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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 2h

My cat is terrified of the garbage truck

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3h

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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JHFace🇨🇦 @jhface.bsky.social · 4h

I think they should give one to Trump but spell his name wrong.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Here's an interactive graphic representation of the Nobel laureates by country, gender, category, affiliation and time ➡️ reut.rs/432uR5m

Nobel Laureates

every Nobel laureate by country, prize and academic affiliation

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Machado, a 58-year-old industrial engineer who lives in hiding, was blocked in 2024 by Venezuela's courts from running for president and thus challenging President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013. Here's what we know about her: reut.rs/4nHaDpX

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Venezuelan opposition leader Machado won the prestigious prize for promoting democratic rights in her country, and for her struggle to achieve a transition to democracy
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Maria Corina Machado wins 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Roxy @laboxalaroxa.bsky.social · 3d

Most people are pretty nice to me here and it freaks me out a little.

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Paul MacDonald @ferness261.bsky.social · 20h

Casey Parks @caseyparks.bsky.social · 22h

Right now, the 9th Circuit is considering whether to allow troops to deploy to Portland's ICE facility. At this moment, looks like there are only Know Your Rights and a clergyperson outside.

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 20h

For those of us still working, yep, and I'm one. My agency will furlough most-- not all-- people in my dept when we run out of residual funds. The people who have to keep working cannot collect unemployment whether paid or not, so yeah, they'll be screwed

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 20h

Listening to this and it's a trip. I was an AF brat just a few years behind the author. Stuff I haven't thought about in years, like DODS, taps at 9, drinking on the officers golf course after hours.

Cold War Conversations Podcast @coldwarpod.bsky.social · 6d

NEW EPISODE #ColdWar #Kids: The Unique Life of #US #Military #BRATs

🎧🎧Listen here coldwarconversations.com/episode424/

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 21h

Fascinating moment in the power of DC Think. Democrats are clearly *not* looking for an off ramp right now. They’re actually saying this. Which is a measure of how badly it’s going for the GOP. It’s the GOP that is actually looking for the offeamp.

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 1d

First, the Trump administration cut SNAP benefits. Now it wants to stop measuring food insecurity
www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

First, the Trump administration cut SNAP benefits. Now it wants to stop measuring food insecurity

On the heels of $186 billion in cuts to SNAP, the Trump Administrations announced plans to cancel a long-running annual report on food security. But stopping the count doesn’t stop the suffering, writ...

www.wbur.org

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 1d

I hate it

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

Once upon a time, the social media accounts of federal agencies weren't a stream of fascist, white nationalist garbage interlaced with whiny culture-war posts. Earlier this year, even!

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 2d

As I've said before, no software should be released without asking "what's the worst thing that someone can do with this technology?" and it's totally believable that never occurred to anyone at OpenAI.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 2d

The moon was gorgeous, but 80 degree weather in New England during October is wilting my soul

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 2d

We’re already doing our first Halloween without Ozzy don’t you fucking dare make us do our first Christmas without Dolly

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 2d

Religious freedom arguments suffer from some of the same problems of free speech.

If you are truly pro religious freedom, you would be anti this attack on religion.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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WEATHER IS HAPPENING @weatherishappening.com · 2d

ALREADY PICKED UP ~0.75 INCH FREE WATER FROM UR WEATHER LORDS THIS MORNING

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 2d

No we didn't

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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, no! Dolly Parton isn't doing well. Had a kidney stone.