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Jason Fitzgerald

@bagelonaplate.bsky.social
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Theatre scholar, humanist, Barbra Streisand fan

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Putting all my thoughts about this egregious Paramount/Warner settlement in this (growing) thread. (tl;dr: I am not a fan.)
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AAUP @aaup.org · 13/09/2026
“You have people who are furthest from the classroom, curriculum design, and the subject area of a subject saying all students must take this thing. How is that good for students? How does that suggest they will get the best education?” #academicsky
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Protesters speak out against ‘climate of fear’ after Auburn University dissolves faculty senate
Auburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed is being done dirty by the liberal/mainstream media, which seems to only care about his Israel positions and Hasan Piker proximity. This is a coordinated effort to discredit him while ignoring his opponent. So much for a united front against fascism.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
President Trump wants to soften one of the strongest legal protections American workers have: the right to hold an employer accountable when retirement savings are mishandled. Here's what you need to know:
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Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage  less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Here are the receipts. “Vote Blue No Matter What” only applies, apparently, if the Blue is centrist.
jacobin.com
Centrist Democrats Are Trying to Throw the Michigan Race
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate race could decide control of the chamber. Yet some centrist Democrats are openly working to sink his campaign — because they’d rather hand the seat to a Trump-backed Republican...
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Be like Ed Markey
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Ed Markey Defends Transgender Athletes in Massachusetts Senate Race (Gift Article)
Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts has emerged as a vocal defender of transgender rights as he tries to fend off a primary challenge from Representative Seth Moulton.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 17/08/2026
We should be doubling or tripling the number of tenure-line faculty in humanities departments and other writing intensive fields to bring faculty:student ratios to a point where we can actually teach discipline-specific writing. But no institution is willing to spend the money.
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
BREAKING: I am suing Northwestern University, a member of congress, two cabinet secretaries and the Attorney General of the United States. I explain why in @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/when-we-figh...
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When We Fight, We Win: Why I Am Suing Northwestern University—and the US Government
Yesterday, I filed a lawsuit against Northwestern University and—in his official capacity as Chairman of the US House of Representatives House Committee on Education and the Workforce—Michigan Cong…
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bhaskar has it right here
theguardian.com
Platner’s collapse doesn’t mean we should reject outsiders in politics | Bhaskar Sunkara
We don’t need fewer amateurs running for office. We need far more of them, recruited seriously
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Being angry at Platner and upset for the women he victimized is one thing. Using the debacle of his campaign to make sweeping claims about “the left” seems to miss the point, and I think often deliberately so.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Some people are putting it all on the line.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!
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The Lever @levernews.com · 01/07/2026
🚨SCOOP: Republican Rep. Tom Kean repeatedly voted against legislation to give Americans paid family/medical leave, before Kean took 4 months of paid medical leave from Congress for depression - all while somehow finding the time to raise himself $160,000 worth of campaign cash.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Sign the Petition
Drop Your Lawsuit Threat Against Ypsilanti Township, University of Michigan
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Powerlessness is a curriculum. It's taught to us. We have to break through it.
YouTube video by Abdul El-Sayed
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is pretty much it.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/06/2026
The Supreme Court just threw out nearly a century of precedent to help Trump consolidate power and reward corruption. Independent agencies exist to serve the public interest, not the political interests of whichever president happens to be in office.
theguardian.com
US supreme court rules Trump can fire leaders of independent agencies
Case focused on White House’s March 2025 firing of Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/06/2026
This brazen, undemocratic partisanship and corruption must be investigated, the justices must be held accountable, and the court must be reformed to disempower the current anti-constitutional majority.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Save our hospitals. Protect our patients. Pass Medicare for All. Always proud to stand with @nationalnurses.bsky.social.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is a lovely piece of writing
vanityfair.com
Did Kamala Harris's Silence on Gaza Cost Her the White House?
Ta-Nehisi Coates reckons with that question, and what it means for the 2028 election.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Putting the pee back in GOP
chron.com
VIDEO: Surprise elephant promptly pees all over Texas GOP convention
A big guest brought a big puddle.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Required reading (the essay has greater depth than the headline suggests)
prospect.org
Two Simple Steps Toward De-MAGAfication - The American Prospect
A big reason why Trump II is so much worse than the first time is that the world’s richest man bought Twitter and turned it into a fascist cesspit.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Keep saying it
huffpost.com
The Supreme Court Is Illegitimate
The court’s conservatives ripped the mask off the institution in a brief, unsigned decision allowing Alabama to use a racially discriminatory congressional map.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
DW Schultz strikes again, hurting the state and the party at the expense of her ego and donors
prospect.org
Debbie Downer - The American Prospect
The sleazy fintech bro Republican running in her home district is as beatable as they come. So why is former DNC chair Wasserman Schultz carpetbagging in a historically Black district?
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
theguardian.com
‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund
Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is some review!
theguardian.com
‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library
Towering over a low-income area of Chicago, and wrapped in a speech that’s hard to decipher, this controversial monolith feels like a menacing sci-fi HQ. Is it a monument – or a mausoleum?
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Ralph Nader @nader.org · 01/06/2026
See the latest from Dean Baker On the Money: Trump’s 2027 Military Budget Would Cost Each U.S. Household $11,200 open.substack.com/pub/themoney...
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On the Money: Trump’s 2027 Military Budget Would Cost Each U.S. Household $11,200
Spending that much on the Pentagon would mean a lot less money for social programs that actually help people
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
So Republicans just stole the House basically forever? Dems might squeeze in in 2026 but hardly ever again? And we’re all just… chillin with that?
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/05/2026
The University of Michigan has sent a legal threat over a yearlong pause that would prevent water hookup to a proposed nuclear weapons research and AI data center. www.404media.co/university-c...
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University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is 'Unlawfully Discriminatory' to Data Centers
The University promised “to pursue all rights and claims for necessary relief” if a small Michigan community won’t pump water into a data center.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
This.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This seems like a very good idea.
rollingstone.com
Spirit Went Under. Now a Fan Is Trying to Buy the Airline -- With a Little Help from the Internet
Spirit Airlines superfan Hunter Peterson is hoping to crowdfund on TikTok a purchase of the defunct budget airline
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AFT Higher Education @afthighered.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
"Professor Peterson’s comments—measured, principled, and clearly situated within a broader call to recognize those who work to advance justice—fall squarely within the protected sphere of faculty speech." We urge you to do the reading and read/watch Dr. Peterson's entire speech
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 28/04/2026
Two new studies published this week demonstrate that delaying hepatitis B vaccines for newborns, as outlined in CDC guidelines issued earlier this year, will likely lead to hundreds of additional infections each year, resulting in millions of dollars in lifetime costs.
truthout.org
CDC-Backed Delay for Hep B Shots Could Result in Hundreds of Infant Infections, Studies Find
The CDC’s most recent vaccine recommendations are not based on science, critics say.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The Supreme Court must be gutted and remade from the bottom up, or its tyranny will only intensify
nytimes.com
The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Not one word of this is hyperbole.
AOC:

