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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 52m

We don't need no stinking badges

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 56m

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Dougherty @pdougherty.bsky.social · 49m

www.adn.com/politics/202...

Alaska Supreme Court orders Dunleavy backers to comply with subpoenas in campaign finance case

Alaska’s highest court on Friday affirmed a lower court decision related to the 3-year-old complaint.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2h

BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access.

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the seat of U.S. military power.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h

GOP gave $20 billion to Argentina yesterday

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."

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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 1h

He misses being on tv.

NPR @npr.org · 1h

During the speech last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lectured senior military officials on the "warrior ethos," focusing on fitness and grooming standards, and calling out "fat generals." n.pr/4o3KMss

Hegseth orders troops to watch his speech decrying a 'woke' military

During the speech last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lectured senior military officials on the "warrior ethos," focusing on fitness and grooming standards, and calling out "fat generals."

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1h

OOP!!!! I love that. “ChatGPT is for third party thinkers.”

We have no choice but to drag them.

Tayci @taycibear.bsky.social · 2h

When I asked my eldest if he's ever used that he said he's not a third party thinker.

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 3h

Cook County’s chief judge has signed an order banning federal immigration agents from arresting people around local courthouses without a warrant.

https://to.wttw.com/3IMGQ0d

Warrantless Immigration Arrests Banned at Cook County Courthouses Under New Order

Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans signed an order banning federal immigration agents from arresting people around local courthouses without a warrant.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h

The last people who said this here were American colonial merchants who remained loyal to King George III. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 7h

FAA automated airport weather stations in western Alaska offline as of Wednesday morning:

Kiana
Ambler
Shishmaref
Teller
Anvik
Marshall
Scammon Bay
Hooper Bay
Mekoryuk
Kipnuk
Napakiak
Nunapitchuk
Kwethluk
Kalskag
Koliganek

#akwx
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Clsmith @clsmithak.bsky.social · 6h

Flooded Alaska villages face recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever see alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/14/f...

Flooded Alaska villages face recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever see | Alaska Beacon

The remnants of Typhoon Halong has left flooded villages of Western Alaska facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience.

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 1d

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: 3rd Circuit DENIES Republican Party petition to rehear critical voting rights case involving Pennsylvania’s date requirement for mail-in ballots.

A BIG VICTORY for the DSCC, DCCC, AFT of Pa. and the voters of Pennsylvania. Proud on my ELG team. www.democracydocket.com/cases/pennsy...

🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections

Learn more here.

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RichThompsonAK @richthompsonak.bsky.social · 1d

Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience

"Right now, they have a lot of people with nowhere to live, and winter is closing in."

via Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social

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Typhoon leaves flooded Alaska villages facing a storm recovery far tougher than most Americans will ever experience

‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 1d

It's day 13 of the shutdown. What's Trump doing?

Negotiating a budget deal? No.

Preventing premiums from doubling? No.

Stopping 15 million Americans from losing health care? No.

He's meeting the Pres. of Argentina to reward him with a $20 billion bailout.

America first?

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Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 1d

Student journalist Renasia Uisok reports on the storm damage in their community of Kotlik!

For QTV Kotlik "Quyana TV," produced by middle and high schoolers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOIk...

Typhoondamagekotlik

YouTube video by QTV Kotlik

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Alaska's News Source @alaskasnewssource.com · 1d

‘This latest storm didn’t give a damn’: People in Napakiak explain damage, evacuating through window 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3ctknehf

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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 1d

#AlaskaSky

Taylor Heckart @theckart.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re in Petersburg, Cooper Landing, Seward, Ketchikan, Tok, Unalaska, Soldotna, Skagway, and Bethel, you should get free access to a news database through your library! There are 20+ Alaska news publications in there, including many that are normally paywalled. www.kfsk.org/2025/10/13/g...

Grant funding will give 15 Alaska libraries free access to many paywalled newspapers - KFSK

Fifteen libraries across Alaska will be gaining access to a large online database of national and in-state news sources. The Alaska Library Network received a $10,250 grant from the Atwood Foundation,...

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 1d

If you get your health care through Georgia Access, log on today to check your monthly payment for next year.

A million Georgians will see that their health care premiums have doubled.

The Republican funding bill allows this. I won’t stand for it.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Most of us shouldn't be writing for the "average reader."

Make that guy suffer, make him pick up a dictionary.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2d

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 2d

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”

-Charles Mackay

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Toni Reitter @tonichelle.bsky.social · 3d

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