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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · 2h
I just want to write about art and spotlight artists making noteworthy and adventurous work that exists in conversation with our present moment. I don't want to breathlessly launder hype and write listicles until the sun explodes.
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 6h
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 4h
"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky
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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax
There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h
It’s not just anonymous sources (tho we are in the business of citing people who know what they’re talking about); one of Trump’s top pollsters is on the record throwing cold water on the GOP-wide 2026 anti- Hasan piker electoral strategy which is still going strong at the NRSC, etc. He then…
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 3h
New from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me: "It is high time for us to regulate usage of systems sold as “AI”, not because they are magical machines, but because they are error-prone products that shouldn’t be used in high stakes scenarios." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 15h
Good and gutting. (No, really, it is very good—you should read it) David Perry, UMN student advisor, on what the university is for and how deeply the planned budget cuts will mess with that www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
And mostly, it’s worked out for the best. Even if we just assess for dollar value, a 2025 analysis found that for every $1 invested in the U, the state reaped $16.75. In other words, every Minnesotan benefits from our robust systems of public higher education.
It’s been striking to me that while conversation about the budget inside the U has been substantial, I haven’t yet seen Minnesotan politicians addressing these potential cuts as a crisis. Part of that is because public universities like the U have made a trade-off, growing increasingly corporate and independent (despite publicly appointed regents) as public funding has collapsed. As a share of the budget, state funding has plummeted over the decades, falling to about 15%, compared to 39% in 1997. If that’s what you want, then fine. But did we ever have a public debate about whether that’s what Minnesotans actually want?
If you don’t want to more significantly fund the university, which bits are you eager to cut away? If it’s instruction and student services, here’s what happens.
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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 30/09/2026
The mortality reviews document immigrants’ rapidly deteriorating health as they endure symptoms of conditions that are otherwise treatable. prospect.org?p=145558
Demonstrators place flowers outside the Adelanto Ice Processing Center
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Doctor Who Dalek: Exterminate!
ALT: Doctor Who Dalek: Exterminate!
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I didn’t believe it at first, either. (via David Sacks)
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 30/09/2026
Just how much junk can Backpack fit in that trunk? We're gonna find out!
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.
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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the best stories out of this #wnba season is the WNBA art account. She’s an artist based in Chicago but her day job was in healthcare administration. At the beginning of the season she started posting sketches of funny or iconic moments from WNBA games on her instagram account.
Angel Reese does the too small sign to Dominique Malonga who is 2 inches taller than her.
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A new report from the Government Accountability Office found key data is missing in the effort to combat child labor violations, including for more than half of the child workplace fatalities in the US from 2013 to 2023 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Key data missing for half of US child labor deaths, official report finds
Over half of 260 workplace child fatalities between 2013 and 2023 lacked data on cause of death or the industry worked
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts' Ability to Function
A panel of three Florida state district court judges blasted a family attorney for using AI to generate "frivolous, scattershot arguments."
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This would not be the first time the state retaliated against a victim for embarrassing them. It’s a pretty regular occurrence
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L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾‍♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Periodic reminder that dropping a note telling a writer you liked a thing they wrote takes like 4.5 seconds and recharges our batteries for 27-28 hours a pop
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
"'Because right now everything is out of control. I work at a grocery store, and I can’t even afford groceries.'"
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Pivotal Challenge for Talarico in Texas: Getting Black Voters to the Polls (Gift Article)
Black voters largely rejected James Talarico in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate. Recent interviews suggest the hard feelings may be wearing off.
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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My ex's parents never talked to him about his behavior, and largely wrote it off as "boys will be boys." We know what happened to me. We know what happened to this poor Cornell student. Have conversations early, and help your kids understand accountability, courage and empathy early.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 28/09/2026
ask me sometime about my younger self's propensity to trust that people were telling me the truth because it did not occur to me that people in a professional environment would just. LIE. to me. or that people in positions above me didn't know what they were doing.
