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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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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h
Did James Talarico tell his grandmother that he thought he might be gay? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Has James Talarico been in a 15 year mentor-protégé relationship with gay billionaire Peter Thiel? Oh, no! That was JD Vance! Did James Talarico pose in drag? Oh, no! That was JD Vance!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h
Do this and more. More! prospect.org/2026/10/13/t...
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Time to De-Privatize - The American Prospect
When the Democrats take back Congress, we need an agenda to return public functions to government and reverse decades of privatization.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
forever-wars.com
The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 9h
Something I wish more people understood: The helicopters thing is an extremely online Nazi idea with its origins in Pinochet's death flights. If you got the attention of right wingers on Twitter, they used to love to tweet helicopter emojis in response. Collins is deep into online neo-Nazism.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h
there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.
kffhealthnews.org
AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News
A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 8h
can’t believe OpenAI had someone on staff who thought it was appropriate to record everything that people around him said
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8h
"“Unity,” as an overriding virtue in the United States has long meant, “unity of white people.” "
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Jean-Michel Connard @torriangray.bsky.social · 8h
I hate how many people accept that these are training problems. They’re doing exactly what the admin wants them to do. More training would just make them more effective secret police.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h
Republican platform, 2026: "Won't somebody think of the neo-Nazis?"
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Truthout @truthout.org · 11h
Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.
truthout.org
Rep. Delia Ramirez Introduces Landmark Bill to Abolish DHS, ICE, and CBP
The Department of Homeland Security was established in 2002 as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
4. DOGE officials were told datasharing under certain conditions was illegal. The most obvious is IRS data. Need an act of Congress to share. They did not care.
Everyone in the agency knew that its data was valuable. That was the reason for the strict laws that prevented it from being exploited for profit or political gain. “He said this in a way that he expected everyone to clap when he was done,” said Kathleen.

“No one said a word.” The people around the table – a group that included a woman who had worked at the IRS for 54 years, or 53 years and 50 weeks longer than Gavin Kliger – looked down, or away. Kathleen felt embarrassed for Gavin Kliger. But now it was clear what the meeting was about. Gavin wanted, in his words, “to explore how we can share our data with other agencies”.

Interestingly, he never once mentioned Ice or DHS. Instead, that week, he sought to share data with himself, by trying to access files detailing IRS contracts with outside consultants that also contained taxpayer information. Kathleen denied him access.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
farritor and kliger are the two who i want to see in orange jumpsuits being hauled off to prison
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h
I guess it’s illegal to stage peter pan in texas, since the character is male but is traditionally played by a woman actor www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...
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Grand Prairie ISD cancels 'Little Shop of Horrors' after girl lands lead male role
Ana Mota was thrilled when she landed the lead role in her high school’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. Then she learned the district was taking away her part.
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20h
It's really remarkable how in race after race, Republicans are saddled with the worst candidates imaginable - Paxton, Whatley, Husted, Rogers, Marshall, Moody, M. Collins, Graham... Some of them may win, but my god what a collection of losers, crooks, and dumbasses
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21h
Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Over the past decade, some conservatives have invoked principles of academic freedom and free speech in order to subvert both. These conservatives mocked “snowflakes” and “trigger warnings,” and then passed legislation making it illegal to hurt white students’ feelings by discussing historical or contemporary events. They invoked academic freedom and then began erasing fields of study they found politically inconvenient. They railed against “indoctrination,” and then argued that the state is entitled to control everything said in the classroom.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 12/10/2026
Common Cause just told a federal judge that Trump's taxpayer funded propaganda ads ran hundreds of times after a TRO ordered an immediate halt to them. The two-page notice buff.ly/u2GESdN
1. On October 12, at 1:31 p.m. Eastern, the Washington Post reported that two ads continued airing after the Court issued the Order and into the early hours of
Monday, October 12, on multiple programs, including “60 Minutes,” “ABC World News Tonight,” and “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Ex. A.
2. According to AdImpact data retrieved at 2:45 p.m. Eastern today, Defendants’ ads ran in nearly 400 spots on programs that began airing at 7 p.m. Eastern last
night—that is, after this Court’s order was in effect. Ex. B.
3. Specifically, “Final Battle” ran in 193 spots during “60 Minutes,” which aired on CBS starting at 7 p.m. Eastern. Ex. B.
