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Chicago Cubs. 2016 game seven is my forever happy place. I honor my brother Michael who passed before.

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 2h
#Florida sheriff arrests 2 deputies after reporter inquires about their abuse of the Flock camera system. They aren't the first ones this reporter nailed, either. www.cltampa.com/news/pinella... via @cltampabay.bsky.social
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Pinellas sheriff arrests two deputies after TCPalm reporter sends Flock inquires
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two deputies after identifying misuse of automated license plate readers (ALPRs). The agency didn’t catch it until a Florida reporter started asking q...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h
"The false testimony included a nonexistent person named Danny Stanton saying he received threats, and another made-up person, Linda Stanton, saying her husband received threats."
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Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal
"Do you watch the news? Do you listen to the radio? Do you read anything about what's going on in the world?” one of the judges asked the lawyer, who submitted false testimony and witnesses after usin...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h
"Vote for James Talarico. He has *one* house."
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 9h
Precisely. And I make that point in the pod! If there's one thing SCOTUS hates more than Black people voting, it's lower courts ignoring its orders. That's why SCOTUS smacked the 8th Circuit upside the head. The goal wasn't to help Black voters in KC. That was just a happy accident.
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SCOTUS Did Something Nice for Black Voters in Missouri. I Know.
YouTube video by Rewire News Group
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BlockAIslop+AltText @honestthief.bsky.social · 10h
Get out the vote!
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 9h
TOE PICK
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 9h
🧊✈️ VENEZUELA 😲⛓️ 👉 An Eastern 767 (tail: N703KW) departs El Paso Wednesday morning, trafficking chained humans to Barcelona, Venezuela 🇻🇪
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10h
If you’re not from Missouri, you may not know that Eric Schmitt got his start in MAGA politics by suing public schools for mask mandates while their teachers died during a pandemic. The really strange thing? He never sued his own kids’ school for their mask mandate. He’s a piece of Schitt.
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Park Slope Food Coop @foodcoop.bsky.social · 8h
How the produce team kept our lettuce out of the headlines, in the latest Linewaiters’ Gazette linewaitersgazette.com/2026/09/29/s...
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Salad Safety Corner
How the produce team kept our lettuce out of the headlines September 29, 2026 By Sam Mellins Harry and Meghan’s self-exile, Taylor and Travis’s blockbuster wedding and a gastrointestinal disease li…
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
National Nurses United, btw, is a delightful edge case. They are not effing around. www.nationalnursesunited.org/artificial-i...
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A.I.’s impact on nursing and health care
Artificial intelligence (A.I.) is rapidly expanding in all workplaces, and hospitals are no exception. Without our collective action, A.I.’s expansion will accelerate the hospital industry’s race to t...
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Mark Masterson @markjmasterson.bsky.social · 11h
The linked material is thought provoking and this person, Ru (not Ru Paul), is smart.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 8h
This game is a showstopper, it's not just about a battle, it's about the story and the heroic quest, and it reminds me a little of visiting WETA in New Zealand when they were working on The Hobbit. It's just spectacular and actually built to be PLAYED. @restorationgames.bsky.social always nails it.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 9h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 10h
And who knows the private healthcare industry better that Rick Scott, former CEO of Columbia/HCA? www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...
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HCA - THE HEALTH CARE COMPANY & SUBSIDIARIES
IO PAY $840 MILLION IN CRIMINAL FINES AND CIVIL DAMAGES AND PENALTIES
Largest Government Fraud Settlement in U.S. History
WASHINGTON, D.C. - HCA-The Healthcare Company (formerly known as Columbia-HCA), the largest for-profit hospital chain in the United States, has agreed to plead guilty to criminal conduct and pay more than $840 million in criminal fines, civil penalties and damages for alleged unlawful billing practices,
Attorney General Janet Reno announced today.
Today's agreement is the largest government fraud settlement ever reached by the Justice Department.
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BiblicallyAccurateMoth @bibleaccuratemoth.bsky.social · 10h
Deviled Egg now has its own Webtoon! Be sure to give it a follow. www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/de...
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Deviled Egg
The Dark Lord is a man— or so 'he' says. His mission is to use the dark powers that earned him the title of "Demon Lord" to end the world as we know it. But the Dark Lord has been feeling almost...hap...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 9h
Beshear really has been a light in the darkness on trans issues. He's not perfect, but he's been remarkably consistent on telling other Dems that they need to continue standing up for us. It makes me wonder if he has a trans person in his life.
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Toronto Boris @torontoboris.bsky.social · 9h
Kakabeka falls in full colour infrared. The 2nd largest waterfall in Ontario after Niagara falls. Kakabeka falls is right off highway 11/17 and about 40min west of Thunder Bay. #DiscoverON #EastCoastKin #BlueskyArtShow #infraredphotography
Kakabeka falls in infrared.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 9h
As the Childe’s birthday party wound down this weekend, a group of adults were talking about homeowner nonsense & Childe calmly deadpans: “When you think about it we’re all homes.” Adults: “Wh…at?” *8-year-old waves their arms in the air excitedly & yells: “TO BACTERIA AND PARASITES!”
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10h
They're moving on from trans youth towards advocating banning care for trans adults, just like we said they would.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 10h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17h
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Normal CrO2 Metal @normal-cr02-metal.bsky.social · 12h
Goodbye September
Red Dawn sky with CN Tower silhouette in distance, viewed through tree branches & telephone wires.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11h
As we talk about what happened at Cornell, please take a moment to learn about how a young LSU student is fighting for help against that school’s storied football program
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ChicagoVintageTileFloors @chicagovtfloor.bsky.social · 10h
Terrazzo today.
A starburst of green and white terrazzo tile floor.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 10h
Emily warned the farmer about the E. coli, in case others needed to be warned about the milk. But then, Emily learned another child, a 6-year-old girl who’d drunk milk from the same farm, was admitted to the same hospital, with the same potentially fatal illness, needing blood transfusions.
Article excerpt: After a couple of days, Brooklyn finally turned a corner. But in suburban Murietta, not far from the Marris family home, Victoria was just starting to decline.

