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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Awful. Just awful. A promising young man, a high school honors grad who joined JROTC and dreamed of becoming a doctor, killed himself because of the Trump admin’s obsession with hurting Haitians and the humiliating shame of an ICE ankle monitor. His blood is on their hands.

A picture of a young black man, dressed in a light blue suit with a smart black bow tie, smiling as he is handed a diploma from a school official, a white man in his 40s-50s who is also smiling. Underneath is the caption “Pierre Damas Bel receives his high school diploma. (Family Photo/Instagram)”

Bel arrived in the United States in 2024 in order to reunite with his parents, who had fled Haiti three years before. The family was granted temporary protected status, purchased a home in Springfield and settled into life in the U.S. Bel dreamed of studying medicine and graduated high school last May with honors and as a proud member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC), his father said. He was the eldest of three siblings and his family described him as smart and responsible.

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is where “just asking questions” and “pushing back against liberal orthodoxies” ends up.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

DO FACULTY AFFECT STUDENT PARTISANSHIP?*
Micah Y. Baum*
Joaquín Endara
Annaliese Paulson®
Abstract
We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the humanities and social sciences. We then use student transcripts from one flagship to estimate causal effects. Students become more liberal during college regardless of major and sort toward ideologically similar instructors. Exploiting plausibly random variation in when instructors teach courses, we find no effect of faculty partisanship on student partisanship. Text analysis shows exposure to liberal topics reflects student demand rather than instructor supply, leaving little room for indoctrination.
JEL Codes: 123, D72, H75

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"We may think companies are immoral, but that’s because we assume they are coldly dedicated to their bottom line, not making billion dollar decisions based on something someone sent them on Facebook."

dannykatch.substack.com

We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Despite the whining about “ historical accuracy,” the racist backlash to the casting in Nolan’s Odyssey is about the right wanting to justify racial hierarchy by projecting it into a past where it did not actually exist. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

When some on the right speak of reverence for “civilization,” what they’re doing is trying to anachronistically justify the hierarchy of race they would like to see enacted today by rooting it in antiquity. You cannot cast Black people in The Odyssey, because The Odyssey is a pillar of “Western civilization,” which they consider to be white. This faction of the far right imagines antiquity as a kind of idyllic Jim Crow universe of utterly separate civilizations, one in which the integration they despise could not possibly exist.

But Greece is not as far from Africa as the North American continent is, and the modern construct of race, a pseudoscientific product of the Atlantic slave trade, would not be invented until thousands of years after Homer. Black people are depicted in Greek art. Egypt, Libya, and “Aethiopia” are frequently referenced in ancient writings. As the Black classics scholar Frank Snowden Jr. wrote in the 1970s, at least one of the characters in The Odyssey, Eurybates, is specifically described as “black-skinned and woolly-haired.” As the Stanford classics professor Sarah Derbew notes in her book Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, Black people are referenced in plays by Euripides, Sophocles, and Aeschylus. They also appear in the writings of Hesiod and Herodotus. One of the lost epic poems is The Aethiopis, in which Memnon, the Aethiopian king and an ally to Troy, plays a major role.

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Historical battle against algae has been won!

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The view from Brooklyn. Love you NYC ❤️

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Fuck Trump and Miller and all of them

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/06/2026

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

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Quarks-o'-lantern 🎃 @quarks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An agent at Delaney Hall attempted to kick a demonstrator into the tires of a moving semi. This cannot be reformed. Video via @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Oh no! What will the Mets do without his -.4 WAR?

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Tim Britton (he/him) @timbritton.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Taylor will get an MRI tomorrow, Carlos Mendoza said. They expect he’ll likely need time on the IL.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 25/05/2026

I am tired of Democratic senators warning me that all of Trump’s judges will dangerous “MAGA loyalists,” and then dutifully voting to confirm some of them anyway. Completely unserious people. Do your jobs or stop talking about it.

ballsandstrikes.substack.com

Senate Democrats Are Not Taking Their Jobs Seriously

If Trump is picking judicial nominees who will serve as “MAGA loyalists,” why are you voting to confirm any of them?

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.

offmessage.net

They're Really Going For It

Trump's plan to overturn the midterm elections comes into focus.

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ceej @ceej.online · 19/05/2026

the president loves stealing your money and giving it to pedophiles, folks. it’s like his favorite thing to do

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Perennial

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Thanks god he explained this; didn't quite get it before.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Dems are still favored to win the House. But we can't ignore or downplay how Republicans essentially won 10 seats IN A WEEK through gerrymandering, lawsuits, and judicial rulings. This isn't the kind of democracy we should be comfortable with. newrepublic.com/article/2102...

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The Week Where Republicans May Have Stolen the Midterms

In five days last week, Republicans gained maybe 10 seats in Congress. And not a single citizen voted.

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The apparent Democratic response to the GOP-controlled judiciary entering and rigging the districting fight for Republicans is: grudgingly accept court rulings and pad margins with improved pandering to voters. It might “work” but it is a terrible omen. www.offmessage.net/p/a-terrible...

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

BREAKING: Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has announced a balanced budget with no cuts to essential services, no property tax increases, $4 billion more from the state government, and a new tax hike on the ultra-wealthy. prospect.org/2026/05/12/m...

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Mamdani Announces Balanced Budget Without Cuts - The American Prospect

Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.

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Ed Dolan @dolanecon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Plutopopulism under Trump. www.ft.com/content/31f4...

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

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We’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots

“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

bostonreview.net

A Year of Magical Thinking

Elite impunity has fueled the fantasy that catastrophes are for other people.

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

God watching this Mets team is grim

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

When Dems win in 2028, gotta take Trump's name off all this and put Obama's on there

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Dude, a corner store is where they sell all the items of grocery.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/04/2026

I was elected as a democratic socialist, and will continue to govern as a democratic socialist. 100 days in — and we’re just getting started.

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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

HEY: If you, or anyone you know, can vote in Wisconsin, this is the day to cast your ballot for Chris Taylor. The consequences of this election will echo for years. www.benwikler.com/p/polls-are-...

benwikler.com

Polls are open for Wisconsin's Supreme Court race. Here's why it matters for the whole country.

Judge Chris Taylor's victory today will have national repercussions through at least 2042.

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 07/04/2026

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/04/2026

Pete Hegseth Laid On Side For Cabinet Meeting theonion.com/pete-hegseth-laid-on-s…

Pete Hegseth Laid On Side For Cabinet Meeting
Pentagon Chief Positioned To Prevent Aspiration Of Vomit

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Maggie Vail @magicbeans.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Tomorrow's Bandcamp Friday fundraiser will be for The Trans Continental Pipeline, helping trans folks leave hostile states (ahem, Kansas) for Colorado.

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Julian Brash (He/Him) @julianbrash.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

This will be even funnier when Trump endorses Donald Jr. as the 2028 nominee for the Republican party.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

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