4. And “Maduro” ran in 198 spots during “America’s Funniest Home Videos,” which aired on ABC starting at 7 p.m. Eastern. Ex. B.
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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Disinhibition is a known byproduct of dementia. Just sayin' www.adfm.org.my/losing-inhib...
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Losing inhibitions | Alzheimer Disease Foundation
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 12/10/2026
Still thinking about this comment from @nbedera.bsky.social, and remembering being frustrated sitting through "consent" trainings in college because I already knew it to be true.
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, “Oh, they need consent training.” But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don’t have consent. They just don’t prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
These are very charming. I hope someone in the menswear industry hires you to do illustrations for them.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The latest issue of Brutus, a Japanese style magazine, is devoted to dogs. Features include menswear writer @wdavidmarx.bsky.social and his dog, tips on coordinating outfits with your dog, and guides to Japan’s best dog-friendly restaurants and parks.
Menswear writer David Marx is reading a book while his dog is standing in the foreground. A feature on how to coordinate outfits with your dog. A feature on places in Japan to take your dog, including parks, restaurants, and recreation centers. A feature on cafes, bookstores, and bars with resident dogs.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
as a huge miami vice fan — both original show and Mann's 2006 film — i am a very excited for this. i do hope that these stills aren't indicative of the color palette for the film though. give me pastels and neon please!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
apnews.com
Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
yep, perils of giving the ideological racists the reins after convincing everyone that you are merely superficially racist
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the Multiracial Patriarchy Party would do numbers but they were too racist to stick the landing
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Baptiste Lerak @baptistelerak.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They could probably have patched together something that kinda looked like the 00s status quo on social issues in America, but that would never have worked because that was never going to be enough for them. What they truly desired was nothing less than resurrecting the Gilded Age in all but name.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: Trump administration cut down more than 500 trees on Saturday at the East Potomac Golf Course after giving less than a full-day notice, with more tree-cutting planned, so plaintiffs challenging the effort went to court seeking a TRO tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
EMERGENCY MOTION FOR A TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER OR, ALTERNATIVELY, FOR A 14-DAY STAY UNDER SECTION 705 OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Plaintiffs hereby move the Court to enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, for a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705.
Despite the Court's admonitions not to "get to a point where someone is telling me, from
the government, that it's too late, too many things have happened and now we are, like, moving
Case 1:26-cv-00477-ACR
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forward and we can't, you know, stop the trains," Status Conf. Tr. ("Apr. 13 Tr.") at 18:15-19:10,
Apr. 13, 2026, Defendants have begun irreversible damage to East Potomac Golf Course. At
4:55 p.m. on Friday preceding the holiday weekend, Defendants announced their intent to
begin-barely 12 hours later—a massive operation to clear 529 trees at East Potomac Golf
Course. Decl. of Dr. Kevin Griess, Superintendent of National Mall and Memorial Parks,
National Park Service 920, ECF 74-1. Although they initially represented that their work would proceed in stages, Defendants in fact took down 529 trees on Saturday alone and have confirmed
to Plaintiffs that they intend to take down hundreds more.
Defendants' surprise tree-razing operation constitutes classic National Environmental
Policy Act segmentation: undertaking elements of a larger project piecemeal and insisting that they are independent and therefore need not be evaluated in a single NEPA review of the entire
project. Defendants cannot circumvent their NEPA obligations in this manner. Delaware
Riverkeeper Network v. F.E.R.C., 753 F.3d 1304, 1313 (D.C. Cir. 2014).Therefore, and for the reasons explained in the Memorandum accompanying this Motion
and supporting exhibits, the Court should enter a 14-day temporary restraining order under Rule
65(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or, alternatively, a 14-day stay under 5 U.S.C.
§ 705, enjoining Defendants from any further tree felling at East Potomac Park. In addition, the
Court should order Defendants to provide the Court and Plaintiffs no less than three business days' written advance notice before any irreparable modification to any permanent forms or
features of East Potomac Park.
If the Court believes a hearing would be appropriate, Plaintiffs request a hearing on this
motion at the Court's first availability. At the parties' meet and confer on Sunday afternoon, Defendants represented that the tree-clearing operation would continue this week until
completed. Defendants indicated during the meet and confer that rain foreclosed any work on
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Sunday, and that the possibility of doing work on Monday depended on weather and the course's
condition. Depending on Defendants' plans, then, it is possible that no work will occur on
Monday.
