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Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge @gurdoninstitute.bsky.social · 4h

A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 Oct. Not only did he make a discovery that laid the foundations for stem cell research, he also created one of the best environments for research at the Wellcome/CRUK Gurdon Institute wellcome.org/news/sir-joh...

Sir John Gurdon, 1933-2025 | Wellcome

A Nobel-winning scientist of great modesty and humour, John Gurdon died on 7 October. He made a discovery that opened up the field of cloning research, and created one of the best environments for res...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 1d

Just the latest chapter in America’s fearmongering approach to seizing power: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/p...

Trump Claims ‘Rebellion’ in American Cities

www.nytimes.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

FYI: Rev. Black (in the clip above) is one of several clergy who told me they've been shot with pepper balls by agents at that ICE facility, among other things.

Rev. Black now part of a lawsuit over it. 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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Pro-Choice North Carolina @prochoicenc.bsky.social · 1d

Just another example of antiabortionists trying to harass and scare people who've accessed #abortion care or who will need to access abortion care. Utterly shameful and utterly terrifying.

missouriindependent.com/2025/10/06/m...

Missouri attorney general subpoenas Planned Parenthood for patient abortion records • Missouri Independent

Missouri's attorney general subpoenaed for health records of Planned Parenthood abortion patients as part of ongoing litigation around abortion access.

missouriindependent.com

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 1d

Federal workers are tired of the pain inflicted on them from the DOGE/Project 2025 agenda. Now the Trump shutdown is jeopardizing the essential services they keep running every single day.

Federal workers aren’t pawns in political games—they make our country strong.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Molly McCully Brown @mmccullybrown.bsky.social · 2d

Crucial writing from @bethmacy.bsky.social :

Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 2d

@bethmacy.bsky.social recalls how the collapse of local journalism can decimate a community’s sense of trust.

How the Collapse of Local Journalism Led to the Erosion of Community Trust

My family had once been proud of me. In March 2011, my sister Terry went to the trouble of stuffing Post‑it notes into every issue of O, the Oprah Magazine in the checkout line of her grocery store…

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

“We’ll tell our grandkids that we defeated fascism with six-dollar clickers”: how a group of community activists is tracking ICE’s movements in Los Angeles.

The Volunteers Tracking ICE in Los Angeles

How a small group of activists dubbed the “Peace Patrol” stymie the deployment of federal agents in California.

www.newyorker.com

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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 6d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 6d

Is everyone appreciating how utterly sick this is

Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 6d

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 2d

🗓️ Oct. 28-29: Join us for a 2-day virtual convening of abolitionist organizers and others working to interrupt criminalization in the context of care.

Live captioning, Spanish/ASL interpretation, large print visuals provided.

Register by Oct. 15: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/a...

Event graphic with blue all caps text on a light green background: "ABOLITION MEANS *ALL* CARCERAL SPACES." Below this are a grey box and an outline box, each with black text: "A two-day virtual convening of abolitionist organizers and others working to interrupt criminalization in the context of care. Register by October 15." "October 28-29: 1-6:30 PM ET / 12-5:30 PM CT / 11 AM-4:30 PM MT / 10AM-3:30 PM PT each day." Small text at the bottom: "Live captioning, Spanish and ASL interpretation, and large print visual materials will be provided."

An image of a chain breaking atop a blue circle is in the upper right corner, and small logos for Interrupting Criminalization, the Beyond Do No Harm Network at Interrupting Criminalization, Disability Project at Transgender Law Center, and Community Justice Exchange are in the top left.

Event graphic with blue all caps text on a light green background: "LA ABOLICIÓN SIGNIFICA QUE TODOS LOS ESPACIOS CARCELARIOS " Below this are a grey box and an outline box, each with black text: "un encuentro virtual de dos días con organizadores abolicionistas y otras personas que trabajan para interrumpir la criminalización en el contexto del cuidado. Regístrese antes del 15 de otubre." "Octubre 28-29: 1-6:30 PM hora del este / 12-5:30 PM hora central / 11 AM – 4:30 PM hora de las montañas / 10 AM – 3:30 PM hora del pacífico, cada día." Small text at the bottom: "El encuentro contará con subtítulos en vivo, interpretación al español y lenguaje de señas estadounidense y materiales visuales en letra grande."

An image of a chain breaking atop a blue circle is in the upper right corner, and small logos for Interrupting Criminalization, the Beyond Do No Harm Network at Interrupting Criminalization, Disability Project at Transgender Law Center, and Community Justice Exchange are in the top left.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 2d

After Columbia canceled my course on race and media, and Washington Poat fired me for speaking about race and violence,

I’m teaching about race and media anyway!

@resistanceschool.bsky.social fall session on Race, Media and International Affairs starts tonight!

600+ signups.

We move!! ✊🏾

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 3d

NEWS: The Pentagon is considering sending the elite military unit that invaded Iraq & Afghanistan into U.S. cities.

The 82nd Airborne Division.

Wake up, people. This not about petty theft and street crime.

www.treason.io/p/what-are-t...

What are they hiding? asks Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr

PLUS -- Trump's invasion of Illinois is (another) seminal moment.

www.treason.io

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

"We're gonna crash some planes if you don't fund ICE."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4d

In 2020, Oregon sued Tom Dundon’s former company for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldn’t afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.

With @opb.org

Portland Trail Blazers Buyer Tom Dundon Built His Fortune on Subprime Loans

In 2020, the state sued Santander Consumer USA for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldn’t afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 4d

"If you’ve figured out your core principles, then they will guide you about what to do. Remember, you’re not just performing an idea, it’s your life. It’s who you are."

Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · 5d

I'm a bit late to the game on this, but I finally read it and if you haven't done so, do check it out. It is a very thoughtfully kind (yet incisive) examination of where a lot of people on the left are right now, with Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates serving as rhetorical poles of sorts.

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

Petitioner’s counsel has requested documentation of a judicial warrant for his arrest, any charging documents, or other authority supporting his detention. See Santiago Decl. ¶¶ 18–20. ICE has provided no response. Id. To date, ICE has not placed Petitioner in removal proceedings, charged him with violating immigration law, set bond, issued a Notice to Appear, or otherwise processed him. See Pet. ¶¶ 16, 49. In Respondent’s Opposition brief, the government states “ICE intends to take further action consistent with the laws prescribed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) once Petitioner is released from medical care and it can conduct the examination as [prescribed] in 8 C.F.R § 287.3.” Opp. at 4. Neither Petitioner nor Respondents have provided the Court with information about Petitioner’s citizenship, whether he has violated any law or regulation, or any information that would suggest that Petitioner is a flight risk.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

“It’s disguised as work requirements and term limits, but in reality it’s a way to strip families of their benefits,” said Deborah Thrope of the National Housing Law Project. “This is a huge departure from how the HUD programs have been run.”

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

Millions Could Lose Housing Aid Under Trump Plan

Drafts of unpublished rules obtained by ProPublica detail plans that would open the door to full-time work requirements, two-year limits on living in federally supported housing and stripping aid from...

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Betcy Jose @betcy.bsky.social · 5d

Shame on you, Columbia. Do you stand for anything?

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 5d

Columbia canceled my class on race and media, but I'm teaching the people anyway.

Oct. 5 is the *last day* to register for my online live + recorded classes on Race, Media & International Affairs!

We have more than 500 students enrolled. Let's gooo!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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