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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Again, every time this happens, we literally have no idea if the masked, plainclothes people are actual government agents, or private citizens acting in party-affiliated paramilitaries. The whole point of IDs & uniforms & no masks is that we know these things.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

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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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1h

So are we just supposed to hope and pray the LLMs don’t hallucinate during these military consultations?

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 3h

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1h

In other words, segregate your universities if you want funding.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2h

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 3h

Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse hyperallergic.com/1048757/kaar...

Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse

A retrospective projects the fear that the world is not the nice place we want it to be, no matter how much we play pretend.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20h

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 21h

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 6h

Trump is threatening more tariffs. But it looks like China is winning the trade war qz.com/china-winnin...

Fresh export data suggests China is winning the trade war

New data shows China's dependence on American consumers is shrinking, offering an early verdict on Trump's renewed trade wars

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 3d

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism ... you don't say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 11h

MAGA cultist may buy the canard Trump is battling the “enemy from within,” but voters, courts, and governors are effectively confirming that Trump is the menace. Republicans would be smart to flee the losing side of an unsustainable position that has unified opposition to MAGA’s despotism.

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 11h

Trump and chief attack dog Stephen Miller bit off more than they can chew. Their cities based on obvious lies has antagonized voters, outraged judges, and triggered public opposition from two GOP governors—a rare act of defiance that may trigger more defections. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State

Voters, Courts, and GOP Governors slam Trump’s militarization of cities

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 9h

I find these veterans' continuing service to the United States very moving www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Growing number of US veterans face arrest over Ice raid protests

Veterans are facing federal charges after protesting Ice sweeps and Trump’s national guard deployments. The justice department claims the veterans were violent

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

apparently “bari weiss doesn’t actually know what journalism is” extends to getting basic facts like the name of a subject right

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 8h

Book 13 for #SpookyBookSeason: Caitlin R. Kernan's The Drowning Girl! A novel about a schizophrenic young woman's encounter with a mermaid, a werewolf, a siren, and a ghost -- which may or may not be real. A truly haunting read. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Drowning Girl

Check out The Drowning Girl - <b>A complex, haunting novel that explores a schizophrenic young artist's struggles with her perception of reality... including an intriguing ghostly woman who appears to...

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 12d

Now that it's officially spooky season, let me do a list of favorite spooky books till Halloween! #SpookyBookSeason First up: Laird Barron's original horror collection The Imago Sequence, with stories often featuring tough guy characters facing supernatural horror! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Check out The Imago Sequence and Other Stories - <B>To the tradition of eldritch horror pioneered and refined by writers such as H.P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti comes Laird Barron, an...

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · Jul 2

1) cops never actually do this.

2) any who would are the ones you definitely want gone.

Amir Talai @amirtalai.bsky.social · Jul 2

zohran come to Los Angeles!!!!!!!!!

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 8h

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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Alan Boyle @b0yle.bsky.social · 8h

New podcast: Long before the Roswell UFO Incident, Native Americans were telling tales about space aliens. Now there's a new one by Cherokee sci-fi novelist Daniel H. Wilson, "Hole in the Sky," which blends ancient legends with the latest buzz about UFOs (a.k.a. UAP). cosmiclog.com/2025/10/13/n...

Native American legends get woven into an alien tale

Centuries before the Roswell UFO Incident, Native Americans had their own stories to tell about alien visitations — for example, about the “Sky People” who traveled from the Pleiades st…

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 8h

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 8h

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 12h

I now realize that for my entire adult life, I've had a very narrow conception of what "supporting and defending the Constitution" means. Standing on business when armed agents of the State are knocking on your door is way more important, by a country mile, than anything I did overseas

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 8h

I'm under no illusions that most these guys will go to jail, but those that do stuff like this should lose their jobs.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 11h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

When authoritarians tell you they like authoritarianism, over and over and over and over and over again, believe them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 10h

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 12h

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine not only sharing this weak anecdote as your origin story -- a colleague didn't like Ben Shapiro, and I had to hear them talk about it! -- but making it your entire identity.

Jesus Christ.

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 9h

pinned tweet of the shitposter who wrote the story

Olivia Reingold
@Olivia_Reingold
Why I joined
@thefp
:

I knew I didn’t fit in when Politico let
@benshapiro
guest write an edition of Playbook. I told a colleague I was stoked because “this helps legitimize us.” They responded that they were taking a mental health day to process ‘Shapirogate.’

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 9h

is this how CBS is gonna work now? using bari weiss's personal blog to launder poorly sourced and lightly edited stories (complete with a misspelling of mamdani's name in the headline) that would never pass muster if reported directly by a real news source?

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10h

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.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 8h

Layoffs, a “coding error,” chaos: Trump admin ravages the health dept. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

Mass firings at US health dept. partially reversed but still devastating

Reports suggest the hardest hit is the CDC, which is already struggling to function.

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 11h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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