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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h
Pennsylvania health officials have reported a fifth measles-associated death.
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Pennsylvania records a fifth measles death as the nation endures its worst year since 1991
Pennsylvania health officials have reported a fifth measles-associated death. The Pennsylvania Department of Health said Wednesday that the person was from Lancaster County and was unvaccinated.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 6h
The Roberts Court continues to outdo itself in its depravity This may be the lowest, worst shadow docket order yet, and that’s really saying something
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 9h
Getting mad at Joyce Cato Oates for being a snob after cheering all her epic burns is a different form of being a member of the Leopards Eating Faces party. You can’t contain that heat, you can only hope to avoid its gaze.
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 8h
yeah, it's all frustrating surface stuff, which extends into the "half the world dies, but we deal with it" Infinity War business. yeah it's very comic book, but it's irritating how they skate close to saying something, then skate away
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Lucifer Hunklehead @amonduulus.bsky.social · 8h
The MCU has a few of these, whee it feels like the people making the particular instalment were trying to out more of their stamp on it or do something a little outside the box before Feige or whoever derailed it. Even in a reduced state, I miss those ones
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 8h
learning that Rebecca Hall, who's great in this, was supposed to be its main villain (until some idiot thought it wouldn't sell toys) showed how much better it could have been. one of Stark's discarded women as his destroyer. still, there's a reality in this film that the franchise soon discarded
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Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) @bowiesongs.bsky.social · 8h
caught 'Iron Man 3' recently. product of a lost time---that brief MCU period ("Winter Soldier" etc) where they did these kind of '70s downbeat movies until committing to the 'franchise into ∞' thing. A downer with some fun twists, w/Downey playing a blithe jerk whose PTSD makes him tolerable
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Shivvy 🎃 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 5h
am I in my first trimester bc this makes me want to PUKE
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 6h
And the answer is... WITH!
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edpb.bsky.social @edpb.bsky.social · 6h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
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After Two Decades, U.S. Forces Leave Iraq to an Uncertain Future (Gift Article)
Some Iraqis are celebrating the end of an American military presence that unleashed waves of bloodshed. Others fear what happens next for their country, trapped between Washington and Tehran.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 6h
“Yes, I’m wrong, but damn it! Am i wrong ENOUGH?!”
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 6h
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy "A riot is the language of the unheard." - Martin Luther King, Jr. I guess they supported terrorism too? Or maybe they just understood where violence and genocide lead.
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daviss @daviss.org · 14h
The incompetence of this Department of Justice on display in the complaint against Judge Schiltz where they also refer to him as Judge Schultz, who is a different US Magistrate Judge in Minnesota.
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 10h
4 years ago, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle vacated Biden’s airplane mask mandate: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Now, Trump Judge Kathryn Mizelle says vacating rules is likely unconstitutional: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... I wonder what changed! Grab 1: Then Grab 2: Now
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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 8h
American photographer Louis Faurer, a key member of the New York School of street photographers active from the 1930s to the 1950s that included Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, and William Klein. Untitled (New York at Night), circa 1949 #LouisFaurer #Photography #NewYorkCity
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 6h
#Florida man awaiting trial in shooting death at Whataburger drive-through petitions court for release from jail because he was subsequently shot in the head by the victim's mother www.pnj.com/story/news/c...
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Pensacola man was shot in head and indicted for murder. He wants out
Ja'Kobe Edwards wanted a bond in his murder case due to an intellectual disability aggravated by being shot in the head by the victim's mom.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 6h
only nfl team that actually plays in NY baby
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Kel McDonald @kelmcdonald.bsky.social · 6h
I linked this to @korybing.bsky.social and now our discord chat is just us talking about stuff we want in it
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Joan Eisenstodt @joaneisenstodt.bsky.social · 6h
Kegsbreath addressed mid-level #ArmedService leaders using profanity AND quoting scripture. Note: JD better shave; SecDef wants no “beardos”; used slur about #transgender troops. Good news: like senior leaders last year, the audience was stone-faced. wapo.st/4hmpG7Z
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Hegseth details new initiatives in partisan address to troops
In a fiery speech, the Pentagon chief solicited bids to build a new base, called for more focus on religion and said Elon Musk will help develop next-generation weapons.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6h
They might get a few more years of success out of Marvel as long as they stick to the familiar characters. But I think Star Wars is basically done. Ditto Pixar, which can't get traction with original projects. If the thene parks can't sell themselves anymore, I'd say they're in real trouble.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 6h
This is exactly the shit I was talking about Apparently, as @chrisgeidner.bsky.social just put it, "harm is a feeling that Republican officials are not allowed to suffer," yet "an execution carried out while a case challenging that execution is still pending" is not www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
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The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution
SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts.
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Meidas Charise Lee 💙🌊🌴🥥🫘 @chariselee.bsky.social · 18h
Governor Abbott office refused to turn over 1400 pages of correspondence without it being heavily redacted, claiming it contained intimate and embarrassing information. we will get to see how much Musk and Governor Abbott were able to sell out Texans.
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 18h
A 26-year-old cutting back at the grocery store. A 32-year-old wondering if a home or family will ever be within reach. A 70-year-old searching for cheaper groceries. Different generations. Same squeeze. Working people deserve better than this.
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'Can't catch a break': Shoppers squeezed by surging inflation and higher interest rates
Consumers spoke with ABC News about weathering a monthslong surge of inflation.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h
Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 9h
Trump is expressing one of the core beliefs of white supremacy: that people of color don't feel pain to the same extent as white people. Hispanic falls off roof? nbd Notoriously gruesome example: gynecological surgery conducted on enslaved Black women, sans anesthesia. www.aaihs.org/black-subjec...
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Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology - AAIHS
In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes the experimental work of early American gynecologists, in...
