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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 6h

🧪Did I really have time for this story? No, I did not, for reasons I'll be sharing soon. Did I absolutely feel compelled to write it anyways? You know I did! A viral mystery solved by science. Read on @sciencenews.bsky.social

Also, I have a new to-do for my trip to Chicago for #SciWri25 next month!

The viral Chicago ‘Rat Hole’ almost certainly wasn't made by a rat

Researchers used methods from paleontology to analyze the quirky local landmark, created when a rodent of a certain size fell into wet concrete.

www.sciencenews.org

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 7h

This is the weakness of bullying. When the object of bullying stands up to the bully, the bully can slink away or be an asshole. Bullying gives a lot of power to the bullied if they can stick together and resist.

Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 7h

The deadline has passed. Will Hegseth revoke all those press passes?

Media including Fox News overwhelmingly reject Pentagon press policy

Fox News, along with ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN, said that the Pentagon policy violates their “core journalistic protections.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 8h

Whooooooo.

MR. KHOJASTEH: Your Honor, with respect, do you
doubt the fact that a retainer [sic] is in place in -- a
detainer is in place?
THE COURT: I absolutely doubt the fact until I see
it. Because you know what? You all have taken a position over
and over again that you have done things lawfully, and then a
witness gets on the stand yesterday and admits you haven't done
it lawfully.
MR. KHOJASTEH: What did the witness say yesterday
that was unlawfully?
THE COURT: I'm not here to answer your questions,
sir. You're here to answer mine.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 7h

So much evidence

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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 7h

I think there’s a comfort in blaming our current politics on social media.

When I think a boring but more accurate story is that plutocratic tech elites and right-wingers *made a lot of choices*.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Edsall from NYT: “ The rise of the smartphone and the fall of western democracy”

In an Oct. 2 essay posted in Persuasion, “It’s the Internet, Stupid: What Caused the Global Populist Wave? Blame the Screens,” Fukuyama, after nearly a decade of examining the causes of rising global populism, wrote, “I have come to conclude that technology broadly and the internet in particular stand out as the most salient explanations for why global populism has arisen in this particular historical period, and why it has taken the particular form that it has.”

The advent of the internet, Fukuyama continued,

can explain both the timing of the rise of populism, as well as the curious conspiratorial character that it has taken. In today’s politics, the red and blue sides of America’s polarization contest not just values and policies, but factual information like who won the 2020 election or whether vaccines are safe.

The two sides inhabit completely different information spaces; both can believe that they are involved in an existential struggle for American democracy because they begin with different factual premises as to the nature of the threats to that order.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 8h

Indigenous People's Day
Portland, Oregon
ICE

Azick dancer in green regelia with green feathers looks on at the ice facility.Ice security lights in the background

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 13h

What Young Republicans say to each other when they think no one is listening. No words.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportation flights. The AP spoke to a number of people who said they were placed in the device after they had already been shackled.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

bit.ly

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry Glendale

GLENDALE
Glendale taxpayers owed $493K for Charlie Kirk memorial costs

Shawn Raymundo
Arizona Republic
Updated Oct. 14, 2025, 9:24 a.m. MT

Archive: https://archive.ph/znqsm

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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 12h

U.S. measles cases continue to climb w/ outbreaks across the country. The US has confirmed 1563 cases in 2025, according to the CDC—the highest yearly total in >3 decades. The true total could be even higher, says Dr. Paul Offit of the Vaccine Education Center in Philadelphia—closer to 5000 cases👇

U.S. measles cases continue to climb, with outbreaks across the country

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S., total case counts could be even higher than the official number.

www.npr.org

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 13h

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.

🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

How indigenous practices can help protect forests

The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.

wapo.st

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 12h

I know the temptation is to just scroll past this with a “not surprised” reaction, but you should read this if you have the emotional bandwidth to encounter horrifying slurs and violent sentiments, because there’s an important takeaway: extremism is often performed to reinforce an in-group’s bond.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 12h

"For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10 times."
...the manosphere is making a lot more sense to me now

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 12h

The Assad government carried out a two-year clandestine operation to truck thousands of bodies from one of Syria’s largest known mass graves to a secret location more than an hour away in the remote desert, a Reuters investigation has found.

www.reuters.com/world/middle...

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 14h

If you live *or work* in PVD, you have two hours to do this & if you can scroll on this app I believe you can also send a little note to the clerk. Set yourself a 5-minute timer, start typing, & hit send when it rings!

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 14h

#PVDlocal: 3pm TODAY (Tues) is the deadline for WRITTEN testimony in support of a citywide ban on police-ICE collaboration & some structures for recourse & protection. Numbers matter! Send testimony to cityclerk @ providenceri . gov (w/o spaces). Testimony guide here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Testify: No police/ICE collaboration! ICE out of the courts!

~Espanol abajo~ Submit testimony to demand that the Providence Police and courts stop working with ICE! CITY COUNCIL IS HOLDING THE FIRST OF TWO VOTES TO AMEND THE COMMUNITY SAFETY ACT THIS THURSDAY!...

docs.google.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 14h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 12h

Right-wing propaganda

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 12h

What the fuck is this load