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Roger Allan Ford (he/him)

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lawyer, law professor, union member

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
alternet.org
Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 27/09/2026
This is the perfect newspaper feature story. A-plus. Five stars.
nytimes.com
The Viral In-N-Out Spatula Hero Is Exactly Who You Imagined He Was (Gift Article)
It started as a bizarre late-night standoff behind the counter of a fast food joint. It ended with no injuries — and free burgers.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 25/09/2026
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Close-up of NFL game on Amazon prime, with a chyron reading “LUNAR CONDITIONS WAXING GIBBOUS (POSSUM-HUNTIN’)”
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 24/09/2026
There are no words for how angry this story makes me. Academic freedom is dead in Texas public universities.
newyorker.com
The Fallout of a Charlie Kirk Campus Scandal
Students and faculty across the country were punished for their actions in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. A recent graduate of Texas Tech’s law school is still trying to clear her name.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 24/09/2026
No disagreement here 😂
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 24/09/2026
I went and found the post and looked at the comments plus the surrounding context of library-related posts (including one post from the same person just straightforwardly celebrating how awesome the new library building was).
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 24/09/2026
Turns out that guy is promoting the new library slash making fun of people opposed to it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
6/ Weeks later, Kao tells his team Collins committed to getting the company $32M in naval contracts.
A check for $150,000 to 1820 PAC, a pro-Collins super PAC, from the Society of Young Women Scientist and Engineers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 20/09/2026
Maybe let’s get there and then we can worry about that?
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 09/09/2026
If there’s no jurisdiction to hear the appeal on the TRO, then isn’t one response to move for mandamus that this should be before a three-judge district court?
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interesting dracula @partnardy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There should be a Tetris game on your car’s dashboard you control with the steering wheel and you get points multipliers for how fast you’re driving
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A robot in a store in Russia was teased and entered 'Street Fighter mode':
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 02/09/2026
Podcast ad: “Hey Tampa! Class it up with Crocs!” 😒
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 01/09/2026
“insisted that it was easy to understand what was needed and also that there was no time to write down the requirements” ahahahahahahahaha
cnn.com
USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics
The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 30/08/2026
Chris Christie just said on ABC that no American troops have been killed in the Iran war, which feels like news to these at least 18 service members and their families
militarytimes.com
4 US soldiers killed in Iran war return to American soil
Four U.S. service members returned to American soil in flag-draped caskets on Wednesday after being killed in Iranian attacks in the Middle East.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 29/08/2026
You shut your dirty mouth
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 29/08/2026
Holy shit!!!
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 27/08/2026
Ok this is embarrassing. Iowa and Montana are seeking to file an original-jurisdiction complaint in the Supreme Court to sue the twelve states that are trying to block the Warner Bros / Paramount merger. Ashley Keller and Adam Mortara should feel ashamed. deadline.com/wp-content/u...
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Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"I argue that slop is a symptom of a world currently dominated by the cultural structures of kitsch and cute, which uses spam as a logic of production in a crowded media environment." Lucie Chateau, The evolution of slop and brainrot aesthetics... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 26/08/2026
“The solution Trump settled on, according to three people familiar with the meeting, was to lean into the Democratic strategy of focusing on himself.”
theatlantic.com
Trump Plans to Buy Midterm Ads About His Own Record
Some Republicans welcome his involvement, but whether voters will is another question.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How to approach an unknown language in the ocean? Here’s one of the first cases of AI interpretability leading to a scientific discovery -- in whales.
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A L I E N Cerny @alancerny.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
COYOTE VS. ACME is glorious. Funniest movie of the year, emotionally moving, and Will Forte is doing amazing work. Any Looney Tunes fan will adore it. As anti-corporate as it can get, subversive and so very punk rock. WB knew what they were doing when they dumped it. This cartoon kills fascists.
static.klipy.com
Acme Vs Coyote Acme Sucks
ALT: Acme Vs Coyote Acme Sucks
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 23/08/2026
COYOTE VS. ACME is awesome. Tons of fun. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highly recommended.
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Pretty Khemyst @prettykhemyst.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
So, the shock gloves didn't just come out of nowhere. I don't even know what to say: www.3newsnow.com/central-omah...
3newsnow.com
OPD says its school resource officers have shock gloves at 29 schools and they've been used twice on students
OPD says shock gloves have been delivered to school resource officers at 29 Omaha area schools and used twice on students.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 15/08/2026
…is that a bowl of avocados?
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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 14/08/2026
What an interesting lede in this WSJ story about Luigi Mangione’s guilty plea www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
“NEW YORK—Luigi Mangione, whose coldblooded killing of an insurance executive on a Manhattan sidewalk rattled the nation and struck fear into Corporate America, pleaded guilty Friday to two federal stalking charges in the death of UnitedHealthcare leader Brian Thompson.”
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 14/08/2026
Does the White House know what “exquisite” means?
“This decision will result in carriers that are enabled by battle-tested steam and hydraulic systems that are more resilient and robust than the present, more exquisite, follow-on systems,” the White House said in a statement. “It will also reactivate portions of the maritime industrial base that are easier to scale.”
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A federal judge in Washington state has sanctioned ICE $5,000 in compensatory damages and $11,000 in attorneys fees for illegally transfering a man twice in violation of her orders. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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ForbesUnion @forbesunion.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Forbes Union statement regarding The New York Times’s reporting on Randall Lane:
Forbes Union statement: As you may have read, the New York Times reported that former Forbes EIC Randall Lane accepted $6 million from RJ Shook, a business partner of Forbes, which led to his firing. Randall Lane consistently stood against the Forbes Union during his tenure. The Forbes Union reaffirms our demand for fair raises that we’ve been denied for years while our editor collected millions of dollars in secret payments. We demand management share more details of what they knew, when they knew it, if this is the only secret payment Randall Lane received, and why they refused to disseminate more information to employees. 

