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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 2h
[some materials removed] seemed designed to help officers understand whether or not they have a lawful basis to act against someone in the first place, [e.g.], who is actually a citizen, what is their immigration status, what grounds could possibly justify seeking their removal? 🎁 wapo.st/4yA4G3T
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Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers
Police officers helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants were given a shortened training course that scaled back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws.
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 4h
“In 2017, just days after accepting the role of acting attorney general under President Trump, [Sally Yates] was fired for refusing to enforce the president’s immigration ban.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/n...
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Sally Yates to Lead Internal Investigation Into Cornell’s Handling of Sexual Assault Report (Gift Article)
The university hired Sally Yates, a career federal prosecutor, to investigate how it handled a former student’s claim she was raped in 2024.
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 4h
The deeper question is whether a state that executes its citizens is willing to look at what it is doing. Lethal injection was designed so it would not have to. It puts the violence behind a sheet and a saline drip & curtains that close [when] something goes wrong. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/o...
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Opinion | I Know Christa Pike’s Medical History. What Tennessee Did Is Unforgivable. (Gift Article)
Lethal injection failures are not glitches; they are features of the process.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11h
H’as spoken like a traitor, and shall answer As traitors do.
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 17h
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 16h
— WENDELL BERRY, “A Meeting.”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16h
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Eddie Slovik
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a statewide health emergency in New York State on Monday as measles cases increased dangerously across rural counties where vaccination rates have lagged.” declaration will relax rules about who can administer vaccines…to prevent measles. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/n...
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Hochul Declares a Measles Emergency as Cases Rise in Rural New York (Gift Article)
The state has had 108 cases this year, the most since 2019. The declaration comes amid a national resurgence of the highly contagious viral illness.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.
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Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state
Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So, one of my best argument against the electoral college is that it actually provides perverse incentives to presidents to ignore states they’re not going to win. Of course, Trump takes “perverse” to unhinged extremes.
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Beelzebub himself might climb up the side and step down into the cabin to chat with the captain, and it would not create any unsubduable excitement in the forecastle.
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I too “grew up with the rearview mirror, the arm behind the seat.” (and freewheel transmission for a bit of excitement) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Tight Competition: The Contest to Name Philly’s Best Parallel Parker (Gift Article)
Out of more than 900 applicants, 15 were chosen to compete in three rounds, including “Tight Squeeze” and “Under Duress.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
[they] destroy[ed] the last of four ancient cottonwood trees heartbreaking
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Alito is a second-rate mind doing first-rate misogyny.
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The effort to secure the deals was led by Christian Ehrhardt, who was tapped to lead the Trump administration’s brand new Office of Remigration, a 15-person office named for the racist, far-right scheme to expel minorities from Europe.” I genuinely hate these people
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Я @gertiewentworth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
All Things Fractured: Lola in the Night Sky 2011 • Laurie Anderson
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Я @gertiewentworth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“If you make the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will send you to hell.”
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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Morning all. Housewife in backyard of Manchester terraced house, 1969. Photographer Nick Hedges.
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Joel Graham 42nd St. NYC (Looking West from @ 1st Ave)
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
phillip crymble Again and again the leaves / enact their beauty Marianne Boruch
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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
James & Karla Murray‏ La Pastora Bakery the Bronx in business 40 years 3rd-gen owner told us his grandfather started the business after moving to the US from PR...
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/10/2026
[Exit Dennis.]
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The best part is when Rateliff takes the mic at 0:55. Watch Bruce watching him.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We murdered four more people in a boat today
U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar
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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m going to go out on a limb, and say no.
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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To be scrupulously fair to Alito, he doesn't really believe women are people, so I guess it isn't surprising that he doesn't think they have concrete reliance interests.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Trump’s border wall construction cut into an ancient ground carving older than Stonehenge
The Las Playas Intaglio carving of a huge fish is at least 2,000 years older than the first Egyptian pyramid, according to researchers’ estimations.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
so: Iran forces US retreat from UK? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation.
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 04/10/2026
Kalshi is cutting into the tithing revenue
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.” The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy poets.org/poem/darklin...
the last two stanzas of 
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong
Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware.
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Northwest Wind @keewatin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Thomas Hardy once listened to a thrush singing against a bleak winter landscape and wondered whether it knew of 'some blessed Hope, whereof he knew / And I was unaware'."
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the best part about living in anticipation of inevitable AI parousia is that unlike the early christians you don't have to do communism or help actually existing needy people - instead you can just accumulate obscene wealth for grandiose purposes of helping hypothetical generations of future ones!
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stardust melody @karenparish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Me every time I go out in public
Costanza from Seinfeld: You know, we're living in a society
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Jack was spotted at the Power To The People Concert👍
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days?" ~ Rainer Maria Rilke Autumn Sunlight (1888) 🎨 Theodore Robinson
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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o faquir da dor @tropigotico.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
mistakes were made
california post headline: california squirrel's flying attack is finalist in national wildlife photo competition

photo depicts a squirrel in mid-flight from a tree branch, apparently about to attack an owl who has the most "are you fucking KIDDING me" look in history
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don Henley is a mensch, part 12,946: (Wrote about his environmental projects in our book, and here: fallows.substack.com/p/be-not-sim... ] www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
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Eagles legend Don Henley is putting big money into turning Texas blue
The Texas native is top donor to several statewide Democratic candidates and a major player in super PACs helping James Talarico.
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