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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 2h

Lack of bad is cause for celebration ... neither Kieffer nor Moore were injured in the international break! Hurray!

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The Life of Sharks 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @thelifeofsharks.com · 8h

An Israeli ceasefire is where they get back the hostages and they keep murdering Palestinians.

news.sky.com/story/gaza-h...

Gaza latest: 'Six killed' as Israeli troops open fire on 'suspects' after 'violation of ceasefire agreement'

Israel says its troops have opened fire after "suspects" approached its troops in Gaza. Meanwhile, Donald Trump says he wants to rebuild the territory, but hasn't committed to a Palestinian state. Lis...

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 13h

the degree to which i feel like i am living in the pre-title montage of a post-apocalyptic movie cannot be overstated.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 15h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 20d

Critics including Elon Musk have assailed my @cato.org colleague Alex Nowrasteh's study finding that most politically motivated terrorist killings in the U.S. since 1975 have been done by persons on the right. Alex responds to the critics here and explains his methods and classifications.

Alex Responds to the Critics: Politically Motivated Terrorist Killings in the United States

The critics are mistaken

www.alexnowrasteh.com

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 8h

Uni administrators and trustees: We need viewpoint diversity.

Professor, outside of class: Working class should organize to overthrow capitalism

Uni administrators and trustees: No, not THAT kind of viewpoint diversity

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 20h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 8h

No matter how thoroughly the legacy media debase themselves to please Trump, he will always be ungrateful, and he will always demand that they bow and scrape even more

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 8h

lol

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump

Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15h

The thing about “city cops are wary of mayoral candidate” stories is those cops don’t live or vote there so you don’t have to care what they think.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17h

exceedingly rare mainstream coverage of real college

Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 18h

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

He was a homeless college student. He found hope in a parking lot.

Long Beach City College reserves 15 spots in a parking lot for homeless students. For Edgar Rosales Jr., the program has been a lifeline.

www.washingtonpost.com

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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M. Blind @mdotblind.bsky.social · 1d

One problem (not the only problem, but one problem) is that we let the rich & politicians decide on their own punishments for too long.

Instead of facing prosecution, they were allowed to resign. To pay a fine to avoid court. To be shamed into going away.

They just decided to, not, anymore

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 1d

Commentary: International students bring talent and economic vitality to Ohio. For Ohio to stay competitive in a global economy, it needs to have a global workforce. The state is losing international students in droves. Smart policy could turn that around. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/13/h...

How can Ohio turn its international student enrollment problem around? • Ohio Capital Journal

International students bring vibrancy, talent, and economic vitality to Ohio. For Ohio to stay competitive in a global economy, it needs to have a global workforce. Right now the state is losing…

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 1d

It is, quite literally, *his job* to know whether the executive branch is implementing the programs and spending Congress authorized. This isn't pretending he doesn't know what awful thing Trump said. This is his Constitutional obligation that he is now derelict from fulfilling.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno, they might have seen that in the google alongside the actual seal of the inquisition, and said, "yeah, but this one is way cooler."

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 1d

Totally false. Why, I found a picture of their founding leadership, and it reveals that there was a strong Communist influence from the outset.
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 1d

It does not "beg the question". Begging the question is building the conclusion into the assumptions so that evidence has no role in determining the outcome ...

... wait a minute ...

... ah, the anti-pronoun crowd is just confusing "it" and "we".

#KITM @kagrox.bsky.social

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 1d

If this happened at a steel plant there would be talk of government bail out to secure jobs

LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 3d

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU

Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 1d

And the four games against Cardiff will be good to help prepare for the challenge ahead in Europe if Wrexham can win the league.

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 1d

"Just look at a map. The border is on the type of land they color blue."

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder.

Humanity has never removed an atmospheric pollutant at a global, continental or, even, regional scale — we have only ever shut down the source and let nature do the clearing up. This is the case for chlorofluorocarbons and stratospheric ozone destruction, for sulfur dioxide and acid rain, and for sulfur and nitrogen oxides and photochemical smog. We must be prepared for CDR to be a failure, leaving us to rely on the environment to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ over thousands of years. This is another argument for rapid decarbonization.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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