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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat
Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 2d

New Yorker cartoons nail it again.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3d

It was a blunt 31-page opinion issued by a judge Trump appointed to the bench in his first term in office declaring that Trump’s effort to federalize Oregon National Guard troops likely “exceeded his statutory authority” and likely violated the Tenth Amendment.

Law Dork on Saturday’s TRO:

Federal judge blocks Trump's National Guard mobilization in Oregon

"The President’s determination" that the Guard was needed "was simply untethered to the facts," Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, found. DOJ is appealing.

www.lawdork.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

ICE Protest sign in Chicago this weekend.

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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 3d

All of our vice chancellors should be out there pushing for an end to tuition fees and a properly funded sector. He’s right - he did go to uni for free as did many folks of his age. Time to roll that ladder back down.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

University boss wants 'free' education for British students - BBC News

The University of Portsmouth vice-chancellor says many students "can't survive" with current costs.

www.bbc.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

Just when you thought Keir Starmer's Labour Party couldn't get more illiberal, or more like the Tories...
"Change", my left foot.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 3d

I dunno, maybe it’s time we got some old Spanish people to tour Europe explaining what it’s like to get stuck with geriatric fascists running your country for forty years. Or some Portuguese who still remember how shit Salazar was. Or some Greeks who lived under the Colonels…

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 4d

Kennedy sacks yet another senior scientist from NIH who refuses to back him on his attacks on vaccines and anti science approaches

RFK Jr fires top NIH scientist weeks after she files whistleblower complaint

Jeanne Marrazzo’s complaint reportedly involved the Trump administration’s hostility toward vaccines

www.theguardian.com

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The Delicious Legacy Podcast @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social · 6d

Good morning!
New episode is out, and perfect for your commute to work!

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Ukrainian Food Culture - With Olia Hercules

Podcast Episode · The Delicious Legacy · 30/09/2025 · 1h 8m

podcasts.apple.com

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Charles C Roseman @evoroseman.bsky.social · 5d

Do you know anyone with an interest in pursuing a PhD studying the genetics, development, and evolution of skeletal morphology and life history? If so please encourage them to apply to work with me through any of the University of Illinois' EEB or PEEC programs. 1/4 🧪🦷🦴🐭🐒

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 5d

The ICE coward who said this after invading a home and marching children outside at 2AM, naked and zip-tied, just perfectly articulated the MAGA mantra: “Fuck them kids”.
Make them wear this slogan like a tribal tattoo for the rest of their dumb days

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Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social · 6d

Cruz a fascist? He's out the other side into the full-on "am I a Nazi or just a morally-repugnant collaborator?" mode....

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 6d

Ted Cruz is celebrating the thought of people getting fired because they don’t agree with him politically

But you better not call him a fascist or anything

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7d

Priorities.

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The EDU Ledger @theeduledger.bsky.social · 8d

Dr. Marcyliena H. Morgan, the linguistic anthropologist who founded the world's first archive dedicated to hip-hop culture and championed the genre's legitimacy as a subject of serious academic study, has died.

Dr. Marcyliena H. Morgan, Visionary Scholar Who Brought Hip-Hop to the Academy, Dies

The pioneering academic founded Harvard's Hiphop Archive & Research Institute, legitimizing the study of hip-hop culture in higher education.

www.theeduledger.com

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Roberta Millstein 🌎🌱🐩🏊🏼‍♀🎶🥾 @cepaea.bsky.social · 6d

Trump: "If there is a shutdown... I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States."

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

This you, Trump?

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 7d

I supported NPR. I hope everyone else here does as well, if they can

The hosts may not be loud, or brash, or fully on board with your brand of politics

But their programming is honest and sincere

In today’s day and age, that means a lot

NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 6d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 7d

The generals and admirals at Quantico today should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium and wondered: What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief?

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay

Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

www.theatlantic.com

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WIRED @wired.com · 7d

SCOOP: At 9:35am on Wednesday, the first morning of the US government shutdown, employees at the Small Business Administration (SBA) received a template from human resources for their suggested “out of office” email. They were advised to blame the Democrats.

Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown

Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.

www.wired.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 9d

I sure hope the ADL is proud that they stuck up for Elon Musk when he did a Nazi salute back in January.

Tweet from Elon Musk: "The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group"

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Patrick Randolph-Quinney @kabweprq.bsky.social · 6d

Beautifully said. Her passing marks the loss of another giant in the field who broke down the barrier between "sapiens" "humans" and "primates" - that some of our more sapient-obsessed palaeoanthropologists had constructed.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 6d

Is the @royalsociety.org still a legitimate learned society? 😬

They seemingly can’t even enforce their own rules 🤷🏾‍♂️

Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 7d

Deeply disappointing. Once again the @royalsociety.org has avoided explaining how *actions* by Elon Musk that clearly repudiate the Society's values are consistent with the code of conduct that Fellows must adhere to. royalsociety.org/news/2025/10...

A statement from the President of the Royal Society | Royal Society

A statement from Adrian Smith, President of the Royal Society, regarding threats to the values that allow science to flourish.

royalsociety.org

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