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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 13h

Aminata Seck has been freed. "I'm just ready to go back to school, get my master's and get this surgery done,” she said. ICE kept her in pain in detention for two months for no reason. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

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Kentucky State player released on bond from ICE custody

Kentucky State University women's basketball center Aminata Seck was released on bond Wednesday after spending two months in ICE custody.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 21h

The rape case is drawing attention to a previous failure by Cornell's president, Michael Kotlikoff. Last year, he caved in a $60 million settlement to Trump, undermining DEI and free speech on campus. His capitulation has the stench of complicity. www.salon.com/2026/10/09/w...

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What Cornell says about universities’ MAGA complicity

White House attacks on DEI gave colleges cover to abandon women and minority students

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21h

“cops should arrest ICE” is a liberal fantasy. “abolish ICE” is not.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 21h

Schon irre, dass @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social drei Viertel der Abonnent:innen von NIUS hat.

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Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m not quite sure why Hegseth announcing a public execution is the thing that’s made my mouth go dry, after every single hideous act of this regime. But it is and it has.

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Vanderbilt sub-report on Music Studies is out. TLDR: it is utter garbage. The long-awaited evidence of our “deterioration in scholarly standards” is...: "the shift from...central areas of music scholarship [Western art music] to the more peripheral areas". www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...

Counted as canonical only if the list is exactly: western_art_music none Counted as non-canonical if the list contains any of these: popular_music jazz_and_blues traditional_and_non_western screen_media

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026

i am genuinely shocked by the psychotic bloodthirst on display with hegseth

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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

anne carson is proof that a phd in the humanities provides you with transferable skills

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This fall, on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social we will dive into science fiction fandom and how a certain mode of it gets increasingly drafted into right wing politics podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If social media is a paranoia machine, generative AI is a paranoia amplifier. It finds patterns, plausibilizes connections, narrativizes correlations. It produces stories from networks and optimizes them for the aesthetic standards and expectations of social media platforms

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

will you people shut the fuck up

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

People are so broken they are now outsourcing fun to AI.

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Huh so is Franz von Papen is back from the dead and working for Die Welt?

"The Left Party is Currently the Most Dangerous German Party"

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Look, I just don't feel like it makes sense for our media to turn an old man's social media posts into fodder for hyperbolic warnings about totalitarianism, just because that old man is a president. That is a treatment we should reserve for the posts of an ethnic studies major at Brown University.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026

“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...

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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)

Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rare you get live visuals of state capture.

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From electric vehicles to “DEI bike lanes,” transportation has become a partisan battleground. But 50 years ago, Washington came together to save transit systems, address deadly car designs, and reduce vehicle pollution. Much has changed—and it’s not just MAGA. My exploration (gift link) 🧵

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Why US Transportation Policy Became a Partisan Battleground

Republicans and Democrats keep clashing over what was once a comparatively nonpartisan issue. When did getting around turn into another thing for Americans to fight about?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's the "Vorwärts" referring to FvP as "Papen" and "von Papen" like three lines apart...

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm pretty sure the von der Leyens were ennobled; they're not identical with the von Leyen family, which is old nobility, but unlike Ursula's family, the von der Leyens were barons or some such?

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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You’ve been waiting for a Dolly Parton deep dive in which Baudrillard plays an important role, and here is is courtesy of @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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Episode 156 -- Dolly Parton

Podcast Episode · In Bed With The Right · September 29 · 1h 17m

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Basically my question is: English language books on Bismarck are fine calling him Bismarck. English language media would never refer to Ursula von der Leyen as “Leyen”. Where does von Papen fall?

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

PragerU, Peterson Academy and University of Austin sitting sadly by a phone that just won’t ring

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But you could write “Bismarck” and people would know who you’re talking about. You couldn’t say “Leyen” and assume people would…

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

True but I should have clarified that I’m writing in English!

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's what I remember too! I feel like Christopher Clark does the same in "Iron Kingdom" (which might be necessary since those names are loooooooong)

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This manuscript is 85000 words and like 10 percent are "von Papen"

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A question to my German history bubble: when is it okay to drop the "von" from someone's name in long-form writing? After first mention? Never?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elif Eralp kann sich nicht merken, welches die S41 und welches die S42 ist

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great. But the lane is still WIDE OPEN for Dems who understand queer and trans people aren’t an embarrassing constituency whose rights we reluctantly defend. And that feminist thought, gender studies, art history, etc. are easy to champion. I’ve never seen students so excited for the humanities.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not in terms of aesthetic and overall vibe I’d say (late 70s trucker movies distinguish themselves by subtracting the existential dread of a film like Wages of Fear, which Sorcerer is based on). But in terms of class politics sort of?

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s still very much in the writing process! But I’ve written some posts on my newsletter (still on Subst🤮, unfortunately) based on my reading and viewing for it! adriandaub.substack.com/p/a-long-way...

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"A long way to go and a short time to get there"

Notes on the Trucker Movie Craze

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My brain can’t fully process it, I keep trying to place every contestant at a specific dog wake on real housewives

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The last time survivors spoke up en masse, the public embraced fascism rather than have uncomfortable conversations. Not saying that this influenced the actions of the Cornell Seven, but I’d bet it influenced the inaction of their 50 fraternity brothers who were on the group chat.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Much of our sitting government is in office because it ignored rape or committed rape. At times, it seems like a job requirement. Much of our media has learned to ask evidentiary standards of survivors that they’d never hold a powerful man to.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026

It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hello [username], your skeet immediately caught my attention because it offers a timely and thought-provoking examination of [noun] and its relationship to [noun, noun, noun and noun]. I represent a large Bluesky club with 9 million members, we select one skeet a month for adoring contemplation. We

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I guess that makes sense, I just love the idea that someone out there thinks "this academic with a podcast looks like he has tons of crypto let's go get it"

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