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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 4h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Kristin @legaleagle7223.bsky.social · 3h

We’re in Porterville (don’t ask) and they have an Aldi!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Absolute legend.

But really, *those* are the movies we're naming? She won an Oscar for ANNIE HALL and more than held her own with an all-star cast in the GODFATHER films.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 6h

America's collapse in one swath of the NYT homepage

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

yes. reward those district judges that have defended the republic. and also use this as an opportunity for general court expansion

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 9h

I think we should expand the court to like 21 members, you get a five-judge panel with the possibility of an en-banc reconsideration on the papers and transcript, and we fill the 12 new seats entirely with a variety of constitutional loyalist district judges.

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 21h

usually takes more than one game to learn that. your wife is a prodigy.

Lumpy MD @lumpawaroomd.bsky.social · 21h

This is the first baseball game my wife has ever seen and she now believes this is a sport about eternal punishment

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h

Madness. Absolute madness. This is entirely about the Epstein Files and you can't convince me otherwise at this point. Miller and Hegseth want Generals who will take over blue cities but it looks like that's clearly not a priority for the guy in charge. Number 1 is covering for him.

CNN @cnn.com · 14h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

www.cnn.com

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 11h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 14h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 9h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens.

As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country.
GIFT LINK
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The Constitution Doesn’t Belong to Trump or the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 8h

AP was banned for accurately referring to the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of Mexico", if you're wondering why zero reporters asked a question about elementary school math here.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 12h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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katie dzwierzynski @kdzwierzynski.bsky.social · 1d

are we sure that’s not rebecca romaine

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3d

Nicole Kidman stuns for Vogue.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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M, the other white meat @lotusprime.bsky.social · 21h

If you’re in line to pitch for either the Mariners or Tigers stay in line!

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Patrick Daugherty @rotopat.bsky.social · Sep 11

I now understand why Mariners fans post every evening like they are dying of kidney stones

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Kristin @legaleagle7223.bsky.social · 23h

We’ve been calling him Ew Ew.

Kristin @legaleagle7223.bsky.social · 23h

They want us dead.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kristin @legaleagle7223.bsky.social · 23h

I just said to Doug, “he really does have a big dumper.”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
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These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

www.propublica.org

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