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Mandy Ⓥ🐾✊🇨🇦🇬🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸 @veganm.bsky.social · 14h

We remember how great it used to be 💔💔💔

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 14h

Hmm, Antifly? (Okay, you try a frog pun. Harder than you think!)

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 14h

Aristophanes approves!

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 14h

I would like to see frog cosplay as political resistance become a thing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 18h

I love this image.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 14h

I would like to see frog cosplay as political resistance become a thing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 18h

I love this image.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 14h

Plus witty as hell!

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 14h

The Righteous Among the Nations.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

The MAGA-SAGA in 3 Acts

Act I: Descends Escalator - Loses to Biden

Act II: Regains WH - Present Day

Act III: EPSTEIN Files Released

The End

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 17h

Thrilled to open the latest New Yorker and see an @oupress.bsky.social author. The press published José A. Rodríguez's exquisite memoir "House Built on Ashes."

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 15h

Congratulations!

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 16h

This👇

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 16h

🧵:
The world’s extremely poor are also often extremely remote, with limited access to healthcare & health education. In many developing countries, the government—often with the help of the UN and, until this year, USAID—maintains health posts that bring these services to people living off the grid.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 17h

The Righteous Among Nations--

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 1d

Courage takes many forms. Here is one:
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment 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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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 1d

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve got this.

The Vegan's Voice @animalrights1.bsky.social · 2d

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Gov. Bob Ferguson @governorferguson.bsky.social · 2d

Attorney General Bondi recently threatened to put me in jail. Now, the President has threatened to put the Illinois governor and Chicago mayor in jail.

This is about as authoritarian as it gets.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 3d

Seriously, this is amazing.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 3d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 3d

Team Science!!!!

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 3d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com