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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 6h

YAY.

Otherwise unrelated to this happy flight: have lately been half-considering framing & hanging my RU WGS BA because—well first, I crawled through hell on my belly to finish it in my 30s, but also—it feels like degrees like mine & many others are endangered species or some would like them to be

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 7h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

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Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 11h

as is the MRI referral now in my possession! Fizz is happy to offer a raincheck jsyk

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 11h

the *validation* when the doctor gasps when you show her the thing! but the boycloud remains deeply skeptical of my (our 😭) sudden sedentary turn. who wants to come wrestle my dog

POV u r in a sage green chenille recliner, being given a medium-hard stare by a cream-colored, pink-nosed Samoyed dog who is lying in Sphinx position on a teal floral rug. Your feet are on the elevated footrest. Your left foot is in a walking boot.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 13h

Remember, folks:

A box of chocolate and vanilla-glazed donuts formed in the shapes of letters. The letters are arranged to spell the following words:

"Abortion is health care"

The doughnuts have sprinkles. Just thought you should know.

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mat olson @mathewolson.com · 1d

damning thread on how the IDF's propaganda arm is scraping 3D assets intended for things like games, films, or architectural purposes and kitbashing together supposed hamas bunkers and iranian nuclear sites. a genocide campaign propped up in part by someone's nephew who got too into blender.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Winona Ryder, covered in ash and dragging on a cigarette at the end of “Heathers”

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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 1d

An Aurora Police Department sergeant who worked with school resource officers was arrested by the FBI on suspicion of child sex exploitation, police officials said Wednesday.

Aurora police sergeant arrested on suspicion of child sex exploitation

Aaron Bunch was arrested on federal charges related to sending and receiving child sexual abuse material online, Aurora police said Wednesday.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d

they just slapped a surgeons general warning on RFK like he’s a pack of cigarettes

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 2d

“Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk.”

Six former surgeons general condemn RFK Jr.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

Was just talking to a friend about this exact thing. Yes they want protesters to do something violent to justify more violence and fewer rights. But in the absence of that, they will manufacture a narrative to do the same thing.

I mean, read a history book.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 2d

Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown.

This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.

Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims

Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 2d

I might go so far as to point to the president's omnivorously documented history of not paying people what they're owed.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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The Get More Smarter Podcast @getmoresmarter.com · 3d

Hey @apnews.com can you please explain to us why this is the headline to this story? It's your job to report what is happening, not what one of the biggest straight-faced liars in America says is happening, regardless of how powerful he is.

Speaker Johnson says it's up to Democrats to 'stop the madness' on government shutdown's sixth day

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson says it's up to a handful of Democrats to “stop the madness” on the sixth day of the government shutdown and pass a stopgap spending bill that earlier passed the ...

apnews.com

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 3d

made soup. it helped. can it please be back to 80 degrees now, I am ready for winter to be over

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

Corporate media takes to a fainting couch any time any Democrat - or even any plausibly left-leaning poster on social media - says anything untoward about Republicans' character, but this kind of genocidal language toward Dems has been bog standard on right-wing media for decades now.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 4d

They're teargassing people on the streets and shooting them, Chuck.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 5d

CHUCK SCHUMER: "New data came out today from KFF - and that is not Kentucky Fried French Fries ... the Kaiser Family Foundation"

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 5d

This tactic is in the news again because ICE agents in Colorado were filmed breaking the window of a car with a baby in the backseat coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

In July, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”

We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 5d

Indeed, there’s a sizable contingent for whom that’s merely a bonus.

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5d

I don't think Trump is anywhere near the floor of his support considering the trajectory of the economy but there will always be the people for whom "marching naked children out of their homes at gunpoint" wasn't the final straw

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 6d

Welcome to antifa <squints> wait are we sure about that <looks again> uh Cato Institute.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d

ICE says I cause assaults on ICE by reciting facts about ICE’s recent shooting but refuses to link to the thread. Only posting a picture. ICE lies and ICE hides. You can read the facts for yourselves

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mkb @michellekb.bsky.social · 6d

25 years ago a co-worker of mine got pulled over and ticketed for throwing an apple core out her car window. She argued "it'll decompose, it's natural not trash" and the cop was all, [copface] "littering is littering and it's illegal." Just thinking of that today for no reason, a random thing is all

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 6d

Witness video shows federal agents throwing tear gas canisters in the middle of Armitage Ave today as they appear to be blocked in and heckled by angry neighbors.

This is around the 3500 block of West Armitage.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 7d

Never ever forget how the elite US media enabled candidate Trump to lie and gaslight about #Project2025

The so called neutral media also own the mess - then heap of garbage fire that has engulfed American democracy.

They own this.

NPR screenshot

“Trump again distances himself from Project 2025

AUGUST 22, 20249:57 PM ET
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Ben Giles
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 22 south of Sierra Vista, Ariz.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 22 south of Sierra Vista, Ariz.
Rebecca Noble/Getty Images
The NPR Network will be reporting live from Chicago throughout the week bringing you the latest on the Democratic National Convention.”

Axios screenshot:

“Trump denies any link to Project 2025 under pressure from Harris

Erin Doherty

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris debate for the first time during the presidential election campaign at The National Constitution Center on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris debate at The National Constitution Center on Sept. 10 in Philadelphia, Pa. Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images”

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7d

It's I suppose on balance good that the Pope is scolding American Catholics on how being anti-immigrant & pro-death penalty is not pro-life, but criminalizing abortion is anti-life and it's insane that it got labeled the "pro-life" position, a full reactionary PR coup newrepublic.com/article/2011...

A Grim New Report Shows How Pregnant People Have Been Policed Post-Roe

New research documents the myriad ways pregnancy outcomes have been criminalized in the post-Roe legal environment.

newrepublic.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 8d

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

Why Is This Democratic Senator Voting to Confirm a Trump Judicial Nominee?

If you really think Trump poses an existential threat to democracy, the bar for affirmatively supporting one of his nominees has to be higher than “I don’t know, he seems fine.”

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