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Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social · 3h

Usually they park the big trucks on the block (this has been a popular L & O ready-made set for years) and those signs posted as well. Am thinking there may be something at the Cathedral (the fireman's memorial was back on the 9th).

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Jack Womack @jwomack.bsky.social · 3h

Followup: paper signs posted along block note No Parking Wed, 8 AM -9 PM. Cop car and gates closing off street, more cop cars on Amsterdam with lights flashing but no cops in sight. As puzzled.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

“Go to a No Kings rally. What do you see? You see moms and grandmas and kids and dogs and funny signs and dancing and happy displays of opposition to the regime that are foundationally nonviolent. And on the other end, you’ve got a regime that’s led by a guy who cheered the January 6th insurrection”

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

Regarding past rallies Indivisible has organized, such as the “Hands Off” rallies that took place in all fifty states in April, co-executive director Ezra Levin said: “It was far larger than January 6th, and there was no violence. None.” www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

www.thebulwark.com

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 9h

We’re there. In the USA. In 2025.

Dr. Allison Wiltz @allyfromnola.bsky.social · 9h

“The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms, with reestablishment of naked oppression and, if need be, a native form of fascism.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

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Goldensheepdog @goldensheepdog.bsky.social · 4h

Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/t...

Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

www.nytimes.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 4h

Something people need to understand about Massachusetts politics is that there is a very real risk that Ayanna Pressley could lose a statewide primary against Seth Moulton.

I would vote for her unreservedly - she's my rep, and I think the world of her. But MA politics is not uniformly progressive.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 4h

These justices are demented. It’s so infuriating.

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 1d

I really love this photo from 1981 of a man and small child looking in the front window while someone composes on a Linotype machine (digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/pphnegs_imag...)

A black and white photo taken from the interior of the Anthoensen Press in 1981 shows a figure seated at a linotype machine. Outside the large window, a man holds a small child, and both look in at the printer at work.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h

A considerable part of the attempt to have this case dismissed seems to be she doesn't think it's fair that her own evidence was used against her.

God tier narcissism.

"You can't use my own video of me attempting to run over that guy while slurring him against me! Um... Magna Carta!"

The background is that in response to an allegation made against him of anti-social behaviour, the eighth defendant, Darren Honeywill, played dashcam footage from the second claimant's own car recording how the second claimant drove her car towards him causing him to have to jump off the access road (over which he had a right of way). Her own dashcam footage recorded her attitude and language towards him some of the other defendants "… you scumbag… you vicious scumbag … your evil father … burn down the whole gypsy place … you stupid bitch…". I am sure that counsel will have explained to the second claimant that, when making allegations, it can be expected that evidence may be called to rebut those allegations. The fact that happens is not an infringement of article 6 rights. While Ms Saunders may have not wanted the court to see that footage, in the same way as the court did not view the dashcam footage which led to her conviction for assault against Ms Beresford Ambridge, the court does have a duty to consider evidence from both sides in order to understand whether allegations are properly made out

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h

For avoidance of doubt, if an English judge writes this about your case you are well and truly FUCKED

Consequently, while this has been a highly unusual case in so many respects, and has led me to write a judgment which is considerably longer than I would normally write

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Just a feckless, feeble, snot flap of a man

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 4h

Jordan Peterson critically ill with pneumonia, neuropathy, and sepsis

Jordan Peterson is sick, and suffering from "spiritual attacks" (and surely it's not the drugs, or long COVID, or a meat-only diet, or...)

boingboing.net

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Manhattan Bird Alert @birdcpk.bsky.social · 4h

Astoria the Wild Turkey forages in the gardens of The Battery. 🦃 ❤️

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 5h

This looks against every conceivable code of research integrity worthy of the name... what are they thinking?? New depths reached

Nature @nature.com · 6h

Next week will see a first in computer science, with the launch of a scientific conference in which all of the papers — and all of the reviews — have been produced by machines

go.nature.com/3J82tYH

AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference

Event will assess how reviews by models compare with those written by humans.

go.nature.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 7h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

www.washingtonpost.com

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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 15h

To the many people who say “I’ll mask or stay home if I’m sick, but you’re CRAZY if you want me to mask regularly, & btw I haven’t even been sick in years”… yeah you have, & you probably spread it to a bunch of other people, some of whom, statistically speaking, lost their lives as they knew them

Graphic from Yale School of Public Health:

49% OF COVID INFECTIONS
ARE ASYMPTOMATIC,
which means you may not know if you are actually sick. This is why it's important to take a multilayered approach (one or more of the following) to protect yourselves and others:
N95 and
KN95 masks
HEPA air filtration
Good ventilation (carbon dioxide <800 parts per million)
Up-to-date vaccinations
Rapid tests before gathering
Attention to wastewater levels of COVID-19

Yale SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Sources: The Lancet Regional Health, CDC

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 4h

"It was a day of terrifying buzzwords like 'weather modification,' 'Chinese agenda,' 'genomic surveillance,' and 'transhumanism,' and of empty slogans like 'Knowledge Is the New Medicine' and 'Healthy Is the New Wealthy.'"

🎁 gift link
racketmn.com/what-i-saw-a...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 4h

Holy shit he's not lying.

This judgement is WILD. And it's not even the full ruling yet!

The allegations against Darren Honeywill that he had thrown "a cup of tea over the Second Claimant when she went to the caravan site to visit Robert Verdier." That was a serious allegation which was entirely undermined by the playing of the video of the incident. The video showed that Ms Saunders and Mr Verdier were on the grass of the "chalet land" and that Mr Darren Honeywell was moving towards them and very angry (he had just heard that Ms Saunders had used her car in an incident with Jill Beresford- Ambridge where she had assaulted Ms Beresford-Ambridge who was still on sticks recovering from a hip operation), had taken the cup of tea out of the hand of Mr Verdier and thrown the tea on the ground and put the cup down. Having seen the video footage, Ms Saunders changed her account so that "… when she said thrown, she meant over her hand not when thrown on the ground". When it was pointed out that was simply not what the video showed, her counsel relayed "My client having seen the video she says she cannot recall … might have splashed on her foot." This was an attempt to malign Mr Darren Honeywill.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4h

seriously

aruss updates @aruss-updates.bsky.social · 4h

If we actually used quotas, it could make more sense to have the expiration date they’re pretending exists. It’s taking so long to reach “race neutral utopia” because we’ve used weak-ass remedies.

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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been asked about Joe Arpaio and last decade’s “show me your papers” laws in a few interviews recently.

The current regime feels even worse because showing ICE your papers is not enough if you look Latino.

Officers just refuse to believe the papers are real.

ij.org/case/alabama...

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4h

Someone needs to do a roundup article on "Charlie Kirk censorship" because there's so much repression of free speech for anyone who had anything irreverent to say about him. From Jimmy Kimmel to these immigrants www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

U.S. Says It Revoked Visas of Some People Who Criticized Charlie Kirk

www.nytimes.com

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