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Roger Freedman

@rogerfreedman.bsky.social
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Physics educator at UC Santa Barbara, textbook author, and San Diego Comic-Con OG. he/him/his

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h
Thanks Reagan 😕 The Republican agenda for the past 45 years in one chart 👇🏽
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h
Good idea, @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon - if Trump loves data centers so much let's make him prove it. www.newsweek.com/angie-nixon-...
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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) gets *all* his franchises wrong. (Hats off and a tremendous reception for Dan Whitworth for the original joke.) #Schmitt #UpSchmittCreek #JackSmith #Hawkeye #Hawkman
Upper: photo of Senator Smith with word balloon “You, sir, have perjured yourself! The committee has evidence that you are in fact, Hawkman!”

Lower: photo of Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye with word balloon: “HawkEYE.”
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The Trump regime's new AI assistant confirmed Donald is a convicted felon, Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump is in the Epstein files before it stopped answering political questions.
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‼️We need your vote‼️ ✅ check your registration ✅ make a plan to vote! If you can vote early! ✅ take a buddy with you to vote! 2 votes are better than 1 ✅vote blue down the ballot - let’s vote the suckers out! #momsky#sheshed
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The president has repeatedly exhibited bizarre conduct in the public eye. Not only does that include taking naps during public events, but also erratic behavior, slurred speech, appearing lost or disoriented, and sporting mysterious bruises.” newrepublic.com/post/215938/...
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"My husband blames everything on Joe Biden, including his chronic erectile dysfunction. If it's true, thank you, Joe Biden."
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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do not go lightly into the midterms.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026
Xavier Becerra didn’t just discover LGBTQ rights when it became politically convenient. His record goes back to the 1990s, and LGBTQ+ rights have been a huge part of it, from his time as California attorney general to serving as U.S. Health and Human Services secretary. 🧵
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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From cartoonist Jeremy Nguyen (@jeremywins on IG). #Cornell #Columbia #AcademicSky #college #IvyLeague
Two male high school students are filling out college applications. One says to the other, "Columbia, and my back-up is Cornell- they score the highest in protections for perpetrators of sexual assault in the country."
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In light of Cornell’s appalling slap-on-the-wrist response to rape, it’s of note that the term “sexual harassment” gained currency as a consequence of a #Cornell faculty member’s sexual harassment of a staff member. #AcademicSky #SexualHarassment
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Until 1975, ‘Sexual Harassment’ Was the Menace With No Name | HISTORY
Meet Lin Farley, the woman who helped coin the term 'sexual harassment.'
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
⛽️ Florida’s gas prices rose 18 cents last week before declining 6 cents through the weekend. On Sunday, the state average for a gallon of gas was $4.37. That’s $1.42 per gallon more than last year. The average driver is now paying $65 to fill their tank, as opposed to $44 at this time last year.
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Florida gas prices rose 18 cents last week
On Sunday, the state average for a gallon of gas was $4.37, according to NWS Melbourne.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to turn an outdated skyscraper building in the city into 4,000 units of affordable housing. Instead of creating destructive data centers that destroy lives as well as the ecosystem for dark profit, this leader chooses to help people instead. More of this please.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New York Times confirms reports that, days before Oct. 7, UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning a major attack. According to five former senior Israeli officials, Netanyahu never passed the warning to Israel.
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New York Times sources back Haaretz report that UAE president warned Netanyahu before 7 October
Five former senior Israeli officials told the Times the warning never reached Israel's security chiefs. Netanyahu denies the call and has ordered lawyers to sue Haaretz.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey MAGA friends- you know how they groom you to fear & despise the words "Muslim" "Socialist" and "Communist?" Guess who your Grand Venereal Wizard was adoring at the beginning and end of this week.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy 9-25 Day to those that celebrate
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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#AcademicSky #Texas
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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#AcademicSky #Cornell
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AAPTHQ @aapthq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Early Bird Registration for #AAPTWM27 is now OPEN! Register now and get ready to hear from outstanding plenary speakers, participate in workshops, informative sessions, events, and more. Rates end on October 23. ow.ly/EAJC50ZQxqI #AAPTConference #AAPTMeeting #ITeachPhysics
