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Kate Sherrill

@katesherrill.bsky.social
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Librarian. Lifelong Hoosier. Blue in a Red State. #BeyondTheGates

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h
“This is about stepping up where the federal government has failed.” On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law banning law enforcement officers in the state from using electrical shock gloves.
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California bans ICE's favorite shock gloves
A DHS spokesperson has said that the agency "will not abide" by any state ban.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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News for 38 Year Olds @newsfor38yearolds.com · 17h
By 30 points, voters oppose sending ICE agents to the polls Strength in Numbers www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-09-29… Subscribe →
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By 30 points, voters oppose sending ICE agents to the polls
Strength in Numbers
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 20h
This is an amazing exchange between the Fox host and AG Blanche. Campos: "I'm an American citizen, and I shouldn't be spied on." Blanche: "You don't THINK you want that, but it's not all bad" tl:dr "Don't tread on me" "But have you TRIED being tread upon? I think you'll like it!"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Based on my own reporting on OpenAI's audited financials from 2025, it appears that Anthropic was a worse business (at least in that year), spending $2.75 make $1 versus OpenAI spending $2.60 to make $1. So many people told me this company was "more profitable"! www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-op...
OpenAl Lost $38.5 Billion In 2025
2025 — OpenAl Had $13.07 Billion In Revenue, $34 Billion In Costs and Expenses, and $20.92 Billion In Losses, with a net loss attributable to the company of $38.53 Billion
• Revenue: $13.07 billion
• Cost of Revenue: $7.5 billion
• Research and Development: $19.18 billion
• Sales and Marketing: $5.73 billion
• General and Administrative: $1.57 Billion
• Total Costs and Expenses: $34 billion
• Loss from Operations: $20.92 billionThe Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024, accounting for more than half of its
$12.65 billion in total operating expenses.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This week, @prismreports.org is co-publishing my latest investigation with @us.theguardian.com, focused on a farmworker whose employer subjected him to deadly working conditions that resulted in a catastrophic heat stroke. The story will also be published in Spanish by @enlacelatinonc.bsky.social.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every book its reader Every reader their book Ranganathan got this right back in the 1930s
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/09/2026
New Horizons is now *three days away* from shutting off its two heliophysics instruments, simply because NASA has not provided the $2M in funding it had promised to the mission last year or this year. There is no science basis for shutting these off. Our earlier coverage:
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NASA’s New Horizons mission may shut down two instruments over lack of funding
Decision risks “incalculable loss” of data from the edge of the Sun’s influence, scientists say
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Kate Sherrill @katesherrill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Watching today's episode, Deke and Hope are looking at the leather dress... Husband: That seems dated. Isn't sheer stuff more in fashion now? Hope runs and grabs a piece of organza, talks about adding it to the look. Me to husband: Okay, Tim Gunn! #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Data Centers generate CONSTANT noise at 90 decibels. If they generate their own power it's above 100db. 85db is dangerous to hearing. I want to build a 100db noise-making car I can park on proposed DC sites so locals experience what they're about to hear 24x7. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
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Data center developer offers $10,000 checks to 4,500 households if the 1,300-acre facility is approved — locals push back over noise and 'bribe' concerns
Report says that many residents are rejecting the offer due to fears of noise, falling property values, and mistrust.
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Kate Sherrill @katesherrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Give it to him, Zende!!! #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS
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Kate Sherrill @katesherrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"this hole that LOGAN has put us in" Ridge, everything that has happened to FC is the result of you and Steffy's decisions and actions, it's all self-inflicted. #BoldandBeautiful #BoldCBS
A chart shows sales declining in multiple divisions
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Kate Sherrill @katesherrill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Gift link (Thanks, Blue!)
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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lance Oppenheim’s PRIMETIME is a brashly funny (if perhaps a bit muddled) satire, featuring Robert Pattinson’s most vampiric performance to date. Review in @bostonhassle.bsky.social!
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REVIEW: Primetime (2026) dir. Lance Oppenheim // BOSTON HASSLE
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Deprogramming underway (for some) newrepublic.com/post/215901/...
