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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 2h

Today, journalists from a very wide range of mainstream papers and other media sources will lose access to Pentagon news as they all have refused to sign a Pentagon document agreeing to limit their public reports.
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www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

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...

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 13h

Yes! Their flight was even delayed and the arrived in Toronto in the middle of the night. Resilient!

Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 14h

Woohoo! Mariners win first 2 games in series after winning a 15 inning game against Detroit on Friday and then traveling across the continent to Toronto to win game against Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon and 2nd game tonight!
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Mariners seize the moment, slug their way to 2-0 ALCS lead

TORONTO -- The Mariners were supposed to be the team dragging through this American League Championship Series, forced to grind out an extra-inning epic just for the privilege of flying across the cou...

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 18h

Smile.

Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 21h

Delightful.

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 21h

Snicker. That would also take out at least all of southern and central Wisconsin, a state that voted for him in 2024.

Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 22h

Really useful invention! @ericowens.bsky.social
greekreporter.com/2025/10/12/a...

Hydraulic Telegraph: World's First Telecommunications Device Was Invented in Ancient Greece - GreekReporter.com

The hydraulic telegraph, a telecommunications device invented by ancient Greeks, allowed the sending of long distance messages.

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 22h

Yes!

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 22h

Very cool. Beautiful piece.
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www.goodnewsnetwork.org/25-thrift-sh...

$25 Thrift Shop Purchase May be ‘Priceless’ Glasswork Belonging to Scottish King Robert the Bruce

A stained glass window bought in a Scottish thrift shop for $25 may have belonged to King Robert I— Robert the Bruce—from the 1300s.

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 1d

Snicker.

Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 1d

Watching CNN.
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Handover of Israeli hostages set to begin in Gaza, as Hamas releases names of those being freed - follow live

The release of 48 Israeli hostages - 20 of whom are believed to be alive - is expected to start shortly, alongside the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome back!

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 2d

The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 2d

today in "predicted by 30 Rock"

Edie Falco on 30 Rock:
I MISSED THE VOTE ON A BILL TO LEGALIZE RECREATIONAL WHALE TORTURE.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

So, I did some fun stuff in Toronto. Tell you more in about a year.

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Nichols in the movies? A documentary? I was in two, the A and E Biography of Mary Magdalene, and a 20/20 hour long special on Jesus’s resurrection. They both took over a year to air on TV!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d

Biden-to-Trump voter on National Guard deployment in American cities: "I was in the Army and I didn't sign up for that. I signed up to fight enemies of the United States, and my fellow Americans are not my enemy."

@eggerdc.bsky.social joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social on this week's Focus Group:

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 1d

Snicker.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

Words like genocide, just like words like terrorism, are not based in vibes

Graham The Man @graham006.bsky.social · 2d

Tom the way the Israelis have treated Palestinians from the creation of modern Israel has "felt" like a slow genocide.... Maybe address that instead of focusing on strict definitions?

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not mocking them, I’m mocking the people who really, really wanted to portray this as holocaust 2.0

deboh45241.bsky.social @deboh45241.bsky.social · 2d

Mocking the killing of innocent people is really not a good look.

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 1d

Many scholars of the Holocaust argue that the Shoah was unique and other atrocities cannot be considered equal to it, even other atrocities which can do fit the actual definition of genocide.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 2d

“words mean what I want them to mean”

Luke Côté @locutusof.bsky.social · 2d

Tom, holocaust has a very simple definition. Slaughter on a mass scale.

So the fact you think there has only been holocaust 1.0 and no other events can use the word is a bit odd.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 2d

Biden wasn’t president yet. These folks aren’t too bright

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CallsignBaker GOP=🤡's @bobtheangryone.bsky.social · 2d

"Well, we just know that Genocide Joe started the genocide and Kamala, genocide junior, didn't say the right things about the genocide and I bought all these Genocide Joe t-shirts."

Good thing they didn't vote for those genocide supporters. Things could have been really bad. 🙄

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Kathleen E. Corley, PhD @drkathleenecorley.bsky.social · 1d

You were really on a roll earlier today.

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