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James

@jcalchemist.bsky.social
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Husband to @sumitup.bsky.social , Dad, Vet, Wiseass, Denverite, Cubs Fan. He/Him.

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Oldsmobile @oldsmobile.bsky.social · 1h
Rays Up
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Smiling Stingray Gliding in Aquarium
ALT: Smiling Stingray Gliding in Aquarium
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ren they/them 🏳️‍⚧️ @renzaro.com · 10h
Coyote Media continues to demonstrate why democracy fails to exist without independent journalism. Every single SF outlet should’ve written this story.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 7h
I just got off a Zoom with @bachynski.bsky.social in which she said the following: "I need my emotional support citations." This is why we are friends.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 11h
We can’t have anything!!!! WE DO NOT WANT YOU HERE!!! sports.yahoo.com/articles/gon...
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‘It’s gonna be a nightmare’: Alabama-Georgia faces a ‘perfect storm’ with President Trump visit and hurricane
Saturday’s showdown between the No. 2 Georgia Bulldogs and the No. 6 Alabama Crimson Tide was already a massive, high-profile game, but add in a College GameDay during the morning, and a visit from Un...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h
The president promised to conduct a whirlwind tour for the 32 days before the midterms, even a long haul to Alaska, and I for one can't wait to see how his fragile 80-year-old body holds up from the strain.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
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James @jcalchemist.bsky.social · 7h
@dieworkwear.bsky.social What say you, sir? Fwiw this was me, 10-15 years later, and sans hair.
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James @jcalchemist.bsky.social · 8h
LMAO Good luck with that.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
Sorry but this is peak white guy style. You don’t want to hear it, but this is as good as it gets.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
Yes. I saw it with Lower Ed. Similar to challenging any orthodoxy, especially when you’re vulnerable to its collapse. You won’t convince them this is bankrupt. We who can live with the ambiguity of post austerity have to build better incentives for them, without them — and despite them. Sigh.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
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.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Craig Garrett @betatronic.bsky.social · 15h
Having recently attended a 4-hour "AI Essentials for Parents" session at AFT's National Academy for AI Instruction, I can confirm! It began with "how to make informed choices" and ended with a 1-hr tutorial for your child to use ChatGPT/Copilot/Claude as a "study buddy and thought partner". 🤨
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.
thecut.com
The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence
The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is a good line, but also goddamn she sounds like shit.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 14h
The mass divorce wave of the 1970s was good, and probably saved a lot of lives.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16h
Black text on white background 
"This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
 
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
 
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
 
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity."
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 11h
Jesus fucking Christ.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald, if you're reading this.... Come to Michigan.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Join folks in Orlando FL for a Call Me Senator fundraiser tomorrow at 4 PM ET, ran by the LGBTQ+ community for Angie! RSVP today at Angie4Us.com/CMS for location details! #AngieforFlorida
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 06/10/2026
I wrote this story bc I was frustrated at the lack of discussion about the Mohegan Tribe in mainstream coverage of the Sun’s sale. I had to pitch it around for nearly a month before my editor at The Guardian finally said yes. Native stories deserve to be told & Native voices deserve to be heard.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/10/2026
*looks around
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I think that @aselrod.bsky.social is right that the attention economy does bad things to our brains, whether or not those things qualify as addiction www.liberalcurrents.com/portraits-of...
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Portraits of an American Dopamine Eater
Our attention economy incentivizes the profane degradations of fame-seeking and celebrity culture.
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 06/10/2026
SCOOP: Nearly $9 million in federal family planning funds will go to organizations with anti-abortion ties. One org, which received almost $4.3 million, has never taken in more than $50k in a single year. Read more @autonomynews.co:
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Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Let your sanctions for contempt leave your enemies verklempt when you are losing control of the political party of your success.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think people would be less likely to buy large vehicles if it was a huge pain in the ass to drive them here, especially in cities. Higher gas prices are part of it. But there should be extra fees and taxes based on weight. Parking your giant Suburban should be incredibly difficult. etc.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
with each passing day it feels more surreal to be an independent journalist. like playing with a toy train while vanderbilt owns the railways.
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James @jcalchemist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
3 Is the magic number.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
A new IWPR report confirms that college-educated Black women are more likely to lead in government than in companies. Which is why the DOGE cuts that slashed federal jobs have been particularly devastating for college-educated Black women. #blacksky
Figure 3. College-Educated Black Women Are More Likely to Be Hired for Management Positions in the Public Sector than the Private Sector
All women and Black women (bachelor's degree or higher) as a share of total managers in the public and private sectors, 2024

PublicPrivate
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15.0%
25.0%
35.0%
Women's share of all managers
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24.3%
Black women as a share of all college-educated women
15.9%
10.8%
Black women as a share of women managers
19.8%
9.2%
Black women as a share of all managers
8.2%
2.2%
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Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.7.8, https://microdata.epi.org
Note: Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive; Black women are all non-Hispanic.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/10/2026
This!!!!
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#VeenTeam Day 1 @rockiesvsconnor.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
17 year old me: so we’re just kinda working a job and finding little things to enjoy to get by? Current me: yeah, it’s a life. 17 year old me: Hayley Williams is still hot thought right? Current me: oh my god dude oh my god All the past versions of me in the room: oh my god
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Ben McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wow GOP Rep Crank in CO05 staff never responded to the family of a Esptein victim who passed away and simply laughed at them in a text message asking for a meeting with the congressman they had tried to setup for over a year
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't mean to make waves or anything, but as a journalist, I am definitely opposed to the president talking about arresting journalists.
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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 05/10/2026
[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!
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Knobs Returning To Some Automakers’ Vehicles, To The Relief Of Many
Auto companies are listening to the complaints of consumers, who want their knobs and buttons back.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Somehow the "We need to support policies that are popular" crowd never land on the very popular polices like "taxing big corporation more," "making health care more affordable," or "paying teachers more." It's always just "be 10% more racist."
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James @jcalchemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
GOD DAMNED RIGHT SAY IT LOUDER.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
I could hug @anandwrites.bsky.social for this. This is so true but you NEVER hear it in US media. Never. Truly doing god's work.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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James @jcalchemist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Counter proposal: a large fleet of possibly leaky deep sea submersibles.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.”
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Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The thing I've been mulling: for every horrifying sexual assault story you hear, there are 100 stories that don't quite reach the level of "report this to the police immediately" but still are traumatic, still have long, long effects. 1/
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 05/10/2026
All prisoners should have the right to vote while in prison
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
My mother got certified in cosmetology and that’s part of how she was able to raise my three brothers and I. These people are assholes who experience the world solely through “takes” hinging on misogyny and the like.
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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As someone who's demographically 'Hindu' and lives in India, a defacto Hindu ethnostate for a decade now, witnessing across my life and every day the horrors that ethnonationalism perpetrates, the idea that ethnonationalist movements are racist poison isn't remotely controversial.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
But let someone try to forgive your student loans...
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