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Carly Putnam 🦖

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“this short hair quiet slightly angry woman from the middle of the country with a don’t mess with me attitude.” Herds cats at OK Policy. Opinions are mine.

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 1h
He’s dealing truths and facts.
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 1h
It remains odd to me The Onion has decided the thing to do in 2026 is mislead people about Democrats The DNC and prominent Democrats like El-Sayed! This isn’t even a joke, it’s a poorly controlled reflex
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 44m
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 45m
just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10h
oh man you know a small paper did good when the NYT reports on their reporting rather than ripping them off without credit www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 59m
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 32m
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11m
The point is that as a society, somewhat intentionally because the people who built the post-World War II public university system created this infrastructure on purpose, we house countless vital functions in our modern public universities.
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 34m
Genuinely fucking what
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 2h
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 7h
My cofounder Rich and I are making a bold attempt to become the Car Talk of software (enterprise or not, AI or not) which means we need YOUR MOST EMBARRASSING CODE AND CAREER QUESTIONS (anonymous is fine). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Ask Aboard
On The Aboard Podcast, Rich Ziade and Paul Ford discuss how AI is changing software development—and everything else. We're introducing a new segment, "Ask Aboard," where listeners send in questions ...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3h
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h
"I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw" is now understood by scholars to be a corruption of a popular Elizabethean joke about basketball teams.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1h
Holy crap. Can’t make this stuff up
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 1h
Good and gutting. (No, really, it is very good—you should read it) David Perry, UMN student advisor, on what the university is for and how deeply the planned budget cuts will mess with that www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
And mostly, it’s worked out for the best. Even if we just assess for dollar value, a 2025 analysis found that for every $1 invested in the U, the state reaped $16.75. In other words, every Minnesotan benefits from our robust systems of public higher education.
It’s been striking to me that while conversation about the budget inside the U has been substantial, I haven’t yet seen Minnesotan politicians addressing these potential cuts as a crisis. Part of that is because public universities like the U have made a trade-off, growing increasingly corporate and independent (despite publicly appointed regents) as public funding has collapsed. As a share of the budget, state funding has plummeted over the decades, falling to about 15%, compared to 39% in 1997. If that’s what you want, then fine. But did we ever have a public debate about whether that’s what Minnesotans actually want?
If you don’t want to more significantly fund the university, which bits are you eager to cut away? If it’s instruction and student services, here’s what happens.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1h
Why does he keep talking about this?
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 1h
International tourist visits to the US are approaching the same levels as 2020
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h
Are there any old heads still working in news who can remember the firestorm a racist utterance in the WH like this would’ve kicked up.
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 1h
The state of Nebraska has released data on the 1st few months of Medicaid work reporting requirements Over 1,000 people have lost/been denied coverage Vast majority are losing not bcuz they aren't working but bcuz they can't get thru the red tape My new blog: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/09/30/n...
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Nebraska Releases First Data on Medicaid Work Reporting Requirement: As Expected, Coverage Losses Start to Mount Due to Red Tape
At a recent Medicaid Advisory Committee meeting, the state of Nebraska, the first in the nation to implement what will soon be a mandatory Medicaid work reporting requirement (WRR), shared the first d...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h
it was either malicious negligence on a Hitleresque scale or deliberate murder of as many nonwhite people as possible. I think door #2 is more plausible
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Alice Jane Grimm (she/her) @alice-j-grimm.bsky.social · 5h
I am pretty confident it’s to drive Black, Muslim, and Sikh men out of the force
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 5h
Some of the other Hegseth obsessions are more horrible, but I think the beard one is the weirdest one, right? (Especially, in my view at least, given his ink situation).
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h
At a certain point in my life, ground combat was My Thing. If you handed me an infantry company right now, I would have no idea how to employ it. If I had to get back into the game today, the last thing I'd be concerned about would be my soldiers' genitals, sex lives or height-to-weight ratios.
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Emily Moin @emilymoin.com · 6h
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 5h
You cannot hack your way out of a lack of representation.
Figure from https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/09/30/how-well-synthetic-samples-replicate-public-opinion/

Showing higher error rates in groups usually underrepresented in surveys, including HS or less education.

