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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 7h

Post you from a different era.

Me and my wife 16ish years ago visiting the Capitol before I started working there.

Selfie of me (white guy, dark hair, clean shaven) and my wife (Mexican woman, black hair, beautiful).

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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 15h

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.

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Lil Miss Sinister Fairy Godbitch of the Burrow Mump 🧚‍♂️😈🌾 @fairygodmegan.bsky.social · 16h

Dissociating in the middle of my meetings today like:

A disgustingly weird-cute sloth bear sitting down on its bottom with its little hands clasped neatly together, perhaps holding a small stick . It has long claws that do in fact look quite reminiscent to a sloth. Its proportions seems quite little compared to other bear breeds. It's head is small but the fur around it's head is soooo fluffy, and fans out away from his slender bear skull. it's paws are comically petite and dainty. It has an expression that feels quite winsomely pensive and perhaps a bit curious.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 16h

Gen Z, I’ve seen what you’ve done for others . . .

CNN @cnn.com · 16h

Madagascar’s president has fled the African nation, the head of the opposition and other officials said on Monday, the second time that young protesters have toppled a government in weeks of worldwide Gen Z unrest.
https://cnn.it/4ohtPuj

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 16h

Something I would like but know I won’t get is a personal apology from each of my relatives who voted for Trump.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18h

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 20h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 17h

We're all in this together (hell)

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 18h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 18h

One of my Political Science professors said if you want to thank someone for your freedom, thank a lawyer, not a soldier.

Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 18h

Re: “community heroes” edu in k-12…

There’s a cult of police/military that exaggerates their helps & ignores their harms.

Other public servants get ignored or worse, even when they do more good AND face greater risks than most military/police, incl. brave scholars who tell the truth about America.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · Oct 29

ME: hey, nice to see you
ACQUAINTANCE: hey what’s up, uhhh—
*my leitmotif starts playing*
ACQUAINTANCE: oh, right, hi Stella. Sorry, I didn’t recognize you without your warm and cheerful leitmotif
GUY PLAYING MY LEITMOTIF: My bad, I was checking for news about that spree shooter
ME: He’s dead yeah

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 19h

Know Your Rights canvassing and education at work!!! Knowing the difference between a judicial warrant (that has to be filled out correctly!) and a nonsense DHS warrant (that is useless for entering private property) can save lives.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
10:21 AM • 10/11/25 • 2.1K Views

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 3d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Birthday!

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 3d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 3d

The Tigers are Jack White’s team, you asshole.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Joe Dirt meets Joe Exotic

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 3d

This was excellent, even if you haven’t seen every Michael Douglas movie.

Book cover of What is Wrong With Men by Jessa Crispin

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 3d

It would be a shame if a state invested heavily in providing data centers for a technology that is ultimately worthless.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 3d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

I’m rewatching “True Blood” and I forgot that HBO used to be so slutty. What a time.

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 3d

The first half of this book includes one shocking, devastating revelation after another. The second half is about how the author rebuilds her life. Highly recommend.

Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 7d

This book is a rollercoaster, y’all

Cover of the book Widow’s Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 4d

There is a massive problem across this country with adopting and normalizing right wing propaganda phrases

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 4d

my neighbor stopped me in the parking lot to say "is that your cat?? he's so handsome and I need you to know I'm obsessed with him" and I looked up and saw this

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 4d

a man talking to another man with a netflix logo in the background

ALT: a man talking to another man with a netflix logo in the background

media.tenor.com

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Chris P @justokonline.bsky.social · 6d

Look at how cute we are

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