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Matt Young @matthewyoung.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...
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Opinion | Trump Is Begging to Be Impeached
The president’s despotism is itself a constitutional offense.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
United Farm Workers union condemns brutal
ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Seems like this is a good question to ask someone in a leadership position considering how things went the last time he lost. We don't even know what he would have done in 2024 because he won. We only have one example of him losing and it resulted in a history making day of violence at the Capitol
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
An effort to use automated cameras to ticket drivers who block bicycle and bus lanes is set to become permanent and expand citywide under a measure approved unanimously Friday by a key City Council committee. to.wttw.com/3W1UAu1
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Key City Panel Agrees to Expand Use of Cameras to Ticket Drivers Blocking Bus, Bicycle Lanes
Drivers blocking bicycle and bus lanes racked up nearly $4.5 million in fines since November 2024, when an effort to use automated cameras to make streets safer for cyclists and pedestrians launched d...
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."
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Indivisible Chicago Alliance ❌👑 @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
❗️We won't stop fighting until RFK Jr and all the other killers are thrown out of office. 🗳 To do now: Vote out all Republicans, take back Congress & statehouses. ➡️ Vote early and volunteer with us: indivisiblechicago.com/election-26-...
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2026 Election Hub — Indivisible Chicago Alliance
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why are America's elites so incredibly weak?
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 06/10/2026
The President of the United States just offered to sacrifice American lives.
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Baby Jane @babyjanehudson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Excellent reporting. Thorough, specific important details, I have missed reading news\good journalism. Chicago peeps ⭐
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A screenshot from ProPublica. On the left is a data visualization with colored squares grouped by month, each one representing a US citizen detained by immigration forces. September 2025 is shown and labeled as the start of Operation Midway Blitz. On the right text says "During the enforcement surge in Chicago last fall, known as Operation Midway Blitz, there were “no administrative arrests of U.S. citizens,” according to the Department of Homeland Security. “ICE has significant protections in place to ensure U.S. citizens are not arrested, detained, or mistakenly removed.” But we found that federal agents detained more than 120 citizens in Illinois during the height of the surge."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
13/ Collectively, these cases show that as the administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens too. Read our investigation:
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
DISCLAIMER: This post contains graphic photos. Men, women, and families are being abused in lawless, cramped, mold-choked facilities in Florida. A horrific new whistleblower report has pulled back the curtain on the dangerous and lawless practices operating inside two federal facilities in Florida.
Conditions inside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port where more than one hundred detainees are being detained for days and forced to sleep on the ground.Piles of trash have accumulated outside of the Miramar Holding FacilityHuman waste has overflowed onto the ground outside of the portable toilets placed outside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port.Detainees brushing their teeth using water from a hose attached to a jug outside
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/10/2026
I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I really wouldn't mind if Pope Bob excommunicated all the fascist Catholics on SCOTUS.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Trump is set to *expand* his corrupt taxpayer-funded ads starring himself. Meanwhile, a new poll finds his approval among independents at 25% and on the economy that's 23%. Brilliant, Mr. President! On the pod, @davidcorn.bsky.social rips this all apart very well: newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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Trump TV Ads Backfire as New Poll Shows He’s Shockingly Toxic for GOP
As the saga around Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads grows more absurd, the author of a piece exploring Trumpian propaganda explains why no amount of disinfo can protect the GOP from Trump.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember how much of the reporting around Musk was first that his politics were idiosyncratic and nebulous (shortly before he became the #1 Republican donor in 2024) and then that he was "disillusioned with politics" and withdrawing from it (shortly before he became the #1 donor in 2026). Why?
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Ryan Ottignon @ryaninevanston.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UPDATE ON ICE IN EVANSTON LAST WEEK: Just got a FOIA back for 911 calls, police dispatch audio, and police reports associated with the arrest. There's a lot to unpack. 1/ 🧵
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington: We have failed to live up to the command in Deuteronomy, “you shall not violate the rights of the alien or the orphan,” and to the words on the Statue of Liberty. And so “we are losing our soul as a nation.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-los...
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‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’
What we saw in Springfield, Ohio.
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 29/09/2026
According to a new survey, Americans feel worse about the economy than during either the COVID-19 pandemic or the 2008 financial crisis. Meanwhile, Trump is fighting illegal wars and building golden ballrooms. Time for action on groceries, health care and housing. Not vanity.
