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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you are at a school with a more expansive mandatory reporting policy, this is a great time to advocate with other faculty to change that. There is NO federal law, regulation, or guidance that requires faculty to be mandatory reporters.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Me when I hear JD Vance speak
A older lady with her mouth open & her cat also w mouth open taking a selfie
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Uncle Bucky @unclebuckyy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Alternative headline: Ohio has paused revenue stream used for state funding due to a disastrous war unauthorized by Congress.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A, timely, and timeless, lesson. “Never be afraid to make some noise. It’s their shame, not yours.” Destroy the patriarchy.
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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 30/09/2026
ok leaving this up on the conference room whiteboard
“they don’t know” meme but the man wears a NEORSD hat and stands waist deep in water with otters swimming around him. he says “they don’t know this river burned 13 times”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: As Trump’s White House and influencers keep touting the unproven benefits of raw milk, hundreds across the country are falling ill from outbreaks. Some people get severe indigestion. And some nearly die. Here's the story of one toddler who drank it. 🧵👇 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Buying fast food for my family, it’s over $50, which feels like a lot. Not unreasonable from the restaurant, but like going out to dinner, not grabbing something cheap. So I looked up fast food prices, and they’ve risen faster than inflation. Add that to the why people say stuff’s expensive list.
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Chart of the Day: Fast Food Inflation
Today’s Chart of the Day shows the inflation of fast-food prices over the last of 10 years vs. actual inflation of everything else.
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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A connected network of six proposed intercity passenger rail services could deliver nearly $190 million in annual benefits within Ohio, according to recently released study results from the Rail Passengers Association.
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RPA: What Passenger Rail Could Deliver for Ohio
A connected network of six proposed intercity passenger rail services could deliver nearly $190 million in annual benefits within Ohio, according to recently released study results from the Rail Passe...
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this
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UncleEraserheadBabyBilly @lepcyrus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i hate people thinking *i'm* the performative one for correctly assuming country is right-leaning artless junk. then they talk about "country" artists who were socially progressive, guess what, all from 50+ years ago. dolly & cash were a different generation. i grew up w/rightwingers, no thanks
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov day! He saved the world from nuclear annihilation on this day in 1983. My freshman year in college would have been so much worse without his courage.🧵
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
this administration illegally shut down federal agencies, impounded money from Congress, set up for-profit concentration camps and sent children there. They dismantled our public health infrastructure and children died of measles. Doing accountability for crimes against our Constitution is the work.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My friend who works in education always says that we want education to solve all our society's problems, when we should see those problems as something we must solve in order to have good education
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is something so unbelievably bleak about an article that calmly walks readers through how to navigate being laid off after 50, losing your health insurance, and somehow surviving the years until Medicare. What a broken country.
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Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. (Gift Article)
At best, older workers will struggle to find health insurance that bridges the years before they qualify for Medicare at age 65.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 22/09/2026
'the archive creates possibilities extending beyond Britain and the Caribbean.Migration and the forced movement of people under enslavement mean descendants can be found across the African diaspora, including in the US and Latin America.' Ancestry account required www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
theguardian.com
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Reece @thiccreese.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Meta's new AI agent wanted my passport info. Not to help me. To train on me. Actually, it wanted everything: bank accounts, email inboxes, ID info. No surprise coming from Meta. But always worth reminding readers that AI automations come with major privacy risks. www.wired.com/story/metas-...
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Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Public health is at its best when you don't even notice it's working. It doesn't just pop up during a pandemic. It's clean water. It’s food safety. It’s disease prevention. It’s protecting our communities before a crisis hits. That's why we need public health champions in Congress!
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
He spent 11 months inside DOGE. Now he wants to set the record straight.
In his first major interview about his tell-all memoir, Tyler Hassen describes the culture clash surrounding DOGE’s mission and the backlash that followed.
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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping." -Hubert Reeves
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Dutchie @dutchieh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not leaving the city doesn’t matter if no one continues to listen to him after Jan 20 2029. The White House isn’t a magic palace that confers authority. The next President can legitimately preside from a corner booth at Denny’s. Normalize “He can’t be president” not “This is how he will try”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There is no "platform" and no one on this site can honestly say that they know what they would do if they win the House and/or Senate starting in January. What's the immediate first order of business, for example? No voter can say. It has not been communicated to anyone.
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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
there should be a lot less "look how much I agree with Republicans" and a lot more "we're going to rebuild what the Republicans destroyed, and punish them for it"
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 19/09/2026
My most boomer opinion is that you should be able to connect a printer straight out of the box with a cable to the pc and print. No wifi, no bluetooth, no freaking app.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
At this point, I think you have to assume that anyone who still campaigns as a Republican is a Trump supporter, no matter what they say.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026
When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.
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... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
See Google Help for more information.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gold Statues and Staff Cuts: How Trump Has Disrupted America’s Parks Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
nytimes.com
How Trump Has Disrupted National Parks (Gift Article)
Maintenance projects have been put off around the country and resources diverted to the president’s favored projects in Washington.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I was in charge of an educational institution and learned that a technology fostered “cognitive surrender” in young people, I’d like to think I would do everything in my power to keep it away from the young people who pay my institution to educate them. But I guess I’m just a weirdo.
Students are using artificial intelligence for everything, including cheating, and a recent M.I.T. report said the technology was creating
"cognitive surrender."
Philip Cheung for The New York Times
Many university leaders are embracing A.I. anyway. →
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026
I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CA2 says federal government can conduct suspicionless searches of any international traveler's cellphones - even U.S. citizens! - upon arrival at the border. The 2nd Circuit covers JFK Airport. Biden judge concurs in the judgment to say WTF! storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2026/09/...
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 16/09/2026
Private equity takes everything, returns nothing.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
AI has exposed the austerity con game in higher ed. For years, we have been told there is no money for students, faculty, staff, capital improvements, libraries. But somehow universities have suddenly come up with the money to pay for AI services??
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The fundamental right to life does not cease to exist simply because a person is pregnant" is devastating.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Ms. Rachel thing is instructive because ppl just vaguely talk about her being antisemitic so as to avoid articulating her original offense: daring to feature in her videos a 3 year old whom the IDF blew the feet off of
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 16/09/2026
less corruption, more spoonbill. 🪶
a roseate spoonbill looks at the camera
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 16/09/2026
It is the first lawsuit over a death linked to an abortion ban and the first to directly sue Paxton, who has taken a leading role in enforcing Texas’ ban.
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026
Happy Baby Safety Month.
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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In many ways, Trumpism is simply the authoritarianism of corporate America, of C-suite executives, escaping containment. We finally got to see what it was like to run the government like a business.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Thinking of/with antiwar activist A. J. Muste:
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Once a reporter asked him, "Do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night in front of the White House with a candle?" A.J. Muste replied softly: "Oh I don't do this to change the country. I do this so the country won't change me.
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burn it all down @russbengtson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
if you're in line to quit the ed sheeran tour, stay in line!
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The “branding dispute” being that it’s legally established as a memorial to John F. Kennedy, the president from the 1960s who was murdered in office by an assassin, and Trump wanted to slap his name on it too while he held power for reasons of pure narcissism.
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