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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 13h

It’s going to be very funny when all this collapses around them and torches the global economy while we’re left holding the bag. Hilarious.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 13h

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 13h

Call me impressed.

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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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 21h

Not at all surprising that these are the products of a decade of Trump’s corrosive effects on civic and social norms.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

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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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

He stopped at Salt River Bay on St. Croix to refill his water supply, mistaking it for a freshwater estuary. Instead, he found hostile Arawak people who by then were more than familiar with his depredations on Hispaniola. They attacked the landing party and forced them back to sea.

VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 1d

The only part of the United States Columbus ever stepped foot in is Puerto Rico.
. He was never on the mainland. Go ahead, look it up!

Columbus landed in PR on November 19, 1493, during his 2nd voyage, naming it San Juan Bautista (after John the Baptist).
He also did a brief visit to St. Croix.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

All kids deserve free meals.

Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 1d

Making free meals available to all public students wouldn't only produce benefits equal to the costs, it would produce social benefits with a net worth of about $520 million a year, according to an economic analysis released last Monday. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/14/a...

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some • Ohio Capital Journal

Most Ohio school kids already get free meals. Making them free for all students would produce big social benefits, new study says.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed.

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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David DeWitt @daviddewitt.bsky.social · 2d

Poll: Huge majorities support extension of ACA subsidies affecting 400K Ohioans ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/10/p...

Poll: Huge majorities support extension of ACA subsidies affecting 400K Ohioans • Ohio Capital Journal

The government is shut down in a fight over insurance subsidies for lower-income people. Huge majorites of Americans want to extend them, a new poll says.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 2d

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 2d

Things going extremely well here in America why do you ask

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 2d

You’re hearing it more and more

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 2d

Sally may have a point here, because if you’ve consistently managed to fail upwards over the course of your “journalism” career by finding increasingly wealthy benefactors to flatter and bankroll you, I wouldn’t bet against your ability to shill for capital and power either.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 3d

That’s the big tent, baybeee

Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 3d

They don’t care about our kids.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 3d

Westerville showing out

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This Is Fascism

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 3d

Took our eldest (a precocious 11) to the local high school’s production of Les Mis and holy shit did it go hard. Terrific production from top to bottom and a reminder of how important the arts are in our public schools.

Hats off the Westerville South!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 3d

Replies are unhinged. Hunting for one’s food is as old as our species. You may not personally do it, like it, or agree with it, but Tim posting a shot at the pheasant he’s bringing home tonight doesn’t make him a bad person. Please get a grip, folks.

Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 4d

Bird down.

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