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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 1h

Soooo, one of the kittens just spilled tea on irreplaceable archival document copies. They have been saved, laid out to dry, and are still readable. We'll recover from the heart attack someday.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 22h

Read the book 👇🏽. Before the feds took over immigration in 1888, there was over a century of colonial and then state laws on migration

Anna Law’s migration and the origins of American citizenship book

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Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social · 4h

How fitting that I am currently in grading jail, charged with grading the midterm exams from my Mass Incarceration course. 🗃️

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 4h

People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos

She Only Served 10 Months Behind Bars. Florida Still Slapped Her With A $127,000 Bill.
Under Florida's "pay-to-stay" law, inmates are charged $50 for every day of their sentence—including time they never spent incarcerated.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 5h

An outrageous story on its own. Even more outrageous when you find out the same county has charged three children with falsely reporting sexual abuse since her case. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.

“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 22h

This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 3h

Your reminder that the Septimus Heap books have the whimsy, humor, friendship, and magic without the bigotry.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 3h

The misplaced apostrophes and quotes gave this away all along.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

The rise of the Jim Crow theobros. A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell white supremacy, antisemitism and patriarchy to angry young men.

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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros

How a growing network of Reformed pastors and influencers is blending segregationist theology, the manosphere, and internet outrage to monetize white supremacy.

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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 4h

The United States has built and maintained a system of government on the premise that some people’s lives don’t matter. Every election cycle is a referendum on who among us deserves to be considered human. It’s only surprising this wasn’t a bigger issue sooner.

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🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 4h

And while I 100% believe the political threats targeted at esp Tim Walz (we’ve all seen it happening with our own eyes) I wonder where this reporting has been for the original targets that Trump practiced all this on- the ‘squad’—or even currently, Abdul El Sayed or Mayor Mamdani.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 5h

I wonder what would have happened if folks had taken seriously the rise in political violence and threats against women, trans, Black, and antifascist organizers and figures back when we were all getting swatted and sent photoshops of ourselves beheaded

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

Again, what do you think the police are doing to people you can’t name if they’re willing to do that to the mayor?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Morally fucked up how the rich get rewarded for making themselves richer and the world worse. You took out student loans and are still paying them off? You're financially irresponsible. Nearly run a multibillion dollar company into the ground? Here's your hundreds of millions in severance.

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 10/10/2026

the fundamental thing wrong with this ai-driven "hyper personalization" pipe dream is that your preferences are constantly changing, primarily in response to experiencing things that are different from your current preferences and expectations, through this little-known process called Living.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23h

Whatever clout you think you get for always asserting the maximally cynical "it's always been bad and I've always known as much" perspective is worthless and actually making you much stupider as a person and more useless as a political agent.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23h

The posture of Knowingness which is quick to assert that actually there is no sense things are getting worse when the state livestreams an execution because it's analogous to cop killings of the past is very stupid. You can and should notice changes.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In my Gender and Jim Crow class, we have a whole session on lynching images. I don’t show the victims, I show the crowds. We zero in on the faces in the crowds, their expressions, the children, the mothers, the picnics, the jubilation…all of it.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026

I see a lot of this as men trying to outsource to technology the kind of lovingly nagging labor (think: "drink more water, honey" "don't forget to take your pills, honey" "I scheduled you a doctor's appointment, honey") that has traditionally fallen to wives.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 19h

These people are seriously creepy.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 19h

This does actually happen all the time, but the point very much stands.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23h

I understand this view but I think we should consider the implications of preemptively giving up charging a criminal with crimes because the jury may not convict

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 19h

The kids are making their own Halloween costumes this year and the kittens are being super helpful by immediately sitting, and often farting, on any fabric that enters the house.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 19h

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h

When all these tradwife influencers start pivoting away from their alt-right branding in the next few years, never forget they were on this fascist bandwagon to line their pockets at the expense of every other woman in this country.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 20h

People on here might think I spend all my energy raging about politics, but I also rage about Japanese knotweed and Tree of Heaven. My hatred is diverse and wide-ranging.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 20h

It's so awful on such a huge scale, it's devastating.

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NoHomers @nohomers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

What is the male equivalent to hag, crone, witch? Or is that the problem?

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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As someone said in my timeline already, execution as public spectacle and crowd entertainment is an early modern phenomenon, not medieval.

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There's also the solidarity economy movement, which focuses on both fighting poverty and building democratic economic structures so workers can have control over their own work: neweconomy.net cooperationjackson.org seedcommons.org

neweconomy.net

Home - New Economy Coalition

We’re a coalition of 200+ organizations building the solidarity economy in the U.S. and showing that another world is not only possible — it’s already happening.

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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The left isn’t weak because of infighting. The left is weak because every facet of our society and economy is geared to the benefit of fascism and white supremacy and it is the challenge of multiple lifetimes to dismantle all of that.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The "leaders" of Silicon Valley appear to be fascists or fascist-adjacent. Why exactly is the public being badgered to "trust" these people re AI? It makes NO SENSE.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

Try hating racism as much as you hate Black people telling you about yourselves and your ancestors and then maybe together we can get somewhere.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It’s striking that the GOP has a massive cash advantage even when Trump is currently causing lasting harm to the US and global economy. What does that say about the interests of capital?

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sweetrhesus.bsky.social @sweetrhesus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes! Something broke in men where the roided out version won out over the man who was decent and did what's right and stood up for people.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

there it is

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10/10/2026

It's part of why he presents himself as running against the gutter bigots. No one who matters thinks "Hey, wait, I'm a gutter bigot! He's going to put ME in MY place?" It's a way of embodying authority — and, let's not sugarcoat, it's a kind of punitive authority — that doesn't scare ppl.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10/10/2026

Mr. Rogers is so incandescently disappointed that he's decided punishment is necessary -- which is the greatest disappointment of all -- is a kind of masculinity.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 10/10/2026

ossoff is performing a version of masculinity and he's better at it than any D since bill clinton and that is part of what is going on here send post

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump is the ultimate proof of concept of my life rule about self respect- never associate with someone who has none because someone who cannot have any respect for themselves is incapable of having respect for anyone else, including you

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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 10/10/2026

It’s cool, and not incredibly demoralizing, that the last ~25 years (? more?) have been an increasingly flagrant demonstration that The Rules, as we were brought up to understand them, just do not apply to a lot of people

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

this feels accurate but also Khanna is a leftist the way a whale is a parrot

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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thinking about the rhetoric of higher ed leaders who say we have to "win back" public trust in our work. As (for the umpteenth time since I've known about her work) @jenmercieca.bsky.social would put it, the problem is *conceding the frame*. Maybe none of what I'm saying here is new but....

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The big mistake was not thinking in the first place.

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