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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 42m

Academic freedom in the U.S. has arguably reached a new nadir—maybe worse than the 50s. This is not only due to the scale and range of the assault on higher ed, which is targeting everything (individuals' views on Gaza, DEI initiatives, the curriculum, collaborative research with other countries)...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 3h

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1h

Holy shit.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

“.. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991 ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 2h

We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis.

Mayor Mamdani and others make an announcement at a podium with signage that reads “Child Care for all”

Children hold hands in front of signage that reads “Child Care for all”

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2h

I’d missed this: Annie Altman, Sam Altman’s sister who alleges in civil lawsuits that he sexually abused her repeatedly — starting when she was 3 years old — uploaded the first hour of her deposition to Instagram (and YouTube) this weekend. It has about 38k likes. www.instagram.com/reels/DeAx3h...

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Annie Altman (she/her/human) on Instagram: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset to once again hav...

39K likes, 916 comments - anniealtman108 on October 2, 2026: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset...

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 2h

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan is absolutely right. We need to enforce existing laws on the books so AI companies and executives don’t continue to operate without accountability. Congress must also regulate AI just like we have historically done with other emerging industries.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 3h

Or we could hold you accountable for the harm you cause. Just because the Trump admin won't lift a finger doesn't mean big AI should get away with putting profits over people. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3h

every republican president destroys the economy and starts a war in the middle east

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 3h

Job creation numbers: "The blue columns point to Biden’s presidency, while the red columns point to Trump’s..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 3h

'The Brothers.' (1928) A child prodigy, Joan Manning-Sanders was aged 15 when this work was painted and was the youngest artist to have shown at the RA Summer Exhibition in the late 1920s.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 3h

One thing all New Yorkers can agree on? It’s time to get your flu shot! Go to nyc.gov/healthmap to find all the free locations.

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Karl Deisseroth @deisseroth.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you to everyone sharing in this moment! I’m so grateful to all my trainees & collaborators… dlab.stanford.edu/group-members (pic: Peter and I together in 2017) Reading for all those asking: for technical details: dlab.stanford.edu for everyone: deisseroth.org/projections

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 3h

Reports are swirling around that tech companies are cashing in on corporate tax breaks from the Big Beautiful Bill to bankroll massive data centers. So I am requesting Congress’s official tax estimators provide a full report on just how much money Republicans shelled out to these corporations.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Mark Lubell @envpolicycenter.bsky.social · 3h

Trump's NSF appears to have basically eviscerated social science research. Can't even find the names of the traditional directorates on the webpage. All of the RFP landing pages are "awaiting" publication of the next due date...which may be never until Trump is gone.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 4h

This is what we're watching them attempt to do. Keep the FORM of elections -- so they can claim, "we won fairly!" -- while preventing elections from being free or fair.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Netanyahu's finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, openly refers to IDF operations in south Lebanon as ethnic cleansing.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 5h

The amount of money the administration is promising in order to buy votes is significantly less than the amount of money it is taking away in programs and services. And it's OUR money!

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 4h

Wages are at all-time lows, and profits at historic highs, as a percent of GDP. The backlash against A.I. is a backlash against unchecked inequality. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com Chart:

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Ben Johnson 🏺👻 @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When witches are cackling and telling you “Fire burn and cauldron bubble,” take a step back. Breathe. Those are normal things for fire and cauldrons to do. They’re trying to mess with you.

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"Radical" Russ Belville @radicalruss.com · 8h

"Disgraced." Hastert was paying hush money to another man whom he sexually abused as a child when he was the child's wrestling coach. He later admitted to molesting 4 kids. He got 15 months for the financial crimes (served 13); 0 months for the sex crimes, as the statute of limitations expired. 👇🏻

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.

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

Last week, I was invited into the homes of Jewish New Yorkers across the city to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani stands in a sukkah with Brad Landwr under warm lights and strings of pomegranates.

Mayor Mamdani and Asm Claire Valdez and Sen Jabari Brisport join New Yorkers for Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani visits New Yorkers for Sukkot.

Mayor Mamdani sits in a sukkah with New Yorkers.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 6h

I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 7h

I love when White House reporters assure us that Karoline Leavitt was an entirely different person off the record as if that's not key to the whole Trump regime's press manipulation strategy.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 7h

I’d argue Republicans have become more staunchly supportive of pedophiles since Hastert’s reign

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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine being this big of a misogynistic asshole

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Megan O'Matz @megomatz.bsky.social · 8h

How @propublica.org Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required. / by @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours

The reporting experiment demonstrates how easy it can be to open private schools that might then access public money. No credentials or background checks required.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 7h

It was never an accident

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

The last time the Strategic Oil Reserve was this low, Olivia Newton-John had the #1 song in the country.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 7h

Yes. I keep thinking about the phrase "rights stripping," which Judith Butler used in a talk at the New School in May, to capture a key element of the techno-fascist political project.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

Cover. @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/story/sam-al...

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 8h

There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.

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Erik Schlenker-Goodrich @riogranderift.bsky.social · 7h

Pay attention, folks. The "bad things" Altman speaks of include sacrifice of the Earth's ecology to birth AI God Minds. This is not an exaggeration. We are in a battle for our very humanity and our relationship with the Earth.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

The NY Times uses words like “fierce,” “steely,” “nimble” and “homegrown star of the Trump White House” to describe Karoline Leavitt, who just got a Fox News gig. Not a single mention of her relentless lying to the American public. Reporter Michael M. Grynbaum and his editors suck.

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Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s ‘Machine Gun,’ Has a New Gig at Fox News (Gift Article)

A fierce and nimble speaker, Ms. Leavitt is the second of Mr. Trump’s former press secretaries to join the cable news network.

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 7h

What an injustice, that child sexual abuse had the audacity to disgrace him! Yet another victim.

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Brian @bwnash.bsky.social · 8h

But, just let me say the same thing about taxes, and everyone in Silicon Valley loses their fucking minds. You know what, Sam? Fuck you, that's what. And MOST ESPECIALLY, no bailouts ever, at any time, for any entity touching this space.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 7h

sitting so politely

a tux cat looking up while sitting on my laptop and posting

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 11h

This. Rowling is in a very short list of people in contention for the spot of "second most harmful, evil, human in existence". Musk has number one sewn up, but she's up there with Trump, Thiel, Netanyahu, and Putin jostling for second place.

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 11h

Peter Hegemann, one of the 2026 medicine laureates, cracked the biochemistry of how light can be used to regulate the activity of neurons. This research, using what is now called #optogenetics, has paved the way for others to create tools to track and map out neural networks. #NobelPrize #chemsky 🧪

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Peter Hegemann, a scientist trying to illuminate the brain

The photobiologist explains how careful manipulation of light has revealed a path to better understand how the brain works

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Silvia Ramundo @sramundo.bsky.social · 12h

A glorious day for our mighty Chlamydomonas 💚 and, of course, an unforgettable one for the Nobel laureates. So richly deserved!

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12h

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.

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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'

J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Simon Andriesz, previously a managing director at a Wall Street firm, discovered an email chain from 2018 in which Lutnick and Epstein had discussed the prospects of a start-up business they were both involved in.“ Now he’s dead.

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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/10/2026

A species of lungfish found in South America has claimed the title of the animal with the biggest genome sequenced so far. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: scim.ag/46OMl6v

This odd fish has 30 times as much DNA as humans—a new record for animals

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Otto von Biz Markie @donachaidh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The mere fact that anyone is rich enough to spend that much money to avoid being taxed is maybe the best case that these motherfuckers need to be taxed

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