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A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: MeidasTouch obtained NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN photos and videos revealing devastating damage to U.S. bases from Trump's Iran war. Troops and military families describe being abandoned by their own government. “It’s so much worse than people realize.”

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BREAKING: The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau "will not move forward," the lead researcher says. “The solution is clear here: Take the money and vaccinate as many kids as you can,” @pauloffit.bsky.social told me: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

a little louder for the cheap seats in the back

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

But mom I don't want to watch an execution.

One more time: If you are moving something to hide it from the FBI, who is coming to execute a warrant, because you think it will harm you for them to find it ... that is a real crime *even if the thing you are moving is totally innocuous* Anarchist zines. Buzz lightyear poster. *Doesn't matter*

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Welcome to October! Time to share the single spookiest thing that ever happened to me. I still think about this years later. Just the facts: bsky.app/profile/davi...

in case you were wonderign what american colonial royalists felt like under arsenic-addled king george

The SCOTUS order granting cert in DHS v. DVD is notable for its long list of questions presented—including a fourth (!) Q that basically says to DOJ, “Ask any other questions you want.” Does the Court think there are other issues in the case that DOJ didn‘t pick up on, but will soon? Odd.

These are outliers and you should read a polling average like ours at fiftyplusone.news/polls/generi...

slept like a log last night (a canadian rolling me wiht spiked shoes)

My favorite typo was when Chief Justice Rhenquist wrote about how reading his Supreme Court opinions after they were printed made them seem "vastly impoved." Like, the printer typoed the exact word Rhenquist was using to complement the printer's industry. Un...possible.

JANM is proud to announce that George Takei and Brad Takei have pledged to gift their estate, currently valued at over $21 million, to the Museum. This future gift ensures that the Takeis’ passion for JANM will continue to endure for years to come. www.janm.org/press/releas...

"There’s not a bad seat in the house." Surprisingly accurate. As someone who saw the Ring Cycle from Family Circle, I promise the experience is outstanding from everywhere. @metopera.bsky.social is an experience everyone should try, and learn about the touching history of the chandeliers!

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

To celebrate Spooky Season, let's learn why this vampire bat is running on a treadmill. The three species of vampire bats are the only known mammals to be obligate hemophages: 100% of their calories come from blood. The Common Vampire Bat (Desmodus rotundus) prefers mammals... (📷: Giulia Rossi)

What's your "origin" video game? Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you. I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer. So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?

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“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe.

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you’ll accept as a bribe

Constituents should call his office to find out where he's buying his beef.

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Quote this with your first anime.

Tracey Ullman's character in Ted Lasso is like someone from the Monty Python 'The Visitors' sketch who didn't make the final cut.

No cheating. Share the last photo of the sky from your camera roll (if you feel like it).

NEWS: New York City just recorded the safest summer in its history. From June through August, NYC saw its fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders on record. Major crime fell 6.2% year-to-date, murders plunged 24.1%, and the subway had zero murders, shootings, or rapes in August.

I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

The city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection and Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg signed an agreement to pool data and close the loop on wage theft and fraud complaints. #WorkersRights #NYC

Before losing her life in 1986 aboard Space Shuttle Challenger, Christa McAuliffe was set to be the first teacher in space with plans to teach a lesson to kids around the world from orbit. Today is her birthday, and even now, her courage and dedication to education continues to inspire.

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If you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation-

This is the way.

Post you from a different era in your life

Stephen King should just run. We already know about the skeletons.

So, I used to help domestic violence survivors get civil protection orders. I can say confidently that the answer to every one of this jackass’s rhetorical questions about whether a “real” victim of domestic violence would behave toward an abuser the way his ex behaved toward him is… yes. 100%.

Anyone from CLT and its environs want a pair of tickets to the CLT FC v Pumas match tonight? Free to a good home, only requirement is that you actually use them.