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Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 17h

Ok but the ownership of art is also a social construct! Social construct doesn't mean not real!

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 6h

In Seattle unlike in Florida where I live they can have nice things because their governor isn’t afraid of paint on the sidewalks.
Stay classy Seattle. Thanks for a great trip. Even if some of your hills almost killed me 😀😀

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Love this. “NATO for nonprofits.”

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'NATO for nonprofits': Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump

Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 9h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Temporary Restraining Order to be granted tomorrow in the Chicago case filed by journalists, pastors, and others hit with riot control munitions by ICE!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 13h

Ellis rules that the plaintiffs have standing for their case. She cites the "ongoing and sustained record of conduct" by federal agents gathered over the last month.

She further finds the plaintiffs have plausibly shown feds have "frustrated" efforts to "protect journalist safety."

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 8h

“…She loved Big Brother.”

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 8h

Brandi Kruse, who was once a local FOX reporter, was at the Trump Fan Club meeting, made a cutesy remark about how attractive she, Brandi, is, and Trump drooled something back.

Then she trashed the actual reporters in the room.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-mak...

Trump, 79, Makes Creepy Remark to Fan Girl Reporter

The exchange capped off a bizarre roundtable in which Trump invited guests to air their grievances about Antifa and the mainstream media.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 10h

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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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 11h

Blue Origin's 15th crewed spaceflight gets down to business, with two CEOs, two entrepreneurs, a Ukrainian businessman and a pioneering engineer taking a suborbital ride to the edge of space. cosmiclog.com/2025/10/08/f... #NS36 #NewShepard

Flight log: Six spacefliers go suborbital with Blue Origin

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture sent six more people on a brief suborbital space trip today aboard a New Shepard rocket ship. The flight, known as NS-36, was Blue Origin’s 36th Ne…

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 12h

Stoke Space, one of the Seattle area's brightest space startups, says $510 million in fresh funding brings total capital raised to nearly a billion dollars - and should clear the way for the first launches of its fully reusable Nova rocket next year. www.geekwire.com/2025/stoke-s...

Stoke Space raises a whopping $510M to accelerate work on its fully reusable Nova launch system

Stoke Space reveals that it has raised $510 million in fresh funding to accelerate development of its fully reusable Nova rocket.

www.geekwire.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15h

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 1d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 1d

Stoke Space, one of the Seattle area's up-and-coming space ventures, is raising hundreds of millions of dollars to get its fully reusable Nova rocket off the ground, according to The Information. www.geekwire.com/2025/stoke-s...

Stoke Space reportedly raising another massive round of funding for its Nova rocket program

Stoke Space is raising hundreds of millions of dollars in a funding round, according to a report published by The Information.

www.geekwire.com

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 1d

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
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A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.

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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 1d

The search for alien life must heed this lesson from Stephen King

In Stephen King's "The Stand," survivors of the Captain Trips superflu are rare, and finding a second survivor doesn't always occur.

Here's what that lesson means for seeking alien life.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro

The search for alien life must heed this lesson from Stephen King

In 2025, Earth remains the only planet where life is known to exist. Without a second example, "The Stand" has a vital lesson to teach us.

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 2d

The @newyorker.com daily cartoon by Adam Douglas Thompson.

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National Association of Science Writers (NASW) @sciencewriters.org · 1d

NASW Members: Questions about the Anthropic settlement? Check out these resources from our professional colleagues and search for your work.

An FAQ from the Authors Guild: authorsguild.org/adv...

Specific info for textbook+ academic authors and Oct 8 webinar: www.taaonline.net/an...

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated October 2, 2025 IMPORTANT: The Works List Is Now Live on the Settlement Website The searchable Works List and Claim Forms are now available at www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com. Find more info here and below. Background Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the […]

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 1d

On the Red Carpet of the Nobel Prizes [SATIRE] "Chemical engineer Dr. Chesel Amniotiv is looking resplendent in orange gabardine, with cobalt accents of actual cobalt." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/on-...

On the Red Carpet of the Nobel Prizes

INTERVIEWER: Chemical engineer Dr. Chesel Amniotiv is looking resplendent in orange gabardine, with cobalt accents of actual cobalt. Let’s see if w...

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Mike Berners-Lee @mikebernerslee.bsky.social · 2d

This is one of the critical questions for humanity right. We have to learn how to contain persuasive and manipulative psychopaths instead of promoting the to top leadership positions.

The Great Simplification @tgspodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Forensic psychologist Dr. Reid Meloy is a widely cited authority on psychopathy, personality disorders, and targeted violence. He knows a thing or two about what we do with these "dark triad" individuals.

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA World! Visited Broadview, Illinois and their Ice Facility 💙🐊

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi reminds me of a girl I beat up in high school, she was taller and bigger than I was, but she was a bully, and she had bullied my best friend mercilessly for months, so I took a swing at her and decked her, it was very satisfying.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 1d

new toon in phone-friendly format

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Shutting down

Please be sure to check out my Kickstarter! This collection of five years' worth of TMW cartoons will not be in stores or on Amazon -- this is the only way to get a copy!

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