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@hooperhooper.bsky.social
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UNC History PhD candidate. Historian of gay rights activism and lesbian-feminism, student activism in the gay liberation era, and the 1970s South. NC born/raised/now. he/him ⚣

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
HUGE NEWS: Gov. Mikie Sherrill and leaders in the New Jersey Legislature announced a $12 million increase in funding for the Detention Deportation Defense Initiative (DDDI) In addition to more funding, Gov. Sherrill also announced a rapid legal response initiative to support detained New Jerseyans.
Protecting Due Process: Governor Sherrill Launches Initiatives to Resist Unconstitutional Immigration Detention and Enforcement by the Trump Administration
 
Announces $20m in Funding for the New Jersey Detention Deportation Defense Initiative, Launches Rapid Legal Response Initiative to Support Detained New Jerseyans

 
TRENTON – Governor Mikie Sherrill today announced two historic actions to help protect individuals from unconstitutional detention and defend their constitutional rights in the face of escalating immigration enforcement actions by the Trump Administration.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/06/2026
Check out this bit of ai alarmism from… the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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‘AI gravity’ is pulling you toward dependency. Here’s how to push back | MIT Sloan
AI systems hold the promise of competitive advantage, but they can usher in cognitive decline among workers, says MIT Sloan School of Management’s Eric So. Learn how to protect cognitive capital.
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Israel says it has received approval from the United States to strike the southern suburbs of Beirut if Hezbollah attacks its towns and villages.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Count Mike Pence as being not a fan of Trump's slush fund for the domestic terrorists who wanted to kill him on January 6th, 2021.
politico.com
‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ is ‘deeply offensive,’ Pence says
“Let’s get rid of this fund,” the former vice president said.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Not only is this $300B of our money to reopen a shipping lane that was already wide open for free but the entire SNAP budget is $100B/year and I was told we couldn’t afford to feed American children fruits and vegetables
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The leftists responding here saying there is not great right-wing art are wrong. There is: Pound, Eliot, Mishima, Dostoevsky, Céline. The real question is why contemporary MAGA conservatism seems incapable of producing anything close to art of that level.
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I said this in an another post: "DEI" is mentioned 43 times in the first 50 pages of the OMB document, as justification for these changes. The would rather break a scientific, technological and economic engine of this country rather than share it, rendering all of us the poorer for it
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Not a good thing to have your name as president followed by the words “since Hoover,” especially when it comes to economics.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Zohran Mamdani is right. Bezos must pay his fair share in taxes.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
An indelible image from outside Delaney Hall last night. (📸 by Dean Moses) www.amny.com/news/delaney...
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
This is incredibly tragic. I had the pleasure of speaking at an MIT Libraries event last month and got to see the good work the do and the community they support. For a university of this caliber to shutter this many of its libraries--this is truly a travesty.
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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The shamelessness with which these people lie to us really is amazing.
A 1 year chart of gas prices from FRED
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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 27/05/2026
New?! Unnoticed?! Someone get these NPR folks a pair of They Live glasses.
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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Hey ADL--you up?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
New, from me: The self-proclaimed "Most Transparent Administration in History" wants to compel all federal employees to sign Non Disclosure Agreements. The purpose is to vastly expand the culture of secrecy in government, undermining accountability. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-want...
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Trump wants all federal employees to sign NDAs
A breathtaking expansion of the culture of governmental secrecy
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 27/05/2026
Florida legislators appear likely to hand USF's Sarasota/Manatee campus to New College, handing off $53 million in debt without any recurring appropriations to help pay for it.
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New College Expansion Plan Advances
New College of Florida appears to be set for a major expansion.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
still think Ds should make a massive investment in libraries, post office, public universities as a way to jump start civil society and cut unemployment.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
say it again: SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...
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Why is the Left No Fun?
Bouncy Castle Communism is the Solution
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Anchorage Man @sethpartnow.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning
LLMs impress the writers who do not want to write, the coders who don't want to code, the researchers who don't want to research, and the lawyers that don't want to actually understand case law. Those that desperately tell you how powerful Al is and that you simply must use it are looking for you to validate their own laziness or distaste for effort, and those who are impressed with LLMs' outputs tend to be people with low standards.
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 26/05/2026
South Carolina's Republican-led state Senate votes AGAINST advancing a plan to eliminate the state's one predominantly Black congressional district.
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South Carolina’s redistricting effort fails in the state Senate amid GOP opposition
Some Republican lawmakers changed their stance on enacting a new map before the midterms when early voting for the June primary began on Tuesday.
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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Such a stupid waste of life.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
When Jesus said "Let the little children come onto me" he didn't mean send them to heaven on an express train to pacify our American dictators' hurt feelings because he had to surrender to Iran. This is a top of the list human rights violation & people need to pin down Rubio about it every damn day
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“In response to questions from Senate Democrats, Trump’s judicial nominees won’t state the simple fact: Former President Joe Biden won, and, by extension, Trump lost.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump's judges are all election deniers
To avoid saying or implying that Trump lost in 2020, his judicial nominees have repeatedly engaged in rhetorical gymnastics.
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Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“We want to build high-quality assets that are permanently affordable and publicly owned forever.”
