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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

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Failure to deal properly with insurrectionists is the besetting sin of American democracy. They need to be politically castrated.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Education should be about exploration,” the letter reads. “We want to go to school to connect with people, discover things, and learn....We can’t now, because of the rigidity of the new lesson plans and rules makes it almost impossible to explore new ideas...”

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Hundreds of Fort Worth ISD students sign petition against scripted lessons

A student-written petition has been signed by more than 900 Fort Worth ISD students as of Tuesday morning.

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T. Lacy @tnlacy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We must trust but verify, and hold accountable, ALL of our leaders---even the ones we like and mostly trust. And this is especially true on education matters.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Historian here even Andrew Johnson did not threaten to level Boston New York Philadelphia and Chicago.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October 31: Halloween November 1: Daylight Savings Ends November 2: Day Of The Dead November 3: Election Day I see you, 2026. Well played.

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The donkey party better not have a single cent left in their campaign coffers come the morning of November 4. (Note: Pots of money reserved for legal challenges do not count.)

Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This cries for the distinction between (a) what's voluntary and of free will, versus (b) the involuntary---because Big Tech has foisted it upon us in order to manufacture dependency and to make usage unavoidable.

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Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.

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You are rightfully exhausted.

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Probably 40+ times, due to occasionally having to watch twice during the Xmas season.

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Jimmy Stewart & Donna Reed Dancing

What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times? 🗃️ #HATM

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ALT: Jimmy Stewart & Donna Reed Dancing

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ah, of course the entire thing is a lie

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

AI is so over-hyped

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026

A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda.

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"warriors" is making a lot of assumptions here about straightness.

There should be no Ken Griffins (i.e., billionaires) who can change the landscape of higher ed with a single gargantuan monetary gift.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Amazing photo but the headline here is, imo, needlessly indirect, and it surprises me that Senator Schmitt, the person responsible for the embarrassing ”Hawks-Hawkeyes mix-up,” isn’t mentioned by name in the headline.

Why Caitlin Clark was at the center of a Hawks-Hawkeyes mix-up during Senate argument.

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Chicago is gorgeous this time of year---sunrises over Lake Michigan, harvest moons over the lake, evening sun, coolness, etc. We have rain today (Wed), but the past 3-4 days were lovely.

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Ben Franklin’s ghost @ben-franklin-ghost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm hoping the Cubs can make it respectable and win tonight. I'm hopeful but not, however, optimistic. The Friars have been hot and the Cubs lukewarm.

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They (GOP) know this to be true and it will always be true.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026

Eric Schmitt is what happens when a state becomes so red that you don’t need to be a talented politician to become a US Senator. And to be fair, there are examples of this in blue states too. Iron sharpens iron.

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