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Michael Corey

@mikejcorey.bsky.social
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Geospatial, Technology, and Data Lead, Mapping Prejudice. Previously: Star Tribune, Reveal. Racial covenants, public history, mapping, data journalism. Team St. Paul.

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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
YES OF COURSE
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 28/09/2026
mukhtar ibrahim, founder of the sahan journal, and ubah ali, a former WCCO reporter, have just launched the somali brief, an independent media outlet where somali americans can tell their own stories www.thesomalibrief.com
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The Somali Brief
The Somali Brief is a digital-first media platform covering the stories shaping Somali American life.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did Anthropic's Claude discover something new in biotech? Well, just like with those recent alleged math proofs, it looks like it was given the answers in advance from real humans doing actual research. (gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...)
Dr. Mestre and his colleagues have yet to publish their findings. But for the past three years, they have regularly used Anthropic’s A.I. models as they have written code, drafted manuscripts and performed other tasks.

In doing so, Dr. Mestre said he and colleagues shared key findings about the enzymes with Anthropic.Anthropic said that Claude’s key contribution was identifying an array of RNA molecules and a protein associated with reverse transcriptase in a system. But Dr. Mestre said that he and his colleagues had made that discovery over a year ago.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Big big Mapping Prejudice data update today: We have updated our Washington DC racial covenants data to include 20,000+ covenants that were previously identified by our collaborators at Mapping Segregation DC. The combined DC dataset is now at 27,600 covenanted parcels (and counting!).
A map of racial covenants in Washington DC. Covenants, marked as green polygons, cover wide swaths of the District outside the central city, most densely to the north and northeast. Other large patches are present in the southwest and southeast portions of the district.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dear god who the fuck cares what James Carville thinks???
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
is it good or bad when your billionaire tech ceo would fail answering the questions a paramedic asks you after a traumatic head-injury
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If folks in the Democratic party cannot find it within themselves to be absolute staunch supporters of trans people's rights because trans people are people who have inherent worth, then they should at least do it because if we give up on trans people, then we're literally giving up on democracy.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.
When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEW YORK (AP) — CNN and MS NOW journalists are now back at the White House, hours after federal judge orders Trump to lift ban.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am not saying Knight Rider is high art or sophisticated criticism, but I AM saying it's a really interesting show to re-watch in this moment and may defy some of your expectations. The bad guys are Silicon Valley, crooked cops & politicians, and corporations. AI is sometimes good/sometimes bad.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Plymouth (Minnesota) taking a step that the University of Minnesota will not: terminating Flock contracts! If it's harmful in the suburbs, it's harmful on campus.
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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m not even joking. If Google and the other search sites are determined to destroy the open web, as they seem to be, the open web has to create other avenues.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Friends, it is clear the Strib's new AI copy editors have failed us in headlining this golden opportunity story: www.startribune.com/scandia-beav...
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Beavers threaten to drown one Minnesota town’s Swedish history
A beaver dam behind Scandia City Hall is causing drama and flood damage as officials try to figure out who is responsible for fixing the problem.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trans youth have been thrown to the wolves, even in the bluest of blue cities and states. They deserve (and *require*) so much better than this.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We told everyone that programming wasn't the hard part, but no one believed us. The reason LLMs can excrete sort-of-okay code is that sort-of-okay code has been a commodity good for 20+ years. Then, just like now, the bottleneck was understanding what people actually want.
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Opinion | A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/09/2026
Exclusive: More American service members have died in the Middle East during the ongoing Iran war than the Pentagon has disclosed publicly, according to six U.S. officials familiar with the data.
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More U.S. troops have died amid Iran war than Pentagon has disclosed publicly
Officials who spoke with The Post expressed frustration that the additional loss of life in the Middle East is not reflected in the Defense Department’s casualty database.
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Raina Bloom @mmelibrarian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We are in the midst of a civilization-destroying information crisis caused by LLMs. The only field truly positioned to understand all of the implications is librarianship. Our expertise is being ignored because of misogyny and what capitalism teaches us about who to respect based on wealth
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Today is the moody rainy quiet WFH day I have been dreaming about for months. Hope some of you get to do the same, Minnesota.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 18/09/2026
“If you’re a US citizen you have no reason to fear” – Markwayne Mullin, responding to a video of a teenage US citizen being repeatedly punched in the face by ICE.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
1) No one has ever done a good Narnia movie 2) I am pysched to see a Great Gerwig one 3) Anyone wanting to keep Narnia a crossover success had better do their darnedest to not let people see inside C.S. Lewis' actual brain, that dude's Christianity was weird as hell (oh and also racism obvi)
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Working on a presentation for next week and I want to talk about current ways people are making it illegal to teach real history. E.G.: "Truth and Sanity," Fla's Stop WOKE Act, what are the other greatest hits?
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
OK the stock market has lost its fucking mind.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"DEI sympathies???" This shit is fucking crazy. There is no credible or even intelligible way to acquiesce to any part of this narrative.
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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“There’s no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison,” he told me. “And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us…Washington…ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: The House is going home again—this time to avoid a vote on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s impeachment.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You know you are in a good place when you find yourself saying the words "I am not complicit"...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
