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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 3d

great day for scrolling through stuff it never occurred to me to want

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4d

Fascists are desperate for violent disruption they can use an excuse for state violence and power grabs.

They have trouble with mockery, goofiness, and fun.

That holds across just about every type of authoritarianism. They like being feared for cruelty. They hate being laughed at and humiliated.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 4d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 4d

“We can’t afford a king”

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 4d

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

Really incredible story from @kerryhowley.bsky.social: nymag.com/intelligence...

I thought I’d read enough hack house craziness…I was wrong. Also, we’re all going to die.

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.

nymag.com

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Danny Groner @dannygroner.bsky.social · 7d

"Moghadam was perhaps the kind of rare VC who would have enjoyed the irony in a computer program selecting the least algorithmic human in San Francisco to act as its human proxy."

Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 19d

I spent some time wandering around SF with some kids who read minds, raise millions, and subsist on Celsius nymag.com/intelligence...

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.

nymag.com

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 6d

Instead of issuing corrections for factual inaccuracies the network will be posting “debate me!” under every story

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9d

What I'm referring to. It's a privilege to be invited onto networks to talk about my reporting but I have limits. Similarly stopped doing NewsNation after Nextar took its Kimmel stance.

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 9d

what on earth

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 9d

the optics of Trump building a ballroom while laying people off and jacking up healthcare costs for everyone is a rich tapestry for an opposition party comfortable with doing good propaganda

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 9d

AND parlayed a childhood spent attempting to get professors fired for speech with which she disagrees into a lucrative career as a “free speech warrior”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 10d

straight up child murder www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Trump’s USAID pause stranded lifesaving drugs. Children died waiting.

USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post found...

www.washingtonpost.com

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 10d

My wife is an elementary gifted ed specialist. The idea that gifted kids either don't exist or don't benefit from gifted education services is both wrong and harmful to those kids. Phasing out gifted programs is stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/n...

Mamdani Says He Would Phase Out N.Y.C. Gifted Program for Early Grades

www.nytimes.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org

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Aryeh @aryehcw.bsky.social · 10d

This piece by @kerryhowley.bsky.social on AI teen coders in hacker houses in SF is so great

nymag.com/intelligence...

The AI Kids Take San Francisco

Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.

nymag.com

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Lauren Harper @laurenleharper.bsky.social · 11d

I asked the FBI to expedite the release of the tape of "border czar" Tom Homan being bribed.

FBI said it couldn't see how there wasn't an urgent need to provide the public more information about (checks notes) an active federal official taking bribes and denied expedition of the request.

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 11d

if there’s one thing that’s good for morale it’s summoning your workforce from around the globe to call them fat in person

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12d

In a sane country with competent leadership, the 50 highest-ranking Democrats would call a press conference to denounce what just happened as a threat to the republic and demand Trump's immediate impeachment and removal from office.

I don't know he could make his intentions more clear.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11d

Let's preview how the discourse around "political violence" is going to be exploited going forward. When lawless thugs brutalize the citizenry of Blue cities on Trump's orders, that will be "law enforcement." If citizens do anything to resist, that will be "political violence."

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11d

Another violent attack by an ICE officer on a civilian at 26 Federal Plaza—this time on a journalist, who had to be carried out on stretcher.

Another attack on the First Amendment, our neighbors, and our democracy.

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 12d

if for some reason you want to understand hegseth i highly recommend a book about the cause he rose to prominence championing — Alpha by David Philipps

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 12d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 12d

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 13d

It’s actually 100 academic papers a month.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 14d

thank you!

Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 14d

thanks ! if i buy a $500 one will i have to replace it with something more sophisticated when he is no longer a beginner ?

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Kerry Howley @kerryhowley.bsky.social · 14d

tell me what electric drum set to buy my child ?

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