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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 15h

NEW: if you’re planning on taking I-5 to the No Kings rally, you might wanna leave now. In order to disrupt our protests, they’re shutting parts of it down. meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

meidasnews.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 17h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 19h

Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.

Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds

www.nytimes.com

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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 23h

Holy shit this ongoing thread by @elienyc.bsky.social is riveting, horrifying, exasperating, & IMPORTANT; KEEP WATCHING:

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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Becca @bekaboomn.bsky.social · 1d

"The true value of a liberal arts education is not learning a collection of facts, but learning how to learn. To know what you don’t know, and to know enough to know you need to know more. And then to actually do the work." 🫶
I'm so happy David will be a regular voice here.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

I was asked to write a column about my columns, which I found an embarrassing experience. But ... I took the chance to wax rhapsodic about the value of studying the humanities. So that's nice.

Meet David M. Perry, our new contributing columnist focused on history, disabilities and education

He moved back to Minnesota because it is a state that believes in serving the public good. But, he writes, Minnesota is not always at its best.

www.startribune.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

In the middle of a lake, I took a photo of the sun without looking at it, and ended up with this

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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 1d

Okay. Here’s one of the things I go out back & watch when I am reminded of the govt’s fuckery: Mama Turkey & her babies grabbing snacks under our bird feeder. 15 Oct 2025, Ann Arbor.

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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 1d

Current* conditions near St Joseph, MI:

View looking south over Silver Lake Beach as it meets Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-10-14 17:36:12 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in St Joseph: 66.14 F | 18.97 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: WNW at 8.053 mph | 12.9 kph // Humidity: 79%

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

gene kelly is antifa

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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 2d

Same. Also, Game of Thrones.

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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 2d

Wait. Didn’t Dude Duffy say recently that we are planning to set up a base in the moon. 🤷‍♀️

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

reut.rs

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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 2d

It’s like every visit to the ortho/dentist in the 80’s: Madonna played by a trumpet.

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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 2d

Y’all, this bridge is THE most spectacular in the U.S.. Seriously.

Lake Huron! Live! @lake-huron.live · 2d

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

Northeastern view of the Mackinac Bridge in the distance traversing the Straits of Mackinac with Lake Huron in the foreground. // Image captured at: 2025-10-13 16:01:07 UTC (about 12 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Mackinaw City: 61.64 F | 16.47 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: SSE at 5.749 mph | 9.25 kph // Humidity: 88%

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Lake Huron! Live! @lake-huron.live · 2d

Current* conditions near Alpena, MI:

NE view from Alpena Lighthouse with Lake Huron and North Point in the distance. // Image captured at: 2025-10-13 17:20:01 UTC (about 24 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Alpena: 62.15 F | 16.75 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: ESE at 9.216 mph | 14.83 kph // Humidity: 93%

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 5d

Release the Epstein Files.

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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 4d

Fuck. Fuck these fuckers & all of their fucking fuckery.

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 4d

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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6d

Also how high can Mookie Betts jump??

good god

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6d

goddddddddddd

Orion Kerkering is bent over in disbelief after making an error that allowed the winning run to score and ended the Phillies season

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 7d

I argued yesterday that, by lowering the bar to indicting a former FBI director to "make shit up," Kash and Pam Bondi signed their own arrest warrants.

Either they keep ratcheting up their own abuse, or they'll meet the same fate as Comey.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/08/h...

How Kash Patel and Pam Bondi became Slaves to Stephen Miller - emptywheel

By indicting the first of Trump's FBI Directors and preparing to frame the second, Kash Patel may have signed his own arrest warrant.

www.emptywheel.net

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6d

I was working on the story and he just came out and said it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 7d

Theorists! My department is hiring (NTT but continuing and good pay): jobs.chronicle.com/job/37895447...

Assistant/Associate Professor Non-Tenure Track Appointment in Music Studies-Theory - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania job with Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance | 37895447

Teach a variety of undergraduate & graduate courses in Music Theory. Advise and mentor graduate students. Contribute to departmental &college service.

jobs.chronicle.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 7d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Kristin Kuster @kristinkuster.bsky.social · 7d

Just by the way, my husband @blucas24.bsky.social is effortlessly cool. FYI. A PSA.

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