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Eric Bottorff

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Adjunct of economics and philosophy / You’ll Never Walk Alone

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 6h
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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More of this, please
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 10h
Again, the scandal here is not that they’re executing a woman, but that they’re executing anyone at all. The death penalty should be fucking abolished once and for all. apple.news/AVahvfW47QDm...
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Supreme Court allows execution of Tennessee woman to proceed after delay — The Washington Post
An appeals court had paused Christa Pike’s execution to consider her claim that sexual abuse she faced as a child should impact her punishment.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 14h
Good context for understanding the Man City verdict. www.hachette.co.uk/titles/migue...
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States of Play
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR AN IRISH TIM...
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 16h
lol are you fucking kidding me
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 17h
Book recommendation of the day www.simonandschuster.com/books/Israel...
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Israel's Lobby
An unflinching exposé of Israel's Lobby, showing how its outsized influence works against our national interests and threatens our freedom.The grea...
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 19h
Again, any Dems not talking about packing the court and instituting major SCOTUS reform is not worth taking seriously. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 20h
Fucking pathetic from Pep. His legacy was already going to be tarnished. This is just making it worse.
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 21h
A welcome change to see Dems go left on immigration, something Obama didn't do until pushed by DACA activists and Biden didn't either. We need to see a full-throated defense of immigration as a good thing, and not just on economic grounds. Talarico is doing that. Hope more Dems follow.
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Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026
this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh. Good. apple.news/AeIDfpZZMR0-...
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Incoming El Niño Is so Extreme It Doesn’t Have a Scientific Name — Inside Climate News
As a record breaking El Niño continues to grow in the Eastern Pacific, climate scientist Daniel Swain explains what may be in store for the next year as we brace for an El Niño “so far above anything ...
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
In the beginning was the word and the word was bullshit. —William S. Burroughs
William Burroughs sitting down in a suit with a shotgun on his lap
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m guessing Trump thinks current AI systems are like the Terminator but without a body.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
900 million?!?! Well this certainly isn't going to calm down calls to strip them of titles and/or kick them out of the league. www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
nytimes.com
Man City guilty of 'sham payments' and inflating revenues by £900m, commission finds
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#AbolishICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever
After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere
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unstuck in time @billypilgrim26.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're basically trafficking children.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A car marked "New York Times" turning hard to the right off a highway labeled "Reality" to an exit named "Bedtime Stories for White Centrists""
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most amazing thing is that this is like a page 29 story across the US
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israeli settlers set Palestinian homes and cars alight in West Bank rampage - www.middleeasteye.net/news/settlers…
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Israeli settlers set Palestinian homes and cars alight in West Bank rampage
Large groups of attackers set fire to the Toubasi family’s homes in Jalud, forcing them to flee after earlier attacks aimed at taking over the property
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*sigh* www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
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Brazil’s Lula and Flavio Bolsonaro still essentially tied in new poll
Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is up two points, but that's still within the poll's margin of error.
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't register here. Elon is here.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every glaciated region on the planet lost ice for four years in a row now. From 2023–2025 alone, glaciers lost around 1,400 gigatonnes of ice, equivalent to roughly 560 million Olympic swimming pools (the official weird measure for anything water related). Source: bit.ly/WMOStateofWa...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Paid for by the US Government”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It is insane that Sam Altman talks about AI safety as though it is an option. If his crap causes damage, his shithole company is out of business, and he could well be going to jail. This is not a choice for him to make substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences
People need to face consequences for criminal negligence
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIBR...
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NAZA - official trailer
YouTube video by The Guardian
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great work here exposing the sadly unsurprising racist enforcement of curfew laws, which shouldn't fucking exist in the first place. blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/24/e...
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Existing City Curfew Laws Enforced Largely In Black And Latino Communities, Data Shows
While some alderpeople push for tougher curfew laws, many parents and teens say the current approach is unfair and ineffective.
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Asher Elbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.*
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Joe Sonka 😐 @joesonka.lpm.org · 26/09/2026
For those keeping track, this is the 978th time this story has appeared in a mainstream media publication
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Economic historians look at the South and see that it was poorer than the North and then assume that the South would have looked like the North without slavery.There is no consideration of how the North itself had been affected by being in a union with the South." poorrichworld.blog/p/american-s...
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American Slavery and the Angel of History
The Question Should Match the Model
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The history of Black travel during Jim Crow is archived at the Green Book Project. Contribute to that history. Know a neighbor or elder with Green Book memories? Invite them to share their story. Submission form here: greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This, from Dennett, I wish I'd taken to heart earlier in my life. www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d...
How to compose a successful critical commentary:

1 You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
2 You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3 You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
4 Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every Chicagoan right now
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Michael Scott's Iconic 'No' Moment
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026
A MORATORIUM ON DATA CENTERS SHOULDN’T EVEN BE IN QUESTION AT THIS POINT And we definitely need more reporting on this issue: HEAT Data centers devour electricity and water, dump heat into communities, and Big Tech is building them faster than lawmakers are dealing with the consequences.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Oh fuck off, @usatoday.com.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"By describing patients as having more complicated conditions and adding a secondary diagnosis, like anemia or low sodium, the hospitals were paid an average of nearly $12,000 more per case." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"...you need to provide a suitable punishment that also deters future cheating, and you need to have nothing to do with the club that has been hoodwinking you. They should not just be demoted, but banned from returning, maybe for 17 years..." tomkinstimes.substack.com/p/to-retain-...
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To Retain Integrity & Credibility, Man City Must Be Expelled by the Premier League
How financial advantages kill competitive balance
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Star Demands More!
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Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder that the FTC went after ad companies for collusive boycotts because they “censored” hate accounts by giving companies ways to avoid placing ads next to them. I wonder if we’ll see that here
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 25/09/2026
It's this, btw. 900 square foot modular detention cells.
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ICE seeks ‘modular’ detention units for 50 field offices, saying increased arrests have exceeded its space
A request for information seeks ready-made detention, interview and courtroom units, with no limits on how many people the units would hold or for how long.
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Embrace the Void @etvpod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As a philosopher of mind I’m fascinated by so many people having to confront the nature of consciousness, and also think the most important thing is that Sam Altman goes to jail.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Has anyone else been getting way more spam calls lately?
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can't wait to see how the Anfield crowd welcomes Man City at Anfield in a few weeks. 😈
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It’s poppin’ off in the Prem
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
lol I fucking knew *Breaking Bad* would end up topping that NYTimes list---it's not even the best show in its own fictional universe, as that honor goes to *Better Call Saul*.
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Eric Bottorff @torff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
More of this, please. www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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