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Star Bustamonte
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News correspondent for The Wild Hunt, co-host of The 4:15, and co-owner of House of Black Cat Magic.
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House of Black Cat Magic could use your help. We know times are tough, so we deeply appreciate any support you might be inclined to offer, be it financial, magical, or just kind words. I would be very grateful if you would help to spread the word & share our GFM.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-c...
Donate to Help Our Cat Lounge & Staff Recover from Hurricane Helene, organized by Hannah Soboleski
We are House of Black Cat Magic, a small women-owned retail s… Hannah Soboleski needs your support for Help Our Cat Lounge & Staff Recover from Hurricane Helene
www.gofundme.com
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As predicted.
NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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Lindsey Halligan says I’m not a journalist.

But if you think I am, and you value our our non-profit legal news and analysis, you can support our work here: givebutter.com/journalism/a...

You can also follow me on Substack: annabower.substack.com/about
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1. ICE has sharply increased its spending on weapons in 2025, according to an analysis of federal gov't data by Popular Information.

Records reveal ICE has increased spending on “small arms" — a category that includes guns, armor, chemical weapons, and explosives — by 700% compared to 2024 levels
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This is the thing that will age me faster

Also anyone quoting the AI overview at the top of any Google Search page as fact. STOP!
CHATGPT IS NOT A FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE
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CHATGPT IS NOT A FUCKING SEARCH ENGINE
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I walked past Reading Terminal Market. It was swarmed with people on a Friday night. It is as vibrant and diverse and gritty as anyplace in America; its existence is a demonstration of the lives and foods of the immigrants that made America and became American.
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Oh.

A 155-mm shell fired during a live-fire demonstration for the 250th anniversary of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday prematurely detonated, dropping fragments of the shell on a California Highway Patrol vehicle and motorcycle that were part of Vice President JD Vance’s detail
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
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I spend most of my science time thinking about large scale structures like dark matter halos around galaxies but I also do a bit of dark matter neutron stars and this new @scifri.bsky.social episode is about an adjacent idea 🔭
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Have Astrophysicists Spotted Evidence For ‘Dark Stars’?
Podcast Episode · Science Friday · 10/20/2025 · 13m
podcasts.apple.com
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I worked with Erez Reuveni at the Dept. of Justice. He is a man of consummate integrity. His warning must catalyze action by us, the people of the United States.
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We love this message of love from @aoc.bsky.social to trans youth everywhere. As we approach 60k signatures, we echo the sentiment wholeheartedly.

The continued attack on the trans community is absolutely not in our name:

www.tiktok.com/@aoc/video/7...
My message for trans youth in what feels like a terrifying moment: I stand with you. I've got your back.
TikTok video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
www.tiktok.com
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
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This is brilliant, particularly this line about early social media: ‘If you got exposed to insane opinions, that was only because your real-world friends were insane’
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Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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The Mayor of Chicago referenced a historical general strike in his speech today in a way that very much sounded like he was planting that seed.
An absolutely MASSIVE peaceful rally like #NoKings is part of an organizing strategy and movement that could lead to what this sign maker wants.

All of it matters. All of it builds.
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Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/0islLh9
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