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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 1h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

The NBC Asian America crew regularly covered so many of my films, comics, and books over the years. One of the very few big, mainstream venues to give a damn. This is a kick in the teeth.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

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...

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 1h

Reporter Martha Raddatz: I turned in my Pentagon pass today after 30 years because like all major news organizations ABC will not sign the new restrictive pentagon requirements. This was the image I wanted to remember as I walked out of the building.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 2h

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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.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

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Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 2h

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The Most Iconic Genre Movie Posters of Drew Struzan

In honor of the legendary poster artist's passing, we take a look back at the very best works of a master.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 3h

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The Children Are Always Ours

As a mother, I stand with ALL children. There is literally no justification for even one child to have to suffer, live in fear, or die in violence.

www.on-motherhood.com

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 7h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

A Bronx family lived without utilities for over 6 weeks after they were shut off without explanation.

The landlord, despite receiving severe violation notices, didn't fix the problem.

HPD couldn’t turn the utilities back on, so it issued the family a vacate order.

These Bronx Tenants Lived Six Weeks Without Water and Power. The City’s Fix? A Vacate Order

The plight of the Ramos family reveals the weaknesses in the City's system to protect tenants from unlivable conditions—and from being put out on the street.

hellgatenyc.com

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 7h

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Ohio Lawmaker Wants to Ban Marriage Between Humans and AI Chatbots

Love should stay between a human and a human, according to one Ohio legislator.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11h

The professor should be forced to pay back the money she forced her students to spend buying her AI-generated textbook--this is such a scam. And she should never teach again.
And this is exactly why universities should have calmed their jets before heralding gAI as the next coming of Christ.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 9h

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150 Best Sony Pictures Classics Movies, Ranked by Tomatometer

For more than 30 years, Sony Pictures Classics has been a leader in bringing films to audiences all around the world.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 21h

They say the quiet part ALL OUT LOUD!!!!! 🧐🎯💯🤬
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‘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.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 1d

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Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 1d

In the right hands Tao Zero would make a great mini-series or a longish movie.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 1d

I just gave a very young friend of mine (who is also a budding fantasy writer) John Myers Myers Silverlock AND HE LOVES IT! I can hardly wait to spring the sequel he doesn't know about on him next ..🌞

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's interesting to me that when I and other authors suggest starting people new to SF/F on contemporary titles as an easier step-in to the genre, there are people who seem to think this means we think no one should read anything in SF/F that's more than 20 years old, EVER. This is, uh, very silly.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 1d

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Author Ken Liu on AI, reality, and the world we're building

The American sci-fi novelist Ken Liu talks about his new thriller All That We See or Seem and the blurred lines between technology, reality, and imagination.

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 1d

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A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

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