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The BL:UF @thebluf.news · 26/09/2026

Ricardo Barbosa da Cunha — 20 years in Massachusetts, family, business — arrested and told no bond hearing ever, under a 2025 ICE memo. SCOTUS conference Sunday. Our reporting on the case and what's at stake for 6 million: www.thebluf.news/p/ice-mandatory-de…

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 25/09/2026

Can the government detain immigrants indefinitely, without offering them a chance to see a judge? The question has divided 11 different federal appeals courts and left immigrants languishing in detention. Now, it’s the Supreme Court’s turn to weigh in. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/09/25/i...

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ICE Says It Can Detain Immigrants as Long as It Wants. Will the Supreme Court Agree?

Hundreds of federal judges have ruled against the administration’s “mandatory detention” policy, but the Supreme Court may soon have the final say.

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"More than 500 federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration in some 20,000 mandatory detention cases over the past year, according to court records. Nine ... federal appeals courts have issued rulings that [rejected] ICE's interpretation of the law[.]"

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Mike Cozens @michaelccozens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Interesting that @liberalca.bsky.social decided to make the antisemitic conflation of Zionism and Judaism official Canadian policy the same day the @timesofisrael.com openly and proudly declared that Israel was seizing "lebensraum" (their words) and should continue to do so.

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Cosmetic Balls @cosmeticballs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wild to equate understanding math and reading with memorizing two simple pieces of information

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mhkmhk.bsky.social @mhkmhk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not joking when I say knowing phone number and address is a kindergarten skill

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.

And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 24/09/2026

* A sidelight from another angle of the anti-intellectual movement of capitalism in decline is afforded by the following extract from the technical journal, The Illustrated Carpenter and Builder:
"Nowadays admission to many factories depends on passing 'intelligence tests.'... These tests are not always designed to select the most intelligent of applicants; for in a certain Continental factory the management admit that they use intelligence tests to eliminate the alert and intelligent among the applicants, because the work is so sub divided and mechanised that its monotony has the effect of turning intelligent workers into Communists."

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Mike Cozens @michaelccozens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Join @oncleanair.bsky.social's call for the U of Toronto President to make the Uni a solar superpower. #UofT can walk its talk on sustainability by rapidly expanding on site solar power generation. #topoli #toronto share.nwmd.social/s/Rl9JIxCA

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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/09/2026

The book is slated to extol human rights and dissent, despite the Bush administration’s legacy of having massively eroded those principles. The foreword is being written by Israeli politician Natan Sharansky, a former Israeli cabinet minister who defends and cheers Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 16/09/2026

Former President George W. Bush, the father of the global war on terror that has suppressed and killed millions of people across the world, has announced that he is releasing a book of portraits of political prisoners.

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Bush, With Legacy of Torture, Unveils Portrait Book of “Political Prisoners”

The war on terror and PATRIOT Act president is releasing a book of portraits of dissenters called “The Call of Freedom.”…

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Bro, Democrats want to trans your kids. I just want to drug and rape them in Orlando motels." —Matt Gaetz

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Its been [ ] minutes since the last Trump corruption scandal” should have replaced the “Its been [ ] days since Bidens last press conference” chyron

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The foreword is being written by former Soviet Union dissident and Israeli politician Natan Sharansky. ... [Sharansky] is also the founder of the Yisrael B'Aliyah political party, which merged with Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party in 2003; today, he defends and cheers Israel's genocide in Gaza."

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Mike Cozens @michaelccozens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨The Canadian government wants to make it easier for companies to keep wages low and harder for workers to push back, by weakening the right to strike and collectively bargain. Not on our watch. Send a message to the government now. share.canadianlabour.ca/s/PCLKlHAo @canadianlabour.bsky.social

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Don’t rig the rules against workers!

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Mike Cozens @michaelccozens.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social #ProtectBiodiversity act.gp/3RrY9ru

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Trump open to meeting Iran’s president on UNGA sidelines: Rubio #TheHill twp.ai/4hux9W

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Pentagon diverted sensitive F-35 fighter jet components to Hong Kong, possibly giving China access to highly classified weapons technology.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Aw man, this is sad. Way too young.

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 18/09/2026

A new rule would unlawfully introduce barriers, including a work requirement, for people on Medicaid who are currently exempt. We’re challenging this rule to protect health coverage for thousands and ensure they don't miss appointments, lose access to meds, or experience worsening health symptoms.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

President Trump Is Banning The Free Press The Right Way By Ezra Klein

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026

Imagine if, instead of regulating drones (which we did!), we instead decided to let drone companies self-regulate, and ALSO dedicated tons of money and time to "problems" like "what if, in 1000 years, hyper-intelligent dogs learn to fly drones into mailmen." This is what we are doing with AI.

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CoCo ✌🏼💛🕊️ @coco.sheshed.rocks · 18/09/2026

This seems VERY appropriate considering #Trump just made this statement (attached). Another example of exactly why he should be jealous of our beloved #Obama ♥️ #SheShed #FDT

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

...donated big. It is opposed by Xavier Becerra, the ACLU, Sen. Padilla, the leaders of the Assembly and Senate, and former Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It was introduced by two Republicans, Assembly Member Carl DeMaio, R-San Diego, and state Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Huntington Beach. Polling shows 55% opposed, 43% for. The biggest donor in support is WI billionaire Richard Uihlein of Uline fame. The Winkelvoss twins & Nicole Shanahan also ...

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hell no to Prop 39, California! It would impose a mandate to provide government ID in voting to "solve" the virtually nonexistent problem of voter fraud while it would "cost state and local governments “tens of millions of dollars to low hundreds of millions of dollars” to implement."

