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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#AZ Trump's not on the ballot. Every Republican who enabled him is. The framers built guardrails for this moment -they only work if we elect officials who believe in them. You see the problem. Your vote is the solution. Vote early. Our republic doesn't end on our watch. #ProudBlue #Pinks #OneV1

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.”

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action

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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️

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Rachel @rachelneedsanap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don’t care whether there are valid use cases for LLMs. I know for certain that any such use cases are not in education or humanities academia, both of which LLMs undermine in fundamental ways. Techies need to learn the humility to accept that they don’t know how to “optimize” everyone else’s jobs.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 19/09/2026

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Why didn't Odysseus simply secure a mutually beneficial exchange with the Trojans through the blockchain? Was he stupid?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

But that’s not the case. People set AI up. They are the ones who set harmful things in action. And so they are the ones who should be held responsible.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

Regulation looks intractable if you’re acting like AI is a bear that acts on its own and that nobody has the right or ability to restrain or control.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

Humans are doing harm. AI is the mechanism. The humans need to be regulated so that they stop doing that.

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seven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

*also menstrual supplies & contraception

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seven possums in an AFI hoodie @volare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

evergreen reminder: if you see someone shoplifting food/diapers, no you didn't

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/09/2026

“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life.” That’s how Sakariye Abdi Mohamed described the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, where he and a handful of other Somali immigrants are being held by ICE. He and 11 other men were reportedly not told they were being taken to the notorious military base.

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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo

“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

In the same way Mike Johnson's persona online is "sincere Christian"

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Kris Mayes @krismayes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My opponent doesn’t have the experience necessary to protect Arizonans or uphold the rule of law. This week, a growing number of Arizona law enforcement leaders, sheriffs, retired police chiefs, US Attorneys, former AGs, and career prosecutors are announcing their support of my campaign.

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Bock Sam @bocksam.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Wait!! What?? The GOP Attorney General candidate in Arizona has only had license to practice law for 3 years??? And theGOP thinks that he could best represent the residents of Arizona and uphold the rule of law? Sounds like another Lindsey Halligan, with even less legal knowledge.

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Mindblown Cat Reaction

Alt: Mindblown Cat Reaction

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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 09/09/2026

Charlie Kirk’s nonprofit Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist, which claims it uncovers the most radical left wing professors from universities that are known to suppress the conservative voices and advance the progressive agenda," has been taken down.

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Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist is down. Instructors describe its impact

This week marks one year since the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While the nonprofit he created, Turning Point USA, is still working to engage young conservative voters ahead of the m...

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ZAK @raszak76.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Profound and simple at the same time. I’ll be reading this many times in the future.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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Arum Park @profarumpark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Beautiful and true: “You can tell me what someone meant to you without demanding that they mean the same thing to me…rather than trying to make one another feel correctly, we can ask a more useful question…how are we going to take care of one another and endure what comes next?”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/09/2026

The chant you're hearing is "FIRST! DO NO HARM!" Huge high five to everyone who came out to the protest at Mount Sinai over the hospital's deal with Trump to end gender-affirming care for trans youth. 🧵 of photos to follow!

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thank God this lying dork will not be there on Friday

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C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There’s still time to check this out, and it is very well worth your time!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...

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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]

Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If your magic "tool" is going to be this wrong why on earth use it? I don't get it? If its going to get the materials this wrong, why am I FUCKING WASTING MY TIME WITH IT

I recently used AI to dig through thousands of pages of notes and source material I had gathered more than 15 years ago, for a book on the history of the historical professions. While thinking about a new project on the ways historians adopted new technologies into their work in the past, I used it to scan my sources and it surfaced material I had completely forgotten about and accurately pointed out patterns — such as similarities in attitudes and language in sources written decades apart — that I had missed. Conversely, in that same scan of my source materials, I found the AI drew false inferences from historical documents because it failed to grasp irony and thus inverted the actual point of the author. In other cases, it failed to extract the most interesting material from documents because it was unable to “read against the grain” and capture critical hidden meanings. In each instance, I could recognize these problems only because I’ve spent years working with this material. All of this raises important questions about how to help students develop similar knowledge, experience, and disciplinary judgment, even when this new tool seems, to an untrained eye, to make those things unnecessary.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I have so many. TW for the last one -1974 ♀️ can open a credit card in ther own name (I was too young for a credit card :) -1993 NIH requires women and racialized people to be included in clinical trials -1993 ♀️senators can wear pants -1993 nationwide criminalization of marital rape

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The Rocket Knight @sparkster2600.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The marketing in general has been amazing. They made a popcorn bucket from an actual anvil that was hollowed out, it weighs about 40 pounds, and therefore isn’t actually for sale. All for a gag to promote the movie. Genius. youtu.be/Gb97t_troVA

youtu.be

Coyote vs. ACME Drops The World’s Heaviest Popcorn Bucket

YouTube video by Coyote vs. Acme

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Classists believe that when Odysseus returned to Ithaca and plucked the bow string it actually sounded like X Gon’ Give It To Ya by DMX

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

and the thing is no one has really seen it before. it's not even clear what to call it. a glacial collapse taking part of a mountain with it and eight thousand feet to fall does stuff we don't actually have terms for

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Arum Park @profarumpark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Agreed. I now drive an EV and I will never go back.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

live your life so Joyce Carol Oates never tweets about you and Isaac Chotiner never calls you

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This was so stupid I had to check to see if it's real, and yes. Ted Cruz, the man who once told a story about the "basketball ring," is trying to tell a guy who literally played lacrosse at Michigan how Michigan athletes refer to their rival.

What does it say that this 🤡 —who wants to represent Michigan—has never heard of Ohio State?

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“The United States, for example, has announced that it will contribute $500,000 to the rescue effort — a small fraction of what it had promised in the days immediately after a devastating earthquake hit Nepal in 2015.” disgusting

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Search Continues for 2,400 Missing in Nepal Floods Amid ‘Immense’ Devastation

As rescue efforts entered their fourth day, the scale of destruction came into focus, signaling a daunting recovery for the vulnerable nation.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A grand jury found Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) “misappropriated” a payment from a Medicaid settlement to Hope Florida — an organization “championed” by his wife Casey DeSantis. The grand jury said the $10 million transfer was “part of a sophisticated scheme to fund political activities.”

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Grand jury: DeSantis admin ‘misappropriated’ tax dollars in Hope Florida scandal

A grand jury found Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) administration “misappropriated” a payment from a Medicaid settlement to Hope Florida — an organization “championed” by Florida first lady Casey D…

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2026

so according to the CDC, *foodborne illness* is responsible for about 930 deaths a year. "food-induced illness" is a made up term RFK is using for basically every cause of mortality minus suicide.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 29/08/2026

Yale’s leadership must stand firm in defense of academic freedom against Trump's threats. Show solidarity with the students, alumni, and faculty taking a stand against Yale’s cowardly surrender. Sign the petition today at YaleDontCave.com.

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