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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 8h

Al Franken's campaign donated $100,000 to Jose Andres's World Central Kitchen in August, per new FEC filing.

Stands out as many defunct campaigns tend to donate to partisan causes or monuments to the candidate.

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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 7h

"Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 9h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"...I will well and faithfully perform the duties of a classroom teacher in a professional, independent, objective, and nonpartisan manner..."

Proposal would require Florida public school teachers to take oath

Florida teachers would have to take an oath to the nation and the state under a proposal filed Monday by Rep. Tom Fabricio, R-Miami Lakes.

www.nbcmiami.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

WASHINGTON (AP) — Journalists begin leaving Pentagon after refusing to sign Trump administration agreements on rules of access.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 12h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Adios Democracy @adios-democracy.bsky.social · 10h

In a shocking turn of events, MJ took it personally.

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🥶 @eggmansasshole.bsky.social · 10h

I'm dying to know how he responded to that

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Better than Ezra Klein (1) @mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social · 11h

I had a friend that went up to Michael Jordan in a bar and asked him if he was "that guy that used to play basketball with Tony Kukoc" and it was my favorite normal person interaction with a celebrity until just now.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 11h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 8h

He died doing what he loved: Logging into Okta.

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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 14h

This one is really worth your time.

Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 14h

"Twelve months after landing in Algeria to work on a book about the Ebossé case and another story about the player’s team for So Foot, Gleizes is an inmate in the Prison de Tizi Ouzou, ringed by high white walls." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

How a soccer story landed French journalist in prison

Christophe Gleizes was investigating the death of a star in Algeria’s premier league and the connections between soccer and politics when he was arrested.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 14h

"Twelve months after landing in Algeria to work on a book about the Ebossé case and another story about the player’s team for So Foot, Gleizes is an inmate in the Prison de Tizi Ouzou, ringed by high white walls." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

How a soccer story landed French journalist in prison

Christophe Gleizes was investigating the death of a star in Algeria’s premier league and the connections between soccer and politics when he was arrested.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

The USC Thornton School of Music has appointed Solange as the school’s first scholar in residence

She will she will teach a course on music curation, host student-focused workshops and more

Solange to build programming and teach course at USC Thornton School of Music

Grammy winner Solange Knowles is bringing her expertise to the USC Thornton School of Music, where she has been named the school's first all-school scholar in residence.

www.latimes.com

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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 1d

"Jones had asked the justices to pause the award and take up an appeal of the civil case against him, saying it was the only way to forestall a possible sale of Infowars to the satirical news site the Onion." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’s bid to set aside $1.4 billion verdict

The Supreme Court rejected a bid by conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones to set aside the historic $1.4 billion jury verdict against him for defaming families of victims of the Sandy Ho...

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 1d

This is the whole ballgame: “A candidate in today’s day and age needs to be able to explain ideas in a 30-second vertical social media video, a three-minute television hit and a three-hour long-form podcast.”

Can’t do all 3? Can’t hang in 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 1d

"I seriously want to believe it’s different this time. I really do. But hope in Gaza has been broken too many times. So instead of saying I am hopeful, I say I’m praying." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

For U.S. Palestinians, ceasefire brings long-awaited relief — and anxiety

A mother and wife in New Jersey dreams of a return to Gaza, but her family’s home will need rebuilding.

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 1d

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 1d

“One day I helped U.S. against Taliban,” he said, “and today, they are sending me back to them? For what?”

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America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nick Baumann @nickbaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't this, like, basic politics? NYC mayoral races are so weird. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...