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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 10h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 8h

Foreign student enrollment:

IIT 51%
UChicago 31%
Art Institute of Chicago 31%
U of I 22%
Northwestern 21%

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 22h

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15%

www.businesstoday.in/nri/study/st...

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15% - BusinessToday

This move is part of a broader policy aimed at regulating academic admissions and funding, and it is set to have significant repercussions for colleges and universities across the United States.

www.businesstoday.in

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

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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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 10h

Still think @pixelatedboat.bsky.social nailed the Trump 1 era

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Maud O'Bedlam @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social · 10h

Did you take a class with Laura Klaus? I know she was teaching at YarnCom in Creve Couer last week.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11h

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 13h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Magpie @shy-magpie.bsky.social · 11h

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 11h

The gutting of the VRA in recent years is one of the topics mostly likely to get me in a fight with folks on social media, mostly because so few even know what Shelby v Holder was, or to what extent voting has not been free OR fair in much of the South, in the most racist ways imaginable.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 17h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 12h

We stan a man who holds extremely still when he sees the phone come out

a fluffy grey tabby with white toes, sitting on a blanket in a ray of sunshine, giving me a really severe case of side-eye (i don't care, he's getting free room and board, he can only give me so much sass)

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Jeremy Hot Wheels @kateneely.bsky.social · 13h

my therapist: sometimes you simply have to experience an emotion instead of thinking about it
me, nodding sagely: and then it goes away
therapist: well not necessarily
me, shaking my head furiously: no, I don't like that

Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 13h

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12h

🚨NEW: A case at the Supreme Court cites Trump reportedly promising oil donors favors as proof that pay-to-play influence is so pervasive that bribery laws must be narrowed so pay-to-play is no longer a prosecutable crime.

The case is represented by a Trump-connected law firm.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 14h

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown. trib.al/tw3Hd3X

Airports Are Pushing Back Against Kristi Noem’s Shutdown Propaganda

Across the country, airports are refusing to air a video from the Homeland Security chief blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

trib.al

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 12h

We have to eliminate "Well, he's the [insert important job here] so what he says is news," from the TV news production equation. You can cover the things liars say without having them live on your show where you can't keep up with the lies.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 12h

I’m telling you, they’re velociraptors.

SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 13h

Roadrunner on a post. I have no idea what he was looking at . 🪶

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 14h

“A lot of crime these days is driven by poverty and those issues can't be solved by throwing more money at cops, unless the goal is criminalizing poor people.”

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 17h

For my newsletter today, I wrote about the American police state and how Democrats are going to have to kill it if they have any hope of rebuilding from the authoritarian Trump regime. www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...

Democrats Must Kill Their Inner Cops

Who needs the National Guard when your state troopers are perfectly willing to crack protester skulls all on their own? Listen, Illinois governor JB Pritzker is not perfect, but he's my guy. Or at le...

www.burnsnotice.com

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 16h

There’s the joke about Sun Tzu being basic instructions for idiots like “feed your troops” but the most important part of Clausewitz is also just “think about what you are actually trying to accomplish”

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 16h

What I love about our habit of confusing Means for Ways is that we also confuse Ways for Ends.

Innovation is entirely neutral.

Breaking Defense @breakingdefense.com · 21h

Driscoll vows Silicon Valley model is the future for the Army
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/10/driscoll-vows-silicon-valley-model-is-the-future-for-the-army/

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

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Alastor Stuart @alasdairstuart.bsky.social · 15h

The man does genre rarely but when he does its almost always really fucking fun.

Crimson Tide
Deja Vu
Fallen
The Siege

Washington is the heir to Jimmy Stewart's crown as Exhausted Good Man Doing his FUCKING BEST

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 17h

Without saying Malcolm X, fav Denzel Washington Film?

Denzel Washington in a black suit, short black hair. looking away. hot.

“At the end of the day, it's not about what you have or even what you've accomplished. It's about what you've done with those accomplishments. Its about who you've lifted up, who you've made better. It about what you've given back.”
Denzel Washington, A Hand to Guide Me

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Danielle Radford @danielleradford.bsky.social · 16h

Average music fan carrying a $70 single bag of groceries past bored troops as their neighbor gets thrown in a van by masked men who just pepper sprayed a cop:

“Huh, I wonder why these songs about an NFL player’s big ol’ dick don’t feel as relatable as they usually do”

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krad @kradeelav.com · 16h

There's a UK adult games creator on reddit who's been rejected from 36(!) and counting UK banks and unable to process the earned £90,000. Debanking for adult creators continues to be a real threat.

reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/comments/1o5nw74/i_develop_adult_video_games_on_steam_i_cant_find/

From the UKPersonalFinance community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the UKPersonalFinance community

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sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 16h

I do think it's underdiscussed just how much climate denial today is performative white masculinity

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 16h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 16h

Wyoming is by an order of magnitude the US's largest coal producer (and produces more than the whole of the northern Appalachia and Midwest states *combined*).

Nearly all of that comes out of the Powder River Basin.

Coal is a dead industry.

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 18h

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 17h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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