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Kerri Koenig
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Nebraskan/ pro-flourishing/ reparations now /napping is my hobby
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h
Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen.

Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!

Sorta seems like a problem.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 8h
Healthcare but only for my friends
Scott Adams • @ScottAdamsSays • 7h g .. On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need it. As many of you know, I have metastasized prostate cancer. My healthcare provider, Kaiser of Northern California, has approved my application to receive a Show more • 5.6K L7 12K 67K ill 7.5M只企 Robert F. Kennedy Jr # @Robert..•47m g Scott. How do I reach you? The President wants to help. 322 17 773 5.4K ihi 73K Chamath Palihapitiya © @cha...•43m g ... Just connected you guys via text. 64 1734 930 ill 16K
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Kerri Koenig @kerriko7.bsky.social · 6h
Should be “can” in the above quote, I believe
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brianomite.bsky.social Brianomite 🧨 @brianomite.bsky.social · 6h
These stores need to challenge this. If the customer has no SNAP funds because of the lapse, they are not SNAP customers. They are an ordinary customer and you cant treat them differently if you want.
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Brianomite 🧨 @brianomite.bsky.social · 6h
These are the rules, they only talk about customers using SNAP/ebt benefits. If you dont have the benefits, these rules don't apply
(b ) Equal treatment for coupon customers. Coupons shall be accepted for eligible foods at the same prices and on the same terms and conditions applicable to cash purchases of the same foods at the same store except that tax shall not be charged on eligible foods purchased with coupons. However, nothing in this part may be construed as authorizing FNS to specify the prices at which retail food stores may sell food. However, public or private nonprofit homeless meal providers may only request voluntary use of SNAP benefits from homeless SNAP recipients and may not request such household using SNAP benefits to pay more than the average cost of the food purchased by the public or private nonprofit homeless meal provider contained in a meal served to the patrons of the meal service. For purposes of this section, "average cost" is determined by averaging food costs over a period of up to one calendar month. Voluntary payments by SNAP recipients in excess of such costs may be accepted by the meal providers. The value of donated foods from any source shall not be considered in determining the amount to be requested from SNAP recipients. All indirect costs, such as those incurred in the acquisition, storage, or preparation of the foods used in meals shall also be excluded. In addition, if others have the option of eating free or making a monetary donation, SNAP recipients must be provided the same option of eating free or making a donation in money or SNAP benefits. No retail food store may single out coupon users for special treatment in any way. Equal treatment. The EBT system shall be implemented and operated in a manner that maintains equal treatment for SNAP households in accordance with § 278.2(b) of this chapter. The following requirements for the equal treatment of SNAP households shall directly apply to EBT systems: (1) Retailers shall not establish special checkout lanes which are only for SNAP households. If special lanes are designated for the purpose of accepting other electronic debit or credit cards and/or other payment methods such as checks, SNAP customers with EBT cards may also be assigned to such lanes as long as other commercial customers are assigned there as well. (2) Checkout lanes equipped with POS devices shall be made available to SNAP households during all retail store hours of operation.
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Brianomite 🧨 @brianomite.bsky.social · 6h
These stores need to challenge this. If the customer has no SNAP funds because of the lapse, they are not SNAP customers. They are an ordinary customer and you cant treat them differently if you want.
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Mr. Buick @mrbuick.bsky.social · 4d
"What if we made anthropomorphic robots with zero agency that could be sold as slaves in an open market? Surely this logic wouldn't seep into every aspect of our existence; yup, no evidence of that at all throughout our history"
goldwagnathan.bsky.social Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4d
I do think having a human-shaped servant with no rights or interioriority is going to do bad things to the human psyche and ability to live with other people, which isn't exactly particularly resilient to begin with, y'know?
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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · Sep 26
ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.
ox.ac.uk University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Sep 19
NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.
Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai
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Kerri Koenig @kerriko7.bsky.social · 6h
Another Husker sweep!🧹🏐❤️
GBR!
lincolnvb.bsky.social Lincoln Arneal @lincolnvb.bsky.social · 6h
FINAL: No. 1 Nebraska defeats Oregon 25-21, 25-20, 25-12 for its 13th consecutive sweep.

Landfair led the Huskers with 11 kills at a .450 clip, including 6K in the 3rd, while Murray added 9 kills at .391. NU hit .413.

