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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's really weird how the US building code is this proprietary document that is constantly changed with relatively little public oversight or regular rule making process, with changes variously driven with limited actual study by individual crusaders or rent-seeking industries.
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21/08/2026
I think it is remarkable to the extent the opposition party is still largely silent about the extrajudicial gulag archipelago that the sitting administration is using to turn innocent immigrants into political prisoners and slaves in third nations
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ya there's the philosophical thing but also the kind of prosaic reality that the specific guys running the surveillance state in cities usually live in a suburb called Klansburg and commute by car an hour each way and resent that there's a city in between them and their parking garage
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/08/2026
The Democratic party leadership fighting harder against the DSA than they do against Trump really says something. These people gotta go, man
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
In addition to having no experience in immigration, their website shows Ilya Shapiro (!) and disgraced former law prof Joshua Wright (!) as Senior Counsel. I don't think this massive contract was awarded to give immigrant children effective, zealous advocacy. burkegroup.law/our-team/
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Our Team - BURKE LAW GROUP, PLLC
Our Team
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I have to emphasize (this is something Aaron does a consistently good job noting and explaining, follow him!) that the Trump II immigration strategy has been to target people who have some sort of temporary-but-unambiguous legal status and try to transform them into undocumented folks via chicanery
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A big reason for Democrats to promise prison time for Republicans in power and the use of the state to undermine the Republican Party as an organization is because our former allies need to believe that someday soon, America will cease to be like this.
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
[everybody, all at once] we fucking told you
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nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com · 02/07/2026
america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)
a bloomberg info graphic showing four different dramatically declining types of spaces in order 'Bars and Nightclubs' 'Bowling Alleys' 'Marinas' and 'Movie Theaters' from 2001 to 2025 text on top reading 'Fewer Places to Relax and Socalize' 'US establiments per 100,000 people' 'Note: movie theaters includes dirve-ins.' 2025 population data based on US Census. Sources US Bureau of Labor Statistics, World Bank, US Census'
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Damn. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/06/2026
oh. oh ok. as.ft.com/r/a1bfe3af-e...
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Orbán hid half of Hungary’s budget deficit, new PM says
Péter Magyar says his predecessor ‘lied’ about 2026 shortfall of 8% of GDP
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Alice Speri (@alicesperi.bsky.social) of @theguardian.com once again covering the actual story of what’s happening in HigherEd.
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‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?
Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project
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Ozkat @christie-lover.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Amazing, no notes:
Screenshot of a TikTok video of Australians chanting “We’ve got free healthcare.” Screenshot includes a comment from an American user stating “I’d still choose my country every time. WE HAVE COSTCO! WE HAVE COSTCO!” In response an Australian commenter has replied with “we have Costco too.”
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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In the 4 years since Roe v Wade was overturned there have been over 400 pregnancy related prosecutions. Maternal mortality is up 33% nationwide and 50% in some states. We are being criminalized and murdered. That’s the legacy of Dobbs
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 24/06/2026
I think you have that backwards.
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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Did the New York Times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I want to support public broadcasting but NPR plays the "Nice Polite Republicans" bit way too much, they structure everything around it so that readers are led to believe problems caused or made worse by Republicans are acts of god and forces of nature.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12/06/2026
As the person who called the report "diabolically evil," let me just reiterate: the report is diabolically evil. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...
The text reads: The diabolical paradox of the Vanderbilt report is to claim that it is because the humanities actually are ‘woke,’ ‘biased,’ ‘non-objective,’ and ‘unrigorous’ that they have lost this support in the first place. In fact, it is years of the right-wing flinging versions of those false, garbage claims at the humanities as they have sought to defend their counter-majoritarian political project (and their ability to trick the public, including a significant number of otherwise politically liberal people, into believing them) that explains why the humanities have lost support.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.
Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Democrats should also be really thinking now about insane it's going to feel if we win in 2028 and Musk is babbling about the need for a race war and calling the president a satanic pedophile while also being the most important government contractor in the country.
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"Last year, North Korea built 10,000 new homes in Pyongyang -- more than either Los Angeles or Chicago." www.wsj.com/world/asia/n...
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The World’s Most Surprising Economic Success Story Is…North Korea
Arms sales to Russia and goods from China provide a boost, despite sanctions. “The regime is wealthier than ever.”
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 07/06/2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it is time for the Democrats to ignore party leaders, embrace a “new vision,” and call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/06/2026
There are currently more bills attacking trans youth’s right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 07/06/2026
i also have very little to add to this other than if you fell for this extremely artificial panic, fucking shame on you, and it got you absolutely nothing and nowhere and now your life is worse too.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
We quite literally have a whites only refugee program and somehow the media won’t call the Administration white supremacists.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/06/2026
Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Staggering levels of corruption. They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families. And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.
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A Flagship’s Civics Center Saw Low Enrollment. Now Students Will Be Required to Take Classes There.
A provision in the Iowa state budget will require all students at the University of Iowa to complete two classes at the Center for Intellectual Freedom to get their degree.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
They “let children die from malaria for want of $2 mosquito bed nets or from starvation because [they] couldn’t be bothered to provide 50-cent packets of peanut paste. A BU researcher estimates that the aid cuts have already cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
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Opinion | This Is Why You Don’t Slash Humanitarian Aid
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Israel has abducted 20-year-old Palestinian women's national football team player Rand Halawani, abducted former national teamer Natalie Abu Diyeh, and imposed a travel ban on Musab Abu Salem. This is another facet of the ongoing athleticide, likely emboldened by FIFA's refusal to apply sanctions.
Israeli authorities on Wednesday extended the detention of Palestinian women’s national football team player Rand Halawani until Friday, according to Palestinian officials.

