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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 1h

I’m worried that Ezra Klein isn’t producing enough. It’s been minutes.

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We found immigration courts have issued more than 10,000 removal and voluntary departure orders each month for immigrant minors — nearly four times the rate as Trump’s last term. With legal representation disappearing that pace could accelerate www.propublica.org/article/unac...

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These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.

A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Send this to every university President in the country.

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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

to be clear, the admin is alleged to have deported AT LEAST 25,447 individuals TO COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN with, evidently, ZERO PROTECTIONS. this is a scandal and crime of historic proportions.

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The Deportation Project Map

Between 2025 and August 2026, the Trump administration deported over 25,000 people to countries other than their country of origin. Very few of these removals were publicly announced by the US. The De...

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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📚 💥 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫! 📚 💥 Our book '𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧' will come out almost 4 years after ChatGPT was introduced to the world. Together with @tjthomson.bsky.social & @ryanjthomas.bsky.social Preorder here: www.routledge.com/Generative-A...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now

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Annie Heffernan @annieheff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Since Nebraska began using interRAI last year, the state has cut Medicaid funding to nearly 900 people with developmental disabilities, leaving many caretakers racing to overturn decisions made by an algorithm whose inner workings are largely hidden from the public."

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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"To be transparent, I’m a fan." I'm a fan of college sports, too. And I was a Division I athlete when I was in college. And this is totally wrong. There's no legitimate reason every Rutgers student should be billed $3,000 extra dollars a year to support sports programs many of them don't care about.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wonderfully rich & provocative new essay from @noortjem.bsky.social: “Even in the presence of devastation and grief, improvisation remains available as a modality of existence—it is possible to go on in a different way, to continue in another register, another key.”

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/09/2026

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed FBI agents will be deployed to the polls this fall, saying he "will not shy away from that effort." Let it be known: this administration will do everything in its power to dissuade voters from showing up in November.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hill I die on: All the rich & powerful parts of learning are deeply relational in ways that don’t scale (administratively or economically). They rightly resist efficiency & optimization. Universities hate this fact so we’re locked in a battle about scale dressed up as innovation & student care.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ve been seeing this in my classes (where I don’t allow AI, we talk about why & also why I won’t surveil students): They feel like AI is being pushed on them by aggressive uni leadership & hyped-up profs. They want something different. We owe it to fight for them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

nytimes.com

Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It (Gift Article)

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It (Gift Article)

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

What’s the German word for: giving feedback on document someone admits is AI, that they say is 1st draft to “get conversation going” but so lacks substance that you’d have to do the work they should have done, so you reject their AI doc & they complain “what’s YOUR idea then” & you get very sad?

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is far weaker than I was expecting from this byline duo. No faculty/student voices; no mention of union or culture surveys; thin account of encampment events (calling LAPD & botched disciplinary process?); celebratory anecdotes; finances are “fine” after pain? lamaterial.com/p/usc-what-h...

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Can Anyone Save USC?

The untold story of how USC almost ran aground — and the improbable rise of its new leader.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!

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Crockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Pod Save America “deploying the affective registers of alternative media in service of institutional Democratic politics, fueling its success during the first Trump administration & constraining its ability to offer meaningful critique during the Biden years” ✅ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Abstract of paper:

“Pod Save America (PSA) is the flagship show of Crooked Media -a venture designed to build liberal media infrastructure and counter the
Trump administration in the aftermath of the 2016 election. Drawing on Wodak's discourse-historical approach (2001), this paper examines interviews and media coverage of the podcast, with particular focus on the "Resistance" movement of 2017 and 2020/2024 elections, to
analyze its contested status as an alternative voice within the liberal media ecosystem. The podcast's evolution reveals an agonistic identity born of a partisanship deploying the affective registers of alternative media in service of institutional Democratic politics,
fueling its success during the first Trump administration and constraining its ability to offer meaningful critique during the Biden years. Ultimately, analysis of PSA demonstrates both the possibilities and limitations of composite approaches to alternative media development in a period of media fragmentation and partisan polarization.”