She’d grown lethargic over the past week, with bouts of bloody diarrhea. After two unhelpful urgent care visits, the Galindos drove her to Rady on June 13. Bloodwork revealed she had the same disorder as Brooklyn, brought on by the same E. coli strain; she was rushed into intensive care. “My world just dropped,” Iris Galindo said.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 10h
Brooklyn had developed HUS, a rare condition in which microscopic blood clots clog small vessels and destroy vital organs. Doctors fastened wires to the barely conscious toddler. A tube down her trachea to help her breathe. Dialysis lines into her vessels to support her failing kidneys.
A toddler in a hospital bed with a breathing tube in her nose, a green pacifier in her mouth, and multiple medical electrodes attached to her head. She is looking at the camera and covered with a pink and purple Minnie Mouse blanket.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 11h
But after Brooklyn drank raw milk for six months, it all began to unravel. Vomit that turned bilious yellow, then a tarry blackish-green. Bloodwork that so alarmed ER doctors they called for transport to a pediatric ICU 70 miles away.
A toddler with medical tubes attached to her sits in a car seat on a hospital gurney, attended to by a paramedic and another man.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 11h
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 10h
Delightful also to hear real eagle noises. In movies eagles are always dubbed with hawks, since hawks found fierce and eagles sound like adorable squeakers.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 11h
Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.
From DISCVR blog's Facebook page, a momma bear & a yearling cub on her back in the shallow water.  I think the background has been swapped out, and I can't rule out some AI use there?  God, Facebook has become the social media for AI slop : (

The title of the article, which I link below, is "How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack"
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Barry Butler Photography @barrybutler9.bsky.social · 10h
The Boats are coming home! Chicago River Bridge Lifts begin today. Each Wednesday and Saturday thru the middle of November, starting at 9am.
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mf’er is like Batman.
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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 23h
Cubs-Padres less than two hours away from Game 1 getting underway, currently 79 degrees on a clear night
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Meghan Montemurro @mmontemurro.bsky.social · 22h
Curious to see how many Cubs fans are able to get wild card tickets here in San Diego. With gates to Petco having opened about 30 min ago, there’s a smattering so far especially behind the Cubs dugout
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Sara Sanchez @bcbsara.bsky.social · 22h
It is 2:23 in the morning in Vatican City and it might be the coolest thing ever that you KNOW the Pope was up watching the White Sox win that game.
A screengrab showing the time in Vatican City is 2:23:47 AM as the White Sox defeat the Astros
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 22h
More precisely, Kash Patel was paid $25,000—and Rudy Giuliani $100,000—by a pro-Russia propagandist who led a project financially supported by Putin's office. To get the full story, see my new book, "How Russia Won: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America." Go to HowRussiaWon.com.
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Matt Phelps @themattphelps.bsky.social · 22h
First snowflakes of the season at FAI ❄️ 👀
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 22h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Sula @sula-nef.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sunset at Tahoma (Mt Rainier)
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can confirm.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness. A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
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SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 23h
NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez is the SECOND DoorDash driver shot by ICE, and the silence from DoorDash is deafening. Delete DoorDash until they speak up against ICE violence and push for Wilber’s release. Learn how to delete it so it counts at deletedoordash.com.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/09/2026
It's not "super intelligence." It's not even "intelligence." It continues to fuck up easy questions, like to whom I dedicated my most recent book. Also, Mike Johnson is a craven, simpering weasel and none of the people standing near him in this video respect him even the tiniest bit.
"To whom did John Scalzi dedicate The Shattering Peace"

"John Scalzi dedicated his novel The Shattering Peace to his longtime editor and friend Teresa Nielsen Hayden"
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lovely evening at the BBC Short Story Awards live for R4 Front Row: and congratulations to the fabulous winners and shortlistees!
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price" It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given... It has failed on every count. From Zeteo UK:
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The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price
It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given; and an International Stabilisation Force set up. It has failed on every count.
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s quite something to watch a US senator make such an utter fool of himself. And all because of his craven desire to grab a gotcha moment.
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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!
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