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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 26m

Unsurprisingly fantastic, nuanced piece by Dave Pozen and Jed Britton-Purdy. Read it! www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

What Are We Living Through? - Boston Review

Three competing narratives of the second Trump administration.

www.bostonreview.net

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 2m

Let’s just cut to the chase and secede already. It’s about time red states (read: the leaders, not the citizenry which are often much more liberal) learn what life would look like without being subsidized by our tax dollars.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7m

Fifteen Democratic governors formed a public health alliance to counter federal agency turmoil under the Trump administration. The alliance aims to monitor disease outbreaks, establish policy guidance and buy vaccines.

Democratic governors form state public health alliance to counter RFK Jr.

The Governors Public Health Alliance would counter federal health agencies under President Donald Trump as an independent hub to monitor diseases and prepare for emergencies.

www.washingtonpost.com

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 53m

Autumn proper is finally here 😊

Ween - Freedom of '76 (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Ween

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 2h

This Day in Labor History: October 15, 1990. President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, finally providing a path forward for some of the Cold War’s most exploited workers, Navajo uranium miners, to get some compensation, but even here this did not work well.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 2h

I’m happy to report that I have a new favorite frog

The slope-snouted glass frog, filmed in Colombia 🐸 #GlassFrog #Amphibian #Rainforest #Shorts

YouTube video by BBC Earth

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Dov Waxman @dovwaxman.bsky.social · 3h

There are some interesting findings in this new Washington Post survey of Jewish Americans: www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

More U.S. Jews shield identity in public amid antisemitism fears, Post poll finds

A third of U.S. Jewish people say they don’t feel safe, and two-thirds report seeing antisemitic content online at least once a month, a Washington Post poll finds.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 2h

Stop giving these fucking clowns more of a platform than they already have. She was a shitty journalist even before she started virtually fucking that HGH sausage patty of a man

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 18h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 2h

The next generation of Republican “leaders”—never let these people have power ever again

Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats

Politico obtained 2,900 pages of exchanges over seven months among a dozen Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.

www.newsweek.com

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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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 13h

This is otherwise not a thing a president would or should control. FIFA, soccer federations, national organizations, cities, and states are mostly closely aligned for hosting the games. But trump thinks he owns America now and wants to control every decision. And everyone just…lets him.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 13h

President Trump has once again suggested relocating World Cup matches from cities that he deems unsafe.

This time it’s Boston.

President Trump once again suggests relocating World Cup matches

Trump claims he would consider calling FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino to move games from cities that he deems unsafe.

www.nytimes.com

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 14h

Would do literally anything to roll face to this song with a group of likeminded people far away from the madness we currently have to deal with

Rozalla - Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) [Official HD Music Video]

YouTube video by DemonMusicGroup

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 17h

If you can, watch the original “Tales From the Crypt” series this October. Such good spooky vibes

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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 19h

No prominent media figure or politician on the left has said anything this cruel about Kirk

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19h

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 20h

This is why centrism infuriates me. It’s people advocating for LBTBQ+ folks, women’s rights, free health care, unions, not killing minorities and socsecurity vs “kill political enemies” “everyone should be white and Christian and straight” and “kick out/kill everybody that doesn’t conform to that”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

a real water is wet scenario here

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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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 1d

This is real. Actually real. King Trump is crying about not liking his photo after Time magazine crawled up his backside

Trump looking as gross as ever on the magazine cover and lacking in hair

Trump posting on ‘truth social’, ‘Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?’

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 22h

Out today: Today's border “is hypermilitarized, as we’ve never seen. Now if you go, like, to a shopping center, just to the store or a market, you will find a lot of military trucks full of soldiers. I work with people who are homeless, and the stories that they told us are very awful.”

In Juárez, a Militarized Border Makes Drug Use More Deadly

Growing security deployments pose unique challenges for harm reduction groups.

www.texasobserver.org

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 22h

I believe this is what the Scythians did

From the woahdude community on Reddit: A giant bong you get hot boxed in

Explore this post and more from the woahdude community

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 22h

She called George Soros (who I don’t have an especially high opinion of), a Holocaust survivor and perennial boogeyman of the right, “worse than a kapo.” This is a man who is a Holocaust survivor and funder of Jewish interests for decades. These people are unhinged.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 23h

She’s one of those “I used to be a Democrat by 10/6 changed everything” people. She’ll brush off blatant Christian Nationalism and antisemitism as long as it’s cloaked in pro-Israel language, and it’s absolutely maddening and heartbreaking to know this is an actual trend.

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 23h

My neighbor is a fellow Jew married to a Jewish Israeli person, and when I told her I supported Zohran everything changed in our interaction. It’s become crystal clear that so many American Jews that consider themselves “proud Jews” are actually “proud Israeli nationalists.”

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Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 23h

May his memory be a blessing

Homer looking up at D’Angelo in the stars

Ethan חנן Harfenist @harfenist.bsky.social · 23h

“Wave of violence against ICE” would be so comical if it wasn’t so insidious and disingenuous. Fuck these ghouls forever.

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