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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 11h

The ‘Peace President’ killed six more people off the coast of Venezuela this morning. We have no evidence other than his word that they were a threat to anyone, anywhere and also release the Epstein files. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

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thewomenslist.bsky.social @thewomenslist.bsky.social · 1d

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 13h

Can I love him more?

Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 13h

Zohran going on Fox News is really, really smart. Given how many Americans are hurting right now because of Trump’s tariffs and inflation, there are going to be more and more people willing to listen to what he has to say. Even MAGA folks. It’s a huge opportunity for him.

John @jthiels.bsky.social · 13h

So nice to see something good out of Alexandria

Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 1d

#ResistanceRoots

Arna Bontemps was born on this day in 1902 in Alexandria, La. A prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Bontemps was a versatile writer of poetry, novels and children’s books, and a dedicated librarian and historian who helped preserve African American culture. /1

Arna Bontemps, photograph by Carl Van Vechten. Photo credit: Carl Van Vechten Collection/Library of Congress.

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Ann Marie Lipinski @amlwhere.bsky.social · 14h

“Today, NPR will lose access to the Pentagon because we will not sign an unprecedented Defense Department document…That policy prevents us from doing our job. Signing that document would make us stenographers parroting press releases, not watchdogs holding government officials accountable.”

NPR @npr.org · 20h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, Daddy

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

Thank you for your attention to this matter

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Maël @mael.kont.me · 22h

Petite victoire !

Via @tbeaufils.bsky.social

www.lesnumeriques.com/informatique...

“Une première victoire” : Polytechnique claque la porte à Microsoft 365 et choisit le logiciel libre, la révolte gagne les universités

L'École polytechnique suspend sa migration vers Microsoft 365, contrainte par une mobilisation inédite. Une victoire qui révèle les failles béantes de la stratégie numérique de l'enseignement supérieu...

www.lesnumeriques.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Today I learned there is such a thing as National Boss's Day, and that allegedly it is this Thursday and I SWEAR TO GOD that if I find out any of you have participated in such a craven act of subservience to the ownership caste I will find you and give you SUCH a noogie

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 1d

Capitol and Capital

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 1d

This has been the problem

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 1d

So cool! Have fun, a perfect way to start and explore

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

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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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 1d

@eastman9125.bsky.social you can hide your drinkin' but do you play cards and dance?

John @jthiels.bsky.social · 1d

It'd never occur to me. What's next? Betting on MacArthur Fellows?

JoeMyGod @joemygod.bsky.social · 1d

Norway: Espionage Behind Leak Of Nobel Winner - Joe.My.God.

The Business Standard reports: The Nobel Institute has said that espionage was “highly likely” behind a potential leak preceding the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize announcement to Venezuelan opposition leader...

www.joemygod.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 1d

Six years ago, Uganda announced a bill to legalize murdering gay people. The National Christian Organization paid a preacher to go to Uganda and help their lawmakers with the bill. Chick-fil-A funds The National Christian Org.

If you eat at Chick-fil-A, this is what your money goes to.
#Boycott

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 1d

Insanity these days that they have to do this

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Do not step to menswear guy. He is very good at this.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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John @jthiels.bsky.social · 3d

The Mafia believes in a code of honor among them. But these thugs?

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