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CNN on Zacharia: "Some White House officials are already wondering how long she'll keep the job. They tell Kaitlan Collins her performance was unlikely to satisfy President Trump. One White House official called the appearance 'unusual.' Another called it 'brutal.'"

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 1h

I am not in favor of the death penalty in general, and I think we need to be really careful with how we allow suicide in prisons because there will be innocent people unfairly convicted who just want out. BUT I'm not sure why we disallow suicide for people who are clearly guilty. We want vengeance?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

There is not a chance that completing an exam question by question over time is in any way advantageous. The ONE benefit of exams as most people take them the ability to focus on the material in context. This would be a marathon of focus for her and they refuse to give her the chance.

bbc.co.uk

Student who spells by blinking is denied chance to sit exam

Romi Loffler is battling to take her history exam with reasonable adjustments allowing for her condition.

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 1h

Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton was not in the room as his Democratic and Libertarian challengers debated Monday, but criticism of the Arkansas lawmaker’s record and his absence from the debate took center stage.

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Cotton’s absence takes center stage at debate between Arkansas’ US Senate candidates

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Democrats @democrats.org · 2h

HUGE: President Obama has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed. “This country belongs to all of us. Not just the wealthy or well-connected—everyone. That idea is under attack, and Michigan is where we fight back. That’s why I’m asking you to support Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate.”

President Obama is shown on the left, smiling in a suit. On the right, Abdul El-Sayed is wearing a black shirt and smiling at the camera. Text below reads: "Michigan Senate update: President Obama endorses Abdul El-Sayed for U.S. Senate in Michigan."

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AltTaxPro @alttaxpro.altgov.info · 2h

Vote like your future depends on it... because it does.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23h

“Indigenous People say thanks for the holiday but would also really like their land back” my first onion byline, 🤩

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Is anyone doing a count on how many Senate/Governors are ducking debates. (Paxton in TX the other obvious example).

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 18h

Is it my misunderstanding or are all the people on threads talking about Russian bot farm workers getting killed because they think an office building full of fake people with bombed and not a data center?

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20h

"There is no excuse for this and you know why I’m furious right now,” the judge said. “I was hearing from plaintiff’s side that this was going to happen and I said ‘no’ repeatedly, ‘I trust the government.’ I trusted you all repeatedly to not do what you have done...” www.ms.now/news/you-did...

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‘You did your absolute worst’: Judge blasts government after she says it defied her on D.C. golf course case

A livid U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes called an emergency hearing after the government flouted warnings to notify the court before cutting down more than 10 trees at East Potomac Golf Course; it cut d...

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Lyn Heideman @heidelyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Habitat loss is the primary driver of the decline, but climate change, pollution, invasive species, and disease all contributed. The report noted that $7.3T was spent on activities that harmed nature compared with $220B spent to protect it in 2023. There's more: www.sierraclub.org/sierra/state...? 🌎

sierraclub.org

The State of the Living Planet Is "Without Precedent"

World Wildlife Fund releases its biennial report with grim news and some cause for hope

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Again, one of the HSI agents who lied was the guy who snatched Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, which is what led to the tussle that led to @replamonica.bsky.social's arrest. I think if we had all the evidence of corruption we have now her selective prosecution claim would have worked.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...

inquirer.com

How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch

Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

gm! at 10 I'll be live-tweeting the emergency TRO hearing in Judge Reyes's "courtroom" (this is on Zoom) in D.C. Preservation League v. Department of Interior, otherwise known as the golf course case

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR
Document 76
Filed 10/11/26
Page 2 of 4
forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).

Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The genocide isn’t over

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Wizzy Probs @wizzyprobs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I stand with Ilhan Omar against a blatantly nazi regime. Every person involved with this extrajudicial shit needs to be imprisoned. From the DOJ folks who ordered it, to whatever lackey signed off on it to the line folks who executed a warrant they know was obtained illegally.

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Antonio E. Porreca 🐳 @aeporreca.org · 12/10/2026

Recommendations from the Journals Working Group of the Association for Human Mathematics just dropped: Venues that disseminate scientific publications should give authors *choice* and *consent* in whether and how LLM-based systems are used during the referee process. www.ahmath.org/recommendati...

Preliminary Recommendations from the Journals Working Group

Venues that disseminate scientific publications - such as journals, conferences, and preprint servers - should give authors choice and consent in whether and how LLM-based systems are used during the referee process. Prior to manuscript submission, such scientific venues should clearly communicate whether, and in precisely what way, LLM-based systems will be used during review, manuscript typesetting, and all other stages of the publication process. This commitment to transparency and the rights of authors applies equally to scientific venues themselves and to any third parties involved with the venue, such as editors, referees, and third-party copy-editing services. Authors should have the right to refuse this without being prejudiced in any way in the reviewing process.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's amazing to see George Carlin predict our truly shitty current situation here in America, decades ago in his stand-up. The man was a genius and a prophet. Damn, I miss him.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I fully expected that he would have taken some sort of sailing vessels across the water, if he didn't want to go by motorized transit, but holy cow. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Bu...

