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Of course the kick is good. Of course.

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This is 💯 true. You just never know the outcome in any sport, regardless of who “should” win.

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“I think John Mateer has answered the critics, those calling for him to be replaced.” 🙃

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Oh man, Texas is going to lose this game. Unbelievable.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 7h

“Uncontrolled rage is good actually.”

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“Hubris is the Ancient Greek word for a hero who was really huge.” - Marco Rubio, probably

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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · 7h

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These anti-trans Talarico attack ads are weird and creepy. The GOP has to be paying a lot to air them but the production values are…bad.

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Jay Arnold @jayarnold.bsky.social · 9h

Yes…. I think about this regularly.

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We really should be able to opt out of political ads

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 8h

CHICAGO STATIONERY LOVERS!!!! Scratch Pad, a new cat-themed stationery shop, just opened today in Wrigleyville!!! It’s full of stickers, pens, washi tape, and a million of other cute kitty desk necessities. I got sooo many Heater and Dragon-themed stickers: scratchpadchicago.com

A variety of kitty-themed notebooks and washi tapes !!!

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Funny timing. Finally a pro-Talarico ad and it comes after a TX TD drive.

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Finally. Now need to call it a few more times. And clean up the penalties.

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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 8h

Ohhhhh noooooooooooo

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single funniest response to religious auspices not going your way

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 16h

GOP spending a ton of $$$ on attack ads during the Texas v Oklahoma game.

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Thinking about the rhetoric of higher ed leaders who say we have to "win back" public trust in our work. As (for the umpteenth time since I've known about her work) @jenmercieca.bsky.social would put it, the problem is *conceding the frame*. Maybe none of what I'm saying here is new but....

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations! Such an important committee these days.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14h

i personally would like to live in a large house in a nature preserve with no neighbors that is a five minute walk from grocery stores, nightlife and amenities, a good school, and my six-figure job. i don't see why this is so difficult

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 17h

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · 17h

It’s an incredibly legacy and one that means so much more than books. We would all do well to understand this (scholarship is great; but being a true humanist a lot better).

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.

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Jacob S. Rugh @jakerugh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1,080 new Utah voters registered Democratic *just last week* 2026 YTD (thru Oct 05) 🔵 DEM +12,504 (+5.0%) 🔴 REP -8,109 (-0.9%) 🟣 UNA +17,335 (+3.5%) 2026 is the first year on record in Utah where DEMS have outregistered REPS (never happened going back 12 years)

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Gina is someone that I can work with, whereas Abbott doesn’t care what I think,” she told me. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/o...

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Opinion | Republicans Are Worried About Gina Hinojosa. In Texas, I Saw Why. (Gift Article)

The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(Shared from various people on FB) RIP Chris Wickham

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

a big part of ossoff's rhetorical success is it doesnt contain the compromise and caveats that are a baked-in part of democratic party rhetoric. theres no pretending that his opponent is just misguided or will be pulled back from the edge by "the good republicans." ossoff is saying "fuck this guy"

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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yup. She’s not a victim. She spent decades abetting.

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It feels like the fruition of the cognitive dissonance of white people who fantasize about being good masters. Make a machine that sounds like a fully assimilated person who lives to serve and then make everyone be nice to it. And make money.

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A mother-obsessed doctor in Munich believes the coroner's office killed Mutti with a poison, colchicine, derived from autumn crocus flowers. Then comes the plagiarism scandal, and the East German connection. Wild true-crime story for your Friday reading pleasure: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

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A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto Z

The long read: After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger

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Of course Cornyn feels this way. Wild that KP expects anything different. His soon to be ex might be encouraging ppl to vote R no matter what but it’s nuts to expect that from Cornyn.

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Oh, absolutely. The Donatists in North Africa (in the 4th-5th c CE) are a great example of this. Augustine had issues with them but mostly because he wanted them to join his brand of Christianity and see that the age of martyrs via public execution was over.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh, absolutely. I just meant that there’s a lot about Christian doctrine that is grounded in the period of martyrdom. And yes, over time, different Christian sects evolved to see public execution as extremely bad.

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This has a *lot* of explanatory power in the second Trump administration, from those first photos of CECOT to the live-streaming of a state-sponsored murder

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This reminds me so much of Penn Medicine boasting about Dr. Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize after the way the institution treated her. h/t @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

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