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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21h

as ever i'm struck by the doublethink of these people, who feel the need to dress up their mindless longing for heirarchy and exclusion in the language of liberalism--"high trust," material prosperity, blah blah blah it's a form of magical thinking: "if we do enough racism, good things will happen"

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 16h

Remarkable how prescient @alixabeth.bsky.social's "Illegal" book was. It came out in 2020, and all it's explanations & warnings are doubly apt today. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eliza...

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Illegal

A political scientist explains how the American immigration system ran off the rails -- and proposes a bold plan for reform Under the Trump administration, U...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17h

The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
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MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
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VISAS REVOKED
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TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 16h

This gives me the chance to once again share my favorite article on the effects of segregation–it's also about policing. Brilliant, by the great @monicacbell.bsky.social

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16h

A perfect pretext for impeachment does not exis—

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve gotten a lot of questions from journalists like, “If my son were in that group chat, I’d want him to say something. How can I teach him to speak up?” The question should be: “How do I raise a son who would never rush a fraternity?”

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 16h

TFW Dems who like democratic socialists are more united behind Crowley than Dems who dislike them. By 6 points. law.marquette.edu/poll/

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Marquette Law School Poll – A Comprehensive Look at the Wisconsin Vote

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20h

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 18h

Look here. I am telling you the tide is turning. Humanity is not going to give up without a fight. The poorly adjusted,self loathing,other-being hating dude bros don’t get to have the future.They just don’t.Man behind the curtain, Emperor’s clothes, pick your allegory. In any case, know the story.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 18h

Far outshining corporate media & public media too. Journalism students are told to emulate the bigs, but that's backwards. The bigs need to emulate the students. Professional skill is nothing (or even harmful) without good professional values.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 20h

One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.

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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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Zander Furnas @alexanderfurnas.com · 18h

if we use dynamic scoring for tax cuts we should also use it for education spending imo

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 18h

We've heard about chatbots convincing people to kill themselves or helping to plan murders & mass shootings, but this is on a whole different scale.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20h

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18h

"For small newsrooms, a $2.5 million invoice is effectively a gag order that was never actually about covering costs, but bullying the requester to drop their inquiry," FPF's @laurenleharper.bsky.social writes in @theintercept.com More on ransoms for public records:

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Oregon Police Are Charging a Local News Outlet $2.5M for Records About One Cop

Eugene-based Double Sided Media requested police officer Justin Peckels’s records. The city slapped the publication with an exorbitant fee.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20h

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h

One simple way that you know the United States is not a full democracy & has experienced significant democratic backsliding is that, in actual democracies, it does not matter "which party runs elections" heading into the next one. "Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"

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Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago Pope from the top rope!

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 21h

If the problem is not polarization but authoritarian extremism, then the solution is not encouraging civil dialogue between racists and anti-racists; the solution is "to recommit to the project of pluralistic American democracy"

The vision of taking the United States back to a time when women and people of color “knew their place” is both unsupported by a majority of Americans and the cause of animosity between Democrats and Republicans. The solution is not to reduce the animus between pluralists and far-right extremists, but to recommit to the project of pluralistic American democracy. The movement against recent progress represents a minority of citizens, many of whom were disengaged with politics before the appearance of Donald Trump.24 In the most optimistic view, the United States is at the precipice of the most pluralistic democratic society in its history—but only if voters understand this and cast their ballots for leaders who support equal rights for all citizens.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21h

We cannot & do not need to talk across difference with far right authoritarians. We need to defeat them & defend democracy & the rule of law.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23h

Truly, I already knew intellectually that medical emergency exceptions to abortion bans are useless, but Tierra Walker's case was ... painfully demonstrative ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable

Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

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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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 22h

Ruff is proof that racism is a career advancement strategy that, done right, will get you lauded by the American mainstream.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

According to the International Energy Agency, total global investment in solar energy (including both rooftop solar and utility-scale projects) was less than half of this figure, despite our dire ecological situation

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Chronicle Of We Hate Higher Education And Cannot Read The Authoritarian Moment

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

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Connie M @mconniem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is good. Kudos to Taniel and Bolts. Vote! 🗳️🇺🇸💙

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Guess what, all of Joe’s hand-wringing fury at Bibi, tactically leaked to the press, didn’t amount to a hill of beans. As with every other recent potus who’s spun the same tired narrative. Now, what have we here? A Biden official on a self-justifying, history re-writing book tour? How right on cue.

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A campaign musical interlude! 😂 Enjoy!

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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress. 🆕 by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/a...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AOC should run for President and convert this into the Office of Butlerian Jihad

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"By theoretical degeneration...I mean the erosion of coherent emancipatory frameworks that incorporate the contradictions of the present. In their stead has grown up a reactive and accomodationist theory that...accepts some of the right’s own viewpoints." salvage.zone/on-theoretic...

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On Theoretical Degeneration - Salvage

By 1900 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) was the strongest socialist party in the world and its Erfurt Program the model for almost all others. In 1912, the SPD was able to win 4.25 million vo...

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Daniel Martin @dpm-906.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is what UW System workers have been suffering through for more than a decade.

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Nathan Kalmoe, write-in candidate for WI Senate (27th Dist) @nathanforsenate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday, our campaign was featured on Wisconsin Public Radio -- online & on-air! It talks about how we registered the right way to get our write-in votes counted & it includes Francesca Hong's reminders to vote for Crowley & not write her in. www.wpr.org/news/wiscons...

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In Wisconsin elections, write-ins are frequently wrong

Sometimes voters who are dissatisfied with their choices write in candidates. But in Wisconsin, write-in candidates must typically be registered with the state for the votes to count.

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Nathan Kalmoe, write-in candidate for WI Senate (27th Dist) @nathanforsenate.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BIG ENDORSEMENT!!! Supervisor Brenda Yang made history as the first Hmong person elected to the Dane County Board, bringing a voice that had been missing for decades despite Wisconsin being home to one of the largest Hmong communities in the country.

Dane County Supervisor Brenda Yang Endorses Nathan Kalmoe for State Senate

“I am greatly impressed by Nathan Kalmoe’s progressive vision to make Wisconsin better for everyone, including people facing the biggest hardships. He insists we can do more than half measures. His campaign gives northwestern Dane County’s voters their first choice in a long time, and it brings accountability to complacent leaders who ignore constituents’ needs and values because they’re never challenged. Nathan’s progressive commitments run deep as a fearless lifelong activist for social and economic justice, and his professional life has prepared him well for service in government. He would be a great advocate in the Wisconsin legislature, and I am proud to support his candidacy for State Senate.”
Brenda Yang
Dane County Board of Supervisor

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 30/09/2026

This election season, we’re fighting for pro-worker candidates who will stand with us, not billionaires. We’re 34 days out from Election Day. Let’s go win for workers and create an economy that works for all of us! Check your voter registration: betterinaunion.org/check

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Check Your Voter Registration Status

Have you moved, changed your name, or you're just not sure of the status of your voter registration? Fill out the form below to check your status.

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Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Parents who once lived under oppressive regimes in Syria and Egypt now repeated a familiar refrain to their kids in the United States,” @rozinaali.bsky.social writes: “The walls have ears.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/b...

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Book Review: ‘Seasons of Fury,’ by Rozina Ali

A new book by Rozina Ali traces the rise of anti-Islamic sentiment in the wake of 9/11, showing how ordinary residents became targets of fear and suspicion.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

👇🎯 Fund. The. Damn. Public. Universities. Like. We. Used. To. In re: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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