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ICE surge is here, say WA immigrant advocates sharing stories of arrests www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Meet our Solar System's newest dwarf planet candidate: 2026 ED138! Orbiting past Pluto, scientists found it in NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory data from earlier this year. Early analysis suggests it's ~600–1500 km across, one of the largest found past Neptune!🔭🧪 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-f...

The stakes are too high to take down pages encouraging people to vote in seven days, Meta & Instagram. #Meta #Instagram

Hey Meta 👋 We are currently hosting a get-out-the-vote rally in Osceola County, home to a large Puerto Rican community, and our #LatinosConAngie Instagram page was suddenly taken down while we were actively posting content from the event.

For the second time this month, the newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos has run a lede editorial fretting about the price of cardboard boxes.

It was the worst crime spree in US history. All these DOGE fuckers need to go to jail. 

This is really THE thing to get from the Paul Reubens auction, an accordion wall with cartoon characters I strongly suspect were painted by Gary Panter, though no artist's name is listed: www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/229...

This Day in Labor History: October 27, 1948. An air inversion trapped the pollution spewed out by U.S. Steel-owned factories in Donora, Pennsylvania. The Donora Fog killed 20 people and sickened 6000 others. Let's talk about this deadly legacy of industrial pollution. That photo was taken at noon!

Not too early to start thinking about how grassroots pressure on a Dem House could help produce better results -->

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I loved this piece so much I chose it for Best American Short Stories, so I'm thrilled to hear it's now going to be its own standalone book!

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

I got to see this really interesting, wonderful documentary on the brilliant Bea Arthur today. Thank you filmmaker @dancindanw Find info on IG - beaarthurdoc

Leaders of the No Kings movement are already gearing up for the next major grassroots campaign: Making sure congressional Democrats don’t wimp out. My first piece at @newrepublic.com! (Reposted to update link card) newrepublic.com/article/2168...

the BIllboard Modern Rock Tracks for October 26, 1991, a real transitional period into the 90s as we know it. two bands at the top that would rise to great fame, and a nice mix of 80s alternative stalwarts and bands you probably have never heard of (nor have I, and I was there!)

NEW: Brent Taylor is the front-runner for one of Memphis’ congressional districts, recently redrawn from majority Black to majority white. As state senator, he repeatedly used his power to supersede local officials — and the will of the city’s voters. with @mlk50.com

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

A reminder that you can see my solo show, Forces of Nature, at Harmony Hall through November 7. It's free. There's parking. I hardly ever have a solo show. You should go. #sciart www.pgparks.com/event_list/m...

At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.

you can leave them where they fall (so long as they're on soil) and don't have to pile em up but I highly recommend just stacking em in a spot or two and letting God do the rest

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

In all likelihood this story ends badly www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

A crow watches another crow fly in front of the full moon. 🐦‍⬛ 🪶

“I’m proud that I have more complaints than any other officer or sheriff in the state,” Sheriff Keith Swank said at a public hearing in June in Pierce County, Washington. Voters next month are deciding a measure that would end his term early.

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Mars Viking lander! @amyraehill.bsky.social hand-painted this incredible one-of-a-kind ornament. All other ornaments sold quickly, but this one is still available. Someone will be very lucky to hang this in their tree! 🔭🐡 amyraehill.shop/products/vik...

This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.

A blob of solar stuff, or coronal mass ejection (CME), is heading our way. It might reach Earth tomorrow and deliver a glancing blow. Earth is the green dot in this image. Read the #sun news at: buff.ly/Ot77bAD

13/ “My guys wear masks every day. They have glasses they can wear,” Fenn said. “Me? I don’t wear it at all. Never have, never will, because I’ve been doing it for 40 years.” Read the full story:

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Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

Fewer than 150 Americans were denaturalized between 1968 and 2013 From 1990-2017, DOJ filed ~11 denaturalization cases per year Trump's DOJ is aiming to pursue “100-200 denaturalization cases per month” ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

We can’t figure out how to make sure people have access TO BASIC HEALTHCARE? We can’t figure out how to house homeless veterans? We can’t figure out how to solve world hunger? We can’t figure out how to stop rampant sexual assault? But we’ve (apparently) got resurrected wooly mammoths and war dogs.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Last year, Anna Paulina Luna was a huge proponent of banning members of Congress and their family members from buying or trading public stock. Guess whose family members have a stake in a private drone company that has received more than $30 million in government contracts over the past year?

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.