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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 4h

Even the 1980s are embarrassed that this still needs explaining. FFS.

Screenshot of an X post from the verified Governor Hochul Press Office account (@NYGovPress), reading: “Voluntary intoxication is not a license for sexual assault or gang rape. Period.”
Below the text is a paused, muted video showing New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaking behind a dark blue lectern bearing the state seal. She wears a navy blazer over a tan collared blouse. An American flag stands to her left, a New York State flag to her right, and a large gold state seal hangs behind her. The video timer shows 0:14. The post is dated 9:51 AM, October 2, 2026, with 72K views.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11h

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AAUP, AFT, and HELU have a plan draft! College For All, in expansion now for 2026 and 2028 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NY Times has repeatedly used the phrase “to heel” in reference to Trump’s crackdown on universities, implicitly clarifying that Trump goal is to establish dominance. And what exactly constitutes this “woke” ideology in higher education?

During the meeting, Mr. Trump repeatedly complained about his administration’s failure to bring Harvard University in particular to heel. The administration has been unable to hammer out a deal with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, a central plank of his broader push against “woke” ideology in higher education.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In retirement, Thomas Jefferson saw this ideal as the "consolidationist" monarchism of Stuart kings and came to believe that it was--and would always be--a permanent problem in government, pushed by tyrants, the very wealthy, and church leaders obsessed with controlling public morality.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A simple way to improve AI safety is to enforce the law. If Sam Altman knows that he will be treated like a drunk driver after an accident if his AI causes serious damage, he will be much more careful deanbaker22.substack.com/p/sam-altman...

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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences

People need to face consequences for criminal negligence

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/09/2026

The provost of UMass (R1) literally told a group of historians this: “research” means pulling in large external grants and unless you do that, you don’t matter and get nothing internally. “Research“ is about $ and institutions support only those disciplines that bring in $ or raise it privately.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

2) It’s interesting (though predictable) that before they’ve read how the testing was conducted over 15 years I’ve seen comments attempting to debunk the results. The need to oppose is just knee jerk, even though this kind of circumstance was common in the slave society in which TJ lived.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The article is brutal. Great student reporting. The chef's kiss is that the reporters found that the provost's letter defending his use of AI for witting op-eds and academic papers was 100% written by AI.

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 18/09/2026

This is one of the most meaningful reviews I’ve received. Keri Ladner read The Conspiracists with such care and empathy for me, Tammy and Yvonne. By the end, I was reading through tears. I’m deeply grateful for how thoughtfully she wrote about my book. www.christiancentury.org/books/lonely...

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Lonely conspiracists

Noelle Cook opens a window into the lives of two insurrectionists, Yvonne and Tammy, as they navigate the world after January...

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

High praise for @noellecook.com's book The Conspiracists from a reviewer who understands how the current crisis of faith and belonging is being juiced by social media algorithms to drive millions of people across the globe into conspiracism. www.christiancentury.org/books/lonely...

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Lonely conspiracists

Noelle Cook opens a window into the lives of two insurrectionists, Yvonne and Tammy, as they navigate the world after January...

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Many of you will be surprised to know the Continental Army existed in 1753

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The illusion of learning. “Getting answers from a bot can create ‘the illusion of learning’ for students who reach for A.I. ‘at the first hint of struggle,’ the M.I.T. committee wrote.”

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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It (Gift Article)

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The evidence of this point seems overwhelming. COVID greatly accelerated the use of online and software-based learning. Since then test scores in reading and math have cratered across the nation and students now enter colleges incapable of reading whole books.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Teaching is the very thing that’s been degraded and underfunded and is the very thing that we know across k-16 is the most important aspect of student learning and outcomes – well beyond the classroom. Yes, this is now my checklist for any essay/ pod abt "higher ed." 10/

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/09/2026

another researcher accuses OpenAI of training on conversations and then claiming a breakthrough

Valerio Capraro @ValerioCapraro
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BREAKING: OpenAl might have stolen another major proot.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAl may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAl later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
Al is not discovering new mathematics.
Al is stealing human discovery.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In 1801, Jefferson issued an order to executive branch officers "not [to] attempt to influence the votes of others, nor take any part in the business of electioneering, that being deemed inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

I had a v fun talk with law students today about originalism's foundational flaw The idea that the Constitution must mean what it meant when it was adopted presupposes that 1) there ever was just one historical meaning 2) we can find this one true historic meaning 3) and it's worth using

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 07/09/2026

Have you heard of Leaving MAGA? It’s a community for people questioning their political and conspiratorial beliefs and finding their way beyond the movement. There are many stories beyond the one that has dominated the headlines. Read them here: leavingmaga.org/they-left-ma...

