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Colin Summers @colinsummers.bsky.social · 4h

You can see @nellscovell.bsky.social and me just under three trees.

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5h

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 7h

I spoke to the Houston chronicle on the conditions that I only be referred to as frog

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 7d

Just wrapped up a week of SlicerMorph/MorphoDepot/MorphoCloud work with @jaimiagray.bsky.social, @cmdonatelli.bsky.social and a great team of folks.

This is Enophrys taurina with a damaged preopercular spine. Fighting or defense?
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Adam Summers @fishguy.bsky.social · 7d

Workshops give me a chance to play with other people's data. In this case Kate Jackson's snake heads. This is Bitis nasicornis.

Storing bones in formalin is bad for mineralization.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 12d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 12d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 6d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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John Calvin’s Strongest Soldier @waveturtlejake.bsky.social · 7d

Tim Heidecker putting out an apology for performing at Riyahd (he did not) is such a good bit.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 6d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Kat Stafford @katstafford.bsky.social · 14d

Whenever someone asks me what is one media outlet I read or check everyday, it’s hands down @capitalb.bsky.social. The depth, framing and coverage choices are so good and necessary in this moment. Please follow and support the Black Press. There are many others, too.

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Traci L. @tracilaw.bsky.social · 14d

Dear military,

You either with us or you're with the Nazi Republicans.

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Colin Summers @colinsummers.bsky.social · 14d

Cuba did this in their revolution. Since revolutionaries don’t need golf courses the one in Havana promptly became a university campus. I can’t think of any golf course that would be a loss if we were trading it for a university campus.

Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 14d

Nationalize all Golf Courses

That way, when government shuts down, so does golf. You'll never see another shutdown again.

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 14d

Wrong. Vance hasn't aspired to normality, as in "normal is something else and I'm trying to be it", normal is something he's *insisted* in, as in "this is what I am and that's normal, not what YOU are"

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 15d

The left has labeled Vice President Vance as weird. But "normal" has long been what the vice president has aspired to in his political career.

How 'normal' guides JD Vance's political worldview

The left has labeled Vance as weird. But "normal" has long been a platonic ideal that the vice president has aspired to in his personal life and centered in his political career.

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Colin Summers @colinsummers.bsky.social · 16d

You’ve still got potential! (As a child also tracked as gifted I cling to that truth. Potential is never lost until the very end when it no longer matters.)

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Colin Summers @colinsummers.bsky.social · 17d

They are just attacking New York City because it is a city. Where lots of different people live together. Happily.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 17d

OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...

Colin Summers @colinsummers.bsky.social · 17d

This will be emblematic of the deep cover they are willing to do to hide his mental decline. There is NO defense of this insanity, but she is willing to do it anyway.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17d

Reporter: The president posted an AI deepfake of himself talking about medbeds. What was he trying to communicate?

Leavitt: He is transparent. He likes to share memes and videos. I think it is refreshing to have a president who is so open and honest.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 18d

I can tell that Ta-Nehisi Coates believes that is important for him to argue with Ezra Klein in a forum that will reach Klein's audience, in order to persuade them. I think that's admirable and at least partially true. However I also think he should have just hit him with a folding chair instead.

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Tzipporah @tzipporah.cvkvlv.com · 18d

#OrangeShirtDay #NDTR #EveryChildMatters

"The U.S. Indian boarding school system sought to erase Native identity by forcibly removing children from their homes, languages, and cultures. Many endured neglect, abuse, and deep loss; thousands never made it back to their families."

nativenewsonline.net

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Colin Summers @colinsummers.bsky.social · 18d

* wheats = always

Colin Summers @colinsummers.bsky.social · 19d

The idiocy, ignorance, and incompetence is wheats a little breathtaking even when it is not a surprise.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 19d

1. More Americans work at the Cheesecake Factory than in the entire coal industry, and that won't change. It's because of automation, not snooty libs.

2. Coal energy is now more expensive than wind and solar.

3. So this means: higher energy prices, more pollution, no jobs benefit. Genius!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."

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Colin Summers @colinsummers.bsky.social · 19d

I just read that sea otters help maintain the balance of the ecosystem by eating. I feel like I could fit into that role somehow. I’m already in training.

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