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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 14h

missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 10h

Goofy yet sinister. Like the moronic Stalinist prosecutors of the show-trial 1930s

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 13h

I know someone who taught at a poor rural school in upstate NY and her #1 suggestion to improve learning was "all the kids should eat breakfast before school"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h

addendum: a feminist might worry that subsidizing stay at home parenting might push women out of the workforce, but Norway did this in 1998 and it had a negligible at most effect www.researchgate.net/figure/Labor...

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Figure 1: Labor force participation rate among women in eight European...

Download scientific diagram | Labor force participation rate among women in eight European countries between 1983 and 2008. Source: Eurostat. from publication: Is the Persistent Gender Gap in Income a...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h

you could do it like a classic European socdem-Christian Dem compromise, we get free daycare, you get stay at home parent subsidy. if Republicans wanted to offer that bargain to, say, President AOC I guarantee she'd accept it in a heartbeat

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 28/09/2026

A full minute for emergency response travel reductions is considerable. That's great.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

these guys don't know how to run for a competitive office

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 16h

The unprotected "bike lane" serves as both overflow parking for the neighborhood's scofflaws, and as a reminder that New York City’s streetscape has been shaped by political power and moneyed interests instead of by the principals of safe design. buff.ly/YFBFy5g

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Eyes On The Street: Bedford Avenue Remains Mayor Mamdani's Mess - Streetsblog New York City

At Bedford Avenue and Willoughby Avenue in Brooklyn there is a time-travel portal to bad street design. Will Mayor Mamdani fix it?

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 17h

Team Biden must still be over the moon about Trump’s war on Iran; they clearly see it as the Get Out Of Genocide Free card. And given American political and media culture, they may be right!

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

there is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An overly neglected front of Donald the War Pig; props to @davidsterman.bsky.social and New America for staying on it

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 28/09/2026

Let’s talk about “e-bikes." See you Wednesday at 9 AM in City Hall Park, wearing green! www.mobilize.us/transalt/eve...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Across the world, insulin manufacturers have been shifting their production lines to GLP-1s, after entirely discontinuing some insulin products that were widely used and still profitable – just less profitable than GLP-1s."

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A shrinking minority of Americans looks at Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestine and sees the fundamental issue as “how will people noticing this affect antisemitism in the U.S.? Nobody talk about it!” This point of view is parochial, narcissistic and shameful and thank god it’s going out of style

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Despite Ms. Hinson’s and Mr. Husted’s calls for an end to the war, they recently voted against resolutions to rein in Mr. Trump’s ability to carry on the conflict.” – THIS should be the lede, not sediment gathered at the bottom of graf 6

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 27/09/2026

In case you don't know much about the Foreign Assistance Act, it has a section entitled 502B which mandates the end of US military assistance to a country found to commit rampant human rights abuses. Congress is entitled to requesting a report on this. Van Hollen will force a vote *TISH WEEK*.

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Message Your Senators: Expose Israel's Violence and Human Rights Abuses — IMEU Policy Project

We need to pressure our U.S. Senators to take real action. Tell them to report on human rights violations in the West Bank and hold Israel accountable.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This below cuts to the meaning of our old friend “antiwar Trump” pledging to “root out warmongers and globalists” even as he wages Miriam Adelson’s war. The thrill of a righteous, punitive inquisition is what MAGA wants and not for any greater goal (an end to “forever wars”? Get real!) than itself

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Gonna root out the warmongers and globalists while fighting Miriam Adelson's war, truly the best of everything

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vought is breaking the law but he is not “going rogue.” At his confirmation hearings, Vought told Republicans he would do this and they voted for him anyway. If they want to stop him, they still can via impeachment. They won’t.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Please say this again...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some badly needed intelligent discussion of the Ceuta crisis en inglés on the @sobremesapod.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3viJ...

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Sánchez's Failure on Ceuta

The Sobremesa Podcast · Episode

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Damning of @humanrightsfirst.org if this is who’s in charge www.equator.org/articles/bid...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 26/09/2026

This prevailing notion that the divide between "religious" and "secular" is more important than the consensus doctrine of endless expansionism against neighbors who outnumber them vastly is silly.

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Israel Can’t Postpone Its Reckoning Forever

Intractable divides between the secular and the religious pose a bigger problem for the country than any external threat.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NY Times has repeatedly used the phrase “to heel” in reference to Trump’s crackdown on universities, implicitly clarifying that Trump goal is to establish dominance. And what exactly constitutes this “woke” ideology in higher education?

During the meeting, Mr. Trump repeatedly complained about his administration’s failure to bring Harvard University in particular to heel. The administration has been unable to hammer out a deal with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, a central plank of his broader push against “woke” ideology in higher education.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Música ideal pra um dia de chuva ☔️🇧🇷https://open.spotify.com/track/7xomJ232dflJNn36PfiMN0?si=JGBP0Q9JTkSyU6YzH_wr5A&utm_source=copy-link

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Eduardo Gudin, Notícias Dum Brasil, Karine Telles · Eduardo Gudin & Notícias Dum Brasil 4 · Song · 2015

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tonymelone.bsky.social @tonymelone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Catch up on what’s happening in the BK Dems, some wild stuff www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/n...

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Brooklyn Democrats Were About to Lose Power. So They Changed the Rules.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Painting as extraterrestrial invasion (not Richter’s actual title)

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A state AG doing this instead of joining a Macklemore CD [wtf is a “CD” you oaf? -Ed.] burning is actually significant

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking forward to the new Grisebach, hope it’s as good as her last one www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js1I...

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The Dreamed Adventure | Clip | Valeska Grisebach

YouTube video by The Match Factory

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Island Press @islandpress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

E-bikes give low-vision, disabled, and non-driving people the freedom cars can't. But new laws are cropping up requiring a driver's license to ride an e-bike. Anna Zivarts, author of When Driving Is Not an Option, on the importance of accessible e-mobility: buff.ly/wqd0lMf @nondriver.bsky.social

When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency by Anna Zivarts. Foreword by Dani Simons. Island Press.

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The rumor is just that, and it isn’t based on much.

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