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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3h

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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nick @passthehanky.bsky.social · 1h

we better see some motherfucking job termination, pritzker.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 58m

this is so deeply upsetting

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 10h

“Shut up about what you want to read”

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ZFLTG @siarapita.bsky.social · 13h

Many of them took cash settlements from Jeffery Epstein’s estate; institutions like JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank; and in a separate case, Prince Andrew (the justice they were comfortable with at the time) which makes much of what we have seen lately seem somewhat performative.

Epstein survivors secure a $290 million settlement with JPMorgan Chase

JPMorgan agreed to the settlement on the same day a federal judge granted class-action status to the lawsuit, saying the number of plaintiffs involved could be "well over 100 people."

www.npr.org

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 11h

I didn’t know Putin was a back-door man.

Melania Trump Says ‘Back Channel’ With Putin Led to Return of Ukrainian Children

The first lady said she has been in contact with the Russian leader since sending him a letter in August expressing concern for abducted children.

www.wsj.com

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 1d

OK, do it. And the filibuster will be gone forever.

'Will come back to bite them': MAGA senator floats idea GOP once vehemently opposed

Despite calls in 2024 for Senate Democrats to finally end the filibuster, it never happened. And now MAGA Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) is floating the idea to do just that despite Republican c...

www.rawstory.com

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 1d

She already destroyed CBS News in her first week on the job

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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David Bowie News @davidbowienews.bsky.social · 1d

New competition!

Win Copies of Beautiful New Book ‘Bowie, Hors cadre (Outside The Frame)’ by Philippe Auliac.

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Win Copies of Beautiful New Book ‘Bowie, Hors cadre (Outside The Frame)’ by Philippe Auliac

Philippe Auliac’s new book ‘Bowie, Hors cadre’ is a vibrant tribute to Bowie’s genius, seen through the eyes of one of his most privileged witnesses. In 1976, David Bowie, at the …

www.davidbowienews.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Great point from @mjtoma.bsky.social: Millions of us absolutely do see what's happening to the USA.

"We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends."

newrepublic.com/post/201625/...

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 1d

Release the Epstein files

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 1d

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Nolan Zugernat @zugernat.bsky.social · 1d

Any sign of Trump today? Is he in bed crying?

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

You may not realize this, but Democrats have *more money* available to them than Republicans do.

But Republicans are fucking masters at efficiency and network marketing. They maximize every dollar.

Democratic organizations keep hiring the same failed consultants. They need new blood.

Kamala Harris raised $488 million more than Donald Trump | World News - The Times of India

US News: Explore the dramatic fundraising figures between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in the 2024 Presidential race. Harris raises $633 million, while Trump secures $145 million. Discover key donor...

timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1d

Charlie Kirk was a terrible person, but his prowess at organizing was astonishing.

Democrats, progressive and moderate, are using tactics from the 1970s.

Republicans spend hundreds of millions on networking, jobs, and outreach every year. Democrats waste their money on obsolete stuff.

flux.community @flux.community · 1d

Charlie Kirk was a religious extremist and an advocate for mass censorship of academics he hated.

But as a political organizer and creator of opportunities for his comrades, there's much that can be learned from what he did. @matthewboedy.bsky.social discusses on the latest Theory of Change

What Charlie Kirk knew

The slain co-founder of Turning Point was a masterful political organizer—and a religious extremist

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · Jul 24

lol we’re ngmi

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Replyingto@DeathMetalV and @Golfguy21553001 @grok tell this piece of crap Paul Bunyon was a real person
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Replying to @MistaDurden @DeathMetalV and@Golfguy21553001
Paul Bunyan is a fictional character from American folklore, created as a tall tale in lumberjack stories. While some historians suggest loose inspiration from real figures like Fabian Fournier, he was not an actual person.

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Fuck you grok

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Kurt Andersen @kurtandersen.bsky.social · 1d

Of the 25 states with the highest percentages of federal workers in their labor forces, 15 are Trump-majority red states. Thousands of federal workers in every Republican congressional district. Where the new *permanent* mass firings Trump has decided to make—unrelated to his shutdown—will hit hard.