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tkphd.bsky.social
@tkphd.bsky.social
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noethematt.bsky.social
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
tkphd.bsky.social
Invisible to my eye, but my phone saw the Aurora borealis from Wooster, OH last night!
Green lights dancing on the horizon with red haze above as a coronal mass ejection spirals through Earth’s magnetic field. Long exposure on an iPhone.
November 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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annleckie.com
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants.

We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua.

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
As a Black Hawk helicopter roared overhead, the slender, 28-year-old immigrant from Venezuela answered softly, his eyes darting to a television crew invited to film the raid. Next to Caicedo, masked Border Patrol agents inspected another man’s tattoos and asked him if he belonged to Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan gang that the Trump administration has designated a terrorist group. Until that moment, Caicedo’s only interaction with law enforcement in his two-and-a-half years in the United States had been a traffic stop two weeks earlier for driving without a license or insurance, according to the records we reviewed. Chicago police had run a background check on him and found no prior arrests, no warrants and no evidence that he was in a gang. Caicedo said he had a pending asylum application, a steady job at a taco joint and a girlfriend whose daughter attended elementary school across the street. None of that mattered. The U.S. government paraded him and his neighbors in front of the cameras and called their arrests a spectacular victory against terrorism. But later, after the cameras had gone, prosecutors didn’t charge Caicedo with a crime. They didn’t accuse him of being a terrorist. And after a brief hearing in immigration court, the government sent him back to the country he had fled nine years earlier. “I lost everything,” he said in a phone interview from his mother’s home in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. “For those fools, everyone from Venezuela is a criminal.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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junkboxjim.bsky.social
And he scorrrrrrrres!
Fairport Harbor over Lake Erie
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
it's on miro. it's literally on figma. you have to log into okta. it's in jira. it's on zoom. it's on pureref. it's on flow. it's on perforce. it's on slack. you can find it on slack. you can go to slack and find it. log onto slack right now. you can slack it. slack has it for you. it's on slack.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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douglasmack.bsky.social
aurora taking over the timeline, we love to see it
November 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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ayjaylauer.bsky.social
Aurora above Boulder, CO right now!

#spaceweather #auroraborealis #northernlights #nature
Bright red and green aurora above city lights Bright red and green aurora above city lights Bright red and green aurora above city lights
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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jael.bsky.social
Rae is correct
femmeandfauna.bsky.social Rae Levy @femmeandfauna.bsky.social · 2d
All Tits Are Real All Borders Are Fake
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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epcc.bsky.social
EPCC colleagues produce a range of high quality scientific visualisations. In this article, Sébastien Lemaire gives an overview of three recent examples, each to be presented at the #SC25 conference "Art in HPC" sessions. edin.ac/3WRk2Qd

@nseb.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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atrupar.com
Q: Will you assure House Democrats they'll get a vote on ACA subsidies by a date certain?

MIKE JOHNSON: Ah -- no. I'm not promising anyone anything.
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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lawrencehurley.bsky.social
The president seems to have been briefed on how the tariffs oral argument at SCOTUS went:
November 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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esqueer.net
These bastards are demanding states claw back money they sent to SNAP recipients. They really want people to starve.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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nowwearealltom.com
FINALLY, bluesky has added sensible moderation defaults
An altered image of the settings panel for bluesky moderation. A settings panel where each option has options for Off, Warn, and Hide. Threats Promotes violence or harm towards others, including threats, incitement, or advocacy of harm. Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Scandalous Gossips, rabblerousers, ne'er-do-wells. Uncouth Content which may be gauche or commit a faux-pas that simply isn't done in polite company The Rabble Posts which may forget their station; unwanted opinions from common everyday folk without title or fortune.
November 7, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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johnpfaff.bsky.social
There had better be trials. And not just for the low-level thugs carrying out these orders, but for everyone up the chain of command.

If we get past this, the solution isn’t to pretend it never happened and invite Stephen Miller to Harvard’s Institute of Politics.

It’s trials w real punishments.
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 7d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
tkphd.bsky.social
Amen.
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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esqueer.net
SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants.

This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
A scanned Supreme Court of the United States order, dated November 6, 2025, in the case Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Ashton Orr, et al., No. 25A319. The document discusses an Executive Branch policy requiring passports to display an individual’s biological sex at birth. The highlighted passage reads: “Displaying passport holders’ sex at birth no more offends equal protection principles than displaying their country of birth—in both cases.” The Court grants the government’s application for a stay at this preliminary stage, reasoning that the government is likely to succeed on the merits and that the policy does not violate equal protection principles.
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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frankconniff.bsky.social
Pulitzer Prize photo right here.
November 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS from @mollyroberts.bsky.social: SANDWICH GUY FOUND NOT GUILTY
mollyroberts.bsky.social Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 7d
We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
tkphd.bsky.social
WHOA what a phenomenon, and what a shot!
November 6, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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mineralcup.bsky.social
It's time to make your predictions (and help us test the voting site). Which ore mineral do you think will win?

Bracket: www.mineralcup.org/ore-bracket
Make your predictions: www.mineralcup.org/vote-results...

Competition voting starts on MONDAY NOVEMBER 3!
A stylized trophy filled in with a hand-drawn stratigraphic cross section. The entire image is black and white
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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scotttobias.bsky.social
New Trump 2028 campaign slogan just dropped.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d
JD Vance: "The suffering is going to get a lot worse."
October 30, 2025 at 7:38 PM
tkphd.bsky.social
mmmm dem weirs tho
October 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
The stupidest possible people are now in charge of everything.
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM