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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

About damn time. The only annoying part is this should have happened years ago. But we’ll take the win.

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Maybe we shouldn’t let AI do everything…

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New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

10 years ago today, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opened on the National Mall. Obama rang the Freedom Bell with 99-year-old Ruth Bonner, whose father was born into slavery. See more: bit.ly/4dX2ydY #NMAAHC #BlackHistory10Years

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/09/2026

The story of the bosses' revolt comes down to their experience, in 2020, of helplessly watching the labor-income line go up — and resolving, right then and there, to make sure that never happened again.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every taxpayer, no matter your party, should be outraged by this. Your money is being used to fund campaign ads for Trump. It’s totally completely illegally. He’s stealing your money for his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...

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‘Love Me’ Ad Promotes Trump With Public Money Ahead of the Midterms

A disclaimer says the ad was paid for by the U.S. government, which could violate federal law.

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Have a good fast to all my Jewish friends observing today.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In academia people actually love meetings because other people see them “doing” something even if that something should have been an email.

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Rents in NYC have just hit an all-time high. Median market rate in June… Manhattan: $5,295/mo (+8.2% year-over-year) Brooklyn: $4,350 (+8.1%) NYC’s housing affordability crisis is at DefCon 1. We need to push harder on every front to address our housing shortage.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The Court’s equal protection analysis would itself raise an inference of discrimination under standard antidiscrimination law analysis.

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We have no humanity or morality left as a nation. This court would bless Korematsu, Plessy, and side against Brown in Brown v Board. We are morally bankrupt.

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

In WWII the US barred a ship of European Jews fleeing Nazi Germans from entering the US. 1/4 of them died when they were forced to return. This court just gave the Trump administration the legal right to do it to the next group of refugees and essentially said the US was right to do so in WWII.

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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

What really drives leaders to resist remote work isn't productivity. It’s ego. Our new data: Ordering people in full-time is a power and status move. Bosses want to be worshiped at the office altar. Work policies shouldn’t be vanity projects. Hybrid is better for people and performance.

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Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/06/2026

SUBRAMANYAM: You tweeted in March that the US Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. Was that true? CHRIS WRIGHT: No.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

NYC Vibes this week absolutely peak. 11/10. No notes. Can’t be improved upon.

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Explicitly endorsing blatant racism. The majority on this court would have signed onto the Dred Scott decision and dissented in Brown vs Board.

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This is the 2026 equivalent of book burning… we are actively destroying knowledge and tools to advance us forward

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Would they have surpassed OpenAI if they didn’t fight the Trump administration and OpenAI didn’t immediately swoop in? I can make a strong argument for no. Props to Anthropic. Be good. Get rewarded.

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The bar is already the floor and somehow this president and this administration found a way to embarrass and reveal their deep cruelty and inhumanity more than they already had. The cruelest humans and those leading the US government, including the president, should be two different people.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.” How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Not great. People would rather be dumb than wrong.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I think we’re entering a period of what you might call “cognitive obesity,” akin to what the development of processed food and car culture systematically did to our bodies at the population level. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

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Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I got to know Jason a bit when I was living in Austin. We both played tennis at the South Austin Tennis Center, and every once in awhile, we'd be doubles partners (we had pretty good net coverage between us). He was warm, generous, friendly, thoughtful, and a fundamentally lovely human. F*** cancer.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.

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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We looked into Polymarket's presence in Panama, obtained its government paperwork and visited its headquarters in Panama City. There was no sign of Polymarket. Nobody had heard of Polymarket there. www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n...

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NPR went looking for Polymarket's Panama headquarters. It's elusive

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/05/2026

cool

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Had he ever been in a restaurant? I eat out 7 days a week. I have showed my ID zero times this last week.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

There it is. Any questions?

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Make no mistake about it. The Supreme Court just overruled the will of the people and a law passed by Congress to allow for a modern day Jim Crow to be reimposed in the south. The votings right act gave minority American band a voice. Today SCOTUS silenced that voice in favor of white voters.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The US government is paying wind energy companies to not produce wind energy and make your utility bills more expensive to own the libs. That’s it. Adding to inflation for vibes.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 25/04/2026

Nearly 4,400 fewer U.S. teens and young adults died by suicide than projected in the first two-and-a-half years of the 988 mental health crisis hotline, a sign the program is working even as it faces long-term funding challenges. to.pbs.org/4cFt4ao

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988 hotline linked to thousands of fewer youth suicide deaths since launch, study finds

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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 23/04/2026

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

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Free Yousof Azizi

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Democracy would be better served with a complete ban on partisan gerrymandering. It’s a scourge on democracy itself. But it would require Republicans to give up huge gerrymanders in NC, FL, and TX. Until that day comes Dems have to respond in kind and play by the same rules.

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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

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Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial

Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

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alex williams @atwilliams.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

this is why you're not supposed to cross those databases, idiots

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

When you target immigrants here at court houses, showing up regularly to their immigration meetings, & hospitals, all places they are going to fully following the law, it’s no wonder they’re afraid that their legal tax filings will be weaponized against them. And yes, illegal immigrants pay taxes

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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

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Jack Castonguay, PhD, CPA @profjackc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

We must hold elected officials to a higher standard. Swalwell should drop out of the governors race and resign from Congress. Tony Gonzales should have resigned months ago too. This will show the difference in the parties. Swalwell will unlikely make it through this week. Tony still has GOP support

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

On Confederate Surrender Day, I give you the Liberator's take on Jefferson Davis: "We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history. He was a repudiator and slaveholder. He has been a secessionist, a traitor and rebel....He has sedulously endeavored to subvert our free institutions."

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 09/04/2026

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

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