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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@brentaxemedia.bsky.social is crushing it lately on his podcast about what Syracuse needs to do with the new athletic director and men’s basketball head coach positions. Thanks Brent! Carparelli and Hodgson are perfect fits. Go get em! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Syracuse's loss to Pitt was appropriate ending to losing season, Autry era at Dome

Podcast Episode · Syracuse Sports · March 8 · 46m

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Matt Norlander @norlander.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Based on jobs I believe will open next month (and I bet it winds up more than 11), here's how I would rank the openings based on a variety of factors: 1. Syracuse 2. Cincinnati 3. Providence 4. Pitt 5. LSU 6. Arizona State 7. Kansas State 8. Butler 9. Oklahoma 10. Georgia Tech 11. Boston College

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We need to talk about the massive loophole that the Supreme Court just carved into election law over the shadow docket—giving states a free pass to enact patently unconstitutional voting rules within nearly *one year* of an election. A stunning new limit on judicial review. slate.com/news-and-pol...

In practice, what it means right now is that red states like Indiana and Florida will get a free pass to gerrymander racial minorities into oblivion, even if their maps are blatantly illegal and openly racist. That gives a huge advantage to Republicans because in many states, their one neat trick for gaining a partisan advantage is diluting representation for racial minorities to create more safe GOP districts. And so they can now go full steam ahead, changing the rules, rigging the maps, hampering democracy, without worrying about any pesky litigation that will cause for them. That is the sign of a party that’s desperate to cling on to power because it is losing popular support.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

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ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls

Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

“These are scenes I was not expecting to see in the US. You have detentions in Germany, but …they’re certainly not carried out by people who are wearing masks. There’s no comparison to that in Germany” —German journalist reporting from outside an NYC immigration center www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

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Scenes from immigration court in New York’s Federal Plaza.

Till Eckert spent two weeks reporting from the twelfth-floor hallways, where ICE agents have had charged encounters with immigrants and reporters.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I interviewed Pittsfield native Deirdre “Didi” O’Connell about her Emmy nomination for her fierce, emotionally harrowing turn in “The Penguin.” It’s a role that’s thrust the beloved O’Connell into the spotlight at age 72 after long and respected career on stage & screen. #EmmyAwards #Emmys2025

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It seems that people online are collectively providing a pretty clear picture of the killer's very specific personality/ideology/online type, and people in the press are just baffled by the references (I say as someone who is baffled by the references).

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

He didn't bridge disagreements. What he did with "Prove Me Wrong" was the debate equivalent of creating a wrestling persona--watch me take on, and take down, all comers! Nothing he did suggests that he was honestly open to persuasion by others or to tempering his numerous ugly, bigoted stances. >

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 12/09/2025

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 12/09/2025

To someone who learned history at a German school this reads frighteningly familiar.

"There is an ideology that has steadily been growing in this country which hates everything that is good, righteous and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted and depraved," White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller wrote Thursday on X. "It is an ideology at war with family and nature. It is envious, malicious, and soulless.“

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Probably worth noting that the people turning on Trump over Epstein represent the most unhinged and dangerous wing of the MAGA movement

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 119 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

"I think about how their community is sending them to Disneyland, and our government is sending them to detention.”

“When we talk about ‘What do we want in our community?’ — hard-working, of course. They go to church, and not just participating. Jackie is the worship director at the church,” Lettunich said. “(They) are collaborating with community outreach and things like The Salvation Army. … Their kids are in Christian school, and they are involved in all kinds of different activities and sports. They just won a music competition, just a few weeks ago, and a trip to Disney. I think about how their community is sending them to Disneyland, and our government is sending them to detention.”

Read more at: https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/politics-government/article310497985.html#storylink=cpy

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Robert Falls @robertfalls.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

1/4 Heartbroken by the news of playwright Richard Greenberg’s death. For the past several years we’ve been deep in collaboration on his gorgeous adaptation of Holiday, Philip Barry’s great American play—premiering at the Goodman this February. A profound loss mid-process.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 04/07/2025

Floridians are taking pictures of themselves next to the sign for their new death camp As I've said before, giving this concentration camp a cutesy name is reprehensible

A man in a Trump shirt standing next to an Alligator Alcatraz sign

A woman in a Trump shirt standing next to an Alligator Alcatraz sign

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I preview tonight’s #TonyAwards All the Reasons It's a Must-Watch Show This Year Who’s Presenting, who’s performing, what to look for in the #Hamilton reunion, who are the leading contenders in the top categories, and how might history be made.

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The 2025 Tonys Are Actually Worth Watching This Year and Here's Why

Broadway is back, baby!

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Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Listening to @theyoungcenter.bsky.social attorneys in this webinar talk about getting referrals from attorneys getting fired because of their org's cancelled govt funding, desperate for the children they're representing--who may have court dates 24-48hrs away--to have someone with them in court.

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Jennifer Simard has never met a line of dialogue or song verse that she couldn’t underplay with wry comic timing, bring to new life with a sardonic swivel, or give an idiosyncratic spin with a demented vocal fry. My story on the #TonyAward nominee for #DeathBecomesHer! @deathbecomesbway.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Trump has pardoned multiple convicted fraudsters — including a former GOP Congressman and two reality TV stars. He's also dropped or halted 100+ enforcement actions against corporate offenders — including 34 companies that funded his inauguration. Is this being "tough on crime"?

