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If you are against the death penalty and you think it doesn’t matter, for the death penalty, which party you vote for, you are an irredeemable fool.

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Wow the outrage and bloodlust in these unhinged responses is palpable.

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LunaNuna @lunanuna.bsky.social · 6h

Read about 10 responses, mostly zero outrage, sober correction of OP’s dumb comment, with reference to the stark differences in D and R policies and outcomes with respect to the death penalty. No outrage is necessary. An L is an L.

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As someone who represented death row inmates in a state that abolished (DE), a state with a long moratorium (PA) and on the fed row (client received clemency from Biden), this bothsides argument is ridiculous. The difference in fates between an inmate in a Dem state & in a GOP state is stark.

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tmbhmltn.bsky.social @tmbhmltn.bsky.social · 10h

I posted a little while back that no one ever talks about this but I really wonder if people just didn’t see this or store it in their memory

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10h

Zitron accidentally making his first good point about the downsides of AI.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 8h

He’s already done it to himself. The rest is politics.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 8h

Good luck with opting into neo-Naziism in the 21st century because you’re not very smart.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 12h

Might even be willing to negotiate down to not teaching a course I'm currently teaching, for pay.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure if I have room in my non-teaching load this semester but for the good of the department I'm willing to make sacrifices.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 12h

The initial purchase was a crime in and of itself.

AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 14h

This is how you know that for the right it's not actually about 'culture,' it's about race. I married a refugee and am socially and fiscally to the left of her entire family.

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Computational Cosmetologist @dferrer.bsky.social · 17h

My favorite kind of hater post is “you tech bros will never understand the primal, numinous beauty of [most spiritually empty shit imaginable]” the allegedly sublime: Doing homework Taco Bell DoorDash Writing sql queries Booking flights

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 17h

Posting guns on Insta and tackling pregnant women doesn’t make you a man.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h

I like it and I'd like more of it

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 18h

That’s exactly what Collins is doing. The test is public office.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 18h

What I love about Ossoff is he displays competence & skill in the job he’s running for, in stark contrast to these aw shucks JV offensive coordinator-ass mfers who spend every waking second of their lives working out how to display their abject stupidity and blind anger as if higher virtues.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 19h

There’s no getting around the fact that Susan Collins supports Trump’s agenda, not the people of Maine. She supports ICE murdering Mainers and violating our civil liberties. She supports Supreme Court business by shadow docket. She supports tariffs, endless war in Iran, and runaway fuel prices.

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

To be fair, Pete Hegseth's religion is basically just "what if ISIS was Evangelical Christian instead of Salafist?" Slavery, murdering infidels, female subjugation, you name it!

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AR Hanlon @arhanlon.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah I’m gonna go out on a limb and say I’m not less of a human for not finding it enjoyable to book a flight on the internet.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The human beings who did astronomical calculations in the 17th century were called computers. The computer itself is an anthropomorphism.

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The American Dream is amazing: within just a few years you can go from being the child of Cuban immigrants to the great-grandson of Spanish settlers.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve spent most of my life working along the border. Up in the County, we know better than anyone that Donald Trump's tariffs are a tax on Mainers who are already struggling and can’t afford another hit.

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Yes, the difference is massive. Blew my mind.

All else aside, I feel like it’s important to point out to the likes of Hegseth that watching an execution by firing squad does not make you a man.

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It’s a total misreading of the slide to say the distinction is ‘real’ or ‘not real’ research and considering how many people I know who do research for defense contractors, I would not be surprised at all, as it happens.

Neither do I, but for the same reason I'm willing to board a plane without knowing how to fly or repair it I'm reliant on mathematicians I trust to tell me what's going on here (so far: ugly math but genuinely impressive).

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And look, you always have to be careful when a mathematician puts something in your mailb Ok ok sorry I won’t

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They put this in my mailbox!

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At least that’s where I cop mine

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I can’t deny that they have The Good Chalk at the local Math Boutique, to be fair.

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Yes, this is a stupid answer, but as any professor could tell you, it was an even stupider question. Never ask someone for a ‘personal’ definition of well defined term. It’s an invitation to bullshit.

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We are all Humanities now (derogatory). So, what next? Link arms athwart the history of knowledge, yelling stop?

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I’ve been saying this for many years: the tripartite divisions of knowledge are fracturing. It was only a matter of time before the TE refused to pull math and basic science along in the Money Wagon (as represented in this slide for a talk I gave a few years ago).

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It remains fascinating to watch people in ‘STEM’ engage in the exact forms of special pleading that have characterized the decline of ‘the humanities.’

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UPMC is bigger than JD Vance

@dieworkwear.bsky.social I don’t have any particular thought or agenda apart from a vague feeling I should bring these outfits to your attention

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 08/10/2026

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A special case of a more general pet theory of mine. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

My pet Theory of Professional Academic Associations is that the discipline's organizational life inverts its core intellectual commitments. Thus, Political Science is the discipline of government and especially of democracy. Yet, the last time I checked, all of the high-level positions in APSA are decided by committee deals rather than free and fair elections by the membership. Or, Economics is the discipline of decentralized coordination through the efficient operation of the market. Yet its job "market" is in fact an administered queue, with departments explicitly ranking their candidates, departments effectively ranking themselves, and a direct matching process operating between the two as top-ranking candidates slot into open positions in top-ranked schools. (This mechanism also includes an effective method of rent-extraction from Deans in the form of a salary ratchet.) And, to get to the present case, Sociology is the discipline that analyzes the many forms of collective social action, on the one hand, and is the social science most oriented towards the exposure of the workings of power, on the other. So naturally it follows that the ASA is not very good at organizing anything, and that its financial arrangements are as secretive as legally possible.

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These goons are refusing to allow the people they’re abducting and trafficking to supply evidence of their identity and legal status.