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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 19h

Fellow Americans!

I’m happy to announce that, thanks to you, I’m sending $100,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union (@aclu.org) to help them defend something that truly Makes America Great: our civil liberties.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen the skeet about this principle. I concur. Seeing a preteen develop up close the last year or so has added a lot to my perspective on how adults behave. These people are truly just small humans having big emotions they cannot process because they have permissive emotionally absent parents.

Jimmy Malone @malonespeaking.bsky.social · 2d

The president has the maturity of a toddler and he has surrounded himself with other kiddies.
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Karoline Leavitt Blasts Reporter by Posting Screenshot of His Private Texts. Now Her Bizarre Reply Is Going Viral

Karoline Leavitt is going viral for posting a private text exchange where she bashes White House correspondent S.V. Dáte.

people.com

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Jessica Ryan @soveryvery.bsky.social · 3d

Copyright Fight Club
copyrightfightclub.substack.com?r=2jiymf&utm...

Copyright Fight Club | Kyle K. Courtney | Substack

Promoting the Progress. By Any Legal Means Necessary. Click to read Copyright Fight Club, by Kyle K. Courtney, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 4d

With alt text.

Executive summary: the US killed at least 3 Colombian fishermen who’d put up a distress flag. In Colombian waters

Camila @camilapress
FULL REPORT: Colombian public media reports that a U.S. military strike on a boat on September 15—the second attack on a vessel by the U.S. in the Caribbean that we're aware of—was a Colombian boat and was in Colombian territorial waters.
At least one of the three victims extrajudicially killed in the strike was Colombian lifelong fisherman Alejandro Carranza. Alejandro's identity is confirmed by his cousin.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.
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Jessica Ryan @soveryvery.bsky.social · 5d

“This life-long republican is for keeping our republic”

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Jessica Ryan @soveryvery.bsky.social · 5d

Huge crowd in Amherst, MA! #NoKings

Hundreds of people pat no kings protest on town green

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 5d

No Kings includes this asshole

King Friday XIII from Mister Rogers Neighborhood

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Kate Shaw @kateshaw.bsky.social · 7d

Brown rejects the compact!

President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

nyti.ms

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11d

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 11d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15d

doomscroll break

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 16d

Courtesy of Prof Bagenstos, the statutory provision is 31 USC 1341(c)(2)

(2) Each employee of the United States Government or of a District of Columbia public employer furloughed as a result of a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for the period of the lapse in appropriations, and each excepted employee who is required to perform work during a covered lapse in appropriations shall be paid for such work, at the employee's standard rate of pay, at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends, regardless of scheduled pay dates, and subject to the enactment of appropriations Acts ending the lapse.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 16d

Lawless Russell Vought thinks he can nullify a law by deleting it from an FAQ

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16d

This is great. The absurdity of this moment captured. Make it go viral.

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 17d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18d

“There’s a baby!”

Guns drawn. Windows smashed. With a 1 month old in the car. (They did this as he was coming home from an immigration court appointment— which is illegal in Colorado: coloradosun.com/2025/10/01/i...)

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 20d

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 21d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22d

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

(gift link)

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22d

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

www.theverge.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 23d

I think I did some good work here overall, but my guess is that most people are going to want to fast forward to the 34:30 mark to hear me and "David" from North Carolina.

www.c-span.org/program/wash...

Elie Mystal on Comey Indictment and Trump Justice Department

Elie Mystal talked about the Indictment of former FBI Director James Comey and actions of the Trump Justice Department.

www.c-span.org

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26d

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27d

Grijalva: I was looking at the example of now-Representative Walkinshaw from Virginia, who was elected two weeks ago Tuesday. The following Wednesday—less than 24 hours later—he was sworn in, with unofficial results.

So for me, apparently the rules have now changed in just two weeks.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29d

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Signs Referencing Climate Change Along with Web Pages Removed from Acadia National Park

The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by The Witham Family Hotels Charitable Fund.

barharborstory.substack.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29d

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Vulture @vulture.com · Sep 23

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

Apple Pulls The Savant From Its Release Schedule

Apple has pulled The Savant, its series starring Jessica Chastain’s about hunting down white supremacist cells across America, from its immediate release schedule.

www.vulture.com

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