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Mark Vopat

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Professor, philosopher, pen addict, and new English football fan.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"By the end of 2030," reports NYT, the amount of energy used by data centers"is expected to quadruple, eclipsing the power used by all countries in South America and Africa combined." This is extinctionism.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Vivek Ramaswamy argues that Black Americans were better off in the 1960s during Jim Crow and calls affirmative action "a form of psychological slavery" that is a "cancer on our nation's soul"
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11/07/2026
Nothing says "intellectual diversity" quite like a mandatory law dictating forced enrollment in a bureaucratic safe space for policed thought. Ohio lawmakers want you to think freely, or else. 👀
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A bill mandates Ohio university students take a required course at 'intellectual diversity centers'
That requirement: Ohio university students must complete a three-credit hour course in American civic literacy to graduate.
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Vivek Ramaswamy accepted $10,000 from a convicted federal felon. Now Ramaswamy is using that money to try to buy this election. Ohio doesn’t need a conman as governor. www.cleveland.com/open/2026/07...
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Private equity founder went to prison for college fraud — now he’s funding Vivek Ramaswamy
A figure from the college admissions bribery scandal that involved Hollywood actors has given $10,000 to Vivek Ramaswamy’s Ohio gubernatorial campaign.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Trump told you he’d run America like a business. He is. It’s called asset stripping. You go in, sell the profitable pieces, gut the workforce, load it with debt, & walk away rich while everyone else holds the bag. Venture capitalist politics. Cartoon by Jorge Gonzalez
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 07/07/2026
The most expensive in the league? That’s bonkers.
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Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
1. People threatening to kill "communists." 2. Idiots marching in Washington for white supremacy. 3. People justifying corporate power and oligarchy. 4. 4 Justices questioning birthright citizenship. Those things to me are related. I'm not celebrating today.
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Mark Vopat @mvopat.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The very definition of indoctrination: www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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The GOP-created university civics centers aren't popular. They want to require attendance.
Ohio universities' new centers to combat "liberal bias" aren't popular with students, so a Republican leader wants to require attendance.
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Mark Vopat @mvopat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Trump policies have cost Ohio households thousands since January 2025, report finds
Ohio households face steep increases in gas, utilities, tariffs, and health insurance costs due to Donald Trump's policy changes since 2025.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 30/06/2026
Yes. Well.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 30/06/2026
🚨 NEW: "Donald Trump ​reported more than $1.4 billion in income from ‌his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now earns most of his income from digital assets ​that have benefited from his policies" Tom Bergin and Koh Gui Qing for @reuters.com
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Trump reports more than $1.4 billion in income from crypto ventures
U.S. President Donald Trump ​reported more than $1.4 billion in income from ‌his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how he now earns most of his income from digital assets ​that have benefite...
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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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New Poll: Up by 3 In Ohio
"a roughly 2-to-1 lead among independent voters."
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Mark Vopat @mvopat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Signal Ohio wants to know about the impact of SB1 a year later. Please encourage your Ohio college student to fill out this survey: signalohio.org/ohio-senate-...
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Has Senate Bill 1 changed your college experience in Ohio? Tell us
Senate Bill 1 passed in June 2025. The law overhauls how public colleges and universities operate in the state.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20/06/2026
The democratic socialist introduced a bill to require AI firms making < $200M annually to pay a one-time tax of 50% of stock, creating a sovereign wealth fund for taxpayers. “The principle is simple: When a public resource generates wealth, the public should share in that wealth.” trib.al/DLdaszR
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Bernie Sanders Unveils Plan for Public Ownership of AI
The Vermont senator wants to create an AI sovereign wealth fund—with an annual public payout.
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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I don't have any patience for the "but we're poor" argument for bands using AI for posters and publicity. Try to think back to roughly 3 years ago when you somehow coped without it.
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA
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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Damn that socialism! 😱
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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
At this point, Trump could slap a journalist dead in the face and the corporate media would dumb it down to "tense," "contentious" or "controversial." Dude had what sure looked like a mental health break on camera. And I'm sick of journalists not clapping back when he calls them stupid.
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🌺🌺 Cynbad 🌺🌺 @cyynbadd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Commentary Don’t Ohio taxpayers deserve transparency, accountability, and oversight of $2.5 billion in our money that is being handed over by our state government leaders to private schools and religious institutions? by David DeWitt ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/01/o...
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Ohio taxpayers deserve accountability and oversight of $2.5 billion being sent to private schools • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio taxpayers are sending $2.5 billion to private and religious schools. Even if you agree with this, don’t taxpayers deserve transparency and accountability? A group of bipartisan lawmakers thinks s...
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Brian Keith Jackson @bkjwordplay.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I will keep saying this until people start understanding: Data centers are speeding up the wars of the future, which will be over water, not oil. This is not something to wait until after the fact to fight. If you will not be able to afford water, what do you think they will make you do for it?
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Snacks @snacks59.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
It takes years and years of red tape to build high speed rail in this country , but data centers are going up overnight and concentration camps. Sounds like we have some sort of problem in this country.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Mark Vopat @mvopat.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I may be wrong about this, but it seems to me I recall learning that only monarchs and Roman Emperors placed their own image on currency.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/05/2026
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
True. #WritingCommunity
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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 13/05/2026
And here comes @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social from the top rope
Secretary of the Interior Doug Bergum: "When the sun goes down, solar panels produce zero electricity. The whole machine doesn't work." 

