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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 7h

Props to his editor and publisher for standing up.

Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 7h

Let slip the frogs of war.

Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 9h

A Message From The Frog Resistance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bw5z...

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 8h

Speaking truth to power… or power to idiots in this case. Either way, get your vaccines, people.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 9h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Ryan Quinn @ryanequinn.bsky.social · 18h

Hey, I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing today about how the ongoing shutdown may be affecting, or about to affect, university research. If you have a story to share, please DM me or email [email protected] today. Thank you.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 13h

"Cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war." --Shakespeare

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 15h

Wales might be the Portland of the UK.

Headline of the Day @headlineoftheday.bsky.social · 15h

Man turns pothole into giant bowl of beans on toast.
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Man turns pothole into giant bowl of beans on toast

Ben wants to highlight the problem of huge potholes as the council has not taken action

www.walesonline.co.uk

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 15h

Clever graphic:

Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 15h

Join Together and Reject Trump's Loyalty Oath for Higher Ed-Penn, USC, Vanderbilt, University of Virginia, University of Arizona, UT-Austin, MIT, Brown & Dartmouth.
@aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22h

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 13, 2025 ~ The end of coral.

"We are rapidly approaching multiple Earth system tipping points that could transform our world, with devastating consequences for people and nature..."

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/c...

The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, report finds | CNN

The widespread death of coral reefs is the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible tipping points the world may hit, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists ac...

www.cnn.com

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 20h

For a Halloween costume this year, should I go as Performative Male or the Epstein Files?

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 21h

Best times headline of the morning:
Beheaded and Sent to Watery Graves, Columbus Statues Get New Life

Beheaded and Sent to Watery Graves, Columbus Statues Get New Life

www.nytimes.com

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The Oxford Publicity Partnership Ltd (OPP) @oxfordpublicity.bsky.social · 1d

How three little words shaped #abortion debates—BACK-ALLEY ABORTION by Emily Winderman, new from @hopkinspress.bsky.social, is OUT NOW and available to buy from bookshops throughout Europe! @blackwells.bsky.social

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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 23h

My cartoon for Tuesday's Metro

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Chuck Tee @chutry.bsky.social · 23h

This is brilliant

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 2d

Pay attention to what Portland is doing. Wear ridiculous costumes, dance, sing, hand out flowers. It makes it more difficult for them to label you as a threat.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

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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Mandy Ⓥ🐾✊🇨🇦🇬🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸 @veganm.bsky.social · 3d

We remember how great it used to be 💔💔💔

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 3d

Hmm, Antifly? (Okay, you try a frog pun. Harder than you think!)

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 3d

Aristophanes approves!

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

I would like to see frog cosplay as political resistance become a thing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

I love this image.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

I would like to see frog cosplay as political resistance become a thing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

I love this image.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 3d

Plus witty as hell!

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 3d

The Righteous Among the Nations.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

The MAGA-SAGA in 3 Acts

Act I: Descends Escalator - Loses to Biden

Act II: Regains WH - Present Day

Act III: EPSTEIN Files Released

The End

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 3d

Thrilled to open the latest New Yorker and see an @oupress.bsky.social author. The press published José A. Rodríguez's exquisite memoir "House Built on Ashes."

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