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Walt Whitman @skeetsofgrass.bsky.social · 7h

I know I have the best of time and space – and that I was never measured, and never will be measured.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 8h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 10h

If his medical emergency was related to drugs, that is still a medical emergency.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 15h

oh I figures it out

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 16h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 18h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 1d

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

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Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

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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SpaceNews @spacenewsinc.bsky.social · 1d

Planet announces new line of satellites for daily Earth imaging

Planet has announced a new class of imaging satellites that will replace a line of spacecraft dating back to the company’s earliest days.

Planet announces new line of satellites for daily Earth imaging

Planet has announced a new class of imaging satellites that will replace a line of spacecraft dating back to the company’s earliest days.

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 1d

Bari Weiss' biggest challenge at CBS News is the unprecedented dominance of David Muir at ABC, writes @michaelsocolow.bsky.social. And yes, as I tell my students, everything — everything — goes back to Richard Nixon. linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/bari-weiss...

Bari Weiss's Greatest Challenge at CBS

It's not the Murrow-Cronkite Legacy. It's not the newsrooms & bureaus filled with journalists more experienced than her. It's not the scale of the operation. It's David Muir's incredible dominance.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 1d

Le Creuset is Cheugy 👎

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Will Pomerantz @pomerantz.bsky.social · 2d

Please spread the word to all of the US undergraduates in your network: you have just over a week to complete and submit your application to the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship!

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Promotional flyer for the Patti Grace smith Fellowship, which is currently accepting applications for its Class of 2026. The flyer includes many images of past Fellows, a QR code pointing to pgsfellowship.org/apply, and the following text.

"Space is an Attitude" - Patti Grace Smith

An Award-winning, not-for-profit education program providing internships, mentorship, scholarships, and community for undergraduates seeking aerospace careers.

What Fellows Receive:
* 1-on-1 Mentorship from Executives and Alumni
* 2500 Cash Grant + Scholarship Opportunities
* Growing Network + Community of over 170 Alumni
* Paid Summer Internship at leading Aviation, Space, and Defense Companies

Apply at www.pgsfellowship.org

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 2d

always read @alexshephard.bsky.social on Literature Nobel Day newrepublic.com/article/2015...

The Nobel Prize in Literature Is Boring Now

László Krasznahorkai, who was awarded the prize on Thursday, is a brilliant novelist and consummate laureate. But has the Swedish Academy lost its sense of fun?

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Defector @defector.com · 2d

Conservatives can’t agree on or even elucidate why exactly they're supposed to be mad about Bad Bunny. defector.com/whos-afraid-...

Who's Afraid Of The Big Bad Bunny, And Why? | Defector

When the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would headline this season’s Super Bowl halftime show, it made all the sense in the world, because Benito Martínez Ocasio is probably the single most versatile…

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 2d

if anything, this is leas realistic. "Everybody will be a super lawyer," come on.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 2d

and how good are human forecasters?

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

🇻🇦 Pope Leo XIV has hailed the work of news agencies as a bulwark in an increasingly "post-truth" world, and warned of the dangers of relying on artificial intelligence for information.
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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3d

“Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine said Wednesday that he and other members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, in a classified briefing this week, were denied access to the Pentagon’s legal opinion about whether the boat strikes adhered to U.S. law.”

apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump has yet to provide Congress hard evidence that targeted boats carried drugs, officials say

The Trump administration hasn't provided evidence to lawmakers that recent U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats were justified.

apnews.com

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