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Michael L. Rosino

@michaelrosino.bsky.social
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sociologist | racial politics, media, democracy | author of Democracy is Awkward bit.ly/4hUsTK3 & Debating the Drug War bit.ly/3UW39mS | cat dad | serial reposter | host on new books in sociology podcast

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colourfulsevens.bsky.social @colourfulsevens.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
he can't blame "awfly haht cawfee paht" on AI though! we've got him there!
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New Philly monster just dropped share.inquirer.com/Wrd1yT
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Orifice the Awebot is Philly’s ‘magical’ response to Uber Eats robots
"She’s part of our bringing delight and surprise and letting it ripple through the city."
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
Ford, Mellon, and Whiting largely ended their support of graduate student research in the humanities; meanwhile, the right-wing is trying to create a conservative pipeline of future faculty cfau.aei.org/program/grad...
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Graduate Student Intellectual Diversity Initiative - The Future of American University
A mentorship program to broaden the pipeline of future university faculty.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We decided to hold my Digger review until after the first wave of critical responses had gone up, so I would be free to "spoil" the early twist that basically sets up the film's premise. Rarely has such an unpleasant movie to sit through been such a blast to write about: slate.com/culture/2026...
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Tom Cruise’s Big New Movie Isn’t What It Appears. It’s Something Much Worse.
Digger has a huge twist. It’s a disaster of almost apocalyptic proportions.
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The entire last decade has been an exercise in creating a different set of standards for One Special Boy. Trump can never fail, people can only disagree about his performance. It isn't that he doesn't understand anything, he has unorthodox economic stances. It's delusions framed as evenhandedness.
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/imm... #Project2025 #HHS #Medicaid #RFKjr #CrueltyIsThePoint #Blues
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US Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health News
The Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There is a mamdani effect and it’s drastically improved vibes in the city
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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I finally got a new name plate for my office and I guess I was actually promoted to some new thing called “assocate professor” 🤷‍♂️
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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There are so many real valid reasons to hate Bill Gates (privatization of education, agenda setting in science and academia, having a monopoly and being a billionaire, relationship w Epstein and being a creep, impact on farming in global south, etc) that we don’t need to make them up
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Am fascinated with how illiterate the media is about political movements. There’s much talk of UK Prime Minister being a ‘socialist’. This is, of course, complete nonsense. He leads a govt to the right. So let’s look at what are typical socialist policies & examine how such claims are untrue.
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Sojourners @sojo.net · 01/10/2026
"I thought of how meaningful my favorite books were to me growing up and only hoped that this one might mean something to a child out there." sojo.net/magazine/nov...
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Storytelling Is Holy. Don’t Feed Kids AI Slop
Developing minds and hearts need the best we can give them.
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026
In the early 2020s, Twitter served as an indispensable tool as the Black Lives Matter movement swelled. Now, as the platform changed its vibe dramatically, Threads is proving to be Black Twitter’s spiritual successor.
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Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads
From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s “Lanterns,” Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.
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Salty Mom @thesaltyinkslinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If the last 11 years has taught you anything if should be: 1) YES! It CAN happen here. 2) Never assume hate will lose. Never assume you can “pick it up later” when it comes to legislation.
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elite white Republicans have been disenfranchising voters long before Trump, via the filibuster, electoral college and SCOTUS empowering a party that won the popular vote in only one presidential election since the 1990s to tyrannize the majority. How we can reform our politics:
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If we take that at face value the next step is for the UN to pass a resolution declaring the makers of AI to be hostis humani generis ("enemy of humanity"). That would be the predicate under international law to treat them like privates, creating universal jurisdiction to capture and punish them. 🤷‍♂️
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Futurism @futurism.com · 23/09/2026
"I love this school, but I don't love when they do things like this."
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Stanford University Caught Using AI to Create Fake Black Student on Banners Hung Around Campus
Stanford University's dining hall used AI on a photo to replace one of its students with a fake Black woman.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 31/07/2026
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Beyond Police Stenography: How Disembedding Enables Critical Crime News Work

