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apaganinarizona.bsky.social
About 30 Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned by Bonhams.
#art #painting #publicbroadcasting
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to help fund US public broadcasting
The auction will support the medium that brought the Joy of Painting host's creativity into US homes for decades, Bob Ross Inc says.
www.bbc.com
October 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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zacklabe.com
A look a trends in August temperatures over land areas for the last 50 years... land is generally warming faster than the global mean, but there is still a wide range in the rate of warming across different regions.

Data from www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
Global map showing surface air temperature trends for each August period from 1975 to 2024. Only land areas are shown. Red shading is shown for warmer temperature trends, and blue shading is shown for colder temperature trends. Data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTempv6.0.0. The temperature trend scale is from -0.5°C/decade to +0.5°C/decade. Most areas are warming, though there is some spatial variability.
August 16, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Fuck Jake Tapper.
June 27, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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muellershewrote.com
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
June 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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thisone0verhere.bsky.social
Fables really had me out here believing people would be learning lessons and stuff
May 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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propublica.org
THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.

So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/
May 16, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
IOWA: “It is a complete pleasure to hear somebody speak in complete sentences.”

*Pete Buttigieg gets a rousing Ovation at the #VoteVetsTownHall* 👏🏽
May 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
Reading the story about the woman in Georgia who is brain dead and on a vent but not allowed to die with dignity because she was 9 weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead. Even in death, our bodies are not our own.

State-owned property.
May 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
blueharridan.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
If you don’t know HCR, today’s a damn good day to start following her.
April 29, 2025
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt popularized the idea that the first 100 days of a presidency established an administration’s direction.
open.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
blueharridan.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/shankarn...
Smart. Tactical. Sick.
The GOP’s Trojan horse is a regulatory kill switch. It doesn’t ask Congress to act — it lets silence destroy everything.
open.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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peggymcdonald.bsky.social
💯💯💯
April 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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jeffsharlet.bsky.social
Animating too much absolutely sensible outrage at Trumpism is an appeal to parental figures who aren’t there. “He should not be allowed”; “He should be arrested”; “This can’t be permitted.” Passive voice, all of which begs, “by whom?” It’s an appeal to an order that has already broken.
April 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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jkkennedywrites.bsky.social
She Doesn’t Care
#poem #poetry #booksky #writerscommunity #author
April 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.
April 24, 2025 at 12:23 AM
blueharridan.bsky.social
This just shot to the top of my “things I never knew I needed, but desperately do” category
🤣😂🤣😂🤩

www.facebook.com/reel/1383278...
3.2M views · 616K reactions | #wtf #opera with the great Christina Smith 💜Krystal’s idea, Christina’s amazing voice, my duet | Stēvi M
#wtf #opera with the great Christina Smith 💜Krystal’s idea, Christina’s amazing voice, my duet.
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April 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter. While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims. Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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propublica.org
NEW: An Indian drugmaker, investigated by ProPublica last year, has recalled two dozen medications sold to U.S. patients.

The drug recalls cover a wide range of commonly prescribed medicines — including ones that treat epilepsy, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and high blood pressure.
An Indian Drugmaker, Investigated by ProPublica Last Year, Has Recalled Two Dozen Medications Sold to U.S. Patients
FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there has been tied to deaths of U.S. patients.
www.propublica.org
April 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social
Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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mcuban.bsky.social
It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory.

Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
April 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
blueharridan.bsky.social
So, SO many things are completely fucked up about this bombing attack planned through Signal. However, as a former journalist, here’s what stood out to me that I haven’t seen mentioned. They didn’t just stumble across some random reporter. [1]
March 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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rebeccafieldingmiller.com
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
This is exactly what I have been saying for a while now. At this point, it’s not left vs right that matters, but fighters vs non-fighters. The Dems, and the American people, need fighters.
March 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM