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A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan) screaming in pain in front of two horrified security guards. Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.

A few hundred feet apart, yet worlds away politically, furious students at UC Berkeley protested the final stop of the conservative organization Turning Point USA’s “American Comeback Tour,” hosted Monday night on what is known as the nation’s most liberal campus.
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📸 Chrissa Olson

This is no shade to Karen, but a lot depends on how primaries are held in your state. If you're a progressive in a closed primary state like NY, congrats registering as an independent blocked you from voting from Mamdani in the primary. If you're in an open primary state, you do you.

Public radio journalists look like they just came from the grocery coop. (They did.)

Journalism conferences are very funny. Print journalists are like "look at me wearing pants" and TV journalists are in full face makeup and fancy suits and dress shoes.

Apply for subsidy to buy an electric bicycle | City of Berkeley Berkeley residents can enter monthly lottery to win rebate of up to $1,500 to buy an e-bike, making it even easier to bike around Berkeley. Berkeleyans can apply online for a monthly lottery to get $400 to $1,500 off the purchase of a new electric bicycle – with larger amounts helping lower income residents.The rebate will cover part of the cost of your new e-bike. Those selected will receive a personalized rebate code via email to buy an e-bike within 60 days from one of more than two dozen shops countywide – including five in Berkeley.This program is being offered by Ava Community Energy, the local electricity provider for virtually all residential and commercial accounts in Berkeley.

🚴🚴🚴Berkeleyans can apply online for a monthly lottery to get $400 to $1,500 off the purchase of a new electric bicycle – with larger amounts helping lower income residents.

Apply now for a chance for a subsidy to purchase an electric bike:

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

From scapegoats to city hall: how New York Muslims built power and shaped Zohran Mamdani Muslim New Yorkers have steadily become a political force amid post-9/11 Islamophobic sentiment. Mamdani is their most accomplished expression

Timely feature by Moustafa Bouyami on how Muslim New Yorkers built political power amid the Islamophobic backlash to 9/11

“The left was one of the only places that was generally open, receptive and supportive of Muslim communities since 9/11… Nobody else stood with us against our repression.”

Eric Adams, endorsing Cuomo: "New York can't be Europe, folks ... Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings. And that's what I'm fighting for."

You can change your mind upon the discovery of new information

edited screenshots from I Think You Should Leave. Tim Robinson appears distressed as he looks out of a car from the driver seat. there are 4 crude cow tools resting on the windowsill. he says, "I don't know what any of this shit is, and I'm scared."

people opening the funny papers in October 1982:

👀 preview: @marimo.io notebooks are Python first inside @vscode.dev.

we're also integrating managed sandboxed environments for PEP 723 notebooks, powered by uv ofc. forget venvs

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

What is going on here?? Indiana University's Media School dean fired a faculty member who refused to censor the student newspaper when asked. Now the University has cut its print edition.
"Telling us what we can and cannot print is unlawful censorship."
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

The future of being trans on the internet The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next?

I've been super proud to work with a bunch of talented authors including @judedoyle.bsky.social and @taliabhatt.itch.io on this package over the past couple months — it's six great stories about the weird, scary moment both the internet and trans people are in

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

After years spent there learning the craft of journalism, I could not imagine a world where officials at the Indiana University Media School ordered the school newspaper, the Indiana Daily Student, not to print any news. Yet another sad development at a diminishing program. READ: loom.ly/kVhquyk

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

The Superintendent’s Bio Seemed Too Good to Be True. It Was.

"lying silver-tongued charlatan runs to the US, attempts to reinvent himself, turns out to be pretty good at an important job" this is like one of the foundational American Stories www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/u...

PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports 👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup,...

Let me post a *non*-subskeet for once... We made a thing!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...

#Python #PEP

It’s Extremely Divisive of You to Tell the Truth Our nation is incredibly divided right now, and the last thing we need is someone standing up and further dividing us with statements based in fact...

"Our nation is incredibly divided right now, and the last thing we need is someone standing up and further dividing us with statements based on facts."

finally people are speaking out as -don’t-want-to-watch-videos-Americans

Feds in military gear flood downtown Chicago; top border official says arrests based on 'how they look' The immigration agents were spotted making arrests in downtown Chicago and River North neighborhood early Sunday.

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Cascade employees just won a four-yer union contract in May. During protracted negotiations with management, they highlighted the fact that the company's CEO made nearly $500,000 in 2023, including $74,000 in bonuses. The federal cuts amount to $3.5 million.

BREAKING: Cascade PBS, which operates the website Crosscut, is laying off 19 people, reportedly including its entire news staff. In an email to staff, CEO Rob Dunlop blamed federal cuts, saying the nonprofit is "winding down our longform, written journalism."

Watch the moment Israeli forces bomb the eight-storey al-Roya residential building, the third Gaza City high-rise leveled in three days.

At least 50 buildings have now been destroyed in Israel’s assault to seize the city.

Got back into playing softball for funsies and I fear the “get active and you’ll feel better” crowd are unfortunately right

As a former die-hard couch potato it gives me no joy to report this lmao

🌟We are GLOWING after the first Let’s Glow! BART Anime Festival. 🌟

Chicago’s lead pipe crisis, mapped Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.

Chicago has the most lead pipes in the nation. We mapped them all.

Here's what the data reveals about who's most at risk.

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#Maps #Chicago #Toxic #Health #Lead #Pipes #Policy #Politics #Illinois