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National Education Policy Center @nepc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So the Trump administration is in favor of public executions but not public education?

Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Top five new tracks for September. Boy Harsher - Faulty Amalie Dahl's Dafnie - Wavelet (Live) Kris Davis Trio - Subtext Fluisteraars - Condities der Afstraffing Freak Slug - Wishing Bone

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Top five new tracks for August. Abyssal Rift - Relics of Great Ash Apollo Brown and Skyzoo - No Discount The Cramps - Rock in My Pocket Czarface - All it Takes is One Bad Day E-40 - Trunk is Alive

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Top five new tracks for July. ALA.NI & Adrian Younge - Proud of Me Boy Harsher - Hard Beat The Carp - Modern Man is So Ungrateful Parliament Ruins - F*ck Your Flag Warlock Corpse - Three Corpses by the Road

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

You are tall. By comparison I am down and to the left.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Top five new tracks for June. Defcee & Spectacular Diagnostics - Nathan Summers Finale - Almes Perdidas Gimic - The Devil's Rose Mirage - Motore Di Corrosione Parallel Thought feat. Fatboi Sharif - Ghettostarlight

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Top five new tracks for May. Blow Dry - Mr. Big Thee Marloes - Harap Dan Ragu Raekwon & Statik Selektah - Glenfiddich Sabotør - Jerngrepets Inntog Sweeping Promises - Shooting Shadows

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Top five new tracks for April. Chariots Overdrive - The End of Antiquity Bel Cobain - Change Friction Tape - Hours and Hours La Peste - Black Spont Ar Stad - An Amzer

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What we can expect in the aftermath of this ruling is for more Republican-controlled states to implement discriminatory maps and call them partisan so they can pass legal muster. In practical terms, this will likely mean fewer nonwhite representatives in Congress. Diminishing the power of minority voters may also allow the Republican Party to continue on its path from reactionary color-blindness to more overt racism, safe in the assumption that it will not have to answer to constituents who oppose such racism because they are its targets. There is little risk in attacking people who lack the power to remove you from office.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Top five new tracks for March. Downtown Boys - No Me Jodas Dropkick Murphys - Always By My Side Haywire - Hang Up The Telephone Ohkami No Jikan - Dwarf Shop Talk - Love Dart

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Top five new tracks for February. Atlantis Jazz Ensemble - Damocles Casual - Nobody Orsini - Somos Owelu Dreamhouse - Niger River Skumhammer - Skumhammer

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Top Five New Tracks for January. Elucid & Sebb Bash - First Light Imported Goodz & Rome Streetz - Jasons Machete Kim Gordon - Not Today Angelika Niescier - Rejoice, Disrupt, Resist Welt Star - Badehaus

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Kaplan's Plot by Jason Diamond.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Top five albums for 2025 Lena Bloch - Marina Fugitive Bubble - What Will Happen if We Stop? Little Simz - Lotus Rothadus - Töviskirt... a Kísértés krök ézerte... lidércharang Super Grupa Bez Falszymwej Skromnosci - The Book of Job (rerelease, 1985)

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Top five new tracks for December. Bleakness - Dead of Night Doom Club - Love Connection Nahokimama and Toshiki SoeJima - Ash Nusantara Beat - Tamat The Pale Horse Ritual - Bloody Demon

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Top five new tracks for November. Lena Bloch - Marina Benjamin Epps - Adieu L'été Angélica Garcia - Butterfly Home Front - Between the Waves Tee Vee Repairmann - Bad News

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Schrag's PGHR is terrific. Also love his book on the history of IRB in the social sciences.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Top five new tracks for October. Charlie Bereal - Together Hit-Boy and The Alchemist - Business Merger Myka 9, Blue, Mono En Stereo, Ellay Khule - B-Boys Split System - No Cops in Heaven Taylor Williams - Dreaming

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Top five new tracks for September. Miley Cyrus - Something Beautiful eX-Tradition - Obsidian Silence Home Front - Light Sleeper Sympathy Flowers - Betrayal TV Cult - Overpressure

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 03/10/2025

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”

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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I feel like being a Jets fan has prepared me for this moment.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Upsetting news. Especially devastating for students in the program and for speech and debate in Oregon. UO has been an anchor for competitive high school forensics in the state for as long as there has been competitive speech and debate. Many hard at work trying to save the program.

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University of Oregon Speech, Debate, and Mock Trial Program Shuttered After Nearly 150 Years of Excellence - Oregon Forensics

EUGENE, Ore. 9/17/2025 After nearly 150 years of shaping leaders, innovators, and public servants, the University of Oregon has announced the cancellation of its historic speech, debate, and mock tria...

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Yes. Faculty candidates need to know about institution, program specific context, including enrollment pressures. Be honest, be transparent.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Top five new tracks for August. Cellar Messiah - Gutterings Dark Thoughts - Sparkling Water Rhazula - Grind Me Up Serial Killer Glasses - Terror Children Void - Gateways of Stone

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

In the 80s/90s a lot of high schools kids in Eugene had cool radio shows on KRVM where they could play pretty much anything. Based at Sheldon H.S. there was also a studio at Churchill H.S. Still around but different. Great station.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Like the idea of pairings. I'll throw one out. Little Simz's Grey Area (2019) and Megan Thee Stallion's Suga (2020) w/ track focus on Venom and Savage. Lots to play with and productively disrupts East Coast/West Coast narrative by going London and Houston.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Top five new tracks for July. Carlos Dafé and Adrian Younge - Bloco da Harmonia Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist (feat. Anderson.Paak) - Ensalada NFUE - Rubami La Liberta La Otra Gente - Cemento TTSFU - Call U Back

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Successful weaponization of antisemitism in project to destroy higher education. More success likely to follow. Not good.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

5 Favorite '85 Albums The Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash The Replacements - Tim Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Master of Reality but all of the first six are lava.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Top five new tracks for June. Lame - Habra Tormenta Little Simz - Thief Mya - Give It to you Rancoeur -D'ou Je Viens Ou Je Vais Upchuck - Plastic

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Isaac Gottesman @ihgottesman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Top five new tracks for May. Blackbraid - Wardrums at Dawn on the Day of My Death Erika de Casier - Delusional Clipse - Ace Trumpets Masta Killa, Raekwon & Cappadonna - Eagle Claw Press Club - Tightrope

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