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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is especially galling given how cavalier this administration has been about deploying the troops and how callous they've been about their well-being while they're there. Sailors are trying to commit suicide on the USS Abraham Lincoln as the Millers soak up benefits meant for the military.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

people who got angry about those buddha statues should be even angrier about this

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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EMILYs List @emilyslist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is your reminder that Mike Lawler: - Voted for Trump's tariffs 8 times - Voted for Trump's war with Iran 6 times - Was the deciding vote on Trump's “Big Ugly Bill” He's loyal to Donald Trump, not the hard-working people of #NY17.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Texas and Florida would become ground zero for a possible Democratic tsunami, with the party’s chance at a large congressional majority potentially hinging on whether it could break through Republican gerrymanders in those states. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

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Hispanic Voters, Abandoning Trump, Are Transforming the Midterm Map (Gift Article)

Texas and even Florida are the places to watch in November if a polling pattern holds.

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DPA Weston PhD @drdpaweston.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Canadians get the healthcare they need without paying 😷😷😷😷

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

👀 Yooo. Just noting that diesel is now $9.25 / gallon out here in the Bay. 😱 Trump/Republicans did this ↘️

A Chevron gas station sign along the San Mateo coast showing price of diesel to be $9.25/gallon.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨👀 “After Donald Trump returned to office, the investigation (into a reported “sweeping pay to play” “interactions” between Susan Collins and a “top donor”) died, a casualty of his purge of the FBI. Its closure shut a potential window into how Washington works.” Oh? #MEPolitics #MESenate

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Well, I'll be damned. They finally found a spine.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Let me tell you something obvious --iow, I don't reallt need to tell you. Job applicants want you to read their applications. Students want you to read their writing. No one wants AI to do it. That means you should write your own email, memos, and opeds. W abundant typos (ok that's jsut me).

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

among other things, this is disqualifying for his inevitable potus run. if you won’t stand up to the billionaires and you can’t tell when they’re lying (which is always), you’re no better than what we have now.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026

He's not got any idea what he's even voting on. He has to be told how to vote. He's incapacitated. He's incapable of representing the people of Kentucky who are currently being taxed without representation.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Educators, nurses and public employees didn’t create this AI bubble, and they shouldn’t be the ones who pay for it if it bursts. I’m calling on financial regulators to investigate these risks now and protect workers’ retirement security. Learn more: www.aft.org/press-releas...

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AFT Demands Financial Regulators Investigate AI Bubble Risks to Workers’ Retirement Security

WASHINGTON—Today, AFT President Randi Weingarten sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who chairs the Financial Stability Oversight Council, urging an immediate investigation into serious...

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There it is

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 11/09/2026

Remember when everyone was tweeting at @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that if Hamas would release the hostages, the war would end immediately? New reporting in Haaretz reveals that Hamas offered to release the hostages at 7pm on October 7th and the Israelis weren't interested. youtu.be/sS1XLSEnjyE?...

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The truth about Hamas and the hostages

YouTube video by Zeteo

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also: this document and the MIT report resonate because they assert value of the human endeavor vs. efficiency clearly and powerfully. Much more meaningful than policy built around "AI is here to stay" or accusations that concern about AI use means one is "pretending it doesn't exist."

As a community, we need to keep in mind that although research is central to MIT’s mission, it’s more than an end in itself; on our campus, research is also an apprenticeship, a means of training the next generation of researchers to continue our work and drive our fields of inquiry forward. Using research as an opportunity for learning-by-doing may produce seeming “inefficiencies,” but that’s a feature, not a bug.

A focus on our humanity should also alert us to the fact that common current remedies for the problems AI creates can risk damaging the relationships between and among teachers and students. For instance, many instructors recounted that having to “police” unauthorized AI use was harming their connection to students (a dynamic made worse by the fact that, as we learned, AI detection software is quite unreliable). For their part, students fear being wrongly accused of AI cheating and are increasingly frustrated by instructors’ use of AI in areas that demand a human touch, such as grading, assignment creating, and feedback. Such an underground river of mutual suspicion is no foundation for a healthy classroom.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 11/09/2026

It seems to me that McClatchy is taking revenge against union reporters who take a stand against Generative AI slop, particularly taking a sledgehammer against its most powerful statehouse accountability, investigative, and multilingual reporters, and replacing them with Generative AI slop anyway,

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The fight over AI at McClatchy.

“Until we have solid language here, we’re not going to feel safe about the integrity of our jobs—or the language our readers read.”

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Writing meet wall. If @schumer.senate.gov & Senate Dems had any conviction & courage - they'd strip Fetterman of all of his committee assignments, daring him to switch party now. Ds need to campaign w the reality that they need to get to 52 seats. Not doing so is political malpractice.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026

I can’t wait to read the NYT op-ed from Renee Good’s wife about grief on the one year anniversary of her death. Surely the NYT will extend the same grace to Becca Good—whose partner died protesting against state power—as it has to Erica Kirk—whose partner died defending white supremacy

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

incredible that wikipedia now has higher ai standards than nearly every school in america

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Ernesto Castañeda @drernestocast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Those who sent remittances contributed over $2.7 trillion, which is 10% of the US GDP in 2023. Remittances represent only 3.5% of all the wealth created by immigrant workers in the U.S., underscoring how much more immigrants give to the US economy than they send abroad. scholars.org/contribution...

