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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 18h

As if we were so organized! 😆

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e.g. Alice Lastname 🙃 @reggiereigns.bsky.social · 19h

Undocumented immigrants staying beyond a visa are civil violations. Like a parking ticket. This broad brush idea that they are criminals is obnoxious. They probably left a country we staged a coup in.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 19h

I know you are, but what am I? So much projection.

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Amanda Heidt @scattercushion.bsky.social · 20h

🧪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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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 19h

Too bad people are still buying from Amazon. They are part of the reason we're here.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 20h

Unsurprising but these should be shown the light of day everywhere.

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 21h

This is disgusting. And I can GUARANTEE you that lots of dumps are going to come out about lots of Republican electeds who are way too close to the people in these texts. 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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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

From 2020?

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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TheCatMan @bigbrohem.bsky.social · 1d

“We can no longer talk about tipping points as a future risk.”

Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect for NM!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Today I wrote about the importance of not falling into the trap of allowing career prosecutors to legitimize political prosecutions. Become a Democracy Docket member to receive all of my writings and other exclusive content while also supporting independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Westchester. Another one in WA state too.

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

Love the mushroom!

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Steve Riggins @steveriggins.net · 1d

So fucking proud of my Portland neighbors

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?si=GCCjQ...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 1d

Libraries have been moving to rely more on networks to fill the gaps of austerity, and now they are unraveling.

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d

“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

buttondown.com

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

The dirty secret is that Bessent has never had to think about a paycheck in his life and he has no soul.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

This amazing cover of Radiohead's "Creep" by college junior Erin Morton made the rounds earlier this year on TikTok, but I only saw it over the weekend. In case you haven't heard it yet, prepare to get goosebumps.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsrN...

CCM Student Erin Morton's viral cover of Radiohead's "Creep" #CCMstars

YouTube video by College-Conservatory of Music University of Cincinnati

www.youtube.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.

But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.

(Published 2023)

Private Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.

What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o...

www.propublica.org

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Bird + Camera @doctorbluebird.bsky.social · 1d

This is head spinning and that's their point.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit

More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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