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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 8h

"Dance is revolution. As dance sociologist Katrina Hazzard-Donald points out, every major uprising of the enslaved took place after a dance." - Alexis Pauline Gumbs Dance is also used as a way to rehearse tactics and maneuvers—and to harmonize spirits and courage— in preparation for battle. ✊🏾🎶🪘

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.” - Albert Einstein

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The ironic thing, of course, is that "Woke 1" was the exact opposite of the Witch Trials. There were no actual witches. That's why the Witch Trials were bad.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI is an unregulated emergency on every level--academia, art, national security, privacy, the environment, faith in journalism, and on and on and on--and deriding those who are desperately trying to pull the handbrake as we go over the cliff as alarmists will not age well (if we get to age at all).

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming

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Team Ilhan @teamilhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Deal with it. 🕶️

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit treating Deshaun Watson like any other QB, and nary a mention of two dozen sexual assault allegations as part of an already disgusting “redemption” arc they’ve spent all night trying to weave is really gross.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Excited to see how the Atlanta Hawkeyes do this year and whatnot.

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also: too many people emphasize scores with teachers. And US News uses APs to rank high schools… it’s so frustrating. I’m very veteran, so I try to give kids information & say decide what you think is best, but some teachers pass along the pressure to their students. & Some schools require kids test

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From what I am hearing, in a lot of states Dual Enrollment is exceeding AP. I’m in California, where the UCs have limited some AP options—especially beyond “elective credit” — but CSU still gives a lot. At most of them, kids want to go in with AP and DE units so they have options at registration.

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Agreed, but it’s definitely difficult for humanities courses. Incidentally, I would also say that Calculus and foreign languages are the best AP exams to take and use—it’s easier to determine levels of content knowledge and understanding. History, science, and English are very different.

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I am not a fan of the College Board, but this is missing a significant part of why AP credit is appealing: college is too expensive and this makes it more affordable for some.

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of the motivated students who I teach are also pushed (directly and indirectly) into STEM or business related majors. Way too many people present college as job training. And I am furious at the young people shoved into computer science now with few job options.

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

They take an exam in May, and some schools give credit based on that score.

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, I teach AP Lit to seniors, and only a portion receive any credit. But they all want the class on their transcript. My daughter goes to Occidental and received zero credit.

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A lot of elite private schools give very little credit, and most liberal arts schools give none. Large public universities give the most credit because it’s financially beneficial to them (just like making the classes huge).

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We’ve now reached the point of “black site” hearings – secret, illegal hearings as part of Trump & Stephen Miller’s wretched crusade to detain & deport our immigrant neighbors. Quite literally: hidden tribunals that disappear people.

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DHS Opens ‘Black Site Docket’ for Immigrants Without Lawyers at 26 Federal Plaza

A reporter from The City Reporter was threatened with arrest while attempting to observe comings and goings from the new courtrooms, which have left advocates mystified and fearing the worst.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Joel Tenney is an Iowa pastor who gave the invocation for a Trump rally there in 2023. He's been to Mar-a-Lago and campaigned this summer with IA GOP gubernatorial Zach Lahn. He's got pics of himself with Trump and Vance. Oh, and also, he's an antisemitic white nationalist Holocaust denying Nazi.

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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Congressional Black Caucus links up with Palantir to honor Shirley Chisolm's legacy

Palantir Named A Top
Supporter' At CBC
Foundation's Annual
Conference
The controversial data and Al firm
which has millions of dollars of
contracts with ICE, has been trying to
curry favor with Democratic-aligned
groups.
By Brianna Tucker
Sep 23, 2026, 06:53 PM EDT
Updated 21 hours ago

On one digital banner that led to the
vendor hall expo, the firm was listed
among the conference's "top
supporters." The background
featured a faded portrait of Shirley
Chisholm, the first Black woman
elected to Congress, whose
campaign motto "unbought and
unbossed" symbolized resistance to
corporate influence

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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gary’s anatomy @sablaah.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I don’t have a problem with trans people, I just don’t think they should be able to use public bathrooms or play sports or get healthcare—“ ok so that’s segregation. you are functionally a segregationist. and you want me to believe that fights fascism somehow. ok.

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026

I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...

We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm deleting most fundraising texts these days, but if you sent me one saying you had identified these consultants and promised never to work with them, I would give you the max

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

lol everyone keeps taking cues from the group that got us into this mess. If your track record is destruction and theft, why should I listen to you?!!! Stop playing around and go listen to Black women, like bruh. @alondra.bsky.social @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team @ajlunited.bsky.social

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Nene Painting a White Object

Alt: Nene Painting a White Object

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Holy shit someone needs to set this to hype music it’s so good.

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A public intellectual (in this case, a professor, NYT columnist, MacArthur Genius, among other things) generally isn’t posting to have discussions with people that they don’t know and who don’t have anywhere near the expertise that they do. She knows more about it than you (or I do).

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Denise Gill @gillda.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Making up data to claim that you are in the 90% is a debate bro fallacy; calling you out on it is not.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? The Science Victory Fund: Data centers are bad! Cancer research is good! You should be able to see a doctor! Salad shouldn’t make you shit your pants! Voters: YES! Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

👏👏👏👏

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians Texans 34% more likely to be raped earn 13% less and pay 3.8% more in taxes" (overall) Every MSM only mentions the word "crime" right before an election! "Germans call this "a permanent bailout." We just call it "Missouri."

Mentions of crime relative to first six months of 2022
The figures below compare the average percentage of 15-second segments in a given day during a 10-day chunk of a month with the average percentage for 10 day chunks over the first six months of the year.

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TOTAL STATE AND LOCAL TAXES AS SHARE OF FAMILY INCOME BY INCOME GROUP

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40-60% 9.7% 8.3%
60-80% 8.6% 9.0%
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Here's another secret about federalism: blue state taxpayers are subsidizing the lower tax red states
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Federal Aid as Share of State Budget
2017

Mississippi, Louisiana, Idaho, Montana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota, Georgia, Maine

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Source: Tax Foundation
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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Wayne was my MA thesis and PhD dissertation adviser at Mizzou. He is kind, and good, and represents the best of what Mizzou is and has to offer. The Missouri state law that seeks to criminalize even the discussion of DEI is shameful, and so are those who support it. abc17news.com/news/educati...

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University of Missouri investigating professor after video alleges DEI sympathies

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The University of Missouri is investigating allegations of staff violating federal and state laws against diversity, equity and inclusion practices after a video reportedly showin...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

JUST NOW: A confused, clearly not-there McConnell votes “AYE” after almost voting NO with Dems but getting *corrected* by handlers around him

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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 15/09/2026

Governor Abigail Spanberger quietly ended a rulemaking process initiated in the waning days of former-governor Glenn Youngkin’s administration. The rule would have limited transgender students' ability to play sports and use facilities. www.wvtf.org/news/20... #transgender

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Spanberger quietly kills Youngkin-era transgender rulemaking effort

“There’s no legal authority to move forward with rulemaking and prior administrations may have tried to create lanes and we’re not doing that,” Gov. Abigail Spanberger said.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Googling these days

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s all identity politics, but since it’s largely white identity politics it’s fine and doesn’t count. It’s not something communist like police shouldn’t be able to get away with murder bsky.app/profile/chri...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

3. That college is about reading for “the workforce.” No, it’s about development for the adult force. Of which work is a part. 4/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Equatorial Guinea is a dictatorship run by the same man since 1978, with his children running large portions of the state now. We paid this dictatorship millions of dollars to let us deport random people there. Our money was used for this inhumanity.

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eb99 @eb99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

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