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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 5h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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[LVL 35]Alsvid Wotansdottir🔵 @alsvid.bsky.social · 4h

#HOMELESSSKY

People talk about how "homeless people are like zombies" and call us walking dead and whatnot, but no one talks about how the process of becoming homeless slices your whole personhood away, piece by piece, until you are left with just the bare shell of what made you _yourself_.

‎Synapsid M.D. @synapsid.bsky.social · 16h

not much of me left at this point

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 4h

It’s SHAMEFUL to watch US Senators vote NO on the War Powers resolution & give this administration a blank check to bomb whoever the hell they want. The current conduct in the Caribbean is unconstitutional and unacceptable!

Time and time again, these cowards bend the knee.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 4h

But have you considered that making it illegal to say that will cut it off at the pass?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 4h

Before Gaza, if you said the words "genocide" and "Jewish" together, people would first think of the Holocaust. Now, for a whole generation, if you say those words, they will think of Gaza as much as Treblinka. The Jewish community has not yet reckoned with what this will do to collective memory.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7h

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 5h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 4h

The automobile is a direct connection to the id and the daily commute is the opening through which it guahes out of the psyche

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

Watching antisocial driver behavior in the school drop-off line makes it really clear that the pandemic destroyed whatever few shreds remained of the social compact, just pathological selfishness on display every day

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

But that is precisely the situation right now according to SCOTUS itself. They are constantly deciding major issues via the shadow docket, without any reasoning or final order, to ensure those rulings are *not* legally binding and can be reversed whenever they feel like it. That is illegitimate.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 4h

My first rule for leftish mayors is find comrades in the bureaucracy. Smart and creative lower-level staff are bottled up by managers who got to their positions by supporting the status quo. Find your people early in the campaign and elevate them when you win. Don't let haters undermine your agenda.

Award-Winning Reporter Dave Colon @davecolon.bsky.social · 4h

Whether it's universal daylighting or restarting Mayor Adams' stalled bus lanes, Zohran Mamdani told Streetsblog he'll get his agenda done even if means fighting the DOT deep state or the big shot political bosses who just endorsed him nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/10/09/m...

Mamdani Vows To Defy DOT Insiders, Political Bosses To Pursue His Streets Agenda - Streetsblog New York City

Mamdani pledged stand up to bureaucrats and political power players who oppose his plans to make streets safer and buses faster.

nyc.streetsblog.org

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 4h

Now called the Highlander Center, it remains committed to organizing workers and people of color today.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 12h

His administration decided to put more energy into killing Palestinians than addressing the cancer in American politics. And here we are

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 17h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 12h

I guess it's not so private any more

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 16h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · 12h

When I published a pro-transit op-ed in the SF Chronicle, holy shit did the fact-checker grill me. Made me give citations upon citations. If only they were one-tenth that rigorous about Heather Knight's columns attacking Chesa Boudin...

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 19h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 12h

Joe thought he should uphold empire rather than hold power, and here we are

debnicktom.bsky.social @debnicktom.bsky.social · 12h

Let's be honest, Biden could have done so much more. He could have saved American democracy. But he didn't.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 15h

They need to take somebody's head

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Basav @basavsen.bsky.social · 1d

Sticking with car dependence is a failure of imagination, particularly when the wide range of benefits of ending car dependence is so clear.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

momentummag.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16h

When you read about political development in the late 19th/mid-20th century, you see a lot about how THE defining sociopolitical conflict is that between capital & labor. Developing systematic means of managing the conflict was the top agenda item for political systems in this period & the US lagged

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 16h

Our rulers have progressed from privatizing the Commons to simply stealing the privates. And yes that is a double entendre

Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 21h

not being able to steal other people's shit is gonna make me broke

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 21h

not being able to steal other people's shit is gonna make me broke

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 21h

the SStandard sstrikes again

Alex @alxlndomountain.bsky.social · 21h

Gavin Newsom is helping to enshrine Jewish supremacism and censorship about Israel's ongoing criminal destruction of Palestine in to California law. Not unexpected for a state that once paid bounties on native scalps

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 21h

Legislation aimed at eliminating antisemitism in California schools, while using a controversial definition of the term, was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday.

Newsom signs bill targeting antisemitic speech in California classrooms

Legislation aimed at eliminating antisemitism in California schools, while using a controversial definition of the term, was signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday.

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