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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 11h

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 4h

This article I had published at @motherjones.com in January feels very relevant with federal special ed office layoffs. Project 2025 targeted disability education services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Project 2025's plan to dismantle public education—and screw over disabled kids

Nearly nine million students rely on DOE-backed disability accommodations.

www.motherjones.com

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 10h

PORTLAND IS ON FIRE

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 7h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 7h

one of the giveaways was that the recent roundtable in the White House on the "antifa threat" included a guy whose latest book is called *Unhumans*, accusing liberals and leftists of being unhuman and encouraging ppl to drive them out of neighborhoods, forming far-right redoubts in their place.

David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 9h

It’s important to understand that the demonization of ‘Antifa’ isn’t just about kneecapping the enemies of MAGA. It’s about creating an opportunity to bring down the law-enforcement apparatus on anyone who dares dissent.

open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...

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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · Sep 11

I now understand why Mariners fans post every evening like they are dying of kidney stones

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 1d

Right about fascism AND baseball??? Hank Greenberg energy tbh

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Jeff Passan @jeffpasan.bsky.social · 1d

FINAL: Mariners 3, Tigers 2

The Seattle Mariners are headed to the ALCS for the first time since 2001 and will face Toronto after Jorge Polanco walked off Detroit in the 15th inning. It was the longest winner-takes-all playoff game in MLB history. Amazing night, amazing series.

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 1d

I mean what do you say about this except that this administration and their foot-soldiers are just Nazis. They're Nazis.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

At some point you just have to declare the other AL slot vacant and hold some kind of conclave, right?

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

CNN: "Thousands of Palestinians are returning home to northern Gaza, finding destruction and heartbreak."

The situation on the ground for civilians is horrific. They rely on donations to survive.

Please give to my friend Tasneem so she can feed her children. And to others. ❤️🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 1d

IT ABSOLUTELY IS

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

A reminder for struggling autistic and disabled folks: “If you’re saying to yourself ‘Why haven’t I done this easy thing?!,’ the thing is probably not actually easy.” from Real Social Skills:

tinyurl.com/HardThingsArentEasy

#autism #disability #neurodiversity

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 1d

reading this in the voice of that one TikTok butch who had a viral video that included the word "scram"

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 2d

The media has also published far too many essays by these "autism parents" who hate their autistic kids. This has increased the vilification of autism IMO.

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 2d

it's bc so many "autism parents" hate their children for being disabled.

it's never driven by autistic adults. autistic adults grow to be, at best, wary of "autism parents"

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 2d

Famously a good thing when anti-fascist professors are blocked from entering Spain.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

Becky's Basilisk

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I've been seeing this on and off for maybe 10ish years? Interestingly, not in explicitly fascist spaces.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 2d

Seattle's school board doesn't buy in to "good guy with a gun" theory of student safety embraced by mayor and police chief:

www.capitolhillseattle.com/2025/10/seat...

Seattle Public Schools rejects plan supported by mayor and police chief that would have stationed cop at Garfield High School

The Seattle School Board has rejected a plan supported by Mayor Bruce Harrell and his police chief to return a uniformed Seattle Police Department officer to the Garfield High School campus citing …

www.capitolhillseattle.com

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

It was only a matter of time before these stories started to come out
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘Get out of my f--king shot’: Katie Porter tears into staffer in newly released video

The former member of Congress, who is now running for California governor, also vented that she was snubbed by the Biden White House, complaining she raised the president “a shit ton of money.”

www.politico.com

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 3d

man.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

This is the kind of free-thinking, hard-hitting journalism they're going to be getting at CBS soon.

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 3d

anyway, my apologies for baseball fujoshiing on main. it will happen again <3

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Esther @mahoniaaquifolium.bsky.social · 3d

little known fact but Cal Raleigh's nickname "the big dumper" actually refers to his Pixar sized ass, which is constantly shown on camera and he has a bobblehead exaggerating it that he finds funny, and not his home run hitting abilities

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