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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27m

About 900 hikers, guides, and staff stranded by a snowstorm on Mount Everest's Chinese side have reached safety.

Hundreds of hikers rescued from Mount Everest after severe snowstorm

About 900 hikers, guides, and staff stranded by a snowstorm on Mount Everest's Chinese side have reached safety.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 25m

It's out at the Dispatch:

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

thedispatch.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 9h

The Department of Defense staffers and other sources are also convinced that certain aspects of the accelerating Pentagon leak hunt can be gamed and sabotaged by the leakers themselves. For one thing, multiple sources tell Zeteo that they’ve already practiced how to beat polygraph exams.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 9h

We started reporting this trying to get a follow on the revelation last week that Trump / Hegseth were waging a new escalated war on leakers and whistleblowers, expecting some of the similar doom and gloom we get often— instead we got a bunch of government personnel laughing at fascists bumbling.

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10h

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

New, for @zeteo.com tonight, via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me:

zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

did i eat this entire plate of ethiopian? yes, i did.

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 9h

Who will win the Nobel Pirze in Economics?
This author think it should be
Berry-Hausman-Pakes

Who is your pick of
Who SHOULD win the Nobel in economics?
Who WILL win the Nobel in economics?

to be awarded next week
[feel free to reply to this
#econsky
nicholasdecker.substack.com/p/berry-haus...

Berry-Hausman-Pakes Should Win the Nobel Prize

A prize for revolutionizing industrial organization

nicholasdecker.substack.com

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 10h

Richard Scarry: Fury Road

A Richard Scarry illustration of a skeleton-bone dragster being driven by a little mouse

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 9h

Pray for Dolly

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Governor Wes Moore @govwesmoore.bsky.social · 9h

Two years ago, the world witnessed horrific terrorist attacks on October 7th. Today, the First Lady and I light Government House yellow to remember all the innocent lives lost, to stand with the families still grieving, and to honor the strength of those who continue to carry unimaginable pain.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 10h

Can't land due to lack of ATCs. Sigh.

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 12h

On time!

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

My Very Dear Ones,

I write to you from near the front lines of war ravaged Portland.

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 10h

I was fully back on my bullshit today (listening to every M83 album I own)

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 10h

The news: Me:

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

The fact that the agents were laughing while they did it says to me that they have way way overreached with their mass recruitment and incitement of ICE agents here.

They have not remotely done the propagandic footwork needed to make shooting a collared Christian cleric palatable to the public.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not even trying to make light, this is horrific.

It's just... If you're shooting at Presbyterian USA ministers only 9 months into your modern presidency, something has gone sideways

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12h

Good evening

Tesco the golden retriever lies on some grass with her favorite blue and orange ball in front of her, tongue way out, tired and happy as hell

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Chicago Film Archives @chicagofilmarchives.org · 13h

On this day in 1991, Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center opened to the public!

This clip was shot about a week later as 16mm B-roll for "Skyline: Chicago," a series on the city's history and urban design that aired on @wttw.bsky.social It's part of CFA's Judith Paine McBrien Collection.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 12h

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William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 19h

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 13h

US airspace as of 17:30 local (21:30 UTC) — multiple air traffic control facilities have staffing shortfalls this evening, including Chicago, Nashville, and multiple facilities in Texas and the northeast.

Air traffic over the contiguous United States as of 19:30 UTC 7 October 2025.

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Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social · 14h

We should really spend more time on teaching the English Civil Wars as they relate to the American Revolution.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW.

While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.