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Karl Bushby - Wikipedia

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

At this point I would bet dollars to doughnuts that they gave her a job because she knows stuff about junior.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

📌I just don't think a big enough deal is being made that Kimberly Guilfoyle is the ambassador to fucking anything.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Current tracking makes it look like Hurricane Simon is going to hit Mazatlan as a cat 2. That could change, of course, but that's reasonably big.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Kimberly Guilfoyle situation could get interesting quickly. Probably the reason she GOT the Ambassadorship is to keep her quiet while Jr looted things. She knows a good deal of incriminating shit. edition.cnn.com/2026/10/11/p...

edition.cnn.com

Trump considering whether to fire Guilfoyle, source says | CNN Politics

President Trump is weighing whether to dismiss Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece after a string of embarrassing revelations about her conduct.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 12/10/2026

Can we get 10 people to fill the @autonomynews.co Tip Jar for a reported story so good that—and this is the nicest way I can put it—another writer gave our work the newsfluencer treatment? www.autonomynews.co/tip-jar/

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Six russian strikes hit Zaporizhzhia this morning, killing 1 person, and injuring 7 others‼️

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"We need English majors. And we need philosophers. But we probably need them working for AI companies. " This attitude makes me sad for my kid, who is 15 and I have no idea how he is going to support himself at this point.

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Not all sheroes wear capes some just wear a Primus shirt. We need more of this ladies energy for people showing up to protest the traitorous treason weasel. Brava‼️🔥💥🔥

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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Puffins galore and lots, lots more!

Screen grab from the home page of Carl Bovis's online shop, showing a gride of 12 items (3 rows of 4 items each): Puffin calendars, a tea towel with a photo of a male Mandarin duck, Carl's 100 Birds and 100 More Birds books, a colouring book, a Goldfinch mug, a Puffin tea towel, a Puffin mouse mat, a Puffin jigsaw puzzle, and a book, Garden Birds Of Britain.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If Ukraine were bombing russian residential buildings, Trump could have announced an apartment-building ceasefire. But since we aren't, this is none of Trump's business.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We have to feel sorry for her, not laugh at her. And if the people making the movies think that people are laughable, they will not use them, they will use someone who is more sympathetic to them.

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

An interesting new study has examined 20,736 scientific publications about climate tipping points. Several of those are estimated to be crossed around 1.5 degrees warming, i.e. any time soon: permafrost thaw, Greenland Ice Sheet, North Atlantic Subpolar Gyre. theconversation.com/some-climate...

theconversation.com

Some climate tipping points are being studied far more than others – new research

Scientists aren’t focusing on the systems that may be closest to tipping.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

SLIPPING not flipping, but I guess it all works the same.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

But the more AI in search engines and generative AI become available, the more I find myself intentionally sitting with not knowing things, trying to remember them in other ways, picturing faces, remembering what I was doing when I learned something, to give my own brain the practice.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I can already feel my memories flipping with age, not like dementia but ability to recall information. I would have done really well on Jeopardy 30 years ago and not so much now, things don't come to my brain quickly.

news.berkeley.edu

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I wonder if they mean only generative ai, or all of the other uses/types?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Published in 1887 as part of Kawanabe Kyōsai’s monumental Kyōsai Gadan Gaihen (Kyōsai’s Treatise on Painting, External Volume), this woodblock print presents an observational study (shasei) capturing the varied postures, temperaments, and fleeting gestures of domestic cats (neko).

Five felines populate the composition in dynamic arrangement: in the upper right, a tabby stares with wide, inquisitive eyes, its paw poised mid-step; in the upper left and center right, two cats rest with tightly closed eyes in soft slumber; in the center left, a cat gazes forward with a rounded, serene expression; and along the bottom, a calico recline on its side, curled in an effortless nap. Executed with microscopic line-carving techniques (furutsu-bori) that render individual strands of fur with remarkable fluidity, the print is subtly accented with delicate washes of pale pink upon ears, noses, and paws. The composition evokes an intimate, tactile sensory atmosphere: the soft, quiet breathing of sleeping felines, the warmth of sun-warmed fur, the subtle scratch of wooden blocks pressing ink onto hand-made paper, and the gentle, domestic calm of an artist's studio suspended in time.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The BBC’s transphobia is not just BBC News

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

School was getting out! School was getting out! School was getting out when these #ICE monsters rammed Oscar Belgal's vehicle and then shot into it. Bullets don't stop when they hit a target. They could have flown off and hit the child in the car or another child on the street. Rage volunteer!

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Mary (geographile) @geographile.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I really appreciate your using alt text. I can see, but to read text at that size I would have to save the image to my phone and zoom in. Alt text makes it so much easier.

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