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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰
@kathylu.bsky.social
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Culture & leadership coach at the intersection of emotions & work. Raised in journalism. Love journalists, cats, food, celeb goss, stories that make me 🥹 https://www.audiencibility.com
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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 1d
America 2025 in one image
angrystaffer.bsky.social Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2d
The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d
🚨BREAKING: The State of Arizona filed a lawsuit accusing House Speaker Mike Johnson of violating the Constitution by refusing to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. The plaintiffs argue that Johnson’s delay has deprived hundreds of thousands of Arizonans of representation.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 2d
Statement on LAPD targeting our reporter @shoton35mm.bsky.social 🧵

Video by @filmthepolicela.bsky.social
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 3d
By a 2-1 opinion, the Ninth Circuit just held that the president can federalize the National Guard forces and deploy them when protesters shine flashlights in the eyes of ICE officers. It’s one of the most dangerous and legally flawed court decisions I’ve seen this year. 1/23
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Missouri Independent @missouriindependent.com · 3d
Missouri lost nearly 1.6M pounds of food aid since May due to cuts to a federal program that buys food from farmers and sends it to food banks. Meanwhile, Missouri's social services agency announced Monday it won't be able to issue November SNAP benefits because of the government shutdown. #moleg
Missouri lost 1.6 million pounds of federal food aid to Trump cuts this year • Missouri Independent
Though food banks said they have mostly made up shortfalls from the cuts, some worry coming SNAP changes will worsen hunger.
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mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · Jun 20
#NoKings coverage was better by smaller outlets while editors of influential news outlets like NYTimes / WSJ / WaPo continue downplay & dampen coverage of the pro-democracy movement and demonstrations like #NoKings.

See our analysis: mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com/p/no-kings-c...

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No kings coverage. Local news outlets continue to outperform the NYtimes, WaPo, WSJ on. background image NYT Grade D
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 3d
I should probably mention if TV or radio producers need a knowledgeable art reporter specializing in art crime to talk about the theft at the Louvre, I am available
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 13d
after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.
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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 4d
“At least 51 people have been killed throughout the Strip since the ceasefire came into effect 11 days ago, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.”

What ceasefire?
aljazeera.com Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d
BREAKING: The Israeli military says it has begun a wave of air attacks on southern Gaza as the precarious ceasefire comes under threat.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7g8svh
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DTwyman @dtwyman.bsky.social · 5d
Scenes from the Kansas City. No Kings protest. Hundreds of thousands here, you can't park within a mile of the rally!
A view of over 100, 000 people at the no. Kings protest in Kansas City. The cow and Cookie monster were particular favorites! The no Kings protest was so crowded that it overflowed onto the streets of the country club plaza in Kansas City. A view of some of the protesters at the Kansas City. No Kings protest, Pink pig and koala bear were inflatables were very popular! Close up of an excellent protest poster featuring Trump as The Lyin King
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 5d
The inflatable frog has gone global. Today’s #NoKings #NoTyrants rallies in Japan, Australia, Spain, and Germany.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 5d
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 5d
NYC #nokings

Jubilant atmosphere in Times Square - and so many good signs
Make Orwell fiction again The only king I want is Jonathan Geoff Can’t spell Incel without Ice Crowd
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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 5d
Making Ziggy question his existence for a trend 😹
Happy Caturday & No Kings Day!
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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 5d
This is like doubly true if one is in journalism 🫠
stinasdemons.com ⛧ Mother Suspiria ⛧ (StinaMarie) @stinasdemons.com · 6d
HAPPY FRIDAY! While this is hilariously apt, I also feel like it is a good summation of how we all feel at the end of the workweek.
Survivors of a slasher movie sitting on the bumper of an ambulance at the end [Picture of Winnie the Pooh, Tiger, and Rabbit all sitting around a table with mugs in their hands]
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 6d
If anyone ever asks, "why don't people immigrate to the US the right way?", it's worth noting I was just quoted $14,460 for an O-1 visa application with premium processing. My first O-1 application, without premium processing, was $6,160 in 2018.
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404 Media @404media.co · 8d
The end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...
The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making
In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.
www.404media.co
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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 6d
Education is so important in Korea that they will backtrack very quickly if a new idea or technology doesn't improve outcomes. In the US we'll let kids suffer for years if not decades just to not admit we were wrong.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 6d
South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 6d
From "I haven't thought much about parades" to "every parade has the right to exist" this is wild 😂
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 6d
saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6d
If anyone's wondering how this is possible, the answer is these strike teams are moving terrifyingly fast. Grab first, ask questions later. We were about 8-15 minutes behind them today for several hours. They're jumping out of vans, chasing people across lawns, taking them from bus stops, etc
maureenf.bsky.social maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 7d
30 people disappeared in this shaded area today.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 8d
👇NAMI is maintaining a list government health services impacted by the shutdown.

The NAMI HelpLine is available M-F, 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. ET. Call 800-950-6264, text “NAMI” to 62640, or email [email protected]. If you are in a crisis, call or text 988 or chat online at 988Lifeline.org.
Shutdown Resources
2025 Federal Government Shutdown As of 12 AM ET on October 1, 2025, the federal government has shut down due to lack of an agreement for funding for Fiscal Year (FY) 2026. Some federal services and fu...
www.nami.org
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Kathy Lu (she/her)🫰 @kathylu.bsky.social · 8d
Not only is it censorship, the admin also suggested: “As an option, the IDS print edition may be distributed with news in the Bloomington community, but the IDS on campus should contain nothing but the designated special edition.”

There is no making it make sense
jessicacalarco.com Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9d
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.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content 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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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 9d
between this sort of thing and the misinfo firehose that Sora has turned into it is honestly amazing reading OpenAI's original mission statement lol
OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9d
Oh
New York loses bid to prevent Holtec from dumping radioactive water into the Hudson River
A federal judge sided with Holtec, allowing the company to release radiological water from the Indian Point nuclear power plant into the Hudson River.
www.lohud.com
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10d
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.
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