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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 2d

Marc 4 - Candy [Italy, Funk/Library] (197?)
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Marc 4 - Candy [Italy, Funk/Library] (197?)

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 2d

I'm going to keep saying "this is fascism" until this platform inevitably bans the word fascism, and then I'm going to leave

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

@bkindivisible.bsky.social members also folded the incredible @meganpiont.bsky.social's awesome "How to Report ICE" zine for distribution!

You can find them here to fold/distribute yourself! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Close up shot of some folded "How to Report ICE" zines on a table next to a pair of scissors.

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William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · 19d

I think if we can't see that authoritarian tendencies were very deliberately worked into our very founding, we can't understand authoritarian tendencies now.

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Robert Sullivan @robtsullivan.bsky.social · 10d

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 15d

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park

The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

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Robert Sullivan @robtsullivan.bsky.social · 15d

What Christie started!
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New Jersey PBS shutting down in July - New Jersey Globe

New Jersey PBS is expected to cease operations in July 2026 following WNET's decision not to renew its agreement, the New Jersey Globe has learned. The

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 15d

Bologna, the site of a long-running film restoration festival, is a movie buff’s paradise. “If movies were people,” Anthony Lane writes, “Bologna is where they would choose to live.”

The Exacting Magic of Film Restoration

Each year, at a festival in Bologna, movies that were once lost or damaged come back to life.

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Robert Sullivan @robtsullivan.bsky.social · 15d

wow!

Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 15d

Every day after sunset during summer + fall hundreds of thousands of bats leave the their roost near Sacramento, CA to feed

A family of Swainson's hawks waits for them for their own dinner.

Due to the light they're hard to photograph.

Last night one caught a bat less than 30 feet in front of me 🪶

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 21d

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22d

WHAT

Senator Ankit Jain @ankitjaindc.bsky.social · 22d

Congressional Democrats voted today to sell out Washington DC and their constituents, as numerous Dems backed bills advancing the Trump takeover of DC. After meeting with our Council and saying nice things, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and leadership *declined* to whip a No vote on the bills

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29d

Look at that. And New Mexico is not a rich state. Just one that figured out some priorities.

KRQE News 13 @krqe.com · Sep 9

Governor announces New Mexico will now provide free universal child care

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico is becoming the first state in the U.S. to offer free early childhood education to every family in the state. Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a universal ch…

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 29d

Hershey’s hikes prices ahead of Halloween. It gets worse from here I think.

Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 29d

26% Kit Kat price increase ahead of Halloween?? Lord have mercy

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Robert Sullivan @robtsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 9

Great piece: “We work in dangerous settings. We climb bridges every day. My brother to the left and my brother to the right, they are my life. I depend on them. You take away my brother, you put my life at risk.” @phillyaflcio.bsky.social

Joseph N DiStefano @phillyjoed.bsky.social · Sep 8

Builders are hit hard by loss of construction workers as the Trump administration cancels permits, but they're scared, and leave it to union leaders like
IUPAT
Painters chief Jimmy Williams to tell how 'taking away my brother' hurts America. My story: t.co/Y4nf4AMt2x

https://www.inquirer.com/business/immigration-painters-labor-union-temporary-protected-status-20250908.html

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Sep 7

For most Americans, the date 1913 means nothing. For Americans on the far right fringes, 1913 has long been a date of great significance. Here’s a piece from the antisemitic rag “American Mercury” in 1957, for example. One of their writers at the time was George Lincoln Rockwell.

Seth Cotlar, mostly now at t... @ • 11/29/22
Replying to @SethCotlar
If Elon keeps heading the direction he is, then Twitter will just become a frictionless vector of evidence-free right wing propaganda like Gab or Truth Social...and the majority of people like me who have no interest in occupying a space like that will stop spending time here.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 7

Again, they say these troops are there to make the people of the city feel safe

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 7

NO WAY 🤬
School children and teens on their way home using the Washington DC Metro were allegedly stopped, forced to show ID, and thrown to the ground in and around Union Station by multiple law enforcement agencies while the National Guard watched (Sept, 3 2025)

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · Sep 7

No state requires voters to have a traditional residence to vote: Unhoused voters can often use a shelter address or cross streets to register. But this is often easier said than done.

Pop-Up Voting Centers Bring the Polls Directly to Unhoused Angelenos

Nationwide, unhoused people have some of the lowest turnout among all voters. Los Angeles County is trying to change this with flexible polling centers that meet people where they are.

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Robert Sullivan @robtsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 5

A must-read from @williamhogeland.bsky.social !

William Hogeland @williamhogeland.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm unlocking and making public this pretty thoroughgong criticism of Thomas Chatterton Williams's Atlantic piece linking the 2020 protests and riots to January Sixth: williamhogeland.substack.com/p/unlocked-a...

UNLOCKED: A Bad History of What Happened Five Years Ago

Faulty reporting, overdetermined analysis, and foregone conclusions mark the latest plea for liberality in American politics and public discourse.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Sep 5

Better headline than the guardian TBH. need more union-bird-style headlines, editors! (no editors follow me)

Hundreds of staff at California national parks to unionize amid Trump turmoil
More than 97% at Yosemite and Sequoia & Kings Canyon parks voted to unionize as president enacts major cuts

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The Late Rackletang 🪦🦇 @rackletang.bsky.social · Sep 3

Far from the first in the nation, or the world, and it's always a success and "experts" are always surprised. Same as giving housing to the homeless. Lives improve, there are benefits to the community, and then everybody with money and/or power gets their memory wiped and pretends it's complicated.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · Sep 3

For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached.

The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.

Philly’s first-in-the-nation experiment giving cash to struggling renters is working, researchers say

Families that got cash rental assistance were less likely to be evicted, experience homelessness, and report having serious problems with their homes, according to a study of the PHLHousing+ program.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · Sep 2

I don't want to hear Democrats tell us that they're not going to do Republican bullshit around labor.

I want them to tell us about how they're going to expand workers' rights in their state, and what their plan is if the Supreme Court scorches the National Labor Relations Act tomorrow.

Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · Sep 2

I wrote about my apparently controversial position that liberals shouldn't repeat right-wing propaganda terms. www.playtyperguy.com/p/right-to-w...

Repeating Right-Wing Propaganda Terms Doesn’t Make You Smart

‘What justifies that smugness?’

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · Sep 2

Howard University Jazz Ensemble - KCOR Variations (US) (Jazz) (Funk) (1980)
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Howard University Jazz Ensemble - KCOR Variations (US) (Jazz) (Funk) (1980)

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Robert Sullivan @robtsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Torosaurus marks the presence of the OC Marsh papers!!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 28

Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.

Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · Aug 28

AP live feed of the CDC walkout in Atlanta. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...

LIVE: CDC staff plan walkout at Atlanta HQ after Trump firings

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · Sep 2

More than 85 American and international scientists have denounced a Trump administration report that calls the threat of climate change overblown, saying the analysis is riddled with errors, misrepresentations and cherry-picked data to fit the president’s political agenda. Gift link: nyti.ms/3HNAwoB

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