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 5h
#Florida GOP gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds faces tough questioning and a fire alarm when he campaigns at FAMU. floridapolitics.com/archives/822...
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Byron Donalds deals with tough questions — and a fire alarm — at FAMU town hall
The GOP gubernatorial hopeful discussed crime, punishment, and race, taking unscripted questions.
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rottweilerhome.bsky.social @rottweilerhome.bsky.social · 6h
Another step by Trump and Blanche to create more autocratic power for themselves, i.e., a dictatorship. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Justice Dept. Tries to Rebuke Federal Judges for Speaking to The Times (Gift Article)
Judge Patrick J. Schiltz had warned that the administration’s actions “created a grave threat to the rule of law.” The attorney general accused him of “obvious bias.”
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DebbieDeb 🩷✨ @debdebbiedebbie.bsky.social · 6h
"Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton, the two candidates for governor of California, are meeting in a televised debate on Wednesday that is expected to be their only face-to-face encounter before the election on Nov. 3." 🎁Article
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California Governor Debate Live Updates: Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton Face Off (Gift Article)
Xavier Becerra, a cabinet secretary in the Biden administration, and Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host, are vying to lead the country’s most populous state and one of the world’s largest economies.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 5h
thinking of women as fully human was too hard for these lazy pieces of shit so they had to create plagiarism machines instead
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10h
for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic
One of the most heated discussions occurring on X at the moment is about the ethics of a GitHub project in which a person is running Saw-like “torture” and “pain” experiments on a series of locally hosted large language models, causing a series of effective altruists and people who believe LLMs are sentient to beg GitHub to delete the project on the grounds that the AI is suffering and that this glorified text adventure game is somehow cruel. The saga is an outgrowth of several recent viral papers and blog posts that have sparked a wildly tiresome conversation about AI consciousness and the idea of “model welfare,” which is essentially worrying about the “mental health” of AI bots and agents.
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ITS THE LAKE OF AMERICA. ITS THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR. ITS THE GULF OF AMERICA. ITS SUPER INTELLIGENCE. You people sound like fucking North Koreans
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do we seriously have to do Maoist newspeak every single time an 80 year old posts his idiotic ideas on the internet. It has been AI since before I was even born. Can literally anyone have a shred of dignity.
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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 6h
What is going on here?! 🗃️
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Alan @gammacounter.bsky.social · 7h
Seems like bullshit. TSA agents checking passports & visas at that little desk are not allowed to sit. Because of “fitness for duty requirements to be capable of performing their vital national security function while simultaneously creating a welcoming & professional environment for travelers.”
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 6h
Ah yes, the mind is boggled by immigrants and tourists who don’t want to get abused and thrown into a secret nightmare prison for weeks or months before eventually being whisked away to a country they didn’t come from in the first fucking place. What a mystery!
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5h
Courtesy of @kevinddaly.bsky.social, a cool photo I don’t think I’ve ever seen before of the family Hitchcock.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 5h
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h
He sure as hell did all he could to keep innocent people in prison, even when the DA offices that won the convictions said they should be released. www.injusticewatch.org/archive/2020...
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Missouri Attorney General’s Office pushes to keep innocent people in prison
Its decades-long commitment to upholding convictions—even those marred by police or prosecutorial misconduct—has left Missourians languishing in prison for years.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 5h
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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Boo-tros Boo-tros Ghoulish @dlbowman76.com · 6h
This is hideously bad, economically speaking. House prices are already ridiculous but now, no one’s going to be able to move unless they have a large nest egg.
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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social · 7h
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MZS.Press @mzspress.bsky.social · 6h
For those out there who keep posting Texans need to learn/do/support...yada yada. We are brah!
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 6h
You can really tell who never watched 30s-50s American movies by how they react to a mid-Atlantic accent, because that was EVERYWHERE for decades. Now, of course, it sounds so mannered, but they taught it at acting schools!
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h
Reminder: Hegseth's "no beardo" policy is just his not-so-subtle way to push out Black troops.
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If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid
Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 7h
*Alligator Alc*tr@z" was a human rights nightmare that reveled in being a human rights nightmare. So, of course, they used metal cages they called "calming areas." In this Next Comes What, Andrea explains why unbridled power always turns toward the box. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJST...
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News From America @newsfromamerica.bsky.social · 6h
“Where are they today?” asked Ms. Barrett Doyle. “Are they back in ministry? Are they teaching music lessons? Our experience is that when abusers leave the priesthood because of abuse, they will find other ways to get access to kids.”
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Hundreds of Catholic Clerics Abused Children in Massachusetts, Report Says (Gift Article)
An investigation by the state’s attorney general found decades of sex abuse of nearly 1,000 children over a century across three Massachusetts dioceses.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h
I wrote at Law Dork more about why this SCOTUS order is so bad. www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
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The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution
SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts.
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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you're reading Lorca during this Hispanic Heritage Month (or anytime!) you'll want to listen to this conversation about the new insights Patricia A. Billingsley uncovered in her research about Lorca's visit to Vermont in 1929. #booksky newbooksnetwork.com/lorca-in-ver...
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Patricia A. Billingsley, "Lorca in Vermont: The Spanish Poet and His American Lover" (High Road Books, 2026) - New Books Network
Support Kritika | Support H-Net | Buy Books Here | Join the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español!
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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 17h
RFK Jr. is a crackpot, sadist, grifter, and probably a eugenicist. But the food/chemical industry, some of the worst people in the world, are taking advantage of people's reasonable opposition to MAHA to get them on their side. A pox on both their houses. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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A ‘freaked out’ US food industry is hitting back at Maha – with social media influencers
Cross-partisan support in Washington on issues like pesticides and food additives pose a threat to the industry’s bottom line
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