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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 8h

Unemployment is surging for Black workers — and federal government layoffs will only make it worse. Important story from @lydiadepillis.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b... #EconSky

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 1d

Checks out

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Alexander McKeever @akmckeever.bsky.social · 1d

Was traveling so the issue's a couple days late but in this week's newsletter I take a fairly in depth look at the October 6/7 clashes around Aleppo city's al-Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood between pro-government forces and the Asayish

akmckeever.substack.com/p/this-week-...

This Week in Northern Syria [38.2025]

October 1 - 7: Clashes in around al-Sheikh Maqsoud, 'Abdi in Damascus, People's Assembly 'elections', and more...

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 2d

jfc

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 2d

More great satire from The Onion! ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began theonion.com/ice-boasts-z...

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 2d

I think we found his handler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 2d

Also, it's very exclusive in-group signalling. They're not speaking to the non-MAGA audience at all, because in their minds those people don't matter any more.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that they are still doing the "Soros-paid protestors" bit is just an incredible testimony to the durability of certain tropes to negate the popular will, regardless of the lack of evidence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Aaron Y. Zelin @azelin.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty much their whole deal. Not good enough for anything so instead create their own crappy version instead.

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Erik Skare @erikskare.no · 2d

Congratulations to Dr. Skretting for successfully defending his PhD thesis “The Origins of Sahelian Jihadism” at the University of Oslo! 🥳

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2d

😂

"So she walked off the job, pretending she was being silenced. Then she used that notoriety to found the Free Press, which became a success because it’s been backed by the dollars of a billionaire class that is still livid that five years ago, for three months, America said 'Black lives matter'."

Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: The September CPI report will be released Oct. 24. BLS says the data is needed to calculate the annual cost-of-living adjustment for Social Security benefits.
"No other releases will be rescheduled or produced until the resumption of regular government services."
www.bls.gov/bls/092025-c...

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is preparing to release the September C.P.I. report despite the shutdown. (Exact date still unclear -- almost certainly not the original Oct. 15 date.) #EconSky #NumbersDay

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 3d

The entirely consistent position of TPUSA et al is that censorship by government or platforms, and doxxing, cancellation and harassment, are bad when wielded against them and their allies, and good when wielded against their enemies.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 3d

ayfkm

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 3d

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 3d

US anti-fascism expert, @mark-bray.bsky.social, tries to fly to Spain to keep his family safe after receiving death threats, and has his flight mysteriously cancelled. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 4d

Reading a lot recently on the intersections of gaming, violent extremism, extreme violence, and politics. Still so much we don't know about even the most elementary processes and functions. This is of the better books I've come across so far. Great starting point for anyone wanting to learn more.

Cover of the book Gaming Democracy, by Adrienne Massanari.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 4d

This, but also they've gotten a lot of people not to care whether the premises are true. There's a sizable contingent that just wants to hurt the libs and recognizes that only libs are going to argue about the truth of the pretext.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Aug 1

Basically all my posts recently could be part of the same thread:

The problem of our time is governments—particularly the Trump administration, also the Netanyahu administration, etc—making policy based on factual premises that are not true, which they've gotten "many people" to believe are true.

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 4d

You know who else documented their crimes extensively and eventually had that documentation used against them

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Sickening.

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coridauber.bsky.social @coridauber.bsky.social · 4d

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 5d

The Economist identified over a dozen writers on Substack employed by China’s state media with over 50,000 subscribers on the popular American online-blogging platform. If anyone thinks these are 'independent' and not just PRC propagandists they aren't very smart www.economist.com/china/2025/1...

Xi Jinping wants a spot in your inbox

Policymakers hope to shape the thinking of Western elites in new ways

www.economist.com

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 5d

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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social · 5d

First academic journal review of my translation & study of the medieval text Fath al-Andalus(The Conquest of al-Andalus) is out,& it's mostly positive,particularly about how it presents a clear & readable translation from a difficult original www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Conquest of al-Andalus. A Translation of Fatḥ al-Andalus (Routledge Medieval Translations)

Published in Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (Ahead of Print, 2025)

www.tandfonline.com

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Assaf Moghadam @assafmoghadam.bsky.social · 5d

On the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the Oct 7 attacks, Don Rassler and I interviewed Zohar Palti, former head of the Intelligence Directorate of the Israeli Mossad, for the October issue of the CTC Sentinel. Fascinating and insightful.

ctc.westpoint.edu/a-view-from-...

A View from the CT Foxhole: Zohar Palti, Former Director, Policy & Political-Military Bureau, Israel’s Ministry of Defense - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Zohar Palti is the Andrew Viterbi Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, D.C.; Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; and a con...

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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 6d

Lots of performative posts on this site. Meanwhile we grind every week for the last 3 years to tell stories in the US courts that no one else does. Decide to do more than performative posts, put your resources towards a news site that has a track record of impact.

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Court Watch @courtwatch.bsky.social · 6d

You: I don’t want to pay for another newsletter.

Us: we offer no hot take opinions, we’re just singlehandedly forcing the courts to operate transparently, maybe throw in 8 bucks a month my guy.

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