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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 12h

An excellent response by MIT’s President Sally Kornbluf rejecting the Trump compact.

Other universities should do the same.

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 23h

Absolutely achievable.

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 1d

A young Johnny Cash sneering and giving the finger to the camera.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

thread

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

As y'all have probably heard, there has been a lot of ICE activity on the North Side of Chicago today. At least four people were kidnapped by ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood. Folks mobilized throughout the day to do ICE Watch and Rapid Response work.

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 1d

This is a comment about ICE, isn’t it? 🐋

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

my God! poor Tashtego

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 1d

The Mark Bray situation is so completely fucked right now and if you're a journalist you need to start saying how it's fucked because you're fucking next. They won't stop at academics.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Be nice if any single national Democrat promised to hold these fuckwads accountable for malicious prosecution should the wheel ever turn around.

But, whatever. Everybody who opposes Trump will just have to weather this bullshit.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 1d

“A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29%, their risk of hospitalizations by 39% & their risk of death by 64%”

Benefits were seen even if 0 risk factors

Soren Larsen (SEGL) @sorenlarsen.bsky.social · 2d

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

"The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says."

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like a new record was set last night with 1.25 billion birds!!! 🥳
#birds #fall #migration

BirdCast map showing 1.25 billion birds headed south at 10pm EDT on October 8, 2025.

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Felina @felinablanc.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy -- she's running and blowing into a horn.

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 2d

I was talking about their compensation for GC. Definitely not for the antifa regulars.

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 2d

And the homies at the food coop know that which is why they always put it on top close to the edge so it's easy to get to.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure antifa pays in a bean stew they made just for you and some 2-day-expired kefir they dumpster-dived from behind the food coop.

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 2d

The gods' honest truth right here.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

/13 But the sexual harassment prevention training is the worst. Just the worst. They won't listen. Anyone who has had to deal with progressive guys gets it. I DON'T CARE IF YOU WHAT YOU DID AT KENT STATE LEON, STOP CALLING MY PARALEGAL SWEETIE, HER NAME IS PETAL

HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 2d

This is excellent.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 3d

This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 3d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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HL Eisthen, defective human product @hleisthen.bsky.social · 3d

10,000%

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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