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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 30m

stood on a kitchen stool and managed to remove the battery from a very high up chirping smoke alarm before it drove our dogs and me to insanity without falling on my ass, ain't nobody can tell me nothin today

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 1h

And most importantly, imo, is "Why add a legal arrow to the quiver of a government that already is acting to control the internet and what we see on it through the use of targeted economic and political pressure?"

Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 1d

"Haidt’s thesis is broader than just 'new thing bad.' In The Anxious Generation and his public commentary you find a dismissal of young people as a thinking, feeling group: they are anxious because of phones, they empathize with Gaza because of phones."

now is not the time to ban phones

why Jonathan Haidt sucks

howtodothingswithmemes.substack.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 1h

They are saying NJ congresswoman is among the “Antifa-aligned left-wing violent extremists” facing federal charges. newjerseymonitor.com/2025/10/07/n... JFC. There is VIDEO of the whole damn thing.

NJ congresswoman's attorney objects to fed officials comparing her to antifa • New Jersey Monitor

Federal officials in public statements have improperly compared Rep. LaMonica McIver to antifa, McIver's attorneys say in a new court filing.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 1h

Yep, literally what we just went over in my class in NJ as well.

Amy Kristin Sanders @amykristinsanders.bsky.social · 1d

Six federal circuits—the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, and 11th—all agree that the First Amendment protects the right to record police performing their duties in public.

Taught my students last week that they have a First Amendment right to record in Pennsylvania. So do folks in Chicago and Portland.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 2h

Important series, I look forward to following.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 18h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 2h

I really, really do not like the fact that nobody has any other explanation as why his tickets were canceled beyond the obvious. So they are going to threaten professors they will kill us in front of our students and then block our exit from the country? JFC

Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 8h

Rutgers Professor @mark-bray.bsky.social, who studies & writes about Antifascism,Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

By the time he & his family reached the gate, their tickets were cancelled.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n... flagrantly & appallingly lawless. Hope he & his family are ok.

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve been waiting for someone to take down the “intellectual diversity” argument bullshit (among other things) because it is just so incredibly facile. Thanks for writing it!

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 3h

This!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Hey, the NJ gubernatorial election is less than a month away.

If the Democrats here want to start rolling out any kind of ad campaign that tells voters what Mikie Sherrill will do, that'd be super.

And no, "I can fly a helicopter" doesn't count.

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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 4h

Is America great now

NPR @npr.org · 4h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4h

Janitors and cafeteria workers _contracted_ by the federal gov’t will likely see no backpay at all.

“It’s so sad that they think they can play with ppl’s lives,” said Smithsonian Museum of American History cleaner Audrey Murray. “Stop this. Stop messing w/ppl. We have families who depend on us.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 4h

WIC, which for decades has fed kids and new moms, could run out of funding within two weeks.

Furloughed federal workers are stressing about bills and seeing promised backpay threatened.

The regime’s mass deportation operation, however, continues on uninterrupted during the shutdown.

Priorities.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 22h

"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 4h

Dear god

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Charles N. Davis @charlesndavis.bsky.social · 15h

This should hang in the Louvre

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 19h

when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34

Wasn’t really sure what to expect from Chapel Bill. But after that drive, I have him as second best college coach I’ve ever seen, just below Saban.

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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 5h

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

I’m not saying that the Washpost’s new Opinion editor was sent on a mission destroy that section’s reputation.

I’m just saying that if someone were sent to destroy the Opinion section’s reputation, they’d be doing exactly what this guy is doing.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 5h

"A Rutgers University professor is temporarily relocating to Europe as he grapples with threats that intensified after...Turning Point USA ...accused him of being “a prominent leader of the antifa movement on campus." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 5h

Well this research is absolutely none of my business

The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 6h

New research suggests #sports fandom has hidden costs to physical #health:

Devoted fans are more likely to binge drink, eat unhealthy foods and engage in emotional eating (especially if your favorite team loses a lot)

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 5h

Ha - yeah we don't gradually move into fall on the East Coast any more, it seems.

John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 6h

Said on the local weather this morning: “It went from 80 to 55 like it saw a state trooper.”

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 5h

Interview with Rutgers professor Marc Bray, who is fleeing the country after a wave of death threats due to his anti-fascist research next.frame.io/share/848676...

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 5h

“You don’t need a very sophisticated analysis to read into what this means. It is a resegregation of the work force, and an attack on the Black middle class.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

yeah, trump has made very clear that he doesn’t think black people deserve to be in jobs of influence! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 5h

This is far and away the best take on this ridiculous "compact" for higher ed and a must read.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 5h

Oh @grantmeaccess.bsky.social isn’t messing around now

Man holding a Certified Wildlife Habitat sign

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 21h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

So many normal people being brave and then all these wealthy and powerful people being cowards. History will not be kind to the people like shari Redstone who enabled Trump.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 18h

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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