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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fuck Arch Manning (and Peyton and Eli). Fuck Steve Sarkisian. Fuck the NCAA college football press. This is so gross. The apology wasn’t shit, either. “I apologize for how I chose to present the tweet”?? GTFOH.

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Texas QB Arch Manning apologizes for ‘insensitive comment’ about AI video

Manning, the nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning, laughed about an AI video depicting his coach, Steve Sarkisian, slapping ESPN reporter Holly Rowe after Texas’ win over Ohio State.

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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#UVA and #Charlottesville #cville folx: Monday, Labor Day, join the #AAUP to demand that the university pay everyone - faculty, staff, grad students - a living wage. We begin at the Chemistry building at Noon. Bring a friend, bring a sign (or use one of ours).

Poster for Labor Day March. Reads:
The Rent is Too Damn High!!!
UVA Workers deserve a decent wage.
March for a living wage.
Monday, September 7th
12:00 PM
Meet outside the UVA Chemistry Building.
Organize, Fight, Win
FOr more information, visit https://tinyurl.com/LWM2026

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

All of this tracks. Most white journalists cant conceive of white nationalism as anything but fringe, so they report the open white supremacy of the MAGA movement as something else (economic anxiety!) as they did with the tea party. Tough to admit that it's just the same old basic white nationalism.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I forgot all about this

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

be the dolly you want to see in the world

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's so weird that Dolly Parton used her money to help ordinary people in a thousand different meaningful ways *and* lived an incredibly happy fulfilled life, almost like there's some sort of connection between the two. Anyway, let me read about another AI CEO poisoning a town for shits and giggles

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Two Black mayors took cities that the country loves to write off and made them measurably safer. That’s not a fluke. That’s a blueprint. Chicago and Baltimore just posted numbers that should be front-page news. They’re not. We need to talk about why. 🧵 www.theroot.com/opinion-blac...

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mimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Every time you check out a library book instead of ordering from Amazon, ask a friend instead of an LLM, cook a meal instead of ordering from an app, or go for a walk instead of scrolling social media, you interrupt the cash flows of insane CEOs. Do it! Ruin their day!

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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

This is why #DisCrit still matters. Racism & ableism work in tandem to harm all Black & Brown folks. AND racism & ableism target Black & Brown disabled folks for removal, criminalization & eradication. Yet we get 1000 word essays about special ed that don't even mention Black & Brown disabled kids

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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Trump signed an executive order changing the vaccine schedule and it’s clear that he has never attended one of his kids’ pediatrician appointments.

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Memento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

anyone who voted to confirm rfk jr needs to spend a day with me in the ICU while patients who aren't vaccinated against respiratory viruses struggle to breathe so they can see what they've created today

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

All we should ever be talking about is Leonard Leo, tbh. Talking about Leonard Leo will convince more people we need court reform. That man bought the fucking Supreme Court.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026

Don't forget that Audible is owned by Amazon and you should use @libro.fm instead, which allows you to support an indie bookstore in the process

libro.fm

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/07/2026

So, what happens if I'm a parent and I know that my kid needs highly paid teachers, a library full of books with diverse characters, trans-inclusive bathrooms and extracurriculars, and a curriculum unpacking topics like systemic racism, colonial oppression, economic inequality, and climate change?

Facebook post from the U.S. Department of Education, saying "Parents know best" with a picture of a cartoon White, two-parent, heteronormative family, featuring a dad in a tie and sweater vest and a mom in a dress and pearls.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This shit is not inevitable, it could be made illegal tomorrow if our governments weren't in the pocket of Big Pervert.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/07/2026

one of the most important things you need to do when developing a new product, especially in tech, is sit down and think about how it can be misused by bad actors and nowadays it sure seems like the bad actors are less “people to be guarded against” and more “the target customer base”

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This. So … why manufacture the glasses in the first place. These don’t need to exist, plain and simple. But if there’s money to be made, Big Tech really doesn’t give a shit about real-life consequences. Spare me the “desperately trying to ban creeps” bullshit.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Scientists--if your funding was cut over the last year (for research on climate, global health, DEI, LGBTQ or womens health, etc) but you managed to keep the research going, I want to talk to you for an upcoming article! Plz contact me: gewin at me dot com. Re-posts appreciated!

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

the politician

why don't you blame the public instead? they shouldn't have made it so easy to steal from the public!!!

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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I know we’re all exhausted, but can I interest you in the first qualifying round of Champions League tomorrow?

First qualifying round
Team 1
Agg.
Team 2

1st leg 2nd leg
Sabah .
Match 1
M The New
Saints
7 Jul
14 Jul
Floriana
Match 2
• Shamrock
Rovers
7 Jul
14 Jul
Flora -
Match 3
北 Iberia 1999
8 Jul
14 Jul
Lincoln Red
Imps M
Match 4
1 Inter Club d'Escaldes
7 Jul
14 Jul
Tre Fiori -
Match 5
E- Larne
7 Jul
14 Jul
Ararat-Armenia
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Match 6
Riga
7 Jul
14 Jul
Vardar X
Match 7
+ Kups
7 Jul
14 Jul
Kauno Zalgiris
Match 8
Drita
7 Jul
14 Jul
ML Vitebsk L
• Match 9
•L Universitatea
Craiova
8 Jul
15 Jul
Petrocub
Hincești I-I
Match 10
Egnatia
8 Jul
15 Jul
Borac Banja
Luka B
Match 11
• Levski Sofia
7 Jul
14 Jul
Vikingur
Reykjavik H
Match 12
— ETO Györ
7 Jul
14 Jul
Kairat I•
Match 13
Sutjeska
8 Jul
15 Jul
KíF
Match 14
Atert Bissen
7 Jul
15 Jul

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

once again reminding folks that police commit violence against women at a higher rate than the general population.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I went to the NAE's webinar on the proposed OMB changes. The intention of this is to stop scientific progress in the United States and cause the financial collapse of research universities. There is no other explanation for the proposed changes.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

My print piece on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence is up. I point out that the rest of the country is still desperately trying to get the same rights the white man gave himself 250 years ago. In @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights To Everyone Else?

