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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 6h

3 weeks till midterms.

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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 11h

So why did WaPo fail to cover this? And why did they cut this line from my letter? “The public deserves to know more about this 2nd phase of the NG deployment & whether they are intentionally targeting schools. Stars & Stripes reported this, but few details have been shared with the public” 11/

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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 11h

The only reporting of Phase 2 I’ve seen was buried in a Stars and Stripes story: “Troops will . . begin transitioning to the next phase. Though few details were shared, the next step includes transitioning into neighborhoods such as Anacostia and Trinidad.” www.stripes.com/theaters/us/... 10/

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‘A significant impact’: National Guard wraps up first year of deployment to DC

More than 9,700 troops have deployed to the city for the past year as part of an effort to reduce crime in the nation’s capital.

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Mylo Minderbinder @duffomatic.bsky.social · 11h

Here’s where it gets much darker. My letter also criticized WaPo for missing the larger story, failing to cover how the 3,000+ Guard troops in DC have quietly shifted into Phase 2 of their deployment, pulling out of touristy areas and aggressively moving in to residential neighborhoods. 8/

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 13h

If you want to efficiently cultivate a well-informed, bird's-eye view of the ecosystem of election defense work being done in these fascist times, and which orgs are doing much of it, then read this outstanding piece by Marcy Rein and Sandra Hinson.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23h

My probe into how local cops in Pa.'s York County teamed with ICE to bust 500-plus immigrants on busy highways, terrifying the Haitian community and shattering families over a busted headlight 287(g) has made York the worst place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. www.inquirer.com/opinion/york...

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How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the eastern U.S. | Will Bunch

Local cops working with ICE in York County, Pa. have made hundreds of arrests, with many more afraid to leave home.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19h

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your CV? Academic: the Recession Interviewer: and this one? Academic: COVID Interviewer: and this one? Academic: mass state funding cuts Interviewer: and this one? Academic: admin trying to replace my field with chatbots Interviewer: and this one?

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Trying to get more women and Black artists onto the list. These countdowns tend to skew (boringly) otherwise . . .

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Sadly, yes. (See: loyalist gangs; Garvaghy Road; Orange Order; U.K. govt veering right, etc.) Most residents of the North, however, say "No Going Back" to the bad old days. Makes the DG finale extra, extra poignant.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Need to rewatch, again! Kind of crazy that 30 years later the Good Friday agreement is being sabotaged, though . . .

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Chicago was named the best big city in the United States for the 10th straight year. buff.ly/WCaGMgF

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 10/10/2026

I would be EXTREMELY annoyed to discover my PR is "AI"-generated, and as someone bombarded with dozens of "AI"-generated emails daily, I assure you the stink of "AI" is immediately noticable and immediately dismissible. Publishers are not doing their new books any favors in using it.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Extraordinary courage. As Henry walked around the back of the truck, Taylor recorded a six-second video panning to four crucial visuals: the radio clock reading 8:29 p.m., the back of Henry’s head, the condoms on the dashboard, and the view outside her window. www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.

“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

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Fryda Wolff @frydawolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nic Cage:

He continued: “How do you survive AI? Amazon is a very AI friendly company to the tune of 50 billion dollars invested to OpenAI. I am not an AI friendly actor. I didn’t sign the waiver to let them use AI on Spider-Noir. It’s kind of like I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again. But that’s OK. So I got to get with these young directors who are Gen Z and they’re going at it their own way, whether it’s through the YouTube culture or whatever it is. They’re doing it from scratch and by hand. I want to get with that.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The first person to run a marathon died immediately after so that’s not a risk I feel I need to make

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Why oh why do people still platform that small, soulless man

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Republicans around the country trying to push for more data centers are up for a real reckoning at the ballot box. I has already happened for primaries in Utah

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Philadelphia rallied in support of Garvaghy Road residents, October 10, 2026. Stand against state-sanctioned violence and sectarian harassment.

People standing behind a lectern at Irish monument in Philadelphia, holding flags and signs supporting Garvaghy Road residents of Portadown, Co. Armagh

dozens rallying in Philadelphia in support of Garvaghy Road residents and "No Going Back"

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 11/10/2026

Legal infrastructure is also where white supremacy's most insidious operations reside. It's how— • Medicare stays not for all • Housing is not a human right • Schools remain funded by local taxes • Money is created mostly by private banks • Labor remains taxed way more than capital —and so on.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There's no reason, no excuse, no logic, nothing that justifies a filmmaker using generative A.I. It's just bad. decider.com/2026/10/09/a...

