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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 3h

Some good news, we can have a bit of those, right? The Aldabra giant tortoise seems to be doing well, with a stable population of about 180,000 individuals thanks to intensive conservation efforts. 🧪 Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002…

An Aldabra giant tortoise stands tall.

Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/thousands-of-giant-tortoises-anchor-a-thriving-ecosystem-on-aldabra-a-remote-atoll-in-the-indian-ocean-180986362/

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 2h

W.E.B Du Bois Collection www.reddit.com/r/BlackPeopl...

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 4h

Important breaking news update

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 8h

No, bombing Yandex has not impacted automated Russian trolling operations in the U.S.

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Eric Alterman @ericalterman.bsky.social · 4h

I missed the part where Jon Ossoff asked for David Brooks' advice

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

is there anyone thinking/writing about the actual mechanics of disentangling the US government from elon musk?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

There are many reasons that I wanted to start a program like REBUILD. Over the years, when incarcerated comrades returned home, they would ask for counseling/therapy resources that were culturally competent. I only ever had a couple of local resources for them when I lived in Chicago.

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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause

REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 4h

Museums and libraries holding the line.

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Rich Photography @richphoto.io · 4h

Up close the trees read as solid black shapes with a few bright leaves catching light. The farthest ridges barely separated from the gray above them. Shot on iPhone at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee/North Carolina. #Photography

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MuckRock @muckrock.com · 01/10/2026

Hi Bluesky! 👋🏾 I’m Lyneka, MuckRock’s new Audience and Community Lead. I’m excited to be here! Looking forward to helping to build an even stronger community around MuckRock’s work.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h

Years ago I wrote this essay, and the clamor for compromise and one-sided pandering marches on, and of course David Brooks is a standard-bearer in the parade. As Jamelle Bouie notes, what if they are Nazis?

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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway

When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …

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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 8h

Ukrainian here. Hard to express in words how magical it feels seeing so many people knowing what Slava Ukraine means and what to answer to it ❤️‍🩹 💙💛

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 5h

Gorgeous moody day in Galilee starting with a sunrise that claimed the whole sky and tonight the rain and wind have joined the party. October at the sea.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 9h

Figured out something I can use the tv for 😅

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10h

This is what happens when you elevate “civil discourse” to be the greatest good. All of the sudden, it’s worse to call someone a Nazi than it is to be a Nazi.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10h

It was a pleasure meeting with Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Shenise Turner-Sloss this week. We had a productive conversation about strengthening communities, neighborhood safety, and which issues matter most to the people of our cities.

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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 12h

🔊ON & UP 😍👇🏾'🥁Fort Peck Sioux sounding deadly at Northern Lights Hills #PowWow! SK 🇨🇦 #Canada' (FB VID: Trisha Goodwill. Oct 10, 2026) 🥁 #FortPeckSioux #Indigenous #FirstNations #NativeAmericans

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Josh Turek @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social · 13h

"Is this heaven? No, it’s Iowa." What a day at the Field of Dreams. One of my favorite movies, and a big Hawkeye victory! Field of Dreams has always been a movie about hope. Believing tomorrow can be better than today. That’s what this campaign is all about.

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Oceana UK @oceanauk.bsky.social · 12h

🐬 Marine experts on the Isle of Man had a bumper year of whale & dolphin sightings, describing it as the best since 2010! And even better may be on the way. Bottlenose dolphins return to the island from October, sometimes in huge pods of up to 200 www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmy8zzx…

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old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 12h

castle in the sand, ocean city, maryland, 1985

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 12h

You and I must understand one another, and that too without delay.

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 12h

“Labor unions rallied in solidarity with high school students who have spent two weeks blockading schools to protest understaffing, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated buildings. Marches were held in more than 40 cities.”

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Student Protests Expand to More Than 40 French Cities

Union members, parents and teachers joined the demonstrations, broadening the student-led protest movement that has closed hundreds of French high schools since late September.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 12h

Ruin a book by adding a word to the title: Broca's Brain Rot

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 17h

Hawk in Tampa Bay on Friday as the hurricane came through: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 15h

He wanted to be Darth Vader 🎃

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Gustav Klimt @klimtgustav.bsky.social · 14h

In Farm Garden with Crucifix (1912), a rustic cross is nearly swallowed by a vibrant explosion of flowers. This blend of folk piety and decorative density was tragically lost in 1945, when the original was destroyed by a fire set by retreating SS forces.

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Certified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have been inside 129 Illinois public libraries and don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this in Sterling: three-story stacks with glass floors to let in more light, original to the 1904 Carnegie building.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 14h

Brilliant ad from Troy Jackson’s campaign. It sets politics aside and gives people resources and direction on heating their homes this winter, given the shortages caused by the war in Iran.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

After a company owned by the billionaire Moroun family erected a concrete plant in their quiet neighborhood, Detroit residents said they began battling air pollution so thick they could “taste the dust.” They say local and state officials have been little help.

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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Six of Kansas’ eight living governors are backing Adam Hamilton over Roger Marshall. Two are lifelong Republicans.

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WBUR @wbur.org · 14h

Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the union representing 4,000 of its nurses have postponed a planned strike after the negotiating nurses agreed to bring the latest hospital offer to all their members.

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Brigham nurses postpone strike to vote on hospital's offer

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 14h

Well it certainly isn't smart.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 14h

With the 2025 derecho still fresh in people's memories in Beltrami County, Bemidji State University is expanding its planning around climate change by joining up with the North Woods and Waters Community Resilience Collaborative. It’s a project spanning eight counties in northern Minnesota.

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Greater Minnesota collaborative works toward creating climate resilience plan

The plan brings together eight counties in the state’s Arrowhead and Headwaters regions and help prepare for the next storm, fire or flood.

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Anthony Barnett @anthonybarnett.bsky.social · 16h

"In a world where nation-states are completely unmoored from the aspirations of their citizens and the diktats of international law, we the people must band together and navigate the future in the flotillas and caravans of hope and solidarity".

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