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Mike Cozens @michaelccozens.bsky.social · 41m

Join @fundourschools Ontario in calling-on @ontariopcparty.bsky.social Premier Doug Ford to stop buying himself private jets at taxpayer expense and reverse his cuts to schools instead! Add your voice to this campaign! nwmd.social/s/twitter/4w...

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Fund Our Schools | Support Public Education Now

Join the Fund Our Schools campaign to amplify stories from educators, parents, and community leaders advocating for increased school funding and improved education.

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 53m

So rare for a good person, and the right person, to win one of these awards.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 44m

"Our president is helping rich donors offload overvalued stocks onto children, who are forced to hold the stocks for five years whether they want to or not." And this is about one of his *good* ideas. The latest edition of Receipts from @crampell.bsky.social:

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Trump Accounts Were a GOOD Idea. He Just Made It an Icky One.

What started as a bipartisan savings concept now comes with stocks you can’t reject, a five-year lockup, and some very happy billionaires.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 44m

Your regular reminder that the job of an ICE officer is dramatically safer than the job of a regular cop, such that not a single ICE deportation officer has been killed in the line of duty since 1949 (and that was actually a stabbing inside an INS jail in Hawaii, not street enforcement).

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Worf's Aunt Masha from Babruysk @mashamasha.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Even Gemini knows that Laura is full of it. Let me know how you'd like to proceed, Laura

Screenshot of a Google search screen in Gemini mode with a question on top saying "my friend says it's a Palestinian flag, is it?" And the answer "No, it is not a Palestinian flag. While the [Palestinian flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Palestine) does feature a red triangle alongside black, white, and green horizontal stripes, its presence on this screen is entirely coincidental. [1]
The graphics displayed on the [Ingenico](https://ingenico.com) payment terminal are strictly functional point-of-sale interface designs used globally. The red and green colors are universally coded to correspond with the physical hardware buttons below the screen: Red for "Cancel" (left) and Green for "Enter/Confirm" (right). [2]
If you want, I can help you look up user guides or find troubleshooting steps for this specific Ingenico payment terminal. Let me know how you'd like to proceed!

[1] [https://en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_triangle_%28Palestinian_symbol%29)
[2] [https://ingenico.com](https://ingenico.com/sites/default/files/resource-document/2022-10/MOVE5000%20-%20user%20guide%20-%20OCT22.pdf)"

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Much to consider

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She seems sound of Mind

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Mike Cozens @michaelccozens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

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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Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada

Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...

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Mike Cozens @michaelccozens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Big oil makes billions from war. You pay. Demand a profits tax now! Sign @greenpeaceca.bsky.social's petition to call for a profits tax on windfall profits from war now and in the future. The money can address the affordability crisis right now. #MakePollutersPay act.gp/3R3MZsk

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Big Oil makes billions from war. You pay. Demand a profits tax.

People should not have to pay for war profiteering. Add your name to call for an excess profits tax.

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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

x.com/catrina_nort...

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NBER @nber.org · 04/10/2026

Importers tend to be few, large, and have market power, so they're already too small relative to what's efficient, and tariffs make that distortion worse. Accounting for this, the optimal tariff turns out to be negative (an import subsidy), from Becker, Boar, and Midrigan www.nber.org/papers/w35829

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reupping because I just finished a stunning, complex, heartbreaking article by @mccrummen.bsky.social, one of the finest pieces of journalism I’ve seen in a while; and also a piece by a guy who thought Rufo wasn’t a racist.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Outside Mother of the Americas church in Little Village, crosses commemorating immigrants have died in immigration custody or during enforcement actions in the United States

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He had already surrendered. Video captured today in Oasis, California shows a federal goons kneeling on a man he threw to the ground while tasing him. This whole time the man is surrendering.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just think it's amazing for someone to assume they understand a problem better than the thousands of engineers and scientists who have studied it *all over the world* for four-plus decades now

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

elon musk on: stealth aircraft (for the record: everyone involved with low-observable aircraft is acutely aware that they are not "invisible," they just have an rcs so small they can't be effectively detected until they are close enough to have already launched weapons and that is super useful.)

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*it* is happening here @realworldrj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Elon is going to promise a completely invisible aircraft by December. All he needs is a trillion of taxpayer funding

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And still, all of it could have been avoided if USA Today respected the experts they interview. They could have been one of the only publications to get it right *from the beginning* by platforming the concerns that sexual violence researchers had as soon as we saw the DA's statement.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After I posted this thread, I got an email from an editor indicating the story had been updated. They removed my quote and added new text about the developments in the case. I don't know if they ever would have done that without pressure, but it's something.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The primary objective of journalism is supposed to be telling the truth. It is a DECISION on the part of USA Today to know that new details have emerged about this case and to refuse to update an old story that is still circulating and still shaming Jane Doe.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not linking the piece because I'd like for as few people to read it as possible. I'm writing about it here because: - I want to be clear about what happened to anyone who saw that article and felt betrayed to see me associated with it. - These are bad decisions that deserve public shame.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Once I found out about it, I contacted the reporter and asked him to retract the piece--or at minimum add an editor's note acknowledging the NYT reporting about how Jane Doe did NOT tell police that she consented to her rape. Thus far, the publication has refused to do so.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm the token expert voice saying that inconsistencies in victim's narratives are common in an otherwise brutally bad piece of journalism full of tropes about how not to report on sexual assault.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And that led to my words appearing in a victim-blaming article written by a journalist I have never met about how Jane Doe's story was "inconsistent."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
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ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
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Democracy Defenders Action @democracydefendersaction.org · 02/10/2026

If an administration can bend rules, intimidate opponents, or meddle with elections, the answer cannot be to sit out. Voter registration deadlines are approaching in states across the country. Check your registration. Register if you need to. Be ready to make your voice heard. #LetsGetVoteReady

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Everything You Need to Vote - Vote.org

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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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