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

NEW ICE wants to build a nationwide database of voters, their voting history and, potentially, their party affiliations too. ....and it's willing to pay someone up to $5M to do it www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...

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ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database

As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Big congrats @janniehartley.bsky.social on this phenomenal new book! It looks fantastic (and gorgeous), am looking forward to digging in. I recall fondly you talking about it @annenberg.usc.edu ~a year ago, wonderful to see it in the world.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 02/09/2026

California is about to do something really cool for local journalism: mattdpearce.substack.com/p/california...

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California is about to do something really cool for local journalism

AB 2222, the Community NEWS Act, is going to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Very obvious point, but all hopes pinned on a Dem takeover of Congress* don’t mean a thing if elites let Trump cheat (he’ll try). MN showed—often heartbreakingly—how excellent people are, but they need help. Will elites find courage, help organize, take risks, use their power*? * = not a panacea

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Andromeda @ulveheksa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Questionnaire by Wendell Berry

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

John Ternus starts his reign as Apple CEO by caving to Trump (www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/t...). Elites are all talk when it comes to principled leadership. Plus ça change…

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John Ternus Replaces Tim Cook as Apple CEO

Big technology and management changes are greeting John Ternus, whose long-serving predecessor, Tim Cook, will stay on as executive chair.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
impracticable zero percent failure rate.
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The climate crisis is accelerating," @leahstokes.bsky.social, author of “The Carbon Wave," told @apnews.com. "We can’t really not talk about it for like a decade, because the planet will be even more on fire if we do that."

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The Earth is sizzling, but climate isn't a hot topic for Democrats in this year's campaigns

Climate change has become a less prominent election-year issue for Democrats as voters say concerns such as affordability are more pressing.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“When the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough & start being serious about having the discussions, we can have those discussions," [Carney] said. "But it's not constructive, but that's their democracy.” www.cbc.ca/news/world/p...

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U.S. Pentagon defends Hegseth's controversial post about Canadian cadet program | CBC News

The U.S. Pentagon is standing behind a controversial social media post by War Secretary Pete Hegseth about a Canadian cadet program.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Every now and then it's helpful to just stand back and acknowledge that the core Trumpist and Republican electoral strategy is to use every means possible to prevent American citizens from voting for who will represent them.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This article eye-rollingly continues click-bait anthropomorphizing of AI, but it gets at phenomenon of “AI” as both OBJECT & AGENT—something to regulate & something that participates in its regulation. I get at that duality here: drive.google.com/file/d/1OCJG... www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/s...

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Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You. (Gift Article)

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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Study A.I. Consciousness? The Bots Would Like a Word With You. (Gift Article)

Given access to email, A.I. agents have started reaching out to the philosophers and researchers exploring deep questions about them.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“elite sports reflects the values & ideals of the upper classes: be a winner, dominate others, & enjoy the means to lead a life of leisure.” Paré-Poupart’s “Trash!” is phenomenal. If waste labor studies had a fraction of the resources poured into sports… www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816578...

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“colleges in Quebec have physiotherapists on hand to treat swimmers in swim clubs, but we garbagemen are generally left to grin and bear it.
Whenever my mother talks about my job, she never fails to remind me of all the times I've gotten injured.
The implication is clear: I should just ditch this dangerous job. If I were a professional hockey player getting showered with money and glory, with an elite medical team to look after me, I doubt she'd constantly harp on my injuries and the risks of my job. Yet it's these very things—risk and physical intensity-that make the garbageman's job so exceptional. In my opinion, a garbageman's performance is on par with that of an Olympic marathon runner or a pro hockey defense-man. But no one would ever think of comparing the
two activities. In our society, sports is a highly lucrative spectacle. We couldn't say the same about garbage disposal. Above all, elite sports reflects the values and”