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California voters are most interested in this proposition — it’s not the billionaire tax

This California ballot measure, pitched by two Republican lawmakers, will be under consideration at a highly charged and contentious moment for voting rights.

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Mike Cozens @michaelccozens.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Remove Zionist white-supremacist Pink as a @unicef.org Ambassador - Sign the Petition! c.org/5HYNdV4hsbht...

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Eos @eos.org · 13/09/2026

DYK: * Air pollution is up, but air quality monitoring is down? (@grist.org) * NPS may have dismissed concerns about Grand Canyon flooding? (@washingtonpost.com) * We know how to prevent black lung, but miners are dying from it anyway? (@theguardian.com) eos.org/research-and...

Science Policy Tracker sortable list of science policy stories

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How many lives are upended, how many careers are cut short, because of men who want to abuse power for their own (sexual) gratification?

She met with her adviser to determine if she could complete the Ph.D. program without research funding from Scheufele and Brossard. Her adviser said it would be difficult.

“He (Scheufele) had the funding. He and Dominique (Brossard) were the only people that had this large amount of money,” the student said.

She transferred to another UW-Madison department in August 2024 after informing her adviser about her concerns with Scheufele. Her adviser then reported the conversation to the university’s Title IX office, which investigates harassment and discrimination. She did not complete her doctorate.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So basically, any actual advising and support was totally contingent on students’ sexual availability. Got it.

A semester after the student who attended the Detroit conference spoke with Brossard, another student in the department began exploring options for quitting the program.

The second student told investigators she began pursuing a doctorate degree at Scheufele’s encouragement after completing her master’s in 2022, and they met weekly. After she mentioned having a romantic partner and decided to stop meeting with Scheufele, he began treating her negatively, she told investigators. She said Scheufele criticized and interrupted her in meetings and rolled his eyes when she spoke, university records show.

While traveling to a spring 2024 conference in Mexico, she learned from another student about Schuefele’s sexual and romantic relationships with students and with Brossard, university records show. That was the “final straw” in working for Scheufele and Brossard, she told the Cap Times.

“It suddenly became crystal clear that it … was such a part of our departmental culture that that was implicit,” she said in an interview.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hey Arizona State grad students, this is what you’re getting as an advisor. That is, if he doesn’t want to fuck you.

Monroe said she selected UW-Madison for graduate school because of its high regard in the field of science communication. Scheufele became her assigned adviser as a master’s student in fall 2017.

“I named him as one of the people who was doing the type of work that was really interesting to me in my application,” she told the Cap Times.

However, Monroe said, she struggled to reach him over email, have meetings and get his feedback, including for her master’s thesis. After reviewing emails between Scheufele and Monroe, university investigators found he had an irritated tone and suggested she get help from other faculty.

“It became clear to me that he didn't like me that much during that period of time, and I didn't understand fully why,” Monroe said. “I was struggling with making connections with other people (in the department) and understanding how funding and networking and getting onto projects worked.”

Investigators found at one research group meeting, Scheufele harshly criticized Monroe after a presentation — telling her she was lazy and saying she’d never get a job.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My sticking mostly to screenshotting and quoting is because I would catch a TOS violation if I really said what I wanna say.

The student recalled Scheufele criticizing students and colleagues to her. Investigators reviewed hundreds of text messages between the student and Scheufele. Investigators wrote that Scheufele repeatedly mocked Monroe’s physical appearance to the student who attended the Detroit conference.

After the student told Scheufele she was interested in collaborating with Monroe, Scheufele “commented that (Monroe) was not smart” and he didn’t want to spend his workday “looking at a fat lesbian’s mustache,” investigators wrote.

Investigators wrote Scheufele “consistently made sarcastic, derogatory comments” to the first student about her gender — particularly related to female intelligence, emotionality and the student’s choice to become a parent.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Yet the university doesn’t think “I won’t be your advisor if I can’t fuck you anymore” counts as a quid-pro-quo.

The student said she didn’t report Scheufele to university officials after the conference because she was focused on trying to graduate and would need his support as her adviser to complete her degree.

“Now all of a sudden, I have this ludicrous ambition to finish this program as soon as possible,” she said in an interview.

The student told investigators that after the Detroit conference, some of her interactions with Scheufele were noticeably strained. He suggested she switch advisers, something the student perceived as a threat, investigators found. Changing advisers would have delayed her graduation schedule.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“She didn’t report her sexual relationship with Scheufele because she feared retaliation from him.”

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

As “consensual” as a relationship may be at the outset, there is an inherent power imbalance between a faculty member and a student, particularly an advisor and senior professor with influence over funding.

While Scheufele wasn’t the head of the Life Sciences Communication department, he was one of the most senior faculty members with considerable influence, the student said.

“He was the guy in charge,” she said. “He’s the sun.”

Investigators later wrote there was an “inherent power imbalance” between Scheufele and the student because of Scheufele’s academic influence and role as her adviser, causing the woman to “feel obligated to remain in (his) good graces.”

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor

Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 04/09/2026

Dietram Scheufele is a major science communication scholar. What strikes me (as it has in past cases, including those at Michigan) is how academia--faculty and administrators--simply *do not want to know* about bad actors, especially when they are famous. Explains why ASU has turned a blind eye too.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Is Government Ownership Of Huge Companies Communism? The President Suppressed Journalists. Is that Communism? The President attacked people who criticize him. Is that Communism?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Mike Johnson: "The Iranians are not trustworthy negotiating partners. They lie every day. For some of them, it's part of their religion."

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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trump & Israel have violated terms since day one. It has never changed.

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