Rep. Jared Huffman: "I request to enter into the record this *amazing* new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of. It's a battery."
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🚨 NEVER FORGET how much the GOP relies on "scare value". And that what these fearmongers fear most, besides fed up Republicans holding their breath and voting Blue in midterms, is a strategic, unified resistance less afraid of them than they are of a demented dotard they call "daddy".
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Mindcite💥 @mindcite.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The only thing more depraved than this blatant, bottomless, unbridled corruption from a man who profited more from his presidency than from any business or investment in his life is the blatant, bottomless, unbridled greed that fuels it.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I just said this about Trump and didn't recognize the reference at first
"This guy... This is not my kind of guy" from Frank Costanza in Seinfeld
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Ohio judges question why taxpayers fund private school tuition by Morgan Trau www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...
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Ohio judges question why taxpayers fund private school tuition
A panel of Ohio judges questioned the state's attorneys on why taxpayers are footing the bill for private school tuition costs.
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Developers @devs.feediverse.org · 12/05/2026
Prosecutors Had A Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not To Pursue Charges.
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Prosecutors Had A Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not To Pursue Charges.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons, it seemed at first like …
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.
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Mark Vopat @mvopat.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...
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Tell Trump to Keep His Hands Off The Post Office
The U.S. Postal Service is again under attack by Donald Trump and the world's biggest business con, Elon Musk. Trump’s plans to overhaul the post office and privatize it would be disastrous for people...
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 15/04/2026
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DonnaDee 💙 @overallthiscrap.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Vance did say "they are eating the dogs ,they are eating the cats " .. yes he did
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Mark Vopat @mvopat.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I love the form the NYTimes “bothsidesism” takes in this article. On one hand, professors worry that something they or a student says might put them on the radar of authorities and then deported. On the other hand, I don’t have to feel imaginary pressure to say “menstruating persons” anymore!
Christopher Kutz, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said he is self-censoring to protect students, particularly those in the United States on visas. He said he worried that they might write or say something that could end up being turned against them.
"I'm not going to change what I say, but I will try to make sure the assignments don't invite students into making statements that could get them in trouble," said Professor Kutz, whose school has been a particular focus of the Trump administration."You just don't know whether they are going to report you to someone, or are they recording you," said Dr. Smith, who added that she felt she had to "change the way I relate to my students."
"I value integrity and my authenticity and my openness and my honesty, and I feel myself not being that way with them, which I hate because that is what students value: a professor they can ask the hard questions of," she said.
One part of her calculation last year, Dr.
Smith said, was her status as a permanent resident, not a citizen, of the United States.She no longer feels that way with Mr.
Trump in power. She said she perceived less pressure to use terms like "menstruating persons" and that she sensed many students felt the same. The result, she said, was an ebbing of "identity tribes" among students and more open discussion.
"My students are no longer circumscribed in their beliefs, opinions, analyses by identity categories that people are ascribing to them," Dr. Trisko Darden said.
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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Nip this racism in the bud.
We deplore the racist and anti-immigrant comments about OSU’s new president, Dr. Ravi Bellamkonda, that have been appearing on social media in response to his appointment. We call on all Ohioans - and everyone else - to stand firm against hate and prejudice, regardless of what we think about the selection process. Racism, anti-Asian or otherwise, has no place in our state.
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TweetLD @tweetld.art · 15/03/2026
Shocking. 😒 FCC Chair Brendan Carr said news broadcasters coverage of Iran war could impact their license renewal. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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FCC chair threatens broadcasters over Iran war coverage
FCC Chair Brendan Carr said news broadcasters coverage of Iran war could impact their license renewal.
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96
The German philosopher died on Saturday March 14, 2026, at the age of 96 in Starnberg, a spokesperson for the Suhrkamp publishing house said.
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Mark Vopat @mvopat.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Reject HB 698-Stop Attacking Higher Education. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...
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Reject HB 698-Stop Attacking Higher Education
Ohio's public colleges and universities are under attack and the people who will pay the price are students, workers, and communities across the state. House Bill 698 doubles down on a troubling patte...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Recently, Rice told Preet Bharara on his podcast that “it’s not going to end well” for “the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, [and] the media” that bend the knee to Trump. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...
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Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose.
The institutions and individuals who betrayed democratic principles will bear that mark of shame well into the future.
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 23/02/2026
Do not call for their callous and endless lies, believe in each other, believe in America.
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Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Stay Tuned.... Something special is in the works with Honesty for Ohio Education, and we can’t wait to share it with you. For now, here’s a little behind-the-scenes peek at the crew capturing footage from our town hall event earlier this month. ​ Big things are coming. 👀
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Britain blocking use of air bases Trump says would be needed for strikes on Iran, UK media reports www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/e...
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Britain blocking use of air bases Trump says would be needed for strikes on Iran, UK media report | CNN
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has reportedly blocked a request from US President Donald Trump to allow US forces to use UK air bases during any preemptive attack on Iran, owing to concerns it wo...
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Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Research roundup– moving is good and good for us… fitisafeministissue.com/2026/02/08/r...
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Exercise Benefits: From Brain Power to Cancer Risk Reduction
Explore fascinating insights into exercise's effects on metabolism, brain health, and cancer risk in our latest scientific article.
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