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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 19h

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 9h

Elderly rotund Maine Coon resting in a nest of blankets

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 12h

“Climate change may have made this more likely, but I’m not convinced it’s a clear, direct impact,” Carlson said. “The truth is, we just don’t know a lot about endemic mosquito range shifts that are already happening.”

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 12h

i have already shared my thoughts on the mosquito. i would give anything not to have to say more about the mosquito www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/c...

Iceland just found its first mosquitoes | CNN

Iceland’s frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This week, scientists announced the discovery of three mosquitoes — marking the country’s firs...

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 9h

God sends his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers ❤️‍🩹

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 22h

Never forget that Strange Fruit was based on a lynching that happened in Marion, Indiana

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Indiana (which, how it got its name is an interesting tale of genocide itself) literally had the world's first mandatory eugenics of "undesirables" law or anything it's not like the US wrote very large parts of what would become Hitler's directly cribbed playbook
www.npr.org/sections/hea...

On how the Nazis borrowed from the U.S. eugenics sterilization program

We really were on the cutting edge. We were doing a lot of this in the 1910s and 1920s. Indiana adopted a eugenic sterilization law, America's first in 1907. We were writing the eugenics sterilization statutes that decided who should be sterilized. We also had people who were writing a lot of what might be thought of as pro-Aryan theory. So you have people like Madison Grant who wrote a very popular book called The Passing of a Great Race, which really talked about the superiority of Nordics, as he called them, and how they were endangered by all the brown people and the non-Nordics who were taking over.

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elle @girlinsynthesis.bsky.social · 23h

"This isn't the America I know!"

Yes, actually, it is.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Indiana (which, how it got its name is an interesting tale of genocide itself) literally had the world's first mandatory eugenics of "undesirables" law or anything it's not like the US wrote very large parts of what would become Hitler's directly cribbed playbook
www.npr.org/sections/hea...

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 22h

My home state is really regressing to our epicenter-of-the-klan days 😭

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 1d

Needless to say, anyone making jokes about the Trail or Tears (or native genocide) around me is in for a deeply uncomfortable conversation lol

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 1d

I don't play CAH bc I know myself to be too sensitive, but yeah people making jokes about genocides that happened to another people is just like... never appropriate. And I'm not sure why some people are so defensive of their need to make light of other people's tragedies

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 1d

Say what you like about Susan Collins — and I do — but she doesn't have a Nazi tattoo

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 1d

Why are we even having this conversation at all. This entire conversation should just be “fuck this guy” and then we all go on with our lives confident in the fact that we kept another Nazi out of office.

But according to a person who socialized with Platner when he was living in Washington, D.C., more than a decade ago, Platner had specifically acknowledged that the tattoo was a Totenkopf, the "death's head" symbol adopted by an infamous Nazi SS unit that guarded concentration camps in World War II.
"He said, 'Oh, this is my Totenkopf," the former acquaintance told Jewish Insider recently, speaking on the condition of anonymity to address a sensitive issue. "He said it in a cutesy little way."

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 1d

Omg he even has FIV like my cat

Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 1d

I legit thought this was my cat at first lol. Anyway, anyone who sees this and lives in the area: adopt Leshy!!!

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 2d

"Rebellion must include hope for a future not yet realized."

Preach!

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2d

I barely survived 2020-2023, where I nearly drank myself to death in the darkness of my apartment. I was able to pull myself out of it and into sobriety, barely.

Late capitalism, climate change, and American fascism drag us into hell, and rebellion must include hope for a future not yet realized

Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 3d

'Deaths of despair' on the rise among young adults in North America, as global life expectancy improves share.google/m4eRf4AxIJcg...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 4d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 4d

Oh and I'll also be at Bartlesville Pride next weekend! So there's def good people out that way

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 4d

#MMIW #MMIP

Missing: Rachel Dawn Stephens, Cherokee female, 17 years old.
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 120
Hair color: brown
Eye color: brown

Last known contact was at her residence in Tahlequah, OK. She left in a 2014 silver Malibu. Tag is unknown. She might be in Sequoyah county.

If you have tips or information, contact the Cherokee Marshal Service at 918-207-3800

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Tal B. Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 4d

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 4d

Yes!

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 4d

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 4d

This is a town of 6000 people

Neal Harkness @nealharkness.bsky.social · 4d

#NoKings #BelfastMaine

I thought I'd go down to the harbor and hang out with a few of my friends

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 4d

As someone living in Oklahoma, it's so encouraging to see all the people out protesting. It's not just that hundreds are turning out in Tulsa and OKC, it's also that there are protests happening in towns like McAlester and Ponca City

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 4d

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 5d

I worked there too, and it is so so jarring to read about this happening

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