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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 5h

What is stupid is Kid Rock.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 5h

Is he just finally watching McCabe and Mrs. Miller?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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."

BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 10h

Yep, same here.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly.

They want to profit and will say anything to weasel their way in.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 20h

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 12h

These are just billionaires looking for a way to get higher ed to play along with private equity, ed tech, etc.

They want to loot it.

Pitchbot Reply Guy @pitchbotturd02.bsky.social · 12h

The NYTimes has been on a roll lately...

BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 13h

THIS

austin @bainard.bsky.social · 15h

The paid-protestor myth is big among conservative honks because none of them can fathom the idea that people would want better things for their communities and neighbors out of the goodness of their hearts.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 15h

GOOD

Excellent work, @tomlevenson.bsky.social

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 15h

Breaking: MIT rejected President Trump’s "compact," which offers colleges funding advantages in exchange for far-reaching reforms. It is the first school to do so.

MIT Rejects Trump’s Sweeping ‘Compact’ Offering Colleges Funding Advantages

The school became the first university to reject the terms, saying they would undermine independence.

on.wsj.com

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 15h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 1d

Clever way to loot the public coffers to support your minions.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 1d

Today in bovine action.

Hillbilly Highlander @hillhighlander.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a wee timeline cleanse fir ye. This time? Heilan coos fae oor glen! That's Loch Quoich [first twa photies] and Loch Garry [second twa photies] repsectively, in the background.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 1d

[Simon did, in fact, conduct the remaining portion of the interview with a gun in his mouth]

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 1d

🧵

Thanks Heather!

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Greetings from U.S. District Court Judge April Perry’s courtroom in the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is present, waiting for the high stakes hearing to begin. @wttw.bsky.social

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

FULL STORY: As lawyers for the Trump administration defended the president’s unprecedented decision to send National Guard troops to Chicago despite the objections of Gov. Pritzker and Mayor Johnson, officials acknowledged that California troops had also been sent to Illinois. @wttw.bsky.social

BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 1d

The government is arguing that the President is above the law and allowed to commit illegal acts that violate the Constitution.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d

Hamilton: “The president’s power is unreviewable.”

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 1d

"You must show deference to the President"

That's where we are.

That's the America these goons want and are creating.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 2d

We have this. It's called Dual Credit. We don't need these dipshits involved.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 2d

Cycling dads who read a lot of books gang here.

Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, but that jacket is also a crime.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 2d

Oct 18 coming up.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 2d

You forgot to mention the poster comes with directions for rolling it up and beating yourself with it.

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 2d

🎯

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

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

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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 2d

Uh oh it's happening #BannedBooksWeek

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 2d

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

actionnetwork.org

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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 3d

@dfmulvihill.bsky.social

You know what to do.

Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 3d

Please sign if appropriate.

I included my fraternity affiliation and everything so they know they are losing the bros too

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

I’m. So. Tired.

I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

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furbabies.bsky.social @furbabies.bsky.social · 3d

After yelling and obfuscating to senators for hours, Dick Durbin hit her with this one: "Eventually you are going to have to answer for your conduct in this. You won't do it today, but eventually you will." Suddenly, she went SILENT.🔥 She knows.

You're phucked, Pam....just sayin'

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