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Angela Taylor

@angieptaylor.bsky.social
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Jersey-born. Currently a NC academic.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4h
I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 4h
They don't object to the stigma embedded in these kinds of ads, they just want to make sure it's directed at nonwhite people.
nytimes.com
Ad About Welfare Fraud Draws MAGA Backlash
Far-right influencers piled on Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, President Trump’s former press secretary, over a campaign ad about Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3h
And the connecting thread is not just lack of accountability, but the idea that the lack of accountability is a perk that goes hand in hand with the inside track to power, both of which are inherited and passed down in a caste system.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 4h
Like the anti-woke backlash of which it's part, the whole "campuses as hotbeds of left-wing radicalism" discourse willfully confuses the noise for the signal. Most people go for a job credential and leave deeply socialized into the protocols of power, of which violence against women is central.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3h
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
nytimes.com
National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17h
We already have documented evidence that teen boys are using these glasses to harass girls. And that there's very little that anyone can do to stop them. So, if you're vetoing bans on these devices, you're basically telling those boys--yes, sure, go ahead, that's okay. futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 18h
Again: for Black Women, in particular, the ability to chose, a time and place to reproduce is a function of liberty. The most fundamental fact of enslavement was the Black Women had no control over their reproduction; in fact, their ability to reproduce was a key source of other’s wealth.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 15h
Army is establishing a new command. FASCOM = Futures and Autonomous Systems Command.
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
 ”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being responsive.”
villagegreennj.com
ICE Agents Use Intimidation Tactics on Bystanders During Arrest in Maplewood - The Village Green
”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being res...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15h
The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 15h
Supporting rapists is one of the few MAGA policies that never seems to change on a whim
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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Striking how often pro-AI arguments always require like 10 different caveats. "What if AI was well regulated, trained on non-stolen data, not made by companies run by sociopaths, was didn't harm the environment, made discoveries that were verified beyond the statements of PR reps? What then?"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h
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.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h
The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky lunch spot frequented by Dallas elites. Later, they welcomed Black shoppers to come and buy clothes without restrictions.
The Zodiac Room restaurant on the sixth floor of Neiman Marcus in Dallas. The photo shows a bunch of tables covered in white tablecloth and leather covered seats.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17h
There are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17h
I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15h
Thread of the day
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21h
"In other words, the people who are the most 'polarized' in the U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who oppose racists and sexists."
Screenshot of article which reads: These numbers are relatively similar between Democrats and Repub-
licans, which often leads political pundits to claim this is more evidence 
of “polarization,” and that both sides are equally to blame. However, 
a closer look tells a more interesting story. The people who are most 
likely to vilify and dehumanize their partisan opponents are Republicans 
who are high in racism and sexism and Democrats who oppose racism 
and sexism. The people who are least likely to vilify and dehumanize 
their political opponents are Republicans who are low in racism and sex-
ism. One explanation for these patterns is that those Republicans who 
are racist and sexist vilify and dehumanize Democrats because they see 
the Democratic Party as a party of racial minorities and women; and 
Democrats who score low in racism and sexism will vilify and dehu-
manize Republicans because they consider Republicans to be racist and 
sexist. In other words, the people who are the most “polarized” in the 
U.S. electorate are those who are racist and sexist, and those who op-
pose racists and sexists.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21h
Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 15h
!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21h
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
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lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 15h
North Carolina counties are now paying more for a federal program that helps some hungry people eat, as a law shifting more of the cost of the nutrition assistance program to states takes effect. ncnewsline.com/2026/10/02/n... @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol #SNAP
ncnewsline.com
NC counties now paying more to help feed hungry people • NC Newsline
North Carolina counties are now paying more for a federal program that helps some hungry people eat, as a law shifting more of the cost of the nutrition assistance program to states takes effect.
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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 15h
I think it’s because he is unbelievably submissive and worshipful of Trump to a similar degree that Natalie is. In a really bizarre way it’s a father son relationship, but without the built-in shame and hate in his relationship with Jr. He also doesn’t understand what a fuckup Pete is. 
