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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 16h

Damn, folks. This left-wing political correctness on campus at (*checks notes*) … er, Indiana University? — is out of control.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 18h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Alex Speier @alexspeier.bsky.social · 19h

Red Sox director of amateur scouting Devin Pearson - who worked alongside Paul Toboni, then replaced him as the person in charge of the Sox drafts from 2023-25 - has been hired as assistant GM of the Nationals. The Sox are expected to replace Pearson internally. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/14/s...

Sox director of amateur scouting Devin Pearson leaving to join Paul Toboni with Nationals - The Boston Globe

Pearson had been with the Sox since 2017, rising quickly as a key contributor to the team’s preparations for the draft while working closely with Toboni.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 19h

This also (positively) suggests to me that senior political leaders are now able to view the federal workforce as less a Rube Goldberg machine (press that and who knows?) and more a sensitive logic model (press that and ZOMG wait no don't press that).

Courtney Rozen @courtneyrozen.bsky.social · 19h

The number of U.S. federal worker layoffs as a result of the government shutdown was revised downward on Tuesday, suggesting the administration's initial statement about sweeping job cuts was too ambitious.

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Trump administration says 4,108 workers have been fired since shutdown began

The number of U.S. federal worker layoffs as a result of the government shutdown was revised downward on Tuesday, suggesting the administration's initial statement about sweeping job cuts was too ambitious.

www.reuters.com

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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 19h

The Engelbert Dollfuss option

Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 20h

What if Mike Johnson just kind of…refuses to bring the House back in session

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Aug 11

(AP) — The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote.

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Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn't be allowed to vote

The man who oversees the nation’s military has reposted a video on X, formerly Twitter, about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to v...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump and Hegseth announce a fourth strike on boats in the Caribbean. Claim 6 were killed. If the White House's figures are accurate, that brings the total killed to 27. With no evidence presented by the US proving they're drug traffickers. x.com/PeteHegseth/...

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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 1d

They're all Nazis

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 1d

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

The Bari Weiss-led CBS News has had this up for 3 days and misspelled his name in the hed.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

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Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

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Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Andrew Hartman @andrewhartman.bsky.social · 2d

The great Robin Blackburn reviews my book for @thenation.com.

"In Karl Marx in America, Andrew Hartman provides us with a kaleidoscopic vision of Marxism in the United States in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries."

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Jeff Moore @jbm0.bsky.social · 2d

"The Danes used empathy politically—an action abhorred by right-wing leaders, who have gone so far as to brand it as an enemy and a weakness. But what they are leaving unsaid is that fascism cannot prosper where empathy exists."

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The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 2d

After months of backlash, the Biden administration stopped detaining immigrant women there in 2021, and the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations embarked on an 18-month investigation. interc.pt/4okFqcd

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 2d

Food comes from Argentina and control of the sea lanes.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 3d

Kaleb Cooper, the breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm, has called for farming to be taught in schools so that children understand where their food comes from ⬇️

Teach farming in schools, says Kaleb Cooper — it saved me

The star of the TV series Clarkson’s Farm tells the Cheltenham Literature Festival that ‘everyone should know how to grow potatoes and other vegetables’

www.thetimes.com

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Buddy Spell @buddyspell.bsky.social · 3d

Fort Worth, Texas.

#WeAreEverywhere

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 2d

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being a sweatshop manager in Shanghai told to crack the whip because American wizards need increased frog suit production to ward off an invasion of America by America.

Liv “Leev” Rainey-Smith @livraineysmith.bsky.social · 4d

Last night when I looked at this listing it said "200+ sold in last month". This morning it said "300+ sold in last month." Now...

Screenshot of amazon dot com listing for the inflatable frog costume currently known as the Portland Frog. It says "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock." Then suggests that you might like other items and shows partial images of axolotl and gnome inflatable costumes

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Evan Procknow @eprocknow.bsky.social · 2d

Totally agree. College football is littered with has been programs

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