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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 33m

"What thin data resources you have!"

"All the better to sell you snake oil, my dear."

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 10h

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 43m

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5h

Three panel cartoon by Wawa wiwa comics

An octopus, a shark and a jellyfish are talking to each other

Octopus: I once saw a human and peed myself

Shark: a human saw and peed himself

Jellyfish: a human touched me once and his friend peed on him

Octopus: dude…

Shark: what?

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Evangelia Adamou 🦋 @evangelia.bsky.social · 2h

“the title of my book, is derived from the traditional way to give the morning greeting in Secwepemctsin - that's my family's language, my Indigenous language.

We say tsecwinucw-k, which doesn't actually translate to good morning. It means you survived the night.”

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

'We Survived the Night' tells a story of survival and the Indigenous experience

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Julian Brave NoiseCat, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer, about his new book, "We Survived the Night."

www.npr.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 11h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9h

If his skin were any thinner it wouldn’t be compatible with life

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 10h

Was it "Black Mirror" or "Fellini" in nature ?

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 10h

naked bike riders apparently threaten little Mikey's sexuality

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 11h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 10h

you've got "fear of death" on one hand, and "belief" (in salvation and eternal life *or* in eternal hell fire and stuff) on the other

🎶If you believe in peanut butter, clap your hands...If you believe in peanut butter, you gotta believe in Peter Pan! (in Peter Pan, in Peter Pan)"🎶

Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 14h

What's on your minds?

As is seasonally appropriate, I've been thinking about death.

B/c I can't help myself I've also been thinking about Christianity's fucked up relationship to death, and the toxic dynamics of hardline faith.

The latest Bugbear Dispatch:

www.bugbeardispatch.com/some-thought...

Some Thoughts about Fear, Death, and Christianity

In his Society without God (NYU Press, 2008), sociologist Phil Zuckerman documented the many ways in which the Scandinavian countries--some of the least religious on earth--put highly religious countr...

www.bugbeardispatch.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 11h

the "war zones" look more like scenes from a Fellini film

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15h

This is FANTASTIC. Thank you, @lutzfernandez.bsky.social, for doing this work and so generously sharing it

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 15h

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

docs.google.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 15h

P*ssy Grabber of the United States of America

digby @digby56.bsky.social · 15h

This is the second time in 24 hours he's said something like this. Yesterday he made that quip saying about Karoline Leavit, "those lips --- they move like a machine gun."

He's losing all inhibitions. Not that he ever had many to begin with.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 15h

an energy and water hog all for the sake of fake sexting

The Verge @theverge.com · 17h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 15h

younger members of the white people's party remain true to their roots

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 17h

this reminds me of the almost exact same racist content that was in the TPUSA at Virginia Tech chats

www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 18h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 16h

What is his total murder tally?

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

he did it again.

US strike on boat off Venezuela kills six, Trump says

A U.S. strike on a boat off the coast of Venezuela on Tuesday killed six suspected drug traffickers, President Donald Trump said in a social media post.

www.reuters.com

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Paz Pardon me, is that a ghost in your pocket or @pazsays.bsky.social · 16h

"For more than two-thirds of the products we analyzed, a single serving contained more lead than CR’s food safety experts say is safe to consume in a day—some by more than 10 times."
...the manosphere is making a lot more sense to me now

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 17h

if you are a young liberal who has been won over by nick fuentes, you are actually a nazi. because he is a nazi.

glad we could clear that up!

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

www.gq.com

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 17h

jesus, son of god, needs to be saved by white supremacists

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 20h

JUST IN: Comey confirms plan to challenge legality of Trump's appointment of Lindsey Halligan as US Attorney for EDVA. Cites rulings in NJ/NV disqualifying US attorneys there. Motion coming Oct. 20. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

ComeyHalliganNotice101425

www.documentcloud.org

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20h

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · 18h

donald sez -- funnel me the money

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 22h

1. Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits from the Trump administration.

Quid Pro Presidency

Nations that have bestowed lavish gifts to President Trump — or enriched Trump and his family by striking business deals with Trump-connected companies — have later received extraordinary benefits…

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