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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 47m

Sis wanted a carb so bad.

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kristian @purplekristian.bsky.social · 18h

jeff said "oh you must have misunderstood. i said this was a great reward and you love it." #survivor49

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 14h

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

While SARS-CoV-2 doesn’t cause HIV/AIDS, its immune dysfunction, T cell depletion, vulnerability to infections, accelerated aging, and systemic damage echo AIDS-like effects in a broader sense.

COVID-19 is “Airborne AIDS”: provocative oversimplification, emerging science, or something in between?

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 is often compared to other pandemics for its societal and global health impact, with some commentators drawing parallels to HIV/AIDS due to the immune dysfunction caused ...

www.ajpmfocus.org

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 7h

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown

The administration is finding ways to pay troops and for government work Trump favors while targeting “Democrat programs” for layoffs or closures.

www.washingtonpost.com

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 6h

This thread is a bit long and it's not difficult, but it IS dense. It's also very important because you might KINDA understand 47 is spending money like an asshole and it's illegal, but if you actually know the details of what's happening that's fucking up the money, this thread will help

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

Under the Constitution and under the ADA, it is illegal to spend money without funding for that purpose. The president may not spend money to do something unless there's actually money to carry it out and that action is expressly allowed.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C7-1/ALDE_00001095/

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 7h

Legacy Russell’s "Black Meme" says owning, replicating and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.

Prof. Matthew Morrison's "Blacksound", citing Saidiya Hartman et. al., looks at origins of blackface minstrelsy & its impact on U.S. music
#Blackademics

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 7h

My ankle still takes my weight but only in the most technical way. I can move myself on it but the act of doing so makes me sob in agony. I hobbled the dog outside but honestly I don't know if I can get her back in after this and she's old and cold.

I can't take this month.m anymore. I can't

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 17h

Share or don't. I refuse to accept that people enthusiastically funded the ethnic cleansing of our friends in the giving circle but won't do anything to help them return north—or eat this week. But here we are.

22 hours left, we're matching 185, do what you will. 0/1000 chuffed.org/project/hope...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

chuffed.org

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 17h

I don't want it humping my ankle

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 17h

Still nothing about the SSDI and now we're out of pet food and trash bags. Hoping to maybe find $25 to get things together and also an ace bandage for my ankle over at the dollar tree

#helpsky #MutualAid

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Go to paypal.me/arnicaxross and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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arnicaxross @arnicaxross.blacksky.app · 19h

I POPPED MY FUCKING ANKLE! I'M NOT EVEN INVOKING THE GREAT GOD MURPHY! I HAVEN'T SAID IT CAN'T GET WORSE NOT ONCE THROUGH ALL OF THESE MISERABLE CASCADES OF AWFULNESS AND NOW IT HURTS TO STAND AND I'M FKSISHSOCJEJDNX

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 20h

Extremely specific ask!

in search of leads for OREGON ONLY artists, crafters, creative practitioners for ArtsWatch story about protest art / art as protest. poets, knitters, muralists, anything. happy to anonymize you for safety if preferred!

ping me here: www.clairewillettwrites.com/contact-me

Contact Me! — Claire Willett

www.clairewillettwrites.com

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Jes the human charity stream @ 5:30 PT @jesthehuman.itch.io · 7d

The Games against Genocide via tiltify charity bundle submission period is now open: bit.ly/gamesagainst...

All TTRPGs and TTRPG adjacent supplements are welcome* Submissions are open until November 3 and the charity bundle supporting Doctors Without Borders will be live November 10 - December 12 🍉

Graphic with watermelons on the right and left side. In the middle there is text that says games against genocide charity bundle via tiltify

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 21h

eh, I think there's a difference between "you're just privileged" and "you had the privilege of not noticing before now, when it didn't affect you."

it's a lament, not a gotcha. because yes, there are a LOT of marginalized people who were silenced and mocked for predicting we'd be exactly here.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 22h

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The APS Division of Particles & Fields statement (1/n) ⚛️🧪:

"DPF Exec. Committee statement on changes to HEPAP
On Sept. 30, we were informed that the DOE Office of Science was consolidating six separate advisory panels (HEPAP, NSAC, etc.) into a combined Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC).

DOE Establishes the Office of Science Advisory Committee

The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the establishment of the Office of Science Advisory Committee (SCAC).

www.energy.gov

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

DOE's public statements about this say that all the ad hoc committees, including HEPAP, will be replaced by a single committee. As an STS researcher, I am compelled to point out that this overlaps with the Nazi playbook for taking over German physics. My slides about how they did that:🧪⚛️🔭

APS April 2017.pdf

drive.google.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

The case is submitted.

My prediction is that Section 2 is overturned, 6-3 Kav majority, saying that the Section 2 still *exists* but isn't allowed to do anything.

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QuyetPawz - Mutual Aid @qpmutualaid.bsky.social · 1d

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#HelpSky
#MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025

Ruby Ray Sapphire @rubyraysapphire.bsky.social · 1d

I am a mom, literally down to $0.40. My hotel room is due Thursday, it’s $250 a week. I have $17 stuck in Playboy, won’t let me withdraw until $50. My son’s stroller broke (the wheels) & I’m just kind of at my wit’s end. Trying to get a head start.

ko-fi.com/alyssaisbroken
venmo.com/u/rubyraysap...

A screenshot of my bank balance showing $0.40

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QuyetPawz - Mutual Aid @qpmutualaid.bsky.social · 1d

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#HelpSky
#MutualAid #HelpFolksLive2025

Ashley @blueeyedashh.bsky.social · 1d

We really need help getting some hygiene products and a new med for my husband. He just lost his job so money is tight 😞 $50 would really be appreciated! $BlueEyedAshh or BlueEyedAshh or @/AshleySpend it’s also our wedding anniversary today so any help is appreciated! 💸💕

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Good 'ol Tami(ka) @tamikakoga.bsky.social · 1d

Again....FVCK SPOTIFY. And I don't care if you buy my music (I mean I do care, buy it if you like it😘), but I strongly recommend you DIRECTLY support ARTISTS you actually WANT to keep MAKING art over some rich twats who literally only care about money. It's YOUR money, YOU decide where it goes.

Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads. I ditched it awhile ago for other political reasons, but this might tip your hand.

Thanks for the heads up @chuckwendig.bsky.social.

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