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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

Normalization is treating the president stealing from taxpayers to buy campaign ads and offer bribes to voters like it's just another day. Normalization is reacting with "won't work" or "polls poorly," and not "resign immediately or you'll be removed, we exist because of a revolution against that."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

literally in the next 48 hours! be aware!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh: I really can’t emphasize enough how useful it is to check — literally right now, do it. Likely, it’s peace of mind in a couple of minutes. At worst, you still have time (barely) to remedy it.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 03/10/2026

you asked for ten thousand. i give you one.

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My Minnesota friends have already seen this, but I keep thinking about it and want more people outside our state to, too.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026

Reason n+1 not to post things about children

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hate doing this, and I don't want to spam people, but I do genuinely write a lot, about many different topics; I like to think it's generally interesting and informative, and it's all free to read, and I DO pay for a WordPress account, so if you want that to continue, maybe consider supporting me?

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is slightly out of my normal lane, and I could charge six (hell maybe seven) figure to deliver this message as a consultant, but I’m gonna do it for free. Because I’m ✨enraged✨ People in the think tank/policy/inside the beltway DC world have ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE how mad people are abt Cornell. 🧵

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026

We've been doubling down on our climate coverage and tripling our newsletter frequency here at @thexylom.com. If legacy media won't do it, we will! (and responding specifically to the Yale survey, The Xylom's two largest audience groups are aged 25-34 and 18-24) newsletter.thexylom.com

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Founded in 2018 and based in Atlanta, The Xylom reports on everything you need to know about the world’s most pressing health and environmental disparities. We’re glad you’ve found your way here! (And...

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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

and a lot of people will be gleeful at your suffering while simultaneously saying that you are lying because they deeply believe society should be structured in a way that makes you a tool, an object, a machine, to be used and abused, maybe sometimes maintained like someone maintains their property.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026

"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes

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Tracy Lord of the Nazgûl @seeemilyplay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I find it strange and unsettling how the default position is that men are entitled to public-facing, high profile careers regardless of the literal crimes they have committed. Always strange how “they’ve repented,” turns into “they are owed a high public profile.”

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 25/09/2026

Reminder that @garnethenderson.com and I don't have salaries. Chipping in to help us pay this bill means we can pay ourselves for our labor instead:

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Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you've a few pounds to spare, consider donating some to a lovely queer and trans bookshop in Glasgow who've been having their windows smashed and sadly need to install roll shutters to be safe. They're close to the target, so help push it over? www.gofundme.com/f/categoryis...

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Donate to Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!, organized by Category Is Books

For the past eight years, Category Is Books has been able to comfortably oper… Category Is Books needs your support for Help Category Is Books Get Shutters!

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 24/09/2026

We can do it! Final stretch! Reminder that The Flytrap is member-supported. No ads, no secret private equity, no hidden personal wealth, just you and us on this ride together. Keep feminist cultural criticism sustainable!

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 24/09/2026

Synagogues all over your country are being attacked by right-wing Orthodox youth, prime minister, including a Reform shul during Rosh Hashanah services. Maybe you should focus more on protecting Jews where you’re in charge. www.timesofisrael.com/three-minors...

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Three minors arrested after repeated vandalization of Jerusalem Reform synagogue

Suspects detained following smashing of plate and ripping down of LGBTQ flag at Kol HaNeshama on Yom Kippur, as well as egg-throwing incident on Rosh Hashanah

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Kylie Sertic @kyliesertic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Feeling like a Methodist failure for not realizing the Kansas senate candidate was *that* Adam Hamilton

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

At this point, with the AI companies admitting they cannot always predict or control the products, the default should be that the user and company are jointly and severally strictly liable for harms to third parties.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/09/2026

Court orders aren’t something you “defy,” they’re something you violate

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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you've been procrastinating on registering to vote in Texas, this is it. You need to do it now. Right now.

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.

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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

For the 1039 at Camp As Sayliyah, and the others stuck in Afghanistan who believed the promises made by our government, I'd like you to send your Congressfolk a message that we are still a nation of immigrants. You can message them through this Afghan Evac page.

