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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The dementia-addled president is deeply delusional and his poor mental state is going to lead to American citizens being hurt or killed.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 5d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 5d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

Journalists should never have to fear government retaliation for reporting on government activity, and showing up to work shouldn't result in your family being torn apart.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

Mario had the right to work and report in the U.S. at the time he was arrested for livestreaming a protest in June.

He was held for over 100 days in ICE detention, and he did not have the chance to say goodbye to his family in person before being deported.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 7d

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better."

Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better.

Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand.

We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

this is, no exaggeration, some of the most loser shit i have ever seen in my life

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 15d

For the @nytimes.com, I wrote about Joaquinraptor, a new species from a very cool family of dinosaurs: long-armed, hook clawed (possible) tyrannosaur relatives from South America

The Megaraptor Had Giant Claws and an Appetite for Crocodilians

www.nytimes.com

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 15d

A new megaraptoran genus named Joaquinraptor, with a crocodyliform humerus found between its teeth/jaws.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Claude ✡️🦖🦕 @cascoclauda.bsky.social · 15d

a warm welcome to joaquinraptor casali, a megaraptorid from maastrichtian patagonia 🦖 several features of the animal's anatomy suggest that megaraptorans retained robust arms and gracile skulls even at large body sizes, contrasting other massive theropods
(art by andrew mcafee)

art depicting joaquinraptor holding a crocodylomorph arm in its mouth

a diagram from the paper describing joaquinraptor showing the known elements of its skeleton

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Prof. Juan Cisneros ⚒️🐉 @cisneros.bsky.social · 14d

Seja bem-vindo, Joaquinraptor! www.lavanguardia.com/ciencia/2025...

El Joaquinraptor, uno de los últimos depredadores del Cretácico

Un esqueleto parcial hallado en la Patagonia aporta claves decisivas para entender a los grandes carnívoros que habitaron la Tierra durante el último período antes de

www.lavanguardia.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

www.miamiherald.com

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 19d

Uhuh

Tim Krief @timkrief.com · Jul 28

Had to repost 😅 #noai

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 20d

Keep trying 🤣🫠

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 20d

We need an update of this video MEDIA-OPOLY video for 2025

#Media-opoly2025 #SNL

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 20d

Today's media apocalypse makes it a good day for everyone to watch this 1998 SNL animation that Robert Smigel and Adam McKay managed to get on national TV once, before it was yanked off the air forever.

www.cracked.com/article_4100...

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 20d

Let’m cook

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 22d

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 20d

Who can convince me that the USA isn’t rotting under a shiny veneer? 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 20d

Absurd levels of whitewashing gaslighting

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20d

Gotta disagree with Rove, here. It doesn't insult Charlie Kirk's memory at all. The dude categorically DID NOT support free speech. Here's a little guide to that from @peltzmadeline.bsky.social

numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, I get that we all have our own s**t but it's incredibly weird that anyone ever thought this quote was meant to stoke the embers of violence, found it to be a radicalizing moment in their life, or is still angry about it a decade later.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 20d

Gotta disagree with Rove, here. It doesn't insult Charlie Kirk's memory at all. The dude categorically DID NOT support free speech. Here's a little guide to that from @peltzmadeline.bsky.social

numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...

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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 21d

How searchlight lost it’s way…

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21d

lol new clown car just rolled up

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21d

lol new clown car just rolled up

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