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@philipchristman.bsky.social
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pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com. bookshop.org/p/books/why-christians…; www.arcadiapublishing.com/collectio…

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12h
This is a signal of what pro-democracy folks here are going to be up against should we prevail in the next two elections. The number one goal here has to be coming and staying together to fight for our democracy and deliver for the people.
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 22h
I’m not worried about defending “woke 1“ here (he’s not even wrong, it’s just that the status quo before and after was to pretend there were no sins to forgive) but this is not fair to the Old Testament
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026
!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026
Incredible reporting by @tinavasquez.bsky.social here. A story about how the people who put food on American tables are denied water or even the ability to carry it with them or meaningfully ask for it to be provided, lest they lose their jobs working in oppressive heat.
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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields
Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina
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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh wow it was just 5 MONTHS AGO that the president of Cornell hit a protesting student with his car www.theringer.com/2026/05/22/n...
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Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?
“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 01/10/2026
More than two-thirds of Americans say immigrants shouldn’t be detained if they are pregnant, postpartum or nursing, according to new polling from The 19th and @today.yougov.com And most voters — including 12 percent of Republicans — oppose the administration’s approach to deportations.
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ICE is detaining pregnant immigrants. Most Americans say they shouldn’t.
They also say authorities should be required to provide basic health care for pregnant and postpartum immigrants they do detain, new polling from The 19th and YouGov shows.
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TK @archivedspork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A crazy thing about all this is UMN saw what cuts like this did to the UW system and benefitted from being the upper midwest public university that was still well funded
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: CBP just seized an American attorney's phone as he returned from Palestine, despite it containing attorney-client privileged communications. …Here's some interesting context — this attorney is married to another lawyer who *just last month* filed an ethics complaint against this Florida judge:
Zeteo news story headline:

Trump-Appointed Federal Judge Says, 'To Be American Is to Be a Zionist'

