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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was writing fast so what I meant above was that the deported people have most of their families in the U.S., including sometimes their children, more frequently their siblings and spouses. And on the property: deported Haitians had cars, bank accounts. All inaccessible.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And so many of them deported without any documents— with basically this fake form that DHS made up and the Haitian “government” agreed to accept — which was just an expulsion paper. They’ve got no ids.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Their treatment by the US immigration authorities is just unconscionable. Also: many of them have most of their relatives there. And so much property just impounded and stolen by our government.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The prospect of returning to the center of the country— which is extremely insecure and violence— is just impossible. A young man just broke down an started crying at that point. He said nobody cares about me here in Haiti.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Emphasizing: people I am speaking to are strong and have tremendous spirit. But they have been devastated. They mostly entered the U.S. legally, worked for several years, were detained (frequently illegally), arbitrarily deprived or denied status, treated brutally, and dropped here with nothing.

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 09/10/2026

“Although [Mr. Belgal] was initially hospitalized, it appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location—raising grave concerns for his health and well-being.” from @maketheroadny.bsky.social’s habeas petition filed today

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ICE shot a man in New York City; his lawyers can’t find him

The agency claims Oscar Belgal "weaponized his vehicle” against agents in the Bronx, prompting them to fire seven shots at his car.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 09/10/2026

last night eyewitnesses saw Oscar Belgal — the man shot by ICE with his 5 year old in the car — discharged from the hospital into ICE custody, with feds speeding off as NYPD cleared the roads for them of protesters. his attorneys don't know where he is; he's seemingly been taken out of NY state.

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026

I know everyone’s jaded and exhausted by the continual parade of madness, but this is the president of US openly inciting racist violence against an entire community of immigrants. (w/ alt text)

The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing.
They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back! If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 08/10/2026

ice also just shot another man in the streets

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The news just since I left work: -A planned livestream of an execution by firing squad -Trump basically trying to incite a pogrom against Somalis Nothing mysterious or complicated about what's happening.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 05/10/2026

Especially since he claims in the story he was only vaguely aware of the things people were saying about Haitians in Springfield online. If he was spreading that slander himself, that seems real relevant

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

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Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Epistle to the Vancouverites

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

she's the vice-chair of the Vancouver Police Board

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main 🇺🇸 political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.

Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

like come on, i don't know what to say to this kind of stuff. if you're wondering why this happens maybe ask some of your LGBTQ friends. bsky.app/profile/snow...

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

man sorry but the people i see out there who are acting like cutting off your family is purely some individualist phenomenon of social media seriously need to spend time with more LGBTQ people

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Carney carefully weaves in his shock doctrine narrative, telling us why we have to do this NOW so “we can continue to live our lives as we choose.” The implication being: no oil pipeline, no sovereignty. Which is an unhinged thing to say, actually!

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 30/09/2026

bro are you five

Greg Brockman’s signature. Imagine if a kindergartener wrote the letters “gdb.”

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A big part of the MAGA thing is to never apologize or admit you screwed up. (Roy Cohn’s advice).

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 29/09/2026

Justice Murray declared part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional, and trafficking convictions for Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have been stayed. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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DULF Wins Constitutional Challenge, Judge Applauds Their Work | The Tyee

Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will avoid prison and Canada told to update its drug laws.

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

About 50 people crammed into the court room to hear the decision, which took Murray 10 minutes to deliver. Applause broke out as she stood, with people openly crying from relief, from happiness, from feeling like someone in power understood the urgency of the crisis.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I dream of someday having the space to report on how David Eby went from telling NDP supporters BC could not afford to keep approving fossil fuel projects to being one of LNG's biggest boosters He made that shift in less than 4 years

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Trump is doing his best to weaken and undermine higher education, an area in which the United States has been a global leader since World War II, with economic and other benefits that extend far beyond the students, staff, and faculty at universities.

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BC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

⚡️CANDIDATE ANNOUNCEMENT: Maureen Curran for New Westminster - Coquitlam! bcgreens.ca/candidates-2...

BC Greens - Candidate Announcement - Maureen Curran for New Westminster-Coquitlam!

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Rachelle @thisisrachelle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The drink is a complete red herring IMO. Everyone who insists that this is a really big deal just thinks an interview should be a bit of a humiliation ritual where you pretend not to be a real human being.

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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 25/09/2026

Carney: The rules-based international order is crumbling. International Criminal Court: As a participating member you are required by the rules to arrest those with a warrant if they pass through your territory. Carney: Fuck you.

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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nothing is less relevant than "at least Carney isn't Pollivere." The election is over. There's a majority government. Nobody needs to hear that he's better than the shithead who's entire platform he copied and sold to Red Conservatives.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

AI-policing may sometimes be necessary, but I suspect it’s much less effective than simply trying to engage with someone’s work. Academia already has a lot of practices designed to tell whether an idea is mushy or shallow or derivative, many of which involve talking to a human being in real time.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I have no idea how many scholars are trying to pass AI-generated articles off as their own work. But I do know that a scholar who participates in an intellectual community won’t be able to sustain it for long. What do you do at the workshop when people ask you to defend something Claude “wrote”?

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026

I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump likes tarrifs because he thinks it's free money, and because people react to it, and because - we might as well believe him - he just randomly likes the word. There's never any hint that economic analysis has anything to do with it.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026

Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.

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Newsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming care

California’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law.

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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Three cabinet ministers declining to run for the NDP again This is, um, not the best news for Eby First, Popham. Then, Greene. Now Kahlon #bcpoli

A Twitter post from Jas Johal:

BREAKING: Health Minister Ravi Kahlon will not be seeking re-election. The Delta North MLA was first elected in 2017, joined cabinet in 2020 and was one of Eby's most capable ministers and closest allies. A big loss for the NDP on day one of the campaign. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Susan Collins doesn’t care that we’re losing our health care, that ICE is killing people on the streets, and that we’ve been dragged into a pointless war — as long as her donors get their contracts and her coffers get filled.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The same people who insist you are supposed to think Hasan Piker is the literal devil invite this guy to their cocktail parties and think he's cool

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