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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 8h

Canadian kitchen parties revolve around a big sing along, from Newfoundland & Labrador across the country to British Columbia and the Territories, growing up in Cape Breton we had these almost weekly, this one is en français from Quebec #Canada #kitchenparty 🔥🔥 Enjoy! Credit to lie.benjamin3

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 9h

Some of you have been mercilessly promoting your books. It's all I see from you in my feeds. Keep doing it! I want more! This isn't sarcastic, I am *so excited* about your book. Just off-the-wall delighted. Brandon, Roopsi, John, Lauren, wow! Miriam, frankly I need more Content from you.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

Big development: Dems are growing increasingly bullish on sweeping the big House races in South Texas. A DCCC official tells me internal polling shows Trump's approval cratering in key districts there: TX-15: 36% TX-28: 28% TX-34: 35% This and much more on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2161...

newrepublic.com

Trump’s Weird Tirade on Midterms Accidentally Reveals Key GOP Weakness

As Trump’s monologue about his Texas midterm convention exposes a problem for the GOP, a Democratic operative argues that his collapse in South Texas is a real tell about what’s coming.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 19h

Worth a read through this thread. Indian Americans have been in Texas for multiple generations, so this pushing of assimilation of new immigrants is just bs, but when has racism ever been logical.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is the definition of cruel and unusual punishment. The state of Tennessee botched an execution and tried to hide the gory consequences as witnesses twice watched a woman survival the supposedly “lethal” injection. The death penalty is a crime against humanity.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I have a distinct memory of learning about the horror of the death penalty as a little girl. My family are every flavor of pacifist anabaptist, which my mom explained meant that we opposed the murder of individuals by the state- because the state could never have that authority.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really think Jon Ossoff, James Talarico, and a few others are in the process of creating a new kind of language, a new politics, for the era of Late Stage Trumpism. As I argue in the piece, the banal cruelties of sunsetting Trumpism are all around us, and some Dems are pointing to a way out.

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A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our large-scale study of memorization of books in open-weight LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen) will appear at the 2026 Conference on Language Modeling as an oral. We made a website for exploring our results on 200 books and 14 models: books-memorization.github.io

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How much do open-weight LLMs memorize specific books?

Open-weight LLMs memorize books far more than previously believed. Memorization varies by model family, model size, and book. In extreme cases, entire books are memorized, and we can generate them eff...

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas! In some parts of Ireland on this day, rent could be paid in geese. If you’re due to pay rent this month, please consider setting a very irritated goose on your landlord in lieu of payment, in the name of upholding important Irish traditions.

A drawing of mine of a goose looking concerned, with a tag around its neck that reads "This month's rent, with thanks".

#SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art #Michaelmas

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

At Texas A&M 23% of our students’ families are in the top 5% of family income in the country. That’s a very large, very wealthy cohort at a uni which is still considered a Best Buy. It’s why the student parking lots are filled with $100,000 trucks & some parents buy students homes.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This strikes me as very Ohio. Or at least very Cleveland.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Texas Tribune always does good work. I am glad they released the name of the man who killed Salgado Araujo.

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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

No American news outlet has done this: Six months of the Iran war – as told through Trump’s social media posts | US-Israel war on Iran News | Al Jazeera share.google/Luaib8YEne5i...

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Six months of the Iran war – as told through Trump’s social media posts

How a war was announced, prosecuted, declared won, negotiated and then reopened, all in the president's own words.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Boosting the amazing work of Howard Rambsy II in African American literature and digital humanities. This is such a great overview of innovative work in the field and well worth a watch youtu.be/jA08E1CTTMw?...

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The Road to $1.6 Million: Grants, Ideas, and Impact

YouTube video by Cultural Front

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026

America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A woman was drugged, raped, and sexually trafficked to members of a fraternity. Two of the men involved were expelled. Five were given the opportunity to mitigate suspension by *writing an essay.* The dozens of other men who knew this was happening and said nothing? You already know the answer.

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026

This is the woman who said that Talarico’s in favor of “same sex bathrooms”, and getting that kind of lunatic to stay home is how you win an election in Texas

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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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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Disgraceful that Bibi the Butcher is given a platform to spew ugly lies. Get the fuck out of New York, you genocidal criminal.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Gene Wu is an excellent leader. We need people willing to fight for democracy. I’ve been a fan of his for a very long time.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026

"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve been deep in the historical records of our county, working with enslavement and reconstruction and… I just am overwhelmed. I’ve been working in this area for 30 years and am still shocked by white brutality and amazed by Black resistance regardless of danger to themselves and their community.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what it means to live in a voter suppression state.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am so tired of the trump pac ads that are running in Texas. It’s every other commercial. And lies. They are designed to scare. That’s it.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The college wrote a great overview of my book, Angel Nieves, ASA, and book award. Really grateful to Gauri Babele for her work. tx.ag/EarhartNievesAward

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a good analysis of what’s happening in Texas. I am particularly interested in what the numbers on immigration suggest. It’s hard to imagine Texas functioning wo a large influx of immigrants. It’s sort of baked into the state culture and economy even though there is hate as well.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you are one of the 750,000 people ejected off the ACA exchanges, I'd love to speak. emgarcia.85 on Signal.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.

A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/3 Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch is Wilber Garces Perez's lawyer. Wilber called his wife at today's presser asking to speak. The phone was held up to the mike. Wilber said he was shot in the back and discharged from the hospital 4 hours later with the bullet still in his back. x.com/AttorneyKate...

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Day 2 update on Wilber.

Today, we held a press conference demanding answers and accountability after Wilber was shot by ICE.

In the middle of the press conference, Wilber called his wife and said he wanted to speak. We held the phone up to the microphone so he could tell everyone what had happened to him.

Wilber said he was shot in the back and discharged from the hospital just four hours later, with the bullet still lodged in his back.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

These records are remarkable. There is nothing comparable in the US. I am ready to dig in to see if my husband’s Barbados ancestors are included as I’ve hit a brick wall with several ancestors. They might be in these records.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Very probably the best photo I've ever taken of a 16th Century dovecote with a cow standing in front of it, surrounded by buttercups, looking like she has just dropped a debut album she is thoroughly proud of.

A cow, standing in front of the dovecote in Bruton, Somerset, about a month ago. Lovely town. Beautiful architecture. Had a chat with a really nice lady from an old farming family after I took this. Sadly quite a few stuck-up down-from-London snotbags live there these days and houses cost a fortune as a result.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 22/09/2026

An investigation mapped nearly 4,000 sites where migrant remains were found against roughly 600 US border towers. More than 1,050 people died within a tower's range since 2015. 🧵 www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/21/1...

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The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?

Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

thedartmouth.com

Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

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Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026

Academia: a system that requires years of training to be eligible for basic, entry-level positions yet lacks the capacity to provide those positions to over 90% of the people whom it trains.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Texas gardening is not for the weak. I’ve pulled out summer plants and have been planting the third season veg, and it’s 98 out there. Ugh. Too hot for extended work in the gardens, but if seeds don’t go in I miss the window.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026

The US higher education system is not equipped to correct for the effects of systemic injustice and underfunding at the high school, middle school, and elementary school levels.

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Amy Earhart @aearhart.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is gross. Did I miss my kid- yes. Did she sometimes call for help- yes. But they need to figure it out themselves. This does not help anyone but the parent who has probably been using those parent surveillance aps. Noooo

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