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@stopthatadam.bsky.social
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Friendly Academic Librarian. UUP member. Family man. Prog rock/Afro-beat/Knitting Factory. Bass/Percussion. Socialism. Angling. RPGs. Dobbs Ferry-CT-Iowa City-Minneapolis-Philly—Upstate NY(his) bsky.app/profile/stopthatadam.bsky.…

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Bat-child Librarian @stopthatadam.bsky.social · 32s
Tony no
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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 46m
I dare one these dweebs to ask their AIs to try to explain surplus value to them
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 45m
a major societal problem is that conservatives are socially conditioned to assault anyone who disagrees with them while liberals are socially conditioned to avoid conflict at all costs
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 33m
We play different roles. Electeds working within a harmful system - who succeed insofar as they make it less harmful. activists who push electeds based on movement values. If you expect electeds to behave like activists or activists to applaud all an elected does, you’re going to be dissapointed.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29m
Love to get a campus-wide email about how the “Vice Provost for Administration and Finance” is now the “Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance.”
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h
“One source told the outlet that officers were “told to go after anybody, they can pick up anybody.” newrepublic.com/post/216405/...
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“Go After Anybody”: ICE Gets Terrifying Marching Orders in California
ICE has launched a new crackdown just weeks before the midterms.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 1h
I think this discussion on here tends mostly towards excuses—not here for that—but I wrote abt an example of this militant & grassroots approach from the Birmingham Children’s Crusade. Circumstances change, but identifying & then overwhelming weaknesses in the fascist apparatus is always the way.
buckscountybeacon.com
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 3h
he posted this TWO DAYS AFTER HIS CHILD WAS BORN
After spawning so many agents, it was about time to spawn a human.
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Stateline @stateline.org · 3h
Urban hospitals are closing at roughly the same rate as rural ones, and the shuttered hospitals are more likely to have served communities with high poverty rates and fewer transportation options, according to a new study. stateline.org/2026/10/08/u...
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Urban, rural hospitals closing at similar rates, study finds • Stateline
Urban hospitals are closing at roughly the same rate as rural ones, and the shuttered hospitals are more likely to have served communities with high poverty rates and fewer transportation options, acc...
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Skel-E the soc @ethesoc.blacksky.app · 4h
Just to add that within the past two days, Black children that were adopted by a white couple who had them in slave conditions were awarded 4.4 mil not just because if what happened at the hands of that couple, but the reality that CPS in West Virginia refused to take it seriously for years.
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Bat-child Librarian @stopthatadam.bsky.social · 4h
Bree-nee
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h
Here's what happens to high school students in the U.S. protesting ICE: whyy.org/articles/qua... - most people barely batted an eye.
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Quakertown police chief on leave after clash with student protesters
Scott McElree was seen on video placing a student in a chokehold during a protest against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 15h
The person remains on the vehicle, in a makeshift tent of space blankets confining her in the fumes, with BP or perhaps a contractor periodically running the vehicle. BP agents standing on the Roosevelt reservation with pepper balls and tear gas
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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 6h
I'm genuinely surprised by these early Phase 2 results for a new lung cancer drug: 90.5% disease control rate! This means tumors shrunk or stopped growing for most patients. It's close to triple standard chemo. Promising stuff to learn about.
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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 6h
Who were the idiots in Metropolis who thought Superman was a bird or a plane?
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nige 'dear ratboy' @niall.codes · 20/06/2026
That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 8h
Nice going Jared Polis
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Bat-child Librarian @stopthatadam.bsky.social · 8h
Arrest the president pass it on
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
@CinemaMonsieur

overly-concerned husband— i just... i don't know. i'm insecure. i know that, you know that. but i want to feel desired

stern wife— you ARE desired. i shouldnt have to say it. it's so taxing on me

therapist who still says "what's the brouhaha" — what's the brouhaha
7:49 PM • 2021-09-14
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 21h
Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.
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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands
The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 22h
My February 1968 Fortune magazine just arrived from an eBay seller (5 stars) and now I want to destroy the internet for what it took from us. It's gorgeous. I bought it for the article about industrial design that set Victor Papanek off. He references it in the intro to Design for the Real World.
1968 Fortune magazine. A cover illustration of a white strip of paper with dimensional illusion folded to look like a dollar sign. Two gold strips on a black background are the bars across the S shape and also a double yellow line. 