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Gas, mortgage rates and inflation send Americans’ view of the economy to near record lows
“This is the danger for the Federal Reserve and the nation. This is what can truly shift spending habits and lifestyles,” said economist Heather Long.
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bibliotequetress @bibliotequetress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remember how we were endlessly reminded that Soviets had to share apartments into adulthood, with only a tiny bedroom to themselves,and could only get access to a home with room for a family if they moved away from the places they wanted to live and most couldn't even do that? Well.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes you can’t predict the future, and other times you see with blinding clarity that Rahm will bomb in the first debate, say 10 dumb things about reaching across the aisle, poll at one percent, get dunked on relentlessly, drop out, and run for senate as a centrist Republican.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A Nursing Home Owner Stole Workers' Social Security and Medicare Money He was sentenced to 18 months and $4.4M restitution. His mother bought a Pardon at Mar-a-Lago. Trump is selling pardons for $1 Million. Congress won't stop him. VOTE Out All Republicans #TrumpsCorruptCongress
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 25/09/2026
Do not be frightened about the recent ruling from the Supreme Court. No voter rolls are going to be purged, federal law prohibits that within 90 days of an election. Stay vigilant, check your registration and VOTE EARLY!
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/09/2026
The prosecutor at the center of the Broadview Six case just walked away from the DOJ with a scathing accusation against her own boss.
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Broadview Six Prosecutor Blasts DOJ Boss in Scathing Exit Letter
Sheri Mecklenburg says DOJ leadership scapegoated her for the troubled prosecution, then threatened to fire her if she tried to defend herself.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
“If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired FBI official who held senior counterintelligence roles. “This should be unthinkable for the son of the president. End of story.”
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is amazing. Murakami is now the Mayor of Chicago. bsky.app/profile/chin...
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good for you, White Sox social media team.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“The Afrikaner resettlement effort is projected to cost the U.S. government $500 million, the notice to Congress said.”
cbsnews.com
Trump administration to welcome up to 17,500 more White South Africans as refugees
The Trump administration is planning to welcome up to 17,500 additional White Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees over the next 12 months, according to a notice sent to Congress.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Should Dems win control of the House (and possibly the Senate) in November, they have to doggedly investigate Stephen Miller. They should hold hearings on him each week. See this report on Miller’s role in the Office of Remigration - a white nationalist project.
washingtonpost.com
How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Brandy @3dogz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and thinking of quitting Good. www.neowin.net/news/people-...
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People hate Flock so much its employees are now demoralized and thinking of quitting
If you've been criticizing Flock online, your comments may be hitting harder than you think. Some employees say the backlash is affecting morale, and some are now considering quitting.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21/09/2026
ICE shot a DoorDash delivery guy.
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Attorney: Austin man shot by ICE agent was making DoorDash delivery
A Venezuelan man shot by an ICE agent in Austin was making a DoorDash delivery, his attorney said. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, 28, was later released from the hospital into ICE custody.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Distressing update from Wilber’s lawyer via IG a short while ago:
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ICE Goons Tracker @icegoons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A US citizen standing up for his rights was accosted by ICE goons and found lying face down on the ground with injuries to his head, neck and teeth in Evanston, IL. The sadistic cowards bolted the scene when local police showed up.
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U.S. citizen injured during mistaken ICE detention in Evanston - Evanston RoundTable
The Evanston Police Department is investigating a Sunday morning incident involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents attempting to detain
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump is increasingly frustrated by political and legal setbacks and says not enough people are publicly defending his second-term record, the WSJ reports. He’s also complained that leading figures haven’t thanked him for his attempted overhaul of the Kennedy Center.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/09/2026
ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...
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ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year
Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This might have seemed menacing at the start when he was planning his new Reich, but now everyone can see he’s a loser on every front it just comes across as pathetic, a weak, little man desperate to appear tough.
Trump post: looking at a globe with the words His Hemisphere
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Congressman Jonathan L. Jackson (D-IL 01) @jonathanjackson.house.gov · 18/09/2026
When this president locks the door on journalists, he is locking the door on the American people. A free press belongs to the people, not to the powerful. We will not be quiet, and we will not look away!!
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Up to the moment they pulled the plug on DEI to placateTrump, elite universities were obsessed w/race and gender equity. About social class, they DNGAF. Despite it being a pretty obvious barrier to success in elite settings. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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