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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1d

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Jorge @vintagemillennial.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for sharing this really cool tool that you developed! I can't wait to try it.

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Shane Denson @shanedenson.bsky.social · 3d

Get the film|minutes video|graphic workstation here: purl.stanford.edu/xq320wq3449. And get the text pack (or a standalone app) for BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN here: purl.stanford.edu/qj474bx8626

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Jorge @vintagemillennial.bsky.social · 4d

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...

2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.

www.nytimes.com

Jorge @vintagemillennial.bsky.social · 4d

She rejected him. He stalked her. He threatened her. Then murdered her and her friend.

The driver, they said, was Vincent Battiloro, also 17, who had been fixated on Maria for months, at least. Maria’s mother told a friend she had called the police multiple times because he had parked outside the family’s house and would not leave. Two friends of Maria’s said he had harassed her. Online, where Vincent has tens of thousands of followers as a video game streamer, he had taunted Maria and her mother a week before the crash, ordering pizzas to their house as a prank.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

Residents of a small New Jersey town mourned the deaths of the 17-year-old friends as a third teenager was charged with hitting them intentionally at 70 miles per hour.

2 Teen Girls Were Run Over on Their Way to Get Ice Cream. Was It Murder?

Residents of a small New Jersey town mourned the deaths of the 17-year-old friends as a third teenager was charged with hitting them intentionally at 70 miles per hour.

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Jorge @vintagemillennial.bsky.social · 5d

🪱 Worms are taking over Sacramento this weekend! I want to find one! www.abridged.org/news/sacrame...

Hundreds of 'worms' to spring up across Sacramento in weekend scavenger hunt

A creative scavenger hunt involving ceramic 'wormies' draws dozens of artists and hundreds of fans in the Sacramento area

www.abridged.org

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 9d

EVERYONE STOP EVERYTHING Mychal the Librarian is hosting the Reading Rainbow revival!!!

reactormag.com/reading-rain...

Reading Rainbow Is Back, With Mychal the Librarian Hosting! - Reactor

The butterfly is back in the sky; can’t wait to fly twice as high.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING NYT:

Trump just fired a U.S. attorney who insisted on following a court order.

Michele Beckwith, the top federal prosecutor in Sacramento, was fired hours after she reminded a Border Patrol chief to abide by court-ordered restrictions on immigration raids.

Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody

State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

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NorCal Resist @norcalresist.bsky.social · 13d

As of today, three immigration judges at Sacramento EOIR have been terminated. This is not unique to Sacramento or California. This is occurring nationwide in an attempt to pack the courts with political operatives who will blindly adhere to policy guidelines issued by the Trump administration, aimed at hurting our immigrant neighbors.

Immigration proceedings are an opportunity for individuals to seek narrowly available forms of relief and establish why they should be allowed to remain in the country. These are lawful proceedings that the federal government is trying to circumvent by packing the courts with political operatives who will not fairly adjudicate these cases.

As a reminder: immigration court proceedings are administrative hearings housed under the executive branch, are not shielded from the political whims of the Executive branch, and do not afford immigrants a high standard of due process. Immigrant respondents are more often than not forced to face the full weight of the United States government through its attorneys, alone without representation. They will now be entering immigration courtrooms and participating in hearings under the control and discretion of politically biased and motivated judges–odds completely against them.

May this serve as a lesson to all those in positions of power: turning a blind eye to injustice will not shield you from the very source of repression. If you fail to preserve your values and dignity, your shame will echo beyond your termination and your work will be forgotten.

We cannot believe in democracy and stand for nothing. We cannot believe in justice and sit in complicity. We cannot assert our humanity and turn our sight.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14d

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18d

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 18d

People acting like Disney being fascist is new should go back and read the company’s history. Disney himself was a Nazi-sympathizer and only got into the US propaganda film game because he was also a staunch Nationalist. Before that he literally hosted dinner parties for Nazis.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 25d

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”

It existed yesterday and is gone today.

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 25d

said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The shooters who fall into this mold implicitly understand these internet dynamics. They seek an audience, but they are also acting out to get the world—especially the online world—to respond. “If you read this you are gay lmao” is a trolly, nihilistic thing to inscribe on a bullet casing, but the point is for people to see it, for people like me to write it down so that people like you can read it and feel something, be it shock, outrage, confusion, or sadness. The shooters may not have a coherent ideology, or even be particularly politically motivated per se, but they seem to know the ecosystem they are dropping their horrific acts of violence into.

For some shooters, online communities—with all their irony-poisoning, shitposting, and feuding—are more real, or at least more meaningful, than physical ones. With their senseless violence, these killers are bringing a part of that networked, online chaos to tangible, life-and-death reality. They know that their violence will be flattened, picked apart, argued over, and, crucially, amplified by the justification machine. In this way, they will get what they’re after. The violence will continue.

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Pedro Iniguez @pedroiniguez.bsky.social · 29d

Latinx Heritage month is coming up and this is a reminder that I've put together a very robust Latinx Spec Fic Author starter pack! Go follow and support these authors!

go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 29d

"school shooting industry"

NPR @npr.org · 29d

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

The school shooting industry is worth billions — and it keeps growing

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · Sep 8

The origin story is interesting. The WSJ didn't publish it from their own files; the drawing came from House Dems, who got it from Epstein's lawyers.

That's a meaningful accomplishment for a minority party.

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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · Sep 8

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · Sep 7

The first one has an Aryan "worker" inspiring you to build your homeland's future.

The color scheme and art style is reminiscent of US WWII-style war propaganda and can also obviously be compared to this Nazi Hitler Youth poster. It melds those styles and themes: emblem of the nation behind the +

Tweet from the US Department of Labor with three American flags and a recruitment link and poster. The poster's background is a seemingly Midwestern oil field with wooden rigs. In the middle ground and the middle of the blue sky is a cream colored block of the US behind a white, blond young man in jeans and a brown button down with the sleeves rolled up. Over him is white text that reads "build your homeland's future!" The edges of the poster are crackled as though this is a poster from decades ago.

An Aryan child in a Hitler youth uniform of shorts and a brown shirt, sleeves rolled up, doing the salute and holding a Nazi flag pole in the center foreground. In the background at the child's feet are more Hitler youth with stupid ass grins. In the background is a castle skyline in muted blues with a yellow sky

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