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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI polls can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes, a new @pewresearch.org study shows. An experimental AI poll found that 97% of Hispanic adults in the US were likely to follow the World Cup. The actual figure – based on human respondents – was 43%. www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

Screenshot of a September 2026 Pew Research Center study about AI polls. The study shows that AI polls can take attitudes that are reasonably common among certain demographic and partisan subgroups and portray them as nearly ubiquitous.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 22h

President Trump does not have the power to unilaterally change Title IX. LGBTQ students continue to be protected from discrimination under federal civil rights law. With the administration's continued cruel anti-trans actions, schools must not waver in their commitment to protecting queer students.

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Trump's Title IX Announcement Is Cruel. But It Does Not Change The Law

“Schools can and should continue to include transgender students equally in all educational programs,” writes Chase Strangio.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s been over a year since this statement went up, but every time I read it I am appalled. This is the US government telling people that its own data collection efforts (in this case, from the CDC) are “extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the truth” because they measure gender.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know the word “Orwellian” gets thrown around quite a bit, but the idea that the government can simply assert that a phrase in common discourse is HEREBY EDITED is just absurd.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Important new research on fatigue in the United States, including gender and racial-ethnic disparities: www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nh...

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A remarkable graphic on forced vs. voluntary migration since the 1500s. (Source: Douglas Massey, "The Shape of Things to Come: International Migration in the Twenty-First Century." In L. Lerpold et al. (eds.), Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World. 2023.)

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This will really help lower the cost of filling up a tank!

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“By lobbying to uphold strict state bans [on abortion], the church is demanding that the government use the threat of prison to enforce our specific theology onto citizens who hold entirely different, equally valid moral convictions.”

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“The current [taxpayer-funded] ad re-promotes Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign promise to ‘expel the warmongers from our government,’ at a moment when his administration continues a war against Iran, which has no clear resolution in sight.”

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a powerful example of how the alleged fight against “slut-shaming” often leads people—usually women—to be pressured into sexual situations. I saw this at my alma mater, Oberlin College, during our annual Safer Sex Night events. Not everyone feels “liberated” by the promise of promiscuity.

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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover @firinglineshow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What should the next president do with Trump’s White House ballroom? “Knock it down” says @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu. She argues the ballroom is about more than architecture: “It’s Trump seeking to remake the institution itself.”

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 27/09/2026

This betrayal might seem confusing. Some kind of aberration or mistake. A few bad apples. The reality is so much more disturbing and I implore every campus worker and student to read @nbedera.bsky.social. www.nicolebedera.com/_files/ugd/c...

I Can Protect His Future, but She Can’t Be Helped: Himpathy
and Hysteria in Administrator Rationalizations of
Institutional Betrayal
Nicole Bedera
Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
ABSTRACT
It is well-established fact that sexual assault survivors who
report the violence they endured are retraumatized by the
reporting process, but there is limited research on how these
institutional betrayals are enacted. The current study draws on
ethnographic observation and interview data to explore how 24
administrators use gendered rationalization frames to justify
betrayal in Title IX cases. Specifically, administrators invoke
himpathy to define their primary role as protecting the futures
of young men. To defend this view from critique, they condemn
how survivors use Title IX by casting them as hysterical women
who are either mistaken in labeling an experience as sexual
assault or suffering from trauma too severe for a Title IX process
to repair. Taken together, these frames portray institutional
betrayal as moral, even as these ideologies reinforce gender
inequality.
ARTICLE HISTORY
Received 12 November 2021
Accepted 23 March 2023
KEYWORDS
Sexual assault; institutional betrayal; himpathy; hysteria; victim blame

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

More than 1 in 4 *Trump voters* say the country is worse off than it was four years ago.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This headline — and the claim that “the world wants more children” — really highlights the gap between pronatalist movement among White people and the anti-natalist attitudes toward people of color, especially immigrants. Who says the “world” wants more children? And which children?

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” —Max Planck

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The new Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) report from the CDC shows dramatic improvement in the mental health of high school students. But because of the Trump admin, the report no longer shows disparities by race, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of inequality. www.cdc.gov/yrbs/yhif/fi...

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“As much as he professes to hate the mainstream media, Trump depends on it. He wants the constant attention. He loves being in the spotlight. … It will get through to him if that kind of attention is withdrawn.”

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Paramount essentially extorted government officials (like Newsom) by threatening they’d pull out of California if they didn’t get their way. Such cupidity by all parties involved.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Really important @pbsnews.org reporting showing that mifepristone can reduce bleeding and pain from endometriosis and can shrink uterine fibroids up to 50%. In the US, many doctors don’t know about this treatment. In other countries, you can already get mifepristone over the counter.