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Seattle Social Housing Developer Buys First Building - The Stranger
The Seattle Social Housing Developer (SSHD) has announced its first acquisition, a 150-unit apartment building in the heart of downtown. It plans to turn half of these units into affordable housing. T...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As part of the Department of Education's anti-DEI push, we cannot teach about any forms of implicit bias EXCEPT for antisemitism. But not only is that wrong for how it ignores other groups, but it is impossible to teach about antisemitism without teaching about its intersection with other bigotries.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is evil collective punishment.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/05/2026
Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds
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Films more likely to star an actor called Chris or a talking animal than a woman over 60, study finds
Emma Thompson among voices supporting anti-ageism campaign, which has uncovered striking findings in top-grossing UK films over past three years Box office hit films are four times more likely to star a talking animal than a woman over 60, according to a new survey by Age Without Limits. The anti-ageism campaign studied the 100 highest performing films released in the UK in 2023, 2024 and 2025, and found that while five starred an older woman, about 20 featured creatures who chat. Continue reading...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The Supreme Court has “agreed to hear from Catholic preschools that say it's unconstitutional to exclude them from a state-funded program because they won't admit kids from LGBTQ+ families.” 4/20/26 … 1/ www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
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Supreme Court will hear from religious preschools challenging exclusion from taxpayer-funded program
The faith-based facilities argue it's unconstitutional to bar them from a taxpayer-funded free preschool program because of their admission restrictions on LGBTQ+ families and kids.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 24/05/2026
This is some truly appalling NIMBY nonsense. Building infill housing is *good* for the environment. It *protects* birds and orcas and salmon. It *saves* forests and trees. The IPCC and Sierra Club have both recognized that infill housing is essential to protect the environment and tackle climate.
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'Orca Appeal': A science nerd's challenge to Seattle's building plan
As City Hall continues to roll out the biggest remaking in Seattle's history, one musician challenges the underlying science. It is the story of our time.
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Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 23/05/2026
Everything is gender, yes. But even more of everything is sex, sexuality, & sexual hang-ups. The explosion of "cuck" as not just an insult but as a prism for viewing the world is remarkable and, it seems, ubiquitous on the right. "Great Replacement" just is a collectivist theory of cuckoldry.
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The Interracial Cuck Porn Theory of Everything
Everything is gender, but to understand gender you must understand sex.
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Amanda Foster Kaufman @abananasfoster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
A good reminder from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social "this is not a uniquely bad time, it is just our turn at the bad."
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"Power to the People, Y'all" Revisits a Revolutionary Winston-Salem Chapter
Talking with Tressie McMillan Cottom about "Power to the People, Y'all," a documentary about Winston-Salem's historic Black Panther chapter.
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I am struck that the one time I wrote for The Atlantic, they had a fact-checker who demanded I include links for even quite minor claims in the piece or at least substantiate those claims to him, whereas when TCW writes for them, there isn't a single link or example to be found.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A classic case of where private actors are gutting public interest state capacity
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onion person @junlper.beer · 24/05/2026
america is a totalitarian fascist state
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 23/05/2026
Republicans moved heaven and earth to pass tax breaks for billionaires and mega corporations—and then Trump walked away from minimum wage and overtime protections for nearly 4 million workers.    This is as anti-worker and pro-billionaire as it gets.
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Trump Labor Department Rescinds Biden-Era Overtime Expansion (2)
The US Labor Department is rescinding a 2024 rule that sought to expand overtime eligibility for millions of workers.
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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This analogy is very useful for understanding how AI-generated texts function as literature. While the strings of words might be intelligible, the meaning of those strings are conferred solely by the reader as there is no meaning behind the product itself. AI-generated texts are empty. (1/n)
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 23/05/2026
Authorities in Southern California on Friday were racing to figure out how to prevent the explosion of a storage tank that has been leaking a hazardous chemical used to make plastic parts, as some 40,000 people were under evacuation orders in the area.
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40,000 people under evacuation orders after a chemical tank leak in Southern California
About 40,000 people are under evacuation orders and schools have shut down in Southern California due to a hazardous chemical leak.
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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
White people would rather fart than go to therapy
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WUNC News @wunc.org · 22/05/2026
Republicans promise that $50 billion in new health funding will help rural America. But it's not expected to aid the years-long effort in North Carolina's Martin County to reopen its only hospital. www.wunc.org/2026-05-22/w...
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'We'll never know if he could have been saved.' The gaps in Trump's rural health fund
Republicans promise that $50 billion in new health funding will help rural America. But it's not expected to aid the years-long effort in North Carolina's Martin County to reopen its only hospital.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Its very hard to have viewpoints diversity when some viewpoints openly disregard reality and would rob your political voice if given the chance.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
these four sexy words again TOP MARGINAL TAX RATE "Restore the top marginal ordinary income tax rate to its pre-2017 level of 39.6% — which, but for Trump’s tax cuts, would have applied to income over $546K this year. Raise the (much lower) top capital-gains rate." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/o...
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Opinion | Here’s the Easy Way to Tax the Rich
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 22/05/2026
www.politico.com/live-updates... republicans poisoned the smithsonian women's history museum bill because they're ideologically opposed to women, history, and museums in that order
While 127 Democrats cosponsored an earlier version of the bill, most of them bailed after Republicans altered it ahead of the floor vote.

