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Dr. Michael Phillips @drmphillipsut.bsky.social · 19h

During our talk at UT Arlington about our new book, “The Purifying Knife: The Troubling History of Eugenics in Texas,” the wonderful staff at the UTA library put together a small exhibit on E.E. Davis, the eugenicist leader of the college that became UTA from 1925-1946. @oupress.bsky.social

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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 21h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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KXAN News @kxan.com · 20h

One group opposed to the cameras said that they believe Lockhart is the first city to reject the cameras outright.

Lockhart city council rejects Flock AI cameras in 6-1 vote

In a 6-1 vote Thursday, the city council of Lockhart, Texas, voted against a plan to set up seven AI-powered cameras in the city for use as license plater readers.

www.kxan.com

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

"... With her baby in her placenta"

This is what most people, who hate trans people, sound like to trans people when they talk about trans people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

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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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Interesting situation where both Trump and the Palestinian factions say the agreement guarantees end of war while Israel does not, this is distinct from the tone earlier in the year on the US side (Trump never said he would enforce the deal after phase one) but the US notoriously just lies.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

"Money said he froze his bill after feedback from constituents. 'For some of the people that I spoke with or that I heard from after I filed this bill, they have been transitioned for 10, 15, 20, 25 years, and they’re taking ongoing maintenance drugs.'

Adrian Ashford @adrianashford.bsky.social · 1d

I also talked to D-FW lawmakers who have introduced bills recently related to gender transition. They said adhering to the Christian belief that there are only two genders is important for a healthy society. @dallasnews.com www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2...

Why many Texas Republican leaders are concerned about gender transitions

Many of Texas’ Republican leaders say they’re concerned about people changing their bodies as part of a gender transition.

www.dallasnews.com

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Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 2d

Texas AG Ken Paxton announced this morning that his office will investigate Discord. Also this morning, the Wall Street Journal published this: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | How Ken Paxton, a Rising MAGA Star, Got Rich as a Texas Politician

The state’s attorney general, who is vying to be the GOP nominee for a U.S. Senate seat, became a multimillionaire as a public official.

www.wsj.com

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Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 2d

One of my colleagues noted that prior to this, a hearing got set in Paxton's divorce case

Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 4d

Paxton announcement: The Texas OAG has begun undercover investigations into "engaged in or providing support" to those doing political violence.

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Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 2d

I also asked her about narratives that claim online spaces "turn" kids trans.

She said that's not the case: most of those surveyed were aware of their identity prior to seeking community online.

But Green noted that respondents "wanted to be really clear" the internet didn't make them transgender, gay and/or bisexual. She added that many of the youth said they were upset at the idea that others' influence turned them transgender.

Rather, they sought out online support because they were already aware of their transness:

"What we've heard from trans young people ... was that these online spaces are really one of the only places where they feel like they can connect to others," Green said. "These were places where they were turning for support, for questions, for community, because they didn't have it in their physical environment."

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Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 2d

I spoke with Hopelab's Dr. Amy Green about LGBTQ+ youth and how they use online spaces for support.

Big findings:
- 7% of trans youth felt safe in IRL spaces
- low pride in self connected to negative outcomes
- 91% of trans youth said they're comfortable with identity

www.kxan.com/news/nationa...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 2d

“He was also young himself. God has forgiven him,” Rirhandzu Manganyi wrote.

“AND HIS MINISTRY WILL BE BIGGER THAN EVER,” user Shannon Liddle wrote.

“I still will listen to him!” Pam Ullo wrote.

Meanwhile, Morris must register as a sex offender.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/08/s...

Supporters Say ‘God Has Forgiven’ Ex-Megachurch Pastor Robert Morris, Who Admitted to Sexual Abuse of a 12-Year-Old

Comments have rolled in expressing forgiveness for the convicted child sex offender and megachurch founder.

thebarbedwire.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

This framing is a perfect example of the constant “it only ratchets up” criminal justice coverage from mainstream media.

No focus on the fact that Trump’s premise is a lie, but a “gotcha” that Trump’s inane “there’s no crime” comments are not factually correct.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 3d

Trump tells Canada’s prime minister that DC was a “raging hellhole” but claims that his crackdown fixed it.

TRUMP: “There is no crime in DC… no one’s being shot.”

There’s evidence that Trump’s crackdown helped curb crime — but it’s not true that it’s gone.

Example: this headline today.

Local Crime & Public Safety
Three people found fatally shot in D.C. in three days
Three youths, one with a gun, took a moped in broad daylight on Capitol Hill.
Today at 2:01 a.m. ET

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Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 4d

The press release really doesn't say anything specific

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Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 4d

Not sure why you'd announce that you have people trying to infiltrate "leftist terror cells." I figure that sort of covert action would be kept quiet, but it is an election year...

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Cora Neas @corabora.bsky.social · 4d

Paxton announcement: The Texas OAG has begun undercover investigations into "engaged in or providing support" to those doing political violence.

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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 4d

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital,” she said.

Extraordinary reporting and storytelling by Mel Leonor Barclay and @shefali.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.

19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

19thnews.org

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demi lawrence @deminlawrence.bsky.social · 4d

SURELY NO ONE SAW THIS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 4d

It's laughably easy to remove the watermark from Sora 2 generated videos. 404 Media found dozens of websites and pieces of software that will do it.

Sora 2 Watermark Removers Flood the Web

Bypassing Sora 2's rudimentary safety features is easy and experts worry it'll lead to a new era of scams and disinformation.

www.404media.co

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 4d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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AndyNgoInspiresMassShooters {bird cult aficionado} @justsomefucker.bsky.social · 11d

Except it didn't get bad. That person in bloc, who was at the head of the charge pushing Joey Gibson out, was not a comrade. He climbed into the backseat of the truck and they took off together.

That entire incident was orchestrated.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 5d

One of the largest school districts in the nation, which was taken over by the state of Texas, deciding to shut out local media (us at chron.com and the Houston Chronicle included) should be a bigger story imo

Chron.com @chron.com · 5d

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

HISD plans to shut out outside media, hire its own news crew

Get ready for the news, straight from the source.

bit.ly

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