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Don Linn @donlinn.bsky.social · 1h

Claim and celebrate ALL the victories

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library’s children and young adult sections was awarded $700,000 in a settlement on Wednesday.

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes.

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Spider. @vaspider.gay · 2h

As someone who used to process mortgages, this case is ... stupid. It is BLINDINGLY dumb.

tl;dr: there's allegedly a check box mis-checked on one form that states the house in question is her primary residence, but that form is not a form the underwriter uses or usually even ever SEES.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Letitia James has been indicted on one count of bank fraud in Virginia, charge brought directly by Lindsey Halligan, just like the Comey indictment.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 42m

Still amazed that the Vatican has been more responsive to the threat Trump represents than the vast majority of American institutions.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 49m

essentially no one looks worse in all this than Biden, followed closely by the tiresome, morally bankrupt blue wave scolds who shouted at all of us about how Biden couldn’t do anything

Andrew Exum @exum.bsky.social · 1h

This week has confirmed my suspicion that Biden’s Middle East policies will look worse, and will be even more embarrassing for Democrats, with the passage of time.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

To the extent we should celebrate, it is that Gaza will receive even a temporary reprieve. But an end to the hostilities for an undefined period of time does not mean the war has ended, and the war on Gaza is only one theatre in the broader war on Palestine which has no foreseeable end in sight.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 8h

ERIC ADAMS AT PODIUM OUTSIDE WHOLE FOODS: Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, Loch Ness, goblin, ghoul, a zombie with no conscience. You can eat them all here, in Manhatting

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 4h

I’m not autistic, just a parent to an autistic kid w/ fairly significant support needs, but I personally find it very frustrating to see so many people fixated on preventing, reducing, or “curing” autism and neurodiversity instead of talking about inclusion + getting folks whatever support they need

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4h

This isn’t just “Charlie Brown had hoes” levels of wrong it’s “Charlie Brown never had a dog” levels of wrong

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 5h

wtaf are you talking about

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

For weeks, anti-immigration agents have tossed smoke bombs at people in cars, shot so-called “less lethal” weapons like rubber bullets and pepper balls, and deployed a staggering amount of tear gas, sometimes unleashing it almost casually into streets crowded with passersby. trib.al/EtwBDCJ

Trump Is Waging War on an American City

The real threat to people in Chicago (and Los Angeles and Portland) is our maniacal president.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 4h

This is not a master strategist. This is simply a racist who is smarter than Donald Trump. Not a high bar.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

every pile-on has the majority of people all saying the same thing, not noticing (or caring) that everyone before them on the comment thread said it

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4h

*throws phone across room*

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 5h

Autism is in the penises ??????

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 5h

Don't give up on Gaza! Motaz's family still needs help.

Pics to preserve the post due to this site's genocidal erasure of Palestinians.

gofund.me/f9406823f

M.O.T.A.Z
@motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social
The war has finally ended, leaving us drained of health, loved ones, home, and income (
It ended after we were displaced, fell ill & suffered
I rely on your donations to keep my family safe with food & medicine
Pls help us to stay alive in this life
• gofund.me/f9406823f
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Om jameel ❤️ @joodgood8.bsky.social · 8h

Why have donations stopped? Are you leaving these children to face hunger alone? Where are the rescuers? My kids are sleeping hungry. I need you urgently. I have a heart valve disease.There is no work, even with the truce.
I need urgent 200$
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 5h

adding alt text bc we all know that interview was rough to watch, but my god the background on it

(via www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)

A few days before the taping, Colbert's producers held a prep call with the candidates and their aides. The sample questions covered basic political topics, such as the meaning of democratic socialism. Right before the candidates went onstage, the producers appeared in the greenroom and said that they wanted to go over a few more questions. Earlier that day, a group of prominent Jewish figures, including Elisha Wiesel, the son of Elie Wiesel, had sent a letter to Colbert demanding that he grill Mamdani on his views of Israel. According to people who were in the room, one of the producers suggested a "thumbs-up or thumbs-down" segment:
"Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: Hamas. Thumbs-up or thumbs-down: a Palestinian state."
Mamdani's face dropped. "I just couldn't believe what was happening," he told me. "That a genocide could be distilled into a late-night game." His aides were incensed. "You have the first Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York," Zara Rahim, a senior adviser to Mamdani, told one of the producers. "You don't want to ask him a question about that?" (CBS did not respond to a request for comment.) In the end, the game didn't happen, but Colbert did ask Mamdani whether he believed that Israel had the right to exist. "Yes, like all nations, I believe it has a right to exist," he said. "And a responsibility also to uphold international law."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

John Fetterman, ladies and gentlemen

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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UC Davis School of Law @ucdavislaw.bsky.social · 5h

We are looking forward to this talk next Tuesday with Dr.
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
about the history of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) movement and its link to the 20th-century eugenics movement.

➡️ In-person and via livestream: bit.ly/42kxaQV

#AGI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 6h

jfc they are just so completely not up to this, they all have to fucking go

At this point I’d argue that they are actively endangering all of us by refusing to accept the nature of the situation

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

A good example of Dems not adapting to MAGA war mindset is that they keep telling reporters they can't engage on Trump's military occupations because it's a "trap" to entice them into a losing debate about crime. That concedes too much up front and plays by old rules.
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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 8h

I *really* want more reporting on this because the book was pretty heavily vetted by lawyers in advance of publication….

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 10h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 16h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 10h

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 16h

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 8h

"In my community where I teach, there’s kids not coming to school for a month at a time because they’re scared of what can happen to them,” he said. “I’m overwhelmed with blinding anger and depression for the people who are being affected.”

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/08/h...

Chicago Protesters Take To The Streets To Denounce National Guard Deployment, ICE

The latest protest against the federal government's militarized presence in Chicago saw hundreds march past Trump Tower.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 7h

Feel like I’ve been hearing jokes all my life about how L.L.Bean stands for “Ladies Love Bean” or “Live Laugh Bean” or whatever, but nothing is funnier than the stone-cold fact that its founder’s name was Leon Leonwood Bean

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 8h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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A Girl Walks Home Alone 2 @kellylink.bsky.social · 7h

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