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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 12m

Best times headline of the morning:
Beheaded and Sent to Watery Graves, Columbus Statues Get New Life

Beheaded and Sent to Watery Graves, Columbus Statues Get New Life

www.nytimes.com

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The Oxford Publicity Partnership Ltd (OPP) @oxfordpublicity.bsky.social · 4h

How three little words shaped #abortion debates—BACK-ALLEY ABORTION by Emily Winderman, new from @hopkinspress.bsky.social, is OUT NOW and available to buy from bookshops throughout Europe! @blackwells.bsky.social

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Guy Venables @guyvenables.bsky.social · 2h

My cartoon for Tuesday's Metro

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Chuck Tee @chutry.bsky.social · 2h

This is brilliant

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

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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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 1d

Pay attention to what Portland is doing. Wear ridiculous costumes, dance, sing, hand out flowers. It makes it more difficult for them to label you as a threat.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

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.

www.usatoday.com

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Mandy Ⓥ🐾✊🇨🇦🇬🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸 @veganm.bsky.social · 2d

We remember how great it used to be 💔💔💔

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm, Antifly? (Okay, you try a frog pun. Harder than you think!)

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

Aristophanes approves!

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to see frog cosplay as political resistance become a thing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

I love this image.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

I would like to see frog cosplay as political resistance become a thing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

I love this image.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

Plus witty as hell!

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

The Righteous Among the Nations.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

The MAGA-SAGA in 3 Acts

Act I: Descends Escalator - Loses to Biden

Act II: Regains WH - Present Day

Act III: EPSTEIN Files Released

The End

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Andrew Berzanskis @aberzanskis.bsky.social · 2d

Thrilled to open the latest New Yorker and see an @oupress.bsky.social author. The press published José A. Rodríguez's exquisite memoir "House Built on Ashes."

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations!

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

This👇

Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 2d

🧵:
The world’s extremely poor are also often extremely remote, with limited access to healthcare & health education. In many developing countries, the government—often with the help of the UN and, until this year, USAID—maintains health posts that bring these services to people living off the grid.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

The Righteous Among Nations--

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 2d

Courage takes many forms. Here is one:
M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 3d

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 4d

You’ve got this.

The Vegan's Voice @animalrights1.bsky.social · 4d

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 4d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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