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

A U.S. citizen stopped upon re-entering the country and asked his opinion of Donald Trump. Terrible. “I’m an American citizen. You can’t just stop me at the border and be like: ‘What’s your opinion on Donald Trump? You’re not allowed to enter the nation.’” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Twitch star HasanAbi says he was detained, questioned by border agents

Hasan Piker, a left-wing political commentator who has 2.8 million followers on Twitch, says he was asked about his political affiliation, opinion of Trump and whether he had connections to terrorist ...

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Boston-connected productions that nabbed #TonyAwards nominations this morning include “John Proctor Is the Villain,” which was staged in a wonderful production @huntingtontheatre.bsky.social in Boston last year, and “Real Women Have Curves,” which the American Repertory Theater produced in 2023.

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Helen J. Shen getting snubbed for a #TonyAwards nomination for Best Actress in a Musical for “Maybe Happy Ending” is a travesty. Her performance was sardonic, funny and deeply moving. #MaybeHappyEnding

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

So happy to see Brooks Ashmanskas get a #TonyAwards nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for @SmashBroadway As always, he makes sardonic gay bitchiness and fey charm look effortless.

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I saw “Just in Time” @justintimebway last night on Broadway and Jonathan Groff and Gracie Lawrence were both fantastic as Bobby Darin and Connie Francis. Lawrence was an especially wonderful surprise. They both received much deserved #TonyAwards nominations this morning.

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

@GlengarryBway was one of the big losers at the #TonyAwards nominations this morning. It failed to land a nomination for Best Revival of a Play and of the actors only the wonderful Bob Odenkirk was recognized. No nods for Kieran Culkin, Bill Burr, Michael McKean or any other cast members.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

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Chris Wallenberg @chriswallenberg.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I spoke with playwright Jocelyn Bioh about “Jaja's African Hair Braiding”—produced by SpeakEasy Stage—a portrait of immigrant women at a hair braiding shop where the sardonic commentary, laughter and juicy gossip flows as fiercely as the compassion and community. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/25/a...

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Steven Rich @datab.ae · 01/05/2025

a small Texas county found a way to make money off migrants: arrest them for trespassing, make them post bail to get out of jail, turn them over to ICE, collect forfeited bail money. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

Over the past four years, the county has refused to return $1.7 million in bail from migrant trespass cases, according to a Times analysis of county budget records obtained through a public records request. The forfeitures are the equivalent of what it would take to pay for the entire sheriff's department for a year, or the county judge and county attorney's office combined for over three years.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It doesn't sound like the conservative justices accept the validity of the Establishment Clause, which requires separation of church & state. They're wielding the Free Exercise Clause to abolish church-state separation and compel Americans to fund religious education that violates their own beliefs.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh all sound furious that Oklahoma doesn't want to funnel taxpayer dollars away from secular schools toward a Catholic school. They deride the state's decision as anti-religious discrimination that violates the First Amendment's free exercise clause.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

SCOTUS's conservatives also sound ready to strike down the federal law that requires charter schools to provide secular education—and by extension the laws in ~47 states that mandate the same thing. We're looking at a HUGE shift in public education, with religious schools receiving a windfall of $$.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It appears very likely that the Supreme Court will force Oklahoma to approve and fund a Catholic charter school that reserves the right to indoctrinate students in Catholicism, force them to attend mass, and discriminate against non-Catholics. The three liberals sound increasingly exasperated.

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

There is nothing conservative about Trump's attacks on judges & the law Over 30 Republican legal titans have joined our cases to defend the Constitution Folks from every administration from Nixon to Trump 1.0 are speaking out @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

ICE went into the database where foreign students are tracked and deleted the record of at least 1,700 or more people because they had some minor interaction with law enforcement — speeding tickets, fishing citations, and other minor things. Judges are ruling that was illegal.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Exactly the same as the first time. People with prior orders of removal, that were allowed to stay for humanitarian or diplomatic reasons, and have been checking in with ICE for years, are the low hanging fruit and so get grabbed at check-ins and detained and deported.

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

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What It Means to Tell the Truth About America

And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”

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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

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FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say

Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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CDC denies help for lead poisoning in Milwaukee schools due to layoffs

The CDC rejected a request for help "due to the complete loss" of their lead poisoning experts.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Conservative foundations and wealthy donors spent $1 billion last year on funding nonprofits that suppress voter participation, kick people off the voter rolls, and throw out legitimately cast ballots. This is barely being discussed. Aaron Dorfman provides the research: prospect.org/politics/202...

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Right-Wing Donors and Foundations Spent $1 Billion to Keep People From Voting Last Year

A new study documents the fortunes spent to suppress voting in 2024.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

“People like summer and were shocked to find out that in winter, evening sun comes at the price of morning darkness. This is a proud American tradition: We like to pretend we can have it all right up until we can’t, and then we blame Congress.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | I have settled the endless daylight saving time debate

One time doesn’t fit all. Send the sun back to the states.

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