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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/09/2025

Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit. archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

In an interview at @nytimes.com headquarters, Curtis Sliwa, the GOP nominee and one of the candidates facing pressure to exit the race, refused to entertain the idea. “No, no, no. A thousand times no,” Sliwa said. “I can’t be bought. I can’t be leased. I can’t be rented. I am not corruptible.”

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Curtis Sliwa Vows to Stay in Mayor’s Race, Despite Push to Clear Field

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Mamdani was the only candidate who was viewed positively by a majority of voters, with 52% saying they have a “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” impression of him. Only 36% used those terms about Cuomo. 56% said Mamdani “cares about people like me,” 8 points more than said it about Cuomo.

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Times-Siena Poll Shows Where Mamdani’s Strong Support Lies

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Jennie Coughlin @jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Adams and Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Adams and Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mamdani’s views on Israel.

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Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel, With Mayor’s Race as Backdrop

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

“Because the court is not explaining its shadow docket rulings, judges lack any meaningful guidance about what to do in future cases, Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis said.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Judges vexed by Supreme Court 'shadow docket' rulings in Trump cases

An extraordinary spat is occurring within the U.S. judiciary concerning a flurry of Supreme Court decisions.

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Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Two green card holders and a US citizen. Not that it matters, constitutionally! But it’s interesting that Kavanaugh thinks this is a no-big-deal thing for people to experience in the course of a day

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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 10/09/2025

Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.

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Max Bernhard @mxbernhard.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"Infidels MC was set up by US military veterans of the Iraq war in 2006 and members see themselves as modern Crusaders, using the Crusader cross as their symbol - a reference to the medieval Christians who fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites

BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Social media posts about the military mission in D.C. summarized on Friday were assessed to be 53 percent negative, 45 percent neutral and 2 percent positive, the documents say.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

This afternoon, following full consideration of the facts related to this situation, I directed the Provost to terminate the professor involved, effective immediately. Please understand that these decisions were mine alone and were not
made lightly. While I cannot provide all the details at this time, I will share the following facts.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

A word cloud with dominant words "equity", "disparity", "diverse", and similar words.

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Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

There’s a gift link to the article below

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Well, look at this: Mamdani represents the views of a plurality of New Yorkers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

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Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel, With Mayor’s Race as Backdrop

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025

"“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”"

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Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

This video should be required watching for every professor in the US

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

He might be able to corral another one quarter of one percent with Jeffries and Schumer endorsements.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Not surprisingly, the A&M student paper gives more useful context

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

“Young people who took to the streets to protest corruption and poor job prospects could face decades in maximum-security prison under a set of laws set up to combat al Qaeda” www.wsj.com/world/africa...

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Kenya Uses U.S.-Funded Antiterrorism Courts for Political Crackdown

Young people who took to the streets to protest corruption and poor job prospects could face decades in maximum-security prison under a set of laws set up to combat al Qaeda.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 08/09/2025

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Just brilliant negotiating strategy to give up leverage in exchange for a thing Republicans in swing areas already wanted

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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

it feels like August 1939 and June 1914 worldwide, with extra March 1861 here in 🇺🇸

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The damaging effects of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence reverberate in multiple directions, often passing down from generation to generation. Domestic abuse cannot be explained away as a “little fight.” Everyday this man telegraphs to the world just how vile and disgusting he is.

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

When I worked long grueling days in retail at Macy’s, putting makeup on rude people and trying to earn something above minimum, I looked forward most to lunch, when I would go to the break room, eat my mall food court food, and read the book and theater review sections of the NYT and the Star Trib

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

There it is folks. The brilliant Dem strategy, according to the genius pundits with the ear of Dem leadership, is to let Trump keep doing everything he's doing but only if we can also help Republicans avoid paying a political price for hurting people long enough to hold the House and Senate in 2026

Tweets from Iggy and Lakshya saying the only condition Dems should demand to fund the government is an agreement to extend current ACA subsidies for one year.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 08/09/2025

The US Administration has thus imposed a de-facto ban on most professional and academic interaction with a range of countries around the world. Barring those without a year of planning (or more, at their whim) equates to a ban.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Let’s remember: What CBS cut were vicious unproven slander and uncharged allegations by a Cabinet secretary targeting a private person. If we can’t draw the line against such hideous lies, is there no line left?

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/09/2025

Terence Tao, one of the world’s greatest mathematicians, is speaking out after federal research funding to UCLA was suspended. “People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now,” he said.

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The world’s greatest mathematician avoided politics. Then Trump cut science funding.

Terence Tao, a renowned mathematician at UCLA, faced funding challenges after the Trump administration froze federal research funds.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 08/09/2025

As I have stated before, and will continue to do so, come 2029 Nigel Farage will campaign on the line that, under the Labour government, terrorism arrests skyrocketed, and he will have the figures to prove it. One of the stupidest political moves of all time.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Imagine going back in time to like 2010 and telling people that the HHS Secretary would be promoting burgers and fries on TV while expediting review for nicotine pouches. And he'd be testifying to Congress with a pouch in his mouth. All while calling his agenda Make America Healthy Again.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/09/2025

The rising costs of school supplies, increased electricity bills and rent, and uncertain federal funding have made this year’s return to the classroom more financially stressful than usual.

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Rising school costs force some families to choose: Buy pencils or pay bills?

The rising cost of school supplies, increased electric costs and rent, and tighter school budgets has turned the start of school into a financial strain for some.

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Aliya Bhatia @aliyabhatia.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The wait time for a visa appointment in Colombia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Nigeria are over 1 year. Among other things, this means people getting notices that they have been accepted to conferences hosted within the same year in the U.S. will not be able to come if they don't have a visa already

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

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Briallen Hopper @briallenhopper.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I’m glad I have a lifetime supply of Sailor pens already

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The serious strategist answer for why Congressional Dems should do real opposition rather than avoid it while saying "distraction" a lot is not that opposition guarantees electoral victory. It's that they have no idea complacency will either, it's pure guesswork, so might as well stand on principle.

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

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