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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3h

A win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump admin from carrying out mass layoffs during the ongoing government shutdown. The case centers on Trump’s statements indicating that the planned firings would be politically motivated, targeting employees based on their political affiliation.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 2h

#SkellieOnTheTelly day 15: Happy #NationalFossilDay!

Skellie posing with a piece of fossiliferous shale containing bivalve fossils.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6h

Los Angeles County voted to declare a state of emergency in response to federal ICE raids. Normally reserved for natural disasters, the declaration allows the county to mobilize resources and offer assistance to residents impacted by the raids.

LA County officials approve emergency declaration over immigration raids

The move allows the L.A. County Board of Supervisors to provide rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the crackdown on immigrants.

abc7.com

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 6h

I, the author, identify as male, but I very deliberately left the gender of *the narrator* unspecified, so you can make this story as #Queer as you want.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 1d

With Halloween just a few weeks away, why not treat yourself to some spooky stories? I'm particularly proud of this one, a plummet into paranoia and the growing inability to trust one's own senses.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
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The Chimera by Russell Epp-Leppel

Where does it come from?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 9h

The case before the Supreme Court is called Louisiana v. Callais, a redistricting dispute that has become a major test of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), the landmark civil rights law designed to protect Black Americans and other minorities from being shut out of political representation.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Perhaps New York should keep more of what it earns, especially since blue states consistently contribute more to the federal government than they receive, unlike many red states, which routinely consume more federal tax dollars than they contribute.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22h

The State Department said that it has revoked the visas of foreign nationals who had spoken out against Charlie Kirk. Senior officials within the department said they would move to deny or rescind visas for individuals who had criticized Kirk, this is a direct violations of the First Amendment.

US revokes visas for six foreigners over comments made about Charlie Kirk's death

The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had revoked the visas of six foreigners over social media comments made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

www.reuters.com

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 23h

#SkellieOnTheTelly day 14: jack-o'-lantern!

Skellie standing in front of my starman jack-o'-lantern, in roughly the same pose.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

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Nick Calandra @nickjcal.bsky.social · 1d

Still a lot of people that seemingly don’t know we’re all @secondwindgroup.com now making the best stuff we’ve ever made.

There’s literally nobody left working on video at the old site.

Just a dead brand being used for name recognition for gambling shit.

Nyek London @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social · 1d

Wow The Escapist sure is doing content these days, huh

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 1d

With Halloween just a few weeks away, why not treat yourself to some spooky stories? I'm particularly proud of this one, a plummet into paranoia and the growing inability to trust one's own senses.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity
www.pikerpress.com/article.php?...

The Chimera by Russell Epp-Leppel

Where does it come from?

www.pikerpress.com

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 1d

The Hands of Orlac The hands of Orlok

The German poster for Orlac's Hände (The Hands of Orlac), a largely naturalistic horror film with expressionist elements, starring Conrad Veidt, 1924

Count Orlok from Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror), a different largely naturalistic horror film with expressionist elements, starring Max Schreck, 1922

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Employees in the EPA’s Resource Conservation and Sustainability Division received an internal email notifying them that the agency plans to carry out a workforce reduction. The division oversees programs that assist states with recycling and composting initiatives.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

You know they’re worried about this weekend’s turnout at the No Kings rally when they’re already making comments about it. Who’s ready for Saturday?

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 2d

If you didn’t know, Alaska has been hit by a massive storm, causing severe flooding. Many Indigenous villages have been completely wiped out, with some houses floating away with PEOPLE INSIDE THEM. Please keep posting to spread the info. They need help.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 2d

Because I forgot to do #SkellieOnTheTelly yesterday, here's a double "skellie on a skellie" today: rider on a spider.

Skellie sitting on the spider skeleton decoration. Minxie looks on with bemusement in the background.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Things just keep getting more bizarre. The propaganda machine is in full swing the Transportation Security Administration has asked airports to display a video message from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 2d

Honorable mention goes to the Portuguese man-o-war, excluded for not being a vertebrate.

The Portuguese man-of-war (Physalia physalis), a type of colonial organism known as a siphonophore

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

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Russ Epp-Leppel 💜💀 @leppeppel.bsky.social · 2d

Today's aesthetic is sails!

Life restoration of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, a non-avian dinosaur, by Andrew McAfee

Outdated reconstruction of Dimetrodon, a sphenacodontid synapsid or "mammal-like reptile," by Charles R. Knight

Arizonasaurus babbiti, another non-avian dinosaur which predated Spinosaurus by ~150 million years, by @LiterallyMiguel

A crested chameleon or "sail-backed chameleon" (Trioceros cristatus), an extant non-avian reptile

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 2d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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