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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 4h

“It seems like they just took a sledgehammer to the agency versus a scalpel,” said @drdebhoury.bsky.social.

She believes the unRIFed jobs may have been reinstated after public outcry. HHS did not provide documentation of an error by press time.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Entire offices erased at health agency in Friday move before Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error

www.theguardian.com

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, owner of LAtimes is problematic. But OTOH, it has folks like @gustavoarellano.bsky.social writing columns, and has great perspectives on e.g. ICE operations in the city.

As for the ExD analogy - I'm too close to that issue to see it as a useful comparison, but heck go for it

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 2h

You're either a clever bot or your reference to ExD is too sophisticated for me to appreciate.
WaPo isn't ExD, it's just increasingly disappointing.

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Emily Reinhardt @emilyanner.bsky.social · 3h

I've tried three times in this life, but I can't finish Moby Dick and I don't think I ever will.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 2h

Bought the book finally
But rather than staring at "Call me...," I'm sorta randomly picking chapters.
More people should do this. It's fun.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 3h

Is this bad cause it seems bad

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

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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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 2h

Still a WaPo subscriber, but in response to the changes at WaPo I also subscribed to the @latimes.com despite living almost 3k miles away.
Any other good regional papers out there that deserve my subscriber dollars?

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Alt Selesnya Conclave Sevices @justthewinddrake.bsky.social · 4h

Germs DGAF about our thoughts about our orifices. They only care about fecundity. Livin' it up in the rich resource abundant crevices and to spread to other similar places. We got so many freakin places like that.

I got marketed a salt deodorant to make your pits inhospitable to germs. Wild stuff.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

why don’t they call it hand foot mouth And butt disease

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 4h

Ethnic cleansing is happening in the #WestBank.

In #MasaferYatta, 85% of homes have been demolished.

More from Celine, Project Coordinator and Frederieke, Humanitarian Affairs Manager:

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 4h

"... challenging the notion that paramedics cannot diagnose."

Pish posh. Medics cannot diagnose, let's not challenge*that* again.
/s
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41080389/

Characterization and Application of Statewide Emergency Medical Services Advanced Life Support Protocols - PubMed

Significant variation exists in statewide EMS protocols. While many are symptom-based, a notable portion are diagnosis-based, challenging the notion that paramedics cannot diagnose. These findings sug...

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 5h

Well damn @crispinsartwell.bsky.social is on BS.

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 23h

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 5h

"Wokeness" has muted all the "big, distinctive and ideosyncratic" voices in philosophy.
Except when *very* public philosophers like Jason Stanley have to flee to Canada because the alt-right is threatening their lives.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I think the period of my career (roughly

1990 to 2023) corresponded to a collapse

in the quality of research and publication

in philosophy and other humanities and

social science disciplines. In 1980, there

were big, distinctive and idiosyncratic

philosophers such as Michel Foucault,

Richard Rorty, W.V.O. Quine, Arthur

Danto and Judith Jarvis Thomson. By

2010, their voices had been muted, and

perhaps no one as bold as they were

could have survived grad school. My

impression is that many practitioners

of other disciplines feel roughly the

same. Academic production is more

homogenous, blander, safer and less

sincere.

Jason Stanley (born 1969) is the Bissell-Heyd Chair in American studies in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, and also has an appointment in the department of philosophy. In addition to his position at the Munk School, he is a distinguished professor at the Kyiv School of Economics. Before coming to the University of Toronto in 2025, he held positions as a professor of philosophy at Yale University (2013–2025), Rutgers University (2004–2013), the University of Michigan (2000–04), and Cornell University (1995–2000). He accepted the appointment at the University of Toronto in 2025, fleeing the U.S. because of what he describes as the deteriorating political situation.[1][2

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Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 14h

Picked this movie because there's no gif for "I'm a fiend for mojitos"

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 14h

What movie do you consider "perfect?"

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 14h

I tried to requote someone else who first brought this to my attention but BS app froze on me, and my kid was crying, so I lost your post sorry

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah yeah, the newspaper said "ambulance driver." Get over it.

Probably more important that an ICE agent threatened to shoot a working medic/EMT.
www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

“I was still in such shock,” the driver later wrote, “that they were not only accusing me of such a thing, but crowding and cornering me in the seat, pointing and screaming at me, threatening to shoot and arrest me, and not allowing the ambulance to leave the scene. This was no longer a safe scene, and in that moment, I realized that the scene had not actually been safe the entire time that they were blocking us from exiting, and that we were essentially trapped.”

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.

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

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

www.npr.org

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brookswalsh @brookswalsh.bsky.social · 23h

"Pike married his cousin Clarissa Harlow Brown in 1801"

From the TV series arrested Development, George Michael likes "the way the French think" because of a perceived openness to, uh, relations between cousins. He happens to be infatuated with his cousin* Maeby

*yeah yeah fight it out in the r/sub

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🥈72 dogs 🐝 @careycuprisin.bsky.social · 1d

The Columbus Day controversy reminds me of how we honor another inappropriate goofball: Zebulon Pike. A failed alpinist after whom we named Pikes Peak.

Snow-capped Pikes Peak under blue sky with the red fins of the Garden of the Gods in the foreground.

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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 1d

Hear me out: Not Columbus, but Columbo’s Day

a man in a suit and tie holds a piece of fruit in his hand

ALT: a man in a suit and tie holds a piece of fruit in his hand

media.tenor.com

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

13 October 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Carla Irene Witteboon, was born in Amsterdam.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork in August 1943. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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The ruins of gas chamber & crematorium III: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ipQmBPAlJQ8

A vintage black-and-white photo of a young girl standing outdoors against a brick wall, looking upwards and placing both hands on their head.

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