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Jacques O'Lantern @ass.golf · 11h

Doing party tricks for the nieces and nephews

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Sarah M. - Blerdy Baddie @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 11h

I've been saying Depression for a while. You can't carve this many people from (stable!) federal jobs, not have jobs open in the private sector to absorb them (or anyone else), and have the price of *everything* continuously rise. Something's going to break.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 21h

Best case scenario: Great Depression II (which some might say we’re already in if ya wanna be honest about it even though nobody is calling this what it actually is)

Absolutely Worst case scenario: Dark Age II -Techbro Robber Baron Ver.-

There are no good outcomes when you open Pandora’s Box.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 11h

War for Ukraine Day 1,325 update has posted.

Balloon Juice - War for Ukraine Day 1,325: Gremlins from the Kremlin

The cost: On Oct 10, energy workers from Chernihivoblenergo were returning from repair work when a Russian drone hit their car. After the first blast, they rushed to save a wounded colleague. That’s w...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

After 10 long days, the hearing challenging Texas' gerrymandering ended. By the end, all of legacy media had vanished. But Democracy Docket stayed to keep you informed about just how far Republicans went to manipulate the state’s maps.

Support its vital work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife.com · 11h

The e-cargo bike in question is from North Vancouver’s pilot lending program, which makes a variety of electric bicycles available for residents to borrow at for free from a branch of their local library. We were honoured to learn it was inspired by a chapter of our book ‘Building the Cycling City’!

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NHL Goals @nhlgoals.bsky.social · 11h

Ottawa goal!

Scored by Shane Pinto with 02:27 remaining in the 1st period.

Assisted by Ridly Greig.

Florida: 2
Ottawa: 1

#OTTvsFLA #TimeToHunt #GoSensGo

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 11h

It is imperative that you do not depend on the police to help you or take our side during clashes with the fascist Federals.

Police see a protest and know that they hate every person in that protest. It doesn't matter what it's for or who you are - they know their job is to smash you.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

You can, in fact, just do stuff. No permission needed. Have an idea? Execute it.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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The Rereading Wolfe Podcast | 重读沃尔夫播客 @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social · 12h

This has Gene Wolfe’s “Prize Crew” otherwise uncollected until the recent “The Dead Man & Horror Stories” Gene Wolfe collection by Subterranean Press.
I have it, so I’m leaving it.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like the Coens are reverse Scorsese for me. Scorsese is known for his crime movies but his best are the ones that aren't gangster based, and the Coens are known more for off-beat character movies but crime is their best genre (Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, Fargo)

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Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 13h

Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes.

It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird.

www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 21h

A decade after the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions are barely rising, up just 0.3% a year since 2015, compared with 1.7% before. buff.ly/JXM4dIv
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Paris Agreement at ten – ‘brakes slammed on’ emissions growth, finds…

Annual increase slowed fivefold to just 0.32% since agreement signed

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 12h

👇🏼!!!!

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 13h

When I compare what they insurrected over to what we haven’t insurrected over it makes perfect sense to me why they feel empowered to kidnap kids in broad daylight

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12h

If James visits the home regularly then it is available to her for personal use, which means it is not a “rental investment property” as defined by the mortgage rider…and therefore negates the central claim of the indictment

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 18h

NYT reports that Letitia James’s great niece lives in the home that is the subject of the indictment.

The niece reportedly testified before a *different* grand jury, telling them that she had lived there for many years without paying rent. James visits regularly.

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

Letitia James
Indictment
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But in June, IMs. Thompson testified to a grand
jury in Norfolk that she had lived in the house for years and that she did not pay rent, a person familiar with her testimony said. She was not asked to testify again, and the grand jury that voted to indict Ms. James was not seated in Norfolk, but in Alexandria.
The specter of Mr. Trump's revenge campaign has so far overshadowed the facts of the case, given how he has pushed for Ms. James's punishment. For years, he has railed against her on social media, calling her a "crook" and
"corrunt" Last month. he also appointed Ms.

for a peaceful life after years of turbulence in several cities.
The family, Nakia Thompson and her children, have lived at the address ever since, according to two people familiar with the home, and until this week, the plan for a more lacid existence had largely gone as expected. Several times a year, the people said, a great-aunt who had purchased the house in 2020 with Ms.
Thompson in mind would come for an extended stay.
This week, with the filing of court papers some 200 miles north, the plan came to an abrupt end.
The great-aunt - Letitia James, the New York attorney general - was indicted by President Trump's Justice Department. The yellow house,

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 1d

There was a time when conservative judges didn't blow off the Federalist Papers.

Of course, that was back before the Federalist Society decided that they had named themselves ironically.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Reading this now. It’s the opinion explaining the reason for granting a TRO (the order came out yesterday) against the National Guard deployment in Illinois. It begins with a quote from Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers against the idea.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 1d

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL71559895

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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 12h

There is no constitutional governance so long as we leave Trump et al regime in power.

Why bother passing a budget* & lending legitimacy to this farce?

*impeach & remove is best; strong efforts via power of purse (maybe but as we see…) & other measures to return to constitutional governance next.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Satanley (the first 'a' is silent) @satanley.bsky.social · 12h

Went through our kids' school about a month ago. Very whiny children for a few days

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17h

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

In Broadview, IL this morning outside the Chicago area ICE detention center—

Just rolled up, immediately saw ISP/CCSO arresting a protester w/ a guitar (he appears to be in good spirits over it).

ICE vehicles have been coming and going, including a large bus driven by a masked agent seen earlier.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE dress up like day laborers—ask workers to "prove" they are citizens.

"I want to share they are disguising themselves as construction workers," she said.

"With neon vest and a straw hat... so we'll think it's one of 'us,' I guess?"

Agents racial profile her brother after dropped off at work.

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