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𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖑🖤 @arielisreading.bsky.social · 3m

Is there asbestos in that dust cloud? 😭

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 39m

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

back to gold bars and business class flight upgrades, I say

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

between the Politico texts and Platner I think we've earned (and would appreciate) at least a week break from any more literal Nazi-related political news updates. maybe we could collectively try for a few days of regular grift and graft stories? a suitcase or Cava bag full of money perchance?

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 6h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 6h

Scene from succession where tom wamsbegans or however you spell it is interviewing the Nazi guy

just to fend this off, have you ever read Mein Kampf?
Couple times?
-Um... Yeah, couple of times,
I guess.
Are there Easter eggs in there you didn't get the first time?

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

sums it up. headlines on crowd sizes and the feeling that maybe something happens (somewhere else) aren’t action, and getting a bunch of people to show up to a party for nothing isn’t organizing.

find your people and build something real.

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𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖑🖤 @arielisreading.bsky.social · 20h

God please let this be true.

Blind item alleging Ariana Grande is stealing Aaron Taylor-Johnson from his pedo wife.

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oscar wilde women do 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 22h

white people are socialized to assume and accept the humanity of other white people - even at the expense of the safety and/or lives of non-white people. this is why it's such a catastrophe to them if you even slightly hint that they're racist. you're fucking with their entire sense of self.

Sonia @blackstarblues.bsky.social · 1d

I am often reminded of this interview with actor Daniel Radcliffe, saying the quiet part out loud. They mean well, kind of, sort of, but it's not like it's all that serious.

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𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖑🖤 @arielisreading.bsky.social · 23h

Why are so many people incapable of tearing off a receipt

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spooky jas 👻🎀 @jazzybean.bsky.social · 1d

But did he step his game up afterwards is the question

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picayune sasquatch @pettyyeti.bsky.social · 1d

per nps.gov,

"The White House is a National Park

The White House is owned by the American people and stewarded by the National Park Service. It is more than the President's residence; it is a site for protests and national discourse about what it means to be American."

The White House and President's Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Home page

www.nps.gov

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𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖑🖤 @arielisreading.bsky.social · 1d

Of course he did. It’s not like he’s actually going to leave in 2028.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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❤️ thiccsparklebutt ❤️ @thiccsparklebutt.blacksky.app · 1d

Gonna keep posting this link until the government opens up.

If you don’t need to get food from a food bank, please consider donating food to a food bank. We gotta help each other if we are gonna survive.

Please share this.

foodfinder.us

Food Pantries of America - Welcome to FoodFinder!

At FoodFinder you can search the food pantries that are closer to you. Explore the map and enter your zip code to learn which ones are available.

foodfinder.us

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Godot Jove @ac3attorn3y.bsky.social · 11d

the concept of someone being afraid of their dog being autistic is hilarious to me. like what would an "autistic" dog do that would be different from a typical dog? is it gonna develop a special interest in digging holes? is it gonna be overstimulated in public spaces? thats like all dogs ever cmon

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Sep 8

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies.

May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism.

This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs.

Vaccinate your pets please.

Worries about vaccination rates in dogs
As rabies seems to be spreading more in wildlife, veterinarians are especially worried about vaccine hesitancy spreading among pet owners, a dangerous trend that could lead to more dogs - and their owners
- becoming infected. A 2023 study published in the journal Vaccine found in nationally representative sample of Americans that nearly 40% believed canine vaccines were unsafe and 37% believed that vaccines could lead their dogs to develop cognitive issues, such as autism.

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𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖑🖤 @arielisreading.bsky.social · 1d

These idiots are going to kill us all.

Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · Sep 8

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies.

May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism.

This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs.

Vaccinate your pets please.

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 1d

I can’t believe there are real people who think libraries are overstaffed

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

Going to be risking-career-progression-honest with y'all: if this is your response to labor and AI in libraries, I don't think you are qualified to be a leader. In fact, your "leadership" is going to cause harm to both librarians and patrons alike.

katinamagazine.org/content/arti...

In an era of tightening budgets, Webster contends, these institutions “risk a sudden reckoning.”

Boughida sees similar pressures at play. “Probably there will be fewer people in libraires—you need to be able to do more with the people you have,” he said. “This isn’t about expecting staff to take on more work with fewer resources. It’s about using AI to augment and strengthen the capabilities of the people we already have.”

According to Webster, institutions that “are thinking about the bottom line … will want to know how candidates for deanships will help them plan for a future that seems to be nearer and likelier than people think.”

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 1d

Idk gang, maybe continuing to allow the same 3 companies to control 174% of the world is a stupid idea.

Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 1d

It's always DNS. Except when it's AWS. (In this case, it was both.)

Amazon DNS outage breaks much of the internet | TechCrunch

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

techcrunch.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

hang this in the louvre (there's room now)

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Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 1d

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 2d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

With alt text.

Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

Camila @camilapress
FULL REPORT: Colombian public media reports that a U.S. military strike on a boat on September 15—the second attack on a vessel by the U.S. in the Caribbean that we're aware of—was a Colombian boat and was in Colombian territorial waters.
At least one of the three victims extrajudicially killed in the strike was Colombian lifelong fisherman Alejandro Carranza. Alejandro's identity is confirmed by his cousin.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.
EN VIVO SANTA MARTA - EXCLUSIVO
Señal
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EN DIRECTO
RTVC NOTICIAS
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15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2025 LANCHA FUE BOMBARDEADA@*
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𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖊𝖑🖤 @arielisreading.bsky.social · 2d

Shoulda smacked him with the skateboard since he wanna be hardheaded.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Michael Patrick Hicks | Horror Author and Book Reviewer @michaelpatrickhicks.com · 2d

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

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Scary Corpse @damselindystopia.bsky.social · 2d

There's just the stink of sexism around the assumption that women past like college age are all mumsy figures who don't really understand all this complicated politics stuff but want everything to be nicer.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

'The Purdue student paper owns it's own presses' is the 'I called your tailor' for the journalist set

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 3d

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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