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JD Pirtle

@jdpirtle.bsky.social
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Artist, educator, and researcher - PhD student in Education Policy Studies @ UIC: critical pedagogy, maker ed, art, technology, and politics. jdpirtle.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23h
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23h
The good news is that antifascism, Reconstruction 2.0, the abolition of billionaires, and the Butlerian Jihad are all one project now
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."
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Lis Power @lispower.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fox News is honing in on the enemy ... and it's ... Ms. Rachel?
Graphic showing "Ms. Rachel's controversial stances" 

which includes supporting Dem candidates, supporting Palestine, opposing ICE, and stating no one needs a billion dollars.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026
Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in the Lab Using a Chemo-Free "Molecular Jackhammer" Activated by light, these tiny molecules vibrate 40 trillion times per second, tearing apart cancer cell membranes and destroying them without relying on chemotherapy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026
it didn't even occur to me that the government might try to execute someone a second time if they torture the person but fail to kill them during a first botched attempt. truly grotesque and a moral stain upon all involved.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AOC should run for President and convert this into the Office of Butlerian Jihad
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JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
NYC. #streetphotography #photooftheday #nycphotography #newyorkcity #photography
Bldgs at night with fog NYC Sunset in NYC Central Park pond NYC Sunset in NYC
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 01/10/2026
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
JFC this is some tremendous ahistorical bullshit. Another Atlantic piece blaming the "woke left" for the actions of the right. The argument hinges on a lie: that Heritage and the voucher movement simply recognized an opportunity in the 2020s "culture wars" to push for vouchers.
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How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk
Allegations about “woke nonsense” imperiled a crucial source of Americans’ common identity.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
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Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“…Muse can be easily prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts belonging to members of vulnerable groups – including undocumented immigrants, transgender teachers, poll workers, Iranian dissidents, and women who said they had ordered abortion pills in states with abortion bans”
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Dox for Me, O Muse
Muse AI can leverage Facebook data to build lists of people in vulnerable groups on request for ordinary users.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The heartlessness here from the Republican operatives in judicial robes in Roberts SCOTUS is unimaginable yet not surprising. Just keep that in mind when you hear any member of the elite media attempt to suggest that Roberts Court is reining in the Trump regime.
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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My team at the NVA Lab has produced a new dashboard for exploring our data on US protests from Jan 2025-May 2026. This snapshot shows the 61k+ protest events (>14.6M+ recorded participants) active in the US since Trump's second inauguration. Link to dashboard in thread.
A platform displaying the data on US protests from the Crowd Counting Consortium. It includes a map of the US with counts of protest events in circular form overlaying the protests' locations. It also includes weekly tallies of protest events and participations, top protest issues, and various filters allowing users to explore events by location, issue, date, political valence, etc. The top of the image shows a total of 61,782 protests with 14,684,201 participants across 55 US states and territories from January 20, 2025 to May 31, 2026.
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Look, the solution is obvious. Hold the execs accountable for the crime that the committed by their greedy negligence. Who cares about "superintelligence", what's rogue here is a number of companies with unsafe business practices which knowingly endanger the public
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but OpenAI did not listen.
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Kevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.
TinTin discovers Edward Said.
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JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pathetic.
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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 29/09/2026
About to go live
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
JFC meanwhile Linda McMahon is out there saying how effective Alpha's dystopian 2hr learning and corporate-inspired PBL is. 😡
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JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jimothy
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AAUP, AFT, and HELU have a plan draft! College For All, in expansion now for 2026 and 2028 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 29/09/2026
Jonathan McKinsey, a transgender New Times executive who was head of engineering at NYT games, was murdered by his in laws over the weekend. This follows years of allegations that the in laws were abusive to him over his gender identity. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/28/u...
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New York Times executive killed by his elderly in-laws, police say | CNN
A couple in their late 70s gunned down their son-in-law in a California city park over the weekend, authorities said, and court documents showed the victim had been in a bitter custody dispute with th...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This piece highlights that despite the success of those of us pushing back on AI mania, some bad experiments are being performed on children with AI tools. Superintendent and administrators appear especially vulnerable to industry talking points.
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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An acknowledgement that they view racism as the main purpose of these policies www.huffpost.com/entry/right-...
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Far-Right Commentators Rage Over GOP Welfare Fraud Ad Featuring White Male Gamer
A new ad by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders put white men at the center of her state welfare work requirement policy.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Shot: "We asked 37 top academics and researchers who study education to rate a range of ideas for both effectiveness and cost, on a scale of 1 to 7." Chaser: "The panel included: Dominique Baker..." LOL y'all I read so many papers to complete this survey on k12 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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30 Ideas for Fixing U.S. Schools, Ranked by Experts
Math and reading scores are in a decade-long slump. We asked three dozen experts: What could turn things around?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
Andy Beshear is proof that you can win a red state without abandoning trans people.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 26/09/2026
Latest round of hiring is showing me that the tech industry is losing some extraordinarily talented people who are uninspired by its unimaginative visions for the future.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 25/09/2026
America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And voucher pushers love this. They are ecstatic that they can pretend to offer a way for the "exceptional few" (they believe there are few) to escape underresourced (they don't call them this) schools. They stopped pretending a few years ago that the goal was to uplift the disadvantaged as a class.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Not one
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The state of New York is suing Polymarket, claiming the company operates an illegal gambling platform in violation of state gambling laws.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 27/06/2026
Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me.
“Radical transparency is coming. A future where you can know anything, anytime, anywhere. A future where no one can hide,” he wrote on Substack. “We are wrapping the planet in an ‘Sensor Ecosystem’: a living, multi-layered sensing system that runs from the cameras in your home, to the phone in your pocket, to autonomous cars and humanoid robots on the ground, to drones and flying cars in the air, all the way up to a constellation of satellites imaging every square meter on the Earth every single day.” 
Diamandis’ comments come roughly two years after Oracle founder Larry Ellison said something very similar. ”
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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The stories told by the well-planned visual symmetry
Photo from ny times of Trump Xi and respective spouses
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 24/09/2026
We are at the break glass moment on the Democratic Party and its treatment of transgender people, and it is my opinion that if we don’t act now and loudly demand to be heard, we will suffer the consequences of their shift.
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JD Pirtle @jdpirtle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pam. Also Pam.
Screenshot of Pam in the nytimes not connecting the dots. Screenshot of Pam in the nytimes not connecting the dots.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
speaking of good chicago governance! the 32nd ward deserves a pro-housing pro-people leader come meet neighbors and @patgilsenan.bsky.social TODAY 6pm in Bucktown we promise good food and big ideas ping me for address
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 24/09/2026
Silicon Valley wants "better systems thinkers" who have no concept of structure so they will be unable to ask inconvenient questions about how power, political economy, and agency operate within the systems tech capital and compliant regulators are aggressively imposing on us against our will.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Insanity — this is the “corporate socialism” @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is talking about
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Was at a dinner this week where someone mentioned that lots of ed policy chatter has gone to linkedin. I basically said, then I can chat by myself because absolutely not.
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