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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Apparently, it's the same with universities.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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joe @shariauncle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

increasingly feels like my Perfectly Fine liberal arts education was an artifact grabbed fleeing a burning temple

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc.

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jacob biba @jacobbiba.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

good grief

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

my man is tweeting like a backup wide receiver

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If we have to pick one, I feel Seawell would be the least-bad pick from a geography/transportation perspective: 1) Having an elementary school on the east side of Fordham Blvd (Ephesus) makes walkability/bikeability realistic for a huge part of the community who'd otherwise have to cross it.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is a truly astonishing story about how the incompetence of Trump's political hacks makes them unable do the most basic tasks.

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

It seems equally reasonable to summarize this graph as depicting a coherent ideology contrasted with a less coherent one

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

sounds like cars are the problem chief

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

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Sarah Edwards @eddysarah.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

absolutely wild scoop by my @indyweek.bsky.social colleague @ccourtneybohl.bsky.social on the Town of Cary’s $330k spend on “documentary-style videos about town projects and culture”—including a mini doc about the leadup to a staff flash dance—for internal use.

indyweek.com

How Cary Spent $330,000 on Videos Taxpayers Were Never Meant to See

The highly produced films offer a glimpse into Cary’s government under a former town manager accused of over-the-top spending.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

this might just be the most blatantly corrupt act ever committed by any president in U.S. history

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Sometimes, a scandal is so big you have to pick off one piece of it. So in the case of Trump's insane stock trading, pick this: He did 6 trades of Intel stock. That company now counts the US government as a $9 billion stakeholder, thanks to Trump's intervention. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Trump’s More Than 3,700 Trades Provoke Wall Street Astonishment

President Donald Trump’s latest financial disclosures show that he or his investment advisers made more than 3,700 trades in the first quarter, a flurry totaling tens of millions of dollars and involv...

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INDY Week @indyweek.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“I want to start out by saying transparency isn’t just a word. It’s actually a bridge that builds purpose and trust,” Gilbert says in the app’s introductory video. The mayor promises “real-time updates without all the unnecessary clutter” and a direct channel for connecting with him.

indyweek.com

Apex Fulfilled 97% of Public Records Requests Last Year. Requests for the Mayor’s Communications Are the Exception.

Half the town’s unfulfilled records requests are awaiting a response regarding communications outside of town email by the mayor, who uses a personal app and social media accounts to share town news a...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/05/2026

We desperately need to get away from arguments for the humanities that elevate them because of what they do for technology. The humanities should not be understood as service disciplines. They are an extension of us, and that is enough.

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bart @bartsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

“The raises would not be retroactive to the beginning of the fiscal year” is some real bullshit

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America’s only patriot 6’3” IQ 72 @hellointernet.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

There has never been a better professional sports team logo than the Asheville Tourists had from 1994 through 2004, absolute criminal behavior to have moved on from this

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

That the answers to normative questions follow inevitably from the answers to empirical ones

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Melanie Sill @melaniesill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

What happens when a corporation gets all the information it needs, but the public is in the dark? A data center announcement that comes as a surprise: Tenacious reporting by @curiousscout.bsky.social for @theassemblync.bsky.social

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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

the severe misread of youth by ai prophets is that at 22 you’re starving for agency. all your life you’ve waited to call your own shots. the idea that what you get instead is “tell the machine to draw a horse” is inherently offensive

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10/05/2026

have to admit it is quite funny that Donald Trump, the Republican Party president, has kicked the green energy transition into overdrive with a de facto ~$100 a ton carbon tax. getting a little chuckle out of that

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ceej @ceej.online · 08/05/2026

post from me, Feb 14, 2025: "My opponent is free to use the Turbo Knight and Alpha King if he wishes. I shall be playing a clean game of chess under the traditional rules"

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

One of the most depressing things about politics is that it is a huge political advantage to be a shameless, bad-faith actor and a huge disadvantage to have principles

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/05/2026

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 08/05/2026

Photo by @nicolehester.bsky.social for The Tennesseean www.tennessean.com/picture-gall...

Caption via The Tennessean:

Rep. Justin Pearson D- Memphis attempts to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is denied entry by the Sergeant at Arms on the second day of special session concerning redistricting at Cordell Hull State Office Building in Nashville on Wednesday, May 6, 2026.

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I see two possibilities: Either he's too dim to recognize the partisan valance of his jurisprudence, or he thinks we are

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Geoff Green @geoffgreen.org · 06/05/2026

Recent stories from @triangleblogblog.bsky.social on 1) proposal to end contributions from Orange County to the @chapelhillgov.bsky.social library budget, 2) rejection of a proposal to cut down the size of Chapel Hill's Town Council, and 3) proposed state ebike legislation triangleblogblog.com

Image of the Triangle Blog Blog home page as of today, because the card it brings up is very old

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Not sure it gets more "snowflake" than creating a shadow curriculum ("safe space") to avoid having uncomfortable thoughts about American identity

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

When I came out of law school in 2006, DOJ's prestige was such that liberal and conservative graduates alike would have gladly stepped over their friends' dead bodies to get a position there. Trump has ruined it now to the point they're having to bribe new graduates to apply.

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Ezra Klein should say this out loud to a federal employee

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I'm a cyclist and former racer. The elitism by some is problematic. If we want cities to roll out better infrastructure it will take widening the coalition and include scooters, one-wheels, e-bikes, old people on 3-wheels, etc. When I want to ride hard for miles unmolested I go out to the country.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

you don't need a study to know this is bad for kids. that's why school admins have zero excuses for signing these deals

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/05/2026

When the Supreme Court decided Shelby County in 2013, Republican states were implementing aggressive voter suppression laws within *hours*. They are moving even faster this time. Louisiana has already suspended its primary so that the GOP can draw Black people out of electoral existence.

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The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections

The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Yeah, as a lawyer I don't know what to tell you about "SCOTUS rewrote a 43-year-old voting rights statute to restore the exact holding the law abrogated, which makes the situation worse now than then because SCOTUS's other decisions obliterated the rest of the VRA." No clever lawyering around that.

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Please join me in a light chuckle at the premises implied by this post's headline

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/04/2026

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The practical result of adding the sum rev from yesterday to today's decision in Callais seems to be that use of race in partisan gerrymandering is permitted (because hard to prove it was race, not politics) *unless* the state is doing it to remedy a VRA violation. This is Bizarro 14th Amendment.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 27/04/2026

This move by SCOTUS is deeply insulting. The district court gathered a massive amount of evidence in record time, and District Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote a careful 160-page opinion. Now a majority of justices have dispensed with it without even providing a full written opinion.

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

good feeling when youre checking out some little guy on wikipedia and their infobox has the "least concern" circle

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Henry Gargan @hankyjg.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Made a meme reflecting my feeling that the positive/negative meanings in this meme template should be flipped

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

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