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They Left MAGA - Leaving MAGA

They Left MAGA Steve Vilchez Illinois Read His Story Erica Roach New York Read Her Story Justin Yu California Read His Story Deanna Raper North Carolina Read Her Story Courtney Rosenberg Michigan Read...

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Here’s my op-ed on Chief Justice John Roberts whitewashed history of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft. Roberts adoration of Taft’s “restraint” conveniently omits Taft’s racism, refusal to condemn lynching, and embrace of Lost Causism. That’s no accident. share.inquirer.com/IcPlmx

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Will the real William Howard Taft please stand up?

Chief Justice John Roberts penned an incomplete, but revealing, tribute to former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I may get on my soap box: No Kings is a tactic. It is not the strategy and no one involved in putting it on considers it sufficient on its own. It's a mass show of defiance that's also served as an onramp to the kind of local organizing work that's necessary to shift power

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's the kind of thing that's essential for movement building.

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 04/09/2026

I was an original member of Indivisible Baltimore County way back when. Tactics like No Kings matter because they build community. And when people feel like they belong, they act.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Can't help but think of this hiker-rescue story I saw earlier today

The USFS said the climbers told them they had used an artificial intelligence platform, YouTube videos and AllTrails to plan the trip. They said they relied on Al to decide what food to bring and how much food and water they would need.

The group said it packed supplies for an eight-hour climb, not its roughly 16-hour ascent. The climbers said Al recommended simple carbohydrates instead of fats because fats "take too long to digest."

"We relied too much on Al rather than our own critical thinking," the group told rangers.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Still — great that it’s 10 free articles per month (better than a decade ago, when it was zero!)

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 02/09/2026

A second Guardian piece on Leaving MAGA, this one focused on the people doing the hard work of finding their way out. Congratulations to @leavingmaga.org, and thank you to everyone who trusted him with their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Four Maga defectors on what led them to walk away: ‘I’d been addicted to fear and rage’

Ex-Maga supporters unpack their role in bolstering Trump’s platform and share what brought them to the Leaving Maga non-profit support network

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Congratuations to Rich Logis, who is getting more recognition for building a MAGA exit ramp that provides community for those starting to question their support for Trump. Go Rich!

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This indicates that the five right-wing justices are leaning towards the monarchical argument made by D John Sauer, the President’s solicitor general (formerly his personal lawyer), that the White belongs personally to the president (like a royal castle belongs to a king) — instead of

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ObjectivelyJoe @objectivelyjoe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Both a good documentary and an excellent read. Neither really treads on the other and neither feels like homework for the other. An excellent, detailed, human, multimedia investigation.

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 29/08/2026

It’s too hot to go outside anyway. Stream The Conspiracists free on The Roku Channel instead. Or pick up my book and go deeper into the women’s lives and what conspiracy communities offer beyond belief: belonging, identity, certainty and purpose. therokuchannel.roku.com/details/cb1c...

Promotional graphic for The Conspiracists. Large text reads “The Conspiracists” and “Now streaming on The Roku Channel,” followed by “Film + Book” in red. Below are the documentary poster, featuring a woman in a red cap seated indoors, and the bright blue book cover for The Conspiracists: Women, Extremism, and the Lure of Belonging by Noelle Cook, featuring a stylized blonde Statue of Liberty mask.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 20/08/2026

A Baltimore woman turned the sidewalk outside her home into a colorful chalk dance floor with a simple instruction: “Bust a move.” Her Ring camera later captured passersby stopping to dance as they walked by or delivered goods.

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 19/08/2026

The Conspiracists is now available to rent or buy! This is also an option for viewers outside the US, where the free Roku stream is unavailable. page75productions.vhx.tv/products/the...

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The Conspiracists

A feature length documentary. Three women set off on a road trip across America. One of them is a MAGA supporter and conspiracy theorist, just sentenced to 30 months in prison for her role in the stor...

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Seems like it shouldn't be hard for Democratic House and Senate leaders to promote a "big tent" strategy that welcomes rather than criticizes potential allies within the party who may hold different views, especially given the existential danger (and unpopularity) of the Trumpist Republican Party.

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