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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 25m

You gotta wonder -- what really motivates a party to spend so much time fixated on whether students were born with a a penis or a vagina?

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1h

Well at least they’re pro-life.

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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 3h

There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 4h

Oh boy, I missed this yesterday from Pennsylvania state legislator Scott Barger: He said that if he were required to accommodate a middle-aged woman's menopause symptoms, he would "find a reason not to hire her." www.reddit.com/r/Pennsylvan...

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From the Pennsylvania community on Reddit: PA State Rep. Barger (R-Altoona) said in a hearing that if he was required to accommodate a middle-aged woman’s menopause he would find a reason not to hire ...

Explore this post and more from the Pennsylvania community

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

I assume the DNC is paying for this?

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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 7h

CDC finally updated its stats on measles-associated deaths this year but is only counting two when Pennsylvania has reported four. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

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Measles Cases and Outbreaks

Find the latest numbers of confirmed U.S. measles cases. CDC updates this page weekly.

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Stephen Spaulding @stevespaulding.bsky.social · 8h

I spoke with @axios.com about the Trump administration’s unprecedented use of the shadow docket to get SCOTUS to revive presidential policies that lower-court judges—including judges appointed by presidents of both parties—have found likely unlawful. www.axios.com/2026/09/29/t...

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Trump leans on SCOTUS shadow docket more than Biden, Obama and Bush combined

Trump's 41 filings far outpace the emergency applications of recent administrations.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Eric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 18h

Ben Rice is good at baseball.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20h

I think you all deserve to know that this sleepy creature (Stella) woke herself up because of her snoring.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21h

She looks like she just got told there’s no Santa Clause.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21h

I think it’s so embarrassing for the institution of the Senate that Dick Durbin characterized this as an error.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 21h

Last week, I talked with my health policy students about the Curse of the Bambino (when discussing 1918 Spanish Flu, which led to discussing the 1918 World Series). Today, bring on Red Sox-Yankees…

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I Love New York Logo

ALT: I Love New York Logo

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 22h

Just remember, every time someone scores against (Ted Cruz’s favorite) Asterisks, an angel gets its wings.

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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 22h

I’m a college professor and I don’t reward clickbait

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

imagine being a historian in the future trying to make sense of the characters in the right wing blogosphere lol

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...

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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II

A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 23h

Just what 2026 was missing: Helen Keller Truthers.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026

To quote a @chrislhayes.bsky.social jape at the Roberts Court: "They go fast when they want to go fast and slow when they want to go to slow and the decision is *always* an ideological one."

Steve Vladeck, a professor a Georgetown Law, writes up breaking developments from the Supreme Court. The last post in the three-post thread is the kicker, for our purpose here.

"#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the third-country removals case; clears way for Trump admin. to continue removing non-citizens without a full chance to litigate the conditions in those countries (while also taking up the full merits appeal).

"Link: [URL of a supremecourt.gov PDF]

"By my math, the order was filed 11 minutes after the Trump administration's reply brief came in."

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can’t do student loan relief. Can’t mandate vaccines. Can’t help home owners. Can commit human rights abuses.

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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I saw Goody Proctor at the Atlanta Hawks game on February 3, 2024

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was just thinking about the fact that Amy Coney Barrett told Congress that her children have had to think about things that children should never have to think about. But for children of immigrants shipped off to torture dungeons, I guess it's ... character building?

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 29/09/2026

SCOTUS, I guess: "who cares if immigrants are sent to torture dungeons in Equatorial Guinea? It's not like they're humans with rights."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

m-e-r-i-t-o-c-r-a-c-y bsky.app/profile/medi...

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI

Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake. above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services. the question matching this image is: "How can I invest in my child's future?"

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"It’s the kind of movie about evil billionaires that evil billionaires would enjoy, which makes it the worst kind of movie about evil billionaires." @williambibbiani.bsky.social is one of the greats

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#NotTheDodgers2026 484 Electoral votes

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Darin Self @darinself.com · 29/09/2026

Despite Miranda's poor choice of teams I will second the sentiment...it is the best time of year. The one constant through all the years has been baseball. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SB1...

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Field of Dreams (5/9) Movie CLIP - People Will Come (1989) HD

YouTube video by Movieclips

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today in Administrative Burden and Inequality in U.S. Health Care, I'm teaching on the Medicaid provisions of HR1, the not-so-beautiful bill. It's going to be hard to cram so much awful into 75 minutes, but in their next assignment, they'll be tracing sources of burden borne by a Medicaid enrollee.

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Inside Out Anger Character Screaming

ALT: Inside Out Anger Character Screaming

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Almost hard to believe that Dubya snubbed him. Almost.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...

John Anzalone &
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
From nytimes.com
6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today was one of those days that left me feel like I was dragging but then I realized I wrote 2,500 or so words toward my book. The first book was a huge burst of manic energy and I wrote the first draft ridiculously quickly. This one is harder/slower but I’m really excited about what I’m finding.

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Programming with Fire

ALT: Programming with Fire

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Republicans re-gerrymandering Texas and other Southern legislatures in 2027 was already likely after they killed the Voting Rights Act and normalized mid-decade remaps. But Democrats could block it by winning for Texas House or governor, and a quorum break could block it in a 2026 lame duck session

Screenshot of a post on X by Nathaniel Rakich (@baseballot), posted at 12:22 PM on Sep 28, 2026, with 4,292 views. The post reads: "Missed this over the weekend, but a Texas GOP state rep expressed interest in re-redistricting next year."

It quotes a Sep 25 post by Rob Laucius (@RobLauciusTX, verified), replying to @RobLauciusTX, @realmitchlittle, and 7 others. The quoted post reads: "Little says he has heard rumors of redistricting the Texas House and Senate. Leach says @GeneforTexas has expressed interest in doing so if Democrats win, says …" The quoted text is cut off at that point.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is phenomenal, especially since Tim Robinson is from Detroit (and even had a show called the Detroiters).

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nobody seems to bat an eye that Rufo's podcast partner is a longtime anonymous troll who called gays "f*ggots," referred to Asians as "mongoloids," and explicitly sees his partnership with Rufo as a strategy of normalizing what most of us would see as bigotry www.vox.com/politics/368...

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An inside look at how the far right is mainstreaming itself

An radical troll got unmasked — and then spilled the beans.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For a season that I didn’t have much of any bandwidth to manage my fantasy baseball team because of work and travel, I’ll take my E-Street Shuffle coming in 8th out of 12.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We do have a relatively low poverty rate, but this administration is setting fire to anti-poverty programs, which will reverse this trend. What's more, many people live just above the poverty line and get squeezed, especially with the expiration of enhanced marketplace subsidies.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good piece from @dgraham.bsky.social on how the failure to appoint people to key positions undermines Trump's ability to get things done. The mass gutting of civil service positions compounds the problem. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Absences Haunting the Trump Administration

The president has left hundreds of appointed roles open—including those that would have a central role in implementing his priorities.

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