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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.

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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Let me get this straight. Sometimes a famous person dies and everyone is nice about it? Merely because of their deeds during life?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026

El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

“I learned what asylum was when I was 9 years old… I learned that if a boat of children arrive on your shores and you send them back to their deaths, that is an evil act. The reason we have asylum is because we tried the alternative, and the result was evil.”

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 28/06/2026

These people are performing for grass.

A post on Threads from freedom250

The text reads:

“Faith in Freedom @celestekellogg rocked the main stage at the Great American State Fair. We have so much incredible stuff happening every day through July 10. Come by and have a fun time."

There are two images showing a man wearing sunglasses, and a woman wearing a red top, singing on stage.

A man wearing sunglasses is playing a guitar, and a woman wearing a red top, is singing on stage.

Zoomed in image on the face of the man wearing sunglasses

Close up on the sunglasses shows he is performing to an empty green field.

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It grieves me deeply to seem to defend him in any way, but I think he said “He’s got a very… a person I’ve known for a long time.” I think he is referring to his son’s partner, not his son.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026

I don't have kids, but if the president of my college-aged niece's university ran over her foot because she asked him a question, I'd be showing up outside his office in this

A merry red monster truck smashing four compact cars simultaneously

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Tech companies are racing to force AI into every part of our lives before the courts can enforce our copyright laws. I am running for Congress to regulate AI companies before they become too big to fail.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

If we organize around candidates of courage and conviction, we can take down this criminal conspiracy. We can prosecute the corruption. We can put the criminals in jail. We can seize their ill-gotten loot. Political violence is bad, and it can't do any of that.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/04/2026

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong. Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The President of Iran condemns insults to the Pope and the desecration of Jesus by the President of the United States. What a time to be alive.

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 13/04/2026

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

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Paul Vierthaler @vierth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The sickest burn I was ever subject to was when I was trying to buy an overcoat at some shop in The Hague. I put one on, thinking it looked pretty nice. My wife looked me up and down and said “you look like a magician.” Seeing my offended look without missing a beat she said “sorry, illusionist.”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Consider — where are those new tolls going? To Iran’s murderous regime. Is it too much to wonder, though, whether a portion reaches the pockets of US negotiators or other Americans? (3/14)

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Kimb @kimb.dev · 07/04/2026

There's a toddler with a gun and the adults are embarassed they gave him a gun so they insist he's actually very mature for his age

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/04/2026

Remember when Bill Clinton spoke to his AG for a few seconds privately, on the tarmac, and the US media, following the instructions of bad-faith wingnuts, made a huge multi-week scandal out of it?

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I just imagined Obama saying “Praise be to Allah” on Easter and had a seizure

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide. He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If you have federal student debt, you may have recently received an email from the Department of Education telling student debtors who are in the SAVE forbearance to switch plans. We want to encourage you to not rush this next step. Take a deep breath. You have until September.

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I had many funny thoughts after watching this eleventy million times, but my favorite one was imagining the Gus Fring face scene, but you pan around and the other half of his face is Olaf in the moment the light leaves his eyes

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Honestly, the great crisis of our society is the unwillingness of institutions to inflict consequences. Impeach the president, fire the sex pests, expel cheating students, excommunicate an unrepentant heretic, prosecute the war criminals. Believe in your institution enough to enforce its rules.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

As a protestant, this feels strange to say, but the point at which an adult convert to Catholicism has been rebuked by two Popes in one year and then goes on to write a memoir called 'Communion' about his faith, they ought to bring excommunication back. This guy is evidently an unrepentant heretic.

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

A graph titled “the public health success of the measles vaccine” that shows the number of measles cases in the United States plummeting after the vaccine was introduced in 1963

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

Headline:
Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran

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Mike (beep boop era) @latimeriidae.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Walking thru the “Ultra Normie” No Kings rally in my extremely rural, white town and there are Patagonia wearing moms carrying signs that say “DEAD PEDOPHILES DONT REOFFEND” and “ICE GETS THE WALL” and I hi fived an old guy with a sign that said MY DADDY FOUGHT NAZIS AND SO WILL I” this is wild

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Opinionated Terran @opinionated-terran.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

“At every step of the way, AI firms have appeared to prioritize speed above the physical security of data centers, supply-chain redundancy, energy efficiency and independence, political stability, even financial returns…. ensnaring the entire economy.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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Welcome to a Multidimensional Economic Disaster

The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Some years ago, I ran into a college friend at a market in Copenhagen. We had both gone to school in Massachusetts, which was where I was visiting from. She was visiting Denmark for the weekend while living in CYPRUS. Talk about unlikely!

