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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 13m

I loved listening to the shipping forecast when i loved in the UK!

NPR @npr.org · 28m

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

Opinion: 'The Shipping Forecast' reminds us of the power of the human voice

For a century, the BBC has broadcast the weather report for the seas around the UK. "The Shipping Forecast" has informed and lulled generations who tune in to hear it.

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 4h

The loss of lives and the trauma for those who remain…

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 4h

I know. 😢 Ive been following satellite analysis and its complete destruction. Rubble clearing alone will cost billions. Heartbreaking 💔

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 7h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 5h

It's not just you. We heard non-stop about Biden's health. But they are only just now hinting at possible mental and physical decline, despite behavior that anyone who has lost a loved one to Alzheimer's or dementia has recognized for a very long time.

Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 5h

The right-wing extremists in the Israeli flaunt their piety and yet they are clearly not acting as the Torah instructs us. (Neither am I by posting this on Shabbat, but I don't claim to be super observant. Yet despite my imperfect Jewishness, I think abt these issues deeply.

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 5h

In light of this: theconversation.com/gaza-we-anal...

Gaza: we analysed a year of satellite images to map the scale of agricultural destruction

Most of Gaza’s olive trees, citrus trees and greenhouses have been destroyed.

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 5h

I was thinking about this over Rosh Hashanah and YK - Deuteronomy 20:19: "When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the ax against them. You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 3d

This is where I get my books

They have an ebook shop

Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

$41 million: The amount of money we’ve raised for indie bookstores since 2020.

$0: The amount of money Amazon has raised for indie bookstores since 1994.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 4d

Book bans waste tax dollars, silence stories, and hurt students.

We need more books, not fewer. 📖

#BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead via @everylibrary.bsky.social

action.everylibrary.org/bookbanpledge

Pledge to Protect the Freedom to Read

This Banned Books Week (October 5–11, 2025), join EveryLibrary and We Believe in standing up for every reader’s right to read and access every story.

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 4d

Unless you’re @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social , that is…

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d

Someone saying "Let's do the fucking news" is the ultimate sign that person has never, ever worked in a real newsroom (the fantasyland of the NYT Opinion section doesn't count)

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 4d

If Johnson has a secret plan to save the health care system the GOP is about to break, now might be the time to reveal it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

REPORTER: Congresswoman Greene specifically said that Republicans do not have a plan to deal with healthcare

MIKE JOHNSON: Congresswoman Greene does not serve on the committees of jurisdiction that deal with those specialized issues. She's probably not read in. Not everyone knows everything.

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Maraki @maraki.bsky.social · 4d

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 4d

Librarians, booksellers, & educators— when you talk about banned books, please focus on the thousands of CONTEMPORARY books that are being banned right now.

For example….
#BannedBooksWeek

Book cover: last night at the telegraph club

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 4d

"through most of this war...people w little connection to the region...resort to angry simplifications, declaring themselves either “pro-Palestine” or “pro-Israel,” as if war is a game in which you pick a team for which to cheer. That’s how Hamas, and Israel’s far-right, want us to see the world."

Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 4d

I'm Israeli. She's Palestinian. There's a devastatingly simple reason why we've bonded during this war forward.com/opinion/7736...

I'm Israeli. She's Palestinian. There's a devastatingly simple reason why we've bonded during this war

Israelis and Palestinians have been driven apart. But almost two years after Oct. 7, one writer gained hope from an unexpected connection.

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 4d

I'm Israeli. She's Palestinian. There's a devastatingly simple reason why we've bonded during this war forward.com/opinion/7736...

I'm Israeli. She's Palestinian. There's a devastatingly simple reason why we've bonded during this war

Israelis and Palestinians have been driven apart. But almost two years after Oct. 7, one writer gained hope from an unexpected connection.

forward.com

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 5d

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Sarah Darer Littman @sarahdarerlittman.com · 5d

We never should have changed our national motto from E pluribus Unum

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🎃 Phillip Anderson is UNDEAD 🧛🏻‍♀️ @phillipanderson.bsky.social · 5d

“Fuck your e pluribus unum” is one hell of a hell of a sentiment to be coming from the secretary of defense of, uh, the United States of America

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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