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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 6d

"Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice told ProPublica: 'I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.'”

by @megomatz.bsky.social / @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 12h

Me, but about everything

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 13h

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
Studies in Southern History and Politics . Inscribed to William Archibald
Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
Southern Legislation in Respect to Freedmen, 1 865- 1 866. By J. G. de
Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
The New South, Economic and Social . By Holland Thompson.
Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
Thompson, Clara M., Reconstruction in Georgia, Economic, Social, Po-
litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 12h

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says

Willamette Week reported federal agents allegedly blocked an ambulance from quickly leaving with an injured protester on Oct. 5.

www.oregonlive.com

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 12h

Wake up babe, new Radiohead EP just dropped

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14h

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 14h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

www.cnn.com

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 14h

It's incredible, they could both be standalone album covers. Lose Your Illusion I and Lose Your Illusion II

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 14h

Even other right-wing leaders!

Giorgia Meloni being as relatable as she ever will be

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 15h

The American president speaking while flanked by the British and Italian leaders, who appear to be bored or horrified or both

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22h

Winnie the Pooh tuxedo meme about how best to express Trumpism's similarity to the German politico-bureaucratic theories that enabled the imposition of Führerprinzip on a constitutional republic

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22h

I increasingly incline toward taking the "Trumpism/Voughtism is a Carl Schmitt fever dream" pill

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22h

and then of course with *other* people it always becomes

~~*Soros* money!!!~~

or, you know, something like it

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 22h

A consistent thing about Trumpists in power is how they want everyone else to believe that people only do things for money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

"brassica oleracea" is the new
"6 7"

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

The more Ryan Murphy expresses cartoonish contempt for an amoral, exploitive media industry in his "nonfiction" projects... the less confident I am that he appreciates the irony

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Tired: Property rights are the cornerstone of liberty

Wired: We need guns to defend our property rights

Inspired: We are armed and demand access to your property

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

SCOTUS has announced it will review a Hawaii law that forbids gun owners from bringing firearms on private property without the property owner’s explicit permission.

If it falls, the court could make it harder for states and cities to keep guns out of everyday life. trib.al/lrF0Sqm

The Supreme Court Could Make It Easier to Bring a Gun Everywhere

The justices just took up a challenge to a Hawaii law that bars people from carrying guns on private property against the owner’s wishes.

trib.al

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Now hang on a damn minute

Home Depot selling Cleveland... *Indians*... keys?

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 1d

If this story means anything, its a reminder of priorities. Optics, not service.

Soldiers rib each other about fitness. Always have.
It isn't always ideal, but it does serve a cultural standards enforcing function.

But the problem with these soldiers wasn't their waistline.
It was the headline.

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 1d

After commenters deriding the appearance of TX NG troops made photos of their deployment to Chicago go viral, the Texas Military Department quietly recalled and replaced them

For their appearance.

They didn’t send the Guard to serve.
They sent them to be seen.

taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · 3d

🎶Whoa, Black Betty🎶

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Just some guy @rocinante.bsky.social · 1d

That stupid epic handshake meme I like just a bit too much:

Left hand: “Why lookst thou so?" "With my crossbow
I shot the albatross.”

Right hand: “tonight’s ballgame”

They meet: “mariner v bird”

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

That said, the Mariners are nautically themed, lack a pennant, and employed Gaylord Perry at his most entertaining, so it's really a wash

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

I'm pretty ambiguous about the MLB playoffs from here on out, but as a Philly fan it would be nice to see the Blue Jays make a new indelible memory that doesn't involve Joe Carter and Mitch Williams

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