New Trials for the dollar
The Corporate Bond Bingo
Britain's Road Back
The Downfall of Marlon Harper
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 18h
we've had at least four moral panics around Hasan Piker fomented by Democratic politicians but they (or their comms) see stuff like this that is literally algorithmically shoved onto people's timelines and they say nothing and that is starting to feel like A Choice.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 18h
Bolsonaro supporters light a university on fire after threatening Lula supporters there
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Bat-child Librarian @stopthatadam.bsky.social · 17h
Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith with the caption It’s treason then
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21h
The Access Hollywood tape was released a decade ago today, which simultaneously feels like a century ago and like yesterday.
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Dan Meyer @ddmeyer.bsky.social · 23h
High school kids in Vancouver, WA, walked out over AI. An organizer: > I don’t think it’s fair that teachers get to use AI in lesson planning and grading and that students can’t use it for anything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4yR...
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Washington students stage walkout over lack of AI guidelines for the classroom
YouTube video by KGW News
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Danny Cherry Jr (twitter/Insta/tiktok: @Deecherrywriter) @deecherrywriter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
LOUISIANANS OF BLUESKY! ASSEMBLE! I'm working a story related to the Louisiana US Senate race. Any Louisianans here got family members or friends who are Republican or independent but voting for Jamie Davis? Think they'd want to talk to me? If so DM me!!!
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The Lever @levernews.com · 06/10/2026
Your water bill could be 67% higher simply because a corporation owns your water system. A new analysis found households served by for-profit providers paid about $823 a year for drinking water in 2025. Public-system households paid just $494.
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Bat-child Librarian @stopthatadam.bsky.social · 21h
Nomination for the Headline Museum
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Racket @racketmn.com · 22h
Want 2 free tickets to see hip-hop legend Rakim w/ Room 3 Collective (late show) on Oct. 15 at the Dakota? Hit repost for a chance to win!
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 23h
Peruvian immigrant Martin Soto was moved to Elizabeth Detention Center at the height of the protests and held in solitary confinement there for more than 100 days, his attorneys allege.
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Immigrant at Center of Delaney Hall Protests Released Following Federal Judge’s Order
Peruvian immigrant Martin Soto was moved to Elizabeth Detention Center at the height of the protests and held in solitary confinement there for more than 100 days, his attorneys allege.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
there is no plausible construction of these words that is not racist
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/10/2026
ICE is slamming far northern Illinois for a second day in a row. Rapid responders in Rockford say federal agents detained a group of roofing workers this morning—eight men all the way from Minnesota. Volunteers are currently trying to locate their families. From a local immigration attorney:
From Sara Dady Facebook page

Image of black pathfinder SUV

Sprayed plates like on this vehicle currently parked at the Radisson on Bell School Road in Rockford are illegal. FLOCK can't read ICE's sprayed plates but can read law-abiding drivers' plates.
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GOOBER © (Official) @goober.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
dad im bisexual its like being a gay guy without the voice and i still have girlfriends too
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Bat-child Librarian @stopthatadam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When my players are fishing for a Perception Check
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Glen Powell will not see this he is probably somewhere Fucking
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 07/10/2026
how i’m logging on
guy in a biohazard suit holding a smart phone
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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Austin: heavy ICE activity in the Riverside/Oltorf-I35 area. Spread the word.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 07/10/2026
Full disclosure: I have deals with Apple, Google, OpenAI, Adobe and a bunch of others. Unfortunately the deal is that I pay them a monthly fee in exchange for their services.
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Bat-child Librarian @stopthatadam.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
youtu.be/8hYdHBfZrp4?...
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Patato & Totico - Mas Que Nada ( 1967 )
YouTube video by Jm Leta
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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you're upset about David Ellison's Skydance monopoly, you should be furious at Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 is what made this possible. Clinton signed it and Biden voted for it in the Senate.
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How Deregulation Created a Corporate Media Nightmare
In this excerpt from ‘The New Power Elite,’ sociologist Heather Gautney explains how the consolidation of media into a few powerful corporations is a key part of the neoliberal project to co-opt this ...
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s pretty clear at this point that algorithmic social media makes my life worse. It’s addictive and distracting and has actually done a lot of harm societally as a whole. Beyond that, the biggest Silicon Valley projects were NFTs, Crypto, & the Metaverse. Huge resource sucks providing nothing
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 07/10/2026
Organized labor won a major victory in a settlement ordering the Trump administration to announce it has abandoned its attempt to illegally fire millions of federal workers during last year’s government shutdown. prospect.org?p=145947
People attend a protest in support of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Bill Hauk @billhauk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I was under the impression that the primary purpose of universities was to train the youth for the clergy or maybe one of those newfangled mendicant orders. Or is that something that we no longer do because of Woke?
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/10/2026
The weird need of the institution to be desired - the term of art in these parts is “employer of choice“ - despite doing very little to show that it actually wants you to be there.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/10/2026
ICE removal flight to African continent outbound
An FR24 map showing N120LW going from AEX to SJU to Dakar
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Not a Skydance Corporation” is a banger tagline for @status.news to use on its must read media newsletter. 10/10 No Notes
Ellison's Day-One
Dance; '60's' Ratings Bump; Disney's FCC
'Guillotine'
October 06, 2026 | Read online
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NOT A SKYDANCE CORPORATION
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
God everything is so DUMB.
United States
Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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