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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social · 16h

On This Day in History: October 11, 1987
Two hundred thousand marched in Washington for lesbian and gay civil rights. The AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed on the National Mall for the first time, and the day helped seed National Coming Out Day.

Picture of the AIDS quilt in front of the Washington Monument

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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 2h

I DEEPLY resent that I have to take seriously the stunted, juvenile political and theological opinions of Peter Thiel

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Lookout Santa Cruz @lookoutsantacruz.bsky.social · 2h

OPINION: Santa Cruz’s beauty and desirability drive up housing costs — and the market alone won’t build homes for teachers, bus drivers or grocery clerks, writes UCSC professor emeritus Christopher Connery. Measure C, he says, offers a fair, modest step toward fixing that; he urges a yes vote.

For affordable housing and a humane Santa Cruz – vote yes on Measure C

Santa Cruz’s beauty and desirability drive up housing costs — and the market alone won’t build homes for teachers, bus drivers or grocery clerks, writes UC Santa Cruz professor emeritus Christopher…

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

i don’t think the moon should be a priority but i also think that if it’s going to be, it’s helpful not to completely fuck STEM funding streams that create scientists but I’m just a scientist with public policy experience so what do I know

CNN @cnn.com · 2h

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But underlying that drumbeat is a quagmire of epic proportions.
https://cnn.it/4oejhw7

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1h

Eugenics are a common ideological thread that hold together MAGA from MAHA to the tech right to Voight.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. This. Well said.

Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1h

Eugenics are a common ideological thread that hold together MAGA from MAHA to the tech right to Voight.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 2h

It’s kind of maddening to think about how good Black folks have to be to get a sliver of opportunity. There are very few Black folks in academia but a full assault on the few that are here, by a white federal government that can’t even fire people correctly.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2h

Shout out to the student who pointed this out.

"the University's existing buildings and spaces whose names are dedicated to slaveowners and individuals who 'committed treason against the United States and led vigilante groups to terrorize black voters.'"

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

www.dailytarheel.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

I guess some other time we can talk about the reactionary professional atheists who literally built the secular foundation for today’s anti-DEI arguments

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1h

What you see here in the children’s father, Bandit, is the culmination of sin. A father whose very name evokes crime, the criminal of criminals. Bluey, the color of sorrow. Bingo, lust for games of chance. Mother Chilli, who works part time at an airport in which planes “soar into the heavens”, thi-

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 2h

"And when masked men grab a parent from the school car line or the corner coffee shop, all students in that school or neighborhood are subject to trauma and made to understand: The state can make people disappear. It is to be feared."

The Assault on Children

MAGA's use of kids to consolidate authoritarianism

nobody-wants-this.ghost.io

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 1h

We are ruled by a group of billionaires who are all somehow the most annoying and least knowledgeable guy in your freshman literature class

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Diane Keaton’s clothes were cinema, Esther Zuckerman writes. “Her sartorial persuasions were part of her eternal charm.”

How Diane Keaton’s ‘Annie Hall’ Look Was Integral to Her Art

Though she downplayed it, her role in creating the outfits of “Annie Hall” made her the author of a fascinating career.

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 1d

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

This Is Fascism

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 3h

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 1h

Hard to know if they intended to fire these folks and then “taco-ed” or if they just truly have no idea what they are doing.

Maybe both?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 1h

Breakfast: Buttermilk honey biscuits and sage sausage gravy.

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 1h

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 21h

No Kings Events next Saturday Oct 18 across the Triangle" Carrboro, Hillsborough, Pittsboro, Durham, Cary, Raleigh, Wake Forest and more. Join us and millions across the nation--click on the map for times and places
www.nokings.org#map

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1h

Join us TODAY to make No Kings posters @raygunsite.com from 2-4pm✨🪧🎨

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

Join me and Demi Palecek this Sunday at @raygunsite.com for a sign-making event in Andersonville on October 12, just before No Kings Day!

We'll provide crafting supplies, food, and drinks—just bring your favorite tagline to make some posters with us!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1h

Chicago friends! I'm thrilled to be joining Eve L. Ewing this Tuesday night (Oct 14) at the National Public Housing Museum to talk about There Is No Place for Us.

Hosted by Build Coffee & Books + NPHM.

Tickets here:

There Is No Place for Us with Brian Goldstone and Eve L. Ewing - National Public Housing Museum

A conversation with author Brian Goldstone, whose deeply reported new book plunges readers into the lives of families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.

nphm.org

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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