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WIRED @wired.com · 2h

Protesting this weekend? Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy.

How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance

Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 14h

Never count out an Andy Reid team when there are still cheeseburgers on the table

Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 15h

A fate worse than getting a George Thorogood song stuck in your head

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 16h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 16h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 18h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 17h

Or Lawrence! Where I live now. I would love to see you.

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The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 17h

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of today after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.
Via Kansas News Service: lawrenceks.news/4ooiPf2

Kansas Young Republicans group now inactive after racist chat messages get exposed

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of Tuesday after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.

lawrenceks.news

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 20h

D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer who helped pioneer neo-soul music in the 1990s, has died at the age of 51.

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, man, I miss you, Evan.

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Luke Epplin @lukeepplin.bsky.social · 1d

My uncle just posted this photo of my grandma on her 101st birthday. It's from 1945, when she'd accompanied my grandpa to California, where he was stationed during WWII. In an alternate life, they would've stayed there instead of returning to small-town Illinois.

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2d

Today, Maine observes Indigenous Peoples' Day. We honor the lands and legacies of the Wabanaki Nations — Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Abenaki.

I look forward to passing legislation in the Senate to protect tribal sovereignty, which has been trampled for too long.

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 2d

Disinfect your cutting implement and take other steps against infection if you go this route

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, no, probably

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3d

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Erin Ryan Hey ♿️ @erinryanhey.bsky.social · 3d

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the precursor to the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). It’s important to separate the two in this context. It was passed a full 15 years before the ADA, + remains the bedrock of equal right to Education for children with disabilities. 1/

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 3d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

"Platner has held events from Portland to Caribou, in venues ranging from the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland to local pizza shops. Crowds have overflowed to hear Platner speak about wealth inequality, health care & his plan to unseat five-term Republican Sen. Susan Collins."

An article headline from Bangor Daily News: Graham Platner draws another overflow crowd in Brewer

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 4d

You have seen Renato Casaro's posters and you probably dug them. #RIP www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/m...

Renato Casaro, ‘Michelangelo of Movie Posters,’ Dies at 89

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 4d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Casey Reiland @caseyreiland.bsky.social · 4d

I’m a calzone and one beer deep on the T rn and just read this short story about food and friendship and omg the end made me tear up???

Chris Gonzalez @livesinpages.bsky.social · 6d

I have a new story out today @maudlinhouse.bsky.social! Writing it was heavily inspired by the increasing cost of groceries and general anxieties around money and trying to live a stupid little life!

Maudlin House @maudlinhouse.bsky.social · 6d

Tap It, Swipe It, Charge It by Christopher Gonzalez

maudlinhouse.net/tap-it-swipe...

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 4d

One of you sick fucks is gonna be like, we always bathe the onion

Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 4d

You love your kids enough to fuck up chili for them.

Picture of a pot of simmering chili with a whole onion marinating in it.

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Daniel A. Hoyt @danhoyt.bsky.social · 4d

Onion, he won’t detect the flavor, but my days of picking out the onions are over.

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