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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 12d

Wells Police Department cancels partnership with ICE

Wells was the only town in Maine earlier this year to officially partner with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

www.pressherald.com

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Kat Hartness @kathartness.bsky.social · 11d

Fired prosecutors who investigated Trump burst back on scene with new anti-corruption firm

www.rawstory.com/trump-prosec...

Fired prosecutors who investigated Trump burst back on scene with new anti-corruption firm

A pair of Justice Department prosecutors who lost their jobs after working on special counsel Jack Smith's legal team investigating and charging President Donald Trump are back, having founded a new l...

www.rawstory.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 11d

JFC these assholes... Texas lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian arstechnica.com/space/2025/1...

Texas lawmakers double down on Discovery, call for DOJ investigation into Smithsonian

The Texas lawmakers behind the effort to relocate space shuttle Discovery are now calling for the Department of Justice to investigate the Smithsonian.

arstechnica.com

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harryhenderson.bsky.social @harryhenderson.bsky.social · 11d

I don't consider the old or new testaments as the literal words of a god or infallible history books- but this whole thread, including the replies, is really quite illuminating.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13d

Today in Politics, Bulletin 233. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 233. 10/21/25

… Trump said he is willing to settle his lawsuit against DOJ for $230 million claiming malicious prosecution.

open.substack.com

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 13d

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13d

Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13d

The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.

graph showing 29 of 38 positions are vacant

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 13d

1/2 I’m recommending a horror book & movie every day until Halloween. Two books today: Victor LaValle’s brilliant novella, THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM, which turns HPL's racism upside down and She Walks in Shadows by. Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles, a great collection of cosmic horror by women

THE BALLAD OF BLACK TOM by Victor LaValle

SHE WALKS IN SHADOWS edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles

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heaven7777.bsky.social @heaven7777.bsky.social · 14d

Dems should be shouting this from the rooftops.
CONGRESS where are you?

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 13d

Our top story: His wife visited him ICE in detention on his 50th birthday. She couldn’t even bring him the card she’d made. They could only speak through a phone, divided by a thick pane of glass. It was one of few times she’d ever seen him cry.

Trump's ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country.

Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.

www.texasobserver.org

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 14d

Thread below is yet another take on what I broke down in minute detail, including the origins behind the problems, in this piece:
www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

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Jesse : 💙💙💙 @journeyled1.bsky.social · 13d

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 13d

When the MAGAs are right, they're right. Sometimes you just want to kick back with other cowboys and just be cowboys together.

A MAGA online post of a scene from Brokeback Mountain with a caption that reads, "This is how America should be. Cowboys, guns, steeds, wilderness, and not a city dwelling liberal in sight."

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 13d

welcome to hell, north carolina.

- signed a gerrymandered ohioan.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13d

Breaking News: North Carolina state senators approved a new congressional map that could give Republicans an extra seat. The state House is expected to pass it.

North Carolina State Senate Approves New Congressional Map in Effort to Add a Seat

The Trump administration has pushed Republican leaders to redraw House district maps before the midterm elections next year.

nyti.ms

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Taylor Mitchell Brown @tmitchellbrown.bsky.social · 19d

Scientists just found several fossil bumblebees covered in pollen that directly matches fossil flowers nearby.

The 24-million-year-old discovery reveals the oldest known evidence connecting pollinators to the pollinated.

#Paleontology #NationalFossilDay

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New at @sciencenews.bsky.social

These ancient bumblebees were found with their pollen source

Insects have long pollinated plants, but evidence of ancient pairing is rare. Fossils now show bees and linden trees goes back 24 million years.

www.sciencenews.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18d

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad K. @porcupunk.bsky.social · 19d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 23d

If only someone had warned us literally every day for the past three years

Cold November Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · 25d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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harryhenderson.bsky.social @harryhenderson.bsky.social · 23d

This a very good article from a very good writer.
Cheers.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Point Blank Sandwich Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23d

If someone merely acknowledging the humanity of your enemies enrages you, you’re the baddies.

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 23d

Comic ✏ by Mike Luckovich

Click here for more comics 👉 www.dailykos.com/blog/Comics

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New York City Bar Association @nycbarassociation.bsky.social · 24d

The City Bar has issued a statement on the indictment of NY AG Letitia James, in defense of our independent justice system, and calling on all members of the legal community and the public at large to stand up for our legal systems and institutions. Read it here: bit.ly/4oik2ED

Statement on the Indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James | New York City Bar Association

In Defense of Our Independent Justice System On October 9, 2025, New York’s Attorney General, Letitia James, became the latest […]

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GregortheMendel @gregorthemendel.bsky.social · 24d

Presented without comment.

Houston: Missing teen with autism reportedly in ICE custody

The family of a Houston teen who went missing tells FOX 26 that he had been in ICE custody for days.

www.fox26houston.com

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 25d

Wellness influencers are killing people. Paloma Shemirani was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which 80% of people survive, at age 22. She was dead within 7 months because dietary changes and coffee enemas didn’t work. Her airway collapsed under pressure from a tumor and she died at age 23.

Wellness influencers are literally killing people

YouTube video by Dr. Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD

youtu.be

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harryhenderson.bsky.social @harryhenderson.bsky.social · 24d

Ramesh isn't on Bluesky, so I just wanted to plug his podcast (and him in general).
Cheers.
#positivity #podcast #revolution #brainfood #progressive

www.rameshsrinivasan.org/utopiaspodcast

Podcast — Ramesh Srinivasan

www.rameshsrinivasan.org