Solidarity,
Forbes Union
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Mail ballots are much less prone to fraud than Fifth Circuit opinions, it seems
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 06/08/2026
the reviews are beginning to roll in from nextdoor
a redacted user from El Cerrito Lower Hill says: 

OMG. You moved to El Cerrito in April 2026 and then did all of this stuff to your neighbors and community that you say you did in your article in the span of a couple of months??? 

This article just digs you into a deeper hole. My gosh. I didn’t even know who you were before this and now I’m appaulled [sic]

I replied: Thanks for reading!
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 05/08/2026
Thanks! So basically a lot of schools trying to fill their classes at the last minute?
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 05/08/2026
(what does clearing courses mean in this context?)
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 03/08/2026
7000+ pages of appendices. The clerks are gonna LOVE that.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 31/07/2026
We are at the “r/finance is posting fancams of Chair Powell set to Taylor Swift” point in the cycle of regret over Temu Greenspan.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 31/07/2026
It looks so much worse
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026
Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.
DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 24/07/2026
Whooooooa cool. May need to move “replace the gas stove with induction” up the to-do list.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 23/07/2026
Amazing story about how it looks like the Trump administration may have fixed the National Civics Contest for high-school kids to prevent Aangad Singh, “the brown kid in the turban,” from winning.
notus.org
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 23/07/2026
Amazing story about how it looks like the Trump administration may have fixed the National Civics Contest for high-school kids to prevent Aangad Singh, “the brown kid in the turban,” from winning.
notus.org
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/07/2026
Trump earlier today at the dignified transfer of U.S. Army service members killed in Jordan and Iraq. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
And as a commenter welcomes, guess who just welcomed Andrew Tate onboard? Yep, Substack.
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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If you are under the age of 50, then for more than half of your life, the President has been born in 1946.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 16/07/2026
Also, kbd-1.0-codex-micro is such a great (derogatory) name.
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 16/07/2026
Pop quiz! Is this (a) an ugly hardware prototype, (b) an actual consumer product that OpenAI plans to sell for hundreds of dollars, or (c) somehow both simultaneously?
Weird little square keyboard thingy with lots of glowing lights, black protuberances, various-shaped buttons and knobs (some of them light-up), some writing for some reason, and possibly a missing key?
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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
i love when a press release headline sounds like it was written by an aggrieved fish
a headline from the Society for Experimental Biology reads "Think that fishes and amphibians don't have necks? Think again"
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Roger Allan Ford (he/him) @rogerford.org · 15/07/2026
Federalists getting nervous about the Electoral College?
Podcast episode with a Federalist Society discussion about whether the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is unconstitutional
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