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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 4m

I am here to serve & slurp up delicious oysters, OCC.

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LAist @laist.com · 41m

Millions have been allocated to remove asphalt from schoolyards and replace it with green spaces, such as plants and trees, providing much-needed shade for students. One local company, SLA, is also using the funds to train people who have few job prospects, giving them valuable skills.

Providing shade in schoolyards and valuable skills to young job seekers

The founder of this South East L.A. company grew up going to schools with few green spaces and living in neighborhoods with limited job prospects.

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Charles McNulty @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social · 33m

A singular comic performer, Diane Keaton excelled equally as a dramatic actor. I will watch "Shoot the Moon" again in her honor, then read what Pauline Kael, who loved Keaton's originality, had to stay about this gifted artist.

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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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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 1h

Resharing for #AfricanPenguinAwarenessDay 🐧

Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · Oct 13

Today is also #AfricanPenguinAwarenessDay!
🚨 The African #Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is an #EndangeredSpecies.
Plate by Joseph Smit (1836–1929) from “Report on the birds collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76” (1881).
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digitized scan of a color book plate in portrait orientation, natural history art / scientific illustration: portrait of a standing African Penguin on the shore with colony in background

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The Verge @theverge.com · 2h

How The Verge and our readers manage kids’ screen time

There’s no hard and fast rules for managing kids’ screen time. Here’s what works for parents at The Verge and our readers.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

The IRS is laying off people during the shutdown, even though it was rehiring staff it previously fired because it was so shorthanded.
This one stands out because firing IRS employees costs the government money, since they bring in about $6-8 for every dollar spent on tax enforcement

IRS Halts Layoff Plans, Begins Rehiring Amid Staffing Shortages
The agency is attempting to rebuild its workforce and restore public confidence.

Treasury Department: Treasury cut 1,446 employees on Friday. Two Internal Revenue Service employees confirmed layoffs were taking place at the tax agency, which has already shed more than 25,000 employees. One employee who was laid off was working Friday and exempt from shutdown furloughs.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Tech industrial complex replacing the military industrial complex

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 18h

Well, I mean..

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

I, for one am shocked - <shocked> - that American financial institutions stand to benefit from bailouts to other countries

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

President who engaged in housing discrimination as landlord lays off housing discrimination staff

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 5h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

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Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · 4h

Some rare good climate news: wind is vying to be the cheapest form of electricity generation there is, and solar adoption figures have surpassed all expectations, writes @timsmedley.bsky.social.

The great 2025 solar boom

One massive thing is going really well, according to veteran climate campaigner Bill McKibben

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 4h

narratives are important but never the whole story, and news media aren't exactly separate from the process of their creation.

Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 4h

"Depends on who you ask" framing is one of the most grating tics in modern political journalism. Objective reality exists and your job is to describe it.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 3h

Purloining from my replies: It’s all an extension of “we understand that there is systematic regulatory, legal and governance erosion happening but I don’t think it will impact MY asset class”

Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 4h

Seriously, I’m a bond guy deep down but we gotta know when we’re reaching for “there’s got to be another leg to this trade”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

Luttig has it right here: “[T]he Supreme Court has given them no choice but to speak out.”

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 3h

I just gave Philip Bump a small amount of money and you should too.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

Guys and ladies and everyone else: I revived the newsletter. I hope you’ll take a look. It is free.
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How To Read This Chart @howtoreadthisch.art · 3h

The first edition of the new newsletter is out! Check it out IF YOU DARE (halloween)
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Mark @worgztheowl.bsky.social · 3h

Astonishing to see a superpower just voluntarily destroy itself.

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 6h

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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

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Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 3h

Good & just. But it should never have happened & it was 2 years of her life.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 3h

I mean this as loudly as I can say it: every tamale vendor is 10,000 times more important, as a person but also for society and safety and security, than every ICE agent.

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Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

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Martha Rich Art Projects @martharichart.bsky.social · 3h

More love.

A piece of art with a painterly light blue background. At the bottom is the work love gut out of green painted paper. There are variations of green on the words. Above “love” is a multi colored flower with many petals all a unique color. In the center of the flower is green star with an eye in the middle. The artwork is made with painted cut paper. Copyright Martha Rich 2025.

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The Daily Cartoonist @dailycartoonist.bsky.social · 3h

Will The Cleveland Plain Dealer replace staff editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy?
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The Last (Advance) Editoonist

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has announced that they will not replace staff editorial cartoonist Jeff Darcy. From Plain Dealer editor Chris Quinn: Our longtime political cartoonist Jeff Darcy retired Su...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

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Dates in Movies @datesinmovies.bsky.social · 4h

Oct 11th - Dr Curt Connors becomes The Lizard.

📽️📅 The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

4 Screenshots from the movie "The Amazing Spider-Man" (2012): First, a dark, intense scene shows a large, reptilian creature crouched in the night. Second, a close-up of a newspaper headline reads "REWARD FOR PROOF!" with a picture of a clawed hand, suggesting mysterious occurrences. Third, a man in a white lab coat, under dim lighting, examines something on a table with focused intensity. Fourth, a tense close-up of a man's face with reptilian skin, in a dimly lit environment, and the subtitle reads, "Just drive."

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer’s death. She described the online mob that got her fired as “state-sponsored censorship."

She posted about Charlie Kirk's death. Within eight hours, she was fired

Alexandra is among the people who lost their jobs for posting about the conservative influencer's death. She described the online mob that got her fired as "state-sponsored censorship."

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 3h

It's the guns.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h

Four people dead in shooting during Mississippi homecoming celebration

Sixteen people were also injured in attack that occurred after high school football game in small city of Leland Four people have been killed and 16 others injured in a shooting in western Mississippi during a high school football homecoming celebration, according to local officials early on Saturday. The incident took place around midnight on Friday, John Lee, the mayor of Leland, a small city in Washington county, said to the Guardian in a telephone interview on Saturday morning. At least 12 of the wounded were being treated at nearby hospitals. Continue reading...

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