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Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 53m

Anecdotally, I hear court staff talking openly about how it used to be hard to get a job in the US Attorney’s Office.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 1h

“the Trump-era applicant pool, which includes conservative activists and recent law school graduates” is basically confirming that competent lawyers don’t want to work there anymore

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 1h

I have decided I oppose permanent Daylight Saving Time because it is too dark in the morning when I get up

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Andrew Fraser (Drew) @cartoonsidrew.bsky.social · 4h

Birdtober day7 Bee Hummingbird for the smallest known living bird I tried to draw it to approx size #birdtober2026 #birdtober #birdart

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 1h

I don’t think he’s unsophisticated at all, to be clear—I think he sounds like he isn’t used to being on TV, and he hasn’t lost his local accent. I think both of those might be assets.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 9h

It’s hard to sound like a middle-aged Mainer with a public access show while you’re explaining that ICE murdered a man, but he does it

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 9h

Troy Jackson manages to come across as completely unpolished while hitting all his talking points, which makes me think he’s very good at this

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 10h

Sometimes they break weird and it’s nice to have a backup set

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 10h

No one has ever looked this good.

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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 12h

Williams, 37, then unleashed her response to the DHS’ statement in an Instagram Story post Monday: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat d***.” lmaooooOOO

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 12h

they were *lying* when they were "worried" about Asian-American college applicants, and they are *lying* now when they're "worried" about "strivers." They do not want non-white people being in any way superior (or evident) to white people. that's it. that's the whole thing.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 12h

Everyone in the area talks about that in hushed tones; it was our collective nightmare come to life. (Although it was fine, and the lawyer in jeans did a perfectly reasonable job and kept practicing.)

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 12h

I saw a case—not mine—where one party just didn’t get notice of an argument, and the state supreme court called counsel’s office from the bench and told her to get over there. She showed up in jeans and Uggs and did the argument.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 13h

I was offline so please let me propose Manatee Tuesday

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 12h

I have so many questions, and I don’t want to know the answers to any of them.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 13h

Big update at the link (www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...), but here's the tl;dr:

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 16h

Serious question: This is basically a newsstand model, where you can buy one day’s paper without subscribing. That used to be a model that newspapers used. Is there a volume at which it could work online?

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 16h

The joke in New York for a long time was that all the interfaith couples got married at the Ethical Culture Society, for this reason

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 16h

A friend once worried out loud to me that churches would have to perform gay weddings. I pointed out that the Catholic Church wouldn’t marry my (straight) parents; religious institutions are allowed to discriminate in ways civil institutions aren’t, and that’s not new.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 16h

Also it seems like his vision of testing bias is… not how testing bias works

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 18h

Kevin put together a couple of images for me of Saturn's rings as seen from the planet's cloud tops for my "Under Alien Skies" public lecture. He's quite good at this.

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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 19h

Hey hey -- it's publication day! Couldn't be more excited for this to be out in the world. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 18h

I remember a lot of looking for landmarks and wondering if I’d missed them and driven too far

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 18h

I have no advice, but I might assign myself this syllabus.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 19h

I really thought he was dead already.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 20h

We bought a Chewbacca-shaped Life Day popcorn bucket in the Star Wars area of Disneyland a few years ago. It has no apparent uses but we haven’t thrown it out, because it seems like the kind of thing we should keep.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 21h

I have no idea what to do with the commemorative popcorn buckets we already have. That doesn’t stop me from wanting this one.

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 06/10/2026

An aperiodic reminder that since 2022 I've been leading a mission concept with JPL to fly a balloon through the skies of Venus. I'll write more about it later. For now, here's a photo of a prototype balloon flying over Nevada (left), and my workup of what it might look like at Venus (right).

A drone-captured shot of the one-third Venus aerobot prototype flying over Black Rock Desert in July 2022. Image credit: JPL-Caltech/Aerostar

A variable-altitude aerobot floats through the middle atmosphere of Venus; clouds are above and below the balloon, and everything has a yellow tint. Image credit: me.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 23h

He cannot understand why he’s not hailed as one of the great legal minds of his generation, and he will die mad about it.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 23h

The bizarre child-custody resolution at the end of Mare of Easttown ruined the show for me. Hit entirely the wrong emotional notes and seemed legally implausible

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 23h

Thank you for addressing what the misspelling was. I was curious.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

President Biden commuted all but three death sentences on federal death row. He also didn’t touch the death sentences for the four men currently on military death row at Fort Leavenworth. Hasan is one of them.

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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan

President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW FROM PP The Trump admin keeps denying immigration agents are grabbing Americans, so we tracked it 500+ Americans detained 70+ kids, some cuffed or zip-tied 60+ held after filming 36+ held for day+ w/o access to lawyer ~12 deported (yes, deported) projects.propublica.org/american-cit....

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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The creatures in that movie are somehow much scarier to adults than to children, which is perfect.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That Hemingway quote about hunting men is alarmingly common in police culture. I've seen it on police union merch and on t-shirts and other swag at SWAT competitions and policing conferences.

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Your daily wallpapers @dailywallpapers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Two Jack Lake, Canada (📸 : Gaurav Agrawal)

Lake, forest, mountain, boat, reflection, clouds, sunlight, blue sky.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Military death row got very little coverage at the time. The military hasn’t carried out a formal execution of a prisoner on death row since 1961. But this was always a risk.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

apnews.com

Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan

President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ok, so, I got excited about this and knocked out a 2,000-word draft this evening. I guess I really, really wanted to write about 40k.

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Mr. Fahrenheit @mrfahrenheit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.

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ICE Is Everywhere and Acting with Impunity

ICE arrests have reached a record high—nearly fifty-one thousand in August alone—with agents conducting operations nationwide at hospitals, at airports, and outside schools.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I love The Mousetrap, but I also saw it when I was maybe 8 years old, so I thought it was really chilling; I imagine that to adults these days, it’s more like campy fun.

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Cait (spooky edition 🦇) @caitesq.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I do! And the edition I read in the late 90s was mostly edited but still dropped the n-word at least once. I think I read that her estate recently approved heavier edits to dial back the racism in some of the books.

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