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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 06/10/2026

don’t ever let anyone tell you that zionism is either an essential part of jewish identity or the collective aspiration of the jewish people — it’s just a shit situation we got stuck with and one that the people who benefit most from it keep shoving down our throats

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 22h

THE CONCEPT OF A POLITICAL SCIENTIST WHO SAYS SOCIALISTS MUST RESPECT CAPITALISM

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the concept of a political scientist who does not understand that correlation does not equal causation

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 23h

the concept of a political scientist who doesn't think the economy is all that important to elections

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 01/10/2026

why do llms all have the same web design aesthetic? you can tell a site that was made with a.i. as easily as you can tell a flier/poster was. they all use the same conventions, with a retrofuturistic feel and terminal-style fixed-width fonts.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always thought the stereotypes surrounding business classes and athletes were overblown until I sat in on one of these classes. The culture shock was insane and the stereotypes are real.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 01/10/2026

THEY'RE DEPORTING AN ISRAELI HASID FOR BEING ANTI-ZIONIST

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Universities doing the morally correct thing: difficulty impossible

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Matthew Dean Hindman @matthewhindman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My 2nd book, Pluralism and Its Critics, now has a cover, a webpage, and a March 2027 release date. www.routledge.com/Pluralism-an...

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Soccerdonna @soccerdonna.de · 27/09/2026

Spain is the new U20 World Cup Champion. 🌟🏆

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s interesting how rhetorically juiceless the pro-Israel side is. they’ve basically given up on trying to actually win people over.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I say this with a grain of salt, but media might be the last bastion of democracy, not universities.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

the weather outside is no longer frightful 🤩

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

underrated part of El-Sayed’s messaging strategy seems to be shaming journalists who ask dumb questions that play into right-wing frames. you can’t answer these in a way that satisfies them, but you can make it embarrassing enough that you impose a toll on asking.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

totally unrelated to this post but i really love tldrs and i'm now concerned that my attention span is screwed.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My favorite part of that national unity was repeatedly being called a terrorist.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

LSAT is tomorrow and I feel the onset of a cold 🥶🥶

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

my university's student paper lost even more funding, and has resorted to putting up AI-generated adverts of local businesses on their website. i'm at a loss.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

i finally understand when you put the period outside or inside a parentheses. (it's really simple.)

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

it should be acceptable to watch live sports in a class about media and sports (otherwise i am going to miss most barca matches.)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I bet the NYT would've given Mamdani the same benefit of the doubt if he'd said he'd gone down to Ground Zero as a child to dig people out of the rubble.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my 2 cents on material conditions and right wing politics for @hammerandhope.bsky.social "The portrayal of economic anxiety as a standalone rather than complementary explanation to the machinations of plutocratic bigots also flies in the face of what we know..." hammerandhope.org/article/econ...

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The False Narrative of Economic Anxiety

People are insecure, but that is not the only reason they voted for Donald Trump in 2024.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it’s very validating that there’s no one who’s extremely pro-Israel but then otherwise a normal, kind person. it’s all guys who are disgusted by children’s hospitals.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So the guy who accuses us, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, @zeteo.com of being "anti-American" pretended to be sick to avoid meeting with paralyzed veterans, and dodged a PA lawmaker who came down to DC to talk with him about working and homeless people all to… focus on Israel, a foreign country, instead.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Here are the 33 Democrats who voted with Republicans to block federal funding to American colleges if they engage in boycotts against Israel — a foreign country that's committed genocide and killed Americans using American tax dollars:

Auchincloss (MA) Frankel, Lois (FL) Mannion (NY) Scholten (MI) Titus (NV)
Castor (FL) Gillen (NY) Moskowitz (FL) Schrier (WA) Torres (NY)
Cisneros (CA) Golden (ME) Norcross (NJ) Sherman (CA) Vargas (CA)
Costa (CA) Gonzalez, V. (TX) Panetta (CA) Soto (FL) Vindman (VA)
Courtney (CT) Landsman (OH) Perez (WA) Stevens (MI) Wasserman Schultz (FL)
Cuellar (TX) Latimer (NY) Riley (NY) Suozzi (NY)
Davis (NC) Lee (NV) Schneider (IL) Thanedar (MI)

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

guys my drafts are better than my posts. reality is sad.

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Big Data Kane @cmwitko.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

As a person who actually understands universities the attacks that they are woke indoctrination factories have always made me laugh for many reasons, but one obvious one is that the modal college student is a business major.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

you know i think i would enjoy doing my readings a lot more if they weren't barely readable pdfs

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

when ur feed is filled with apsa outfit discourse and you realize why there are canceled classes this week

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

People be like "I miss when politics wasn't crazy" and I just🧍‍♂️

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I sing radiohead to my newborn cousin. Is that normal and/or okay?

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

yk you've moved up in life when you're playing wingman

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

average college experience nowadays: zionists being obsessed with you

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the moderate democratic position on Gaza is that if Israel’s opponents do not comport themselves perfectly, if they don’t dance flawlessly through the rhetorical minefields every day, then it’s dead children forever.

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Perhaps it would be better morally & electorally to make the people you're running against, who are assaulting, abducting, murdering, stealing, putting kids into concentration camps, starting wars & destroying our lives, your opposition. Instead of some streamer dude voters have never heard of.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Lake America sounds like a really bad superhero name.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

lowkey Lake America doesn't even sound cool like Gulf of America does

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mrdrleland @mrdrleland.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nobody will bite on my op-ed pitch, “e-bike dads are the new soccer moms,” but I’m right and everyone knows it.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"hi we're oklahoma and we hate when people get to vote."

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It's cool to see more than half my professors adopt a no-technology policy this semester. The era of passing paper notes is so back.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hehehe t-minus 54 minutes till courses open and I can read my syllabi and see who's in my classes 🕺🕺

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I was today years old when I realized that a dental cavity is called that because there is a literal cavity in your tooth.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Just got my wisdom tooth removed and already feel stupider.

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Sophia @sophiarehman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I feel like I'm living the life of a middle aged man because why am I taking a newborn to her one month appointment, coordinating with our plumber to get a pipe fixed, and attempting to repair the pool pump all in one day?

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ceej @ceej.online · 26/07/2026

“The Bluesky Experience™”

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@ceej.online
you have somehow made the exact point of my post, in a reply to my post, without having understood my post

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