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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 4h

The Indianapolis Clowns, developed in partnership with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, reprise the tradition of a barnstorming Negro Leagues team that played from the 1930s all the way into the 1980s. news.sportslogos.net/2025/10/12/b...

Banana Ball League adds Indianapolis Clowns and Loco Beach Coconuts

The Banana Ball universe expanded from four teams to six with the addition of two new teams this week. The league—now formally called the Banana Ball Championship League—introduced the Indianapolis Cl...

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 4h

The Microsoft 365 outage came shortly after a Kubernetes crash took down a substantial chunk of Azure Front Door instances. www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/m...

Microsoft 365 services fall over in North America

: Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption

www.theregister.com

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 4h

www.npr.org/2025/10/12/n...

Hollywood's quirky leading lady, Diane Keaton, dies aged 79

Diane Keaton, who remained one of Hollywood's quirkiest and most beloved actors decades after her Academy Award-winning performance in the movie Annie Hall, has died aged 79.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 6h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 6h

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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who n...

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 6h

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At campaign stop in Fort Worth, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico says he's going up against the establishment in both parties

"I have to speak truth to power, whether it's in my party or not," Talarico told CBS News Texas.

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 6h

www.theregister.com/2025/10/07/g...

Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT

: Microsoft Copilot, not so much

www.theregister.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 17h

To model mercy not in the abstract but in the tactile and tangible… what Peter Thiel and western evangelicalism miss … if you worship Christ but don’t follow Christ … you are not a Christian

You are a zealot

Worship is not the point … love is

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 7h

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One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 7h

www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/h...

More than half of CDC staffers recently fired by Trump administration have been reinstated | CNN

Hundreds of staff fired from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention late Friday have been reinstated, according to the American Federation of Government Employees.

www.cnn.com

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Bad Choices Make Good Stories @badchoices.us · 7h

When you hear the first few notes of Stairway to Heaven, you immediately recognize the song, and you know what comes next.

That’s how Germans instantly recognized Trump as a Nazi, the minute he came down the escalator and accused Mexican immigrants of being rapists and murderers.

2016 parade:

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 1d

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 1d

The meeting appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and saw the president declare, ‘We got rid of freedom of speech’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Trump’s ‘Antifa roundtable’ was so much worse than you’re imagining

Holly Baxter reports on a meeting that, at one point, appeared to position people protesting against Nazis in the Weimar Republic as the bad guys, and at another saw the president declare, ‘We got rid...

www.independent.co.uk

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 1d

Was DOGE all for nothing? Here are the receipts
The U.S. government's 2025 fiscal year is over, and it turns out that Musk's Department of Government Efficiency didn't break a cycle of increased spending
qz.com/doge-spendin...

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 1d

Trump announced he will impose an additional 100% tariff on goods from China, on top of the 30% tariffs already in effect, starting November 1 or sooner. The threat is a massive escalation after months of a trade truce between the two nations. www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/e...

Trump announces 130% tariffs on China. The global trade war just came roaring back | CNN Business

President Donald Trump announced he will impose an additional 100% tariff on goods from China, on top of the 30% tariffs already in effect, starting November 1 or sooner. The threat is a massive escal...

www.cnn.com

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 1d

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 2d

The Constitution does not specify Who must give the oath to an incoming Representative (or other official). We don’t need Mike Johnson or any other GOP protector of child rapists.

Have AOC swear in the new Rep and put all the sex offenders and accomplices in jail.

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 2d

But like…is it 34 felonies?
www.threads.com/@theheathera...

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 2d

Persistent worries about the higher cost of living and few job opportunities pushed consumer sentiment down to its seventh-lowest level in October, on records going back to 1952. www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/e...

Americans aren’t worried about the government shutdown. But they remain unnerved about the cost of living and weak hiring | CNN Business

Persistent worries about the higher cost of living and few job opportunities pushed consumer sentiment down to its seventh-lowest level in October, on records going back to 1952.

www.cnn.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 2d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump speaks with Nobel Peace Prize winner Machado after his administration denounced the decision to award it to her | CNN Politics

US President Donald Trump spoke on Friday with Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado after his administration denounced the committee awarding her the honor.

www.cnn.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

“The explosion was felt 15 miles away”

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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AAron Leckinger @aaronl1968.bsky.social · 2d

Happy 7th birthday to #OttoTheHuskyPoo!
🦮🎈

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