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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

So these patients going from bringing in revenue to increasing deficits is 100% going to lead to some hospitals and community health centers closing.
And when they close, entire communities will be cut off from health care.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

🧵 regarding the shutdown:

The Democrats aren’t being clear enough about this but we can be: this shutdown is about saving lives.

If we don’t reverse the Medicaid cuts (and the ACA subsidies on insurance bought through the exchanges) that Republicans made this year, people will die.

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Igor Brodsky @brodskyigorlab.bsky.social · 5h

This is great. Thanks 🙏🏼 for these @lizneeley.bsky.social. Meeting the Moment is a bit of light in the darkness.

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 10h

Each Friday, I summarize what is happening to American science & higher ed. 🧪
This was Week 38:
- MIT declines loyalty oath/compact & I review latest at other 8 universities
- Newest RIFs gutting CDC
- “Payroll pirates” targeting university HR

& so much more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

Week 38

Oct 4-10, 2025 - failure state

buttondown.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 5h

You go NOT have to hand it to Candace Owens

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

There are so many Black women who have been standing with Palestine the whole time, including Black trans women, and there’s no reason to help Candace Owens build her profile as if she genuinely gives a fuck about justice for Palestine

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 22h

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Manly men brutalize, terrorize a teen girl

Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 7h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 7h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 5h

For non-US folks: IDEA is the rule that dictates that disabled kids are to have equal opportunities for a public education. Taking away the people who fund and enforce it is basically leaving disabled kids and their families to fend for themselves.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 6h

Vought’s daughter has cerebral palsy, and while she may not require “special” education, she would need adjustments if she attended any school.

Obviously, he is evil and does not care about hypocrisy, but I want people to remember: they’re taking this away from US, not themselves.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 7h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 11h

I cannot BELIEVE Kamala admitted that shit in that book. You couldn’t waterboard that out of me that I let old ass loser ass Hillary Clinton and senile ass Joe “lil bro” my campaign to where I had no power.

How you let 2 losers tell you how to win?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 13h

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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 9h

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

Measles (Rubeola)
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As of October 7, 2025, a total of 1,563 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States. Among these, 1,542
measles cases were reported by 42 jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A total of 21 measles cases were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
There have been 44 outbreaks** reported in 2025, and 87% of confirmed cases (1,355 of 1,563) are outbreak-associated. For comparison, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases (198 of 285) were outbreak-associated.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 21h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 9h

As many of us prepare to participate in NO KINGS and other protests, please take a minute for these catchy tips on protecting yourselves.

Scrub the meta data from any pictures or videos before posting online.

Stay safe out there, friends!

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · Jun 8

Protesting soon? PLEASE listen to these wise words on how to scrub the meta data on your photos before sharing them. Keep yourself and others safe.

IMPORTANT information you can tap your foot to.💃

🗣️@thatevangreer

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 8h

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Esmeria @esmeria.me · 3d

1/🧵 For those who may be migrating away from the Bluesky PDS to Blacksky, and want to use the blacksky.community client instead of bsky.app, you can use a uBlock Origin filter to automatically redirect bsky.app links

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11h

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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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 9h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 9h

I’m begging for some help yall. I’ve lost everything. My damn body autonomy, a baby by my rapist, my job and I don’t want to lose my car or the daycare so please help if you can

If you can’t, please just share and boost

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 9h

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social · 10h

🐉✨ Collaboration time!
I’m so excited to share that Sarah from @greyowlknits.bsky.social has created a stunning new pattern the Draco Manus Mittens using my yarns Louverture’s Sapphire & Dragon’s Pale Gold. Get your hands on her new pattern & also enjoy 15% all my yarns this weekend! 🧶
#knitsky
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A collage announcing a knitting collaboration inspired by a medieval dragon. In the top left, a blue and gold dragon curls beside Gothic script from a 15th-century manuscript (Harley MS 1662). To the right, two skeins of yarn — one cream, one vivid sapphire blue — are shown with fern and pearl accents. Below, a pair of colorwork mittens display the dragon motif in blue and cream against a rustic wooden background. Center text reads “NEW COLLAB ALERT!” with a small green dragon icon. Additional images show close-ups of the yarn and the finished mittens, whose intricate patterns mirror the medieval illumination.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

Oh look at that looks like he won the prize anyway.

This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.

We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.

I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!

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