The Jerusalem Governorate said Halawani was summoned for questioning Tuesday at the Talpiot police station in West Jerusalem before being detained and brought before a court, which ordered her detention extended.

It did not specify the reasons for her summons or arrest.

The Palestinian Football Association (PFA) said separately that former women’s national team player Natalie Abu Diya, a student at Birzeit University, was also arrested Tuesday after Israeli forces raided her residence.

The PFA said the arrests came amid continued Israeli restrictions on Palestinian athletes, citing the recent travel ban imposed on footballer Musab Abu Salem.

Israeli authorities stopped Abu Salem at the Allenby Bridge crossing, questioned him and prevented him from traveling to Italy with the Palestine Stars team, it said.
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I want to uplift the "white supremacist" part because we're all in this fight together. Do No Harm, at its founding, was a lobbying group concerned with ensuring there were fewer Black doctors in America and too much being done to prevent Black patients from having worse health outcomes.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Any detrumpification effort is going to founder if it isn’t going through an independent court system (which divests the Supreme Court of any review authority). Because the detrumpification commission has got to look at this claim of immunity and say, “LOL, no.”
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The money was always there for the good things.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On. medium.com/@carmitage/t... Total Disbarment, No Less !
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The Chief Justice and His Wife Took $20 Million From Firms He Rules On.
The evidence is public and the statutes are unambiguous. He is breaking the law.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Such intense concentration was not inevitable. It’s a product of decades of failure to enforce anti-merger laws that have been on the books since 1890." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Opinion | This Is Why Your Groceries Are So Expensive
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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I think about this a lot.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I have seen this point made several times in the past few weeks and I really think it's a solid campaign theme for Democrats.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/05/2026
feels like the actual taboo in democratic policy making circles is to say that sometimes the problem is actually supply-side
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Nina Lakhani @ninalakhani.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Britain has created a new breed of political prisoners through the systematic incarceration of people acting to prevent climate breakdown and the annihilation of Gaza, new research has found. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...
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New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise
More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Part of why I'm quite a fan of AOC '28 is that she's actually stepping up to say these proposals are a bad idea.
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Democrats’ Tax Cut Plans Are Splintering Progressives
Could new proposals from Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Cory Booker to cut taxes come at the expense of expanding social programs? Progressives don’t agree.
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Sam Fellman @samfellman.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Helluva a scoop @johnphudson.bsky.social The US looks well below the air defense arsenal needed for its one-war standard
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 21/05/2026
Again the lead prosecutor on this case when it was presented to the grand jury currently works for Dick Durbin as counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/05/2026
These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)
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