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Deyasi

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Just a middle-aged guy trying to make a living. Former kunsthistoriker.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 8h
she now has a TV box to add to her dining chair box. Almost three yeats ago today, she turned up on our doorstep a tiny, terrified and desperately ill little kitten. Now she has ALL THE BOXES. She is the happiest little kitty.
tortie rolly around happily on a collection of boxes
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 9h
it's also worth pointing out that many of these jobs in trades r extremely gender segregated bec of rampant sexism. women r effectively blocked from getting these jobs. women go to college at higher rates bec college degrees mitigate workplace sexism. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/women-outn...
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Women Outnumber Men In College Because of Sexism
No, not sexism against men. The usual kind of sexism.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 10h
I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 9h
Government by rapists, for rapists
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10h
Meanwhile, the only refugees the US is accepting these days are white people from South Africa, just in case the white nationalist logic behind this administration’s actions regarding immigration wasn’t already self-evident. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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US accepts only white refugees for sixth consecutive month
The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the "emergency" of "white genocide" in South Africa.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
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INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
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TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
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Scott Kelley Ernest 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 12h
BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals youtu.be/GwqOZ0eaoDI?...
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BOMBSHELL: WaPo reports Trump's ads were funded with money meant for slain officers' funerals
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h
I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West)
By now the Roman imperial economy depended heavily on African agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, much of which was in the hands of Africans themselves. At the same time, local landowners attained great power and status in Rome: by the 180s CE nearly a third of Roman senators were of African origin.[33] These were men like Septimius Severus,
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17h
The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I have reviewed thousands of grad school applications over my career & always advocated against looking at overall undergrad GPA & instead at the trajectory in the last two years. That’s because I saw a pattern on so many women’s transcripts as they experienced something in their first year 1/
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026
Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
his average approval is going to remain in the low 30s i think but we are going to hit the high 20s in individual surveys before the year is out
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/10/2026
i think cox should spend less time weeping about polarization and more time working to convince his co-partisans not to abandon pluralism and liberal democracy
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They don’t understand western civ as a concept but as a signifier. This is a man who thought a joke from pulp fiction was in the bible
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/10/2026
… alright, so we’re getting “go back to Africa” before the N-word. Let’s adjust our betting sheets accordingly.
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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renewable energy and cancer vaccines are the future
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Republican states are asking the Supreme Court to let them extradite abortion providers. Here's what we know so far
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BREAKING: Republicans File Supreme Court Suit to End Shield Laws
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For people unfamiliar with this list of schools Hegseth claims are essential to America's defense, Liberty and Hillsdale are small religious colleges. Hillsdale is the pet project of the DeVos/Prince families, and its whole admin helped Trump with his fake elector scheme, organizing MI electors. 1/
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 30/09/2026
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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pottery. Do pottery that can later be carbon dated to this specific period and make sure you sign your name bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 30/09/2026
We are entering a golden age of academic Stakhanovism
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wrote about how Trump’s tantrums over the Supreme Court reveal the not so hidden subtext of what Republicans expect from the justices. Also a mention of how Supreme Court politics resemble the Calciopoli scandal. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
As is nearly always the case with the president’s accusations, this was an illuminating projection. Trump fears that public pressure on the Supreme Court can sway the justices and how they rule. So when they don’t side with him, he assumes that’s what happened, and he trashes the Court in the hope that it will side with him the next time. He views criticism of the Supreme Court much as he views laws in general: When Trump or one of his allies wants to do something, such as use taxpayer dollars for cultish campaign ads, it’s legal. When his opponents want to do something, it’s illegal
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also their position is that it is not just ok but *constitutionally required* that the president have the authority to rig DoJ if he wants. bsky.app/profile/dave...
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not that, Brer Bear, anything but that!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One thing that’s interesting about this is that it shows that despite insisting the wokes overinterpet everything, conservatives are actually aware of and agree with their critics about how coded racist appeals work, they just like them bsky.app/profile/newr...
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Many thoughts about the argument in this piece but one is that citing a few studies to say that there is little evidence that "we discover what we think in the act of writing" contradicts everything I saw in 26 years of teaching college writing. Of course not the only we figure out what we think/1
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tweed is such a beautiful fabric to wear this time of year because it produces, in Dolly Parton's phrasing, a coat of many colors. Even a solid-colored brown is not just brown, but bits of red, blue, and yellow to produce something that looks lifted off the Scottish landscape.
There are two photos taped together. The top shows a brown stone building with a brown thatched roof. It's surrounded by green grass, stone walkways, and blue-gray sea. Below is a checked brown tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The one at te top shows a rocky hillside with green and straw-colored grass, gray rocks, and a tan sandy beach below. The blue waters are crashing at the shore. Below is a green herringbone tweed that reflects the colors in the landscape above it. There are two photos taped together. The top shows a field of green and straw colored fields with bits of purple flowers. Below is a a series of checked brown tweed that reflect the colors in the landscape above it. A swatch book of solid-colored tweeds. The green tweed has visible flecks of red, gold, and blue.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2026
if the GOP runs a vance/schmitt ticket then they should just give up the pretense and make the party’s slogan the fourteen words www.axios.com/2026/09/29/e...
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Sen. Eric Schmitt is drawing buzz as a possible Vance VP in 2028
Vance views the Missouri senator as trustworthy.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is true: I look at Labour's neglect of higher ed in the UK - a complete own goal that made the country worse off and undermined a major export industry.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1. Democrats win control of the House and Senate. 2. Investigations and prosecutions begin. 3. Impeachment and removal proceedings. 4. Take back the billions of taxpayer money corruptly taken by the Trump family and their accomplices. 5. Rinse and repeat.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Americans need to recognize that the coup already happened, and is mostly complete.
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caithow @caithow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What gets me, apart from these people being absolute monsters, is that the whole thing is predicated on the belief that testing is education. Like at least 3/4 of their project falls apart if we get rid of high stakes testing.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Much of our sitting government is in office because it ignored rape or committed rape. At times, it seems like a job requirement. Much of our media has learned to ask evidentiary standards of survivors that they’d never hold a powerful man to.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
McDonald’s uses “machine-learning algorithms to continually analyze data from millions of daily transactions across McDonald’s nearly 14,000 restaurants and generate what the company calls ‘the optimal price’ at each location for each menu item, from Big Macs ‌to discounted coffee for seniors.”
reuters.com
Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
salty sherrod brown is my favorite sherrod brown
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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't disagree. But, as I wrote back to these reporters, I am most optimistic about projects that respond to the expressed concerns of students and teachers. These are the people who spend 180 days inside schools each year, and they're the key actors in the process of teaching and learning. 1/n
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
i appreciate that buck mason uses a dark-skinned black guy for modeling its tailoring but i do not appreciate that it consistently makes me think “hell yeah i could wear that” whenever i see the photos www.buckmason.com/products/bad...
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Badlands Windowpane Playboy Western Jacket | Buck Mason
Inspired by 1960s and 1970s western suiting, a tailored blazer in tweed windowpane wool fabric by Lovat in Scotland.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"why don't men wear more color." i only dress for the approval of dogs, who mostly see blue, white, gray, black, and brown in the way that we do, so i don't wear other colors.
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