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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 2h

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

www.statnews.com

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 2h

General knee-jerk libertarian bros are really into their 4th Amendment rights IME. Those were revoked a while ago now, but most of these guys are only juuuust beginning to catch on....

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2h

Y’all won’t use plastic straws but you’re using GROK to plan your workouts??????????? Go dive off a street curb into a pool of trash bag juice.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2h

Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.

Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, it's this exactly. I assume they'll just leave it floating face down in the bathtub.

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 4h

"We need a movement but not this one" is just another verse from the "I'd vote for a woman but not that one" score. Tired, tired stuff and we see it.

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 7h

Now now I believe you mean that they think, "Sir, sir" (with tears in their eyes) "Sir you're full of shit Eric."

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 7h

...as American as motherhood? What? These platitudes don't actually make much sense when you think about it. More authenticity would be refreshing.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 10h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 8h

In the story the GOP justices told Wed, Louisiana’s cracking and packing of black voters to decrease their electoral power isn't racial discrimination - but remedying that theft is. Against white voters. It's the central grievance of Republican politics.

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism

A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Bob Mould @bobmouldmusic.bsky.social · 13h

www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Bob Mould on the Reunion of Sugar: 'I Want to See If People Are Still Interested'

Bob Mould talks reuniting Sugar, his Nineties alt-rock band, for a new song and a pair of concerts.

www.rollingstone.com

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 8h

Live shot of me after reading this article:

The amazing Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in Blade Runner (1982), looking down, in the rain, at the end of his final speech in the film. All of these TechBros saw Blade Runner too young (as did I!) and all of them missed the point of it entirely.

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Scott @smadin.net · 9h

still seems pretty weird to me that the (for who knows how much longer) standing precedent is that gerrymandering districts according to race is unconstitutional, but gerrymandering them for partisan advantage, even though one party is openly and explicitly white supremacist, is totally fine

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 9h

Periodic Reminder: ALL the words of Raylan Givens are immortal.

Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 10h

In the immortal words of Raylan Givens.

Photo of Raylan Givens, a man wearing a cowboy hat, from the TV show Justified with the quote: “If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.”

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 11h

Breaking: At least one US military strike in the Caribbean targeted Colombians on a boat leaving from Colombia, sources tell us.

The deliberate targeting of Colombians suggests the US military’s campaign is wider than previously believed www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

At least one US military strike on alleged drug trafficking boat in Caribbean targeted Colombians | CNN Politics

At least one US military strike in the Caribbean over the last two months targeted Colombian nationals on a boat that had left from Colombia, according to two people briefed by the Pentagon about the ...

www.cnn.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 1d

YESSSSS! I'm starting it tonight.

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Gavin, Small Beer, long covid, &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social · 2d

There's! a! new! Virago! edition! of Naomi Mitchison's Travel Light coming next spring with a new introduction by @samanthashannon.bsky.social — and of course blurbs from @amalelmohtar.com, @hollyblack.bsky.social, & @ursulakleguin.com.
(I'm yet to find an artist credit for the fabulous cover.)

Travel Light: 'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

'Read it now' (Ursula K. Le Guin)

uk.bookshop.org

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, on the 35th of Nevuary.

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 2d

My fave Monk tie-in book is Lee Goldberg's Mr Monk is Miserable, which is set in Paris. Would be a great streaming movie.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 2d

There were so many things that were so much more deeply profound than I could have possibly imagined.

But I still don’t know what to do about death.

There’s no certainty there.

CW: SI

www.kerrycoran.com/writing/litu...

Mabon — Kerry C. Òran

When I was little and used to trace the shape of the owls on her arms I asked her if it hurt—the fire, the burns. “The burns hurt,” she told me. “But the fire didn’t.” That seemed incomprehensi...

www.kerrycoran.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

gene kelly is antifa

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sisterofeve.bsky.social @sisterofeve.bsky.social · 2d

North Texas gardeners call this "having a cutting garden." As in, always enough flowers blooming to cut bouquets--it's all about staggered sowing/planting! I plant out May 1st and again July 1st; Michigan's probably later.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

Not very unhinged, but: Stop reading a book if you're bouncing off of it. Stop "powering through." You're just wasting your time. You don't get a gold star for finishing books you're not enjoying reading.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Oct 18

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link.

For example x.com/dril/status/...

becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/...

People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

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