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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 7m

Maybe this?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

Walking into a Republican's office in 2025.

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 37m

Remember.

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 47m

It was a bad breathing day, so I had to use my nebulizer. Is the air quality bad in Indy today?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

To catch you up, Indiana University’s student newspaper reported:
• It was told to print no news in its homecoming edition, set to come out Thursday.
• It refused.
• The director of student media was fired.
• Hours later, IU cut all print editions of the paper, including Thursday’s issue.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

UPDATE: More at Indiana University, with all IDS print being cut.

The university chancellor claims “the campus is completing the shift from print to digital effective this week” — despite the fight earlier this week having been over a print Homecoming edition. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

By Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller
Oct 15, 2025 5:54 pm • Updated Oct 15, 2025 7:28 pm
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Indiana University fully cut the Indiana Daily Student's print newspaper - including the special publications it had earlier indicated it wanted us to run - Tuesday evening, hours after firing its student media director. Our next edition, part of volume 158, in our 158th year of publication, was set to go out
Thursday.

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 2h

I will add that these journalists and news orgs did the right thing, the only thing they could do, and I applaud them. It's just that I think the regime expected this reaction. It's a win-win for them either way, and a net loss for the American people.

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 4h

I love people who tell stories with 'too many details' simply because their lore, their life, has been so varied, rich, and full that they can't contain them. I love collecting those stories.

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 4h

I'm not so sure that this wasn't their goal.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 21h

BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the seat of U.S. military power.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just a reminder: The tenth anniversary editions of the original Southern Reach trilogy are still out in the wild, selling well. NYT bestsellers and on a lot of best-of-decade or this century lists. With new intros by Karen Joy Fowler, NK Jemisin, and Helen MacDonald. Buy from you favorite indie.

Southern Reach covers with morphed boar, rabbit, and owl, art by Pablo Delcan.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 18h

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

www.statnews.com

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 18h

You wanna follow some cool trans writers? I gotcha.

go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 18h

Shameful.

WFIU/WTIU News @wfiuwtiunews.bsky.social · 20h

After firing a student media adviser, Indiana University is ending all printing of the Indiana Daily Student. This will be the first time in 158 years that IU will be without a print newspaper. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social

Update: IU fires adviser of student media, stops printing Daily Student

Editors at the Indiana Daily Student said Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush refused to tell students to remove news from an upcoming special print edition.

www.ipm.org

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 19h

Transgender Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78

The pioneering transgender activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has died at the age of 78.

www.democracynow.org

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 20h

I met a new neighbor today that I've been parasocially connected to for a while while I was out on a bike ride. How fun.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

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

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

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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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 21h

Yes. All the time. Privacy.

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 22h

Didn't have rating inflatable costumes for the upcoming civil war on my bingo card, but there you go.

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 1d

Currently reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. My first time. I'm enjoying it so far. #spookyreads #booksky

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 1d

Every single one of these fucking hypocrites supported the pardoning of the J6 insurrectionists.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 1d

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Man standing in from of people with a giant pad of paper and a pen: “Don’t think about it, just say it”

Irritated-looking man sitting at a round table with a group of people: “Fuck you.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Kristin Wilson 📎 @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 1d

Would seem to me that a Congressman beating his girlfriend and having a judge order a restraining order against him is "really serious..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 1d

Ammie loves morning snuggles.
#dogsofbluesky
#dogsky

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 1d

Paint on streets is *not* infrastructure.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 8d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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