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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 6h

The sheer number of stories I owe to NBC OUT for letting me write…

The sheer scale of the way they covered queer news makes this devastating for LGBTQ media. This hurts. They were an incredible group.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 1d

Uhhhh

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

!!!!!! — www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Daniel Wolfe @sadbumblebee.buzz · 1d

In June, the @washingtonpost.com sent me and @byaliceli.bsky.social to witness cultural burns in California. We learned how they encourage beneficial vegetation, reduce wildfire risk, and provide traditional food and craft sources for tribes in the Klamath region.

🎁: wapo.st/3J7BQTL

How indigenous practices can help protect forests

The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.

wapo.st

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 1d

ICYMI, Via @henry-redman.bsky.social: Wisconsin Assembly Dems introduce bills to protect ‘rights of nature’ and reinstitute mining law

Wisconsin Assembly Dems introduce bills to protect ‘rights of nature’ and reinstitute mining law • Wisconsin Examiner

A package of bills announced Monday by Wisconsin Democrats would grant "rights of nature" to Devil's Lake State Park.

buff.ly

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

do you guys ever think about how in a better world José Andres could just like. have some restaurants. and instead he’s consistently doing the work we’re supposed to have governments for

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Government workers 👇🏾

Lunch is on the house:

Being in the heart of downtown DC, we love that so many of our Federal employees stop by during lunch for a Donburi at China Chilcano or a Fútbol Club at Jaleo. And just because the government is shut down doesn't mean you have to miss out on your favorite lunch spot- because this time, its on us!
Join us for lunch from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM at any of our participating restaurants and enjoy a free lunch item when you present your government ID-you heard that right! Dine in with us Monday through Friday and choose your favorite: a sandwich at Jaleo, a donburi at China Chilcano, a wrap or pita at Zaytinya, or a torta at Oyamel.
We've always believed in serving our community with open arms and good food-no shutdown can stop that.

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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 2d

Lol same, feels weird 😅

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 2d

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely brutal.

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

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 4d

THIS IS THE WAY

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Revenge of the Oxford Comma @pensivetoker.bsky.social · 4d

Cities standing up for, helping instead of harming each other.

We do this all the time for natural disasters (👀). We collect food and supplies. We send people to help. We gather in solidarity.

We have a long history of helping each other and being demonized for it.

We do it anyway.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 4d

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 6d

The government is arguing in court that Trump is a dictator.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 6d

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 6d

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 6d

blinken overrode state dept findings to falsify the Leahy report so that they could continue selling weapons to Israel. he lied to congress about it.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 6d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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BATS

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6d

EXTREMELY COOL BAT STUFF: A study out in Science today found that the greater noctule bat, Europe's largest, hunts and catches *migrating birds* while in flight. In at least one case, a bat climbed to more than 1200 feet, then chased a robin downward FAST until it caught it near the ground.

Greater noctule bats prey on and consume passerines in flight

Despite billions of passerines seasonally migrating during the night at high altitudes, only three bat species have been found to consistently tap into this rich prey resource. However, it remains unk...

www.science.org

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 7d

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 7d

This is all bullshit, by the way. There is no imminent risk of rotting crops, according to experts and farmworker unions. It's a ploy to cut wages (even below state minimum wages) for foreign workers, which will eventually hit U.S. workers too.
So much for America First!

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 8d

A county commissioner tried to take down a License Plate Reader in his jurisdiction where elected officials had ended their contract w/ Flock. Police arrested him.

Who really runs these counties? Politicians gave blank checks to police and are now learning the genie is out of the bottle.

Camden County commissioner pleads guilty to misdemeanor for removing Flock camera

A Camden County commissioner has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge stemming from taking down a Flock camera on Highway 54.Todd Isaac Skelton pleaded guilty

krcgtv.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8d

Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, was appointed to a senior DHS position in which she’ll help oversee election security.

“DHS now appears poised to become a primary amplifier of false election conspiracies pushed by our enemies,” one expert said.

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.

Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

www.propublica.org

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E Mills 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @millbot.bsky.social · 8d

This is good

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 9d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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