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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 6h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 8h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 8h

Glad to see leaders finally saying it in public.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 8h

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

Gov. JB Pritzker says President Trump deploying troops to Chicago due to ‘dementia’ and obsessive fixations

Democratic governor’s comments came as he continues to oppose President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago area for deportation efforts.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 11h

Final tally in this race: 54% of voters pulled Republican ballots, 46% pulled Democratic ballots. That's a significant shift from a year ago. We'll see what happens on election day, December 2.

Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 5d

Something interesting is happening in Tennessee's 7th Congressional district, where there's a special election to fill the seat vacated by Mark Green. He won reelection in 2024 by a margin of 59.5%-38%.

Primary early voting ended yesterday. Only 378 votes separate the parties. 1/

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 1d

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 17h

Just in: Justin J. Pearson, a Memphis state representative who rose to national prominence for his protest against gun violence, plans to challenge longtime U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen in the 2026 Democratic primary.

Memphis state Rep. Justin Pearson to challenge U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen in 2026 Democratic primary • Tennessee Lookout

Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson of Memphis plans to challenge long-time U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen in the 2026 Democratic primary.

tennesseelookout.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · 4d

🧵 Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.

@justinscasey.bsky.social and I discuss this, and the heterogeneity of interwar fascism, here 👇

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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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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 1d

The special election matchup in Tennessee's 7th District is set, with Republican former state government official Matt Van Epps poised to face Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn on Dec. 2

Here's what you need to know from @erincovey.bsky.social:

GOP Establishment Pick to Face Progressive State Rep in TN-07 Special

The special election matchup in Tennessee's 7th District is set, with Republican former state government official Matt Van Epps poised to face Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn on Dec. 2. Though Van Ep...

www.cookpolitical.com

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Erica Friedman @okazu.yuricon.com · 1d

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis win the Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries in quantum mechanics.

Nobel Prize for physics goes to 3 scientists for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling

John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research into quantum mechanical tunneling.

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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 2d

All hail a true hero. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Nobel committee unable to reach prize winner who is ‘living his best life’ hiking off grid

Fred Ramsdell was among those honoured with a 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine but might not know because he is somewhere in Idaho and uncontactable

www.theguardian.com

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget: Bullies fold. Stand up to them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

Pentagon Relaxes Press Access Rules

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

you know this guy had to have made a huge number of enemies for oklahoma republicans to want to take him down (serves him right, he sucks)

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 2d

Just seen video that Cameroonian President Paul Biya (96) who is running for office again, and his wife Chantal, could not attend a campaign event in Cameroon due to ill health so they sent literal puppets instead.

What a news cycle to be offline @thecontinent.org 😂

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 2d

“The accused was not only giving orders…but was personally involved in the beatings & later was physically present & giving orders for the execution of those detained.”

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The first senior perpetrator of atrocities in Darfur is convicted at the ICC! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

ICC convicts former Sudan militia leader for war crimes in Darfur

Janjaweed commander Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, known as Ali Kushayb, found guilty over atrocities

www.theguardian.com

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Skye Perryman @skyeperryman.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Incredible hearing where (Trump appointed) Judge Immergut reminds DOJ lawyer he is
an officer of the court and issues order preventing national guard from any state entering Oregon. This is the court doing what it should do.

<Cue Stephen Miller’s hyperbolic attacks on the rule of law>

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 3d

I miss not needing to think about what POTUS is doing.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 3d

This is Nobel Prize week, & on Friday Trump is going to realize he didn't win, so brace for whatever horrors come out of that spiraling.

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 3d

This one is so good!

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

www.rawstory.com

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