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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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stevewolgast.bsky.social @stevewolgast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Other races that we can’t afford to lose: • education • research (medical, scientific, humanities) • pumpkin spice macchiato recipes • library access • harnessing solar and wind power oh, and one more: • human
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stevewolgast.bsky.social @stevewolgast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m in!
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thank you Cereese! ==============
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Elon Musk's Jet Tracking @elonjet.net · 01/10/2026
N8628 Landed in Austin, Texas, United States. Apx. flt. time 2 h 24 min.
Reg: N8628 On Ground: True Alt: 0 Last Contact: 0:00:00.200762 Trigger: now on ground
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now available! CROWD CONTROL tells the story of how efforts to contain Black resistance led to the invention of American literary excellence. buff.ly/XAhmHVM #LiteraryHistory #BlackMilitancy #CulturalPolitics #RacialJustice #PhilanthropyAndPower
Graphic announcing Crowd Control: The Racial Ordering of Literary Reward by Claire Grossman, Juliana Spahr, and Stephanie Young is now available. Features the book cover and a quote from James English: “This is a bracing work of institutional critique, aimed at the very heart of the American literary field.” Bottom text reads: “Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.”
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 30/09/2026
Can AI fix FOIA's backlog without handing the executive branch more control over what the public gets to see? In a new essay for the Institute, @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social of @rcfp.org proposes a risk framework and calls for empirical testing to make sure AI upholds FOIA's core values.
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Pacing FOIA’s Frontier
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 29/09/2026
Newspaper layoffs are nothing new, especially at the Kansas City Star, which cut another seven journalists in September. But as local journalism employment continues to decline, communities are losing ways to scrutinize public spending and hold government officials accountable.
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Kansas City Star layoffs left the region with even less government accountability. It may get worse
Newspaper layoffs are nothing new, especially at the Kansas City Star, which cut another seven journalists in September.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 29/09/2026
The War on Terror "never ended," said @rozinaali.bsky.social at "The Forever War and the First Amendment." One of 9/11's lasting legacies, she said, is that it has "entrenched us in a wartime mentality," with the structures built in its wake still firmly in place. youtu.be/gTYQkE_CCKE
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The Burgon Society @burgonsociety.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Some splendidly begowned new students @caiuscollege.bsky.social! @cam.ac.uk
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Gotta say, it gives me joy that there is an actual academic journal devoted to the history of academic regalia. But maybe that's just me. newprairiepress.org/burgonsociety/
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Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas @knightcenterut.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#ISOJ2026 Nonprofit news is betting on unorthodox ways to grow latamjournalismreview.org/articles/…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026
Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)
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Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor
Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...
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v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
-πώς είσαι ; -μια χαρά
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stevewolgast.bsky.social @stevewolgast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That’s crazy talk, Damon. Next you’ll be telling me that AI — sorry, SI — isn’t the cure for our ills and the Gulf of Hormuz isn’t back to 100% capacity.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 26/09/2026
So you are telling me the stories we make up in our heads about strangers we see on TV or social media are not a reliable and objective validation of my click-for-hire worldview? themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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Anti-Fascist Translator Monkey @translatormonkey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“His provocations always invited me to clarify and sharpen my own thinking.” —Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, @publicbooks.bsky.social. Two years after Fredric Jameson’s death, Vázquez-Arroyo reflects on Jameson and his work. buff.ly/1dPtFEZ
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“The Poetics of Social Forms”: Remembering Fredric Jameson (1934–2024) - Public Books
“No other thinker, Hegelian Marxist or otherwise, has lived up to this modernist vocation with the originality, intellectual élan, aesthetic intelligence, and political trenchancy of Fredric Jameson.”
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Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas @knightcenterut.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
La convergencia de crisis mundiales obligan al periodismo a poner en el centro al ser humano y enfrentarse al guión autoritario que los verá como enemigos, dijo la periodista Carmen Aristegui en el #ColoquioIberoamericano.  bit.ly/4hixiXQ
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"RECIPES FOR THE MELTING POT is a multi-course experience, serving the disparate, but complementary, dishes of Jewish American life." — Emi­ly Schneider, Jewish Book Council buff.ly/x2v24ix
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Recipes for the Melting Pot: The Lives of the Settlement Cook Book
Rarely has a cookbook been so beloved, and so misunderstood, as the The Settlement Cook Book.
