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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 1d

"Technomancers." Jesus Fucking Christ, what unserious people.

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Palmer Luckey's Anduril launches EagleEye military helmet with help from buddy Zuck — The Verge

Anduril, the military tech company founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, has announced the first hardware to come out of its recent partnership with Meta: EagleEye, an AI-powered mixed-reality (MR)...

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 1d

“My mission has long been to turn warfighters into technomancers, and the products we are building with Meta do just that.”

All the oligarchs want to be arms merchants now. Every one of these bloodthirsty cosplay "warfighters" should spend a month working in a hospital in Gaza.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education. n.pr/48stHUo

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 2d

”Sexual content” could mean an extra-spicy episode of an HBO show, or apparently it could mean a book about human bodily functions. It is a phrase so widely used as to be utterly uninformative in an article like this. I wish news media would strike it from their style guides. 3/3

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 2d

But I would love to get to a place though where we stopped using the umbrella term “sexual content.” Every example cited in the article is a work of nonfiction about human sexuality and/or reproductive biology as it is experienced by children and adolescents. 2/3

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 2d

🧵 I am delighted that a skilled professional is being compensated for a ridiculous dismissal at the hands of post-literate horde of banners and a spineless board. 1/3

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Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 4d

So who's getting rage-indicted today?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4d

María Corina Machado of Venezuela, the opposition leader who built a powerful social movement challenging President Nicolás Maduro and has been living in hiding since last year, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. Here's what to know: nyti.ms/47iFxzh

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4d

How to be an informed, pro-library, anti-book ban voter in upcoming fall elections (if you have them) and well into the future.

Don't just celebrate banned books. Don't just read banned books. VOTE to support the democratic institutions creating access to them.

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Be an Informed Pro-Library, Pro-Literary Voter Now: Book Censorship News, October 10, 2025

Elections in several states will be coming up throughout the months of October and November. Here's how to be a pro-library voter.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5d

"Just dribble the ball, Leo."

Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone who thinks defending the poor is divisive needs to go and re-read (or maybe just read) the Gospels

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As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 7d

Yep.

Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 7d

I can squint and imagine a 1st Amendment rationale for any form of talk therapy as protected speech. But in the present context of rampant erosion of free speech—particularly the speech of marginalized folks—the idea of drawing a protective line around this vile and harmful speech is revolting.

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William Alexander @willalex.bsky.social · 7d

"It's not a badge of honor... What does it mean? It means that the fascists are winning — for now."
- @malindalo.bsky.social

Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 7d

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year. How do I feel about it? www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/10...

Telegraph Club is the 4th most banned book in America — Malinda Lo

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book...

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 7d

So, it may soon be entirely possible for "therapists" to practice an ineffective and homophobic therapy on minors under the protection of the 1st Amendment. Meanwhile, teachers will have no such free speech in their classrooms, and kids will have no access to books about queer people in libraries.

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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 7d

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book in schools during the 2024-25 school year. How do I feel about it? www.malindalo.com/blog/2025/10...

Telegraph Club is the 4th most banned book in America — Malinda Lo

Last week, PEN America released its fourth annual report on the state of book banning and censorship in America, and I learned that Last Night at the Telegraph Club was the fourth most banned book...

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 7d

This is a joke, right?

Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11d

The unhinged reactions to any trans rep in children’s media make a lot more sense when you see the binary not as science but as an article of faith that’s the political lynchpin of patriarchy.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11d

Perhaps it’s because the binary isn’t at all like gravity. It’s like Tinkerbell. If people stop acknowledging it—stop assuming it—then it disappears.

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11d

Children’s books and TV shows are among the media least valued in our culture (trust me, I know), but somehow the mere existence of young trans characters in stories is a national emergency.

Why do we not laugh at this nonsense?

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11d

If the gender binary were an immutable, ageless, pancultural scientific fact, akin to gravity (it’s not and never has been, but play along), why would it be possible for mere children’s media to undermine it?

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Andrew Karre @andrewkarre.bsky.social · 11d

Frog and Toad coming in hot today.

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 11d

They went back to the woods and looked on the dark paths.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 13d

I remember all the “Kimmel is the turning point” nonsense and know that rhetoric wouldn’t last. I hope I’m wrong and folks give a shit about the right to read—and about the first amendment being stolen from young people especially.

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