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Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum.bsky.social · 14h

“Yes, the theoreticians and the pseudo-intellectuals have just about destroyed not only local government but the school systems of our country. That’s all right. Let the police handle it.” Vance should stop trying to improve on George Wallace and just use the source material directly if you ask me

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Sahoni, Official Re(a)d Wolf @sahoni.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.

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Cassandra Good @cgoodhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just some historians of women & politics sharing our feelings about an edited sign at NPS's Belmont-Paul House in DC. A sign that once highlighted the way brutal treatment of suffrage protestors changed public opinion now paints the women as spoiled troublemakers 🗃️ @ncph.bsky.social @aaslh.org

Cathleen Cahill, Cassie Good, and Allison Lange frowning with thumbs down in front of a sign

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SHEAR @shearites.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Check out our SHEAR Book Prize Talk with Richard Bell, 2025 SHEAR Book Prize winner, for The American Revolution and the Fate of the World. You can listen to his fascinating conversation with Kelly Gray, below: youtu.be/jWaXCMa7BEY?...

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SHEAR Book Prize Talk with Richard Bell

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh brother.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Arguably the biggest democracy referendum next month: Virginia is one of only three states where the state constitution says people should lose their right to vote FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIFE if they are convicted of any felony. This measure would allow anyone to vote after prison.

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“It’s Time”: Virginians Will Decide Whether to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts

Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They'll also vote on abortion, gay marriage, and redistricting.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

David’s essay reveals clearly that this is not the priority of OpenAI. The “alignment problem” here is that the values of human wellbeing and humility are misaligned with the risk culture and social indifference of some in Silicon Valley. This is the first order problem.

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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today, on appeal, the Trump administration will try once more to defend its blatantly illegal & unconstitutional campaign of retribution against Harvard. @aaup.org, AAUP-Harvard, and UAW first sued to stop it — and won in federal court. Here’s hoping the First Circuit upholds that decision.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sliwa getting a flu shot: This could be very embarrassing. I’m supposed to be a tough guy, right? Mamdani: I can hold your hand. Sliwa: What happens if I faint? Mamdani: I got you. Doctor: You’re in great hands, literally. New Yorkers can find free flu shots and locations at nyc.gov/healthmap

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

These victories were achieved through the efforts of Civil Rights activists, along with support from Neiman Marcus president Stanley Marcus, who was an early advocate for desegregation. The Neiman Marcus Dallas store manager purportedly warned Marcus that he would destroy his business this way.

A Black man protesting in front of a department store in San Diego, California. He's wearing a suit and holding a sign that says "We March Protesting the Indignity and Humility of Jim Crow." There are some people behind him.

Stanley Marcus smoking a pipe. He's wearing a striped suit.

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"In dollar terms, the very richest Americans have gained a total of $14.5 trillion in wealth [since 2019], with most of that—about $10 trillion—coming from gains in stocks and mutual funds, according to the Fed data, which runs through the end of June."

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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider

The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.

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Hank Leukart @hank.me · 30/10/2023

“The real dividing line is not between Israelis and Palestinians but between those who believe violence is the answer and those who believe there is another way.” -Dr. Yasmeen Abu-Fraiha

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The mortality reviews that ICE published late last week show that medical neglect is widespread in Trump's concentration camps — something immigrants, advocates and attorneys have said for years, and which ICE routinely denies. New from me in @prospect.org.

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Disturbing Pictures of Neglect in ICE Mortality Reviews - The American Prospect

The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Holy shit, this ad! I cannot imagine the impetus for pardoning this guy. But I’m not even sure it matters. Kind of along the lines of that Roger Marshall ad. If you’re explaining you’re losing.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As @davidrlurie.com says, pushing for the equitable sharing of the fruits of AI can help "build the kind of broad-based Democratic coalition out of the ruins left by a failed Republican project, as FDR did nearly 100 years ago." Read over at @atrupar.com's place:

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's difficult to engage in diplomacy when you're too simple-minded to think about anyone except yourself . . .

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 29/09/2026

Hey while they’re at it, IMLS and NEH should start offering unrestricted operating support for museums. Like, a lot of it. johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/america-s-...