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Elon Musk's Jet Tracking @elonjet.net · 26/09/2026
N8628 Took off from Eagle, Colorado, United States.
Reg: N8628 On Ground: False Alt: 6275 Last Contact: 0:00:00.800454 Trigger: no longer on ground
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/09/2026
Happy Birthday to the guy who wishes all of us a happy birthday! @markhamillofficial.bsky.social 🎂
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 25/09/2026
ICYMI: Here's a recap of our recent symposium with links to panel recordings. Columbia’s Knight Institute Co-Hosted Symposium on ‘Forever War and the First Amendment’ | Columbia News news.columbia.edu/news/columbi...
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Columbia’s Knight Institute Co-Hosted Symposium on ‘Forever War and the First Amendment’
The two-day event brought together journalists, scholars, lawyers, and activists to examine how the War on Terror transformed government power, the courts, the press, and democratic culture.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
Exclusive: The White House blocked CNN from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One for a Saturday trip to Tennessee, according to two people familiar with the matter. A federal judge had temporarily restored access to the White House on Thursday.
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White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One
The White House’s decision puts the state of the rotational TV pool, which resumed on Friday, in jeopardy once more.
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The Burgon Society @burgonsociety.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From Oxford Brookes University comes the new hood of the month. The Ph.D. hood is in the Cambridge shape [f1], of the same maroon cloth as that of the gown. A distinguishing addition is an inch-wide cream-coloured edging throughout. Read more at burgon.org.uk/hood-of-month
The Ph.D. hood of Oxford Brookes University is in the Cambridge shape [f1], of the same maroon cloth as that of the gown. A distinguishing addition is an inch-wide cream-coloured edging throughout. The hood is fully lined with blue Oxford Brookes dark blue silk brocade and edged throughout with one-inch cream silk. The M.Phil. and higher doctors’ hoods are the same, but with edging of different widths.
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stevewolgast.bsky.social @stevewolgast.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dana Priest, the Knight Chair in Journalism at the U of Maryland, explaining how politicians’ desire for secrecy only makes journalists work harder. @knightfoundation.org @knightcolumbia.org
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 24/09/2026
Government secrecy doesn't deter most reporters. It makes them dig harder, says @washingtonpost.com investigative reporter Dana Priest. She spoke about covering government power at "The Forever War and the First Amendment." Watch the panel: youtu.be/JuEWOn43gvM
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Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas @knightcenterut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Speakers at the 27th International Symposium on Journalism argued that rebuilding trust requires news organizations to become more useful to the communities they serve and rethink how they create and sustain value. #ISOJ2026 shorturl.at/XO7YN
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Morgan Chilson @crazeywriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jeff Jones, former USD 106 superintendent in Kansas, was charged with 19 felonies & misdemeanors, mostly financial crimes. Two charges involving a minor are aggravated intimidation of a witness/victim & contributing to a child’s misconduct or deprivation. kansasreflector.com/2026/09/23/k...
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Kansas school superintendent charged; community ‘resilient in working through the chaos’ • Kansas Reflector
Kansas USD 106 former school superintendent Jeff Jones has been charged with 19 felonies and misdemeanors, including multiple financial crimes and two felonies involving a minor.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 23/09/2026
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stevewolgast.bsky.social @stevewolgast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Headed to the Kansas Book Festival on Saturday? Stop by my brother’s booth to find out how to improve your rest. Dr. Brad Wolgast will be signing copies of Gold Medal Sleep, his new book. Ask him questions about your sleep problems, too! @goldmedalsleep.bsky.social @washburnuniversity.bsky.social
Promotional poster featuring a photo of Dr. Brad Wolgast, the author of Gold Medal Sleep, and a photo of the campus of Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, where the festival will be held on Saturday, September 26, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This #NationalTranslationMonth, we’re celebrating longtime translator, author, and editor Michael Berry, whose work has brought Chinese literature to English-language readers for more than 25 years. buff.ly/jYS76Cy @littranslate.bsky.social #LiteraryTranslation #ChineseLiterature #Translation
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https://cupblog.org/2026/09/18/meet-the-translator-michael-berry/
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
People, I can't accept that I misspelled his name first time around. It should read: "No one on Bluesky thinks they're interacting with a cross section of the population. But a lot of people on X do think that." —Josh Marshall" sorry @joshtpm.bsky.social
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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🎉 Congratulations to Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social), investigative reporter at the Miami Herald (@miamiherald.com), on receiving the 2026 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism!
