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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

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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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 19h

Thanks, but no thanks. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli

Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 1d

Uh, I don't mean to alarm anyone but hoolllyyy sheeet. 👇
H/T @steve1970peng.bsky.social

"To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to negotiate an agreement with the Government of Canada for integrated cross-border aerial, land, and maritime law enforcement operations, and for other purposes."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

This sounds like they're gearing up for a violent crackdown. The talking points obviously went out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 20h

Incidentally, I'm racing out to buy an iphone before my work phone officially dies at midnight. I can't imagine being phoneless even briefly, even for a day, and that says nothing good about what working as a columnist, especially in the last two years, did to my cut-price brain.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 20h

I quit slowly, then fast. Today's my last day at my very dear newspaper, the Toronto Star. My last column is about the birth of the legal concept of "duty of care," how that extends in daily life, and what the Gorsuch "frozen trucker" ruling said about modern law. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Heather Mallick: I’m saying farewell — and leaving you with this lesson about care and power from a dead snail in a bottle of ginger beer

The minutely beautiful Paisley Snail concept has been huge in consumer law. But the concept hasn’t really caught on in the self-proclaimedly individualist U.S. where Donoghue would likely be accused

www.thestar.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 20h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 20h

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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 21h

If People Magazine wants to restore their credibility, they'll recognize me as Sexiest Man Alive. I've earned it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Scalise: "If Nobel wants to restore what used to be a once dignified prize, they can restore their credibility by awarding President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. He's earned it."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 21h

How will Trump punish Venezuela for snatching away his Nobel Peace Prize? Missile strikes on Venezuelan beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets and hills? We wait agog.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 21h

The great journalist Helen Lewis on going without a cellphone for a few days. It's good apparently. | The Bluestocking 386: Sun miracles and showgirls open.substack.com/pub/helenlew...

The Bluestocking 386: Sun miracles and showgirls

a layered lasagne of toilet paper

open.substack.com

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Eric Robert Reguly @ereguly.bsky.social · 22h

Terribly sad story

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them

www.theguardian.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 22h

Yes, that must be why.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 5d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Terrible Maps @terriblemapshq.bsky.social · 23h

A scenario where Croatia finally completes its mission to control all European coasts

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 1d

NEW: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social · 1d

New Reuters Institute report on how people are increasingly using LLMs for search. no surprises (in many markets the figure will be higher) . It’s not really so much *replacing* what publishers do as ‘aggregating’ publisher material and failing to credit www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.

"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

www.niemanlab.org

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

The replies on the editorial include many versions of “thanks for finally convincing me to cancel.”

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

You’ve gotta be kidding me.

This WaPo editorial presents a misleading revisionist history of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal cases against Trump.

Then it has the gall to compare that to Trump’s overt targeting of his perceived enemies.

Really embarrassing stuff.

But the mere fact that a legal tool might be available does not mean it should be used. The
current rage over Grassley's revelation shows why. Smith showed little restraint in his pursuit of a former president. He charged Trump for official acts he took as president. He sought a gag order to limit Trump's ability to criticize the prosecution. He tried to accelerate the case to try a leading presidential candidate before the 2024 election.

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 2d

“You’re banned, you can’t chant that, you’re nicked for holding a sign, you’re kids are poorer, you’re colder, you have to have an ID card and the racists have legitimate concerns in our island of strangers… now vote for us or Farage wins.”

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 2d

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Cover-Up review – Laura Poitras’s Seymour Hersh documentary is a thrilling ode to journalism

The acclaimed documentarian follows up All the Beauty and the Bloodshed with another smart and impeccably structured winner

www.theguardian.com

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

Of course the problem is vehicles. The problem is designers not protecting children from them, using floor to ceiling glass walls because it looks good. They had a "duty of care," a concept I'm writing about today.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 2d

Who is crucifying dogs?

Also, what a fucked up verbal tic to pick up from your father. They’ll describe anything that way.

“It was so hot that I drank the Gatorade in one gulp, like a dog.”

“That looks great on you, like a dog.”

“My father didn’t give me enough love and attention, like a dog.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump: "You saw what Jake Tapper did to Lara Trump. She said what everybody knew and everybody was saying and he came out and crucified her like a dog. They have tried to kill us at every road."

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Heather Mallick @hmallick.bsky.social · 2d

American friends, if you ever get an Canadian-style health care system, payment doesn't come into it, not for you, not for the pregnant illegal foreign rabble rouser in the next chair in Emergency. Pain and sickness have a way of uniting patients. We have huge fears but not about money.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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