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Siva

@sivav.bsky.social
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Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Publisher and EIC of @VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Texas is the only hope to dethrone UConn! #NCAAWBB 🤘🏽
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a female basketball player with the number 7 on her jersey is dribbling the ball
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026
MARCO RUBIO: These people are lunatics. They are insane STEPHANOPOULOS: You call then 'lunatics,' but Trump just posted that 'we're in discussions with a new and more reasonable regime'
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
We are, of course, not the only country to grant unconditional birthright citizenship: at least 35 countries do that. And if the authors of the 14th Amdt wanted to restrict it to slaves & their descendants, they could have done that. They didn’t, very deliberately & intentionally.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026
NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It takes SIXTEEN paragraphs for the New York Times to mention why the administration wanted to destroy nearly $10 million in contraception: It's because they claim the stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants are “abortifacient birth control.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...
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How U.S.A.I.D. Birth Control Meant for Africa Was Ruined
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 31/03/2026
"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."
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ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina
As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Hope everyone is having a nice day. Just remember, Confederates lost the war. cc: University of Minnesota, School of Law, 55455
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/03/2026
whoa
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jazzandbluesjrny.bsky.social @jazzandbluesjrny.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=V6hQ... Tracy Chapman video
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Tracy Chapman - Give Me One Reason (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Tracy Chapman
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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Arrested while the LAPD said arresting the Statue of Liberty was the highlight of their day... I don't know if that laughter and statement is appropriate when arresting someone for their freedom of speech.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
😃Made my Day 😃
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. A broker for Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, attempted to make a big investment in major defence companies in the weeks leading up to the US-Israeli attack on Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter.” www.ft.com/content/744e...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/03/2026
“The ​FTC said OkCupid users were never ⁠told their information - including nearly 3 ​million photos, demographic information and location ​data - would be shared in 2014 with Clarifai, a facial recognition technology company...” “Match and OkCupid neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing…”
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Match Group settles US FTC claims it illegally shared OkCupid user data
Match Group agreed to settle a ​U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit claiming it ‌gave an outside company unauthorized access to personal data belonging to millions of users ​of the OkCupid dating ap...
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
What do Louie Lunchmeat, Jesse Owens, and Jesus Christ have in common? They are "signatures" on Sue Altman's ballot petitions. We found these and hundreds of fakes, using science and AI. Legislation requires attention to detail. NJ-12 needs someone who sweats the details. I'm SamForNJ.org
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Knesset passed a bill today mandating the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror - but not for Jews. There is a word for a legal system where different legal standards apply to different categories of people. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Israel passes bill mandating death penalty for Palestinians convicted of terror
The Bill's Wording Creates a Distinction Designating It Almost Exclusively for Palestinian Terror, While the Ideological Burden of Proof It Sets Is Expected to Make Its Application to Jewish Nationali...
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Politico @politico.com · 30/03/2026
Members of the Jan. 6 mob are suing the federal government for tens of millions of dollars in damages. The lawsuit is claiming that the “indiscriminate” use of force by police officers repelling the attack caused them physical and emotional injuries.
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Members of Jan. 6 mob sue police who fended off Capitol attack
Jan. 6 defendants are hopeful that the administration will look favorably on their claims.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
a lot of people are curious about not including rule 1. but, to be fair, rule 1 is 411 pages of legalese about what, precisely, constitutes a death market
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“Even Burt Reynolds in a black Trans Am …”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The weird guy from Palantir wrote an essay about how Habermas rejected him and it is gold. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Opinion | My Time with Jürgen Habermas, Europe's 'Last Intellectual'
The sting of rejection lingered for years.
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Ringo Bunnyman @ringobunnyman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge **Day 31** A song with a motif that returns at the end… Ramones - ‘Blitzkrieg Bop’ (1976) One of the most recognizable four-word chant in rock and roll. *Thanks a ton @ismua.bsky.social for another fun & challenging month! m.youtube.com/watch?v=skdE...
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Blitzkrieg Bop (2016 Remaster)
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The vast majority of professors don’t get paid enough.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Unbelievable any lawyer will stand up and tell the Supreme Court that the US constitution is not the Constitution. That the 14th amendment does not say what it says about birthright citizenship. A disgusting, infamous day.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 30/03/2026
Dern will reportedly star as Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, who wrote a book on Epstein the series will be based on.
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TV Series On Epstein Investigation Starring Laura Dern In Development At Sony, Report Says
Dern will reportedly star as Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown, who wrote a book on Epstein the series will be based on.
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Grits for Breakfast @gritsforbreakfast.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
All Texas county jails must keep temps below 85 degrees and TDCJ's refusal to do so is the main reason they can't keep rural prisons staffed. So it's not only cruel toward prisoners, which is literally the only reason they haven't done it, but as a management practice, it's dumb as a bag of hair.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/03/2026
Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.
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Ms. Rachel is helping kids get out of ICE detention—one video at a time
The wildly popular children's educator is taking on ICE's notorious family detention center.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Rep. Jim Himes: We're giving Iranians billions of $ by letting them sell oil to China, which they use to buy drones from Russia. And, we're allowing Russia to sell oil so they can fund attacks against Ukraine and own our troops. You couldn't make this up in a Hollywood script.
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 30/03/2026
Response to that weird Moyn thing criticizing me, @evanbernick.bsky.social @anthonymkreis.bsky.social @jedshug.bsky.social et al for being able to think that the attack on birthright citizenship is a political hack job AND that its legal arguments can be refuted balkin.blogspot.com/2026/03/poli...
