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D E McCoskey

@denisemccoskey.bsky.social
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always concerned about the state of the world. often teaching Latin and writing about the ancient Greek and Roman worlds and issues related to race. never tolerating race science. don't even get me started on IQ

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Casey Stegman @caseystegman.com · 30/09/2026
Just a reminder that you can have a PhD and also be an idiot
I'm a College Professor. Writing Isnt as Important as We Think.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I love that the U.S. government now has ideas so dumb that the fact checks are simply “yeah this isn’t a parody, it’s real”
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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
laughing so I don't cry because colleges really be moving like this 😭
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Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm begging Larry David to go to Maine.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope they have their essay-writing pens ready.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Athens. The power of Rome . . . "
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Julius Caesar Laughing in Cartoon
Alt: Julius Caesar Laughing in Cartoon
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Woah!
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As a Cornell alumna, this thread is . . . something else.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
renaissance painting when the renaissance is really fucking stupid
senator schmitt and his two idiot staffers after making a generational fuck up
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More of this please. Democrats pushing shitty Democrats on us is a huge problem.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a Cincinnatian, I'm SO happy with the way Sherrod Brown is running his campaign this time! Take no prisoners.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Jim Swift @jimswift.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Why We’re Going to Springfield www.thebulwark.com/p/why-were-g...
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Why We’re Going to Springfield
There’s honor in this fight.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Completely dismantling state-by-state the public education that helped build this country. It used to be the envy of almost every nation in the world. Now an absolute clusterf*ck of censorship and AI slop.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 24/09/2026
The sad reality is that progressive backlash against Marcy Kaptur’s transphobic ads is the kind of advertising that money can’t buy in her R+11 district that includes the most conservative part of the state. www.rooster.info/p/marcy-kapt...
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Ohio Democrats’ trans panic, explained
Or why Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur won’t be taking down her transphobic ads anytime soon.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TFW you realize how academic institutions are actually run these days👇
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23/09/2026
Sen. Jon Husted: “The war needs to come to an end as quickly as possible so that we can lower gas prices” Sen. Jon Husted when he could've voted to do just that:
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is disgusting--only the ODP would see what looks to be a Democrat wave in November and be craven enough to start picking on trans-Ohians. This should enrage every Democrat of conscience.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Joshua Katz!
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Annoyed Cat's Side-Eye Stare
ALT: Annoyed Cat's Side-Eye Stare
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🎵 This is how we do it 🎶
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/09/2026
Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And here we go . . . (still, I love the way student newspapers are exposing these clowns and reading them for filth)
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did he say "please" once? www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-despe...
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Trump’s Desperate Plea to World Leader Is Leaked as His Crisis Hits New Record
The president doesn’t want diesel prices to rise further ahead of the midterms.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
imagine trying to write innocently about Your Struggle in the midst of today's cancel culture
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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These Black Los Angeles residents may soon receive environmental reparations
A $5 million pilot program could serve as a model for further efforts to compensate families harmed by toxic industrial practices.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They know how sh*tty these consultants are and still shove their garbage down our throat: truthout.org/articles/unp...
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Unpublished DNC Autopsy Chapter Slams “Self-Enriching” Consultants for 2024 Loss
The document describes them as insulated “from the realities many Americans were encountering in their lives.”…
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Students told us the temptation was greatest when they feared they would miss a deadline,” the report reads. IMO the underlying issue here is the labor practices these students are being fed into as they near adulthood. Learning is not about volume of output, but do these students understand that?
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again
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ineptitudinous.bsky.social @ineptitudinous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is why the world needs humanities majors—people well-versed in the creation and interpretation of messages by human beings. Some actual designs:
A print ad for Nivea Invisible deodorant. A woman in a white robe is sitting facing a window. The tagline reads "WHITE IS PURITY."A billboard for JCPenney. The tagline reads, "THE BELLS & WHISTLES YOU DESERVE." There is a logo at the bottom reading "Michael Graves designer." At the right is an image of a tea kettle that many say resembles Hitl*r.An award-winning concept for a twin tower apartment development. The midsections of each tower are connected mid-air by a cluster of cubes that, together, resemble the World Trade Center towers exploding.A Bud Light label. It reads, "The perfect beer for removing 'no' from your vocabulary for the night. #upforwhatever. The perfect beer for whatever happens."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democrats *cannot* support the Protection College Sports Act. It’s the most anti-labor coming out of this Congress. We cannot cap the mobility of black athletes, but not white coaches. My newsletter is up. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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We Need to Protect College Sports from Ted Cruz
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent looks at the many ways Ted Cruz’s college-sports bill threatens athletes’ labor rights. Plus: why our mail-in voting nightmare isn’t over.
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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 18/09/2026
FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
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FBI Warns ICE Agents Not to Trust Any Woman Willing to Date Them
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
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5chw4r7z @5chw4r7z.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is how ai is going to kill us.
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'Almost Started a War': US Military Nearly Boarded a Chinese Ship Based on Bad Intel From AI
One source told CNN that the "hallucination" was part of a trend in the U.S. military, not an isolated incident.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why didn't Odysseus simply secure a mutually beneficial exchange with the Trojans through the blockchain? Was he stupid?
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Brought to you by the people who lost twice to Trump
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 18/09/2026
It’s really bad. Red states are systematically destroying excellent university systems for very very ugly reasons and it just isn’t a topic of public debate.
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Democrat running for governor in my state absolutely dragged. Rightly so. Her campaign has been wild (not a compliment).
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I can't think of a better way for the elite to describe themselves when it comes to the American project: "We were on the Vineyard or in Greece."
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Perfect. No notes.
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Out of Context Mickey Mouse Comics @oocmickeycomics.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
From Disney Masters Vol. 17: Kali's Nail

Mickey peers from around a door into a dark room where an equally dark figure peers through a collection of records.

Mickey: (nervously thinking) I can see a dark, indefinite shape! He's donig something to Minnie's record player!
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Calling @econcat.bsky.social
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
😬
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is quite the update
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
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D E McCoskey @denisemccoskey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/s...
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Star Trek Shocked
ALT: Star Trek Shocked
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