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Jeff Prudhomme

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Way-seeking for democracy and the liberation of all beings

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I came up with some more inane bullshit for everyone to argue about!
(September 23, 2026 at 10:44am)
Fake opinions to argue over…
- Never turn left on a first date.
- Every kindergarten student should have an unpaid internship.
- The periodic table is too sexual.
- Bigfoot should be allowed to vote.
- Having a dream is the same as reading a book.
- You can wear a crop top to a funeral if the deceased person was hot when they died.
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 23/09/2026
Poorly disguising masks have fully fallen and fascists are no longer pretending to be anything else and yet our public discourse is still filled with hedging takes around "anti-immigration activists", "legitimate concerns" and "populism"
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 23/09/2026
Email from @draft2digital.bsky.social actively promoting a Spotify offer to create slop audiobooks with AI voices. I do not want offers of slop trained on stolen work from a publishing service, and particularly not in an email that carefully says "digitally narrated" throughout, rather than AI.
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
should be day 2 stories if Maine/national media pick up on fact Collins' lobbyist husband, Tom Daffron, worked closely - for years - with Scott Reed, a key player in the corruption scandal @andrewperez.bsky.social & @martinpengelly.bsky.social wrote about that in June zeteo.com/p/susan-coll...
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Susan Collins’s Husband Worked for the Lobbyist Running Her Super PAC
The Maine senator's husband apparently consulted last year for the lobbyist leading Pine Tree Results PAC, documents show.
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Samara @samaaraa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Approving this message
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Javier Bardem shares petition to remove Pink as UNICEF ambassador
Javier Bardem has shared a petition that seeks to remove Pink as a UNICEF ambassador.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
say, this reminds me: After Susan Collins voted to put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, Kavanaugh wrote the decision that gutted a key federal bribery statute
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
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evo1963.bsky.social @evo1963.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that water is in the hands of private companies is inexcusable.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
because the ny times wants to kneecap AOC the way they did hillary clinton. they don't do this for any other politician but her. and we must pound them into the dust for this.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Cornell furnishes a perfect demonstration of the crisis in higher education. To be more precise, the crisis lodges firmly in the mind and the conduct of the university's president, who is unworthy of his office. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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In 200-Page Report, Cornell Confronts the Crisis in American Higher Education
Employers have voiced skepticism about U.S. graduates’ ability to handle workplace demands.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
very weird to have an American pope. weirder that he believes in democracy more than the president of the United States.
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Camille Buckner @camillebuckner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We did it! Our 3e textbook—The Psychology of Sex and Gender—is out today. A labor of love that knocked my Long Covid body sideways. We dedicated this edition to queer/genderqueer people everywhere. 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #AcademicSky #Gender collegepublishing.sagepub.com/products/the...
Cover of the third edition textbook, The Psychology of Sex and Gender, by Jennifer K. Bosson, Camille E. Buckner, and Joseph A. Vandello.

