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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

They use govt accounts, employees & resources to make partisan political messages. They make partisan political speeches attacking the opposition party to troops routinely. They get pardoned when they commit crimes. They ignore the laws. There is zero congressional oversight.

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Stephanie Ruhle @stephruhle.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

EMERGENCY MEDICAID REIMBURSES HOSPITALS FOR CARE TO UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS BECAUSE BY LAW HOSPITALS CANNOT TURN AWAY ANYONE IN AN EMERGENCY. RONALD REGAN SIGNED THIS INTO LAW.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 30/09/2025

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

'out of the three mass shootings today'

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

nepc.colorado.edu

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

There have been 6 mass shootings in the USA over the past 24 hours. The casualty count stands at 41. Here’s the President of the United States of America.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/09/2025

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2025

The near daily barrage of deadly mass shootings in America feels like low level warfare against normal citizens who just want to live in peace. And because people keep electing Republicans who won’t do anything about it there’s no solution in sight.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Trump’s hated for Comey is so bizarre when you think about the fact that without Comey’s October 2016 intervention, Trump probably wouldn’t have won the 2016 election and wouldn’t be president today.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

While the senile old man rides in carriages around castles, builds his ballroom, puts gold on everything, plans parades, attends a variety of sporting events, threatens people, and reads the scripts put in front of him, this psychopath is the one actually running the country.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

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Molly Rookwood @mollyrookwood.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If Dems want to pivot to "kitchen table issue" in their messaging this is the one! Say he has to come to congress for a vote on the tariffs or you don't vote for government funding bill.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

It's all wildly illegal & unconstitutional. The president doesn't get to do this stuff. Except now he does, because we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in American history. Presidency ending stuff for <anyone> in the last 80 years. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Stop calling it "witholding". The money was appropriate by Congress, and by law was to be disbursed to the intended programs. The money was supposed to go to the programs, Trump and McMahon prevented it from doing so, sending the $$ back to the Treasury. Call it theft, because it is.

insidehighered.com

Trump Administration Withholds Millions for TRIO Programs

Nonprofits that advocate for first-gen students say that without the federally funded programs, college could become unattainable for hundreds of thousands of students.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Have no fear, Republicans will bail you out at some point with a huge chunk of taxpayer money to pay you for not being able to sell your products because of their policies. Then you can post on social media that you’re voting for them because you are against socialism.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”

In his remarks, Mr. Van Hollen cited his involvement in fighting for the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in the spring. Some in his party, he said, argued that getting embroiled in a fight over a deportation was a “distraction” and potentially politically unpopular, because Mr. Trump’s hard line on immigration had resonated with voters.

Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson.

“This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style,” he said. “We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.”

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Time for a defamation suit

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I legitimately don't understand how you can frame what he did -- putting individuals' names and faces on an anti-free speech "watchlist," sending busloads of MAGA folks to the Capitol on 1/6, joking about bailing out Paul Pelosi's attacker, sneering at immigrants and black women -- as "civility"

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

They want us at each other's throats.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The troubling rise of concentration camp euphemisms

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 09/09/2025

As a trial lawyer for 15+ years, I’ve never seen a case this big. The Epstein files aren’t about partisan politics. They’re about predators, power, and justice. And Trump’s lies about his ties tell us everything we need to know.

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Michael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This point cannot be over-emphasized enough. When I left the FBI in June, I said that if the destruction stopped that day, it would take a decade to repair. Talking now to friends still there, I think I was being too optimistic. We are witnessing the self-immolation of a great country.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Lot of in the Epstein/JP Morgan piece to cause revulsion. I’m stuck here: “even during his jail sentence, JPMorgan continued wiring money from his accounts to banks in Russia and Eastern Europe, where young women were being drawn into his sex-trafficking network, according to sealed court records”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

JUST NOW — Israel takes credit for attacking Hamas leadership in Qatar, a USA ally, where they were coming to discuss a peace deal in Doha. Safe to say this scraps any efforts at a deal to end the carnage in Gaza and bring home the hostages, which was likely the point.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Several anti-ICE protestors on the Ohio-Kentucky border. This is how the police dealt with them. Literally beat the hell out of them. This is Trump's police state America, coming to a protest near you.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 05/09/2025

With revisions, here's private sector job creation prior to the April tariff announcements Jan +79k Feb +107k March +114k April +133k and after May +69k June -27k July +77k August +38k

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

What is obvious: RFK Jr is an unqualified kook conspiracy theorist who has the CDC in shambles because he wants scientists to adopt his internet conspiracies as health policy putting us all in danger. Vance with the standard ‘look over here!’ MAGA playbook: Trans people!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Translation: We billionaires need massive amounts of electricity for our AI to make us trillionaires and put people out of work, and we thank you for being able to convince so many dopes into paying a lot more on their electric bills over the next few years to make it happen.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 05/09/2025

It didn’t “leave them dead.” Navy SEALs slaughtered three innocent people.

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6
Mission Into North Korea Fell
Apart

The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

This story is WILD. Trump sent Seal Team 6 into North Korea to plant a listening device. The entire thing went sideways within minutes of landing when they noticed a fishing boat near the beach. They killed everyone on board, sunk the bodies to cover their tracks, and fled. Congress was never told.

If the SEALs were unsure whether the mission had been compromised before they fired, they had no doubt afterward. The plan required the SEALs to abort immediately if they encountered anyone. North Korean security forces could be coming. There was no time to plant the device.

The shore team swam to the boat to make sure that all of the North Koreans were dead. They found no guns or uniforms. Evidence suggested that the crew, which people briefed on the mission said numbered two or three people, had been civilians diving for shellfish. All were dead, including the man in the water.

Officials familiar with the mission said the SEALs pulled the bodies into the water to hide them from the North Korean authorities. One added that the SEALs punctured the boat crew’s lungs with knives to make sure their bodies would sink.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2025

CNN put together a clip of RKF Jr denying today he linked antidepressants and mass shootings, followed by a clip of RFK Jr last week linking antidepressants and mass shootings

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