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CNN @cnn.com · 10h

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced that the US will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots who will train alongside US troops. https://cnn.it/4h95Hb6

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Sirens: A Bombshell Production @sirenspod.bsky.social · 2d

New mini with the brilliant @erinsikorsky.bsky.social to dig into her new book Climate Change on the Battlefield. What is the threat militaries are facing from climate change? How is it shaping the landscape they operate in? And what are they doing about it? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Climate Change on the Battlefield

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 10/08/2025 · 27m

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 22h

Embassy rates are so clutch. Stayed in a couple of great spots in the Nordics on one trip...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

B of A: The top 20% of wealthholders own > 10x the amount of equities vs the next 20%.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22h

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, a nun who became a national sports icon for cheering on the Loyola men’s basketball teams during their NCAA Tournament runs, died Thursday, the school said. She was 106.

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, beloved nun who inspired Loyola’s NCAA Tournament runs, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, the longtime chaplain of the Loyola men’s basketball team who became a national sports icon, died Thursday. She was 106.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 1d

This headline is hard to beat.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

Street theater and agitprop are important parts of the American repertoire of protest

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

There should be a napping option while your hair color sets

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans have had 15 years to come up with an Obamacare replacement plan. They still haven’t

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 2d

Actually girlfriend of of one of founders of antifa: Hedy Lamarr who literally had to flee the Nazis and created the tech behind WiFi. Also the image that inspired Snow White. Look it all up. 👇🏾

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

that's not how you spell Murakami

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Laszlo Krasznahorkai, the Hungarian novelist, for his “visionary oeuvre.”

Laszlo Krasznahorkai Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

The award comes with prize money of almost $1.2 million.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 2d

Turns out “Portland Insurrection” is the b-side of a rare 200g vinyl pressing of a weebcore folk-punk prepared piano trio from just outside Beaverton

Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d

Given that it’s Portland, I feel like we need to take seriously the idea that there’s this really amazing insurrection, but we’ve never heard of it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Erin Sikorsky @erinsikorsky.bsky.social · 2d

As a longtime Bombshell and now @sirenspod.bsky.social fangirl, I was so delighted to join @emsetc.bsky.social and Radha Iyengar Plumb for this mini episode!

Sirens: A Bombshell Production @sirenspod.bsky.social · 2d

New mini with the brilliant @erinsikorsky.bsky.social to dig into her new book Climate Change on the Battlefield. What is the threat militaries are facing from climate change? How is it shaping the landscape they operate in? And what are they doing about it? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

Climate Change on the Battlefield

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 10/08/2025 · 27m

podcasts.apple.com

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 3d

"Hello, William? Heyyy. You busy? Would you mind coming over here to take a look a something? Yeah, no, just pop over. Bring your wife!"

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 3d

honestly, not my favorite civil war

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 3d

was not expecting English civil war discourse today

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 3d

Disarray!
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Politico: Republicans are in disarray 1 week into the shutdown

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

I know we're all used to the president talking like Livia Soprano all the time, but this is a goddamn outrage

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 4d

You have to think of the NYT’s education reporting in much the same way as its Real Estate, Lifestyle, and Vows features. That is, of direct personal interest to a tiny but influential sliver of subscribers, and functionally ragebait for everyone else.

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say
Many students don't do the reading and don't speak up in class, according to a report. Now, professors are trying to change that campus culture.
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A Harvard Professor Is Placed on Leave
After Firing a Pellet Gun
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