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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 5h

Hope the treatments are working!

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5h

"Among the estimated total population of Gaza, this is equivalent to more than 54,600 children up to six years old who need emergency nutrition and medical care, including 12,800 severely wasted children, the researchers said."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 8h

Oh no! I'm so sorry for all that your are going through

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11h

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 9h

Awesome!

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

Two stories about how Stephen Miller is drawing resources away from actually security to hunt down grannies.

First cybersecurity.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 9h

All the time!

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 10h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 9h

Congrats on the great day!

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 10h

We don’t talk enough about how physically exhausting archival work can be. I stood for 8 hours in an uncomfortable stress position today and took about 2000 pictures of these huge ledgers. My brain is fizzing, but my dogs are barking and my back hurts like hell. I wouldn’t swap this for anything! 🗃️

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 12h

National Guard from TEXAS, untrained in domestic law enforcement, are now patrolling Illinois (and apparently cracking heads), based on the wholly fictitious premise of a rebellion in Chicago. Looking forward to discussing on #deadlinewhitehouse with @nicolewallace.bsky.social at 5 PM ET.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 9h

It is giving de Blasio

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 12h

🙃

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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

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Ralf Reski @reskilab.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting review in JXB:
How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles
#plantscience
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How and why plants came to smell green: the origins, biosynthesis, and roles of green leaf volatiles

Rapidly released from damaged cells, green leaf volatiles exemplify an evolutionary adaptation conserved across terrestrial plants, serving as essential de

academic.oup.com

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The Harvard Crimson @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 13h

Harvard custodians presented a suite of economic proposals to University officials at their first bargaining session on Tuesday, asking for raises to compensate for inflation since the pandemic began.

Hugo C. Chiasson & Amann S. Mahajan report.

Harvard Custodians Open Contract Negotiations With Wage and Benefit Requests | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard custodians presented a suite of economic proposals to University officials at their first bargaining session on Tuesday, asking for raises to compensate for inflation since the pandemic began.

www.thecrimson.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 22h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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.

apnews.com

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Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com · 1d

U Ariz faculty senate approves resolution asking university NOT to sign compact. Paywalled,...

www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

UA Faculty Senate votes against proposed compact

In its Oct. 6 faculty senate meeting, faculty voted in favor of a resolution calling upon UA President Suresh Garimella and the Arizona Board of Regents to reject the proposed contract and any similar proposals "compromising the mission, values and independence of the University."

The vote passed 40-8, with one abstention. Faculty members raised several questions about how the university can find a path forward, whether leaders choose to sign the compact or not.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats on all the hard work. It's their loss.

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Jeff Manuel @jeffmanuel.bsky.social · 1d

It's the official publication day for ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS. Want to know why the US turns 40 percent of the corn crop into fuel? How the US and Brazil became the world's two largest ethanol producers? Tom Rogers and I have answers.
www.oupress.com/978080619601...

Ethanol - University of Oklahoma Press

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in recent years—good or bad for the environment? a big-ag boon o...

www.oupress.com

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1d

Omg! Congrats!!

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

Tulane "terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she'd helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected by a newly hired instructor because it included an academic article about a polio outbreak in Gaza."
#Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide

Tulane changes syllabus, fires academic director over Gaza article • Louisiana Illuminator

Some say that the incident is yet another glimpse of the tense climate experienced on local and national campuses by people who support Palestine.

lailluminator.com

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1d

Manpower needs ensured that the Pentagon supported non-white men, women of all races, and openly queer people to serve. At least until 2025, that is, when the civilian leadership enacted policies to undo the expansion of service. The NYT oped is ignorant culture war drek designed to outrage.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 1d

I cannot stress how hysterical conservatives and even moderates got regarding Black men and women serving in the military. Yet, the top brass ultimately (despite personal animos against Black people and women) embraced full integration of both. Why? They needed able and capable bodies!

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