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Politics and Legal Arguments Can Coexist: a Reply to Drall and Moyn
Paul Gowder Constitutional practice, whether in the courtroom or in the academy, has lots of problems, but one of the main ones is dealing...
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LindaForfar2 🇨🇦 Ottawa @lindaforfar2.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Happy Monday everyone. What happens when you stop petting 😊
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Lots of shallow, mean people saying snarky things about a man who was a child a year ago. Making my point precisely.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
It would have been nice had The New York Times asked experts in the field why these law professors are full of shit, rather than framing a piece that looks like a debate that's with three percent of the academy is a 50/50 proposition.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 30/03/2026
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:
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"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism
"CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/03/2026
i think this is exactly right and it is part of what i was trying to get at last week when i wrote about the narcissism of the president and his allies. they fundamentally do not believe other people are real, and do not understand the decisions they make.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In which Ilan Wurman endorses using white supremacists' writing to interpret the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. He says that complaints about his [and the government's] lack of source criticism deploy a "classic logical fallacy." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump officials cite white supremacists in bid to end birthright citizenship
An argument heading to the Supreme Court is built in part on a post-Civil War campaign that scholars say was steeped in anti-Black and anti-Chinese racism.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This is implausible revisionism. We were told there was “an entire literature,” which was false. Then a few weeks later, an op-ed was born. An op-ed, which had a central thesis of “amity” that Ilan abandoned and then Randy never published anything of his own ever. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Happy 96th birthday actor and director John Astin. 🎂
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
They keep stealing shit from the people they detain. Remember how they took that kid’s cell phone and sold it for cash? Just straight up lawless gangsters
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/03/2026
Besties forever… “I got you” 😭
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
OpenAI killed Sora for mundane reasons, nobody used it and it was expensive to run. Usage peaked at 1M users but had since dropped to under 500K. Yet the site was burning $1M a day because generating AI videos is costly. It was an expensive distraction as Google and Anthropic start pulling ahead.
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Exclusive | The Sudden Fall of OpenAI’s Most Hyped Product Since ChatGPT
Sam Altman hoped Sora would turn OpenAI into a creative pioneer. Instead, it looks like an expensive strategic miscalculation.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Remember: it’s important to backup dat.ass
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
St. Louis County man charged with felony in theft of 2,400 Snickers candy bars www.stltoday.com/news/local/c...
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St. Louis County man charged with felony in theft of 2,400 Snickers candy bars
ST. CHARLES COUNTY — Authorities are searching for a 50-year-old man accused of walking out of a Sam's Club in St. Charles without paying for 2,400 full-size Snickers candy bars
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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Minimum weight of a Toyota Tacoma over the past 30 years. 1995 2,560 lbs 2000 2,910 lbs 2005 3,140 lbs 2010 3,430 lbs 2015 3,645 lbs 2020 4,075 lbs 2025 4,145 lbs
What qualifies as a small pickup sure has changed over the years.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
#Scotland runs temporarily fully on #windpower, generating over 200% of its electricity demand, a remarkable milestone offering a real glimpse into a future where fossil fuels may no longer be essential. #Renewables cheaper then #oilandgas offering independence from stock exchanges and #DoanldTrump
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 30/03/2026
Tonight‘s episode of “This is Not Really Happening“ starring Donald Fucking Trump.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Interesting to see this 1947 test screen with Marlon Brando for the film "Rebel Without a Cause." Brando, of course, would later epitomize mid-century American masculinity. He was 23-years-old here.
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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Jazz OTD: Saxophonist and composer Benny Golson, who wrote the standard "I Remember Clifford," recorded a terrific tribute album to his friend Clifford Brown on March 30-31, 1997, featuring John Swana (tp), Ron Blake (ts), Mike LeDonne (p) Peter Washington (b), and Joe Farnsworth (d). #jazzsky
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Five Spot After Dark
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NPR @npr.org · 30/03/2026
A large share of science funding comes through philanthropy, with little legal or public scrutiny. This lack of oversight allowed Jeffrey Epstein to cultivate scientists and launder his reputation. n.pr/4v0nHek
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Philanthropy in science has little oversight. Jeffrey Epstein exploited that
A large share of science funding comes through philanthropy, with little legal or public scrutiny. This lack of oversight allowed Jeffrey Epstein to cultivate scientists and launder his reputation.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/03/2026
I’m trying to re-home a poodle that barks A LOT. If anyone’s interested I’ll hop over my neighbor’s fence and get it for you.
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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Jazz OTD: The immensely popular trio for Keith Jarrett’s “standards” albums recorded their March 30, 1996 show at Bunamura Orchard Hall in Shibuya for the fine “Tokyo ‘96.” With Gary Peacock (b) and Jack DeJohnette (d). #jazzsky
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John's Abbey
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
No 18-year-old should have to carry the pressure and guilt that young Mr. Boozer feels today. He must be facing ridicule and harassment despite being excellent at what he does. No one hates Duke more than I do but we treat young athletes like they work for us. It’s wrong
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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
One of the most irresponsible things @nytimes.com does is frame everything around how it affects a politician or a party, rather than, say EVERYBODY. If (when?) private credit collapses it will bring down the banking system like in 2008. People will lose jobs, homes, lives.
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