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“He Can’t Be Trusted”: Trump’s Most Loyal Front-Row Fans Turn on Him
Donald Trump is losing the people who regularly sit in the front row at his rallies.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Justin Brown, a cofounder of the AI slop empire Brown Brothers Media, has deep ties to convicted sex criminal and Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell promoted Brown's failed social media platform Ideapod -- which is still a publisher in BBM's portfolio: futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Jeff Asher @jeffasher.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New post -- this week I take a step back and chronicle how crime data has improved dramatically over the last decade to the point where national crime trends are known with strong precision far faster than they used to be. jasher.substack.com/p/how-the-cr...
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How The Crime Data Battle Was Won
And what can happen next.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I spoke with danah boyd, author of Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, about how the 2020 census came together amid fractured politics and a pandemic, and what it means for the next one.
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The 'Jenga Politics' Threatening the US Census
A conversation with danah boyd, author of Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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Donie O’Sullivan @donie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“It’s crazy,” Fuentes, 28, said during one of his near-nightly shows. “I have done nothing my whole life and career but attack women and have negative attitudes toward women, and it’s women that are really backing me up.” Read this from @drewharwell.com wapo.st/4hhXF1t
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She helped lead a far-right internet movement. Then it turned on her.
Amy Dangerfield worked to become one of Nick Fuentes’s model “groypettes,” but a vicious fight left her grappling with the dark side of far-right fame.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Student journalists getting actual results …
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On Tues evening we launched our first two Cross-Reference Coalition publications at the Ctr for Bklyn History 🥰 Anyone can download digital copies — libraries (we’ll prioritize Metro members) can request FREE print copies — via the pubs’ respective pages! crc.metro.org/projects/ (📸 by Mina Leazer)
Four people on a stage in a fancy room, with a set of zines projected on a screen behind themThe crowd at the end of the night, holding candles to recognize the equinox. Xinan Helen Ran, a member of the Search & Discovery cohort read a lovely acknowledgment Our colorful Misfit book and Search & Discovery zine set A cross-cohort planning team planned a range of activities — like bingo (card displayed here) — to help folks meet one another at the event, to promote social
“cross-referencing” :)
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This past decade I lost the two most lucrative annual gigs on my calendar. Two conferences. Both paid high to mid 5-figures for 3 - 8 days of work. I quit the first when I discovered it had been bought by Saudi Arabia. The other fired me b/c I resist Trump. ... I regret neither.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
California is weaning itself off fossil gas, fast. Gas-fired electricity generation in California fell by 26% in the first half of 2026, as utility-scale solar, batteries and the new SunZia wind project feed power in via a dedicated transmission line. buff.ly/QWQoLPc #ShareGoodNewsToo
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How California Is Kicking Its Natural Gas Habit - Inside Climate News
Solar and batteries matter, but they’re not the only reasons for the steep decline in gas-fired electricity.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I’m someone who cut off contact with my parents and reinstated it a few years later. I didn’t do it because it was trendy or “changing family dynamics”. I did it because I needed to heal and they needed time to maybe self reflect. I chose to get back in contact when I got very sick. (Short 🧵)
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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wonderful filmmaking. Daphne Oram gets a credit for Music Effects.
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 27/09/2026
Timothy Pigford, the Iconic Black Farmer Advocate Who Stood Against the USDA, Dies at 74 www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Timothy Pigford, the Iconic Black Farmer Advocate Who Stood Against the USDA, Dies at 74
N.C. farmer Timothy Pigford, whose landmark lawsuit challenged discrimination against Black farmers and led to a multibillion-dollar settlement, has died. The post Iconic Black farmer advocate Timothy...
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Very sad news. The great Ian Berry has left us. He was the sole photographer at one of the crucial events in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. 👇🏽
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 27/09/2026
#OtD 27 Sep 1936 1000 uniformed fascist Blackshirts led by Oswald Mosley in Leeds, UK, were confronted by 30,000 anti-fascist locals who attacked them, pelted them with stones, hitting Mosley, and drowned out speeches by singing The Red Flag stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9965...
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Pablo Torre @pablo.show · 24/09/2026
Good morning: youtu.be/uh7s2jr0b48?...
