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Gareth Bouch @garethbouch.bsky.social · 1h

Clarifying beyond any legal doubt that his policies are nothing to do with economics etc but purely partisan vengeance.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "They call him Terminator but he's actually a very nice person -- Russell Vought. But Russell Vought is really terminating tremendous numbers of Democrat projects."

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Ellie Wolfe @elliew0lfe.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Morgan State University has received the largest donation in its 158-year history: $63 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. The gift is unrestricted, meaning the HBCU can spend the money however it wants. Here's what you should know:
www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

MacKenzie Scott gives Morgan State its largest donation ever

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has now given Morgan State University a total of $103 million.

www.thebanner.com

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1h

"It's important that none of us grow numb to it.... or accept this as normal"

A sobering warning from Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA)

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PA Gov. Josh Shapiro warns: "It's important none of us grow numb to it, or accept this as normal"

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1h

14-year-olds in DC: They need to be tried as adults!

30-year-olds praising Hitler while trying to make policy: Just a bunch of kids making edgy jokes. Give em a break!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 20h

This!
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Thee Lost Edges of Candace & Nina🪥 @nching0.bsky.social · 1h

Damn right I'm ten toes down for @replamonica.bsky.social!🫶🏽

Come out & support the Congressman while she is fighting this unlawful administration & their pitiful lies!!

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h

i hope this guy is ok but also this imagery is perfect to undermine the fascists

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 9h

Yes indeed. Direct from the "war zone", Portland, Oregon.
#NoKings
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

It's against Facebook's terms of service to reveal the identity of America's secret police.

Facebook Removes ICE-Tracking Group Under Pressure From Trump Regime

It's against Facebook's terms of service to reveal the identity of secret police.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

“you can’t make fun of this” - famously an edict that the military obeys unquestioningly and would never disobey out of earshot of an officer

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 18h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18h

I phone banked tonight for 1.5 hours - very positive experience - you can sign up to phone bank here #YesOnProp50

"Want to join me for this Grassroots Democrats HQ event?" mobilize.us/s/Ksqxww

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“At least one person in the Telegram chat works in the Trump administration: Michael Bartels, who, according to his LinkedIn account, serves as a senior adviser in the office of general counsel within the U.S. Small Business Administration.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

This is the country in which we live, every bit as much as the country that loves the Bill of Rights & their neighbors.

Please stop calling it "un-American." It's contrary to our highest ideals & values, to the narrative we may have been taught, & to what we may want.

But it's very American.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 1d

Fewer than 100k subscribers.
That's what you get when you kiss the felon ring.
FAFO Bezos.

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SeattleSanta @seattlesanta.bsky.social · 1d

Records now reveal that of the latest 10,000 arrests in Chicago by the ICE Gestapo, only 10 people, LESS than 1%, had criminal records.

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 1d

Quoting @translashmedia: “We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. As Imara Jones, our CEO reminds us, ‘There are some people who are possibility models, and others who create possibilities. Miss Major is one of those, alongside Sylvia Rivera …

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Erick Rees @erickrees1.bsky.social · 1d

Please donate: If you can.

Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 1d

No idea how all these poor and working class people kidnapped by I.C.E can afford to fight for their freedom.

Everything costs money they don’t have: fines; fees; fuel for travel and, importantly, time away from daily paid labor—all costs tons of $$.

Venmo: @JohnathanPerk
CashApp: $JohnathanPerk

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

gene kelly is antifa

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The Truth ⚖️ 🐝 @pattykazusa.bsky.social · 1d

When evil arrives the best of us stick together to protect one another. If you know ICE is in your town do everything you can to protect your neighbors. ❤️

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the email from the provost reversing the decision & saying we can attend if presenting research. However, we still cannot recruit or attend without research benefit. Also many students did have registration cancelled (or missed registration deadlines) when OSU was prohibiting attendance.

SACNAS NDiSTEM conference update
Hi All,

Please see the email below from the provost with new guidance related to the SACNAS conference.

Best regards,
Todd

From: Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda <ADMIN-Provost@osu.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
To: Provost Ravi V. Bellamkonda <ADMIN-Provost@osu.edu>
Cc: Garcia, Anne <garcia.680@osu.edu>
Subject: SACNAS NDiSTEM conference update

Hi everyone,

Our office has been working with the Office of Legal Affairs regarding participation in the upcoming SACNAS NDiSTEM conference in light of the outreach the university received last week from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Based on our conversations, the Office of Academic Affairs is recommending the following as it relates to participation in this year’s SACNAS conference:

If an Ohio State faculty member or student is scheduled to present research or participate in sessions that advance their research at the SACNAS conference, then the faculty member or student can attend and use university funds to do so.

If an Ohio State faculty member or student is NOT scheduled to present research or participate in sessions that advance their research (e.g., the purpose of attending is solely for recruitment) at the SACNAS conference but wishes to participate in the conference, they may still attend but must use personal resources to do so.

For participation as a research presenter or in sessions that advance their research, we are requesting that a designee within each college or unit (e.g., the Associate Dean of Research) affirms that the participation is in fact to present or advance research as part of the approval process for university funding.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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JillianAnandathatjoy @jillianananda.bsky.social · 1d

Recovery time. Rest if you can. Sending healing thoughts