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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 4h

Jk. I just can't read

Paul and one other Republican senator, Lisa Murkowski, were the only two who broke with party lines to support the 48-to-51 motion at Wednesday’s vote. One Democrat, John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania), voted against.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 5h

School lunch designed by the liver king is going to be wild. I don't know if the kids can survive on steroids and liver alone.

NPR @npr.org · 5h

The Health Secretary's affinity for saturated fat and his ire over ultra-processed foods could influence federal food guidelines, expected out this fall. n.pr/3VRNB3H

RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines could be controversial. Here's what to watch for

The health secretary's affinity for saturated fat and his ire over ultraprocessed foods could influence federal food guidelines, expected out this fall.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 5h

Just found out that my aunt has a wikipedia page en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifre...

Winifred Reuning - Wikipedia

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 10h

Look what they took from us.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 10h

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like ":" should be a semicolon and ";" should be a full colon as the former is just made up of part of the latter.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 17h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 11h

Can we all stop being so weirdly sexual about things?

Screenshot of a blog from Rick Wilson

Rick Wilson’s Against All Enemies

Pam Bondi's Fake Orgasm

And she still made Epstein worse for Trump.

Rick Wilson
Oct 07, 2025

Oh, Pam.

If shamelessness were an Olympic sport, the Attorney General just blew the landing, tore off her leotard, and flashed her tits at the judges hoping they wouldn’t notice how bad her performance was before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

It was the fake orgasm of committee hearing performances; loud, theatrical, sweaty, and meant to trick just one man into keeping her around by flattering his ego.

Today’s Senate Judiciary performance wasn’t testimony; it was crude, overacted scenery-chewing regional dinner theater for the Trump base, a MAGA striptease dance of performative outrage and imaginary grievance where facts went to die and the only rule is “Never let the truth stand in the way of fellating Trump’s revenge fantasies and galactic ego.”

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 11h

The Smashing Pumpkins announce goth Erewhon smoothie

The Smashing Pumpkins Announce Goth Erewhon Smoothie

A lot of musicians have collaborated with Erewhon for signature smoothies, like Kacey Musgraves, Travis Scott, and Kali Uchis. Now, the Smashing Pumpkins are joining forces with the grocery store to l...

www.stereogum.com

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 12h

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 11h

Has there ever been an election postmortem that people have looked back on years later and said "I'm glad we followed that"?

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 11h

Reject tabs on top, embrace tabs on the side and I swear you'll feel less insane having a bunch of tabs open

Screenshot of a browser window showing the tabs I currently have open.

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 11h

Yes but it is _my_ dysfunctional todo list.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 11h

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 12h

>Realistically, though, the existing Twitch rules likely do not account for the possibility of a streamer birthing a baby on the platform.

What a line.

Polygon @polygon.com · 12h

Twitch streamer Fandy gave a live birth in front of thousands of viewers who witnessed everything from contractions to the head crowning.

Twitch streamer gives birth in front 29,000 viewers, and chat was unhinged

Twitch streamer Fandy gave a live birth in front of thousands of viewers who witnessed everything from contractions to the head crowning.

www.polygon.com

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 12h

Closeup of a license plate on a purple car. License plate is "IMDAJKR".

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lamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 12h

The American theological crisis will come to a head when the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury will be on the same side against the Catholic convert VP and the nondenominational (Southern Baptist) mega church pastors who back the admin.

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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 12h

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 16h

🎃 October 8 🎃
My little brony

Fluffy white dog with My Little pony ears and rainbow bangs

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 16h

This will probably get very limited coverage in the news as journalists have all decided that what Trump says is not connected to what the federal government does.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 17h

Bluesky search is currently broken for me.

Screenshot of search for Donald Trump on Bluesky. The results are "No results found for Donald Trump"

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Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 18h

Marjorie Taylor Greene interviewed by NBC News while wearing a shirt with an American flag, in front of a wooden print of the American flag, with an actual American flag next to her.

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