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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

The brilliant thing about this is they cannot outlaw anthropomorphic frogs without losing their precious Pepe demographic

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 14h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 2h

Continuing on my theme of all writing is good writing. livyarrow.org/2025/10/10/p...

Puffy Pita

A colleague asked for my puffy pita recipe. I don’t really like recipes. They are so bossy and rigid. Where’s the story with all its beautiful digressions in that? The volume of a bread…

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 5h

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 5h

This poor baby got skunked. We have had a nice warm bath and now a rather damp snuggle.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23h

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 23h

a little personal essay celebrating tears and the power of art livyarrow.org/2025/10/09/l...

Let them flow…

Arachne link Sometime in 2009 (or thereabouts) my beloved and I decided we could see no future together. We were too different. Being long distance was too hard. The present was full of pleasure, b…

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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at a CUNY training for Immigration Court observers; about 15 out of 28 participants are Jewish. Don't underestimate us.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

California has now banned algorithmic price fixing.

The state has outlawed the practice of landlords colluding to raise prices using rental software and AI.

This is a huge victory for renters in the biggest state in the country.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 10d

This week I have mostly been researching that dodgy bit of British history between 'romans leaving and Saxons coming' and also Roman recycling.

#MyResearchExplainedByTheFastShow

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d

Should anyone find themselves in central London on Weds 19 November, consider yourself invited to a book launch! @earliermiddleages.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Book Launch: Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050

Earlier Middle Ages Seminar- Session 3

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Writing is going well. I already passed the 600 mark for the day and we're heading into the sweet zone of exceeding my own expectations.

I love this coin type, but this specimen caused me to notice the bared teeth. A menacing beautiful beast.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 4d

Republicans have the power of the White House, Senate, and the House. They have chosen to shut the government down.

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Federal US domain bot @fed-us-domain-bot.bsky.social · 4d

🚀 NOTICE: Federal US website newly registered.
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Action taken by the Executive Office of the President at or around 2025-10-06 06:13:44.

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Federal US website registered. Content may not be visible yet.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Remembering when Chris Rufo insisted that Disney was a thoroughly corrupt institution because it had a small number of employees arrested on CSAM and sex trafficking charges and I replied, well, let's use that standard for Republicans, and he blocked me before I could finish the thread.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 5d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4d

“After telling agents he was a citizen, Johnson was told he ‘had to wait until they looked me up.’ His requests to see a search warrant or speak to a lawyer were ignored.” #KavanaughStops

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 4d

2. Last week in Chicago, hundreds of federal agents descended on an apartment complex.

67-year-old Roderick Johnson, a citizen, “said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.”

Johnson “was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours" before he was released.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Go you! This is a brave and sound choice. I had a down few days last week and it was critical to step away from things and make firm choices about where to spend my energy. It paid off. It usually does.

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Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 4d

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

A statement by 211 concerned faculty on the presidential and provost search committees

As members of the faculty, we remind the Board that, at the end of the day, an academic community is an exercise in shared governance for the good of the whole.

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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 4d

I did a micro post on the coins in this article. V v interesting. Attn: @andrewahala.bsky.social
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Liv Mariah Yarrow (pronounced 'leave') @profyarrow.bsky.social · 6d

701 words this AM. Off for a bike ride with the kiddos. My navel gazing writing yesterday did work to cut through the noise in my head and let me write towards my actual publication goals.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 6d

“there is nothing in Title VI that
requires higher education institutions generally to provide OCR with the names either of
those who filed complaints of discrimination with the schools or those who are identified in such complaints.“ (2/)

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 6d

Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”

Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 6d

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

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Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

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Laura McInerney @missmc.bsky.social · 6d

Tbh, the whole anti-migrant rhetoric is already making my friends on ILR look at moving.

Of course, they’re all the ones with the money and talent *to* move. Which isn’t what politicians are selling as the consequence of ILR-bashing. But it’s what will happen.

James Bowes @jamesbowes01.bsky.social · 6d

The 10 year wait for Indefinite Leave to Remain will make the UK very unattractive for high skilled workers who often have alternatives. 2019 data (excluding the NHS and universities) shows that high skilled workers on visas are heavily concentrated in multinationals who can move jobs abroad (5/x)

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

Under ideal conditions, a speed boat can go from Venezuela to Puerto Rico in four hours. But if you spot a boat at the start, know precisely where it’s going and what it’s carrying and have assets in the area, why can’t you simply intercept it?
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A rabbit hole about speed boats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcsLWiALeSw The United States military killed more people on your behalf today, targeting a boat somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. President Donald Trump and Defense Secr...

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