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David Webb @djphysicswebb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We continue to point out issues suggesting that college courses are an active part of bias against marginalized demographic groups. 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd #AcadmicSky
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) said Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R) will face “legal consequences” after the state Supreme Court unanimously ruled that his seizure of roughly 650,000 ballots violated state law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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California Attorney General vows ‘legal consequences’ for GOP sheriff who seized ballots
The ballot seizure case highlights the risks to democracy when election deniers in positions of authority abuse their power to interfere with vote counting. Bianco seized an estimated 650,000 ballots ...
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Shout out to Queen Latifah for rocking the vote years ago. If you can download an app, follow the rules, and vote for your favorite coach’s singer, you can register and make a midterm plan to vote now. The ballot and our country need you. #BlueWaveIn40Days #momsky #sheshed
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W. Brian Lane (he/him), PhD @wbrianlane.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can we maybe not visually represent confusion using gifs of women looking overwhelmed by math
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It should be illegal for Andrew Mellon, who died in 1937, to be allowed to continue to influence our politics from the grave by way of his grandson, Timothy Mellon, who never worked a day in his life, but believes democracy isn't for the dirty masses. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Timothy Mellon, a G.O.P. Billionaire, Pulls Back His Money From Senate Republicans
Timothy Mellon, one of the party’s biggest donors in 2024, has so far withheld his midterm donations for Republican senators because he is unhappy about the failure to pass a key Trump priority.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Day 23 #SciArtSeptember prompt is copper so I am sharing my #linocut of the first woman to earn a doctorate in science, physicist and professor Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (née, & known throughout her life as Bassi, 1711-1778). 👩🏼‍🔬🧪🐡🎢 #histsci I’ve shown her surrounded by the sort of
My linocut on white Japanese paper shows 18th century woman (Laura Bassi) in dress with fur cape, and hair in ringlets with a hairpiece which echoes a laurel crown. She’s holding an open book with Newtonian optics diagrams and in front of her is an electrical machine (a stand with vertical large glass plate and hand crank and brass tubes to channel the large electrostatic charges it could generate through friction). She is surrounded by typical high tech lab equipment of her day like conductors, an aurora flask, a luminous discharge tube, a Lane electrometer, Leyden jars and Volta's electric pistol. It’s printed in a gradient of a hint of turquoise through violet to red-magenta to bronze from the bottom to the top.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just a handy grammar tip: The 1960s are not the 1960's or the 60's. They are the 1960s and the '60s.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know we're all* numb to this by now, but it really needs to be said that any one of the batshit insane tyrant tweets from our special little boy would've led to swift efforts to remove any other previous president.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New, from me: The Kennedy Center and NIH don't appear to have much in common, but both reveal what happens when nonpartisan institutions clash with a personalist regime. The inherent contradictions between competence and cronyism soon reveal themselves. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-art-an...
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The art and science we deserve?
Both the Kennedy Center and NIH are crumbling under the weight of Trump’s ego
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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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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hangtime is the study of the time interval between first public notice of a rising right/MAGA/manosphere influencer and their first rape/sexual assault indictment www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...
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SCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, Drugging
The manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Roger Freedman @rogerfreedman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Dave, tell me you benefit from white male privilege without telling me you benefit from white male privilege.”
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.
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Howdy @icandie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
that's the kind of reporting that will drive the Turd crazy ...
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AP: UN-backed experts found “reasonable grounds” to believe the US committed war crimes in at least two strikes on Iran. I realize all presidents have an ego. I never dreamed that one day America would have one who required human sacrifice to feed his. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Tallgirl6234 @tallgirl6234.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hilarious but so painful at the same time
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It appears that Trump’s claim last week that he negotiated a deal between Putin and Zelenskyy to stop bombing energy infrastructure was just another lie to manipulate markets. Every hour of every day, Trump lies about everything.
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Jarvis Googoo @jarvisgoogoo.com · 19/09/2026
Amazing editorial cartoon by @mackinnonart.bsky.social 😃
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