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Leesa Rasp @punkprof.bsky.social · 16h

BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 1d

Leesa Rasp @punkprof.bsky.social · 16h

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Leesa Rasp @punkprof.bsky.social · 16h

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22h

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

www.wsbtv.com

Leesa Rasp @punkprof.bsky.social · 16h

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 1d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Leesa Rasp @punkprof.bsky.social · 18h

Portland taking a cue from Chilean protesters. Well done!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

Portland 🔥

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

Portland 🔥

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Leesa Rasp @punkprof.bsky.social · 18h

This one really hit me. She was so wonderfully quirky and eccentric.

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Leesa Rasp @punkprof.bsky.social · 18h

This week, I submitted a paper to a conference, taught, tried desperately to catch up with grading, attended the opening homecoming event, agreed to a couple of service duties, ate well, and walked the doggo every day. This weekend: desperate attempt to finish grading before midterm grades are due.

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Uppity Black Woman @uppityblackwoman.bsky.social · 18h

The world needs to be burned down and started all over again. Not just the U.S.!!!

youtube.com/shorts/tlWCM...

How the IMF and World Bank turned Latin America’s debt into control #financialcrisis

YouTube video by Ashley B

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Leesa Rasp @punkprof.bsky.social · 6d

I took my Urban Politics students to the Board of Aldermen meeting last Friday. Two of the Alders hung out and chatted with us for close to an hour. Great experience for my students!

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · Aug 31

"Maxwell said that some of the 'cast of characters' around Epstein were 'in your cabinet, who you value as your co-workers' ... Blanche did not pause to ask Maxwell to identify the cabinet members she was referring to." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Ghislaine Maxwell hinted at Epstein’s ties to Trump officials – why wasn’t she pressed for names?

Experts raise questions about the DoJ’s interview with the Epstein associate that left questions remaining

www.theguardian.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21d

I hope the majority realizes you can't win over the right wing with civility or the old ways. Doesn't work. Its a dangerous, violent, hypocritical cult without shame.

They want power by any illegal means necessary.

Choose your fighters accordingly. The current Dem leadership ain't it.

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MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) @mariaevaj.bsky.social · 20d

Truth 😂

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20d

coverage by Reuters:

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years after landmark coup plot conviction

Bolsonaro is the first former president in the country's history to be convicted for attacking democracy. The conviction drew disapproval from the Trump administration.

www.reuters.com

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 21d

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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mattygram.bsky.social @mattygram.bsky.social · 22d

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. Demonstration On:
October 18th,
millions of us are rising again to show the world: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people.
Go to: nokings.org to find a location near you
GET OUT & DEMONSTRATE while you still can.

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

nokings.org

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22d

Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe.

And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think.

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 20d

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 21d

If you canceled Disney+ and Hulu, please consider directing that money to PBS or NPR. You can set up a monthly donation and it’s a payment you were making anyway.

It would send a GREAT message about our collective power as consumers.

www.pbs.org
www.npr.org

🙏 @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social

stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 22d

If everyone that cancels Disney would take that PREVIOUSLY BUDGETED AMOUNT and send it to @pbs.org that would be a WIN/WIN!!
Krasnov hates #PBS too!! 😀

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 21d

1/7 Trump didn’t just bend the law for billionaires, he erased it. From corporate pardons to killing investigations, the GOP turned America into a pay-to-play racket where justice was for sale and ordinary people get screwed. ⬇️

#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue www.citizen.org/article/dele...

Deleting Tech Enforcement - Public Citizen

www.citizen.org

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 23d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20d

Although Tom Ragsdale’s oil companies owe New Mexico more than $3.5 million for pollution and unpaid fees, the state has recovered only about $50,000.

Drillers across the industry have employed similar tactics in what is known as “the playbook.”

(Published Dec. 2024)

The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public

Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.

www.propublica.org

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 22d

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES

VIOLENT ICE ATTACKS CHICAGO

SAVE FREE SPEECH

HOUSE PASSES CR

SENATE DEMOCRATS STAND FIRM
The Senate is now in recess until Sept 29

Democrats are fighting ..
No CR without rolling back Healthcare cuts & saving subsidies

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 22d

This appears to be the 3rd lethal US strike in the Caribbean.

Once again, the specific "terrorist" entity targeted is not identified.

No legal justification is offered for this premeditated killing.

President Trump is asserting a license to kill outside of the law. 1/n

On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans. The strike killed 3 male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel, which was in international waters. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. STOP SELLING FENTANYL, NARCOTICS, AND ILLEGAL DRUGS IN AMERICA, AND COMMITTING VIOLENCE AND TERRORISM AGAINST AMERICANS!!!

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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 22d

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22d

Trump Claims Excessive Criticism of Him on TV Is ‘Illegal’ and ‘No Longer Free Speech’

www.mediaite.com

Trump: Excessive Criticism of Him on TV Is 'Illegal'

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