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🦇 Killy Witches 🎃👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 2d

it’s on all of us to make the world better and safer

so that those of us who can’t come out now hopefully can someday, and join us in the sunlight

But nobody gets to tell you how to come out! Nobody gets to tell you when to come out, or if you have to come out at all.
I believe in the depths of my heart that we owe it to ourselves, and to each other, to be out and living as our true selves... but only if it is safe and the right time for us to do so. The sad reality is that, for some people, it will never be safe or the right time due to outside factors in their lives.
We should not be angry at those people. Imagine how difficult that must be, and the suffering they're going through. I know several people stuck in that situation, who can only be themselves online or anonymously. I know the pain they're in.

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Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 13h

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The cover to the Deutsche Grammaphon album for Dukas’s “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and conducted by James Levine

Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 13h

I lol’d

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Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 13h

I just finished _The Shattering Peace_ by @scalzi.com —another terrific read from one of my favorite living authors! Honestly, I finished it wanting to reread all of the Old Man’s War series—HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 13h

I ALSO LOVE COMICS pass it on

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Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 1d

YES

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 1d

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

bit.ly

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 1d

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

They Want To Ban Books To Keep Us From Coming Out

Quick housekeeping! I’m doing a flurry of events once again: Tuesday I’ll be in the Koret Auditorium at the SF Public Library talking about banned books for...

buttondown.com

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 1d

Right?!?

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Peter Clines @peterclines.bsky.social · 1d

October is a great time to grab a bag or two of fresh topsoil and level out all those uneven spots in your yard.

A front yard with several swaths of fresh, dark soil. At the far end of each one is a plastic gravestone.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

If I’m reading this right — and I’m not 100% sure I am, given the split order — this would appear to bar Trump from *using* the National Guard in Illinois, but not prevent the Texas National Guard from being deployed to Illinois at the base they’re currently in. They don’t have to go home yet.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals PARTIALLY grants the stay sought by the Trump Administration.

The stay is GRANTED as to federalization of the National Guard.

But it is DENIED as to deployment.

So deployment still BLOCKED, but troops "do not need to return to their home states."

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Glen Weldon @ghweldon.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Coming Out Day. If you’re still in the closet, stay there until you feel safe.

But know that things are better on the other side.

It’s like going bald. It’s traumatic as hell, but then you look back and realize: That hair was bad hair and it was doing you no favors.

You’re better off now.

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Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you, Mr Velasquez, for all that you do (especially the Banned Book Club)!

Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 1d

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The album cover to the soundtrack for Loki (season 1, episodes 1-3). The text below identifies the song (Lamentis-1, 2077) and composer (Natalie Holt),

Scott Johnson @thinpartitions.bsky.social · 1d

YEAH!!!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

Mike Johnson’s abrupt closure of the House had more to do with stalling a congressional investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation than previously reported, and it appears to have been a direct response to the Treasury’s surrender of Epstein’s financial records.

SCOOP: Johnson closed House hours after Congress received Epstein’s financial records

The decision to shut down the House — and by extension the government — came hours after the Oversight Committee received documents from the US Treasury.

www.beltway.news

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Chris Berube @chrisberube.bsky.social · 2d

"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

🤷🏽‍♂️ 🇺🇸 💰

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 2d

After Waiting For Godot Alex Winter & Keanu Reeves should remake Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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