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 26/03/2026

One way to explain it to centrists is, instead of killing 100 innocent schoolchildren, what if they had used your tax dollars to feed those 100 kids steak without checking if they were poor? A bomb is like a really, really expensive steak. Maybe even worse.

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Also, if the pipeline of people generating the subject matter knowledge dries up because it’s replaced with LLMs, who exactly will be around to fact-check the LLMs in 20 years?

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Nailed it. That grad student-marrying train always comes on time. No reason to think it’ll change with robots!

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🌭 stevia nicks @muffinlab.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

dinergoths, drive-in goths and divegoths

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Crystal Paul @cplhouse.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ICE agents shot & killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez after he dropped his kids off at school in September. Minn officials launched investigations into Pretti & Good's killings. Cook County has not done the same for Villegas Gonzalez. blockclubchicago.org/2026/03/23/i... ✍️ @mollydevore.bsky.social

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ICE Killed A Man Outside Chicago Last Year. Little Has Been Done To Investigate

Neither the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office nor Franklin Park police chose to launch probes into the death of Silverio Villegas González. That’s in stark contrast to Minneapolis, where local off...

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

“I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free” Stares at camera.

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

(Worth noting that autocorrect wanted his name to be Shoshone Menotti! The computers are clearly ready for primetime here. 👍 👍 👍)

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

“It’s not quite as clear as grammar facts, but it’s pretty close.” —Shishir Mehrotra on the famously objective discipline of history

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caredwen @caredwen.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Some of the numerous bangers from this episode. (I especially like the last one, wherein Mehrotra inadvertently reveals how little he understands teaching OR history.)

What would you read into the poll where Al polls below ICE?

People are scared for their jobs.

You think people are just scared for their jobs?

I think so. I think-

Do you understand that that's extraction? You've taken the sum total of everyone's work on the internet and now you're going to use it to replace human beings and their jobs without any economic recompense.

You had a suite there at South by Southwest. I looked at some of the videos. The caption on one of the Instagram carousels... I'm just going to read you the caption. This is from the Superhuman suite at South by Southwest. There were a lot of talks there. The summary of the talks was, "Al can't replace human creativity, empathy, or emotion. It won't take all of our jobs, but it will reshape how we work. And in the Al era, taste and judgment are more valuable than ever." Valuable on what metric? Is it dollars?

Valuable on every metric.

Specifically dollars. Dollars are what I pay my mortgage in. Is it dollars?

I'm sorry, I didn't understand the question.

Wait, hold on. You understand that you're saying I have to do that because all of the work I've produced in my career to date has been taken without compensation by Al companies.

I didn't make that statement.

What? You're saying I need to invent some new business model as an expert and upload an agent of myself to your tool and then advertise it to get a 70 / 30 revenue split from however many people use Grammarly, because my actual body of work has been reduced to zero value. That's a pretty hard sell.

Yeah. It's totally fair. My guess is the types of experts that will first prevail here won't be the ones you're describing.
Those that make something creative, sound unique, make it sound better, are probably not the ones that'll work first.
But I do think there's a set of experts and creators that will work great. Maybe I'll pick the ones that are right next to Grammarly.
There's a set of teachers for whom this is going to work really well. They're going to say, "Hey, in addition to making sure your grammar is good, it looks like you're writing something about history. I can probably help you cover history more clearly." It's not quite as clear as grammar facts, but it's pretty close. "This is what happened in this period. You should know these different elements of it." Teachers will be a great example of that.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

every single financial institution would benefit from hiring exactly one (1) progressive to walk around the office all day long going “are you fucking stupid?” to anyone within ear shot

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 20/03/2026

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

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Sorrel @sorrelish.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait:

1. Build up speed
2. Hit Trampoline
3. Cool backflip
4. Nail the landing

The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

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