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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 18h

45k healthcare workers launched a 5-day strike today.

A stark reminder that many, many people who support evidence-based medicine have serious grievances with a for-profit system that rewards executives at the expense of both patients and workers.

www.chiefhealthcareexecutive.com/view/over-40...

Over 40,000 Kaiser Permanente workers begin strike

The health system says its facilities will remain open during the planned five-day strike. Those walking out include registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists.

www.chiefhealthcareexecutive.com

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Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social · 20h

This Wednesday at 6 PM, Council will consider 2 items about federal actions in Portland: the Protect Portland Initiative resolution, & the Sanctuary City Codification ordinance.

@counciloravalos.bsky.social & I made this video to give a little more info about the legislation.

See you Wednesday!

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 20h

A) WaPo goes conservative and maintains the readership. That's a win

B) WaPo goes conservative and loses the readership. Still a win as that's one less major liberal outlet

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 20h

What I think folks aren't realizing is that billionaires did weigh this risk and already determined it was Win-Win scenario

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21h

"“While I strongly support the author’s goal of establishing necessary safeguards for the safe use of AI by minors, (the bill) imposes such broad restrictions on the use of conversational AI tools that it may unintentionally lead to a total ban on the use of these products by minors,” Newsom said."

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 1d

Wow that's so embarrassing for him!

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 1d

I'm literally a communist in a big tent socialist organization. Who is the extreme left here? Do they actually have any kind of clout regarding socialist organizing?

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 1d

Bro wtf are you talking about

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 1d

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

You can arrest us or pepper spray us or whatever, but we will make you look stupid and feel silly doing it because wanting to assert control is stupid. You want to assert control? Do it to an inflatable frog!
So, it’s not just a meme thing, it’s a Portland cultural thing.

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Impressionable Teen Falls In With Wrong Socioeconomic Class https://theonion.com/impressionable-teen-falls-in-with-wrong-socioeconomic-class/

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2d

I was so shocked I dropped my fruit on the floor. Cookie Monster robbed me of my own confidence in holding food.

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

*chuckling in anarchist while taking notes* oh its about to be so over for you Engels

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

The cost of fabric will depend on what you're buying.

— Chinese-made shirt fabric will cost you about $3 or $4 per yard.
— Portuguese fabric will cost about $5 or $6 yard.
— Turkish fabric is $8 or $9.
— Italian fabric can be higher.

To make a shirt, you need 1.75 yards.

Some finish shirt fabric in a swatch book.

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 2d

My prediction is that, if the ceasirefire holds, what will come next will be the ugliest possibly most coercive version of the Shock Doctrine to date.

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Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social · 2d

Yes! They brought the good donuts!

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 2d

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland

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lydelle buster @babyshoes4cash.com · 3d

don't assume this means wario has any virtues,
he just knows a trap when he sees one

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Feel like Waluigi would be on the Epstein flight logs but not Wario and I think that’s the fundamental difference between the characters

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 3d

Guy, I must have seen Mr. And Mrs. Smith like 500 times for this exact reason. Also that Joaquin Phoenix Johnny Cash movie.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 3d

Entire way of experiencing movies that zoomers will never remember, that people my age barely remember, where you watched something because it was on. Feels like there is an entire genre of movie that was meant to be seen in that format. You couldn’t make Swordfish (2001) today.

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 3d

Do I have any t guy mutuals and, if so, where do you get your shoes? Trying to find a size 7 is a fucking nightmare

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Local Area Newsie @localareanewsie.bsky.social · 3d

Oh fuck OFF

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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