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Joel T. Patterson

@joelpatt.bsky.social
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Calculus vigilante, union man, proud father. Public education is a pillar of democracy. "We are hope despite the times." -R.E.M.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h
President Chutes N. Ladders
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Close Minnesota senate race www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/10/clos...
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Close Minnesota senate race - Lawyers, Guns & Money
You would think that random murders of nice white people — ICE/DHS committed two-thirds of the murders in the Twin Cities in January of this year — would hurt Michelle Sideline Reporter Tafoya’s elect...
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 17h
The death penalty should be abolished. There is a prohibition in the Bill of Rights against cruel punishment. If do something this evil, lock them up for life. www.npr.org/2026/10/01/n...
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Tennessee governor halts executions after Christa Gail Pike survives lethal injection
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death Wednesday for a 1995 murder after administering two doses of a lethal drug. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee halted the remaining execution for...
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 17h
He's insulted our NATO allies over and over, and he, of course, expects them to do him a political favor. I do not think they will listen.
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Netanyahu has killed plenty. His coalition and Hamas are in a lurid embrace. They need each other to maintain power and authority and to hold the mass of sane Arabs and Jews -- and the necessity of a shared future -- trapped between them.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There's a shit-ton of actual anti-Semitism in the world today, but Netanyahu's fraudulent misuse of the term devalues it dangerously. Hamas is anti-Semitic and murderous. Netanyahu is a cynical, murderous shitheel. Mamdani is an American politician with a perverse impulse to tell blunt truths.
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‘aesthetically terrifying’ @aruss-updates.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This. White supremacy is inherently destructive, cruel, and not persuadable by reason. Bad processes and outcomes are baked in.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Particularly as we already see people framing what we’re seeing from the Trump administration as missteps or backfires rather than the logical outcome when you pursue white supremacy.
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Thomas HD @degolierthomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
TX-10 Poll (Change Research) 613 LV (18 Sep 2026-22 Sep 2026) 48% Chris Gobar (Republican) 46% (Caitlin Rourk) (Democratic) Trump favorability 47% Favorable 50% Unfavorable

A Change Research poll of Texas’s 10th Congressional District (613 likely voters, Sept. 18-22), found the race within the margin of error following short candidate bios (48 Gober/46 Rourk), with Caitlin Rourk
breaking 50% in the final informed ballot (51 Rourk/42 Gober). Further questions prove what Team Rourk has heard across TX-10 the past several months: Caitlin's strong candidate profile, a uniquely
vulnerable opponent, and an increasingly poor political environment for Republicans have set the stage for an historic upset in Texas.
In a statement, Rourk said the following: “This is not just a close race - it’s literally ours to lose. Our campaign has the ability to do something extraordinary that few other campaigns can do right now. We
have been doing the path-breaking foundational work and are ready to go exponential in the final stretch. Now, we just need the investment to go execute and win this race.”

Source: Change Research poll of 613 likely voters, fielded September 18 - 22, 2026. Margin of error: 4.3%.

