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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 20h

Had a lovely midday voting with my son and getting lunch at Saigon Rolls with him and my wife. That place is GOOD.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 21h

Just saw my first robot dog IRL walking down Alfred in Old Town. Apparently there was a second.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 1d

"Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document... Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable."

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 2d

Where this is going: bsky.app/profile/wdnc...

Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 5d

1/3 Person I met this am told me he got stopped in an ICE raid this morning. Told them he's a citizen - he's Puerto Rican - and gave his license. Told not good enough. Offered picture of a doc; not accepted. Was going to be detained, but did have a passport card to show.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 7d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Noodle eating poodle @wretcheddog.bsky.social · 4d

40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me

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Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social · 4d

With what I’m seeing, I think some of y’all are gonna have a “come to Jesus moment” when you realize your soul is going down instead of up & it’ll be too little too late to do a damn thing about it. 👀

Matthew 25:40

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 3d

Me: 🎵Despite all her rage, she's still just a girl from Bethpage! 🎵

Lisa: [Dutifully plays air guitar]

#SundayMorningAtTheShaws

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 3d

@josephfray.bsky.social appears with my plate when

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 4d

Use some pumpkin spice mix for coffee as the syrup? Sounds promising.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 4d

Wow

Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 4d

Would, and have thought about doing it.

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Laurie MacNamara @lauriedelray.bsky.social · 5d

THIS…

Ben B. @abominaldrvibes.bsky.social · 5d

I want everyone out there who looks down on faith in general to take a very close look at all of the faith leaders who are working tirelessly and putting themselves on the line to make the world better. Not all christians are evangelical, many actually take the new testament to heart.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 5d

GAH - *DEported*. "Reported" would be bad enough. They DEported her to Mexico, leaving husband and preschool daughters here, cut off.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 5d

This was all before it also came out that they reported his wife, mom of twin 3yos, to Mexico. She came with mom at 6mos and was married to a citizen. Had valuable job. The new moral stain on this country is too much to bear.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 5d

2/3 HE'S PUERTO RICAN!!! He's no less of a citizen than I am! I don't walk around with my passport; who does? I am LIVID. Please keep telling me this is about "illegals." Nazi bullshit up and down. Send all of ICE to its concentration camps.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 5d

1/3 Person I met this am told me he got stopped in an ICE raid this morning. Told them he's a citizen - he's Puerto Rican - and gave his license. Told not good enough. Offered picture of a doc; not accepted. Was going to be detained, but did have a passport card to show.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 6d

I'll take "People who don't understand tidal rivers" for $500, Ken

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 6d

I just became aware that I ran out to a meeting in my house Oofos, with my loafer socks still in my pocket. #FrayWannabe

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 6d

Touché

But you're wrong. The mark of genius is it's inability to be contained by a single window and a handful of tabs. True genius opens tabs like the Lord adds stars to the sky.

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Tim Shaw @wdncnu.bsky.social · 6d

🦇💩, if true

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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 7d

NYT World:
The vast majority of cocaine is produced and smuggled elsewhere. And Venezuela does not supply fentanyl at all.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

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NPR @npr.org · 7d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · 7d

NEW An EPA report found that PFNA, a chemical in the drinking water of some 26M people, interferes with development and likely causes liver problems & male reproductive harms. The report was done in April, scientists told me. But the agency hasn't released it

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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