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In this episode of Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism podcast, Devin Kennedy argues that the twentieth-century history of computing is marked just as much by continuity as change—even between eras, like Fordism and post-Fordism, that we usually separate with a bright line. buff.ly/74IhufM
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Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism Podcast: Devin Kennedy on Computing and Capitalism
So often, when we hear about computing or computers, we think about disruption—some technological advancement that signals a radical break with all that came before. But what if that’s wrong, or at…
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/09/2026
Do you remember?
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Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Every authoritarian who attacks the free press claims to be attacking the “fake news.”
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The Burgon Society @burgonsociety.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Find out more about the Burgon Society at our annual Congregation on 11 October, when we induct new Fellows and hear reports on recent research. The latest Transactions will be available too. Join us at St Mary’s University, in Twickenham. burgon.org.uk/events
Schedule for the day’s Congregation of the Burgon Society.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 21/09/2026
The Knight Institute plans to support @cnn.com, @ms.now, and @politico.com in court. These news outlets announced today that they’re suing President Trump and three advisors after the administration banned them from the White House and confiscated their reporters’ press credentials.
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stevewolgast.bsky.social @stevewolgast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
16 out of 18 on The NYT anniversary quiz! Yeah, doesn’t hurt that I worked there. www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/cu...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thei ende up beinge goode friendes and goinge daunsinge
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yf thys skeet doth recevye 10,000 reposts ther wil be a *Ted Lasso* and *Slow Horses* crossovir episode.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
the globe was suspended by a nearly invisible wire and mostly just appeared to be floating in space in this soaring cathedral, like a hologram in some sci fi show and it was really striking.
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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 18/09/2026
On Friday, President Trump said he is planning to ban CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House for reporting what he called “fake news.” “A ban like this would be flatly unconstitutional,” said @rcfp.org President Bruce D. Brown. Our full statement: www.rcfp.org/statement-wh...
A quote from RCFP President Bruce D. Brown: “A ban like this would be flatly unconstitutional. The First Amendment is clear that once the White House invites in some journalists, it can't ban others because it doesn't like their reporting. This is textbook viewpoint discrimination and will be quickly struck down by the courts if challenged.”
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Genell’s impressive archival research also allows her to reconstruct how contemporary actors interpreted the political moment they lived in, and how they rationalised the options before them.” — Daniel Neep, Englesberg Ideas buff.ly/0mb7HRE #BookReview #ReadUP
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An Ottoman age of experiments
Far from being the 'Sick Man of Europe', the late Ottoman Empire witnessed a period of extraordinary political adaptation.
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 19/09/2026
“AI” did not do anything. Humans who improperly used a tool or properly used the wrong tool and now want to pass the blame did it.
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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hear from LRAP recipients about how support from the program has helped them focus on their reporting, serve their communities and build their careers. Applications for 2027 funding are now open. Review eligibility requirements and apply today: journalism.columbia.edu/news/lrap-ex...
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Loan Repayment Assistance Program Extends Eligibility to Graduates Within 10 Years of Earning Their Degrees | Columbia Journalism School
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Columbia Journalism School @columbiajournalism.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🎓 Exciting news for Columbia Journalism School’s Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP) network! Graduates who earned their degrees from any of the five participating schools within the past 10 years can now apply, doubling the previous five-year eligibility window.
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