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Masayuki60 🦮🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🐕🇺🇲📷 @masayuki60.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Enjoying my time in my hometown. Picking only a few highlight scenes instead of photobombing here.

#photography #fujifilm #fukuoka #japan #shrine #carp #pond #bridge #fish #heron #birds #Café #architecture #cultural

A bridge over a pond in a shinto shrine. A heron is at the left bottom.

Colorful carp swimming in a pond at a shinto shrine

A coffee shop in an old traditional Japanese building

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Masayuki60 🦮🇯🇵 🇺🇦 🐕🇺🇲📷 @masayuki60.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10d

A cool Sunday morning. It will be a while before we come back to the park as I will be away.

📍 Sweetwater Creek State Park, GA

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #adoptdontshop #rescuedog #photography #fujifilm #park #creek #autumn #water #trees #leaves

A white and brown dog is standing on a large rock in a creek, looking down to drink water

Tree branches with green and orange leaves are hanging over a creek which doesn't have much water due to a drought

A man in a blue shirt standing on a wooden bridge over a stream in a park, and a white and brown dog in the front

Creek water rushing through rocks and some brown fallen leaves on the rocks above

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Cientounero @cientounero.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 - Popular information - NobelPrize.org

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2025/popular-information/

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

www.nobelprize.org

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@ai6yr Best and highest use of a doorbell camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhfDyBLRnrM

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

George Washington really did sleep here. And you can buy it — for a cool $3.3 million.
https://robbreport.com/shelter/homes-for-sale/george-washington-pa-headquarters-lists-1237187952/

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@ai6yr
#noprivacy

Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Not a good look:
This, from @HelenKennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social —
https://bsky.app/profile/helenkennedy.bsky.social/post/3m2ioxp57qk22
and this, from @heidilifeldman —
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/115325142344368198

Heidi Li Feldman (@[email protected])

Unfortunately, the most competent lawyers and judges cannot flat out stop a rogue President from using military force against American civilians. And the difficulty is compounded by having a suspect U.S. Supreme Court prepared to decree by fiat rather than law that this rogue President may do whatever he pleases. That said, every lawyer and judge that tries to use the law to stop Trump has my respect.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Unfortunately, the most competent lawyers and judges cannot flat out stop a rogue President from using military force against American civilians. And the difficulty is compounded by having a suspect U.S. Supreme Court prepared to decree by fiat rather than law that this rogue President may do […]

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Ratcheting up the rhetoric at a most unfortunate time (read the thread if you don't know what the appropriate response should be [TLDNR: Dial it back.])

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

Context: a judge’s house blew up today.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@ai6yr
DOGE passed over that department.

Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@ai6yr

Screenshot of FDA.gov homepage. In addition to other links, it stayes:

"Mission-critical activities of FDA will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown. Please use this site as the trump Administration works to reopen the government for the American people."

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@mmasnick.bsky.social
And maximum cruelty.

Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@walterolson.bsky.social
Free librarians!

Teens, young adults: Get an eCard (borrow ebooks, audio, etc.) from the Brooklyn Public Library: https://www.cnet.com/culture/how-teenagers-can-borrow-banned-books-for-free-from-brooklyn-public-library/

Request a free card — email the library […]

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d

The fundamental nature of the Trump regime: they are so driven by what they think will make people cheer for them on social media

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3d

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

First Amendment allows terrible words. They are not, in most cases, illegal (although they may get you fired).
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkw7cvu6eu742hvjk5wsxf2/post/3m2ewzqpn222e
#1a #firstamendment #freespeech

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d

Oregonian: "She complied but was hurling curse words and insults at the two officers in front of her when a third agent wearing a gas mask approached her. Within 10 seconds, the officer directed a canister at the 19-year-old’s face and doused her with chemical spray."

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The anti-ICE protester, 19, was hurling insults but standing still when she was sprayed.

www.oregonlive.com

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d

OPB: "Federal tactics on Portland protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump."

Federal tactics on Portland protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...

www.opb.org

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Administration bluster and disinfo campaign continues —
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-investment-trillions-economy-jobs-eb4ca4b9ed632bd12c559c1ec5fd5764
#disinformation #misinformation

Trump says the US has secured $17 trillion in new investments. The real number is likely much less

President Donald Trump claims his policies have generated $17 trillion in new investments, but the real number is likely much less.

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

https://apnews.com/article/trinidad-us-military-venezuela-strikes-fishing-fcd24c441f58162b811a24b247334fc5
#trinidad #tobago #venezuela #us #geopolitics

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago fear for their lives and jobs after US strikes in the Caribbean

Fishermen in Trinidad and Tobago are fearing that a U.S. military strike in the Caribbean could kill them and their livelihoods.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The editorial board of _Progress in Community Health Partnerships_ (Johns Hopkins University Press) condemns the Trump admin censorship of science and refuses to change its independent editorial policies.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970147

"In January 2025 the new Administration began issuing […]

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

P.S. If you read comic strips online and you'd like to read them all in one place, check out my comics aggregator. Again, that's https://comics.kamens.us/.

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Tom Stafford @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Monday boost for this:

When half the population don't trust (our collective intelligence is impaired)

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/when-half-the-population-dont-trust

When half the population don't trust

Reasonable People #77: A Brexit-era survey of who voters trust and what it means for our information environment

tomstafford.substack.com

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Rich Stein (he/him) @runrichrun.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cz7rddrrlqno
#mnd #ela #sla #als #rugby

Lewis Moody: Former England captain reveals motor neurone disease diagnosis

Former England captain Lewis Moody reveals he has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in an exclusive BBC interview.

www.bbc.com

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Oregon and California have filed an emergency motion for an additional temporary restraining order to prevent Trump regime from using federalized California National Guard troops in Portland, Oregon. Judge Immergut is holding an emergency hearing scheduled for 10 pm eastern, 7 pm Pacific tonight. 1/

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