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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 11h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 4h

I hear grabbing women by the pussy is somehow allowed, though.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 11h

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 5h

Thank god that government agency has access to Grok

Since it seems to have no intelligence resources of its own

Or ability to understand irony

And too much time on its hands

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 12h

Mayor Michelle Wu at the protest today: “What scares them about Boston is that we are the America they say is impossible.”

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

Boston. Wow.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 12h

Glad taxpayers can see that the Department of TRANSPORTATION is clearly working hard on things that matter

Wise shepherds of public funds

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · Apr 23

Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 1d

“Let’s do it on X,” hilarious

Quite an offer

Hey, let’s have our quiet conversation down this alley with all the unvaccinated 19-year-old meth addicts with swastikas carved into their foreheads

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. It’s to the point now where .. I could lose everything ... Being a small business owner isn’t worth it when your country turns on you,” said Jared Hendricks, the CEO of Village Lighting, a small business selling Christmas products.

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/h...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 2d

Good lord.

Thanks for proving again how fucking annoying AI discourse is.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just one banana, Michael, etc.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 3d

Syrup corn? Candy syrup? Syrup candy?

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 3d

My eyebrows kept raising in perverse delight at this dumbfuckery until
I had to go get the ladder and scrape them off the ceiling. Holy fuck

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Ritchie Torres @ritchietorres.bsky.social · 3d

Except on January 6, 2021, when 80 Capitol Police officers were assaulted.

Except on January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump unconditionally pardoned the assailants who struck Capitol Police officers with dangerous objects — including a fire extinguisher.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 4d

Burr’s remarks justifying Riyadh were eye-opening! In that I was like, “Wow, I thought he was supposed to be smart and well-informed!” But now my eyes are open to the realization he’s an idiot.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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"All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff
should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 4d

Or is it possible that words have no meaning

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Marc Levy @mhlevy.bsky.social · 4d

Even if this were even slightly true-ish, MS-13, according to Britannica, is an "international gang involved in drug and human smuggling, prostitution, murder, and extortion, among other illegal activities." So when Bondi says that Antifa is "no different," is she saying that of Antifa?

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golden gate ghoul @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 4d

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 4d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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daysendconfused.bsky.social @daysendconfused.bsky.social · 5d

I’m nonplussed

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 6d

How austerity hit young people.

In the decade after 2010 councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%.

By 2023, 1,200 publicly run youth centres closed.

Young people abandoned to fund tax cuts for corporations the rich.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 6d

‘If there’s no good faith, there should be no deference.’

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | How a Trump Judge Exposed the Trump Con

www.nytimes.com

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