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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 4h

Far Side cartoon:

Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwartzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what
barking dogs are actually saying.

(They’re all just saying “hey”)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

Pennington married Frederick Douglass and his fiance Anna Murray at the home of the great David Ruggles when Douglass escaped enslavement. He was very well known in his time.

KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 4h

James, W.C. Pennington, the almost forgotten Black abolitionist activist and reformed minister dailycampus.com/2025/10/09/t...

The almost forgotten Black abolitionist activist and reformed minister

1827: James W. C. Pennington escaped slavery through the Underground Railroad, quickly receiving an education to become a teacher, journalist, activist, writer and evangelical Reformed Christian mi…

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 6h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 13h

10/10 no notes

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 21h

The truth about Frederick Baker’s life under enslavement was shrouded in a whitewashed history perpetuated by local historians in Mississippi. New research on a rare pre-Emancipation artwork has unearthed his story, dispelling false narratives that dignified the reputations of his enslavers.

Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods

The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 15h

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium by Ernesto Cardenal
www.divasofverse.com/2016/11/somo...

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium by Ernesto Cardenal

Somoza Unveils Somoza’s Statue of Somoza at the Somoza Stadium It’s not that I think the people raised this statue...

www.divasofverse.com

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Attorney General William Tong @agwilliamtong.bsky.social · 16h

This is a dark moment for the American justice system and our democracy. I have worked alongside Letitia James for seven years. She is as tough and as fair as it gets, and a leader amongst attorneys general on both sides of the aisle. I stand with her unequivocally in this moment.

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alonsonichols.bsky.social @alonsonichols.bsky.social · 14h

Love it!!

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alonsonichols.bsky.social @alonsonichols.bsky.social · 14h

My goodness! I can feel the plastic handle as my twin and I around 6-years-old would carry it from the corner store to my Granny’s door together. And when she would cook them, I could smell it up the street.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

www.science.org

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alonsonichols.bsky.social @alonsonichols.bsky.social · 14h

Ha! It was one of my Granny’s favorites. She lived in the city her whole life but she was really country.

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alonsonichols.bsky.social @alonsonichols.bsky.social · 15h

I grew up with my grandparents and we always called it a bedspread. But I also used phrases like, “You reckon?” and “They’ll be home directly”

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks to a friend who produced this we were lucky enough to catch this brilliant beautiful fascinating timely picture tonight
Really heartwarming & inspiring portrait of the man & visionary artist who helped start a movement

If you get the chance please go
Screenings in the states are coming soon

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 18h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 23h

“With this attempt at a longed-for ‘post-post-postmodern sacralization,’ he has taken apocalypse to its logical conclusion, flooding the narrative with comic megalomania, petty vitriol, horrific crimes and frogs, setting it off with a match and blowing it all sky high.”

Holly Case on Krasznahorkai:

László Krasznahorkai’s Catastrophic Harmonies - Boston Review

The winner of the National Book Award for Translated Literature serves up an apocalyptic vision of Hungarian society.

www.bostonreview.net

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 22h

"It’s a stunning vision of our inequitable, climate-challenged future: Wander around the area today and you’ll find a neighborhood reduced to ashes as Lululemon still stands."

I spent the summer hanging out at Rick Caruso's malls as he allegedly mulls a gubernatorial run:
nyra.nyc/articles/mal...

A color photograph shows a fountain with bronze female figure atop a pedastal before anodyne chain stores like Blue Mercury and Planet Beauty.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 1d

i spent the last few months reporting on a wild question: what makes a british aristocrat decide to become a big MAGA booster??? read my lengthy answer here: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/l...

Lady Victoria Hervey, British ’90s It Girl Turned Mar-a-Lago Habitué, Wants to Make England Great Again

A pandemic-era political awakening turned this aristocrat into a MAGA-hat-collecting Trump booster—and now she’s telling Vanity Fair why she backs Nigel Farage.

www.vanityfair.com

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 1d

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · Oct 31

Hoping for a Yankees loss tonight and then a century-long drought of world series titles so that a curse mythology gets built up around these two dipshits.

Two Yankees fans interfere with a play, and try to wrestle away a ball from a dodgers player.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 1d

We are changing our antifa secret handshake to slap-slap-fistbump-fistbump. Then you snap your fingers once, eat everyone's pets, and make everyone within 50' instantly become trans. Pass it along.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

Please read.
Please.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

We aren't on the verge of an authoritarian takeover. We are in the middle of it.

But I worry people don't see the whole scheme. They just pay attention to each new daily outrage. So I went to the Senate floor to explain Trump's plan.

Here's a 🧵of the speech. It's important.

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Daniel Thompson @dr-thompson.bsky.social · 1d

34 points
14 rebounds
4 assists
3 blocks
11/20 FGs
11/12 FTs
Game winner
3-0 series lead

Even for A'ja Wilson, tonight was a game for the ages. Especially considering the stakes. Here's her legendary game 3 performance. #WNBASky

A'ja Wilson's legendary game 3 | 2025 WNBA Finals

YouTube video by Daniel Thompson

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