New language added in the House Administration Committee last month dedicated the museum to “preserving, researching, and presenting the history, achievements, and lived experiences of biological women in the United States” and prohibited the institution from seeking to “identify, present, describe, or otherwise depict any biological male as a female.”

Other new provisions called for “an equal representation of the diversity of the political viewpoints and authentic experiences held by women in the United States” and gave President Donald Trump the unilateral power to relocate the museum from sites already identified on the National Mall.

The Democratic Women’s Caucus announced earlier this week it would oppose the altered bill after working on it with Republicans for years.
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97.9 The Hill WCHL & Chapelboro.com @wchlchapelboro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
After receiving more than $620,000 annually from Orange County, the Chapel Hill Public Library may lose that funding. On Tuesday, community members expressed their concerns directly to the county board of commissioners. Here’s what they said:
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As Chapel Hill Library Weighs Options Amid Possible Funding Cut, Supporters Speak Up to County - Chapelboro.com
After receiving more than $620,000 annually from the Orange County government, the Chapel Hill Public Library may soon lose that funding.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
(Reuters) - It would be a mistake to underestimate the risk posed by the Ebola outbreak, the WHO regional director for Africa told Reuters on Friday, warning that just one case could spread the virus beyond the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. @reuters.com
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mcervania.bsky.social @mcervania.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
HB 1089 Constitutional Amendment Tax Levy Limit would constitutionally restricts counties and municipalities to fund schools, public safety, EMS, quality-of-life investments & more. A levy limit does NOT directly solve rising individual tax bills. #NCPOL #PropertyTaxes #NorthCarolina
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Sue Sturgis @suesturgis.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The money trail runs from Duke Energy Carolinas through a political nonprofit called Citizens for a Responsible Energy Future, solely funded by Duke, then into a super PAC launched this year by business interests to support Berger against Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page, who narrowly won. #ncpol
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Duke Energy's dark money backed Phil Berger's losing primary
The utility company routed funds from its Duke Energy Carolinas subsidiary into a political nonprofit where it’s the sole donor. Then that group gave $200,000 to a super PAC launched this year to help...
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Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
This DNC autopsy is so much worse than I anticipated. For ex., There's an #ncpol section & it gets basic facts wrong, including the % of the vote Robinson & Stein got in 2024. Later on, it includes another set of incorrect #s that contradict both their other incorrect #s & the correct #s (1/2)
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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · 21/05/2026
A state Senate bill filed this week would cut North Carolina’s early voting period by a week, slicing time from the method voters use most in general elections. ncnewsline.com/2026/05/21/n... by @lbonner.bsky.social #ncpol
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Republican NC senators propose cuts to the state’s most popular voting method • NC Newsline
An NC Senate bill would cut early voting from 17 days to 10 days, even though more people in North Carolina use early voting than any other voting method.
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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The board consists of three semi-literate car dealers who were the state’s top GOP donors. Their top priority is fighting wokeness in the Potato School by putting up a statue of the confederate general who owned the largest potato farm in the state in 1859.
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