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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

When all of this is finally over, I hope the people who ordered and carried out these extrajudicial assassinations are given the due process they don't believe in before they're punished for murder.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump's Venezuela Military Strikes Hit a Colombian Ship: Report

At least one Colombian ship has been struck by US Military amid escalations in the Caribbean.

www.newsweek.com

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 4h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 6h

If someone said, the Nazis were inspired by Jim Crow America, and you leaped in to question their IQ and cite all the examples of racism that predated American slavery, you missed the point entirely.

www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

How the US influenced the creation of Nazi race laws under Hitler

The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

www.abajournal.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14h

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 · 14h

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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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 15h

The order takes affect Wednesday and bars the civil arrest of any “party, witness, or potential witness” while going to, remaining at or returning from court proceedings inside the courthouse or its parking lots, sidewalks or entryways.

Judicial warrants can still be served.

Top Cook County judge bars civil arrests at courthouses, citing chilling effect

The Cook County public defender’s office and legal aid organizations had sought the move, saying they had clients who were avoiding court out of fear of being detained by federal immigration authoriti...

chicago.suntimes.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 14h

There is a special place for people who don’t pull over for the ambulance and it is not a nice place!!

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The Ghost of Geoff Collins @magnacartergt.bsky.social · 1d

no. that can't be 5 years ago. impossible.

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14h

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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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 17h

One person on this list is a school counselor at a high school down the street from me and she’s been purged from the website so fast Google cache doesn’t know about it yet

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct 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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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14h

I understand that Democrats are not in control of Congress or the White House but it would be interesting to read a news story about why groceries are actually ruinously expensive right now.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14h

And Mr. Vazquez deserves a Pulitzer.

Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 18h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

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Cybel Martin ASC @cybeldp.bsky.social · 1d

I think I already live life to the fullest... but damn this D'Angelo news.

If you / I are living at 95%, do that other 5%.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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David Menestres @abstracttruth.bsky.social · 23h

Pretty good that millions of folks are listening to D'Angelo right now.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18h

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.

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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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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Comics Jobs @comics-jobs.com · 16h

Assistant Editor, Manga at Penguin Random House

Full-time | Remote (Anywhere)

comics-jobs.com

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MirandaPitcher @mirandapitcher.bsky.social · 15h

What is especially infuriating is that it's going to be a book that gets a big $$ advance that I am certain it will *never* earn back, meaning the publisher is deliberately choosing to waste money on this vanity project.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 17h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 17h

This is disturbing and creepy for so many reasons, but it’s also bizarre how much of a push there is for people to ignore listening to their own bodies and instead outsource those decisions to flawed technology.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

“Like a smartwatch reminding you to stand up or drink water, Evergreen will notice if a student who normally visits the fitness center hasn’t done so or encourage a student to leave the library after studying for six hours…”

Dartmouth Builds Its Own AI Chatbot for Student Well-Being

The undergrad-assisted research project will draw on students’ data to provide chatbot support and personalized plans for health and wellness.

www.insidehighered.com

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Matt Shipman (he/him) @shiplives.bsky.social · 16h

Student journalism is some of the best journalism being done right now. You should read this story.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 19h

Same reason they skip the "in matters of taste" part of "The customer is always right" or the "It is impossible to" part of "pull yourself up by the bootstraps"

Because they fear an informed public.

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Against all enemies, foreign and domestic @anddomestic.bsky.social · 20h

Why do people always skip the point of the bad apples phrase. A bad apple spoils the bunch. Allowing “bad apples” to be part of your group makes the whole group bad.

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