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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 19h

And also this was just mind-blowing (about the difference between science fiction which ultimately treats the universe like a machine we can learn to master and how magic works in fiction)

scientific worldview, so I would argue that it's a science fiction story even if it is not consistent with the body of facts we currently have.

By contrast, magic implies a different understanding of how the universe works.
Magic is hard to define. A lot of people would say magic definitionally cannot have rules, and that's one popular way of looking at it. But I have a different take—I would say that magic is evidence that the universe knows you're a person. It's not that magic cannot have rules; it's that the rules are more like the patterns of human psychology or of interactions between people. Magic means that the universe is behaving not as a giant machine but as something that is aware of you as a person who is different from other people, and that people are different from things. At some level, the universe responds to your intentions in a way that the laws of physics as we understand them don't.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 16h

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Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 19h

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 17h

This is such a lovely tale of homes and history www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/c...

What Things Left Behind Say About a Home’s Past, and the Times We Live In

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

YOU COULD PERHAPS HAVE LED WITH THE MOVIE PART

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 1d

I cannot stop watching this.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 2d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

Troops to Portland still on hold, multiplying protest frogs, fact-check on Trump claims: Get caught up

It’s not clear when the 9th Circuit panel will issue its ruling, but it will likely come before an Oct. 17 hearing

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 2d

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 2d

It's the purest contemporary franchise in this way. No one really cares, the lore is inconsequential/nonsensical, but some proprietary and incorrect numbers suggest it's worth making another one. The result looks decent and gets some talented people paid. Cool. Two more Event Horizon movies please.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty confused by how TRON became a big-budget movie franchise. Was it a bit hit when it came out? No. Did it become a big hit on video/TV? Also no. Do people have fond nostalgic memories of it? Eh kinda but not really. Was it secretly great and critically acclaimed? No again

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 2d

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 3d

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

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Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 3d

an artiste

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 3d

I appreciate quite a lot that the FedEx driver included my Halloween decoration in his delivery confirmation image.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 3d

Still waiting for a more efficient explanation of everything than "Everyone got brain damage from Covid": the airline executives charging a $155 predatory premium for legroom, the guy deciding to customize his own flight experience, the chain of command aborting the whole flight—busted mind-traffic!

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 3d

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 3d

There's a recent episode of East Bay Yesterday that is just a bunch of retire trash guys yucking it up in what is essentially a clubhouse, it's great! eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/we-...

“We let everybody throw it away” - East Bay Yesterday

In recent years, volunteer-led groups like Urban Compassion Project have struggled to deal with illegal dumping in Oakland. Despite removing more than half a million pounds of trash this year, piles o...

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 3d

to be clear i think this is AMAZING.

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 3d

The public works director of Oakland would like to get MC Hammer to record a song called "U Can't Dump This" as a way to help solve the city's trash problem www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

How a City Awash in Garbage Is Trying to Take Out the Trash

www.nytimes.com

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erin mccann @mccanner.bsky.social · 3d

L.A. Officials to Announce Arrest in Palisades Fire www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

L.A. Officials to Announce Arrest in Palisades Fire

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 3d

The lede in this article is utterly devastating

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Nosferatu RBMK 🦇 @comraderobot.bsky.social · 4d

this shit looks like someone’s about to shoot franz ferdinand

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 4d

When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small and tame protests outside the ICE field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party’s X account replied: “We’re not reporters, just bad memers”

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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