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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 29m

Same. I never played competitive sports and I'm not interested in doing so.

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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 56m

In the Middle Ages, An Apple a Day Keeps Magic in Play www.medievalists.net/2025/07/midd... #Medieval

In the Middle Ages, An Apple a Day Keeps Magic in Play - Medievalists.net

From Arabic grimoires to Sephardic love spells, medieval Spain reveals how apples were used in magical rituals across cultures and centuries.

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James Vizzard @jwvizzard.bsky.social · 56m

Interesting rundown on how RW media influencers drove the administration's Portland actions. Strikes me that we need to remap the GOP extended party network--or more accurately the MAGA EPN. Ppl like Sortor on not really outside actors.

goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/sordid-sor...

Sordid Sortor

A dust-up in Portland reveals the dangerous degree of Trump administration overlap with the right-wing marketplace

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 56m

T. Joseph Mattingly estimates that the 2025 measles outbreak in Texas will cost $90M. Measles is expensive. It's also preventable. Vaccination increases productivity & reduces costs.

Vaccination is healthy for people & the economy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Penny wise, pound foolish: The cost of reduced support for measles prevention

Measles, a vaccine-preventable disease previously declared eliminated in the United States, is reemerging with over 1400 cases reported in 2025. This …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social · 16h

We’re thrilled to announce that We Computers has been selected as a Finalist for the 76th National Book Awards in Translated Literature. Congratulations to Hamid Ismailov and translator by Shelley Fairweather-Vega.

#translation #nationalbook

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 4h

Been to the youngest’s harvest assembly.
Theory: every primary school built pre about 1980 in Britain has some version of this equipment. It is referred to as something like ‘the apparatus’.
No one has any memory of it ever being used.

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 35m

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

“The American Farm Bureau Federation projects per-acre losses this year of $169 for corn, $114 for soybeans, $111 for wheat and $379 for cotton.

“Higher farm safety net programs passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill won't begin paying out until a year from now.”

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Ag Groups Press for Aid While Some Raise Concerns About Long-Term Tariff Damage

President Donald Trump and members of his administration continue to tease that an aid package of up to $15 billion for farmers could be announced this week. More than 200 farm organizations wrote the...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15h

"In any case, Ms. Weiss has certainly found her time becoming too valuable to engage in actual journalistic work."

That is from an op-ed on the .... WSJ editorial page.

www.wsj.com/opinion/cbs-...

Opinion | CBS Deal Smells Like a Gimmick

An aspiring mogul finds yet another way to appease Donald Trump.

www.wsj.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 54m

I spoke with this pastor and other clergy and faith leaders who have been protesting at the Chicago ICE facility.

All told me they've been shot by pepper balls or targeted by other non-lethal rounds. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Kimberly Marten @kimberlymarten.bsky.social · 54m

Column by Thomas Edsall in the NYT is well worth reading—lots of political scientists with perspectives on the descent of the US under Trump towards possible civil war: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 1h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 1h

“Deportations like Sergio’s — to fixtures of the community — are making people think, ‘This could be me next, or my favorite place next, or somebody who I talk to every day’"

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 53m

One way I know that we aren’t progressing to a more advanced civilization is that this isn’t our default font

Futura font. The font people use in the future.

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 37m

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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 14h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 53m

When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.

I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"

People got SUPER mad with it.

Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree

William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 1h

The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.

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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 52m

Some barracks funding has been diverted to border operations this year, but Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a new 'investment plan.' trib.al/2AqBN48