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Directed and produced by DuVernay via her
ARRAY production company, 74th is a companion
piece to 73th, DuVernay's Oscar-nominated
documentary about the prison industrial complex,
through the lens of the Thirteenth Amendment to
the United States Constitution. Similarly, 74th
examines the Fourteenth Amendment--which
addresses rights related to citizenship, voting,
insurrection. and more-and the Reconstruction
era following the Civil War, connecting it to the
current administration's attacks on those rights

There's an extended portion of the film that--
while explaining the rise of Black Americans in
politics and civil life following the end of slavery-
features black-and-white, archival photos that
have been "brought to life." The subjects of the
once-still photos blink, laugh, and fidqet, iust as
they might on film. Anyone with a Facebook feed
will recognize the eerie, uncanny vibe that
indicates the use of generative Al.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We don't have to do this. Media coverage could focus on Navi Pillay and why she was awarded the prize, and not his emotions.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye. Ther ys no part of thee that evir koude be wrong.

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Action Together New Jersey @atnj.org · 10/10/2026

Apparently Congress now just makes suggestions...

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Jennifer Prokop @jenreadsromance.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

there are so many things I don't understand about what people are willingly feeding into an LLM.

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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

4308 West Van Buren Street

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Ash, apparently @arreffbee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The fugitive slave acts were laws too

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Solutions in search of problems that create new problems, etc.

At HarperCollins senior leaders purchased Claude licenses from Anthropic months ago “but very quickly realized they didn’t know how to implement them,” according to a current employee. Dozens of junior- and senior-level staff were then “voluntold” to become “AI Champions” and were tasked with discovering use cases in monthly brainstorming sessions with staff across the company.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ugh, I hate being justified in my dread. I think my client used an LLM "editor" to shorten the doc length. The results are about as bad as you would expect. Necessary phrases and prepositions missing. Original meaning muddled and lost. #stetchat

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hi, #stetsprint, I have to open a document I've been dreading opening and assess what the editing work will involve. This is the second round of edits, so I am praying the author didn't mess around too much with the content and my original edits. 🙏

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

yeah, buh-bye and good riddance (or is it God's riddance)

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hear from a witness of the ICE shooting in the Bronx today.

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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Navanethem "Navi" Pillay became the first woman to start a law practice in South Africa's Natal Province back in 1967. A bus driver's daughter from a poor Indian section of Durban in South Africa, Pillay grew up and began her human rights work during the apartheid era. www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...

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Nobel Peace Prize live: Navi Pillay wins for 'efforts to promote peace and international law'

Some 287 candidates have been nominated for the prestigious prize, which was won last year by Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

and a South African 🇿🇦 (one who does not fit the administration's "white refugee" profile)

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm puzzled by those calling Troy Jackson "inarticulate" when he is saying the right words in the correct order with the affect and accent that speak directly to Maine voters. ✅ Let's go!

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Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

French firefighters joining the protests on the side of protesters. US firefighters would never.

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Chakra Khan @thechakrakhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Vive la révolution! No not like that.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Related news: I reviewed emails received yesterday by two federal agencies—SEC and NIH—instructing them to update all internal and public materials to say "super intelligence" instead of "artificial intelligence" in order to comply with Trump's executive order.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This IS what this country is. It's not the only thing that it is but it is absolutely violent and barbaric. The US. is one of 55 countries that still maintain capital punishment. 140 countries have abolished it. This IS what this country is. Might as well televise the killings.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Both and all of the above! I should have figured. In my era, BabyCenter forums were THEE locus of the online discourse.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wait, bring me up to speed. People argue about *how* to do it? Or *whether* to do it? FWIW I didn't do it at all -- though it did exist when my kids were babies earlier in this century. I hope I didn't just add to the discourse, sorry . . .

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🎯 Exactly! But this real-world understanding of how recruiting works and how marketing works is . . . beyond them. (assuming any ads *did* run during The View or are they inventing that, who knows)

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

JUST IN: THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS BACK HOME.

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Katie Skeen, PhD @skeen.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you for sharing. I'll seek this one out. Acknowledgment of COVID is indeed rare. Which maybe just makes me wonder whether 99% of Hollywood product has been depicting fantasy worlds all along so the non-acknowledgment is not an aberration.

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Staten Island Action Coalition @siactioncoalition.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

How long will we allow Rep. Malliotakis to fund a war that is hurting all of America and the world. My answer to you: NO MORE! We have a great candidate running against her. @bkindivisible.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @ms.now

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