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TRASH!
ideals of the upper classes: be a winner, dominate oth-ers, and enjoy the means to lead a life of leisure.
Our work as garbagemen resembles elite sports for its combination of performance, toil, and pushing yourself to new feats. But our extreme sport is performed for members of the lower classes. In our world, that's enough to belittle you. The garbageman puts his health at risk for society as a whole. He takes great pride in it. But workers' strength is a commodity to be exploited until their dying day, with no regard for their well-being or will. And if we do care about workers' safety, that care takes the form of drawing up regulations and tying them up in bureaucratic red tape, a surefire way to kill the joy in any job.
THE JOY OF THROWING TRASH finds its expression in the beauty and simplicity of our art form. Experienced guys will recognize the signature of a helper glimpsed behind a truck in the distance: the way he picks up bags, heaves a trash can high, or runs from pile to”

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🔥: “a pseudodemocratic fiscal basket case of a nation, whose only apparent foreign policy objective has become domination for the gratification of its president’s slapdash vanity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...

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Opinion | Canada Said No to America. It Will Reverberate Far Beyond Its Borders. (Gift Article)

Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“Everybody has been waiting for somebody to test whether ‘no’ is actually an option. Carney just tested it. He didn’t do it with a cheap shot or stunt. He offered the Americans everything reasonable, let them poison the deal themselves, and then documented what they did & why it was unacceptable.”

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VIDEO: Mark Carney Just Became The Most Important Leader In The Free World

Carney laid it out line by line in his presser today. Trump tried to claim Canada a vassal state at 11 pm last night. Carney told him to fuck off and woke up as the new leader of the free world.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“The Canadian government did not immediately respond to a request to comment…” This story should have stay unpublished until the Canadian perspective can be reported. Without it, the @nytimes.com is just a stenographer for a MAGA government that routinely lies. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...

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Trump’s Top Trade Representative Details Offer That Canada Refused (Gift Article)

In an interview, Jamieson Greer, Trump’s trade representative, laid out details of the trade offer that the United States made to Canada before talks crumbled.

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Brian Creech @briancreech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This basically feels like the executive education grift, which is selling the institutional brand to an audience that wants the prestige at a discount, but also at a price that is just beyond what normies would pay.

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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The low tariff coverage has nothing to do with any soft touch diplomacy. The lion’s share of AB exports are energy, something Trump has been loathe to tariff because the Americans *need* it. When elasticities are that steep, the importing nation bears all the cost. Export tax on crude now.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew: “‘Very wise people have said you can’t get a good deal with a bad person […] so I think we should fight.’” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... This trade war is driven by a fundamental break: Americans can’t be trusted. Not just MAGA gov’t but US elites enabling it.

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JD Vance reportedly mocks Carney for trying to ‘out-tough’ Trump on trade

Audio recording of US vice-president apparently made at New York fundraiser and shared with Canadian Press

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/08/2026

Watching Prime Minister Carney discussing the breakdown of the Canada-US trade deal at a press conference and just really appreciating living in a country where the leader can speak coherently and knowledgeably about what is actually happening.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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JD Vance reportedly mocks Carney for trying to ‘out-tough’ Trump on trade

Audio recording of US vice-president apparently made at New York fundraiser and shared with Canadian Press

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"In the end, Prime Minister Mark Carney took the hint from the Canadian public rather than the bait from the American president."

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America is really being a bad friend

If only Americans were more aware of the abuse being piled upon their neighbours to the north

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Stephen Marche @stephenmarche.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

They thought they were going to put the French language on the table!?!? These people don't know who the hell they're dealing with.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“‘We’ve recognized from the start that America has changed,’ Mr. Carney said. ‘We recognize that sometimes, its signature is written in pencil.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/w... And American business elites—so much money & power—stay silent as their country’s integrity disintegrates.

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Mark Carney Speaks to Canadians After Trade Talks With U.S. Collapse (Gift Article)

Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed Canadians on Saturday morning, hours after he ordered negotiators to suspend U.S. trade talks despite President Trump’s punishing tariffs.

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Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It’s like art markets. People with $ protect & grow $ by buying & selling things people think are worth a lot of $. If big $ thinks AI is overvalued, then big $ needs to buy & sell other things seen as worth big $. People adapt at storytelling excel at making things seem valuable, making big $.

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