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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 1h

(1) How is giving $40 billion to Argentina without congressional approval during a government shutdown legal (not that that matters anymore)? (2) How much of the $40 billion goes back to the Trump Family? (3) Trump has handed Argentina more money than the entire USAID budget.

Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 2h

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the bailout for Argentina, now doubled to $40 billion, is part of an effort to swing Latin America to the right

@jacobbogage.bsky.social @davidjlynch.bsky.social David Feliba report

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region

The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Timothy Vollmer @tvol.bsky.social · 1d

On Oct. 10th, staff at the CDC Library and many other agency employees were laid off as part of massive job cuts. While some staff have been rehired, librarians have not been called back to work. Take action now!✊ action.everylibrary.org/emailcdclibr...

SEND AN EMAIL: Protect the Center for Disease Control Library

Ask your representative to call for the reinstatement of CDC librarians to protect public health.

action.everylibrary.org

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 5h

It's always "would you go back in time to kill baby Hitler?"

Not enough "would you go back in time and hang Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis?"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

"The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people...It’s the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean"

again, merely political consequences for wanton murder aren't enough.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 21h

The United States military intentionally murdering civilians, again:

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Leor Galil @imleor.bsky.social · 22h

breaking

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h

A team of researchers analyzed the anatomical dimensions of an infamous imprint on a Chicago sidewalk, sifting through photos and measuring mammal specimens in museum collections to put what they were seeing in context.

Their conclusion? The Chicago Rat Hole was not made by a rat.

The Chicago Rat Hole Was Not Made by a Rat

A statistical analysis of an infamous indentation in a sidewalk suggested a 99 percent likelihood that another rodent made the mark.

nyti.ms

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 1d

"The lead levels in plant-based products were, on average, nine times the amount found in those made with dairy proteins like whey, and twice as great as beef-based ones." Damn, that's a bummer.

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Nicholas Mignanelli @nmignanelli.bsky.social · 5d

The first talk in the Yale Law Library’s Critical Legal AI Literacies: Emily Bender on “Large Language Models and the Lawyer’s Search for Meaning” library.law.yale.edu/news/critica...

Critical Legal AI Literacies: Emily Bender on “Large Language Models and the Lawyer’s Search for Meaning” | Lillian Goldman Law Library

The Lillian Goldman Law Library, through the generous support of the Oscar M.

library.law.yale.edu

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 1d

Was just in a product demo where the rep said "our AI is designed not to hallucinate." 🫠

My guy, that's not how it works!

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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 1d

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 1d

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all there are "AI" overview buttons *inside* of WaPo articles now.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 2d

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck you, Christopher Columbus. I hope hell is real for genocidal maniacs.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

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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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes the $5 DVD bin provides

A DVD collection of MTV's Aeon Flux the animated series.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

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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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

it’s said all the time but I think we should continue to hammer home how insane it is that we got dead-eyed bros trying to sell us robots that will free us from the supposedly cruel burden of “creative careers” instead of the actual cruel burden of “doing menial household chores”

Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 5d

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 4d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Chicago mag @chicagomag.com · 4d

Tony Fitzpatrick has died. Read our 2024 interview with the Chicago artist, actor, and poet here: buff.ly/5hv2CCN

Tony Fitzpatrick

The artist, actor, and poet, 65, on surviving a heart attack and being a rebel.

www.chicagomag.com

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 4d

I decamped to Milwaukee a few years ago but almost went down for his opening at Great Lakes Tattoo last weekend and I really wish I had! What a loss 💔

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kim-mn.bsky.social @kim-mn.bsky.social · 4d

IMLS’s new team decided that nearly all of the $14.1 million allocated to the Nat'l Leadership Grants for Libraries(in 2025) is going to 1 recipient, the U.S. Semiquincentennial Co.

So instead of our taxes going to support our libraries, we're paying for a UFC fight on the white house lawn.

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 4d

It's October 2025 and the federal government is shut down.

So what's currently going on at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)? Well, a lot of money seems to be "missing," among other things.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

buttondown.com

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[redacted], MLIS @unbuildingwalls.bsky.social · 4d

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 5d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 4d

The law is not a guide to ethics. Law often sanctions, even demands, unjust violence against others and oneself. Under fascism, it becomes unavoidably obvious to any honest actor that genuine ethics requires law-breaking in defense of one’s neighbors and of a fundamental right to difference.

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