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uncle baby rainey🌈 @raineyrainbows.bsky.social · 13h

more like Bitchtopher Columbitch

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 2h

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Love & Hisses @mizrobyn.bsky.social · 2h

Good night innernets. (Flamenco)

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h

shame it took this long to realize you can just resist these rapacious losers

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2h

underrated signal on which way the wind is blowing

The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 4h

Airports across the country are grappling with whether to play a video featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, who is shown blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown of the federal government and travel delays.

Some airports refuse to play a Homeland Security video blaming Democrats for government shutdown. Here’s what the SLC airport decided.

Airports across the country are grappling with whether to play a video featuring Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem, who is shown blaming congressional Democrats for the shutdown of the federal government and travel delays.

www.sltrib.com

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 13h

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 2h

One has to wonder why a respectable journalist org like @spj-posts.bsky.social would associate themselves with a hate org like the ADF... and push young journalists to that org.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 7h

This year's MediaFest - a conference for student journalists has a Faith breakout section that includes speakers from the Alliance Defending Freedom - a SPLC designated Hate Group (oddly CJR's article doesn't mention that).

I hope attendees and sponsors pull out.
www.cjr.org/feature/stud...

But in recent weeks, MediaFest’s schedule has been amended to include people from other religious backgrounds. There will be more than twenty faith track speakers, on panels tackling such questions as “Can the Bible inform reporters on how to cover the news?” and discussing censorship on the basis of faith. “We even have a Muslim coming,” said Naomi Balk—who

Thursday, October 16th
Freedom to report with faith
Faith Central
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM
Cabin John
Description
As culture shifts away from religion, reporters are caught in a paradox: non-religious reporters report on topics of faith, and reporters of faith report on non-religious topics. What does it look like to report with objectivity in an age where not all perspectives are viewed as valid? Hear from Tyson Langhofer, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, as he shares lessons from history about freedom of the press.
Speaker
Tyson Langhofer, Alliance Defending Freedom, Senior Counsel, Director of Center for Academic Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom
SPLC Designated Hate Group
Related: Anti-LGBTQ
Founded: 1994
Location: Scottsdale, Ariz.

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 4h

the students at the encampments were right

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homerus heresy @choamchomsky.bsky.social · 3h

wu, pavlou, and fetterman are charting out a fascinating new pathology: a combination of zionism and negative polarization that turns libs directly into nazis

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 2h

that slogan goes hard as fuck

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

"For too long, our leaders have forgotten New Yorkers with disabilities. We have been failed by those with their own agendas, those who care only about holding on to power to remain relevant and serve their own egos." - Quemuel Arroyo

Quemuel Arroyo, in a wheelchair holding a microphone, on stage with "Our Time Has Come" projected behind him.

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Kevin Dekker @kevindekker.bsky.social · 3h

He looks like a balloon.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 3h

A neck shouldn't have a lapel.

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Mr Wizard @angrymann.bsky.social · 3h

The hands that stuffed that extra neck into that collar stuffed these too

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

We have a lot of work to do right here to build trust.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Avó chinesa muito católica @acexaman.bsky.social · 1d

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3h

exceedingly rare mainstream coverage of real college

Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 4h

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

He was a homeless college student. He found hope in a parking lot.

Long Beach City College reserves 15 spots in a parking lot for homeless students. For Edgar Rosales Jr., the program has been a lifeline.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Oftentimes Jack 🎃 @pepsffk.bsky.social · 11h

How good to feels to share in the joy of our friends in Palestine. Mitqual reached out to me with the good news his nephew was one of the hostages released in Nasser Hospital. Naturally he & others still need our help, we will keep working towards a Free Palestine with them all!

shorturl.at/mvE4C

Mitqual taking a selfie in front of a huge crowd.

A huge gathering of people, on is standing on a van with a camera in hand.

One man leaning out of a us hugging another hanging from him and being held beneath by another person.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 3h

Tom Alter, a tenured history professor, was fired for making comments in support of socialism at a conference, based on a doctored video taped by a far right activist. If this is allowed to stand, anyone of us could be next

universitystar.com/33285/news/t...

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 3h

"Eric Adams and Randy Mastro honor absolutely scumbag Bernard Kerik during the lame duck period" is so stunningly outrageous that it's almost unbelievable.

Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent potted bio of the late Bernie Kerik, a scuzz for the ages. Mind-boggling how he stuff so much corruption (on multiple continents) into one life. Fine reportage like this is why I subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 4h

And the piece didn’t even have space to mention Kerik’s friendship with the abusive creep who ran the Sarah Lawrence sex cult! A scuzz for the ages www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/n...

Ringleader of Sex Cult at Sarah Lawrence College Gets 60-Year Sentence (Published 2023)

www.nytimes.com

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 4h

Excellent potted bio of the late Bernie Kerik, a scuzz for the ages. Mind-boggling how he stuff so much corruption (on multiple continents) into one life. Fine reportage like this is why I subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

hellgatenyc.com

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 3h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 3h

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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