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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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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
Talarico's devoted, deeply thoughtful and studied christianity is very recognizable to Black christians, most of whom are Democrats, who take their faith practices seriously, too. Jimmy know ball. Folks see and respect that.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
patriarchy is humanity's oldest protection racket patriarchs: you should give up most of your power and freedom to us because the world is big and scary and dangerous and we will protect you from the danger also patriarchs: *are the danger*
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a good example. It assumes that the person can afford the price of whatever shop is available, for one thing. It also misunderstands that finding someone to work on your car is, for a lot of people, a social relation as much an economic one.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
Meteorologist just said it's gonna be 80 degrees by the end of the week after two days of nor'easter wind and rain and highs of 60. Mother nature in perimenopause too smh
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_... There is an English dessert called summer pudding, that is literally just white bread you soaked in fruit juice overnight in your fridge
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Summer pudding - Wikipedia
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
Part of the testimonial injustice in the situation is believing that the harm to accused men is worse than the rape and worse than the harm caused to advocates and survivors everywhere when men are let off easy
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my experiences with being trashed in the media, and I think it’s interesting that the scientists who believed the bad press about me never noticed that the only colleagues who said bad things about me were men And they didn’t question why that was
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
Does Jay Feeley know it's possible to be competitive and ambitious without being a jerk
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026
I know the basic beats to the Cornell story but I haven't been able to make myself read through the whole thing. I'm so proud of the Cornell Sun staff and sent them a donation to support. Just want to let fellow survivors out here know it's ok to need to protect yourselves. PTSD is a bear. 💗
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the humans who moderate chatbots say they're inundated with people trying to generate nonconsensual nudes: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/09/2026
Never know exactly quite how to feel when someone mistakenly assumes I'm an actor 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From the article: “The thing we don't hear about enough, in my opinion, is the lives and humanity of pregnant people.” 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 In Judaism, the fetus is regarded as a part of the pregnant person's body until birth. Because whose life matters most is the one already born.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 27/09/2026
In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/09/2026
Seated for my first screening of the day. Send coffee!
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
by the way, this freak's rep who dropped him in April is back handling PR around the rape accusation. The rep is Mitchell Jackson—fka Mitchell Sunderland—who got fired by Vice for siccing Milo Yiannopoulos on his women coworkers at Broadly
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Clavicular's Rep Drops Him Days After Suspected Overdose, Says Influencer 'Will Not Take His Health Seriously' (Exclusive Source)
Mitchell Jackson, a publicist for Clavicular, has stopped working with the controversial influencer over his drug use, PEOPLE can confirm.
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Mari Cohn @maricohn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Millennials: I’m never going to retire 😩 90 year old senators: I’m never going to retire!!!!1! 🤪💥🎉🥳🙌🍾
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/09/2026
lord, my typos in the inbox versions are MORTIFYING 😬 Do me and yourselves a favor and read soraya.press in the browser! It is the intended experience! So much prettier (and easily corrected/updated) than an email that reads like I was having a stroke! 😩🫠
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Soraya [dot] Press
culture | criticism, commentary & reporting from Soraya Nadia McDonald
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/09/2026
every day feels like humanity needs to collectively stop the world on its axis and ask just take a beat to ask ourselves wtf are we doing here
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Eviction of 87-year-old puts Spain’s deepening housing crisis in the spotlight
Images of Maricarmen Abascal being forcibly removed from her home sparked protests and a reckoning over the country’s soaring real estate market
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/09/2026
Jude Bellingham doesn't know this yet but we go together. We go together real real bad. We in a throuple with Anthony Joshua.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 27/09/2026
Imagine hearing these screams, breaking this window, and going home at night believing what you are doing is right and good.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pathetic collapse of journalistic solidarity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business…
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TV Networks to Resume Trump Coverage, Even as White House Excludes CNN (Gift Article)
The White House TV pool went dark this past week amid a standoff between CNN and the president. Network leaders, however, believe an indefinite suspension may be untenable.
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm calling ICE
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/09/2026
I'll be back to gab tomorrow, but I had to get the first Caturday Evening Post up, and that was after spending ... quite a bit of time today with Canva.  Cio Cio, as you can see, was very ready for her closeup.
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Caturday Evening Post Vol. 1
Lincoln Center's got free opera and hot docs the tech broligarchs would prefer you didn't see
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 26/09/2026
However (you rightly) feel about Arnold as a human, as a governor etc. He was raised (literally and culturally) by people who had been Nazis. He saw their impact firsthand. He knew ball.
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