Judge Roy Altman boasts about taking '10% of the entire federal judiciary in America" on trips to Israel, and promotes his genocide-denying book from his chambers.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
swearing aside, the strategy of just making the right stand by the things they say to each other seems pretty good. that was the secret sauce behind the "weird" messaging way back when (that they abandoned for whatever reason)
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
strongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal
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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh the irony! When I was an undergrad at U-M I was in the Residential College, a quirky hippy liberal arts college inside of U-M. And the year before I got there LSA forced the RC to start giving grades after decades of not having them
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I wish people who want to write articles about how college education isn’t actually that important a part of college education would demonstrate this point by quitting their jobs in college education
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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i’m over people who were raised in a world in which words meant things and books mattered pulling the ladder up
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I regret to report that my university is At It Again philipchristman.substack.com/p/fresh-hell...
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Fresh Hells at University of Michigan
Longtime readers of this newsletter know that I used to write frequently about labor issues at the University of Michigan, where I work.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 29/09/2026
Whoa, for the 50th anniversary of Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder has released four additional songs from that recording session. “We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it.” [pitchfork.com]
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Stevie Wonder Unvaults Four Songs in the Key of Life Tracks
“We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it,” says Wonder
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Cadence “Not A Coffee Civet” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“We want to destroy patronage networks” “Ban university-endorsed Greek life” “We also want to reduce sexual assault” “You’re gonna love hearing our answer again”
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nationalize the Ivys. Turn them into the low-amenity Regional Federal Universities that Freddie DeBoer proposed in one of his lucid moments. Ban frats from these universities. admit applicants who pass some very basic qualifications by sortition.
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*7 guys.* This wasn’t, like, somebody misinterpreted body language
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To me, after ten years, still the funniest genuine possibility anytime we get this sort of vague announcement is images.steamusercontent.com/ugc/86735509...
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
did you enjoy the New York Times tv list? You’ll love my list philipchristman.substack.com/p/the-nyts-t...
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The NYT’s Top 100 TV Shows of the Twenty-First Century: A Response
Twin Peaks: The Return
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 28/09/2026
'Wonder was 26 when Songs In The Key Of Life was released—at that point, he was absolutely on top of the world, the greatest soulman on earth whose magnificence overshadowed even rock and pop' Many Happy Returns to #StevieWonder's Songs In The Key Of Life, which turns 50 today! buff.ly/zD17vVM
Stevie Wonder's Songs In The Key of Life album cover with concentric orange-to-yellow torn-paper rings drawing the eye to a small sketched, sunglasses-wearing face at the centre.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026
“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.
motherjones.com
AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You know this. I am a Jewish Michigander who is a strong supporter of Abdul Al-Sayed. I am not alone. More than 800 of us have signed onto the letter below. docs.google.com/document/u/1...
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Michigan Jews for Democracy Signatories
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is the most scared I’ve been by a movie since like ”Hereditary”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Speaking of the academic case specifically, this is what I'd describe as the core of it. Given the education you need to participate the skill deficit explanation isn't quite as plausible - likelier that people have the skills but lack the incentive to use them bsky.app/profile/juli...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Man Who Saved The World. May his memory be a blessing.
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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👇👇👇
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Just a reminder that early last year, the Free Press and other MAGA-adjacent outlets ran fawning stories about how the Trump administration was “saving” migrant kids from sex trafficking.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Apparently @philipchristman.bsky.social and I are tied for our number of @leftanchor.bsky.social appearances.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
White-nationalist "Remigration" envisions mass removals of nonwhite immigrants in service of ethnic cleansing. The Office of Remigration's activities have now been exposed by a good WaPo investigation. Its deportations are unfolding under indefensible conditions. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 23/09/2026
I had not seen this clip where Tammy Duckworth advises Democrats to "not impeach anybody," "get back to work" and "allow" Donald Trump to "save face" and I would just like to remind the senator from IL that the federal government took 4,000 Chicagoans and murdered a 38-year-old father last fall.
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m.a.m @mangelmartin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"But she was a Transcendentalist to whom the 20th century had happened." damn it, @philipchristman.bsky.social, that's good. sojo.net/articles/opi...
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The Pilgrimage of Annie Dillard
The celebrated author, who passed away this week, had two great themes: seeing and suffering.
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Endless Dan Moore @dpmoore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I miss the innocence I've known / sittin on a flagpole, dancin' with Capone
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Statisticians/don’t know nothing/‘bout my demo
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
really torn here bc on the one hand this strikes me as disgusting censorious bullshit and on the other hand the article compares it to "little britain," which I mostly wish didn't exist hard to be principled, I guess
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
one common thread (among the horrifying many) between the numerous ICE shootings/murders is that no first aid was administered to the victim. armed combatants of the government shot to kill, and if they didn’t kill right away, they gave time for it to happen anyway. it is absolutely grotesque.
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
since Birth of a Nation has been brought up, I want to tell my story: --in middle school I was obsessed with film and wanted to be a director when I grew up --my cool aunt bought me what I later found out was an undergrad film history textbook for christmas (1/?)
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I love that my entire timeline is thirsting for Angie Nixon (otherwise I’d feel like a weirdo)
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t. @hapax.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
another thing that happens to me is most sunday mornings early phil christman sends out one of his henry james newsletters and basically every week i look at it in my inbox and cannot stop myself from having the thought "brother, you and i are both supposed to be at church right now"
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/09/2026
Last month, ICE put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia, according to interviews with community leaders, friends, and family members. Instead, they arrived at the notorious US military base in Cuba, where seven or eight of them remain.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
From 2021 to 2025, Stephen Miller was making $567K/year as head of his America First "think tank." He owns $100K-$250K in Palantir stock alone. His estimated net worth: ~$2 million. The immigrants he's deporting to third-party countries to be tortured and disappeared don't get an attorney at all.
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neck romancey @bruxa.online · 19/09/2026
average american voter
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Assuming Democrats actually do retake power, a lot of the worst damage of the Trump admin will become visible on their watch, and they have to figure out how to communicate clearly and constantly who’s to blame and what it takes to clean up the mess Republican governance made. That will be hard.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Imagine if, instead of regulating drones (which we did!), we instead decided to let drone companies self-regulate, and ALSO dedicated tons of money and time to "problems" like "what if, in 1000 years, hyper-intelligent dogs learn to fly drones into mailmen." This is what we are doing with AI.
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Roz @rozmilner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Here’s @philipchristman.bsky.social on some particularly bad movies by William Grefe
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Rich Bad Texts: The Filmography of William Grefe
People who say, “I like bad movies” can mean any, or any several, of a number of distinct if sometimes overlapping things:
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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I continue my examination of terrible art philipchristman.substack.com/p/rich-bad-t...
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Rich Bad Texts: The Filmography of William Grefe
People who say, “I like bad movies” can mean any, or any several, of a number of distinct if sometimes overlapping things:
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