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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2h

Huge explosions were seen as Israeli air attacks hit a town in south Lebanon, killing at least one person and injuring at least seven others.

The strikes targeted a site that sold excavators and other heavy machinery.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social · 3h

The political media in particular are averse to calling out lies. Our reluctance to say, “No, this is a lie,” to first our editors and then our readers, lets the regurgitating of lies become common.

Then there’s the self-preservation in the face of pressure from power, also known as cowardice.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 2h

The people who work this work schedule want for you to never be able to retire.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

What a work schedule. The Republican speaker of the House grinds hard

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WhimsickleSquirrel @whimsicalsquirrel.bsky.social · 14h

Not giving the Nobel Prize to somebody who sucks and instead giving it to somebody else who sucks to commemorate their opposition to another person who sucks really does exemplify the 'everything and everyone sucks' era which we now collectively enjoy.

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 10h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov come collect your boys

Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 21h

"[S]tate police with shields and batons shoved, hit and dragged protesters across the pavement, detaining some, after a group tried to get past the barriers."

"Who do you protect? Who do you serve?"
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Broadview Protesters Face State Police, Not National Guard, After Court Hands Trump Admin A Loss

A series of court orders this week directed federal agents to stop attacking peaceful protesters and to hold off on using the National Guard near the facility, which has become a key area for…

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Not surprising that this solar project, that burns enough gas to participate in cap and trade, was built by taxpayers and a venture capital firm advised by RFK Jr.

Randy Watkins @bluetortoise3.bsky.social · 1d

I spent 4 years working on this, but it was a bad project, not least due to the location next to a big golf course w/ prominent water features that attracted large numbers of migratory birds that were incinerated flying through the solar fields. www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/big-green/ca...

California Shuts Down Its Solar Thermal Plant 13 Years Early

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is set to shut down in 2026 after failing to meet its energy targets. Ivanpah…

www.instituteforenergyresearch.org

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 18h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 13h

"It should be an easy decision for college presidents not to stick their institution’s neck into this retroactive push-button guillotine."

And yet, somehow, for 8 of them it isn't.

Informative essay, well worth reading.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 13h

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see that they gave the Nobel Prize to the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa. She earned it.

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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 1d

the arc of the moral universe is long but bends towards me crying in my car

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 23h

This is awesome.

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Laura Geggel @laurageggel.bsky.social · 18h

The first surprise was finding a 200-foot-long mound in the shape of a scorpion in Mexico that was centuries old. The second was discovering that it aligns with the summer and winter solstices! 🏺🧪🦂 🌅 #archaeology

200-foot scorpion effigy mound in Mexico may align with the solstices

A 205-foot-long, scorpion-shaped mound in Mexico likely helped Mesoamericans mark the summer and winter solstices, a new study finds.

www.livescience.com

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 15h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

“It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide, rather than forcing Palestinians to negotiate an end to it.”

After Gaza Ceasefire, “Massive Political Pressure” Needed to Prevent Israel from Restarting the War

A ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on Friday after the Israeli government approved the first phase of the U.S.-backed plan to end two years of war in the Palestinian territory. The deal calls for a ...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention

The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters

Investment bank had previously planned for such information from New York workers to be voluntary JP Morgan Chase has told staff moving into its new headquarters in New York that they must share their biometric data to access the multibillion-dollar building. The investment bank had previously planned for the registering of biometric data by employees at its new Manhattan skyscraper to be voluntary. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 1d

@bennet.senate.gov and @hickenlooper.senate.gov sell us out over and over again.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

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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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone keeping an informal list of which local businesses are stoking fear, speaking to fashy news, or could you send me examples so I can? I have the tech just not the info

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Exhausted archaeologist-exhausteologist @hknorton.bsky.social · 1d

I never made it to school on time, and now I have a PhD and am a somewhat productive member of society. He'll probably be fine?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"Strengths include the ability to work independently for years or even decades with minimal feedback and/or praise, as well as a marked level of comfort working with antiquated systems, outdated standards, and unending group email chains."

Moderately Motivated Gen-Xer for Hire

Forty-something professional seeks opportunity in an environment that is neither “fun,” “playful,” nor “collaborative;” minimal responsibility pref...

buff.ly

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

i’ll never get over this

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nullifie @nullifie.bsky.social · 2d

Fox News has this guy dress up and role-play as Antifa, Mexican Cartel, and come up to give interviews whilst disguised in a face mask.

Meanwhile, this is actually Robert J. O'Neill -- Fox News and Seal Team Six guy who claims to be the guy who put down bin Laden. 🤷‍♀️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKwz...

Fox News Is Just Elder Abuse At This Point

YouTube video by Pawlitics

www.youtube.com

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