Cover includes a collage of photos depicting people doing things people do, like laugh, love, play, and live.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026
The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...
Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The way to look at this is George bush is trying to help Donald trump retain power on the Hill
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Chairman Wow @chairmanwow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The deadline to register in Texas is October 5th.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram
Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026
Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
22 September 1908 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Blanka Klein, was born in Aszód. In June 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive. --- Learn about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_6_dep_zydow
Black and white portrait showing a smiling woman with short hair, wearing a collared shirt and jacket.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I don't have the energy to rebut everything in this piece, but it reaffirms the impression that these people did not know or care how government works and never bothered to find out. The reporter's framing is pretty credulous "many people disagree" with stuff that is easy to fact check.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026
NEW: The Trump Administration is planning to slash human subject research regulations by redefining informed consent. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-plan...
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Trump Plans to Redefine Informed Consent for Human Research Subjects
The Department of Health and Human Services has noticed a forthcoming rule on the OMB regulatory information site to redefine what undue influence means for vulnerable human research subjects
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I just think it’s strange that all the gambling companies have ads with athletes and celebrities instead of featuring all their users who have become millionaires betting, very strange indeed
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◉●○•° @cosmoecology.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This trend will not end in our lifetimes, and probably not for a millennia. As a result of the increasing heating of the atmosphere significant parts of the United States are on a trajectory toward desertification, or more accurately, aridification—a permanent shift to a drier climate.
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Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?
For 27 years, the Southwest has been gripped by a historic drought. Scientists think it might be here to stay.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Israeli attacks on Gaza since 2023 killed at least 73,795 people, wounded more than 174,800. More than 20,000 children killed, 44,000 injured. Thousands of children have lost limbs, while roughly 17,000 have been left unaccompanied or orphaned. The US is directly complicit in this atrocity.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"The price of heating oil, a fuel that is very similar to diesel, is up roughly 60% since the start of the war in Iran on Feb. 28. "Many Americans are heading into a 'much more expensive' winter..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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Why the Iran War Will Make Heating Oil More Expensive for Some This Winter
The cost of heating oil, which is similar to diesel and used extensively in Northeastern states, has climbed sharply because of the war in Iran.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The college at which I teach, Dartmouth, rose from 200-something to #6 for free speech in FIRE’s rankings. I believe this is misleading. This feels to me & many colleagues like the most restrictive atmosphere we can recall. & many students tell me confidentially they censor themselves about AI.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Republican Governor Jim Pillen has been a champion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. But at least 20 of his family farms employed undocumented immigrants, according to a new investigation by the Flatwater Free Press and The New York Times. youtu.be/5RZgrR1_7Dc?...
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This GOP governor said ‘illegal aliens’ have ‘invaded.’ His family farms EMPLOYED them, report finds
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Ceridwen Anne @ceridwenanne.com · 20/09/2026
It makes me crazy that the headline isn't "poorly designed software test using poorly written software results in massive fraud; indictments to come" Just ffs, these are fucking *computer programs* written by these tech dipshits, not independent agents.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026
Journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday, a day after President Trump announced a ban on three news organizations because of reporting he disliked. Follow live updates.
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Live Updates: CNN and MS NOW Reporters Denied White House Access After Trump Announces Ban
President Trump announced a ban on Friday on the outlets, whose coverage he deems unfair. The move will likely be challenged in court.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW ESSAY on last week's deluge of Dems embracing anti-trans positions. let's stop fixating on trans ppl & instead recognize that Dems have a cisgender problem. pls share! Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/on-democra...
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On Democrats Who Cave in Response to Anti-Trans Attack Ads
and more importantly: a response to all the cis people responding to the way that trans people are responding to said Democrats’ responses
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's pretty damn impressive how much ground Mayor Mamdani has been able to cover after only nine months in office on a wide range of basic quality-of-life issues in NYC. I was reading through the numbers this morning, and they're kinda astonishing. (thread)
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Matthew Prorok @mattprorok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Look, there's a button in my office that just says 'make things better,' I don't know why nobody else was pressing it, but I'm pressing the button."
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"‘Liberal Zionism’ Is Dead, Says Leading Israeli Historian" The idea that Zionism is compatible with democracy, or even basic humanity, is absurd as the events of the last three years have proved, argues legendary Israeli author and academic Avi Shlaim for Zeteo UK:
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‘Liberal Zionism’ Is Dead, Says Leading Israeli Historian
The idea that Zionism is compatible with democracy, or even basic humanity, is absurd as the events of the last three years have proved, argues legendary Israeli author and academic Avi Shlaim.
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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn waves a Palestinian flag on stage while urging fans to speak out for Gaza: “Don’t forget this—ever. Stand your position. Don’t ever be neutral.”
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Anthropic employees: NEXT-GEN AI COULD WIPE OUT HUMANITY WITH A SUPERVIRUS! Normies: that seems like a big leap. How would this AI disseminate such a virus in the real world? Anthropic employees: oh, through the wet labs we built and hooked it up to, of course. Normies: …😬😤
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember when Jake Tapper dug in his heels to defend Fox News when Obama dared to move them to the second row of the press room? Well, now that the roles have reversed, I'm sure that Fox News will -- come on, stop laughing, let me finish
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2026
@timmiller.bsky.social and @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu on the U.S.-controlled system for selling Venezuelan oil and assets: "Congress doesn’t have oversight...there’s just rogue bank accounts out there with Venezuelan money."
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I can’t believe how little media coverage any of this is getting. Russia is escalating across Europe, Poland is warning of possible Russian strikes on NATO countries, and Lithuania is preparing evacuation routes in the event of a military attack. You wouldn’t know it from our media
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Lithuania Prepares Evacuation Route to Poland in Case of Russian Attack
With warnings growing that Russia could launch a military attack against NATO countries, Lithuania and Poland are getting ready.
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Brett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
can we please all collectively stop saying that "ai is just a tool" it is a meaningless & oft-repeated phrase that justifies nothing & helps no one ai is an industry led by psychos, ai is chatbots, ai is agents, ai is data centers, ai is shitty features in software that doesn't need it
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
i'm not over Alito saying we shouldn't count ballots that are mailed on or before Election Day but arrive shortly afterwards bc they can “radically flip” the “apparent outcome” cannot stress enough that, until all ballots are counted, there's no outcome to flip! ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...
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A Brief History of Sam Alito’s Delusional Obsession With Voter Fraud
His conduct in several recent cases suggests that Alito is deep in the right-wing conspiracy theory weeds.
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