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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 1d

Bob Ross created thousands of paintings on PBS’s ”The Joy of Painting.” Now, 30 of his works are being sold at auction to benefit public broadcasters suffering under President Trump’s federal funding cuts.

30 Bob Ross Paintings Head to Auction to Support Public Media

The happy little fundraiser will benefit broadcasters affected by Trump’s funding cuts.

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 1d

since denver launched its e-bike rebate program - the have sold 10,000 e-bikes and reduced an estimated 1,000,000 car trips - replacing millions of VMTs and reducing air pollution

there are no climate silver bullets... but damn - e-bikes and e-cargo bikes are close

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Denver Celebrates 10,000 E-Bike Rebates

Since its inception in April 2022, Denver has distributed over 10,000 electric bikes (e-bikes) to community members through its pioneering e-bike rebate program. As the first U.S. city to implement su...

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E.A.R. @primateyell.bsky.social · 7h

I actually gasped. As a former public health reporter the MMWR is a big deal

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 7h

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe mobilized Guard members to assist ICE with "data entry, case management, and logistical support." Military experts say they also worry how these new deployments will affect recruitment and public trust. (@nprextra.bsky.social)

Trump's use of National Guard in Missouri strays from role as 'minutemen,' military experts say

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe mobilized Guard members to assist ICE with data entry, case management, and logistical support. Military experts say they also worry how these new deployments will affect recruitment and public trust.

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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 7h

‘This is Pynchon’s genius: what seems ridiculous at first glance might just also be a faithful rendering of earnest American culture’

Shadow Ticket — all the colours of the Pynchon rainbow

America’s best-known, least-seen writer is back with a swaggering, hard-boiled caper set in a 1930s US toying with fascism

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 6h

it's not an airbase, just a training location. but the Qataris know how to work this White House.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 6h

Dial A for Aunties is a much more madcap version, if that's of any interest www.goodreads.com/book/show/53...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Good piece: DOGE was the battering ram, but Russ Vought was the one enabling it, and then hiding it's impacts.

During the months when DOGE was most aggressively canceling contracts, O.M.B. was concealing how it was moving money through to agencies. Mr. Vought removed a legally required public database tracking those records. When a court forced the administration to restore it in August, the spending logs showed O.M.B. exerting unusual control over agency spending, using other documents the public can’t see.

Under a 1974 law, it’s illegal for the administration to “impound” or block money appropriated by Congress (to not spend the funds on those credit cards). But Mr. Vought has made clear he believes that law is unconstitutional and wants to test it in court.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 10h

If Trump orders the US military to crack down on Americans who oppose his policies, will it resist? @kschake.bsky.social provides some answers, not all of them reassuring

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Politics Podcast · Updated twice weekly · Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, t...

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 7h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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CNN @cnn.com · 20h

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the US will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots who will train alongside US troops. https://cnn.it/4h95Hb6

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Sirens: A Bombshell Production @sirenspod.bsky.social · 3d

New mini with the brilliant @erinsikorsky.bsky.social to dig into her new book Climate Change on the Battlefield. What is the threat militaries are facing from climate change? How is it shaping the landscape they operate in? And what are they doing about it? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Climate Change on the Battlefield

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 10/08/2025 · 27m

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

Embassy rates are so clutch. Stayed in a couple of great spots in the Nordics on one trip...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

B of A: The top 20% of wealthholders own > 10x the amount of equities vs the next 20%.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a nun who became a national sports icon for cheering on the Loyola men’s basketball teams during their NCAA Tournament runs, died Thursday, the school said. She was 106.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, beloved nun who inspired Loyola’s NCAA Tournament runs, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the longtime chaplain of the Loyola men’s basketball team who became a national sports icon, died Thursday. She was 106.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 1d

This headline is hard to beat.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

Street theater and agitprop are important parts of the American repertoire of protest

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

There should be a napping option while your hair color sets

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.

404 Media @404media.co · 2d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 2d

Actually girlfriend of of one of founders of antifa: Hedy Lamarr who literally had to flee the Nazis and created the tech behind WiFi. Also the image that inspired Snow White. Look it all up. 👇🏾