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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 9h

NEW ON LEGENDS AND LECTURES:

WHAT IS A WEREWOLF?
Join us and Dr Kaja Frank on the history of werewolves in literature and learn about all things lupine!
Awoooo! 🐺
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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 18h

The cuts amounted to $500 million in funds. Thousands of planned deliveries were canceled without warning in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

The #USDA did not respond to questions or requests for comment.

Read the story by Ruth Talbot and @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 18h

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.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 18h

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.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

The federal courts have degenerated into places for far-right charlatans to bypass democracy, and democratic reforms must start there.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 17h

I am curious what would happen if Dems ran on a plank of creating an anti-corruption agency with stronger independence than the Fed.

I think it would be highly successful because it would show "we will tie our own hands on this".

Darin Self @darinself.com · 18h

One lesson for pro-democracy advocates currently sitting in opposition around the world -- hammer incumbents on corruption and link strengthening liberal democracy (aka accountability) to anti-corruption efforts.

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 18h

This is what I pay the New York Times for: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
[Gift link]

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Northwest Treaty Tribes @nwtreatytribes.org · 10h

Squaxin Island Tribe members sang, danced and drummed Monday afternoon at Squaxin Park. Students, elected officials, tribal members and the public gathered to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day, which honors and celebrates Indigenous peoples' history and culture. #treatyrights

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 14h

“I was afraid to go over there,” he said. “I got braver the more people came out. I know my neighbors have my back, and I have their back. ... These are Americans who know what freedom is — we’re being invaded by strangers.”

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Feds deploy tear gas in another Chicago neighborhood: 'We chased federal agents out of Albany Park today'

A federal judge’s temporary restraining order requires federal agents to issue two warnings before using riot control weapons such as tear gas. Witnesses say they didn't get any warning Sunday afterno...

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 21h

++ people in DC. Still. It’s still happening here I had feds in the alley behind my house 3 days ago. 7 people (that I know of) have been taken from my block alone.

Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 1d

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15h

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 18h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h

Of course the "Free Press" decided that this is the person the world needs to hear from right now.

"Free Press" headline: "Woody Allen Remembers Diane Keaton"

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 18h

This fucking country

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Justine O-S @justineodashs.bsky.social · 19h

reading the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry that just came out and completely hung up him having to quit the physical therapy that was getting him close to walking again after a stroke because of…insurance

a question and an answer from the new New Yorker interview with Tim Curry:

"You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?"

"I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe."

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 19h

The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.

Fifth National Climate Assessment

The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the…

nca5.climate.us

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 19h

Wild how NPR got DEFUNDED but nonetheless keeps churning out both-sidesing crap. Did no one tell they could stop now?

Amazing

NPR @npr.org · 19h

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

Trump issues a Columbus Day proclamation to 'reclaim' the explorer's legacy

President Trump said "left-wing radicals" have tried to tarnish Columbus' legacy, and the proclamation is a way to preserve it. Some experts say it's a way to erase the heritage of Native Americans.

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 19h

They canceled the Columbus Day parade! 🥳💨💨💨💨

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Rokhl @rokhl.bsky.social · 1d

If you've never heard the song, you're in for a treat youtu.be/UwL958ogSzg?...

Mene, Mene, Tekel

YouTube video by Harold Rome - Topic

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 1d

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 2d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

The US Jewish right is a 30% minority of the community that tries to draw boundaries that exclude most American Jews, so as to portray themselves as the majority. They’d rather rule over a smaller community than work for influence in a larger one.

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פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.com · 1d

Remember the reason for the season!

Keep the Boo! in Hoyshane Raboo!

A scan of a woodcut depicting a man in 16th century dress holding a bunch of willow twigs (for ritual use on Hoshana Rabbah, the seventh day of Sukkot) under the crescent moon (with a face) facing a shadow form of himself, but headless - showing the folk belief that the night of Hoshana Rabbah predicts one's fate in the coming year, in one's moonlight shadow

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