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America's Museums are Falling Apart

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Adam Arenson @adamarenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great to see it! “Ward 1 Councilmember Philip Falcone is “currently reading Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in California by Adam Arenson. This was recommended to me by Andrew Butler”; love midcentury public art! www.raincrossgazette.com/are-riversid...

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Are Riverside's Leaders Readers?

Welcome to Reading Room, an invitation to make (more) room for reading in your life this week from Riversider, writer and reader Cati Porter.

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Adam Arenson @adamarenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A massive MTA archive ended up in a Virginia warehouse. A Brooklyn man brought it home. - Gothamist

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

OMG -- under questioning from Hassan, Trump's FDA nominee Heidi Overton refuses to acknowledge that Trump can ever be wrong about anything even after she's confronted with a specific example of something Trump is clearly wrong about

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's hilarious that Huang things not knowing his address, zip-code and phone number are a mark of how he is cognitively off-loading to technology and Klein doesn't seem to press him that what he's actually obviously doing is using the fact that he's rich to off-load onto other humans.

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Elizabeth Bennett @elizabethbennettjd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Trump’s first term has been memory-holed… His prior decades of illicit activity have vanished from the public domain: because there is no public domain. The public domain was purchased and destroyed by oligarchs: purchased to be destroyed.”

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If I can't put my name on the performing arts center that memorializes one assassinated president, maybe I'll put it on the theater where another president actually was assassinated

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Rev. AJ van Tine @revajvt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Seriously, read the alt-text on this one. Maybe things are okay, but maybe we’re heading into another omicron winter. Have you gotten your Covid shot this fall yet?

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026

The Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated with last week's ICE flights to Costa Rica and Paraguay. Crossing fingers that, with the appeals court decision, this may be the last update for awhile. We'll see. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

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Tracking All of Trump’s Known Third-Country Removals

Trump's ICE has expelled an estimated 23,000 people to countries where they have no ties. Find out where they are going, what happens to them, and who profits.

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

@editorialboard.bsky.social was mentioning the Carter-Trump similarities. For younger Dems who didn't experience the Carter years, they weren't good! Not all Carter's fault. But some of it was. Also, he blamed the American people in his malaise speech & Trump's doing that now too.

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New at PN, @schaller67.bsky.social: "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national govt?" 🧾 t2m.co/xHakyh21

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yoshi / FAFSP🚶 @yis347.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

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Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data

War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️

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Governor Josh Shapiro @governor.pa.gov · 17/09/2026

In the midst of the largest and deadliest measles outbreak in America in 35 years, RFK Jr. chose to spend his time today addressing the premier vaccine-denial conference in America.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m speaking about Tom Paine on Constitution Day and yeah “the law is king” but he’d be absolutely appalled we are still using a 240yo document. Every generation must make its OWN laws, he believed!!

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Adam Arenson @adamarenson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My latest article is out! Phi Beta Kappa is also celebrating a 250th anniversary this year. Secret Loyalty and Public Respectability: The Transformation of Phi Beta Kappa in its First Half-Century commonplace.online/article/secr...

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Secret Loyalty and Public Respectability: The Transformation of Phi Beta Kappa in its First Half-Century - Commonplace

Secrecy itself seemed at odds with republican values, and liable to shield corruption or treason.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation. One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

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China: “Thank Trump”

The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson

The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026

ah working class is when you are a contractor pulling six figures from a business that earns seven, professional is when you pull $40K doing office work

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from Justices Thomas and Alito, #SCOTUS *denies* the Trump administration’s request for a stay in the mail-in ballots case. The USPS Rule will remain blocked—almost certainly through the midterms.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: Once exceptionally rare, illegal deportations — in defiance of court orders or due to ICE screw-ups — are now a routine part of President Trump's mass deportation push. It happened 3 times this past week and more at least 30 times in recent months. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm fielding requests from prospective Ph.D. students, and maybe you are too. Over the summer, I wrote this guide for students in History: including 1) don't do it; 2) if you must do it, this is how the process works and how to prepare your application patrickiber.org/2026/06/24/a...

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A guide to preparing a Ph.D. application in History

Applying to graduate school is something that likely only happens once in a lifetime, and so almost no one doing it has experience in the process. The goal of this post is to help demystify the pro…

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