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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 22h

NEW-ish: Louisiana is suing FDA over its 2023 REMS change for mifepristone, which removed the in-person dispensing requirement. That change allowed mail or pharmacy dispensing of mife after significant data showed it was safe and effective. A few things to note about this new lawsuit.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 22h

nypd reportedly seized alexa’s cameras and equipment, and they’ve launched a gofundme to replace it

www.gofundme.com/f/help-nyc-p...

Fotophile.com 📷 @fotophile.bsky.social · 22h

The arrest of photographer Alexa Wilkinson on felony hate crime charges, stemming from their documentation of an anti-war protest at the New York Times building, has ignited a fierce debate over press freedom and the definition of journalism.

#photojournalism

Arrest of Photographer Alexa Wilkinson on Hate Crime Charges Sparks Press Freedom Debate

The arrest of photographer Alexa Wilkinson on felony hate crime charges, stemming from their documentation of an anti-war protest at the New York Times building, has ignited a fierce debate over pr…

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back.

The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours.

“I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said.

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South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE

Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

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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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 1d

The article leaves out Charlotte Burrows, who was chair of the EEOC before Trump fired her (something he doesn't have legal authority to do). The acting chair he picked in her place and the new commissioner he just got confirmed are both white.

An official portrait of Charlotte Burrows

An official portrait of Andrea Lucas, Trump's pick for acting EEOC chair

Brittany Panuccio, who was just confirmed as an EEOC commissioner after Trump selected her

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

Typically these moves go directly against the university's own bylaws on shared governance. I can only imagine dealing with this stuff is especially hard in anti-union states since you can't bolster the shared governance with a contract.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 1d

Further reducing what library and information science actually is and further reducing the meaning and value of that specific line of training and education.

"Faculty were not consulted" ... of course.

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 1d

To clarify, STEM gets away with potential. Liberal arts have to have already done it.

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

I know Jane Goodall was revered by many in the environment movement, but it is pretty clear that she also harboured many seriously problematic colonial attitudes.

The 'overpopulation' stuff in particular was pretty bad, and as a concept the conduit of plenty of serious wrongdoing over the years

Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 2d

This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 1d

Including the words about abortion? Which "side" will be asked to concede while the big boys sort our democracy out?

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 1d

Many sea stars begin life as young fairy-like creature (called a brachiolaria) that float through the open ocean. Eventually, a small star forms within them (here in yellow). The fairy-like brachiolaria sinks under the star’s weight, and the star pops out!
🎥@the_story_of_a_biologist (on Insta)

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Lizardrath 💙 @lizardrath.bsky.social · 1d

WIRED reporter Vittoria Elliott tracked where the most migrants are being arrested, where exactly ICE is taking them, and where they're deported to. This is Immigration & Customs Enforcement, On The Grid.

youtube.com/watch?v=uD9E...

Where ICE Takes People—And Where They Send Them Next | On The Grid | WIRED

YouTube video by WIRED

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K. Liakos @kliakos.com · 1d

America 2025:

The facade of a store in a Delaware strip mall called its fashion but the lights on the o n and exclamation point are out so it says it’s fashi

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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David “Big Daddy (nonsexual)” Precht @davidprecht.bsky.social · 1d

Every ceasefire the IDF fire never ceases

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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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 · 1d

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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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

It's easy to say white supremacy is guys burning crosses or going to college campuses and saying that Black gang members are the primary problem with gun violence in the United States

It's harder to admit that it's in all the small ways folks allow people to devalue Black life on a daily basis

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 2d

Or a signed copy of *How Comics Are Made*, my romp through the history of making newspaper comics and printing them? glog.glennf.com/hcwm-store/h... Features interviews with Garry Trudeau, Lynn Johnston, and Bill Watterson. Unsigned copies at bookstores worldwide: howcomicsaremade.ink#preorder

How Comics Are Made: Signed by Author

If you love newspaper comic strips, you will love my book How Comics Are Made: A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page . For a limited time, I’m offering signed and optiona...

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 2d

Consider *Six Centuries of Type & Printing*, a beautiful, compact volume, great for typophiles and others interested in design and printing? sixcent.info Available signed; ships worldwide. Audiobook and ebook versions and bundles are available.

Hand holding open book in front of slightly out of focus bookshelves. The left and right book pages have illustrations at the top: Dance of Death (left); Common Press (right)

Decorated endpapers of book showing type and printing artifacts in black at an angle printed on top of a sharp red paper.

Pivotal type casting machine (Barth caster) in line-art form tinted green. The machine has a variety of gears and adjustments to rapidly produce the same piece of type.

Cover of Six Centuries of Type & Printing: green cloth in 8 by 5 inch format, with brass-colored foil stamping for a border around the title and "by Glenn Fleishman"

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2d

Well, I, for one, am proud of us for doing the sensible thing and basing our entire economy on computers that tell kids to kill themselves

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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