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FoodLab Detroit @foodlabdetroit.bsky.social · 10m

“Stardom is not what’s inherently threatening. Combining it with competence is.” - Astead W. Herndon 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

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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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 12h

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

www.nytimes.com

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BOO-trous BOO-trous-Ghoulie @dlbowman76.com · 6m

Every one of my friends knows this but Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was an absolute treasure. Every single one of her works that I have read has been even better on rereading. To give someone the Earthsea books for the first time is a mitzvah. You'll make their life better forever.

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Matt Lewis @neuroclef.bsky.social · 23h

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 9h

Inflatable-frog wreckers and saboteurs to be held to account, vows Andrey Vyshinsky’s reincarnation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

AG Bondi: "We're gonna get to the funding of antifa, we're gonna get to the root of antifa, and we're gonna find and charge all of those people who are causing this chaos in Portland and all these other cities across our country."

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wmj3.bsky.social @wmj3.bsky.social · 9h

Gotta wonder if Vance shared this passage with Usha and the kids.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

curious to know what text chats our vice president is in

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 10h

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OrbGazer @orbgazer.bsky.social · 9h

America’s final offering to the world will be deepfake porn of everyone you’ve ever admired, hated, held or dear. We’re going to see internet poisoning on a level that has not even been classified. if you think you’re jaded enough to go “yeah whatever”, wait til they can generate it live on the fly

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Irrational Monkey-in-Chief @monkeyinchief.bsky.social · 9h

The world economy in an age of disorder via @FT
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The world economy in an age of disorder

It is dangerous to have confidence in what lies ahead

on.ft.com

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 9h

The Candid Decorator by James Merrill
www.divasofverse.com/2013/12/thec...

The Candid Decorator by James Merrill

The Candid Decorator I thought I would do over All of it. I was tired Of scars and stains, of bleared Panes, tinge of the...

www.divasofverse.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 12h

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 9h

The mandolin breakdown in “Maggie May” is always so nice. Sometimes I’m lukewarm on that song but then the mandolin hits and all is good

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to write a PSA that people can send to their elderly relatives.

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

If You Can Read This, You're About to Get Scammed

Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.

gizmodo.com

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

Are the public schools doing any better today in teaching kids to recognize extreme ideologies? I feel like the answer is probably no.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

That was a profound failure of the educational system in fifties. They taught everyone about the horrors of communism because, duh, it was the McCarthy era. But they didn't teach people to recognize the extreme right at all.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

The FBI got a ton of mail asking if the John Birch Society was communist or subversive. This particular woman was a Bircher who wrote to ask if the JBS was communist.

Letter to J Edgar Hoover asking if the John Birch Society is communist.

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South Florida Sun Sentinel @sun-sentinel.com · 9h

Florida officials failed to disclose to an appeals court that they had applied for federal reimbursement for the Alligator Alcatraz detention center, according to a lawsuit claiming the omission misled the court. That court subsequently put on hold a judge’s order to wind down facility operations.

Florida officials didn’t disclose funding request for Alligator Alcatraz, lawsuit says

Florida officials failed to disclose that they had applied for federal reimbursement for Alligator Alcatraz, leading to a false impression before an appellate court panel that put on hold a judge’s…

www.sun-sentinel.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

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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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

Here's a link to the full story
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid dispute over student newspaper's content

The director of student media was fired after he pushed back against a university directive over what gets printed in the Indiana Daily Student.

www.indystar.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

It doesn't surprise me that Indiana University is going after the student newspaper. The IDS has played a key role in holding the university administration accountable.

Including by reporting on the administration's investigation and intimidation of faculty 1/

specials.idsnews.com/steve-sander...

The pursuit of light and truth

Law Professor Steve Sanders’s battle with IU over reporting on presidential search process

specials.idsnews.com

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Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 11h

Empirical and hands-on surveys of social problems was a touchstone of the Progressive Era. A pioneer of this in the US was a woman named Clare de Graffenried.

In 1896, she turned her attention to conditions in DC’s alleys, kicking off decades of well-intended meddling in these “hidden slums.” 🗃️

The Woman's
Anthropological Society.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
BULLETIN NO. 7.
TYPICAL ALLEY HOUSES IN WASHINGTON.
NOVEMBER 14, 1896.
CLARE DE GRAFFENRIED.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
GIBSON BROS., PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS
1897-

Clare de graffenried in the 1900s, looking real grandmotherly

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James F. Love IV @jamesfloveiv.bsky.social · 9h

Breaking:
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Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 9h

in all the discussion (and sometimes tokenizing) of Portland protests being a creative spectacle that neutralizes law enforcement, don’t overlook:

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 11h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

JD Vance doth protest too much about group chats where Republican staffers are “just joking” about putting people they don’t like in gas chambers.

“How do you do, fellow kids” meme, except it’s JD Vance saying “how do you do, fellow internet Nazis.”

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