The Ducks hit .170 led by 9 kills from Clemente and Vaulet.
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 12h
This is quite literally true
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h
HAYES: “Let me be as clear as I can — Trump is arguing in court to let Americans go hungry so they don’t have to negotiate with Dems over stopping some of those same Americans health care costs from skyrocketing.”
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13h
"all lectures, assignments, feedback, and grades will be made by me without AI, nor will any of your intellectual property be fed to tools that train AI. Ideas are social, so let’s make them together. "

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 17h
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
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Kerri Koenig @kerriko7.bsky.social · 11h
'This feels poetic:' After 4 years apart, twins Sam and Charlie Hoiberg are together again
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Wonderful article. Looking forward to seeing all 3 of them at the Nebraska bball games this season.
GBR🏀❤️
'This feels poetic:' After 4 years apart, twins Sam and Charlie Hoiberg are together again
For the Hoibergs, this season is personal. Fred’s coaching, Sam’s playing, Charlie’s on staff. One last ride, together.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12h
“What immigration enforcement looks like now is not just arrests. It’s public intimidation.”

Must read by Chicago journalists @royalpratt.bsky.social & @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social on how Bovino & the border patrol are taking over from ICE with 'cameras rolling' & reckless racial profiling.
But unlike ICE’s once-targeted operations, Border Patrol’s arrests now appear arbitrary. Agents drive up and down residential streets and stop mostly brown people seemingly at random — landscapers, pedestrians, construction workers — demanding to know, “Where were you born?” or “Are you a U.S. citizen?”
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h
The New York Times wrote strongly about the MAGA threat in an editorial last week. It needs to make the same points in its news pages. It's not an opinion that Trump is building a dictatorship. It's apparent to anyone who is paying attention, and we need more people to pay attention. 🧵 3/3
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? (Gift Article)
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h
The New York Times likes to say Trump "has stretched the limits of his powers” and “tests the boundaries of the presidency.” But this is not a test or a stretching exercise. He’s a lawless politician building a dictatorship. Say it. 🧵 1/3
Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda The president has stretched the limits of his powers to help those at the heart of his agenda, not the many in greatest need.
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Kerri Koenig @kerriko7.bsky.social · 12h
Yes! I loved to see this, from Billie Eilish— with Mark Zuckerdoof in the room:

www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
Billie Eilish urged billionaires to give away their money right after it was announced she was donating millions
When it comes to philanthropy, Billie Eilish has her money where her mouth is too.
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attyrsc.bsky.social @attyrsc.bsky.social · 1d
As someone that grew up receiving SNAP at various times and also struggled as a young adult to consistently follow through on the cumbersome process of establishing benefits while working three jobs and attending college, I can attest to our broken system.

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Kerri Koenig @kerriko7.bsky.social · 22h
BOOOOOOOOO
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d
Why do people buy pizza with EBT?

Because cauliflower is five dollars a head and you can buy five pizzas with the same money.

It’s not that folks don’t want to be healthy. They can’t afford to be healthy.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d
Good. Seriously. Please let Trump pick every SEC coach. Let him make every decision for the entire conference. The only way we'll ever break Trump fever in that part of America is to let him get involved with their college football decisions because they care deeply about that shit
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d
Karla Strand writes in @msmagazine.com of Read This When Things Fall Apart: "Not a guide, this volume is a salve for the wounds we incur when doing the work, and its contents are the love and encouragement we need to continue tending the fires of resistance."
November 2025 Reads for the Rest of Us
The best feminist books written by women, Black, brown, AAPI, LGBTQ, Native, disabled, trans, nonbinary writers in November 2025.
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Kerri Koenig @kerriko7.bsky.social · 1d
Will the Trump administration start bombing these “narco-terrorists”??
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 2d
One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.

I never made it out of the House.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d
“Under past administrations, lawyers and policymakers inside the Executive have exercised oversight over the use of force. It is possible members of Congress have grown to rely on those internal constraints and lost their muscle memory to check the President.”

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Expert Backgrounder on War Powers Resolution 60-Day Clock for Boat Strikes Expiring Monday
Expert backgrounder on how War Powers Resolution works in application to U.S. military operations against suspected drug cartels.
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