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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 29d

In case you missed it: an essential piece from Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò from earlier this week:

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · Sep 11

He said integration was a failure lol

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Sep 10

The best way to honor Charlie's memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate — never through violence.

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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · Sep 10

RIP Charlie Kirk, you would have loved politicizing the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · Sep 10

on a serious note it's incredible how little they cared about the guy. he wasn't even confirmed as dead, never mind his body cold, before they started pushing "lefist" and "trans" "terrorism" narratives. they saw the blood gush out of his neck and thought "this is an excellent opportunity."

sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · Sep 10

just so you know, twitter losers are trawling through bluesky and doing their usual thing of complaining about people who are telling jokes. comedy is legal now, losers. deal with it.

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mamamoo @thelovelymc.bsky.social · Sep 10

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · Sep 7

I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?

No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · Sep 7

Uwu but hawwv you considered the epistemological standpoint of da vice president, including his twauma

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Dallas Jokic @djokic.bsky.social · Sep 7

I did not ask for this, don't do this, I don't want AI slop generated from work I did.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · Sep 1

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are.

I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

Donate to Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over, organized by F Theory

Short version first: I’m an undocumented freelancer/gig worker with no health insu… F Theory needs your support for Help FT Stay Here...Or Start over

www.gofundme.com

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Dallas Jokic @djokic.bsky.social · Aug 4

I recently got socially anxious that I was pronouncing the word shibboleth wrong

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Erin 🦇🎃EEK🎃🦇 Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · Aug 1

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

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This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron.

Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept.

This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Aug 1

My latest newsletter, about The New York Times' "correction" of its story about starvation in Gaza, and what it says about their adherence to Israeli propaganda.

The New York Times Puts An Asterisk On A Starving Child

The Times takes the bait on Israeli propaganda

stringinamaze.net

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Jul 30

So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed

Pages of the NY Post from 2007 featuring Ava Cordero under the headlines "GENDER BENDER SHOCKER" and "S(HE) HAS A HISTORY"

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Dallas Jokic @djokic.bsky.social · Jul 30

At a good university no less

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Dallas Jokic @djokic.bsky.social · Jul 30

Saw some of the latest hasbara and I truly cannot believe how fucking deranged it is. Posted by this guy I did theatre with in high school.

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noam chompers @noamchompers.bsky.social · Jul 29

hope everyone checks out my new guest post in the daily nous!

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Jul 25

Has Mamdani condemned restaurants with QR code menus

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · Jul 9

We hope other organizations will do
the same!

Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Jul 8

The largest union in America, the three million member-strong National Educators Association, has voted to *cut all ties* with the Anti-Defamation League, citing the ADL’s opposition to Palestinian rights and antiracism.

@labornotes.bsky.social has the story: www.labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Educators Union Rejects Anti-Defamation League, Cuts Ties

The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universi...

www.labornotes.org

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Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social · Jul 6

Just this page alone outlines the key problem: not starting your own papers; projects; summarizing; brainstorming; exploring; and/or revisioning is being framed NOT as thinking less or cheating but “leveraging” by automation— this is wrong. We have to tell students these are fundamental skills.

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · Jul 4

Media came down on Mamdani like a ton of bricks for a phrase he literally never once said. Trump says a slur on stage on camera and they twist themselves in pretzels like this. If this is what journalism is, I welcome its death

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · Jul 3

The existence of the East African Indian diaspora is a really fascinating artifact of Imperial globalization and a great example of how much more complex and interconnected our world is than we realize, so of course the American intelligentsia takes it as a personal insult.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · Jul 3

What even is the story guys

In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mamdani, 33, said he did not consider himself either Black or African American, but rather “an American who was born in Africa.” He said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process. (He was not accepted at Columbia.)

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · Jul 4

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · Jul 4

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“he is a south Asian man born in Uganda?”

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“and the source is a eugenicist who opposes affirmative action because he thinks brown people are an inferior race! cool!”

bouie’s skeet, deleted at the direction of the NYT:
“I think you should tell readers if your source is a nazi”

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Dallas Jokic @djokic.bsky.social · Jul 2

I can only describe this as gender hasbara. The same playbook of employing language of safety and inclusion to support a political movement with genocidal aims

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 2

UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics, report finds

Report’s author raises ‘stark concerns about barriers to academic freedom’ UK universities have failed to protect gender-critical academics from bullying and career-threatening restrictions on their research, according to a report. The report, by Prof Alice Sullivan of University College London, recommends that students and staff “taking part in freedom-restricting harassment should face consequences commensurate with the seriousness of the offence”. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · Jun 24

Pronouns are melting the brains of guys my age.

Another little clip from my new special Positive Reinforcement (premiering 6/27 at 8pm) for you to enjoy! Share this with a grammar or sports enthusiast in your life and watch the whole special when it’s out in the world!

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Katie Unger @kungernyc.bsky.social · Jun 26

The Times could have tried talking to ANY of the actual Jews or Jewish orgs involved in Jews for Zohran!
There were many many many — and highly visible. And it’s dangerous malpractice for the NYT to not include us for the sake of an inflammatory binary.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jun 26

Zohran Mamdani, with a record of anti-Israel activism, won over some Jews in the New York City mayoral primary, but confirmed other Jews' worst fears about the American left.

Mamdani’s Success Spotlights a Deepening Rupture Among U.S. Jews

While Zohran Mamdani won over some Jewish supporters, other Jewish Democrats suggested that concerns about their community’s safety are being dismissed in a movement and a city they helped build.

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