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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Patty Durand @pattydurand.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Next Monday is the “PSC Power Ticket fundraiser” hosted by Necessary Trouble in the Atlanta Oakhurst area. RSVP required. I will be there, please join me and say hi. secure.actblue.com/donate/levin...

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Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PSA: if you don’t want AI on your Apple devices, think carefully about the latest update to iOS. The option to turn off AI with a single global option has been removed. There are ways to minimise it with multiple things turned off, but not to turn it off completely as before. It’s infuriating.

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Raven Song Farm @ravensongfarm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is something deeply wrong with trying to kill a person twice, then sending her to a hospital for life saving measures so that they can try to kill her again.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just found out that there’s a new, and final, installment of ITV’s groundbreaking 7up documentary series. Original creator/director Michael Apted died a few yrs ago so they got Asif Kapadia (dir. of Senna) to do it. Can’t wait to watch & have an existential crisis.

70 Up poster shows pictures of the children from 7up and them currently as 70 year olds

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Mister Rogers was right.

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Bryn Boice @brynboice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I want to beg teachers and professors to bring back reading plays and stories aloud in class. It’s real, real-time, and different people *hear* different things in the text and are eager to discuss their takes. Empathy is imbedded in this work.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve given this a great deal of thought and I think the funniest option would be to simply pretend I have never heard of the New York Times

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

By destroying Voting Rights Act and gutting 14th & 15th amendments the Roberts Court is recycling legal arguments once used by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction Please read my deep dive w/ @pemalevy.bsky.social in @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

SOCRATES: Picture the following in your mind. Imagine human beings living in an underground cave-like residence. Shadows are cast on the wall by a fire Glaucon: so the shadows are like people! Have we discovered a new intelligence?!? SOCRATES: Glaucon: I, for one, welcome our new Shadow Lords!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Great system, no notes www.propublica.org/article/scho...

Voucher programs and the private schools they increasingly fund have proliferated across the country. Yet those schools often reject children with disabilities — the very kids who were used to help sell early voucher programs to lawmakers and the public - for having needs that are too costly, complex or disruptive. That leaves those children with few options beyond the public schools. And as public schools lose enrollment as a result of more and more
voucher use, they lose resources that would benefit children who remain, including those with disabilities.

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/09/2026

The fact that this is news

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a normal, functioning democracy, this would end his presidency tonight.

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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

Ask yourself this: how have institutions that for years have said they face budget shortfalls, deficits, shortages that “required” them to deny faculty lines, fire staff, raise tuition, cut research support, etc. suddenly find the money to pay for outrageously expensive contracts for AI services?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Why don't we have strong political leadership that says, "You know what? Yes, we are the party of pluralism, of cultural, social, ethnic, racial pluralism, and that is our vision. Yes, that is the offer we are making to you, the electorate." @thomaszimmer.bsky.social.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s not rocket science, folks! If you agree with these affirmations (which, frankly, we all should if we believe in democracy and freedom!), SIGN THE COMPACT AND THEN USE OUR TOOL TO ASK YOUR UNIVERSITY TO SIGN THE COMPACT. www.standupforscience.net/sufs-compact...

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Demand your school's leadership publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Email your school's president urgently asking them to publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it's insane they do this bend-over-backwards "critics say it raises questions" shit when the actual law just says "its illegal to put living people on currency"

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Marjorie Pak @marjoriepak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

funny how people who say ‘I’ve never been a joiner’ can sound so alike www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/o... I'm not saying Toor shares Paul’s views. I'm saying they both adopt a cute-funny style to try to present themselves as boldly original & above the fray when their own purported values are attacked

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Opinion | No, I Don’t Want to Protest (Published 2024)

I don’t like operating in unison, and I’ve never been much of a tribalist or a joiner.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As somebody who grew up during the era in which there was a massive public push to reduce teen pregnancy, it’s absolutely wild to me to see people on Fox News now complaining that not enough teens are getting pregnant.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

You should think about the burdens you experience at the DMV, as connected to the burdens you experience in the tax system and SNAP. That the range of ways these burdens arise are more varied and surprising than you can possibly imagine. From Lowrey: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/annie-lowr...