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How abortion drug restrictions make it harder to treat other conditions

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Trump administration is launching “Trump TV” tonight after purging the White House press pool. State television is a feature of dictatorships such as those found in China and Russia.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“For a man whose academic field was built largely on faulty studies … to ignore the intellectual fraud in his circle and lash out at people like [Jason] Arday for bad scholarship – well, psychologists used to call that projection, but Lord knows if those studies hold up.”

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is outrageous. The church is requiring its clergy to *read out a statement* opposing a proposition that would expand abortion access. How does this not violate their tax-exempt status?! I’m apoplectic.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is an excellent conversation. Good on @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and the @newrepublic.com for engaging a trans journalist on this topic. @evanurquhart.bsky.social's point here is so under-appreciated. You have to message what you believe, not what you think some imagined subgroup wants to hear.

So I think what a Democrat signals when they shift on this very low salience issue that no one cares about is, I don’t really believe anything. I’m just trying to say whatever I think will win your vote. I’m wishy-washy. I’m not really a fighter. I think that’s kind of the risk that they take, in terms of playing into some of these other stereotypes of Democrats.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is good! Also, I can’t tell if Norwegian accents are just funny or if I think they’re funny because of Norsemen, a show that is very funny

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A mostly invisible force shaping politics in the Trump era—esp since 2025—is his ability to summon threats of violence & death against his opponents to such a degree it's become a material factor in political actors' decision making. I think a good term for this is "stochastic brownshirtism."

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Since August, Mr. Blanche has come under fire for making campaign-tinged public appearances and comments.” ‘Campaign-tinged’ has to be the most ridiculous New York Times euphemism I’ve heard in a long time—and they LOVE their euphemisms.

nytimes.com

Blanche’s Political Campaigning Breaks an Ethical Norm Going Back to Watergate (Gift Article)

The attorney general’s campaign politicking for Republicans adds to the degradation of post-Watergate values at the Justice Department.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“There are 21.4 million women in the U.S. who need subsidized birth control living in a county somewhere with limited access. That's the major takeaway from a new analysis of contraception access from two reproductive policy organizations, Power to Decide and the Guttmacher Institute.”

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New maps reveal massive gaps in access to affordable birth control across the U.S

Because of a data lag, the current reality of access may be even worse.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s remarkable how certain politicians are that they’ll be remembered by a few quotes they gave rather than what they did with the power of their office.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Dean of Harvard College has been on a PR tour defending the institution's approach to AI and writing, but student testimony from inside the institution suggests that the school is retreating from human exchange as central to the learning experience. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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I’m a Writing Tutor at Harvard. The College is Failing Us. | The Harvard Crimson

The Writing Center’s dismantling evokes a broader pattern of institutions treating human learning and connection as costs to cut, not values to protect.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“In a book about McKinsey, one journalist who has long covered the firm said it may be ‘the single greatest legitimizer of mass layoffs than anyone, anywhere, at any time in modern history.’” www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

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The University of Utah plans to lay off hundreds after seeking advice from national consulting firms. Here’s what we know.

The firms, Huron and McKinsey, are both known for suggesting staff cuts as a solution.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The A.I. companies seem content to unleash wave after wave of products that cause obvious harm while delivering the message that this is all inevitable and you can get on board or get left behind." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/o...

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Opinion | Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time’s Not Going So Well.

We won’t get fooled again.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

To put a finer point on it: he is right.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Meanwhile, the University of Utah got a D–. “In particular, the report’s authors wagged their finger at school administrators for making a student alter event signs to remove ‘environmental justice’ and ‘communities disproportionately affected by climate change’ in April.”

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 12/09/2026

The organization said UVU failed to defend free expression when it rescinded author and educator Sharon McMahon’s invitation to speak at commencement. UVU got an “F” grade and ranked 210th out of 261 universities.

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UVU tumbles in free speech rankings in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk shooting

The “chilling effect” of Charlie Kirk’s assassination “persists” at Utah Valley University, a free speech report suggests.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Uncut fabric for stars used to identify Jews during the Holocaust. Source: Jewish Museum Vienna

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I love early Mondrian paintings. If you look closely, you can tell that the abstract images he developed were inspired in part by his work with tree branches.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“[In] college, I sat in lecture-hall chairs that had beautiful, sculpted, and unused cigarette holders. When smoking was banned in classes, some students still smoked, but the habit persisted in a climate of transgression & impracticality, which inspired many to quit. That is where chatbots belong.”

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The Original Sin of AI — The Atlantic

The harms of chatbots are clear enough to do something about them now.

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“First people talked to one another; then we talked to one another through machines; now we talk directly to machines.”

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Max Coleman @maxecoleman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Exhibit #1000 showing that Trump is a sociopath who cannot feel others’ pain.

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