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"The synthetic sample performed especially poorly when it came to replicating the responses of groups including:
Republicans and Republican leaners
The synthetic sample performed especially poorly when it came to replicating the responses of groups including:
- Republicans and Republican leaners
Black adults
- Those who have not attended college
- Those who use the internet infrequently or not at all Black adults
- Those who have not attended college
- Those who use the internet infrequently or not at all”
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 15h
EXTERMINATE
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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 15h
Air to Ground Message: WOW THATS NOT GOOD Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Boeing 737-800 A: #a1c9409ee45 F: #fc1c0a18623
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 13h
What’s that line about how billionaires should be pro-taxing themselves because something is going to happen to them and being taxed is the least-bad option
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h
"Vote for James Talarico. He has *one* house."
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Matthew Prorok @mattprorok.bsky.social · 14h
If that's your concern, I have great news! There's no evidence that trans people have any kind of physical advantage in athletics, and some evidence that they may be at a disadvantage.
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Trans Women in Sports: Facts Over Fear | SF.gov
Resources to combat misinformation around trans women's participation in sports.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20h
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 14h
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump is leaving America exposed to dangerous viruses: digital, biological and diplomatic,” our columnist @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social says. “Something bad is going to happen to us as a result. We and our children are going to pay for this, and not only at the gas pump.”
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Opinion | Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14h
The AI bubble is even more precarious than you knew.
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Shoutout to the 🐐GOAT🐐, respect greatness www.macfound.org/videos/2026-...
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Ellora Derenoncourt - 2026 MacArthur Fellow
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Carly Putnam 🦖 @cputnam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Guys it wasn’t the hockey
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2026
Getting ratioed on Musk’s site as a hard-right senator takes some real skill
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is wild to have Biden out and about doing events, giving speeches, and meeting random members of the public on planes and trains and taking pictures and what not, 2 years after leaving office, and yet there are *still* people who will breathlessly scream about how he clearly had dementia
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
wake up babe, new Skynet/ Matrix/ WOPR/ robot apocalypse strategy just bounced: they're going to use the brain-rotted guy in charge of health policy to tell us to all start licking measles homeopathically.
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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wouldn’t stop suing until my name was on every building the school has and every trustee had to write me a personal check.
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The Pickup @thepickupdotcom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"But perhaps the most shocking number in these records is the 9,681 accepted voucher applications submitted by families with household incomes that exceed $250,000 a year." thepickup.com/more-public-...
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More Public Dollars Are Going To Oklahoma’s Private Schools Than Ever Before - The Pickup
The closer you look at the student vouchers, the more they look like an upward transfer of wealth.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great thread. Revive the OTA! This is also why I do not support term limits in Congress (at least not until other issues are fixed), because they would increase the churn and lead to even more reliance on lobbyists to explain complex issues.
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Oklahoma Policy Institute @okpolicy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Got questions about the two state questions that are on the ballot in November? Indivisible Oklahoma is hosting a virtual meeting tonight (September 29) to help educate voters. They will break down the questions and explain the concepts in plain language. www.mobilize.us/indivisibleo...
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State Question Summit · Indivisible Oklahoma
The November 3rd General Election includes two state questions. In both cases the ballot language is complicated, but we have broken it down and explained the concepts in plain language. Be an inform...
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.
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ITEP @itep.org · 29/09/2026
A new calculator launched this week by @floridapolicy.bsky.social breaks down the impact on Florida communities. amendment3.floridapolicyinstitute.org
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Florida Amendment 3 Impact | Florida Policy Institute
Florida Amendment 3 Calculator. Look up your ZIP code or county to see the local government funding and services that could be affected.
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ITEP @itep.org · 29/09/2026
Florida voters will decide on Amendment 3, which would create a pathway for non-school property tax elimination. If passed, local governments would lose $13.7 billion in the first two years alone, jeopardizing public services that Floridians rely on. itep.org/impact-of-am...
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Tallying Up the Impact of Florida’s Property Tax Ballot Measure on Local Communities
Florida voters will soon vote on Amendment 3, which would create a pathway for non-school property tax elimination in the state. If passed, the measure would cost local governments $13.7 billion in th...
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