The sheer range of problems people encountered always shocked me. The hassle of figuring out how to send a fax from your smartphone. (Why does anyone have to send anything by fax anymore?) The challenge of answering a seemingly straightforward question, like who lives in your household. (What is a household anyway? What if you’re constantly moving, or friends and family members are forever bouncing in and out of the place where you’re living?) The conundrum of having disabling medical symptoms without having a diagnosis. (How are you supposed to get diagnosed if you can’t see the doctor?)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

How big is the time tax? The numbers are astonishing. And its a regressive tax. People who need more help from government spend more time in dealign with it. People with more resources can often buy their way out of the time tax. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/annie-lowr...

Washington currently estimates that Americans spend 12 billion hours a year filling out government forms, meaning the average person spends six 8-hour workdays filing their taxes, signing up for Medicaid, renewing their driver’s licenses, and applying for government loans. At prevailing wages, this uncompensated labor is worth $430 billion a year. If Washington were to create a Department of Bureaucracy to take on the paperwork it shunts to citizens, the agency would require 5.9 million employees, making it four times the size of the active-duty military. The DOB’s payroll would be larger than that of every other federal department combined.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

Every Fever game is a circus & the WNBA is the constant subject of some of the most horrific harassment I’ve seen an entire organized sport subjected to. And this door was opened by a few white women backstabbing their coworkers. Also, the article got the name of the Connecticut Sun incorrect.

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Lewis Muirhead @bringthenoise.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Side issue but “irreversible surgery“ is really starting to grate on me. Very few surgeries are reversible! You can’t just pop a tumour back into someone! Yet , the only time that phrase gets used is for gender affirming care.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/08/2026

Yale’s leadership must stand firm in defense of academic freedom against Trump's threats. Show solidarity with the students, alumni, and faculty taking a stand against Yale’s cowardly surrender. Sign the petition today at YaleDontCave.com.

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 28/08/2026

Despite ongoing litigation, President Trump's mail voting executive order is "still illegal" and "still blocked," @mawaldman.bsky.social told @ms.now. "The most important thing any voter should know is make a plan to vote. Vote early if you can."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We were shocked to find out they have an app now! And if you compare their app to the others, MapQuest is the one still preserving the names. Way to go, MapQuest! ✊ We’re just tired of watching companies roll over for this administration.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28/08/2026

Tennessee National Guard members assigned to a federal anti-crime task force in Memphis fatally shot an armed 20-year-old man in the back, according to an autopsy report obtained Thursday by The Associated Press, contradicting police accounts that said the man was facing the troops when they fired.

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Autopsy shows Tennessee National Guard fatally shot 20-year-old armed man in the back

An autopsy shows that an armed man killed by the Tennessee National Guard was shot in the back. The report that Tyrin Johnson’s family shared with The Associated Press on Thursday contradicts accounts by law enforcement.

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Marjorie Pak @marjoriepak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is why I think faculty need to stop obsessing about how to detect and punish AI use - a dismal, defeatist exercise - and start thinking more creatively about how to support students who want to refuse or resist AI.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

LOL! YOU LITERALLY VOTED YES TO CONFIRM RFK JR. !!!!

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'll again note that the folks willing to sign a letter supporting a raging eugenicist (purportedly in defense of his academic freedom to be racist) aren't nearly as motivated when it comes to *actual* threats to academic freedom, like this.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.

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DeeplyFlawedReplyGuyFromNH @finegentlemaninnh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Every day we stray further from God's light.

A package of oreo cookies, chicken and waffle flavor.

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‘aesthetically terrifying’ @aruss-updates.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Darline Graham: If you elect me, I’ll do everything in my power to leave more children orphaned, just like I was.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If, like me, you grew up in the 80s, you likely had to deal with bullies. It was a pro-bully sort of time; majestic herds of bullies roamed our nation’s proud cafeterias and schoolyards. This is probably true of any era. Each era has been far too kind to bullies. www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...

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Soon You Too Will Be A Commie

Accepting a bully's framing won't save you a beating. Why solidarity is the best way out.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Too, the idea we should debate everything is usually proposed by those whose rights and humanity are not subject to debate. Debate amplifies and legitimizes false and abhorrent views plus it's a bullshit sport weaponized by the likes of Charlie Kirk, not a sound method of arriving at truth.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

a graph of data center support rapidly falling

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is why I get so annoyed with university admins who insist we must teach AI or our students will be left behind. Fine, then require one class and leave the rest of us alone. (After about two weeks in the class, they’ll be like, “shit, what do we do now?” but that’s not my problem.)

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