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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 45m

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 48m

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 42m

Every time I hear/see Vought’s name I think of:

Screen grab from ScreenRant.com. Still image from tv show The Boys.

Image = horizontal. Homelander (character) on left in foreground with cityscape behind. Central building in cityscape behind him is tower with the name Vought in the top of it.

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Snacko Racko @snackoracko.bsky.social · 1d

Remember it is important to not only take care of yourself but your plushies too!

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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 6h

Naked people scare him. Especially ones with testicles. They make him all tingly and it scares him.

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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 6h

honestly, first thing that came to mind was Daryl Hannah’s character in Blade Runner :

a close up of a woman 's face with the year 2022 on the bottom

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the year 2022 on the bottom

media.tenor.com

ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 7h

Im not a gun person, but i can’t help but wonder whether castle doctrine applies to cars in states that have both that law and open carry. 🤔

I think that women and minorities could easily make the case or credible fear in the situation Joyce posits. (We’d all be scared, I’m thinking of defenses).

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 8h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 9h

As a result it this 🧵 I now want to open a pub called The Sophistic Pedant. The best part of the pub will be lmao at those who think I meant sophisticated and got it wrong.

As an academic I’m same in re qualifiers. Language is both my biggest strength and weakness b/c of this.

ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent and important thread/article on protein supplements (and a bit frightenin!):

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 11h

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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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 9h

Could Drive up?

really. The potential subjunctive?

How about “have already driven up”—a nice (present) perfect Indicative.

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 10h

Labor Department warns Trump immigration policies could drive up food prices

thehill.com

Labor Department warns Trump immigration policies could drive up food prices

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10h

Eric Trump is legally prohibited from operating a charity in the state of New York because he stole money from children with cancer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 10h

Don’t worry. I’m a solid gen x liberal who still hates the Cons whose BS sowing we are all now reaping decades later. i Have a real hate-on for Ronny Raygun.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h

How to buy life-saving time when systems fail: From a Navy medic-what to do before help arrives.The eight emergencies every household must prepare for.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h

Where’s the BG lie? A 13 year old was arrested by ICE and sent to a Virginia detention facility. It happened. Meanwhile, DHS has produced no evidence that a child had a rap sheet and is alleging unverifiable claims to save face.

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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 14h

Every time I see an ad for the “mundus sine caesaribus” t-shirts I want to cosplay John Cleese as Roman centurion in Life of Brian and give a Latin lesson. I can hear Cleese in my head (a world without people named Caesar?).

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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 14h

I should say that we don’t generally do a lot of citation counting as part of merit evaluations in the humanities as much as I understand it to be done in the sciences. I’m familiar with the gratuitous sort and differences in authoring/citarion practices (spouse is MD/PhD).

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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 14h

Citations are for providing a road map to others for where to find the wider fabric of the argument as well as for giving credit to sources. I’ve never really heard complaints abt them in my field (humanities) except in rare instances that had more to do w/the researcher & quality of their work. 😬

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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 14h

Off point a bit, but if they are actually transporting anyone in the back part of a moving van they are violating the law (in a way similar to how they complain people come into the country). Wish the local LEOs would enforce at least basic effing traffic violations against these a-holes.

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 1d

George Stephanopolous did what every anchor and host should have been doing since Bush 2000: Rejecting the bullshit, gaslighting, and rude, evasive filibustering the GOP has perfected to hide their lies.

NO MORE BULLSHIT.

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ClavdiaMinor @clavdiaminor.bsky.social · 1d

I get that this regime constantly curries favor w/the under/misinformed public via messaging blaming the Democrats for everything, but expecting people to be so stupid as to blame Dems here seems kind of insane b/c it is not only obvious, it makes it obvious how stupid they think citizens are.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

The truth about the administration’s threat federal employees won’t get paid when shutdown ends. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

“The agency’s human resources staff, which had been furloughed as part of the government shutdown, [was] called back to work to send out layoff notices to their colleagues.”

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 3d

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4d

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