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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 2m

Sharing #womenInSTEM portraits and bios for #AdaLovelaceDay #ald25 #histsci 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Feb 5

This #BlackHistoryMonth let’s celebrate trailblazing American #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! 🧪🐡👩🏾‍🔬 #histsci She made important research contributions to the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & our knowledge of 🧵

My linocut portrait of Marie Maynard Daly in purples (she’s a young m, smiling Black woman, wearing earrings, a necklace and a dress, looking at the viewer over her shoulder). Above her to the right is an anatomical heart with a blowout diagram in a circle of a clogged artery and the cholesterol molecule all in red. Next to her on the left in blue are the molecules of the bases which make up DNA and a diagram of a human cell.

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 3m

I am finding everything this morning dull and disappointing because I dreamed I finally got to see orcas in the wild… but then woke up and realized it wasn’t real 😭😭😭

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 9m

Double-scheduling? What nonsense is that?

Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11m

Also, this is just atrocious policy. Somehow Cal students manage to take 4 classes that don't overlap.
"He defends the double-scheduling practice because so many classes at Harvard meet at overlapping times. If we didn’t allow simultaneous enrollment, we’d be giving a lot of students heartburn”.

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 13m

This is just another higher ed hit piece, but I was dinged in my tenure case for not recording my classes. I don't record them for pedagogical reasons, but also because I don't want to go viral & receive death threats for saying that black people also deserve rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

College lectures may not always be engaging, but in the past, students still had to go (or borrow notes from a classmate). Now that many lectures are available to view remotely, Dr. Wolf-Wendel added, professors have to try harder to draw students into the classroom.

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 14m

Shameful.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 18m

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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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 7h

legit cannot wait to see how many frogs turn up nationwide. it’s going to make ICE lose their minds. they are more scared of looking Not Tough than anything else in the world

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10h

Find a frog gathering near you this Saturday, October 18

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Nokings.org

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 8h

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 9h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

Things to do in the future:

1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague

2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again

3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 8h

Really disappointing that O’Hare isn’t on this list.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10h

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 8h

So what's great about Denver is that we've also refused... but not because it's illegal, or blatantly partisan, or anything else;

It's just that the screens in the TSA area aren't hooked up for audio.

Which is fantastic.

(Colorado Springs and Aspen have both also refused)

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 10h

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown:

Portland International Airport
Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Niagara Falls International Airport

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 20h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 10h

To a somewhat lesser extent, the same is true of several other areas. Cicero has seen heavy ICE activity similar to Sunday in Rogers Park about twice a week lately. Same for the southeast side, same for southwest suburbs like Burbank and Bridgeview, same for Hammond and Whiting across the border.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 10h

"Community" is a word that's often used to obscure divides. If you don't actually know vulnerable people in your community, your mental version of what your neighborhood is experiencing is likely centered on very different things than theirs. If you want to help, don't invent tactics from scratch.

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 10h

Rogers Park and surrounding neighborhoods were hit hard by immigration enforcement activity over the weekend.

There's no competition here, but I want to name that the same heavy, violent, fast-moving abduction pattern has invaded the southwest side about three times a week for over a month now.

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🎃 Lyse-Beast 🎃 @lyse.bsky.social · 10h

Chat, at what point does “civility” become “compliancy”?

Axios @axios.com · 10h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 10h

CONGRESS DO YOU NEED A FROG COSTUME WE WILL BUY YOU ONE #NoKings

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 11h

Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe, Menominee.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 12h

Before the marine mammal protection act, millions of dolphins and porpoises died in nets as bicatch from commercial fisheries around the world. That is not a typo. Millions died. The first year of the MMPA in 1972, there were over 400,000 incidental takes from the US tuna fleet alone.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 12h

Today happened to be our Marine Mammal Protection Act lecture in Environmental Law, so I revisited case law / key issues.
There are at least three major industries that benefit from undermining the MMPA: commercial fishing and seafood, maritime transport and shipping, and the oil and gas industries.

Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans are aiming next to dismantle the marine mammal protection act, which protects whales, dolphins, manatees, polar bears, and sea otters.. among other ocean wildlife. 🦦

Horror Tor, friend of Union ghosts @splitrailfence.bsky.social · 1d

I love it. Makes me happy.
Weird that I'm now seeing your post here after I just read about the bill to end the 1970s marine mammal legislation to protect these beautiful creatures.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 12h

Peer-reviewed articles should also have this, though it would probably go over very, very, very badly.

Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 13h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 13h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone I know who met Miss Major described her as a warm person and a force of nature. I hope she has found peace and rest.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14h

since we're letting podcasters run the FBI now, I'd like to make it known to any future presidents that if you appoint me i will pronounce the "human" in "human trafficking" like Quark from DS9.

there will be no other substantial changes

thank you for your attention to this matter

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12h

In my opinion we literally do need more clubs for adults. Secret handshakes, inside jokes, excuses to hang out with pals, do charity work.

Especially as so many people are eschewing organized religion, moving away from family— we need goofy clubs that foster a sense of belonging, community.

✨️Angel Facts✨️ @angelic.style · 13h

the illuminati, the freemasons, the rosicrucians those are all so 18th century. we need something fresh, something that appeals to millenials and gen z

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