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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Whenever Harvard professors complain about their mean woke students I always think, sounds like a Harvard problem.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 23/10/2025

The UC Regents have so far refused to release the demand letter UCLA received from the Trump admin. @uclafa.bsky.social sued for its release last week and won. Glad to see that yesterday a judge rejected UC’s appeal of the decision. www.latimes.com/california/s...

• UC must publicly release a
Trump administration
settlement proposal by Friday after losing its appeal to keep the document private.
• UCLA faculty succeed in their lawsuit demanding transparency.
• The proposal includes demands for stricter admissions policies and campus protest restrictions, among other demands.

Last month, the UCLA Faculty Assn. sued UC after the university rejected its public records requests. The association is an independent organization unaffiliated with the Academic Senate, the body that formally represents all UCLA faculty in relations with campus administrators.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Feature filmmakers love left-wing violence plots. Secret gun-toting guerrilla groups, shootouts, car chases, hunted fugitives, and the rest work well – for movies, whose only job is to hold our attention for a couple of hours.

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No Kings, No Violence: On the Ongoing Misrepresentation of the Left

Portlanders deploying inflatable animal costumes, a brass band, mass ukulele renditions of “This Land Is Your Land,” naked bike rides, and other tactics in their ICE protests are undermining the Trump...

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 14/10/2025

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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Old Man Trump - Wikipedia

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Roberto Ignacio Díaz @robertissimus.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Glad to see we’re united against the “compact.” For one, I love USC’s cosmopolitanism. I’m proud to have directed dissertations by students from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the U.S., and every term I love having awesome students from China, India, and many other places. Fight on!

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Faculty called for USC to ‘promptly reject’ Trump compact - Daily Trojan

The Academic Senate called a special meeting Monday for faculty to provide input on the demands.

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Penn historian Ben Nathans with an op-ed in our campus newspaper: "No self-respecting university that values its autonomy and the integrity of its teaching and research should sign the compact."

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Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

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Norah @noraham.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I am so grateful to be sleeping in my own bed tonight, not in the hospital. For oh so many reasons, but especially cats

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 02/10/2025

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Comics in the Spooky Age 🧛‍♂️🧟‍♀️🎃 @comicsinthega.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The first Peanuts strip by Charles M. Schulz was published on October 2, 1950.

Four black and white panels of a boy and girl sitting on steps. 1st panel: Charlie Brown is approaching and the boy says “Well! Here comes ol’ Charlie Brown!” 2nd panel: As Charlie Brown passes, he says “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…yes, sir!” 3rd panel: “Good ol’ Charlie Brown…” 4th panel: Once Charlie is gone, “How I hate him!”

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

In 1945, the Allies faced a tricky question: where to hold Nazi war criminals until the trials. A run-down hotel in Luxembourg was quickly converted to a prison ("Camp Ashcan"). The hope was to keep the nature of the prisoners secret. In May 1945, this failed, and almost turned into a disaster. /1

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Something I keep thinking about while watching the creation of right-wing heroes in real time is how clearly this demonstrates the structure, the apparatus, that underlies what we think of as fame or celebrity

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nikki. @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 16/09/2025

Ta-Nehisi Coates has a predictably wonderful essay about the political class's reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk. to quote a post I saw on here a few weeks back, "we're gonna need a bigger Reconstruction" web.archive.org/web/20250916...

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

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Norah @noraham.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Feeling kinda crappy this morning but Neville is here to make sure we get our morning naps in

A large bronze and black tabby, eyes closed, deeply relaxed expression on his face. He's lying on the bed with me. My knee is visible to the left

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/09/2025

did a read-aloud of my latest column, set to the backdrop of a drive through central virginia youtu.be/pq8TUlk4BxQ

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New NYT Column — Republicans Don't Want to Live in Lincoln's America

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2025

I'm kinda resigned to the fact that most people don't really give a shit about how millions globally will die horrible deaths directly due to Musk and Trump's decision to gut USAID - I guess it's too abstract to comprehend, or something - but it is HAPPENING, and nobody is swooping in to stop it.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The dwindling legitimate media really doesn't want to admit these polls don't represent a difference of opinion so much as living in a different reality. Maybe because that would require acknowledging shameless propaganda is much more successful at reaching audiences than straight news now.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I'm not saying this to warn people about how to act on the ground, but to warn you all about how to address this. Scolding folks about how to behave when their community is under siege is not the move. Don't scapegoat victims in advance. Talk about what the pre-scripted fascist narrative will be.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A story about Meta’s community standards.

