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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

A good way to think of this is it's the main vehicle that states use to stitch together a comprehensive understanding of public health shit - like outbreaks - that are happening in other parts of the country. It gives states a chance to prepare.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

If you're like "why do you read MMWR for fun" because human bodies are wacky! and some of the reports are wackadoodle (in a good way pre-RFK!)

But I cannot stress enough how bad this is. Like state epidemiologists read this shit.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 2h

Black people have been giving everybody the answer for a long time. As well as showing you what was gonna happen when it starts to go badly for you like it always has been for us. But y'all wanted to talk about the tan suit instead. *shrugs*

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psudonym @psudonym.bsky.social · 3h

Learning to cook at home is not about following exact recipes but about gaining the skills and knowledge to improvise. Proper cooking wisdom is knowing when you don’t have lemons, if limes will do just fine. Because even if you don’t get exact authentic flavors, it’s probably gonna be good anyway.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

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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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 24d

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10h

These folks are SO scared of simple honest protest.

They’ve gone from 0 to 60 in lie-telling regarding October 18 immediately.

October 18—and the idea that lots of Americans will be peacefully marching in support of American democracy and “no kings,” is terrifying them.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 10h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 10h

it's the guys

Photo of two cats, brothers: one orange and white and one grey tiger striped

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11h

It's so exciting to have Saugat write for us again!

The next 25 people to subscribe to @thexylom.com's FREE newsletter will be personally invited to our next Office Hours with our staff, which is usually reserved for our paying sustainers and supporters, next Wednesday at 1 pm ET.

See you there:

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 11h

I make it a point to always begin the alt-text on pictures of Adonis with "orange cat". so next time you're having a bad day, do yourself a favor and type this into search

(from:cait.bsky.social "orange cat")

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11h

The RIFs began months ago. This is just recycled DOGE, just as unpopular and just as illegal.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 13h

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 15h

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11h

WAY OFF-TOPIC: I hope Selina is Afro-Latina. I think that a Latin ethnicity--and pick a specific country, it's important--should be the one constant that follows her through various worlds. She flips races and is more often than not biracial, but that land is her tether.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 12h

You go where you are wanted. You go where you are championed. You go where your words hold weight. Not where you are begrudgingly tolerated. There's an audience that wants you. Peers that would love to work with you. Set up shop there.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 12h

Because the main lines were the ones built during actual segregation. These new micro lines are being built for the world of today. The voices of today. The "world outside our window."

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 14h

Today is World Homeless Day, and after years reporting on this crisis, I'll just say: homelessness is neither inevitable nor intractable. It's the result of choices—political, economic, moral—that can be unmade.

And this: how we treat the unhoused is a bellwether for the violence we will tolerate.

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Anton Bitel @antbit.projectedfigures.com · 23h

Folk (song) horror: @paulduane.bsky.social's funny, freaky, fucked-up ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH (2023) "plays out present cover versions of past love, betrayal and accursed vengeance". On @arrowplayer.bsky.social (UK/Ireland) from today projectedfigures.com/2023/10/13/a...

All You Need Is Death (2023) - Projected Figures

Paul Duane's folk (song) horror ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH plays out present cover versions of past love, betrayal and accursed vengeance

projectedfigures.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 18h

ahh yes it’s 4AM so I have new opinions about local electricians, fancy toilets, and magnetic lash extensions

(bet most of them are fine / can I get a vendor to deal with scheduling the electrician too though? / and bet most of those suck)

anxiety modeled as an orange liquid in a person-shaped jar

Midday, standing up, it fills to waist level (deep down)

trying to sleep: it’s in ur brain now

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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 21h

novocain is weird as heck!

I’ve had multiple whole surgeries done with it painlessly, but then there was the fingernail where they said “no more of this will fit in your finger, it still hurts what?”

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The Ghost Of Cohost. CoGhost. Gohosohssosost @ceresultra.bsky.social · 1d

How do I explain to offline people that my favorite Japanese mascot said "we can only be liberated from queer oppression if we are truly seen as human" and then started wielding fireworks like a rocket launcher on the side of a mountain without sounding like I've totally lost it?

Chiitan forever

Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 1d

Chiitan has a dream.
I hope that one day the term LGBT will become a thing of the past.
I will continue to spread my message until we live in a world where everyone can love freely and is free from persecution and discrimination.
Until then, let's all support each other🤍

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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 23h

do honorary and emeritus professors still reply to complex multi-part emails with a single “yes” or “no”?

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 2d

native plants are important too

a flower field with text that says "Yeah I'm into BDSM, Bio-Diversity Supporting Meadows"

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Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 23h

Crossing the Delaware 2: Air Power

Kevin Cantú @killerswan.bsky.social · 23h

what are you watching so I can avoid* it

* not avoid

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