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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h

another day another way he’s openly positioning himself as the GOP nominee, great uniter from the west, grand reagan bsky.app/profile/anna...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

I wonder where the Harper's signatories are now. Are they still alive or no?

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 12h

This whole thread 🙌

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 12h

Tired: These Fools Are Voting Against Their Own Interests! Wired: Or maybe, just maybe, the idea that anyone "acts against their own interests" comes from a flawed & naive view of what people's interests actually are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 13h

We've lived for so long with this mythology that sure, the wealthy can be cruel. But at least the cruelty has a point. Profit! I'd like us to open our hearts to other possibilities. Power doesn't just corrupt! It can also breed truly reality-distorting levels of incompetence.

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They're not beating the Trump's Gestapo charges any time soon, are they?

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And let's not forget his many bombings of fishermen

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I know he is unbothered by his own hypocrisy but this motherfucker started an illegal war with Iran and every reporter needs to say that to him when he rehashes this lie about ending 8 wars.

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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think it’s unconscionable that we are willing to move heaven and earth to find money for stadiums, but seemingly incapable of doing the same to prevent the closure of schools. My constituents are outraged. They are right to be. There’s still time to fix this, but we’re going to need to lock in.

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Chalk Girl @chalkgirl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Maybe some Portland baddies should show up tomorrow and loudly make it clear that Go Portland Go “greeters” represent a conservative pro-corporation PAC, not any local organization involving real Portlanders. Maybe we should have pretend greeters and Voter’s Guide fliers to hand out.

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Jamey Evenstar @jameyevenstar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So Kotek will go out of her way to find hundreds of millions for a fucking stadium and call it an “emergency” but can’t find the same energy to keep schools open? Or transit? Or rent assistance?

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Obviously, Tom Morello's vote was the one vote that would have put Kamala Harris over the top in both the popular vote and electoral college so we should definitely all be mad at him.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Any discussion about declining "public trust" in higher ed needs to start with acknowledging that the default stance in media coverage of higher ed looks like this: bsky.app/profile/ashe...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

And not to mention that we have a media that has done everything in its power to undermine public trust in higher ed over the last couple of years. Even our industry newsletters hate us. bsky.app/profile/hule...

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

How quickly we've forgotten how many of these university leaders sent the police to beat up peaceful student, faculty, and staff protestors! Start there if you want to talk about "trust."

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are worried about the "decline of public trust"; what are they doing about the fact that faculty, students, and staff at their own institutions do not trust them to lead effectively, defend academic freedom, and meet the challenges of the moment?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

University leaders seem to forget that "the public" includes students, faculty, and staff who study and work at the institutions they lead. The "public" is not some external, amorphous thing to the university. If you can't treat the people on your campus with decency, then yeah, they won't trust you

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This, all of this, and always and forever this

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026

They wouldn't be building plantations if they weren't counting on having slaves to work them.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026

You can't build a massive, multi-billion-dollar network of private detention camps and state-contracted prisons without a projected market that justifies the investment. Bodies in cells. They plan to fill every single bed and cot.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 03/10/2026

ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

so tired of this take. ask some conservatives if they want to make adjunct salaries and see how eager they are. gosh, i wonder why lots of left-leaning folks choose professions like teaching, counseling, and care work? must be indoctrination! no, we just give a shit about others and our world.

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They always say the problem is “training” so they can ask for more money to do what they’re already doing

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026

for too long, Republicans have been able to do everything—up to trying to overthrow the government!—and still get invited to the parties they want to get invited to. nothing changes for them and all I'm saying is that it should. you shouldn't keep getting invited to the party.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 01/10/2026

we should normalize the social shaming of bad people. sorry you don't think your Maine summers are as idyllic as they used to be, John Roberts. but you sold democracy to the highest bidders among your friends you don't get to summer without sometimes seeing a kayaker with a poster that says you suck

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a threat to free and fair elections. Cartoonish levels of supervillainy here.

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mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

yeah, i never asked for an endorsement. was not something i was seeking nor was it something i was excited about. it’s true i do have litmus tests. one of those is police accountability with teeth

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Portland must demand that Lars Larson eat his own shit

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

my husband just looked up from his phone and said, the daily mail is mad about some portland city councilor who tweeted about hating cops. and i said, that rocks, how can i support him? luckily mitch’s haters put up a billboard with a link where you can do just that!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The most loathesome and greedy people in Portland *hate* Mitch Green and are spending big money to try to take him out. That should tell you a lot about what the stakes are even before you hear about the good stuff he’s fought for.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

and so white nationalism must be a response to something, it can't be it is own ideological formation with its own history driven by people with their own agency

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

beyond bad faith part of what is happening here is that people who think this are basically incapable of thinking historically and see the political world as simply a set of actions and reactions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Genderless Robotic Rodent 🏳️‍⚧️🎃 @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That Mitch Green billboard is gonna play real well for Clackamas county folks.

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Matt Chorpenning, MSW @chorpenning.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's right and good to mistrust the armed enforcers of state violence. Mitch Green has nothing to apologize for.

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Patrick Kennedy @dysio.de · 17/09/2026

I know cops don't actually read or know the law so let me help you out: Bob Day is in violation of Portland City Policy # HRAR-4.06 (www.portland.gov/policies/hum...) I'd say it's a disappointment or a disgrace but the bar is so low you couldn't avoid violating some law if you stayed silent

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HRAR-4.06 - Political Activity

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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amb @amb.fyi · 16/09/2026

summer 2020 the cops beat up my 64 year old dad walking away from a protest wearing a "friends of trees" hoodie. all this to say i personally have trouble getting worked up over questions of appropriate social media decorum from private citizens contemporaneously responding to cop brutality

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