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Dr. Dave Haskell

@davehaskell.bsky.social
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I teach Am History 1 to gifted 8th graders in an urban school district. Archaeologist/ethnohistorian (mainly of Mexico) in a former life. The past was just as messy as the present (if not messier).

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 10h
Yesterday's terrible news should be on the front pages everywhere. Atrocities that history should never forgive us for. Destroying asylum seekers for sport.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21h
I got nominated for a Signal Award for B*tch, Listen! My interview w/ Elie Mystal—The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men—has been nominated for best individual episode in the Activism, Public Service, and Social Impact category! But now I need YOUR help. 1/2
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The Constitution: A Scam by Rich White Men, for Rich White Men
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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22h
Yup, absolutely. I think it’s wrong to treat the Iran War as simply one bad error that happened to the Trump Admin rather than the entirely logical consequence of the way it operates. If it wasn’t Iran, it would almost certainly have been something else
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h
A lot of people On Here seem surprised by the flimsiness of far right attacks. Did any of you follow the Durham investigation? Or Schmitt's lawsuit on Xitter, especially the way he worked a hard drive he claimed was Hunter Biden's laptop into it?
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jesse @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 21h
Republican attack ad: "This Democrat loves transgender surgeries for minors" Democratic attack ad: "This worthless sack of shit let a pedophile walk free and called you a stupid asshole"
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21h
the whole point of exercising "equitable powers" on the shadow docket is to quickly address imminent, irreparable harm it is infuriating and disgusting for the GOP justices to deploy that to block the harm of, what, insufficiently slow ethnic cleansing? ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 21h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.
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phylan @phylan.website · 21h
smoking that shit that makes me look like the live action Moe Szyslak
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
Tangentially, the military has made a service-wide push into using personal phones as work devices, meaning Meta is no doubt ingesting sensitive if not classified/secret data. And I’d be curious what this might mean for Signal.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
It ALMOST feels like we’re just starting to reach the normies with “the federal government and Silicon Valley have joined forces to spy on every aspect of your life and it’s called Palantir” and it’s either going to be the turning point for radical privacy or cripple the concept forever.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026
Basically using LLMs and agentic ai is a massive security risk and no one should do so basically ever and these companies should be prosecuted for hacking. Also two-party consent should extend to all electronic communications.
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Dr. Dave Haskell @davehaskell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@davidandress.bsky.social as a teacher in the US I try to avoid using my textbook, but came across an exercise for students that leads them to identify "the success of the Amer Rev" as 1 of 3 causes of the French Revolution. On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 is outright lie), how accurate is this?
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.
Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It never stops being important that, no matter what the subject, politicians like Farage, Trump & Rubio are entirely untethered from the most basic requirements of honest discourse. They might turn out to be telling the truth sometimes but only ever in the spirit of stopped clocks.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“There’s a feeling today that Britain only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942 [...] you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC," said historian Martin Winstone www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Britain knew about the Holocaust as it happened. A new exhibition reckons with that truth
Research draws upon reporting and witness testimony, while a permanent memorial is planned for London
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“You don’t have to stretch to paint this picture: OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company.”
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 29/09/2026
I've been saying for years there's not enough money even if the technology worked as advertised.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chris Rufo is literally the guy who went on Twitter constantly to say, "I'm going to manipulate people like Conor and here's how I'm going to do it," and elite media people like Conor just overlooked that completely.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/01/2025
My most France-pilled opinion is that the U.S. needs some post-secondary civil service training academies along the lines of the former École Nationale d’Administration. Public administration is serious work — work about which this country has for too long been unserious. We should change that.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a multi-racial and religiously pluralistic democracy like the US has at least claimed to be since WWII, there's no such thing as "the Indian Question" or "the Jewish Question" unless one is a racist or a theocrat.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's see the essays. Make them public. Let us read these scrawled golden tickets offered up by Cornell administrators to allow rapists to continue on with their lives unscathed. Was there a required word count? Did any of them use AI to write their "sorry for raping you" pieces? Let us read them.
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CNN @cnn.com · 28/09/2026
"The most provocative aspect of the 30-second spot that aired during NFL broadcasts Sunday is the tagline: 'Paid for by the U.S. Government.' "This raises key questions," writes Stephen Collinson. | Analysis cnn.it/3VUkpvS
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 27/09/2026
Courts have held that police do not need a warrant to obtain your search history, an expert on surveillance explains: “Police can essentially rummage through your most revealing Google search queries and find incriminating evidence against you.”
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“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once Surveillance”: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
A legal expert on digital surveillance answers questions from Bolts readers about how police track your personal data, and what public officials could be doing to restrict it.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The people who spent 15 years saying that society was George Orwell’s 1984 because rappers could say the N word but you can’t are now saying you must love the great machine that knows all of our wants and desires
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Tommy Tuberville, we found the furries, they’re at Mar-a-Lago.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In case you were in any doubt that they're Nazis.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 27/09/2026
or irrelevant because we should just ignore what is legal because the right does. But here's the problem. YOU CANNOT DISMANTLE A SYSTEM UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW IT WORKS. And the fact so many people think otherwise is a major problem.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Texas police has arrested a city council candidate in Austin who participated in a protest against ICE: www.kvue.com/article/news...
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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 27/09/2026
Wage theft is the biggest form of theft. And because employers force their employees onto poverty assistance, it's also a theft of your tax money. The robber barons love it when you blame the people they decided to rob. www.epi.org/publication/...
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Wage Theft is a Much Bigger Problem Than Other Forms of Theft—But Workers Remain Mostly Unprotected
Wage theft—employers’ failure to pay workers money they are legally entitled to—affects far more people than more well-known and feared forms of theft such as bank robberies, convenience store robberi...
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is excellent modern journalism. A century ago, a newspaper would publish a muckraking article. Then a pol could get quotes into the paper in response. That was slow turnaround. Now subjects of articles go on TV and social media to counterspin. And @propublica.org is rapidly responding. Great!
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Chris Turner @chrislturner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
tell Michigan I want them to know it was me
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Here's how we get Medicare for All done: Make Medicare whole (no one can keep all the parts straight!) Include vision, dental, and hearing. Begin extending to more people, starting with children. We arrive at Medicare for All, which means great Medicare for everyone.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup; DOGE was a coup. None of these people were appointed by the Congress to do any of these acts; it was a criminal coup.
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Michael Mishak @mjmishak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Online sportsbooks say they do not want business from problem gamblers. So @propublica.org's Jake Pearson spent 10 weeks on DraftKings testing how the company would react to someone displaying all the hallmarks of a compulsive bettor. Spoiler: It made him a VIP. www.propublica.org/article/draf...
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I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and pro...
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Kateriffic @hungrykate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think often of the snarking contempt shown by media towards Dr. Jill Biden who taught at a Community College (gasp!) Meanwhile, Trump bought his degree at Penn. 4 decades later, Jared did the same at Harvard. They're the only ones? LOL. This snobbery is unjustified and pervasive.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.
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the residual haunting of erin @eehouls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
it's so awesome to have this discussion when we don't even believe other people when they say they're in pain
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And we knew this in real time. Oman's foreign minister flew to America to appear on TV and tell us that the negotiations had reached a breakthrough. Probably because he knew exactly what Kushner and Israel were planning.
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