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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 20m

Also, the coffee buzz is fantastic after abstaining for so long!

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 48m

Absolute lunatics

ICE arrests police officer in Chicago suburb and accuses him of being in US illegally | CNN Politics

The Department of Homeland Security says the officer, Radule Bojovic, overstayed a tourist visa that expired in 2015.

edition.cnn.com

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 1h

👋 from PDX. Sorry but glad you have a soft landing.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 2h

Great read.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

What Made Blogging Different? by Elizabeth Spiers talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-...

What Made Blogging Different?

Whether I like it or not, the first line of my obituary...

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 3h

Don't I know it. I'm in year three of it now. It breaks my heart that so many children are suffering this shittiness. And infuriates me that RFK Jr wants to add to their ranks.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6h

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 3h

After all these years, you'd think people would have learned to not feed the trolls.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 6h

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 3h

Oh, no! I'm so scared of catching it again. I was great in early summer and accomplished amazing things in transforming my lawn to wildflower meadows and veggie beds. Then I crashed in late August and left half my outside work undone. But I'm coming out of it again. I hear you on the sleep, though.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 3h

It just tasted awful to me. Saddest thing. Have you come all the way out of it yet? I'm getting there.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 4h

After two years post-covid, coffee finally tasted good to me again. Of course, I can't afford it now. Sigh.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 4h

Sounds like an octogenarian I know well (who shall also remain nameless).

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 4h

TAKE ACTION: The Election Assistance Commission is accepting public comments on this request for a “show-your-papers” requirement. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote?
bit.ly/4ngSyyl

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 6h

I like to think that it’s not that the Senate is ignoring its rules, but that the rules have changed. If that’s the case, it makes it even more scandalous that the Senate is refusing to publish its precedents.

ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · Sep 1

Meanwhile, a certain other upper house still hasn’t revised its book of precedents, nearly two decades after deciding to do so.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 2d

Abortion will remain available at Planned Parenthood clinics in Missouri, the Western District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, rejecting a request by the attorney general’s office to reinstate several restrictions on the procedure. #moleg #mogov

Missouri appeals court rules against attorney general, allows abortions to continue • Missouri Independent

A Missouri appeals court unanimously rejected arguments by the attorney general that abortion regulations do not cause "irreparable harm."

missouriindependent.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

“We are currently clean on OPSEC”

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 1d

And tasty! We’ve been gorging on them and still had plenty left over for the winter.

Three trays of red and yellow dried tomatoes.

Table covered with jars of preserved tomatoes, peaches, and pickles

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 1d

Oops. Forgot alt text. That’s just a whole lot of green and partially ripe tomatoes.

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 1d

I guess summer is really over. Next up, green tomato chutney.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 1d

"The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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.

www.politico.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2d

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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