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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 6h

“Let Republicans have the literal blood of American citizens on their hands—and make that the central issue of the shutdown. Otherwise, enjoy having your health care subsidy debate in the gulags these people would happily send us all to. I hear that poll-tests great.”

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 5h

Ben Cowan-Dewar, the CEO of Cabot - he likes to position himself as the economic hero of western Cape Breton. He is also unscrupulous and predatory. He only needs to win once to ruin that land forever, but the community has win every time, and this is the third, and we are not the billionaires.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 6h

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · 6h

I've said this ten million times because this stupid take never dies. The BUSINESS VALUE is that you can teach a kid just about anything if they know how to read and write. I can teach a kid math, but they're useless to me if they can't at least outline the memo about what the math means

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 6h

Check this *magnificent* song Iyer wrote for Baraka: youtu.be/0SWCvmHzm7I?...

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 6h

Given the relationships West showed between early Greek, Egyptian, and Near Eastern music, making the topic "Greek and Roman" is definitely a choice--do you know if there's a journal focused on ancient music more broadly?

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 19h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 17h

GDP where the P is for pee and poo

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 19h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. 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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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d

"300 people on their knees — in fear, no doubt — started shouting, 'Free Palestine! Free Palestine!' calling him a génocidaire and a baby killer ... You could see that Ben-Gvir was stunned by that. His people, the police, they were all stunned by it. They expected us to be cowed, and we weren't."

Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Global condemnation is mounting as hundreds of international activists remain in Israeli prison days after the military raided and captured dozens of boats in the Global Sumud Flotilla. Greta Thunberg told Swedish officials she was held in a cell infested with bedbugs and deprived of food and water.

Journalist on Gaza Flotilla Describes “Torturous Conditions” in Israeli Custody

“They were throwing people’s medicine in the bin in front of them and laughing in their faces,” says Kieran Andrieu.

truthout.org

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 18h

For those going to AAR/SBL in Boston next month, come join us to talk about @cbzeichmann.bsky.social’s Radical Antiquity!

AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS: CHRIS ZEICHMANN'S RADICAL ANTIQUITY: FREE LOVE ZOROASTRIANS, FARMING PIRATES, AND ANCIENT UPRISINGS

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD 1:00PM-3:30PM
GRAND BALLROOM B (FOURTH FLOOR), MARRIOTT COPLEY PLACE

CO-SPONSORED WITH REDESCRIBING CHRISTIAN ORIGINS SEMINAR, SBL

IN RADICAL ANTIQUITY, CHRIS ZEICHMANN CONSIDERS A WIDE VARIETY OF COMMUNITIES IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD THAT WERE ORGANIZED ANARCHICALLY, DEMONSTRATING THAT THERE IS A LONG HISTORY OF RADICAL, NON-HIERARCHICAL HUMAN COLLECTIVES. IN THE VEIN OF GRAEBER AND WENGROW'S DAWN OF EVERYTHING, BUT WRITTEN FOR A POPULAR AUDIENCE, RADICAL ANTIQUITY INVITES SCHOLARS TO REFLECT ON HOW WE CAN MAKE OUR SCHOLARSHIP ACCESSIBLE TO NON-SCHOLARLY READERS, AS WELL AS HOW OUR RESEARCH MIGHT HAVE MORE THAN AN ANTIQUARIAN RELEVANCE.

• ERIN ROBERTS, MODERATOR
• CHANCE BONAR, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• ANDREW DURDIN, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• NAOMI GOLDENBERG, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• GILLIAN LE FEVRE, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• KEVIN WING-CHUI WONG, PANELIST (10 MINS)
• RITA LESTER, PANELIST (10 MINS)
CHRISTOPER B. ZEICHMANN, RESPONSE (10 MINS)
OPEN DISCUSSION (50 MINS)

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 19h

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 19h

bluesky decentralization in action:

- bluesky the corp bans a user
- user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server
- blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else
- user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 20h

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago is the land of free fries and soda with every polish. These guys aren't gonna be running anywhere.

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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 18h

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, presumably read outraged local newspaper coverage of the Red Sox selling Babe Ruth when he was studying at Harvard

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 19h

On what basis?

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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The Frito Bandito @thefritobanditoo.bsky.social · 1d

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 1d

The discovery of a 17th-century musical score points to a larger question about what music *is*. This would be basically impossible for Jewish or Arab music, since although we like to write, Jews avoided writing ours down til the end of the 19th. Points to a larger divide in musical cultures....

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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ptklein @ptklein.com · 1d

Some context on what this might mean: last weekend Zach Bryan played the largest ticketed concert in US history, selling 112,408 seats at Michigan Stadium.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 1d

Country singer Zach Bryan condemns ICE raids in new song teaser, “Bad News”:

“ICE is gonna come bust down your door / Try to build a house, no bills no more, well I got a telephone / Kids are all scared and all alone […] The fading of the red, white and blue.”

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we there yet? @seriousdreamer.bsky.social · 1d

Jenn’s voice is CRITICAL in this era of division & lies.

You are the #whistleblower of #ice.
Reading “Against The Wall” gave me the insight and perspective I needed, to not be SO CONFUSED by this rapid and extreme militarization.

Listen to Jenn.
Our loss of rights & privacy is NOT OVER YET!

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Lucy Soutter @lucysoutter.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be "Reconsidering Global Conceptualism and Photography" in Southeast Asia and the USA in the 1970s with Zhuang Wubin as part of London PhotoMonth at the Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, on 23 Oct 18:30-20:00.
Free sign-up + invitation to Zoom livestream in link:
photomonth.co.uk/reconsiderin...

Reconsidering Global Conceptualism and Photography - PhotoMonth

Reconsidering Global Conceptualism and Photography Dr Zhuang Wubin and Dr Lucy Soutter revisit photography in conceptualism in Southeast Asia and the USA in the 1970s. Date and timeThursday, October 2...

photomonth.co.uk

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Nabalkattu @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 1d

It's remarkable to look back on what the AACM's members produced in the first 10 or so years, which feels incredibly exciting as creative music but totally challenges white avant garde vs black "Jazz" categories.

50 Years of AACM: 1965-1974

Free Jazz Collective, reviews of avant garde and free jazz music and media

www.freejazzblog.org

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