This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This would be a winning issue for a smart progressive to run on.
jacobin.com
Americans (Still) Support a Federal Jobs Guarantee
In poll after poll, Americans across the political spectrum support a federal jobs guarantee. And yet it’s never mentioned in mainstream political discourse. New survey data makes the case even harder...
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Breakfast 4 Dinner Guy @playitleolubber.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The Supreme Court ruled today that a practitioner's religious beliefs are more important in treating you than any science bc science that counters one's religious beliefs violates the practitioner's right to free expression and exercise of their religious beliefs God, this country is dumb af
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
After years of research, Daphna Renan & I are thrilled to announce preorders of SUPREMACY. Why is US democracy so broken? One reason is we've wrongly accepted that 9 justices have the final say over the Constitution. This book traces how that happened—& how we can reclaim power to govern ourselves.
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Supremacy
From two acclaimed legal scholars, a new history of the Supreme Court that overturns our most basic assumptions about its role in our democracy, showing how it seized the power it now wields., Suprema...
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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This was always the plan. The National Guard is still in D.C., Memphis, and New Orleans. ICE never left Minnesota. Now they’re planting themselves in airports, with TSA sharing passenger data. Polling places are next. share.google/lzYscGU1718K...
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Border czar says ICE may not leave airports once TSA officers are paid
Tom Homan said ICE agents would remain at their posts until airports could resume regular operations.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Congratulations @avilewis.ca and what good news this is for Canadian climate politics (Avi should be known in his own right, but here's a booster for those of you who don't: he's married to Naomi Klein.)
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
There's a long, bad journalistic tradition: All conservative grass-roots political movements are fascinating heartland phenomena, all progressive grass-roots political movements are ineffectual bleating. This one is written off as powered by white female college grads--the wine-moms slur, basically.
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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/03/2026
Millions of Americans have never had direct contact with Trump’s goon squads. Now they’re going to see armed, untrained ICE agents up close — working alongside actual TSA staff who Trump is personally refusing to pay.
The regime is sending ICE to 14 airports
Atlanta
Chicago (O'Hare)
Cleveland
Fort Myers
Houston (Hobby and lAH)
Newark
New Orleans
New York (JFK and LaGuardia)
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
San Juan
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Dolores Huerta continues to be extraordinarily brave and, if you’re looking for a hero figure, a much better candidate than Cesar Chavez. See the NYTimes article on multiple accusations against Chavez for sexual crimes, put forward by equally courageous women who were children when victimized.
medium.com
March 18, 2026
Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 13/03/2026
Elizabeth Warren is one of a kind. She combines a deep knowledge of capitalism and its abuses with brilliance as a legislative strategist. buff.ly/04xrHff
buff.ly
Elizabeth Warren’s Amazingly Progressive Housing Bill
How the Massachusetts senator enlisted most Senate Republicans to support sweeping legislation
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Jason Fitzgerald @bagelonaplate.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Must-read report from a political prisoner in a de facto concentration camp
zeteo.com
EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year
Don't forget us on International Women's Day, writes Leqaa Kordia.
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