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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

The Waco torture and lynching of Jesse Washington in 1916 has stuck with me for years after reading the details. 10,000 people came to watch him be torn to pieces, and burned alive over the course of hours. Exactly 100 years ago.

Image of the huge crowd there to attend the lynching.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

White people attended public lynchings in droves and had picnics with their children there. I mean, PLEASE.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 13h

COULD IT BE THE UNMITIGATED HOMOPHOBIA AND GENDERED VIOLENCE UNDER A FASCIST REGIME?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 19h

Actors may not want to weigh in on politics but I assure you politics will be weighing in on the entertainment industry

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Nothing says a country is serious about science than vanity science awards for the president who has launched a war on higher education

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 16h

I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.

post from Trump on Truth Social declaring that anyone who uses the term "Artificial Intelligence" is THE ENEMY!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15h

Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

This new Sherrod Brown ad debunks a anti trans ad while tying the Republican senate candidate to Jeffrey Epstein. THIS is how you fight back against anti trans ads.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16h

The American white collar workforce started working from home three days a week for like six months a year into COVID and executives so thoroughly lost their minds over this that they installed Trump II. If anything, AI will create the 7-day workweek.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

"threatened to report someone's marriage as fraudulent to chase them out of a rent-controlled apartment" is about the most evil thing I've ever read that didn't involve physical violence

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 16h

The narrative that Americans are divided on abortion is a lie to hide just how undemocratic bans are—and convince lawmakers to take weaker stances on abortion. ~70% of Deep South voters oppose abortion bans. I wrote about the implications of this:

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Poll: 70% of Deep South Voters Oppose Abortion Bans

Plus, Deep South voters are the least likely to say that abortion should never be permitted.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

this is so bleak, actually imagine being called a slur for a group you don't even belong to and instead of going "wow holy shit, no one should have to put up with that, we need to hold people to account," you go "no guys it's okay I hate them too!!!" and just hand the bully your lunch money

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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 16h

Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling Dr Annie Andrews a transphobic slur this week, and her response is to ensure everyone knows she hates trans people too. Christ, the Democrats are fucking pathetic.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 19h

Excited to see that we’re replacing new housing with chatbots that tell you to kill yourself

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

Man, it's a good thing Jared Polis pardoned this woman. She has absolutely learned her lesson.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19h

the more Musk spends on the midterm elections, the more ubiquitous this image needs to be

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Fidel Martinez @fidel.bsky.social · 16h

How fitting that this is at the Alamo, the site where white supremacists lost to a bunch of Mexicans. In this election cycle, if Republicans lose Texas, it’ll be because of Mexican American voters.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

We're maybe a week away from a Trump official shouting "White Power!" at one of these conferences.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 17h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19h

If you have ever read a book to a baby, you will realize it's not a linear experience. The baby wants to turn pages backward, wants to ask questions (if they're old enough), wants to examine the pages and get really excited if they can say "bear!" even if the word "bear!" is not on the page.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h

White supremacy is, above all, an ideology of stolen valor bsky.app/profile/seth...

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

setting aside that musk is nowhere near this popular, the US is years deep in a pretty massive accountant shortage, a fairly basic fact about the labor market the vice president should know, but doesn’t

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 16h

Huh… so some people would argue that the flattening of journals into a single template is a good thing from that perspective‽

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 19h

This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 18h

As a political science professor, I can confidently say: If I asked a student to define "socialism" on an exam and they wrote that, they would get an F

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 17h

Ah, but the Malthusian racists (even among environmentalists) want *other people* to not have children! You know the ones they mean…

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 17h

Seems like the person has retracted their words and posted an apology with this screenshot.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22h

The perfection of this.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

It's OK not to have children if you do not want to raise children. More people should take this to heart.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 21h

This looks like he's holding a press conference to deny paternity in a Daily Wire reboot of the Mamma Mia franchise.

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 18h

More like undercutting the loans American resident students have to take out and then pay for the rest of their lives. That’s probably what he meant to say?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

Universities bring in foreign students ... to undercut the wages of American residents? What? This is exactly backwards. Foreign students subsidize the tuition of American students. I wonder why the VP who follows Nazis online has this all wrong. Probably an innocent, non-racist mistake.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21h

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 20h

Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

come 2028 vance will be cutting ads specifically denouncing his in-laws for coming to the united states

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

This is exactly the logic used to justify genocide in Gaza but with the proper nouns swapped.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21h

If you are arguing that there is no innocent [person of any nationality whatsoever] then you are making the case for genocide

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 21h

LLM (Large Line Man) solves math problem

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 20h

they did the thing

an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 20h

For years, researchers in the field of artificial intelligence worried whether machines could pass the Turing Test. At this point in the LLM/AI hype cycle, it is clear we need to worry more if humans can pass it. Too many people failing to recognize there is no consciousness behind the chatbot! 🤦🏽‍♂️

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 21h

One would think that there is more opportunity for diverse (and funky) journal layouts & designs since you don’t have to worry about printing costs. But one would be wrong: why pay an artist/designer to create that layout when you can add those extra cents to the company’s obscene profit margins?

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 05/10/2026

Dusted off some old words to supplement new thoughts that have occupied my mind of late. Thoughts of strangler figs, and how they reshape the host trees/structures they managed to take root in, slowly, patiently… Also, dusting off this newsletter that has been dormant for over a year. Do read!

reconciliationecology.beehiiv.com

Ficus, Focus, Poet, Cop.

Thoughts on reconciling humans and nature, decoloniality, art, science, and holding oppressors accountable for environmental injustice

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I wish there was a way to support precarious senior scholars who have an important piece of scholarly work to finish. In this case let’s say a scholarly edition of a key text, like Richard Norwood’s (1590-1675) ‘Confessions’, and his manuscript legacy.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 25/09/2026

If you want a six minute summary of how to support trans+ fieldworkers, then why not check out this video we made (voiced by the incredible @izzyvalkyrie.bsky.social)?

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