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Here, the ghost is me. @highway62.bsky.social · 11h

Netflix was advertising this dog with a FULL-BUILDING WRAP visible from the 405. I'm howling.

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

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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United University Professions @uupinfo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Read about the upcoming Oct. 17 No Kings Day, UUP President Fred Kowal's visit to SUNY Plattsburgh, how to get involved ahead of the Nov. 3 elections, and more in last week's edition of the UUPConnect at icont.ac/51mQw.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Initially I was frustrated with the rise of self-checkout but I appreciated how stores passed the savings on to me rather than pocket the money, fire armies of workers & make me do a job I suck at. It’s also why I’m optimistic about AI! I have been kicked in the head by several horses.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I talked to @donmoyn.bsky.social about the state of the government for my newsletter "It's sort of like if you had a car and you took out 10 percent of the parts of the car. It's not that the car is going to be 10 percent slower. The car is not going to work."

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The federal government is falling apart

Don Moynihan on what's been broken within the federal government.

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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE deported 5-year-old Liam Tadeo and his father. This has shattered their family who are trying to pick up the pieces the best they can.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/08/2026

President Trump has spent the morning on Truth Social trashing Canada and praising totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un. Congrats, America!

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

look, Deshaun Watson is a terrible person, and he's actively antagonizing the loyal Browns fans still willing to pay money to see this awful team, and he's too old to be a part of the future of the franchise, and he's untradeable. But you've gotta admit: he's also absolutely terrible at football

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Republican Tom Nichols has thoughts he wishes to share.

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arseblog @arseblog.com · 11/08/2026

This is how you know with absolute certainty – if you had any doubt at all – that it would not be a terrible mistake to replace Fifa's Gianni Infantino.

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Trump made vastly more money in crypto last year than all of the presidential salaries since the beginning of the republic combined. He made more from crypto than the salaries of every member of Congress over the past 15 years *combined*. It’s yielded a collective shrug from his fellow Republicans.

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is a huge problem: a million campus grants for more AI, and nothing for those of us trying to teach without.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

It's amazing how refreshing it is to just hear someone say things that are obviously true

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I can't believe how many people on here are still obsessing over the Platner campaign. It is as if not studying the sordid debacle in minute detail will leave a void in their lives.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

In the universe next door, the map did include Jewish neighborhoods and exactly the same people are outraged he’s equating Jews with foreigners.

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I can celebrate Yeats while at the same time appreciating most English authors (Kipling is a bridge too far).

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I certainly agree that resistance to Russian imperialism is and was righteous and certainly shouldn't be called a phobia. My Polish ancestors would turn over in their graves. I also had grandparents from Ireland. Should I not watch a Gilbert & Sullivan play? Read Shakespeare?

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I recommend that you never read anything written by Roberto Bolano.

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I am not saying he should be required reading but I think your judgment is rather unfair. If the ethics of an author prevents you from reading their work I suppose you have a short list of books you recommend.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

the audio is what makes this a perfect 10

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Why on earth would people not read Dostoevsky?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Elsewhere, less tactful conservatives expressed directly what the dissenting justices chose to do in euphemism. Stephen Miller, who runs immigration policy for the Trump administration, told Fox News that “we have people from all over the world, from third-world nations, nations that on their own would have never invented the wheel, let alone modern technology, let alone medicine, let alone air travel.” He went on: “They can just come into the country, have a baby at a hospital paid for by you and me, and then that baby is automatically a citizen? That baby can sit on a jury when he turns 18 and sit in judgment of you and sit in judgment of me and sit in judgment of our loved ones? Can decide who our mayors are? Our governors are? Our presidents are?” Miller’s long-standing view is that what ruined America was the repeal of eugenics-inspired immigration restrictions that had banned immigration from Asia and Africa and from nations in Europe deemed to be composed of lesser white races.

There is very little difference between Miller’s position—if you come from a “Third World nation,” you are inferior—and that of antebellum Democrats and the opponents of the Fourteenth Amendment at the time it was adopted: American citizenship is degraded by having to share it with the biologically inferior. The justices are elite lawyers with the ability to obfuscate this project and ignore its aims, but the rest of us need not pretend. To put it bluntly, Miller’s objection, as articulated here, is not to birthright citizenship. It is to the idea that “all men are created equal.”