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/09/2026

Some additional context: Craighead County is the seventh-largest county in Arkansas, and by far the largest in the northeastern part of the state. It is home to Jonesboro, the fifth-largest city in Arkansas, where Arkansas State University, the Natural State's second-largest university, is located.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day people brought to you by underpaid, overworked, uninsured American workers as our constitutional democracy is being destroyed by undertaxed, vulgar billionaires given to conspicuous consumption and nihilism. On the history of our present: fourthfounding.substack.com/p/the-second...

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The Second American Republic

The Fourth Dialogues with Manisha Sinha · Part I

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Gemma Matthews - The Sewing Songbird @thesewingsongbird.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It’s been an age I know, but after what feels like a mammoth stitching marathon, I can finally reveal my latest embroidery. Please feel free to dream away… 😉🪡🌿🌺🧚🏼‍♂️✨ *completely freehand stitched, no patterns, paint or sketch, just threads. #stitchedart #embroidery #thesewingsongbird

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Some discussion today of institutions that want to bring AI into writing classes, which made me want to reshare this from this: writinghacks.substack.com/p/when-the-f... /1

I was teaching college during the first year that most students had access to these tools. In the future, students will arrive in college having had chatbots accompany them every step of the way. As AI developments advance, students at every level are going to need guidance on how — or if — they should incorporate these tools into their learning. We need to invest in making sure that teachers have the training to guide them — but more important, we need to stay focused on what we want students to be learning in the first place. Our students are not products to be moved down a frictionless assembly line, and the hard work of reading, writing, and thinking is not a problem to be solved.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

They should not let people with such limited understanding of teaching and learning be deans of entire colleges at the most selective university in the country. AI "encouragement" in writing courses is a declaration that you don't care if students learn to write. college.harvard.edu/about/deans-...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 03/09/2026

Also! This is the first sentence of the report! NYT has always been bad at giving credit for who broke news — a standard practice literally everywhere else in journalism going back decades — but I genuinely think it is getting worse.

WACHTELL, LIPTON, RosEN & KATZ
SEPTEMBER 2, 2026
ExECUTIVE SUMMARY
On September 3, 2025, the podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out produced the first in a
series of episodes alleging that the LA Clippers (the "Clippers") and its owner Steve
Ballmer violated the salary cap circumvention rules of the National Basketball
Association (the "NBA" or the "League") through dealings with Aspiration Partners
("Aspiration"), a now-bankrupt sustainability services company. Among other things,

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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 03/09/2026

NEW: wrote about why it’s so problematic that many of the new women’s basketball documentaries are erasing Black women’s names, greatness, labor, & contributions from the history of the sport.

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the basketball documentaries erasing black women from the sport

this trend is a real problem

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026

It's nuts that Republicans in Congress DRAGGED Secretary of Defense LLoyd Austin through hearings for going to the doctor one day, but Mitch McConnell is out for four months and that's totes fine.

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Theresa Kaminski @theresakaminski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Rabbit, rabbit. And here are some good history books to look forward to this month, via @draftingthepast.bsky.social 🗃️ www.draftingthepast.com/books-were-l...

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New History Books We're Looking Forward to in September

Ten history books coming out this month that caught our eye

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 31/08/2026

The Mayor and Chancellor still haven't released their "A.i." policy, so now is a GREAT time to tell the mayor you want a full "A.i." moratorium for the public schools, 2K-12, for both students and teachers! Leave your comment at HeyMamdani.fyi tonight, friends!

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Contact the Mayor - NYC Mayor's Office

Send a message to NYC mayor on the web. You can also get links to media contacts and submit FOIL requests.

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Grist @grist.org · 30/08/2026

The only climate scientist teaching at West Point, the US army’s military academy, was fired after he resisted an order to stop teaching about the human causes of the climate emergency, a lawsuit claims. (via @theguardian.com) bit.ly/4gpRaJl

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Canada Hires 48 Scholars Away From Top U.S. Universities www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/w... There is going to be a massive academic exodus because of this admin. This is neither theoretical nor merely academic—this is ultimately a national security issue. Ask the manhattan project.

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Canada Hires U.S. Scholars From Harvard and Other Top Universities

A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026

Ossoff on Mike Collins: "Will he release in full his office's communications with these white supremacists? He needs to answer that question today"

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Something simple that I increasingly appreciate as a teacher: the value of designing your own lessons and the learning experiences in the classroom. It takes time, yes, but that time pays you back ten-fold when you step into a classroom you authentically had a part of designing.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is very encouraging if it spurs action. It's an explicit questioning of the transactional structure of schooling which, IMO, is the central challenge of our time. (And predated LLMs). biblioracle.substack.com/p/addressing...

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Addressing the Transactional Model of School

We need to attack thoughtless ChatGPT use from the demand side.

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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Report – AI and Education

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DumpTruck 🍑 Decider Alice @sailormoondamus.gobirds.online · 26/08/2026

Hey Neil. How do you feel about this? Cuz for all your fascist fuck decisions, we know you actually care about indigenous peoples. Slap Brett for his stops leading to this, you bootlicking fuck face.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/08/2026

Hey, @mayor.nyc.gov, did you see the study of 26,000 kids that showed "A.i." use causing a DECREASE in exam scores of up to 24 POINTS? Don't leave our kids behind by pushing "A.i." on them! Please declare a 2 year moratorium on "A.i." in the public schools NOW! cc @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social

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