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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 6h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Formerly known as Truly S. @notincleveland.bsky.social · 7h

This ad really is a "wow." A whole ad about trans rights. No dancing around it, no sidestepping it--realizing fully well (no doubt) how he'll be targeted for it. Here he stands; he can do no other. Well done.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11h

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

Will do! Thanks for doing this work ❤️

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

Doing what I can to get Gen Alpha on board : )
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

11 is getting an early start on her chess-themed poster for next weekend's No Kings protest.

Photo of a tween girl kneeling on the floor drawing on large poster paper, next to a rough sketch showing a standing pawn next to a tipped over King piece with a swoop of hair, with "checkmate" written at the top

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 6h

Since NoKings 2.0 is this weekend, I thought I’d reup what I was seeing earlier this year…

Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · Apr 20

These images and stories from yesterday's mobilizations across the US are inspiring, but one thing that is visibly absent from Resistance2.0 so far is young people. Based on conversations with youth and campus organizers I know and data I've collected, here are some likely reasons (short 🧵)

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Apr 20

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s the story a Latina US citizen told me about being surrounded by masked agents who demanded her papers and, when they got them, told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

Under federal law, registered foreign nationals must carry proof of registration with them at all times. But prior to a second Trump administration, it was rarely enforced.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

My kids always ask their most complicated questions when I'm trying to do something complicated while parking the car.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The overriding goal of too many journalists is to provide “balanced” coverage from a “neutral” position in equidistance to both sides. That framework is much easier to justify if you pretend to be dealing with “normal” politicians – as opposed to committed ideologues pursuing an extreme project.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 1d

Something I didn't appreciate until my kids started school was just how enmeshed the tech industry is in public ed. Attendance, school lunch, communication, calendars, testing, teaching tools--everything has its own app. There's a lot of money to be made there.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

This work is really important. I see the language in the 2nd ad all the time — “you’re not alone.”

But the subtext is: “You’re absolutely alone."

Whatever this “Crimson” organization is offering, it DEPENDS on you feeling alone.

That’s what makes it predatory.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

According to the designer, it's supposed to be sun protective. But apparently they're not worried about the arms... 🙄

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Are these designers trying to win a contract from Gilead?

Image showing "cocoon" bodysuits from Alaïa, which trapped models' arms inside. Alongside an image of a design from Maison Margiela featuring a mouth guard that seems to make talking impossible.

Image of a design from Courreges showing a revealing tank top with a hood that fully covers the model's face.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Meanwhile, ed tech companies are salivating--eager to sell "solutions" to families whose schools will now struggle (even more than they already have) to meet their kids' learning needs.

(Here are a few of the ed tech ads I've been tracking over the past few months)

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Joshua Weishart @joshuaweishart.bsky.social · 2d

The Education Department has been repurposed to destabilize public education so they can privatize much of it.

The harm inflicted on children in the process is just another casualty of the Project 2025 education agenda.

Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 2d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

New research finds that conservatives tended to endorse moral absolutism, whereas liberals tend to endorse moral relativism.

Moral absolutists are more likely to support banning practices they deem immoral psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 1d

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

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Nancy Gage @ngage.bsky.social · 2d

The youngins are so darn alright.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

11 is getting an early start on her chess-themed poster for next weekend's No Kings protest.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

11 is getting an early start on her chess-themed poster for next weekend's No Kings protest.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2d

Because they want a world where only the wealthy elite can afford to buy health--and where, for everyone else, it's survival of the fittest.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 2d

I’m a mom.
I’m a scientist.
I’m an activist.

I’m not going to stand by while unqualified, Quack, fringe-ass conspiracy theorists make decisions about my family’s health that is going to kill people.

Join me outside of HHS on 10/16 at 3pm.
@standupforscience.bsky.social

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