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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 9h

almost like there's increasingly a fundamental choice between support for the pluralistic democracy that sustains our community and support for the nightmarish ethnostate that hates us!

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I wonder what it would be like to write the same column, over and over again, endlessly. Seems like it’d be boring. But maybe it brings one comfort, like having your parents read you the same story every night before you go to bed.

Opinion
Opinion by Megan McArdle
The Great Awokening is over.
This lesbian bar shows why.
A meltdown over masking shows where cancel culture is now.
Today at 07:00 ET

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The creation of dense, mixed-income, multiracial neighborhoods should be a significant policy priority for the Left because that is the breeding ground of our social base.

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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This by Adam Tooze is good. I’ve always found overly materialist explanations of far right voting unsatisfactory and tbh a form of left cope at times. Yes economic insecurity & loss plays a role but the driving force is simply racial resentment. It’s always best to look that squarely in the eye.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'll again note that the folks willing to sign a letter supporting a raging eugenicist (purportedly in defense of his academic freedom to be racist) aren't nearly as motivated when it comes to *actual* threats to academic freedom, like this.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For this org to threaten its membership that their actions could lead to “the wreckage of our discipline" is breathtakingly awful.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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WIRED @wired.com · 13/08/2026

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet. www.wired.com/story/heat-w...

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In a Heat Wave, One Medical Condition Is So Much Deadlier Than Any Other

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Over the last five years, my local CVS has been 1.) immediately adjacent to Skid Row in downtown LA, 2.) in the fanciest White people neighborhood of New Orleans and 3.) in a boring Inland Empire suburb. In all three locations, everything was locked up because CVS only hires 2 people per store.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 12/08/2026

The strangest thing about this week's academic cause célèbre is the impression it gives that we're still in 2021. In case some haven't noticed, rather more existential challenges to higher ed have emerged since. Would be good to focus on those.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"In fact, YIMBYs have plenty to say about power relations, inequality, and redistribution; it’s just that anti-YIMBYs haven’t been listening." publiccomment.blog/p/inequality...

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Inequality and Housing Shortages

Wealth inequality is both a cause and a consequence of restrictive land use

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Education Department has finalized a rule that will force schools to prove that the loans students are taking out are paying off.

Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest. For-profit programs will also be hit particularly hard.

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beleaguredcommoner.bsky.social @beleaguredcommoner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Every Gender Studies major deserves an apology for every joke made at their expense. People studied STEM because everything was science and engineering. People studied CompSci because everything was computers. People studied Gender because as it turns out, everything actually is Gender.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/07/2026

this is the closest ICE has ever come to saying "yeah we just murdered a guy"

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Jake i 🇵🇸 ✡️ (alt Space Laser Command) @jakei.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

if you thought México losing meant Los Angeles would not be blasting fireworks you would be wrong

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The newly formed coalition US Scholars Speak just published an important and powerful statement titled “Confronting the AHA’s (@historians.org) Palestine Exception.” Fellow historians, please consider signing it if you haven’t already done so. 🗃️ www.usscholarsspeak.org

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US Scholars Speak

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The PA spent the last 20 years providing security cooperation to Israel, after a decade of diplomatic concessions, and the response to the end of active fighting in the West Bank from 🇮🇱 has been to massively accelerate settlement construction and completely foreclosed on the possibility of a 2SS.

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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Please consider ordering my new book BLUE POWER from @redemmas.org today, to support legal defense for Prairieland and Minneapolis defendants. redemmas.org/titles/48838...

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Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore

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BumboJumbo @bumbojumbo666.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Its so cool how trans people get treated as nothing more than proxies in all these internecine beefs, often specifically by the people claiming to be supporting our rights by using us as tools.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

Jill Tucker
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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There’s been more elite Democrat anger at Democratic primary voters than outrage over the life imprisonment of anti-ICE protesters — including a couple whose only offense was printing zines. Look at what they choose to talk about with the media and what they ignore. It’s revealing!

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doom boy @doomboy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

"i'm a committed catholic. also i waited six years to baptize my child"

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Jim Naureckas @naureckas.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Alternative @nytimes.com headline: "A Jewish Democrat's Criticism of Israel May Win Him a NYC House Seat."

A Jewish Democrat’s Support of Israel May Cost Him His N.Y.C. House Seat

Representative Dan Goldman is being challenged over his stance on the war in Gaza as he faces Brad Lander in a contentious race in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Can confirm Fatboy Slim was with us

Fatboy slim holding a sign that says “more disco, less fascism”

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I keep saying this: the reason [academic] didn't get hired is not that [woman or minority scholar] took their job, it is that 'their job' ceased to exist. The person in the line retired in 2010 and the department lost the fight to get the line back in 2014. No one 'took' it, it's gone.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

‘“I no longer consider Columbia University a safe place to work for Jews who dare to dissent from the political agenda of its most ardently pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian donors and trustees,” wrote Joseph Howley, a classics professor, in his claim.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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‘We were attacked as bad Jews’: Columbia faculty who supported Gaza protests file claims with Trump’s antisemitism fund

Faculty who support Palestinian rights are applying for compensation, claiming they faced harassment as Jews for their positions

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It’s driving me a little insane seeing all the LA housing developers talking very cogently about the government dysfunction and delays that make new construction cost-prohibitive, and then saying “that’s why putting the reality TV crystal dumbass in charge of this complex system will fix things”

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 20/05/2026

man, university libraries are amazing. you can just ask them to help get some obscure thing and they're like "doing that is actually our job, not only are we good at it but also we are excited to make this happen for you"

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Burn After Reading ass op

There are many unanswered questions about how Israel and the United States planned to put Mr. Ahmadinejad in power, and the circumstances surrounding the airstrike that injured him. American officials said that the strike — carried out by the Israeli Air Force — was meant to kill the guards watching over Mr. Ahmadinejad as part of a plan to release him from house arrest.

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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I still think these two paragraphs from Ganz are the most important contemporary political writing

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

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Bill Savage @rogersparkman.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Back in the early '70s, my late Mom helped prevent the widening of the street we lived on, 6400 block of Glenwood Avenue. South of there, the street is widened and it's much more dangerous, with speeding drivers.

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Don’t worry guys, we’ll solve this with the next student protestor they throw the book at, the next center for western civilization, the next task force on antisemitism, the next commission on free speech, the next censure of a trans TA for giving a bad grade…

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The Bronx Still Burns The borough’s arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

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The Bronx Still Burns - Dissent Magazine

The borough's arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City.

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Extreme heat kills over 500 New Yorkers each summer, when crowded, shadeless neighborhoods become furnaces and pressure-cookers. No borough is more vulnerable to heat-related deaths than the Bronx.

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The Bronx Still Burns - Dissent Magazine

The borough's arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

And the dystopia that the separation of press and state is at least as important as the separation of church and state, and here was the press servile before an exceptionally criminal brutish representation of state.

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david helps @david-helps.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

My review of @benchansfield.bsky.social’s brilliant history of arson is now unpaywalled @dissentmag.bsky.social:

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sanjukta paul @sanjukta.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is disgusting.

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