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finrodsauronvorecommissionfolderabsurdres @yungdreyfusard.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i spend very little time on twitter and im when i joined a discord full of people who do i was shocked by how much basically all of them were 30% more antisemitic than they intended to be
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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/10/2026
Adam Serwer argues that people who break the law for an administration must face accountability—and that failing to act invites another attempt.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos
She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.
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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Bc I am old this stuff gets more engagement on FB but I thought I’d repost here
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I will say that the questions he asked seemed like perfect set-ups for the answers I gave, so whether they were his true beliefs or his invitations to let 'em rip I do not know. But I got to say things. And shout out the great George Lakoff.
If we’re talking about counternarratives that can lead to positive change, one of the defining counternarratives of the last few years could fall under the umbrella of “the resistance.” I would like to hear your perspective on whether any of the strategies against President Trump and Trumpism have been counterproductive. That is, if calling him or the movement fascist, sexist, racist pushed people into their respective corners? That’s the least of our problems. They are racist, they are authoritarian, they are misogynist, they are homophobic, and tiptoeing around it protects them and not the targets of the hatred and discrimination. I get so tired of the idea that progressives have gone too far in asserting that every human being deserves human rights when people are being shot in the streets of Minneapolis. We are facing such horrific brutality. Politeness is not really the problem. I think we got into this situation in part by a lot of people in the mainstream thinking it was more important to be polite than to call things by their true names. There’s a wonderful historian and scholar of nonviolence named George Lakey who says polarization is good. That’s when you have clarity. Sometimes people have to pick sides. You do not get authoritarians to behave better by being meek and gentle and polite. You get it by being strong.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New Trump rule set to go into effect Oct 22 -- may cause serious spike in prescription drug prices for millions of Americans: www.usatoday.com/story/money/... apnews.com/article/drug...
apnews.com
The cost of drugs from Canada is set to soar for millions of Americans because of a federal rule
Millions of Americans who buy cheap drugs from Canada could soon lose access due to a new customs rule.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/10/2026
🚨 WTF! Trump's new White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia has been EXPOSED promoting Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories—including claims that Democrats are child-eating cannibals. And her posts about Trump's secret signals are even more bizarre.
meidasnews.com
Trump's New Press Secretary Exposed as Pizzagate and QAnon Conspiracy Peddler
Katie Zacharia pushed claims about child-eating Democrats, secret Trump signals and stolen elections before landing the White House podium.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
this fall, consider dressing like the man in gary bunt's paintings
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Most people are incentivized towards competence as a means of improving their material conditions, but the wealthy aren't. Their incentives are entirely emotional: status preservation, positional dominance, alleviating boredom, etc. It's no surprise they typically regress into spoiled children.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026
At some level, people get this. They understand that AI and billionaireism are intimately connected - that the reason the sector is on track to lose about a trillion dollars this year is that for billionaires, a trillion bucks is a small price to pay for an unthwartable life. eof/
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”
levernews.com
Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.
A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 11/10/2026
JFC. Your bigotry isn't a defense for murder. www.erininthemorning.com/p/killing-of...
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026
My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.
gadgetreview.com
Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes
Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.
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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Once again, for a substantial percentage of the chattering classes, being a Nazi/racist/etc isn't as big a sin as calling someone a Nazi/racist/etc.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.
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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Epstein conspiracy was a needed glimpse into how the credentialed class has participated in this process, but the ways in which institutions and institutionalists have facilitated this mess have so often gone under the radar as "day-to-day business." And it's obfuscated so much for so long.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
One of the last remaining shoes to drop, and one that isn't likely to come down, is institutional faith that people who gained reputable certification aren't capable of engaging in widespread fraud, abuses, and conspire with fascistic capture as many institutions are in denial about their role.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And most importantly, they cannot, ever, be allowed back into government & lauded as part of fancy rehabilitation tours, where we're asked to pretend their entire careers didn't exist while they earn six-figure lecture circuit salaries & are treated as serious people in all the elite places.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
You have to go back to the loyalty oath cases of the Cold War period to see relatively analogous situations where the government was trying to silence academics with viewpoints that they didn’t like,” Emerson Sykes, an attorney with the ACLU, told me. “But even in those cases, we did not see the sort of brazen attempt to ban particular ideas or ideologies and scrub them from the public record or from public education.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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