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Arvadans for Progressive Action @arvadacoindivisibl.bsky.social · 5h

Don't let yourself be neutral, join us on October 18th for a No Kings rally!

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Heidi Eaton @heidi-eaton.bsky.social · 6h

Quite a bit smaller than the Spined Micrathena, the White Micrathena (Micrathena mitrata) likes similar forest habitats, frequently making its webs across trails (or so it seems). #arachtober #arachtober2025 #spider 🕷️

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Eric R. Eaton @bugeric.bsky.social · 6h

Fulgoraecia exigua is the Planthopper Parasite Moth, a diminutive creature, the caterpillar of which lives as an external parasite of planthoppers, sucking the host’s hemolymph. Leavenworth, Kansas, USA, October 14, 2025. #bugsky #moth #moths #insects

Very small, dark gray moth with elliptical wings and comb-like antennae, sitting on window screen, head up.

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Teri Goodson 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇦🇺 🏳‍🌈 🏳‍⚧ 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 🇧🇷 🇺🇳 🇯🇵 🇰🇷 @terigoodson.bsky.social · 11h

These nations remember who we were before Trump, they are hoping we can recover democracy.

Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 16h

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 16h

Happy 87th birthday to John Dean, who is living history. 52 years ago, he stood up to an out of control POTUS whose behavior seems quaint to what we are dealing with now. He admitted his own mistakes and did the right thing. Ever since he has spoken out loudly about authoritarianism & so much more.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 9h

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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These Shells Are Made for Walking 🪷🇺🇦🟦 @stayscathed.bsky.social · 6h

Now multiple by 50. Every state is going to go thru this.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 6h

Welp.

Insurance commissioner says Coloradans are about to make “scary” choices if Congress doesn’t act on healthcare

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 6h

400 Rogers Park neighbors rallied after ICE arrested 4 people, including a tamale vendor. Neighbors lined Clark Street on Saturday as a show of support.

“We’ve seen that when we have large numbers of volunteers out here, they target us less." blockclubchi.co/4haiWbC

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 19h

Anything really does go in the desert 🪶

A burrowing owl standing on a rock with its legs fully showing. Could use some pants.

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 7h

Same in DC. It’s been two months.

Still constant helicopters overhead. Abandoned work trucks where neighbors have been kidnapped by ICE. Armed national guard walking the streets. Feds posting up in former unhoused spaces to keep people away.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 7h

🧪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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

"George has continued criticizing the president and figures of his administration, including Stephen Miller (during her appearance on The Katie Miller Podcast, Kellyanne described the Millers as some of her 'best friends' in the current administration)."

www.thedailybeast.com/kellyanne-co...

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 7h

Is she talking about the young children missing because her goon squad dragged them naked & crying from their apartment complex or the 15-yr old girl they tackled & threw into an unmarked van the other day?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Pam Bondi repeatedly claims that finding one missing child "makes it all worthwhile" when it comes to military occupations of American cities and adds that "Pritzker should be begging Donald Trump to come in."

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dale pesmen @dpesmen.bsky.social · 11d

Come see my birds, animals, book-themed art, figures, live painting, abstraction, and assorted hybrids on canvas and paper: BOOTH 16, WEST LOOP CONTEMPORARY FINE ART EXPO, Oct 17-19, Stephen Bailey Auditorium, 1340 W. Washington, Chicago. Cf. pesmen.com (art) & westloopartexpos.com (details)

A largely abstract painting inspired by the Iliad. Vertical and primarily reds, white, with black, blue, and yellow, it has waves, a trident, greek lettering, and a striding flaming unknown thing that may have testicles

horizontal oil painting of semi-abstract flaming-red rabbits on a dark green and pale yellow ground. Water, maybe; a carrot

Horizontal rather expressionist encaustic painting of a graphite-grey bust holding down fragmented manuscripts

Expressionist painting of an odd and intent long-eared owl turned to face us. black, grey, brown

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Carol @cvc5280.bsky.social · 7h

@govpritzker.illinois.gov what’s up with this?

Freeloader @freeloadersb.bsky.social · 8h

And you need to answer why the Illinois state police aren’t protecting your citizens.

They are escorting ICE

Carol @cvc5280.bsky.social · 7h

Scariest movie for me as a child. Still find it difficult to even think about those ants.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 16h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 12h

1/ Bird flu is back, and more than 4.4 million birds have been sick in the past month. The uptick has been detected among backyard flocks, commercial farms, and wild birds. Katelyn here, Your Local Epidemiologist, and here’s what you need to know about this and other #publichealth news this week 👇

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/14/w...

WGN-TV producer hires attorney to ‘pursue all legal actions’ after ICE detention

Debbie Brockman and her legal team “adamantly deny” allegations that she assaulted federal officers during an immigration enforcement action.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Nancy @beeznplantz.bsky.social · 13h

#arvadacolorado 10-noon at Wadsworth and Grandview. Peaceful rally with costumes encouraged!

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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 17h

A powerful personal testament from Tom Bowman of NPR about the Pentagon attempt to exert complete control over all information. Protecting classified is of course fine. But when neither Fox News nor NY Times sign up to your policy, you should ask yourself if you are getting something very wrong.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Jessie Williamson @jlwilliamson.bsky.social · 12h

My lab is hiring a 2-yr hummingbird evolution and genomics postdoc and a 1-yr salaried research and lab tech. Both with full U. Wyoming benefits. Please spread the word! Info below. Best consideration date Nov 1, start dates early Spring 2026.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Developing: per photographer Matthew Kaplan and others on scene, neighbors are currently facing dozens of Border Patrol agents on the east side. Feds have been all over the area, some kidnappings confirmed. Saw one gas canister deployed on FB live earlier.

Militarized federal agents in street at 105th and N

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