Prior research finds that crime journalists reproduced criminal justice organization standpoints through close working relationships with law enforcement. How do crime reporters relate to police sources today? Drawing on interviews with 58 journalists across 40 local newsrooms in 24 U.S. states, I find that disembedding from law enforcement organizations restructures many reporters’ source relationships, creating conditions under which some journalists enact a distinct professional identity through occupational activism. I argue that the critical crime journalist role is distinguished by a commitment to alternative sourcing practices, structural framing, and reinterpreted objectivity. Informants connect critical orientations to repeated exposure to official dishonesty and the influence of Black-led social movements against police violence. Critical crime journalists amplify civilian and prisoner voices and engage in contextual reporting, treating coverage as a vehicle to shift how readers understand criminalized people and the criminal justice system more broadly. These findings extend scholarship on occupational activism into crime journalism and identify pathways into this form of empirical and expressive occupational activism.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
BREAKING WAPO: In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the Trump White House criticized a report based on a press call the Trump White House conducted. In the call, reporters were instructed to cite an anonymous "senior administration official" in relaying the news to the public.
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The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Idea for a White House commission to control NIH grant approvals seems dead for now. Weekend stories created an uproar on the Hill. Bhattacharya and Vought are trying to sing kumbaya. w/ @by-cjewett.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Trump Backtracks on Plan for New Controls on N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Democrats and Republicans in Congress opposed the creation of a commission with the power to veto federal research awards.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/12/2023
NOT NEWS: Stanford epidemiologist who wrote 324 papers from 2020-2022 expresses grave concern about the proliferation of "extremely productive authors" who wrote a mere 180 or more papers during the same period, suspects fraud is at play, blames global South. NEWS: Nature sees fit to cover it.
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Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists
Some researchers publish a new paper every five days, on average. Data trackers suspect not all their manuscripts were produced through honest labour. Some researchers publish a new paper every five d...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 22/09/2026
The organizers of Save a Life Day — an annual naloxone distribution planned for Thursday — aim to keep promoting harm reduction, even after the Trump administration shifted federal funding away from some supplies that make drug use safer, reports @lorikerseywv.bsky.social.
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Save a Life Day organizers continue focus on harm reduction despite federal funding changes
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
one thing worth saying about the disorder Mandani discourse is that it matters what you're using "disorder" as evidence of. here's some public health research using "broken windows" as an indication of "need for public investment" i.e. fixing the windows penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-Co...
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Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence | Penn Today
Installing working windows and doors, cleaning trash, and weeding at abandoned houses led to safety improvements and should be considered in efforts to create healthy communities, according to researc...
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Universal Healthcare Saves Lives And Costs A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American. Saving more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace. Why Do We Get Healthcare Coverage At Work? ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Bunnicula'd berries @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There was a decent amount of activity around ICE and immigrant detention as well, which almost no one seems to remember.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The anti-war left was very active during Obama’s term to the point that many people believe he was worse than W. on that front (he wasn’t)
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
A lot of people act as if Obama was somehow immune to criticism and it’s weird because he got a ton of it. The anti-war left was very active around drone policy, closing Guantanamo, opposing the intervention in Libya, etc.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Yeah he was called the Deporter-In-Chief, organizers stayed on his ass about it.
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Gwyneth McClendon @gmcclendon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.nbcnews.com/health/menta...
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Why are Americans so tired? CDC report highlights who’s feeling it most
Fatigue is one of the most common concerns reported in primary care visits, yet not much attention is given to how often adults in the U.S. are coping with it.
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pandora @pandorainaboxx.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
honk mimi shooooo
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 20/09/2026
>repeats lie about staying out of politics >prefaces by lamenting Oct. 7 >says “What is happening in Gaza” with a passive voice >focuses on people “with different points of view” coming together
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Baudrillard: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself... Never again will the real have to be produced: this is the vital function of the model in a system of death"
The "secretary of war" wearing a shirt that says "THIS IS WAR" while PTing in a stadium in Texas, which is not war
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026
The overwhelming consensus is for journalists to boycott the White House in solidarity, and for those impacted to sue. Gray rock him.
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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
😱Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump officials sending undocumented children to Texas sparks fears of mass deportation
Exclusive: Nearly 90% of children in federal custody being directed to GOP-controlled state that has unlicensed facilities and low legal representation rates
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The heart of end times fascism is an abandonment of this world. Heaven is either celestial or computational, but not earthly. Not here. It’s why so many people are already rising up. Most people actually like it here. Thank you to CNN International’s Amanpour for having us.
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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026
They saw themselves as progressives because they "appreciated" the cultures they were plundering, not "primitive" predecessors of European "civilization", but the thing is this: if you think a culture is "dying", you've frozen it in time just like if you think it's a remnant of a "primitive" past.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
this being a little Black girl is pushing me close to the edge.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I looked at the exchanges yesterday to see what it would cost my family of three to get basic health insurance. The cheapest package was $2200. It is insane that anyone in this country opposes universal health care because they might be taxed at a fraction of what they pay for for healthcare now.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/09/2026
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab. n.pr/4Ak7inF
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U.N.-backed experts cite possible U.S. war crimes in Iran, including a school attack
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great thread. Most racists are "genuinely concerned" because they are genuinely prejudiced. Their sincerity is not the issue
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution & Citizenship Day!
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Constitution Day: We The People & U.S. Constitution
Alt: Constitution Day: We The People & U.S. Constitution
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
Look outside. Do you see snow? No?  Well, you will soon. You might also see $30/hr more in your pocket if you become an emergency snow shoveler.  Registration begins Saturday, September 19th. Sign up by November 30th for access to paid orientation and expedited payment processing.
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Emergency Snow Shovelers - DSNY
Emergency Snow Shovelers are called on after heavy snowfalls to remove snow and ice citywide from public areas like bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and step streets.
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Grant Brisbee @grantbrisbee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Teach a man to draw a fish, and he doesn't eat for a day. Teach a man to generate a digital fish, and he doesn't eat for a lifetime.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 16/09/2026
Could've eradicated polio but instead even billionaire philanthropy is getting enshittified by AI
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I *hate* this "digital divide" framing for AI; even libraries marshal it to justify their "AI literacy classes," ensuring all have "access" for self-actualization and economic opportunity. Maybe instead some folks are sufficiently literate, and they're instead choosing *principled refusal*.
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