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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 20m

Unlocked link.

Thank you, @rscnl.bsky.social

Rene Rentie @rscnl.bsky.social · 7h

America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

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America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy

Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 4h

I didn't realize that either. Damn! RIP...

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 4h

Can never be said enough, but fuck cancer!

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 4h

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D’Angelo, Grammy-winning R&B singer who became an icon with ‘Untitled (How Does It Feel),’ dies

D’Angelo, the Grammy-winning R&B singer recognized by his raspy yet smooth voice and for garnering mainstream attention with the shirtless “Untitled (How Does It Feel)” music video, has died.

apnews.com

longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 4h

D’Angelo. Damn.
The universe is out here taking good folks when there are just so many other bile filled targets that should go first.

Damn.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 5h

3 classic albums. No skips. Love songs. Liberation songs. Sensual songs. Fun songs. Black ass music. 51 is too young. D'Angelo can't be gone.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, color me shocked.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 9h

First Texas. Then Missouri. Now North Carolina. Republicans continue their war on democracy by disenfranchising millions of voters across the country to stay in power.

At Trump’s request, NC Republicans announce plan to redraw congressional map

North Carolina’s current congressional map already heavily favors Republicans and is being challenged in court for alleged racial gerrymandering.

amp.newsobserver.com

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 7h

Jeff Bezos and Thirsty Will are down to 97,000 daily paid subscribers, folks

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 7h

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Pennsylvania man pleads guilty in arson attack at governor’s mansion while Shapiro’s family slept

A man who scaled a security fence in the middle of the night and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and other charges.

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 7h

This, all fucking day!

The Infinitely Prolonged @wowbaggert.bsky.social · 8h

More specifically, Republicans are responsible for this chaos.

Part of what got us here is the frame "the govt is the problem" which is basically the Republican brand.

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 7h

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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot...

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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 9h

NPR's veteran defense reporter Tom Bowman: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon Pass

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 9h

Attacks on U.S. Legal Profession Reflect Global Slide in Countries It Once Aided

Political pressures like those used to silence legal professionals and undermine rule of law in Europe and Eurasia echo autocratic patterns.

www.justsecurity.org

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David Grann @davidgrann.bsky.social · 8h

@stevenhyden.bsky.social I'm so late to discovering the writing & music criticism of Steven Hyden. What a wonderful writer, who has impeccable taste. Highly recommend his work in @uproxx.bsky.social and Indiecast podcast with @iancohen.bsky.social

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Dr C @drcarroll.com · 8h

I cannot tell you how unbelievably dangerous this practice is. I thought we had completely defeated this type of thing, but I guess not.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

‘Bluetoothing’: Blood-Sharing Drug Trend Fuels Alarming Global H.I.V. Surge

www.nytimes.com

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Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 8h

The "administration was not concerned that Trump’s new proposed tariffs on China would trigger the kind of market turmoil that followed his sharp escalation of levies to 145 per cent in April," an anonymous senior US official says

Scott Bessent slams China: ‘They want to pull everybody else down with them’

US Treasury secretary tells FT that Beijing’s export controls are ‘a sign of how weak their economy is’

www.ft.com

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 18h

We can and should still criticize them for all the other stuff they do, but they legitimately do deserve praise for this.

Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly very impressed by Newsmax, the Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner.

They deserve credit precisely because they’re standing up for journalistic principle notwithstanding their ideological inclination.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

Solidarity is the only way

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 18h

"Mitt Romney's sister-in-law was found dead on Friday evening next to a parking garage in the Town Center area of Santa Clarita, a suburb just north of Los Angeles, according to officials".

Mitt Romney's sister-in-law found dead in Southern California: Officials

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 18h

Solidarity is the only way

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The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell @lastword.msnbc.com · 18h

@maddow.msnbc.com retraces civil rights leader Andrew Young’s legacy in new documentary www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

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longislandtonv.bsky.social @longislandtonv.bsky.social · 1d

Thread 🧵!!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 1d

For those who don’t intimately understand how news works and why Bari Weiss’s unearned elevation to head of CBS News matters, I’d recommend watching this in entirety. Also, will forever point out irony of how an admitted DEI hire thinks her hire was meritorious while Black people’s aren’t.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

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