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Alaska’s Public Schools Serve as Emergency Shelters. Those Buildings Are Also in Crisis. Across hundreds of Alaskan communities, public schools are often the safest buildings where people can take shelter during disasters. After decades of state neglect, however, some have become emergenc...

In Alaska, public schools are the “last place of refuge,” the state’s emergency management director said. They’re often the only structures tall enough to avoid flooding and large enough to house hundreds of people.

But they’re also falling apart.

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Looking out a train window to the fall foliage and the Hudson River

On a train

Saddest words read at 426am: your driver is waiting outside for you in a cybertruck. 🤢😭

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Baba Yaga but Southern

A brown cat sitting inside a white US Postal Service basket.

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Opinion | The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.

8 Nov 2025 -- Masha Gessen in the (uck) NYTimes with op-ed titled, "The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control." @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

SCOTUS Gives Trump Anti-Trans Passport Victory: What to Know The court is allowing the Administration to enforce its more restrictive policy on gender ID markers pending litigation.

8 Nov 2025 -- Good explainer from TIME. Money quote from Chase Strangio: "What these Executive Orders do is open the door to sex-based policing that cannot be enforced without subjecting everyone to some sort of scrutiny & invasive process that will harm us all.” @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

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Trump wants people to suffer, to starve, to miss their flights home for Thanksgiving just so he can force you to pay more for health insurance.

White bar of text at top: This explains a lot. The painting below is Edvard Munch's 1893 paint called The Scream with one small change, the fence beside the screamer is a an impossibly large trombone

Also this.

It is not, in fact, smart, they're betting they take the House and the ACA will be a dead issue in 2026, but this deal undermines their ability to take the House. And with the gerrymandering, they may not anyway. The current Democratic leadership just doesn't have the steel for this time in history.

Flight cuts underway in Philly; 'concerning' data led to the move, Transportation secretary says The FAA said it is reducing flights in Philly and other cities to alleviate pressure on air traffic controllers amid the government shutdown.

Flight cuts have begun at Philadelphia International Airport and other airports across the country as the government shutdown extends into its sixth week.

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Re-upping this:

Toronto friends: a long shot, but I'm looking for recommendations for a good manicure spot in/near Cabbagetown. LMK? Thank you!

Have you heard about the halfling fortune teller on the run from the city guard?

Yeah it's a small medium at large

Why next year's flu shot might not be as good as it should be America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine.

America's withdrawal from the World Health Organization is affecting the ability of U.S. scientists to track flu and other pathogens. That could be a blow to the development of the 2025 flu vaccine. n.pr/4onXnXP

Donald Trump is AGAIN suing to avoid sending food to hungry children and seniors.

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He didn't come with assembly instructions.

@acerbicotter.bsky.social i just saw one of those things I think you might love!! MLP WITH SUCCULENTS!!
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Politico: Judge orders Trump administration to pay full SNAP benefits: The Trump administration is appealing the decision, which requires officials to send the money to millions of food stamp recipients by Friday.

This judge ordered the Trump Administration to release all its SNAP funding by Friday because, in his own words, "Children are immediately at risk of going hungry."

How sick do you have to be to appeal that order?

Our President straight up wants kids to starve.

Science Bluesky, I need a question answered that is not yielding to Google!

Can you carbon-14 date an alien?

Because I know it requires nitrogen-14 in the upper atmosphere and if the alien homeworld doesn’t have the same nitrogen content…?

Donate to Hurricane Melissa Relief for Haiti, organized by Marie Arthus Help Rebuild Haiti After Hurricane Melissa Together, we can restore hope, homes, a… Marie Arthus needs your support for Hurricane Melissa Relief for Haiti

Via a Haitian friend.

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I DID THAT THIS MORNING! I drove past the 7 car dealerships with those Huge flags and thought.. whaaaaa? It took me a good 5 minutes

Oh yeah. I've done that when I wasn't expecting it

People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.

This is why the one time I met you I brought donuts. Donuts are nice. It matters not if you remember me. It matters that I tried to be nice and feed a Midwesterner.

Supreme Court allows Trump to prohibit gender election on passports The court's decision is not a final ruling, however; it just permits Trump's passport policy to go into effect while litigation continues in the lower courts.

The court's decision is not a final ruling, however; it just permits Trump's passport policy to go into effect while litigation continues in the lower courts. n.pr/47WNjiF

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