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JD @mathewson.us · 01/10/2026

Are we in the biggest disconnect between elite and popular opinion since Hoover? Maybe LBJ? I feel like these views cross cut generations and sectional boundaries more than those on Vietnam and civil rights…

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The 988 suicide prevention hotline's Press 3 option — which provides specialized services to LGBTQ callers — has been restored more than a year after the Trump administration shut it down. Confirmed by HHS and the office of Senator Tammy Baldwin, who led on legislation that forced its restoration

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

especially if you work at the FBI

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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026

this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

sooo....as some have suggested, this is a human problem, not an AI problem. They knew it was going to go rogue and they ignored warnings didn't do anything about it. That's essentially how the Challenger failed. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models (Gift Article)

Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

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JD @mathewson.us · 30/09/2026

Yeah I think the eastern states get their state level details (in CT and NY Sybil Luddington and Nathan Hale get heavy coverage)

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JD @mathewson.us · 30/09/2026

Very surface level, not close enough for undergrads to draw parallels between low level social trends and modern vibes. And I say that as an undergrad honors history major whose concentrations were Asian history and US social history. Never really got into it as a PhD poli sci student either.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

if you know anything about senator schmitt's monumental fuck up in the jack smith hearing, i implore you to reach out. can be anonymous. signal: marisakabas.04 email: marisa@thehandbasket.co

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JD @mathewson.us · 29/09/2026

Outlook has a pin for later function. It still gets pretty cluttered but it works for my non medicated ADHD brain, mostly.

Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the cornell case has me thinking about christine blasey ford and how she so bravely testified in 2018 about how future supreme court justice brett kavanaugh had sexually assaulted her. i'm thinking about what i wrote at the time and how nothing has changed:

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.

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Thleen @kathleenbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you’re prepping Hooters Guys and need a sort of weirdly wholesome palate cleanser, I really loved this piece from a year ago about Hooters waitresses looking out for gay kids who get dragged there by their dads who hope it will turn them straight

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Opinion | Why Dads Take Their Gay Sons to Hooters (Published 2025)

Many fathers and grandfathers take their gay sons to the bar. It’s become a place of refuge, and how that happened is a curious story.

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feels like all these dudes are sore need of an “opifiny”

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If you really want to know what male loneliness looks like go read the 5 star reviews for a hooters restaurant

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 28/09/2026

Not really? That’s a partisan poll from a group that hasn’t any prior polling. An R poll that’s net zero is pretty much in line with prior polling averages, and the absence of prior work means there’s no trend line. I’m not convinced of blue Texas either but this doesn’t move the priors.

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absolutely amazing chart

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But, the 800 played Atari 2600 carts so maybe that was also my first console:

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

First console: NES, 1987 First home computer: Atari 800XL, (present at my creation)

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This strikes me is a common misunderstanding of the argument for humanities education, which is not that it serves as some sort of individual inoculation, but rather than it produces a citizenry more capable of self-governance when distributed widely, especially for decision-makers of every kind.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/09/2026

Multiple ads I believe

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Well yeah she's an adult

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JD @mathewson.us · 27/09/2026

Growing up is realizing the reason the patrons didn’t notice their “gourmet” coffee was replaced with Folgers Crystals was that most nice restaurants serve shitty coffee.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.

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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.

Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.

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JD @mathewson.us · 27/09/2026

This is a great point and a great reference

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Bill @billtwibh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everything is REALLY bad right now. Tell me some funny jokes

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The proper framing isn’t “AI hacked so and so” it’s “Software engineers at this company hacked so and so.” And that’s what they’re doing, even if it wasn’t their intention.

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optiMSTie @optimstie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A good rule of thumb is that technological solutions can basically never resolve purely social problems. There may be some exceptions, but they are exceptions.

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Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Is the chorus “being awesome”?

What does it all mean?!

Double rainbow over a little league field

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Last course I ever taught was $2,600 and a one hour commute.

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There was a prominent higher ed equity activist who constantly slammed schools for doing this but whose org never posted salary ranges for its own openings. I don’t see them around on the socials much anymore.

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In that the the first seven seasons were mainstays in the family and then at the end it started foaming at the mouth and its owner shot it…

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