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We Investigated the Christian "Scam" Fronted by Tim Tebow | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Kate Sherrill @katesherrill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Film you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF
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Dustin Hoffman & Robert Redford: Sorting Papers
Alt: Dustin Hoffman & Robert Redford: Sorting call slips at the Library of Congress, the camera ascends, they recede
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murphyles.bsky.social @murphyles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’d be firmly in the “anyone but Rahm” voting block. www.ms.now/opinion/rahm...
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Rahm Emanuel's coverup of Laquan McDonald's death can't be forgotten
Democrats can embrace police reform or Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan — but not both.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I need one that says, "don't talk to me about AI or you will get a lecture and a handout."
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 26/09/2026
Ireland’s football players voted behind closed doors today to proceed with their match against Israel — but their coach conceded that his squad was close to “breaking” over the matter.
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‘You can’t win’: Ireland’s football team to play Israel despite player protest
“Nobody is comfortable playing this game,” Ireland’s coach declares after a tense locker-room vote to proceed with Sunday’s Nations League match against Israel.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An ancient and magical amber bear 🐻 ✨ Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a small and ancient figurine of an amber bear carved some 10,000 years ago during the Danish Mesolithic period. The museum lighting makes the amber glow translucent orange against a dark display case background. The bear is displayed on a small metal stand viewed in profile facing right. The ears, muzzle, and mouth are defined. The neck has a polished groove suggesting it was once suspended on a cord. The characteristic shoulder hump of a brown bear is clearly defined. There are some finely incised horizontal lines along the belly. The legs are incomplete. Length 6.5cm. Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic' for ancient peoples. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.
The bear was found in 1991 on a west coast beach of the Danish North Sea island of Fanø. It is one of a small number of amber animal figurines from the Baltic Sea region which have been assigned to the Mesolithic period by means of a typo-chronological approach and /or other contextual information.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When "working class" is uttered in the media, it often excludes Black people. So today is the perfect day reflect on the history of the Black working class in America. Whether that's thru Dr @profblmkelley.bsky.social book on the Black working class or Joe William Trotter's work on the same
book:

Black Folk. The Roots of the Black Working Class by Dr Blair LM Kelleybook:

Workers on Arrival. Black Labor in the Making of America by Joe William Trotter Jr
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𝑲𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 @kassandraseven.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Rogers says he built Chrysler vehicles on an assembly line. Records show his work was at an aftermarket facility that modified vehicles after they left the factory.” I love how they despise blue collar workers but also want to pretend to be them. michiganadvance.com/2026/09/24/m...
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Mike Rogers claims he was an assembly line worker. The UAW said that is stretching the truth. • Michigan Advance
Rogers says he built Chrysler vehicles on an assembly line. Records show his work was at an aftermarket facility that modified vehicles after they left the factory.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
NEW: ProPublica’s Jake Pearson lost $10,000 mimicking the betting patterns of a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company’s “responsible gaming” safeguards. One week in, he was invited to become a VIP — and faced little pushback as he spiraled.
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Had bookmarked this and just now listened. Fantastic episode. The enslavement of Native Americans was based on *where* they were. They were on land that settler Americans wanted. It was qualitatively distinct from the enslavement of African Americans and those differences need to be understood.
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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The American Revolution opened what Linford Fisher calls a permissible space for captive raiding on the western frontier. Stealing people and stealing land were not two separate practices but one process.  Learn more in Ep. 449 www.benfranklinsworld.com/449 #IndigenousHistory #America250
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Rachael Hamlet @karmamylanta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You can watch the trailer here:
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Kate Sherrill @katesherrill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The All the President's Men music and references are taking me out. Follow the money, Leslie. #TedLasso
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Kate Sherrill @katesherrill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is wild.
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The numbers equal the population of a small town. Heartbreaking.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
seeing the coffee interview question go from linkedin to threads to bluesky has been really wild to watch. soon it might be something someone in real life talks about
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Kate Sherrill @katesherrill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
At the university library we started the interview day off at Starbucks and made sure sure they had something to drink the rest of the day. I have been on many hiring committees and wouldn't have an issue with someone bringing a drink. It's a cultural difference between fields, I guess.
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