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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 20h

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

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NDFARMGIRL @ndfarmgirl.bsky.social · 7d

So how does taking away health care make that happen

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“Accountability isn’t anger, it’s maintenance.”
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Shaun Pinner @olddogua.bsky.social · 10d

If you support Russia, then you support this. If you are aiding them, then you are complicit.

Look at it, because that’s where we stand.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 10d

2/n First: buy up low cost generics in bulk - in case you wonder why they’re often antiparasitics like ivermectin hydroxychloroquine fendbendazole - because there’s lots of it and it’s cheap. Then jack up the price and repackage. Then bilk customers through $1,600 telehealth visits

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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 11d

Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.”

<shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade>

Vance spokesperson: No comment.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?

MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.

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Bruce Triplett @btripper75.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations on your achievement; congratulations on this wonderful review. I’m looking forward to reading this book!

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Bruce Triplett @btripper75.bsky.social · 16d

Also, if I’m remembering correctly, a person could share easily with 2 other Musketeers, because the bar separated easily into 3 pieces.

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Sam Waller @samwalmd.bsky.social · 16d

Gotta help Argentina sell soybeans to China.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Bruce Triplett @btripper75.bsky.social · 18d

“A standing
military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The
means of defence [against] foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at
home.” Quoting a Founding Father in a ruling granting TRO in Portland, Oregon.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21d

Leadership is, indeed, possible.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21d

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
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Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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Bruce Triplett @btripper75.bsky.social · 21d

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Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________

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Bruce Triplett @btripper75.bsky.social · 22d

Signatories commit themselves to revising governance structures…to create…an environment…[that transforms or abolishes]…institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas,” states the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 23d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 23d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 22d

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 22d

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Bruce Triplett @btripper75.bsky.social · 22d

Jim Lee On Why DC Will Never Use AI: “AI Doesn’t Dream, Feel, Or Make Art, It Aggregates It”