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Norah @noraham.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Whale watching in Nor Cal with my sister. This glorious creature putting on a show for the two of us.

Short clip of a humpback whale breaching the ocean

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:

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'Intolerable': SSA chief data officer and whistleblower resigns in blistering email

Charles Borges involuntary resignation comes just days after publicly calling out a critical agency data vulnerability.

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Norah @noraham.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

The CDC shooting reminds me so much of the Oklahoma bombing in the 90s. And the killings of abortion providers. Our country has tolerated/tacitly condoned RW terrorism for so long. Thread gets at my frustration:

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AAUP @aaup.org · 01/08/2025

“The focus on monetary damages paid by the university and restrictions on campus protests and diversity policies obscures the Trump administration’s imposition of the right to interfere directly in university admissions, hiring, and promotion decisions.” —Aaron Nisenson, AAUP Senior Counsel

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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Hey @darthbluesky.bsky.social and @weratedogs.com please help boost! I know you two normally post about dogs but my friend found this 5lb micro-Wookie and is looking for a home for him. Not neutered, no chip, approx 1 year old. A total sweetheart. In the LA area, DM me for more info.

Photo of a toy sized dog with long straight grayish white hair.

Phoyo of the dog sitting on a chair next to a person’s legs

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you’re feeling uneasy, it’s probably because we now know we live in a country built on the blackmail of a dead pedophile who is Too Big to Fail, so Congress has to go home for a couple of months to figure out how talk about it without defenestrating the president and collapsing the economy.

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Norah @noraham.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Me, eating my yogurt, stirring the liquid that separated back into the creamy, chanting "this is the whey"

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Norah @noraham.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Brown sugar peach cake, recipe courtesy of Yossey Arefi. It smells like summer! 🍽️ Baking is one of my happy places

A round cake covered in sliced peaches cooling in the cake pan.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

This year, Donald Trump and the extremist majority of the Supreme Court have been working overtime to destroy student loan debt relief for many millions of Americans. (thread)

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Okay their dad just took them to the playground so HERE WE GO (thread)

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The early foothold in every writing class consists of the students who still like reading, who are cerebral and curious, who don't use ChatGPT. There's lots of them, and their attitudes can make an entire seminar's vibe so much better.

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Norah @noraham.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

My life has changed so much since my diagnosis - which came roughly the same time that Trump took office. But when I think about posting, the day-to-day details just seem so insignificant. Like today: I snuggled the cats, I ate a high protein breakfast. I should probably get dressed now.

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Nahal Toosi @nahaltoosi.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

1/I’ve obtained a farewell note a person in the human rights bureau sent out to his colleagues after being fired from the State Department today. A few tidbits from it:

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🚨Mr. Laffy's editor (he produces Naked & Afraid) just called: #ICE is in #NorthHollywood, on the editor's street, right now. They're staging in a parking lot on Victory Blvd/Coldwater Cyn at Vallarta Supermarket. 🚨 #California

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

3 things to know and share about the ICE raids in California

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/07/2025

“Suddenly, something you thought was a First Amendment protected activity now lands you under scrutiny of police,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @laist.com. “And suddenly that license plate reader data, which you thought was so innocuous, is a lot less innocuous.”

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License plate readers coming to West LA's Cheviot Hills amid privacy and immigration concerns

People living in the West L.A. community requested the cameras because of recent home burglaries and calls for more safety measures.

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

Ann Coulter commenting that "We (meaning the U.S., presumably) did not kill enough Indians."

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

"Sharing food among relatives and other orcas is foundational for the whales, and in attempting to provision humans with prey, he says it could be an example of the whales practicing a cultural behaviour or exploring humans’ capacity to respond."

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 01/07/2025

Donate! L.A. Taco has been closely covering the ICE raids that haven’t stopped in L.A. even after the national headlines went away.

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I did not speak strongly enough before. SHARE this. Or repost the link on your own profile, idc. I post it not for Engagement but because time is running out to call your reps and try to help stop what everyone on Bluesky is acting like already happened. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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Donald Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' heads back to the House: What's next?

Vice President JD Vance cast the tie-breaking vote in the evenly split 50-50 chamber, securing the bill's Senate passage.

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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