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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 22h

“The video is very short, making it clear that the choice of lyrics was the intentional focus. Viewers are obviously meant to hear the antisemitic aspects, since it’s more or less the only audio in the 13 seconds being presented. “

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 23h

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs

The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.

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dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social · 31m

We are currently accepting applications for editors-at-large! Editors-at-large have the opportunity to review feed content and nominate noteworthy content at their own pace. Please consider applying to be an editor-at-large! digitalhumanitiesnow...

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 5m

Kavanaugh Stops

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 47m

Extraordinary NEW story: We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 14h

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 17m

My town. #NutmegSky
www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-10...

ICE raid targets eight at Hamden car wash, officials say

The town’s mayor called the raid “deplorable” and “disgusting.”

www.ctpublic.org

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 4h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...

Woman, 80s, dies three years after Dublin attack

A woman in her 80s who was attacked in south Dublin just over three years ago has passed away.

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IIIF Consortium @iiif.bsky.social · 3h

Are you researching, experimenting with, or fully supporting #IIIF at your institution? Please help the IIIF Community better understand how IIIF is being adopted across institutions by completing this quick survey.

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2025 IIIF Implementation Survey

Are you researching, experimenting with, or fully supporting IIIF at your institution? Please help the IIIF Community better understand how IIIF is being adopted across institutions by completing this...

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 3h

Y'all sound great any way you slice it.

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Sarah of Cleveland @sb68a.bsky.social · 5h

In response to recent severe storms, including Typhoon Halong, that devastated Alaska's western coast, local community organizations and regional partners have come together to establish the Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund, housed at the Alaska Community Foundation. www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2d

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

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Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 18h

Everyone,

I’m in a dire situation.

Daycare has given me so many extensions but I’m almost 2 weeks behind on paying it.

Can anyone PLEASE help me with it so I can pay it tomorrow?

Do me a favor and boost and share this even if you can’t donate.

Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 1d

Hey everyone.

I have a simple request and it’s for daycare.

I owe $85 for last week where I overpaid the previous week and $125 for this week.

The total comes to be $210.

Please help if you can.

My v e n m o is : @astrotoya
My c a s h a p p : $astrotoya
or PayPal.me/toyamck

Toya 🚀🔭 @astrotoya.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone, I’m months behind on this car payment and behind on daycare.

My car might be taken soon and I don’t want that to happen.

I was raped in July, lost an ectopic pregnancy, lost my job and got Covid for the 7th time.

My car payment is $360 and daycare is $210.

PLEASE help if you can.

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sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · 14h

“In an ideal world, this would matter, but the law and the facts were never the point... The Republican justices were evaluating different paths, but all of them lead to the same destination: forcing [POC] out of the political process, & leaving a government by and for white people in their place.”

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 14h

Study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccines early in pregnancy and birth defects.

A French study found no increased risk of 75 major congenital malformations across 13 organ systems from first-trimester mRNA COVID vaccination, confirming vaccine safety in early pregnancy.

Study finds no link between mRNA COVID vaccines early in pregnancy and birth defects

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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devrawiz.bsky.social @devrawiz.bsky.social · 4h

"3,544 of them are held under Israel's system of “administrative detention,” which allows Israel to imprison Palestinians up to six months without charge or trial. Can be renewed indefinitely based on a “secret file” that neither the detainees nor lawyers can see."
mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal

As world leaders celebrate the release of Israeli captives, over 9,000 Palestinian prisoners still face torture, hunger, and isolation behind bars. Half of them are held by Israel without charge or tr...

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 3h

Wonder whether this got removed from the service academy catalogs.

Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 4h

The United States Navy Band, Port Authority - Reflections [USA, Jazz, Funk, Fusion] (year not listed)
https://redd.it/iyilc3
https://youtu.be/bNDPMVLLnUw

The United States Navy Band, Port Authority - Reflections [USA, Jazz, Funk, Fusion] (year not listed)

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 3h

Practically a dictionary definition of contemporary whiteness. Wield power against races you have constructed while denying you are a race with a dog in the fight as a race.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 3h

Dr. Baker's Travelling Small State Lecture and Revival Tour

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 3h

It's not that gaining untold riches breaks your brain, it's that the drive to gain untold riches means your heart is broken.

Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 18h

Watch out, in the darkest of all possible worlds, people get what they ask for www.businessinsider.com/youtube-star...

YouTube star MrBeast lays groundwork to get into financial services, including crypto

Top YouTuber MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, is eyeing an expansion into financial services, per a trademark filing and investor deck.

www.businessinsider.com

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 3h

Maybe they could chuck wood if they really believed in themselves.

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 4h

It would be great if there were a way to get the major metros of non-participating states involved in some way. Is it already happening? #LazySky

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 12h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 4h

This remains good news.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h

Brown University has rejected the Trump administration’s compact, saying it would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance”

Brown University rejects Trump administration compact

President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 said that the compact would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance.”

www.browndailyherald.com

Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 4h

Definitely the right thing for the press to do, and may this only increase their solidarity.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 4h

In related news, I have just managed to use "apocalyptic eschatology" in a context-appropriate way for the first time since college. Thanks, Professor Wandel!

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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 4h

"Left Behind" hits so hard and so smack in the center of the target. (The whole thread is 🌟, but the unstated Christian apocalyptic eschatology of AI needs more calling out.)

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 13h

Lots of people with money who want to make more are telling you this is a tool you have to learn or you'll be Left Behind but as with all tools, you can use your own brain and experience to decide if it's a thing that helps you do your job better and a thing you think is ethical.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

As we go into No Kings weekend (and with the influx of new followers from x) seems like a good time to resurface this.

It was written in 2020 then focused on George Floyd about the media's antagonistic relationship to protest

It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas.

"People kept sharing these videos that were coming up and it was unambiguous what was going on. We weren't looking at a stream of videos of violence erupting or clashes breaking out. We were looking a...

www.niemanlab.org

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