President Trump called Portland a war zone last week, and now state Republicans are trying to deliver one—by sharing a photo of “South American riot police” in 2008 from Getty Images. trib.al/TXz1zYw

Republicans Caught Using Fake Image to Lie for Trump About Portland

The Oregon Republican Party used images of riots in South America.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 5h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 4h

Old news, but just a very sexy photo.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 4h

Sweden participates in NATO’s annual nuclear exercise Steanfast Noon for the first time 🙌

Finland has already participated twice.

Sverige deltar i Steadfast Noon

Sverige kommer att delta i Natos årliga övning Steadfast Noon. Sverige deltar i övningen med stridsflyg (Jas 39 Gripen) och personal från...

regeringen.se

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 9h

Tractors like this are used to spray pesticides in Apple orchards in upstate NY. "John" shares that having to pick in just-sprayed fields — or even near current spraying— is one of the issues that have caused workers to unionize. #WeFeedYou

A tractor that is used for spraying the orchard at the side of a apple field

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h

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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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 8h

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 8h

If bird flu could just hold still for a few months while we sort out shit, that would be great. K thx

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 8h

BULLCALF
O Lord, sir, I am a diseas’d man.

FALSTAFF
What disease hast thou?

BULLCALF
A whoreson cold, sir, a cough, sir

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 8h

Never forget that it was our antifa troops at Normandy.

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Uppity Black Woman @uppityblackwoman.bsky.social · 8h

And this is why the police should not comply with the Feds. If they can gas them & lie about how things went down, what makes the police think they won't shoot at them???

youtube.com/shorts/onCvj...

ICE tear gassed 27 Chicago police officers, Superintendent Snelling says

YouTube video by FOX 32 Chicago

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 8h

We appreciate your sacrifice.

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Robert “The Bobby Yaga” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 9h

It is the time of year (spider season) when I have a spider web on my head at all times.

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bob barker 🍸 @insortediaboli.bsky.social · 13h

“The president is being fed a steady diet of AI generated propaganda videos from his team so they can direct his energies and signatures towards their own goals” is a real and true statement about America in 2025

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

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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Josh Busby @busbyj2.bsky.social · 8h

This was a great discussion yesterday.

Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations @penn-us-china.bsky.social · 8h

Here's the video of yesterday's great discussion ft @busbyj2.bsky.social, Elizabeth Donkervoort, @neilthomas123.bsky.social & Ali Wyne about the direction of U.S. policy towards China, informed by their fellowship cohort's intensive week of meetings in Washington DC: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1It3...

U.S.-China Field Notes: Perspectives from Visit to Washington

YouTube video by Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 9h

Yep.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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