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Count Them In — #AfghanEvac

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Tough competition of course, but the Trump admin deciding that white South Africans are the only group of people on earth currently worthy of refugee status has to be the most overtly racist thing any administration has done in decades

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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 23/09/2026

NEW: Languages are messy. Japanese is proof: kanji, the Chinese characters used in writing, have two layers of multiple pronunciations. But why did Japanese keep this approach to kanji readings while other Chinese-influenced languages abandoned it?

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Why Did Japan Alone Keep Two Layers of Kanji Readings?

Languages can be stubborn things. You can see this clearly in Japanese, where multiple layers of kanji pronunciation exist to this day.

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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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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

As a fan of revenge novels, I really enjoyed Marlon James’ novel The Disappearers, which feels like a personal quest for revenge among its narrators and a bigger revenge against homophobic Jamaica. (Also the prose is amazing) Glad it got longlisted for the national book award.

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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ICE is erasing immigrants with final deportation orders from a searchable online database, leaving families and attorneys in the dark as they try to find out where someone has been taken. And ICE is set to open a new facility for KIDS in Alexandria, Louisiana. wapo.st/4dSf4vh

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Immigrants with final deportation orders disappear from ICE detainee locator

The change will make it harder for many families and attorneys to determine where an immigrant is being held after being taken into ICE custody.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I offer up my panicked Threads as a primary source to combat this ret-con. BTW, DATA ACCESS ACROSS AGENCIES is A HORRIBLE, DYSTOPIAN nightmare that would permit the government to collect our health, tax, benefit, grant, passport, and voting system all in one authoritarian Infrostructure.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One way to double your vote is to speak to any American abroad about voting. The turnout for civilian Americans overseas in 2024? 11%. With a disciplined effort, we could turn out 100s of 1000s more votes. This site makes it easy and even walks you through the process. www.votefromabroad.org

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Request Absentee Ballots for US Citizens | VoteFromAbroad.org

Helping US Citizens Request Their Absentee Ballot to Vote from Outside the US | VoteFromAbroad.org

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And: Make sure everyone you know who can be vaccinated is vaccinated. Anyone who isn’t certain should get an update. Measles as an infant can be fatal, either immediately or within a few years; but measles as a naive adult has a much higher risk of death. It’s one of the Great Plagues on purpose.

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Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 21/09/2026

This is why we need more trans people in media since points like these don’t get brought up in context from a cis perspective.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Virginians are now voting to repeal the 2006 Marshall-Newman anti-marriage equality constitutional amendment and replace it with an affirmative right to marry. Marshall-Newman is a vestige of the calculated anti-gay fear-mongering flamed nationwide by Rove for political gain during the W years.

“In Ohio, the reader will be reminded of Texas, and in Texas, the reader will get a foreshadowing of what is to come in Ohio and beyond, though not always in a strictly linear sequence. Rove took specific, carefully considered measures beginning in Texas a decade earlier to make gay marriage and religion the wedge issues that helped Bush succeed in Ohio and nationally in 2004.”

https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/2006-09-06/excerpt-the-architect/

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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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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Don’t forget, this is how the Kennedy center dismantling started. The folks at your institution doing equity work might be the first targeted, but the institutions themselves are always the target. Hope folks have learned this now.

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Angri Bundel @anibundel.com · 19/09/2026

Every time we accept the framing that anthropomorphizes these programs made by jumped up horny white men, we are accepting their propaganda.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19/09/2026

Never has it been more crucial to post adorable pet photos

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 19/09/2026

Somebody send a definition of ‘solidarity’ to the other WHCA members; now seems like the time for them to acquaint themselves with the topic.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

To bring back into the light those a country has tried to erase and still keeps trying to pretend is now dealt with, is among the noblest things anyone can do. We owe Catherine Corless so much for her untiring historical work and decency.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Again: "Tilly Norwood" is not a person; it is a shoddy, and also pretty gross puppet. Stop referring to it as "she," and start asking whether there might be something a bit off about wanting to promote a sexualized but also childlike "actor" that can never tell its creators or users "no."

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Mike Muth @mikemuth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE. - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

UVA alum Carrington Epperson: “I recommend anyone to take an African American studies course because you will never understand how much you weren’t taught about it before.”

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

History rhymes, it alliterates, it develops motifs en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Sp...

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Rock Springs massacre - Wikipedia

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