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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 50m

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 51m

This video also shows the effectiveness of whistles.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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the idea slumlord✨ @mollytanzer.bsky.social · 3h

“Publisher didn’t register copyright”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 12h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 5h

"November? No, due tomorrow."

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 11h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 12h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 17h

whoopsie

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 20h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 18h

We’ve lost a diamond.

Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 21h

RIP Diane Keaton. Always to see her in anything she has ever done. A Ray of sunshine.
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Kevin Bacon Always Wanted To Kiss Diane Keaton - The Graham Norton Show

YouTube video by BBC America

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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 19h

Hey, sci-fi and fantasy folks, if you happen to know folks who are involved with various estates in the field, do tip them a hat about the Anthropic settlement. Agencies do not get $ out of the deal and may not remember to talk to estate clients. My agent was worrying about estates not being alerted

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Rachel Vorona Cote @rvoronacote.bsky.social · 18h

An actual opposition party sure would be useful at a time like this

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 18h

Would you like a little good news? The immigrant childrens detention center I've protested at myriad times (Also at its landlords house) has closed and will now be a project to house the unhoused.

As much as I'd love to take credit, it's apparently because SW Key no longer gets $$ from Trump. 🤷🏻‍♀️😅

Houston Announces New $16 Million Low-Barrier Homeless 'Super Hub'

The City of Houston is spending $16 million to turn a former migrant shelter into a homeless “super hub”—a facility officials say will streamline access to services, but critics warn will damage the c...

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 18h

"We've outsourced friendship, but you still have to scrub toilets!"

This is a such a bullshit dystopia.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 20h

This is incredibly powerful and resonant language, to the point of creating genuine emotional religious response in me (a Jewish person).

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 22h

I'm perplexed at watching pundits in the trades struggling to explain Tron Ares' disappointing opening.

Was it covid? Do people just not like science fiction? etc. etc.

The main reason is pretty obvious: Tron isn't a popular franchise. Nobody's interested in nostalgia for a failed 1980s project.

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CNN @cnn.com · 21h

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, according to four sources with knowledge of the layoffs. https://cnn.it/3WlxL1z

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 22h

In college I interned for a semester at GLAAD & for another semester with a local singer songwriter, who taught me how to plan a tour and how to write a press release. Did she need me? No. Was I half asleep the whole time? Yes. Did I learn two skills that have held me in good stead ever since? Yes!

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 22h

I feel the same way, I should add, when people say "I only use AI for the kind of stuff a stoned teenage intern might do for me." Give the stoned teenage intern a chance! Those are their starter jobs!

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 22h

I didn't hear the beginning so maybe there was mitigating context, but I have rarely heard anything as awkward as that friend earnestly trying to figure out what was wrong as the non-person impersonating his friend drove the conversation in circles.

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 22h

And the conversation he recorded with a friend of thirty years was equally awful. The friend could clearly tell something was wrong with him, and was genuinely concerned. Dude didn't even listen to the conversation in real time, so he didn't get to interrupt and explain.

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 22h

The piece ended with a clone of the author chatting with a clone of the author's father, both programs talking past each other. The tone was meant to be poignant but it was absolutely horrifying to me.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 22h

On the way home from the barn I heard a This American Life piece by a guy who had an AI clone of himself call his friends to have conversations and I would just like to state now that if anyone ever does this to me, we will no longer be friends. WTF is this world where we outsource all interaction?

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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