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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1h

I know it’s scary to hear the truth. That the system you were taught to love is the problem. That one that allowed someone like Trump to rise to power is the issue. That the way out of this will not be neatly packaged so you can make it to brunch in time.

It’s okay to be scared. Im scared too.

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mofusand（ぢゅの） @sharkcat.bsky.social · 1h

☕️🫖よくやる

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 2h

They are literally destroying EVERYTHING.

www.space.com/space-explor...

The Smithsonian might have to cut space shuttle Discovery into pieces

"You'd be doing irreparable damage."

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hotoynoodle @hotoynoodle.bsky.social · 1h

MA passed a millionaire's tax &it was the same chicken little propaganda.
Only 16k had to pay in & we had a net positive of people moving into the state.

Meanwhile, now ALL kids get free school meals all year, community college, UMass, MassArt and other 4 year schools are all free, etc, etc

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Dave Stieber @dstieber.bsky.social · 1h

“To be clear, the federal government is intent on abusing its power to kidnap and violate the rights of our friends and neighbors, and now, they say it is a crime to tell your neighbors this is happening…”
As always, great reporting from the @thetriibe.com
thetriibe.com/2025/10/chir...

‘Chiraq Team 2’: Oak Park attorney catches glimpse of federal agents’ group chat during arrest • The TRiiBE

Scott Sakiyama supported a neighboring Black family while federal prosecutors accused their son of assaulting a Border Patrol agent. Ten days later, federal agents arrested Sakiyama himself.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1h

We didnt vote our way out of slavery. We didnt vote our way out of Jim Crow. It took a war to stop the Confederates. Another to stop the Nazis. There is no way out of this, especially against an enemy willing to die for their cause.

☀︎☆ @sunshue.bsky.social · 1h

Never in the history of ever has fascism been peacefully voted out of office

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 11h

Updating my LEGO White House

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1h

What Trump has destroyed of America's past in demolishing the East Wing of the White House:

Tony Alfieri @tonyalfieri.bsky.social · 1h

Gift link:

From the Roosevelts to the Kennedys: A Look Back at the White House East Wing

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1h

What will it take to get major media outlets to even just stop granting the presumption of good faith? Not to say they’re lying even, but just to treat claims as claims rather than facts?

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1h

This is sort of a pattern: See also naive parroting of the claim that troops are being deployed to cities “to fight crime”. You don’t have to do admin propaganda by laundering their falsehoods in your headlines.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2h

Did the New York Times have an editorial meeting where they said something like “these are trustworthy people, we should take their word, put it headlines, that’s good journalism.”

Did they go so far as to say “we should help the Trump administration sell this action”?

Or do they just sorta do it?

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1h

The piercing blow of a whistle has become a Chicago-wide means of signaling that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are present.

How plastic whistles are becoming an anti-ICE resistance tool in Chicago

The piercing blow of a whistle has become a Chicago-wide means of signaling that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are present.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2h

If only they’d been proclaiming their love of Hitler, they could count as children well into their 40s.

Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 14h

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1h

The Raine family, which claimed the AI bot "coached" their son to suicide, is now accusing the company of intentional misconduct rather than reckless indifference.

Wrongful Death Suit Against OpenAI Now Claims Company Removed ChatGPT's Suicide Guardrails

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Dr Crom @doccrom.bsky.social · 1h

#OnThisDay - 23 October - in 42 BC the Caesarean forces defeated those of the Liberators at the Battle of Philippi, resulting in Marcus Junius Brutus taking his own life in the aftermath. #AncientHistory 🏺

Image: RRC 500/6; BnF (REP-21411). Link - numismatics.org/crro/id/rrc-...

Obverse of a Roman aureus: Axe, culullus and knife . Border of dots.

Reverse of a Roman aureus: Jug and lituus. Border of dots.

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 6h

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

there's something really dark in the fact that a court can acknowledge that a military unit committed a bunch of murders, that they did so after "losing all sense of military discipline," and yet they can't sentence anyone for it.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is literally destroying the White House. This is so on-brand.

Portions of White House East Wing being demolished amid ballroom construction

Part of the White House East Wing was demolished on Monday as President Donald Trump sets out to build a massive ballroom.

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 2h

Every day brings something new for Herald readers to be afraid of, page after page. Be very afraid! 🎃

The Herald loves to cast Mayor Wu as anti-development. But when the first major rezoning of Downtown in a half-century is approved, it’s too much. Common theme? Fear. ☠️

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2h

I think the ballroom story is gonna mushroom into a much much much much bigger thing. I see the visceral reaction people have towards the videos.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 3h

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! Stephanie Wong discusses ancient Halloween traditions, including Oaxacan pumpkins 🎃 💀 Then, reading ancient texts in Braille, AI for Chinese calligraphy, Sanskrit philosophy, the sons of Attila, new ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!

Pasts Imperfect (10.23.25)

It is almost Halloween! Spooky season means that the internet is full of creepy content, but your editors are here to sort through the chaff and get you the best of the best from the ancient world. 🎃 ...

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

look, one reason workplaces started making us all go to HR's "be polite to others" class is because you alienate people when you're a bigoted asshole, and that can lose you both talent and business www.ft.com/content/8e6d...

Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire’s comments about Islamism

Sumaiya Balbale left the venture firm after it decided not to discipline outspoken investor for posts about Zohran Mamdani

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 2h

In the 17th century some Europeans believed that a bite from a tarantula (or rather wolf spider) led to tarantism, a type of hysteria that could only by cured by a frenzied dance, the tarantella!

Detail from a frintispiece of Tractatus physicus de tarantula, 1668, showing wolf spiders in the foreground and a smaller spider suspended from a tree, with a blue pencil for scale

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2h

Continuing the enshittification of the US.

NPR @npr.org · 2h

Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office. n.pr/47ll5Nc

Your ballot or other mail may not get postmarked by USPS the day it's dropped off

Close to a deadline for mailing your ballot, tax return or legal document? To make sure it gets a postmark on time under the latest USPS changes, you may want to send it early or visit a post office.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 13h

BearSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Bear Breaks Into California Zoo to Mingle With Other Bears

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13h

Harvard has slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 13h

Indeed, this is literally an erasure of all the hard work First Ladies have done in the last 100+ years, for good or for bad.

19thnews @19thnews.org · 13h

The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House. This week, bulldozers began to tear it down to clear the way for President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom.

First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump's ballroom.

The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women's visibility in the White House.

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