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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 11h

"And across the city, organizers threw a puppy parade to tell ICE to get its paws off Portland."

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14h

“they also did not offer any puppies for target practice, SEIZE THEM”

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 15h

has this been lawyered?

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h

Just saw an announcement from a kids soccer group that ICE agents have been spotted in the area, so it’s OK to skip today’s games if people are scared.
The MAGA assault on our community is intolerable and has nothing to do with making people’s lives better.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

“The executive branch is using the shutdown as cover for an intentional and targeted dismantling of leadership across the agency. It’s designed to sow chaos, demoralize career staff, and cripple the federal scientific infrastructure that protects Americans’ health" www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings

The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 1d

One of the earliest moves of the Trump regime was firing the head of the Office of Special Counsel, who is the first port of complaint about Hatch Act violations

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 2d

#wastewater
The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 2d

Ugh. I keep waiting for a sink hole to swallow the country whole. Scott Galloway and Kai Ryssdall talked about how long the economy can hold on Galloway's podcast yesterday. bsky.app/profile/kair...

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

Had a chat with @profgalloway.com

Give a listen

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

How Long Can the American Economy Hold? — with Kai Ryssdal

Podcast Episode · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 10/09/2025 · 58m

podcasts.apple.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

"Atypical" #cawater h/t @mavensnotebook.com www.capradio.org/articles/202...

Nimbus Fish Hatchery to drastically reduce salmon releases

Nimbus Fish Hatchery releases around 4 to 4.5 million young salmon and 430,000 yearling steelhead into California waterways annually. This coming year those numbers will be halved.

www.capradio.org

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, brother (h/t for link @mavensnotebook.com) nevadacurrent.com/2025/10/09/t...

Tahoe agency okays removal of hundreds of trees to make room for ‘glamping’ • Nevada Current

A development designed as an opportunity to enjoy Tahoe’s great outdoors requires the removal of 300 hundred towering pine trees on nine acres of privately owned land in Douglas County near the Lake T...

nevadacurrent.com

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

Too cool for plaques

But can they sing? "Trio of Trout," three small sculptures of trout made out of felt by artist Lauren Loren, share the kitsch quality of wall-mounted singing trout, but leave the Maryland paneled basement-Stranger Things vibe behind. The fuzziness gives them a luminous quality in the low October afternoon light near a window at the Towson Arts Collective.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

www.science.org/content/arti...

Gold-covered hairballs may reveal why cats eat grass

Spiky projections on plant matter may act like “drain snakes,” helping felines dislodge wads of fur

www.science.org

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

Condensed nut graf: "The key is Trump’s relationships w/ Gulf princes & the Israeli right, esp. Netanyahu. The relationship with the princes is based on corruption. The key, however, is Netanyahu has made the US-Israel alliance about the relationship with Trump... Netanyahu cannot say no to Trump"

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

Has Trump Brought Peace to Gaza? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-t...

Has Trump Brought Peace to Gaza?

Has Trump brought peace to Gaza? Ended the war and cycle of...

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

#westwater

National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 3d

Moisture associated with Priscilla will lead to a significant heavy rainfall and a flash flood risk across portions of Arizona, southern Utah, southwest Colorado, and far northwest New Mexico through Saturday.
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Key Messages for Tropical Storm Priscilla.
1. Moisture from Priscilla will cause significant heavy rainfall and flash flooding across parts of Arizona, southern Utah, southwest Colorado, and far northwest New Mexico through Saturday.
2. Large swells from Priscilla are impacting the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur and parts of the southwestern and west-central Mexico coast. These swells may cause dangerous surf, rip currents, and some coastal flooding.

The graphic also includes:
- A map showing the projected path of Tropical Storm Priscilla moving northeast from the Pacific Ocean toward the Baja California Peninsula and western Mexico.
- A rainfall and flash flood risk map highlighting the highest threat areas in red (moderate risk) over Arizona and surrounding states.

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

Galloway: "The stock market is not the economy. But, within the stock market, you have 10 companies responsible for 70% of the gains...The S&P10 is largely driven on AI or...expectations around AI."

Ryssdal: "...what AI is going to do is make a whole lot of jobs in this economy not necessary..."

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

Had a chat with @profgalloway.com

Give a listen

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

How Long Can the American Economy Hold? — with Kai Ryssdal

Podcast Episode · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 10/09/2025 · 58m

podcasts.apple.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

What Governor Pritzker is doing is right for his state, but it is vital for the Republic.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

A Twitter post introduced me to my dog (thank you again, for posting it)

The image is of an e-mail from Morris Animal Refuge in Philadelphia approving me to adopt a dog after I saw a listing for it posted by @goldengateblond on Twitter. I live in Baltimore and I thought reading the Tweet, "If I were in San Francisco, I'd adopt that dog." Then I double checked the listing and saw that MAR is in Philly, an hour and change up the road. So I applied on line, and got this e-mail, before putting down my coffee, telling my other (lonely, solo) dog, "I'll be back in four hours with a friend for you," and drove to Philly. Morris is the oldest animal refuge in the country, in a very old tangle of tiny streets, and it's tiny itself and quite hectic. Think the George Booth version of Hill Street Blues. But there was the Twitter pup and I was back with a new friend for my dog and now beloved member of the family as promised.

The springs under the upholstering in the seat of my late Dad's favorite chair are now poking through the seat, requiring many layers of pillows in the library. My dog Morris approves. This is a photo of her luxuriating in it.

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/s...

She Studied How Logging Affects Pollinators

www.nytimes.com

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 3d

I'm with your husband on this one ❤️Adore raccoons. A friend's old boyfriend once adopted a baby raccoon and, using children's toys, taught it to open doors, dial phones, and operate household items. Then he set it free. He was not popular. It always struck me as a real-life alternative to "Gremlins"

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Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 5d

"This guy you are talking about has never given me a dime. You are making that up...how weird it is that an AG coming to the judiciary committee for an oversight hearing prepares oppo-research on the senators, plus false oppo research, plus it's so sloppy that she says it, even though it's false..."

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

Well done by @whitehouse.senate.gov

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 5d

AG Bondi, here’s that correction you requested.

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 5d

Counterfeit ones may already be up in his golf club bathrooms

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting map. Its divisions in Maryland loosely reflect the geologic shift westward from coastal plain to Piedmont to (skipping Blue Ridge and Ridge and Valley) Appalachian Plateau

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 5d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

Emily Green @chanceofrain.bsky.social · 5d

Heads up Maryland

Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 6d

Union of Concerned Scientists report out with some nice recommendations for how to avoid captive residential customers paying for the infrastructure needs of data centers owned by tech giants (which is currently happening):

Customers in 7 PJM states paid $4.4B for data center transmission in 2024: report

Transmission lines built for data centers fall into a "regulatory gap,” with utility customers on the hook for the costs, the Union of Concerned Scientists said.

www.utilitydive.com

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · 5d

My first post as head of KSJ! Our first public event. This Thursday. Cambridge. Science journalism in a time of crisis. It's going to be 🔥. Join me and @katherinejwu.com @aniloza.bsky.social @sarareardon.bsky.social @akuchment.bsky.social @jeremyfaust.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social

A flyer showing speakers and describing a panel discussion "Confronting Crisis" to be held 10.9.25 from 4:15-6:15 at 101 Rogers Street in Cambridge.

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