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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 8h

30 Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to support public TV www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Dozens of Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned to help public TV after funding cuts

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 13h

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Are Trump’s voters turning against him?

Many of his newest supporters are having doubts.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 13h

'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home www.npr.org/2025/10/07/n...

'Dopesick' author Beth Macy on escaping poverty -- and then going back home

Macy returned to the Ohio factory town where she grew up to find jobs have left, families are struggling and old friends now embrace conspiracy theories. Her new memoir is Paper Girl.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 1d

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Psychiatrists call for RFK Jr. to be replaced as health secretary

Two groups are calling for new leadership at HHS after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s actions on substance abuse treatment and mental health medications, among other issues.

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 1d

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Outcry as Trump plots the plunder of US forests: "You can almost hear the chainsaws"

Public comments suggest repealing the Clinton-era "roadless rule" is wildly unpopular.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 1d

Democrats cast government shutdown as a health care showdown www.npr.org/2025/10/07/g...

Why Democrats are casting the government shutdown as a health care showdown

Democrats are pressuring Republicans to extend billions of dollars in federal tax credits that have dramatically lowered premiums and contributed to record-low rates of uninsured Americans.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 1d

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Physics Nobel: Three win prize for paving way for very powerful computers

The announcement was made by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 2d

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Trump critics take to NJ bridges for 'rush-hour resistance' • New Jersey Monitor

Visibility brigades, which started in Paramus in 2020, have become popular nationally as Trump critics try to reach unengaged citizens.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 2d

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World Cup tickets: 2026 USA tournament prices, visas and security explained

BBC Sport explores the issues which could make fans feel less than welcome when the World Cup takes place in the United States next year.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 2d

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Climate scientists raise a middle finger to Trump's censorship efforts

Hundreds are collaborating to make sure accurate data is available to the public.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 2d

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The Left Needs to Rethink How It Understands Inequality

The 21st-century left has often argued that the solution to rampant inequality is income redistribution. But this may not be a silver bullet. What workers need is power over employers and the market.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 2d

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The one change that worked: I was lost in the infinite scroll – until a small ritual renewed my love of reading

My ability to concentrate diminished as I spent more time on my phone. So I started to log and learn every new word I came across, and felt my brain begin to flex

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 3d

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CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 4d

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DHS begins targeting unaccompanied children with 'voluntary' deportation offer

Children asked to waive right to see a judge in exchange for $2,500

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 4d

National parks caught in the crosshairs of government shutdown www.npr.org/2025/10/04/n...

National parks caught in the crosshairs of government shutdown

National parks across the country face conflicting demands and uncertainty as a result of the ongoing federal funding dispute.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 4d

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 5d

Apple bows to Trump pressure to remove ICEBlock app www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

Legal experts condemn Apple bowing to White House's request to remove ICE tracking app

It's the latest example of tech giants bowing to pressure from the Trump administration. Legal experts say the developer of the app has free speech rights that may have been violated.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 5d

Denmark girds for Russia 'hybrid war' after drone appearances www.npr.org/2025/10/03/n...

Denmark prepares for a Russian 'hybrid war' after repeated drone spottings

Many Danes are rethinking their personal security, and stocking up on emergency supplies, amid unidentified drone appearances. Denmark's leaders warn that Russia is waging a "hybrid war."

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 6d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Dan Butcher @danielbutcher.bsky.social · 5d

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🔊 Listen Now: Shutdown Day 3, No Jobs Report, Trump Pressures Universities

Up First From NPR on NPR One | 14:03

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 6d

The school voucher provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is expected to transfer billions of dollars to private schools and companies that contract with public school districts.

That includes companies owned by private equity firms.