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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 18h
🎵You don't know me but I'm your father🎵
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 18h
Obviously this person never watched that one Game of Thrones episode where you couldn't see shit
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
4. According to new reporting last night by MS Now, the text messages from 2024 from Smith's team that Eric Schmitt presented at Tuesday's hearing were provided by the US Department of Justice, which is to say, by US Attorney General Todd Blanche. www.ms.now/news/eric-sc...
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Eric Schmitt was warned about the Jack Smith texts. He used them anyway.
As Republicans on Capitol Hill try to figure out how Eric Schmitt’s bombshell fell apart so embarrassingly, it turns out he was warned that the texts were unvetted.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
“The ubiquity of smartphones and widespread use of apps like Instagram and TikTok mean that we are all theoretically fingertips away from launching our own star into the sky. Just the seeking of such attention can itself blur into disordered behavior” www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
liberalcurrents.com
Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When Jane Doe's name is eventually exposed, as it most likely will be, let us all promise that we will not use that name. We won't link to articles that name her or discuss her life and character. We will protect her as Cornell should have done.
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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 02/10/2026
The amendment not only gives control of local property taxes to politicians in Raleigh; it also tells them they can hand out favors to whoever they want. ncnewsline.com/2026/10/02/d... (Commentary) #ncpol
ncnewsline.com
Commentary: Don't eat the candy! • NC Newsline
A proposed amendment to cap local property taxes looks appealing, but it’s really a gift to data centers, Duke Energy and Raleigh politicians.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It was hard, especially as a survivor, but I dug through the court documents and the right-wing reaction to the Cornell case. What I've learned is the backlash to #MeToo did its job, reinscribing hatred of survivors. We need more #MeToo, not less. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...
salon.com
Cornell assault case shows #MeToo didn’t go far enough
The backlash against the woman suing Chi Phi fraternity members is turning into a witch hunt
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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thousands of years old, this statue still stares with eternal life.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We need to take our country back from the fascists and make it a civilized place to live.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was shot. Salah Sarsour was arrested and jailed. The next victim of ICE's cruelty could be you. We must all speak out and demand accountability.
nbcnews.com
‘She was pure love’: Renee Good’s partner makes first public comments as family sues U.S. government, ICE officer over her killing
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Good, 37, in the driver’s seat of her SUV during a Jan. 7 en
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
STAT+: NIH awarded all its grant funding, but delayed and opaque decisions stymied researchers www.statnews.com/2026/10/02/n...
statnews.com
NIH awarded all its grant funding, but delayed and opaque decisions stymied researchers
The NIH continued reducing grants involving health disparities, race, and ethnicity but made little progress toward other administration priorities in the 2026 fiscal year.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Josh Cook @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're on the fence about eliminating party-based primaries in Mass, maybe look at who WANTS that to happen. These are not the people we should make happy
bostonglobe.com
Why is the investment world financing a Mass. ballot question to eliminate partisan primaries? - The Boston Globe
A wave of wealthy individuals with ties to various investment, private equity, and venture capital firms has put millions of dollars behind a ballot question to scrap the state's party primaries.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Putting money on who proposes the first black-owned data center. need to start my own polymarket.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hypothetically. Supposedly.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You won’t see any of the organizations or leaders associated with liberal democracy identity groups. They won’t be doing any lip service around “Black” or “gay“ orgs etc. They are already operating in a post Black and minority world that they intend to build.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Following the Pope’s encyclical about AI, you’re going to see a lot more religious intervention in shaping public opinion about tech companies. There are only two social institutions resilient enough to counter AI politically — states and religion. They bought the first. Standby on the second.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“For months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key aspects of many conversations remain confidential.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
nytimes.com
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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OrangeSky @spacetalk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One of the most valuable things a policymaker could do is rein in the fucking NDAs This shit is most definitely a matter in the public interest, and approximately zero(0) percent of us give a shit about protecting the slopmongers' trade secrets
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When white nationalist are a part of your voting base
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump 45 administration was arranged around protecting Trump's ability to do crimes. The Trump 47 administration is much more aggressively committed to delegitimizing the whole *ideas* of crime and corruption for politicians. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Trump team is looking to see if DOJ committed misconduct in investigating Watergate
A burglary at the Watergate complex in June 1972 would ultimately lead to a corruption scandal in Washington and the resignation of President Richard Nixon
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