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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 21m

There is no path forward for a free and prosperous America where the Republican Party has not been crippled via lawsuits and criminal prosecutions, with several of its most prominent members doing life sentences.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 36m

wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 32m

And following it with N.K. Jemisin's "The Ones Who Stay and Fight"

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1h

Entire hair-splitting edited volumes were written while folks were getting snatched by the secret police.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 1h

I don't think people appreciate how much the coming year is going to suck

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 51m

Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy and The Dispossessed were absolutely formative for me.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3h

Columbus Day was first proclaimed in the US in 1892 by President Harrison following the 1891 lynchings of eleven Italian immigrants in New Orleans, the worst outbreak of anti-Italian violence in US history. It was explicitly nativist and anti-Catholic.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

It's probably also why people no longer fuck as much. Of course they won't fuck. Men who don't read don't get laid.

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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 1h

Fwiw I do genuinely think that unless you have an actually good health-related reason, not reading books is a personality defect and my advice on how to get men to read is ruthless bullying.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 1h

That this parenthetical caveat was necessary says a lot about the group you're discussing here.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 1h

"Reading Anne Carson will give you girl cooties" Ross Barkan.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 1h

I think it's useful context to bear in mind that AUSAs in this Department of Justice truly don't know shit. The administration considers that a qualifying feature.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2h

The last gasps of a dying creed: "Trump decries ‘communism’ but acts like a Marxist." Nope. This is conservatism with the gloves off. It's good that you're embarrassed by it now, but not enough people are. www.contrariannews.org/p/republican...

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Republicans Have Destroyed the ‘Conservative’ Agenda

🚨 22 Days to the Midterms 🚨

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

the muslim hate in this country has become policy, but you don’t get 7,000 think pieces about how that makes american muslims feel.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2h

But yes, removing Plato from philosophy courses is just *chef's kiss.* These are a the same people wailing about how they need to protect The Western Canon from Christopher Nolan casting Black people in The Odyssey. But also, you can't read Plato. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas

The state now controls what professors can teach.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 2h

Homeland Security needs to be reduced to its constituent subatomic particles.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 2h

Well, there's your first mistake right there with this administration

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Fluoroantimonic Acid @moralconstraints.bsky.social · 2h

I've seen similar descriptions/attitudes to people reading Cormac McCarthy and my knee jerk response is that men arent reading and writing them 'as much' because these books are not, and never were, big muscular super macho epics and actually spent time disassembling masculinity.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Almost like a direct and unmistakable demonstration of the state aiming violence at a representative of the marginalized communities which are routinely subject to such violence to maintain a white supremacist hierarchy.

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Cyril Mychalejko @cmychalejko.bsky.social · 3h

"This shroud of civic silence, the 'show-me-your-papers-please' checkpoints, the police-state level of secrecy, and the neighbors who are essentially hiding in their attics — none of what I saw or heard about in York County is an America I ever imagined living in," writes @willbunch.bsky.social.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you @adamserwer.bsky.social for the fullest account of what’s actually dangerous in higher ed right now. State censorship at incredible scale. And for particulars of expert history framed as ideology I note @sethrockman.bsky.social on the block here. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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All the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas

The state now controls what professors can teach.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 3h

This kind of terrifying indoctrination (plus job skills!) is precisely what some factions in the U.S. think education should aspire to today.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 3h

When I was a child, along with other children I was made to honor a genocidal man. We (happily!) dressed up like him. We acted in plays that praised his greatness and bravery. We sang songs of thanks that he "discovered" the land we were living on.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 14h

And for those who are not academics: heaving a pile of papers that haven’t gone through peer review and going “here, you sort this out for us and prove us wrong” isn’t scholarship. It’s a hurricane shitting on an earthquake and demanding the professionals come clean it up.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15h

Unsurprisingly, four days later, mathematicians have weighed in. And the results are equivocally valuable at best. More importantly the dump has flooded the zone with shit, which is precisely in line with this industry’s weaponized agnotology. Now actual scholars have to waste their time on this.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 17h

There's a kind of person who gets very upset when they have to struggle to understand something. This guy Saad can't fathom poetry. It's a pity for a man who considers himself An Intellect. He should admit it, and learn something about it if he thinks it's important enough to make an issue.

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 17h

You can go halfway around the world and stay in an all-inclusive resort expressly designed to insulate you from everything that makes the place different from home, too. The point of art (any art) is to experience someone else’s imagination, tastes, obsessions, and understanding of the world.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 20h

Man, I already sympathized with Ukraine. By blowing up data centers with long range rockets are you trying to make me a fanatical partisan, Pres. Zelenskyy? Because that's how you get fanatical partisans.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

The campaign of educational censorship sweeping Texas and other GOP-governed states in the name of “free speech” and “diversity of viewpoint” in many ways exceeds the worst of the McCarthy Era (gift link obvs) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 21h

again: it’s a k16 problem and we should start acting like it

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Warrantless stops and violent roving patrols by masked federal agents across California, especially the Central Valley, have been terrorizing farm workers for the past 5 days. The chaos is escalating. full statement: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

United Farm Workers union condemns brutal
ICE surge impacting farm workers in Central Valley; highlights Rep. Valadao's comments as 'insulting' to his constituents

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 10/10/2026

I would also add that decades of having to argue the (economic) “value” against managerial forces who are disinterested in argument has fundamentally diminished the creative capacities of our disciplines

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lamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One of the great, underrated dramas we find ourselves in is the cold Civil War between Christian sects over what living in the 20th and 21st centuries should look like, which is how you get Christian Nationalist backed ICE agents assaulting mainline and Catholic ministers

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Kevin Allman @kevinallman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

From that Sports Illustrated interview in 1998. Worth noting that besides losing football games and flipping off fans, the big tough guy was also SCARED OF MIMES

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump's options are even more limited now -- even if he made a deal tomorrow with maximum humiliation (just conceded), the war dynamics involve many more actors now. Other countries/groups always had agency in this war but now they're fighting and escalating.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Weather in New Orleans is so beautiful today that there's no reason to be inside. For the first time in months.

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Adam Chapnik @alsosortofadam.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I looked at the OpenAI math problem stuff and this seems like just a publicity stunt, nothing about training and testing their models. If people who did their PhD on those problems don't yet understand the answers, there is no way OpenAI was able to confirm they actually solved them.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The entire "we will not have ID" is insane at every law enforcement level unless the objective has fuckall to do with laws

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My dude is bombing Iran and blowing up Venezuelan fishing boats and bankrolling the destruction in Gaza and threatening Greenland and Cuba and Canada and Mexico and he's whining that he doesn't get a peace prize from Nobel. It's like he doesn't appreciate the one FIFA gave him.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The People need literary studies.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am sick and tired of seeing this shit. DOGE was not a "missed opportunity," it was an intentional effort by billionaire oligarchs to destroy the federal government's capacity to do good things for the American people.

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Saints' WHAT volume attack? The Saints' high WHAT attack? The Saints' high volume WHAT?

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

transit planners and advocates need to think about how to build systems that can’t be shut off by autocrats and fascists

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