BREAKING: Judge Cooper, again, says the Kennedy Center board can't put Trump's name on the building. Also, Cooper says they can't name it Trump Plaza. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Upon consideration of the emergency motion, the Court concludes Representative Beatty has carried her burden of showing that at least two of the actions contemplated by the board
resolution violate the permanent injunction. Defendants are hereby enjoined from inscribing
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"renovated and restored by Donald J. Trump" on the main building or renaming the campus the
"President Donald J. Trump Plaza." Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for
President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress's blessing.
The board resolution bucks a federal court order and a statute Congress enacted. Representative
Beatty is thus entitled to enforcement of the Court's injunction, which reflects Congress's decision to memorialize President Kennedy, and no one else, at the Center bearing his name.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is proof you can be worth hundreds of millions of dollars — and still be an indentured servant to wealthy supremacists.
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Read Settlers da Silva @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
SOME OF US ARE TRANS IMMIGRANTS. SOME OF US HAVE BEEN BEGGING YOU TO TALK ABOUT ICE HAS ***KILLED*** TRANS IMMIGRANTS IN DETENTION CENTERS SINCE 2002. I AM SICK OF BEING ERASED. I HAVE BEEN HERE. I DESERVE TO LIVE.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
U of Minnesota admits UMPD has installed Flock cameras, is removing at least one at request of Rep. Mohamud Noor: www.axios.com/local/twin-c...
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University of Minnesota to remove recently installed Flock camera on the West Bank
The walk back is the latest example of local officials reconsidering their use of the technology.
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Even if you were otherwise unaffected, it was a lesson in how easy it is to demagogue people and how isolating it is to not be unified with the sickness, to whatever extent.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Pretty sure the voters ruled that out in 2020.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Can someone PLEASE explain to me how Google Drive's search can be so bad that I have a folder that is called "software contractors," and when I search for "software contractors," it does not find it. How???
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In what universe would a white Mayor be told he could not attend a commemoration in Oklahoma City because "Timothy McVeigh?"
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Aleesa @akuzee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Adam Abdullah was arrested by ICE on Dec. 12. He has no criminal record. Abdullah said he’s among eight people from Somalia at Guantanamo Bay, including several arrested in the Twin Cities. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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St. Paul man arrested in ICE surge sent to Guantanamo Bay
Adam Abdullah has no criminal record, but the government is holding him at a military prison set up for terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Same, inspiration for which came directly from @karenattiah.bsky.social
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Also, white men aren't even the majority of white people???
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Byard Duncan @byardduncan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW investigation for @motherjones.com! I spent a year digging into America's 911 system. Dozens of major cities – L.A., Vegas, Portland, Phoenix, and many more – are failing to answer emergency calls fast enough. For the public, the results can be deadly. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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America's 911 system is facing its own emergency
Across the country, callers in life-or-death situations are routinely left on hold.
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 08/09/2026
say what you will about me, I’ve never made this face in my life
Sam Altman and Elizabeth Holmes making the same disconcerting wide eyed smile expression from @jeczjan.eurosky.social quoting @gonebabygone 
“Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this”
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica reviewed the court records for more than 70,000 habeas petition cases and found that judges in some parts of the country take far longer than others to decide whether people with no criminal record should be detained by ICE. See our full list: propub.li/46ejybx
Excerpt of a searchable table titled "How long do habeas cases take in different judges' courtrooms?" The description reads: "Among judges who have been assigned at least 50 habeas cases during the second Trump administration, the median time for a case to be closed varies widely." The table is organized into columns, from left to right: judge (appointed by); district; total cases; and median days to close. For example: The top judge, Charles Goodwin, is a Trump appointee in the Western District of Oklahoma, with 169 total cases and 144 median days to close a case. Most of the top 9 judges shown were appointed by Republican presidents and are in red state districts. They all take a median 92 days or longer to close habeas cases.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
New kind of racism just dropped.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New, from @revealnews : “The Fight for America’s Future Is Happening in the South — Tennessee state Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social talks about how national debates over data centers and redistricting are hyperlocal issues in his state.”
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The fight for America’s future is happening in the South
Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson talks about how national debates over data centers and redistricting are hyperlocal issues in his state.
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Michael Corey @mikejcorey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This guy's racist and also very long and boring YouTube ads are annoying me to no end -- not sure who thought this was a good idea.
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Emma Molls @emmamolls.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I've received two emails in two days from University of Minnesota administration telling me that the U's place in the state is that of "workforce development" Incredibly thankful for @lollardfish.bsky.social's recent Strib op-ed www.startribune.com/iowa-republi...
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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Looking at fall enrollments in history. Courses are generally full, especially interesting 1xxx courses. They do meet requirements, but so do many courses, and generally they are pulling in students who care about (these are full courses) /1
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Global Environmental History (100 students) A History of Evil (24) WW1 (100) Imperialism in Asia (40) The 1960s (40) Rome (40) History through Comics (40) Food (70) Late Antiquity (41) US Labor (4) Slavery and making America (27) Race/Ethnicity in US Hist (25) Many other very close to full. /2
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