Highlights:
● Trump’s favorability is underwater at 47% favorable/50% unfavorable. Every statewide Republican candidate tested in this poll is also in net negative territory. Ken Paxton is statistically tied with Talarico in the Senate race, and Greg Abbott is running well-behind the Republican
baseline.
● Chris Gober is uniquely vulnerable given his close ties to figures like Elon Musk. Nearly half of voters are “very” concerned when they learn about his ties to Musk, Republican Super PACs, and his lobbying contracts, including a majority of independents and a sizable chunk of Republicans.
● Rourk, by comparison, has the right candidate profile for the district and can capitalize on
both the political environment and her opponent’s weakness. When shown positive information about Rourk’s background and asked to choose what aspect voters like best, 32% pointed to her background as a veteran who puts country over party. About a quarter resonated
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Poorly thought-out foreign quagmires and disasters, economic instability and deprivation, wanton cruelty and violence are all hallmark features of white supremacist societies.
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Sources of Russian Missiles - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ireland somehow manages to find itself on the wrong side of every European war: THE IRISH know a few things about resisting an imperialist neighbour, so it is not surprising that they back European ef...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Bill Gates predicts AI will kill a billion people – but saying he’s been wrong before is quite the understatement | Arwa Mahdawi
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Bill Gates predicts AI will kill a billion people – but saying he’s been wrong before is quite the understatement | Arwa Mahdawi
He knows a thing or two about tech, but what to make of the views of a man who met Jeffrey Epstein 30 times and couldn’t see what a monster he was?
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/09/2026
In response to a slew of anti-trans Democrats pushing hate during the 2026 midterms, Governor Andy Beshear provided principled criticism to the idea that red-state Dems need to adopt anti-trans views to win: "We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus," he said. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Lawyers, Guns and Money @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,242
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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 2,242 - Lawyers, Guns & Money
This is the grave of Selman Waksman. Born in 1888 in Kiev, Waksman grew up pretty well off in the Jewish community there. His father made copper kitchenware and ran a successful workshop. Of course, this was a terrible time for Jews in eastern Europe, as the Russian government tried to cover up for its […]
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.
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NIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't have
A delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options.
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#education podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Did the COVID pandemic stunt kids’ development?
Podcast Episode · Science Friday · September 29 · 22m
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes. And speaking as a critic, taking in art that wasn’t designed to please you is both how you learn about art and how you learn about yourself. I cannot *imagine* wanting to spend your life only with things machine-made to pander to you. Cannot!
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SEN. ERIC SCHMITT: Do these texts not prove that a shrimp fried this rice?
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If nothing else, watch minutes 4-7. Senator Eric Schmitt, exposed for one of the more embarrassing mistakes I've ever seen in my life, responds by lashing out.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
AI-powered medical devices must be tested in real-world settings idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
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AI-powered medical devices must be tested in real-world settings
Tools that inform clinical decision-making require rigorous assessments equivalent to processes used to approve drugs and self-driving cars.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
extremely weird shit during the Jack Smith hearing -- Sen. Eric Schmitt's team briefly displays a poster board that Schmitt claims contains evidence Smith committed perjury, but then Schmitt's team takes it down before anybody can read it and refuses to show Smith what it says
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You really need to watch both videos below. These really are the dumbest people on the planet.
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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schmitt did worse than call him a dirtbag, he accused Smith of committing perjury.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
holy shit -- turns out Jack Smith went to a Hawkeyes game in Maryland but Schmitt's team is so reckless they concocted a conspiracy theory that Smith was actually in Atlanta seeing a Hawks game and colluding with Fani Willis. Klobuchar points out to Schmitt, "you have your teams wrong."
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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Students didn't get answers from Khanmigo. They didn't want its questions, either
A large study of Khan Academy’s math program found no extra benefits from AI
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fact that OAN is reporting this … (a) damn!, and also (b) this sort of thing is very good for democracy because it prepares the most partisan Republicans to understand and (maybe) accept election results that go against them
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
OAN: "The GOP chair of the GA Peanut Commission backs Ossoff ... Donald Chase said Ossoff has his vote, adding he likes to support people he believes in. Chase said he's still a conservative R, but claims character matters, and he wants someone in the Senate who will take the institution seriously"
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 29/09/2026
OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company. prospect.org?p=145474
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
imagine seeing a scene like this and thinking "yes, this is good" just speaking personally here it makes me incandescent with rage
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reinierl @reinierl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
The public library hosted Cory Doctorow for a talk. It sold out a massive theatre and overflowed its bike rack on a dark, chilly Autumn evening. This is reinvigorating my faith in humanity. #yeg #edmonton
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Odesa region: civilian and port infrastructure attacked by Russia. Eight people injured by that attack, and six more injured by an attack on a residential building in Odesa yesterday.
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Unionbusting is About Power, Not Money - Lawyers, Guns & Money
For the cost of what employers pay their unionbusting firms, they could just use that money to pay their workers: Amazon alone spent $26 million dollars on this, with the hospital companies holding mu...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wow, good luck with this, Roger. I didn't have her arrested for owning me $50. I had her arrested for not showing up to court when I sued her for $50. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/28/r...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/09/2026
Stopping the fascists from sabotaging the midterms is what the next No Kings is all about. On October 17, we need millions of people in the streets putting the regime on notice that We The People won’t accept any of Trump’s bullshit: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
NO KINGS
NO THRONES. NO CROWNS.
VOTE EARLY
OCTOBER 17
NOKINGS.ORG
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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Oh, also, the Cambridge 22-cityview cable tv folks have their Youtube livestream running and it is rewindable, so it's possible to catch up on things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QTY...
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Cambridge City Council Meeting Agenda | September 28, 2026
YouTube video by 22-CityView - Cambridge, MA
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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-EIGHT (148) people signed up for public comment at tonight's #cambma City Council meeting. BUCKLE UP. Still, at one minute per, that's only 2.5 hours.
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com?p=1558708&ut...
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The Broadview Six Case May Be About to Break Open
Here is a short update on the so-called Broadview Six case —...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good times for Ken Paxton and Roger Marshall
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Dev Clifford @devclifford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because then, as now, they couldn't define/describe it if their life depended on it.
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David S. Moore @dsm1132.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Notice that several of the signs say "race mixing is communism." "Communism" is the conservative's all purpose smear.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 27/09/2026
On this day in 1958, after violent resistance to integrating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, white residents voted to close local public schools rather than comply with federal desegregation orders.
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 28/09/2026
It absolutely sucks, but I am going to have to start building clauses into my freelance contracts about not feeding my draft work into these software systems. Aside from my stuff being plagiarised, it's also just exposing work to potentially millions of other people
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Someone has dementia.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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boykobostonian.bsky.social @boykobostonian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Showing off his recent stroke here
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Joel T. Patterson @joelpatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Carob Prize? Bill Ackman named his prize after the fake chocolate that tastes like dirt?!?
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...
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Sep. 27, 1958 | White Little Rock Voters Choose to Close Public Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice
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