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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 13h

"In unison."

Amen.

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Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16h

No money for healthcare, no money for veterans, no money for farmers. But good news: Trump just doubled Argentina’s bailout to $40 billion.

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Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · 17h

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Now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows, to support & recognize creators of speculative work that is changing our view of gender today! Apply by Dec. 15 for USD $500 to support a new or ongoing project.

#Fellowships #grants #sff #fantasy #scifi

Apply for Otherwise Fellowships by December 15! « Otherwise Award

The Otherwise Motherboard is now soliciting applications for two 2025 Otherwise Fellows! Each Fellow receives USD $500 in support of a new or ongoing project. Please apply by December 15.

otherwiseaward.org

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Sarah Pinsker @sarahpinsker.bsky.social · 22h

This is going to be fun!

Yume Kitasei @yumewrites.bsky.social · 22h

Join us tonight (Wednesday) in Baltimore for a panel discussion on the power of what if! With me, Ray Nayler, @sarahpinsker.bsky.social , @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social , and @juliavee.bsky.social at Greedy Reads Remington!

Graphic with pictures of five people and five books. Text says: The Traveling
Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Festival
Baltimore
Wednesday Oct. 15 7:00 p.m.
Greedy Reads
Remington Location
320 W 29th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
Micaiah Johnson
Yume Kitasei
Ray Nayler
Sarah Pinsker
Julia Vee
Panel Discussion: The Power of What If

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Kira Franz @totallynotkira.bsky.social · 1d

Funny thing, but "international waters" does not mean "no laws apply here." This is yet another blatant murder bragged about by our current government.

Six killed after US strikes another boat off coast of Venezuela | CNN Politics

The US military conducted yet another strike on a boat alleged to be trafficking drugs off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people on board, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.

www.cnn.com

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Otherwise Award @otherwiseaward.org · 1d

Spotlighting more 2022-23 gender-expanding genre fiction:

“Vagabonds!” Eloghosa Osunde
“The Deep Sky” @yumewrites.bsky.social
“The Water Outlaws” @slhuang.com
“If You Find Yourself Speaking to God, Address God with the Informal You” @johnchu.bsky.social
“A Feast for Flies” @leighharlen.bsky.social

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Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · 2d

Little update. Mostly been off bsky coz I've had some complications involving fevers, bleeding. It's been a rough six weeks, physically, mentally, emotionally. Would have liked to have rested but I gotta pay for the hospital bills and various tests and medications. Anything you can spare will help.

Vida Cruz-Borja @laviecestmoi.bsky.social · May 23

Hi all; I'm going to undergo a significant procedure later this year (sorry, would rather not disclose) and my husband's health insurance doesn't cover it. We're going to need funds for the care during and after. Any help would be much appreciated:

gogetfunding.com/medical-and-...

Medical and Post-Hospital Care for Vida Cruz-Borja

Hello, I am Vida Cruz-Borja, author of the Cirilo F. Bautista Award-winning Song of the Mango and Other New Myths and the IGNYTE Award-winning essay “We are the Mountain: A Look at the Inactive Protag...

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 2d

"Promptly." Thanks to the ruling in Taylor v. Riojas, we know that six days is a short period.

Laura Belin @laurarbelin.bsky.social · 2d

How can this be? Justice Kavanaugh assured us that "If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d

A lot of mealy-mouthed lies here. Republicans wanted to repeal the ACA with no replacement—they failed. This summer, they cut $1 trillion from health care, gutting Medicaid & sabotaging the ACA.

They have no health care plan and they want to let your premiums more than double.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

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Suyi @suyidavies.com · 2d

Nobody asked me for an acceptance speech, but I have one anyway, because what the heck; because I respect the thankless work the @theignyteawards.bsky.social does each year; because I'm glad for good trouble; because I'm honoured to be honoured.

suyidavies.com/updates/lost... #2025IgnyteAwards

Lost Ark Dreaming wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella (full acceptance speech) — Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa wins the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Novella. Full acceptance speech follows.

suyidavies.com

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 3d

They won, 3-1, in a perfectly normal number of innings, like perfectly normal baseball team. Can that be right?

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 3d

2-1 Mariners in the top of the 7th. They're doing pretty well for a bunch of guys who should be totally exhausted from Friday night.

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 4d

I'm missing Vermont, Maine, and Hawai'i. Spent time in all the others, in part because I traveled extemsively by bus in my youth. Traveling by bus, you spend a lot of time in every state you pass through, but it's rarely quality time.

TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 4d

This is a pretty detailed map... Lived in, slept in, driven through, touched down.

I get 45 (43 if you don't count airport layovers)

A map of the United States. Blue is states I've slept in. Yellow is states I've lived in. Red is states I've merely driven through. Seafoam is states I've only touched down in on air travel (that's Hawaii, and Alaska), and grey are the four states (Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,and Alabama) where I've not so much as dipped a toe past the border

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 4d

Caroline, I would buy, frame, and hang on my wall a print of this photograph, if you're up for printing and signing one.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4d

"It should be an easy decision for college presidents not to stick their institution’s neck into this retroactive push-button guillotine."

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 5d

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

www.cato.org

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Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social · 5d

It is the top of the 15th. I am watching a cricket fan complain about the length of this baseball game.

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🎃Cabin in the Woodsey🎃 @norahwoodsey.com · 5d

Im sorry what the fuck?????

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d

From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.

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[user] Sep 20
The CATO Institute should be labeled as a domestic terrorist organization.

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Trump's next EO needs to be declaring the CATO Institute a terrorist organization.

[user]
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The next group that
@realDonaldTrump
needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute

[user]
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Sep 19
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.

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The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization.

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President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization
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Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."

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