If we want to make it another 250 years, the Constitution is going to have to do a lot more than protect individual political and civil rights.

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Council for Exceptional Children @cecmembership.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"Soon, half of all American schoolkids will be able to apply for state money to finance a private education, and many states will offer the scholarships even to families with high incomes." Read more to find out how this could affect students with disabilities: ow.ly/GwYu50ZfU0a

Text reads: Council for Exceptional Children. PBS News. News Roundup. The Private School Choice Boom Leaves Behind Many Kids in Public School. "Despite decades of research on school choice, academic scholarship hasn't kept pace with states targeting vouchers to students with disabilities. How those students are faring academically in traditional private schools is unknown." Image of a student writing on paper with a pencil.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/06/2026

The Court's GOP justices love to talk a big game about defending people's religious rights but they really only care about *some people & *some religions A Black man in a Louisiana jail is not one of those people and Rastafarianism is not one of those religions ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/lando...

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The Supreme Court Just Empowered Prison Guards to Violate Religious Rights With Impunity

The conservatives on the Court often posture as great defenders of religious rights. In reality, they only care about the religious rights of some people.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

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Dan Willingham @dtwuva.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

AI changes feedback on student writing when it knows student race, gender www.edweek.org/technology/a...

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is absolutely insane. If anyone thinks that AI is value-free, non-prejudiced, colourblind or whatever...think again. You don't need to be a person to be racist or misogynistic! www.edweek.org/technology/a...

edweek.org

AI Changes Its Feedback on Students' Writing When It Knows Their Race, Gender

AI makes judgments based on the writer's characteristics—a problem if teachers use it as a writing coach.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I don’t particularly need a “vision of masculinity,” but if for some reason I were in the market for such a thing, I cannot imagine wanting to get it from a political party.

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Chris Yarrell @chrisyarrell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

“It’s a proposal to lower the floor for what constitutes a minimal free public education down into the basement, with steps out of that basement on a strictly pay-to-play basis.”

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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Calling disabled voters in ID, IL, IN, KY, MI, MO, NE, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, UT, WA, and WY! @americanprogress.bsky.social wants to hear about your voting accessibility experiences. Interested? Please complete this short form: #CripTheVote

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Share Your Voting Story

The Center for American Progress (CAP) is seeking to understand disabled people's voting experiences. Rarely are disabled voters highlighted when talking about their right to vote. CAP's Disability Ju...

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Always be suspicious when the rich argue that people shouldn't be getting an education. They are trying to lock out low income people, Black and brown people, and other marginalized people.

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Council for Exceptional Children @cecmembership.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"According to a recent survey by the nonpartisan Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), 57% of special education teachers polled nationwide said they used AI to help develop individualized plans for their students in the 2024-25 school year." Read more: ow.ly/nRvU50Z4WUF

Image of hands typing on a keyboard. Text reads: Council for Exceptional Children. NPR. News Roundup. Overworked and understaffed: Special ed teachers turn to AI for help. "For years, schools nationwide have struggled with hiring and retaining special educators. In the 2024-25 school year, 45 states reported special education teacher shortages, and staff turnover is worse in schools that largely serve low-income students..."

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“In his statement, Mr. Rosenbaum said that if the episode ‘serves as a warning about the risks of A.I.-assisted research and verification, that is why I wrote the book.’”

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Jon Lovitz's Dramatic Acting on SNL

Alt: Jon Lovitz's Dramatic Acting on SNL

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Rep. Ogles: "Muslims don’t belong in American society," Rep. Fine on "mainstream Muslims": "I think you should destroy them first" Sen. Tuberville: "The enemy is inside the gates". Rep. Roy posted "No more Muslims" on his social media. None of them censured by Democrats. No penalty.

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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 12/05/2026

Over the past few months, we’ve been bombarded by stories of powerful men in politics committing violence against women. @queenmab.bsky.social wrote about how no matter how much progress we think we’ve made, women keep being sacrificed for men’s accomplishments:

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Women Have Sacrificed Too Much for the Careers of Powerful Men: Analysis

Cesar Chavez, Eric Swalwell, Justin Fairfax, and the gender politics of keeping their dirty secrets.

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Nolen Gertz @ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Teachers: "Please help us get AI out of schools, it's ruining education!" Students: "Please don't make us use AI, it's ruining our lives!" Politicians: "We hear you and we want to help you harness the power of AI." #NihilismAndTechnology

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

. . . oh.

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Kate Peeples, Ph.D. @katepeeples.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I really think a lot of problems could be solved if people would just learn how averages work.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026

More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.

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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future

The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...

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