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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 6h

Right! Mississauga to be exact.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 6h

What is "plenary authority" and why is it a big deal that Miller said that Trump has it over the national guard?

4 frame comic where Miller slowly blinks. Text reads. A few hours ago, speaking on cnn about Trump's plan to send the national guard into us cities, Miller said : under title 10 of the us code, the president has plenary authority, has... He then fully stopped talking and just blinked at the camera, as if he realized that he said the quiet part out loud. "Plenary authority" means "complete power over a particular area with no limitayions". It is equivalent to ruling by decree, which us how Mussolini, Stalin or Hitler governed. Having "plenary authority" over the military would mean that Trump can just use the national guard as he pleases, no matter what the courts say. It's a power grab.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 6h

Some big personal news: just bought my ticket to the 2026 Scotties 🥌.

This completes the process of making Canadian women's curling fandom my entire personality. I know how that might sound if you don't know me, but to be clear, I had very little personality for it to overwrite in the first place.

The curling.ca splash page for the 2026 Scotties Tournament of Hearts, showing Kerri Einarson, Rachel Homan, and Kaitlyn Lawes all mid-delivery.

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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 11h

Solid-gold special issue right here, folks--check it out. #HistMed

Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 11h

So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...

Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic

Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11h

'By applying protections meant for vulnerable groups to shield government actors, Apple has created — within its own ecosystem — a new kind of protected class: state power itself."

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SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 14h

oh wait, hang on, here we go

the same lamb is shoved aside for a much cuter lamb

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 14h

But Faine! Look at how cute!

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 23h

It almost looks like… no, surely not, that maneuver was banned

The Kolvoord Starburst maneuver on Capt. Picard's laptop

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

oh they're working on that too

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

when you've lost noted tastemaker Kristi Noem

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

please tell me it was over creative differences

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

This is gonna be SUPER awkward for the FBI agent who realizes he's had the top-secret Amelia Earhart files buried in a pile of folders in his desk all this time.

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

That chicken guy is like a Napoleonic War soldier carrying the banner of the king

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Mary Rizzo @maryrizzo.bsky.social · 1d

What's happening to my colleague Mark Bray is disgusting. Him and his family are being doxed and getting death threats by right wing supposed "free speech" advocates bc wrote a book about anti fascism. You can't make this shit up! Our universities must fight back.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

Got excited to submit my article to a journal that turns out to be defunct, and now I feel like the guy caught in a storm who spent the night in a kindly old couple's house only to find out from the villagers the next day that they've been dead and the house abandoned for years.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 2d

The second autopsy on the body of Delta State University student Trey Reed has not been released, despite uncorroborated social media rumors currently circulating claiming it uncovered evidence of foul play.

Reed, who was Black, was found hanging from a tree on the campus in Cleveland last month.

The Facts: Trey Reed’s 2nd Autopsy Has Not Been Released, Despite Rumors

The second autopsy on the body of Delta State University student Trey Reed has not been released, despite uncorroborated social media rumors.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I guess I could stand it going to someone who looked in the mirror every morning and psyched themselves up by saying "Yeah, get that frickin' Nobel Peace Prize, gonna feed so many refugee children today they'll give me two."

But, uh, yeah, not his way.

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

I really wish people would give this guy a break. The first semester is always the hardest, but he'll get some peer mentoring from the other coaches, and I bet by the time we get to his third-year pre-tenure review he'll be making some respectable contributions to the field.

Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice, but whose idea was it to make $TSLA and $STLA the ticker symbols? I need to know INSTANTLY whether I should feel rage or apathy, I can't waste time checking against context to make sure it's not a typo!