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

It was 5-4 on the constitutional question and the fact you are unable to recognise this as a problem is why you are unfit for the purpose. You have to go.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Always important to remind people that the occasional non egregious decision doesn’t make the Court any less corrupt or in need of reform. Even those who despise the Courts corruption have been accustomed to the idea that it reviews every law, prohibition or imperative embraced by Democrats as …

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It would be cool if they applied this same energy to winning elections against Republicans.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Incumbent Democrats haven't done much to stop Republicans from destroying this country, etc., and so the Democratic voters in their districts chose candidates who promised that they would, in fact, stop Republicans. That's precisely why there were primary challenges. This isn't complicated.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026

Trump: "It's signed. I signed it in Versailles. I just signed it."

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/06/2026

We were the only UNIONIZED employees he’d ever had, too. I am broke as hell now, but I’ll never regret saying this: EAT SHIT, YOU PATHETIC TWERP. No matter how much cash you accrue, you’ll never know the joy of solidarity. Your life is empty, and you’ll be remembered as a warning to children.

Jeff Bezos told Trump the Washington Post was his worst investment before slashing staff: 'People there are terrible'

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I’m a pretty cynical person, yet I never thought I’d live to see a post-Jim Crow American political party take the position that “racist pogroms are good actually.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/06/2026

oh my goodness - Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange: RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress *plays another clip of Trump sleeping by Rubio*

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The "warm smile" line gave me a chuckle.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Had me cackling like a fool 😭

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is what Arteta does when he isn't managing Arsenal?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/05/2026

Sen. Dave McCormick: "President Trump's regime-- uhm, his administration"

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CNYHistorian.bsky.social @cnyhistorian.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I lived in Georgia for a few years back in the 90s and folks in the burbs really seemed to hate Atlanta. Of course it was all tied up in race.

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 21/05/2026

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

🗃️ As we dive into yet another “what destroyed trust in higher-ed?” debate, this is actually the answer. Follow the $. Always follow the $. When higher-ed was publicly funded it required less ass kissing of the uber-rich “donor class.” And *surprise!* Students trusted their schools more then too 1/

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 09/05/2026

Rutgers AAUP's statement on the engineering school's cancellation of Rami Elghandour's invitation to serve as its convocation speaker

The executive councils of the Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn the withdrawal of Rami Elghandour’s (ENG’01) invitation to serve as the School of Engineering, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (SOE, RU-NB) convocation speaker. This decision by the administration is a politically motivated suppression of expression that undermines rather than advances the free exchange of ideas on our campus, and clearly reflects a broader pattern of universities applying a Palestine exception to their stated commitments to free speech.

Rami Elghandour is a 2001 graduate of the School who has gone on to lead two multibillion-dollar companies. He has used his success to advocate for gender equity and social justice, ranking among the country’s top CEOs for both women and diversity. He is also an executive producer on the Oscar-nominated film “The Voice of Hind Rajab” and on “American Doctor,” which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, and serves on nonprofit boards focused on education, gender equity, and humanitarian work. He has remained committed to Rutgers, hosting students through the Road to Silicon Valley Program (RSVP) every year, including sixty students, many of them SOE, RU-NB engineers, just last week.

Elghandour has used his position to advocate for human rights for decades, including condemning the genocide in Gaza. His positions and statements were public when SOE, RU-NB invited him to speak at graduation, with Dean Cuitiño of the School of Engineering in Rutgers, New Brunswick, announcing on April 14 that “his personal and professional actions embody the values and vision of the School of Engineering, making our world a better place through his achievements in healthcare innovation and his commitment to advancing our community.” The invitation was withdrawn on April 30 apparently because of complaints from some students over Elghandour’s public stances, which we view as a direct violation of the university’s stated commitment to free speech and inquiry. As recently as October 2025, Rutgers President William F. Tate IV wrote that “the role of the university is not to prevent discomfort or protect ideology,” and that canceling a voice is “a sign of weakness, not strength.” Dean Cuitiño’s decision fails these standards.

The Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union call on Dean Cuitiño to reinstate Rami Elghandour as Convocation Speaker without delay. Freedom of speech is not an abstract principle; it is the contractual and moral foundation of this institution and of the faculty, staff, and students who make it function. This is also an attack on our community’s basic right to hear diverse perspectives. A speaker removed without cause, without process, and without a single stated objection sets a precedent both unions cannot accept.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

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Trump’s abrupt U-turn on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz came after backlash from allies

Saudi Arabia, a key Gulf ally, suspended the U.S. military’s ability to use its bases and airspace to carry out the operation, sources say.

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