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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 3h

Pleasant day out in my neighborhood in Chicago. There was a farmer’s market and people are out strolling, chatting, and sitting out on porches. Just like every weekend.

Except now most of us are wearing whistles to alert neighbors if unidentified guys in tactical gear show up to kidnap people.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 21d

a group of people were like "i found a way to live my life as a truer version of myself" and instead of being like "that's beautiful, how can i help" people were like "i don't think schools should have books in them anymore"

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 9h

I truly believe a big reason why Democrats are failing to appropriately respond to the moment is a pathological refusal to admit that there were aspects of the American status quo pre trump that were extremely fucked up and unjust

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 11h

Square One!

Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 20h

DC does! Lots of biking and bus and metro use, but it’s just not that big, which helps.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 20h

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Jacki @ftd1969.bsky.social · 1d

open.substack.com/pub/steadyst...

Hey dems, please spread this fsr and wide to reach as many federal workers as possible.

Dan Rather is posting a blueprint for workers that fear they will lose their jobs. This cld be time sensitive for many, have at it in reposting.

Notice to Current Federal Employees Facing Dismissal

The Steady State | October 11, 2025

open.substack.com

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 1d

I saw Annie Hall in Bryant Park with friends when I was weighing a potential LA job offer and on the cusp of interviewing for a job in New York, and few things made the decision feel clearer than that.

Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 1d

I swear that 3/4 of the reason I live in NYC as an adult is Annie Hall. I had the poster on my wall. I saw Reds in the theater probably 5 times the year it came out and owned the soundtrack. Diane Keaton was my dream alter ego as a teen.

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, I loved Diane Keaton— Annie Hall had such a huge influence on me as a teen, everything about her style & her energy, the clothes she wore & the way she talked! She just felt like such a model of New York City intellectual life, jittery & adventurous & original

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

Traveling halfway across the world & packing into a room for a conference panel on the theme of resisting eugenics.

But not wearing a respirator during a surge in the ongoing pandemic.

What a fun way to show how the research & scholars you’re there to ostensibly listen to mean jack shit to you.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 2d

Inspired by @marcwatkins.bsky.social and wanting to share his piece with my newsletter subscribers, I put my two cents in. open.substack.com/pub/engagede...

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 2d

I was wondering about how to handle this in DC with young kids—thanks for sharing.

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 2d

international students typically pay for domestic students. they aren't taking slots, they're expanding the pie. unless you're talking about the handful of universities that account for like 1% or whatever of college enrollment.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

3) I don't see the evidence that domestic students are being "crowded out" by international students. There are many excellent private and public universities desperate to increase (or even maintain) the size of their student bodies. The idea that there is not room for all rings false to me.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Just like so many forms of mechanization the LMS was supposed to save us time. Instead, in a classic case of More Work for Mother, it made more and more miserable work for us instead.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot even begin to express the joy of not having a million levers to pull and bleeps and blips and bloops to push all the time. I got rid of Canvas and set myself free.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

Part of this hierarchy has been created over decades by labor market economic stuff but universities embrace it so they can hire fewer profs overall and more Deans of ChatGPT Strategery 🙄🤮 It's also a deliberate political strategy to tighten up exactly who gets to have "academic freedom."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 2d

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

Like a lot of things with RFK Jr if someone just said this to you and wasn’t in charge of medicine in America you’d go: ooooooookay and keep pressing the elevator button

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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skelly @iid.bsky.social · 3d

One of my wackier improve the birth rate ideas is to make maternity leave mandatory, for everyone. Eg you have to take at least two year long sabbaticals during your 20s/30s whether you’re having a child during that time or not. We gotta ease up on the opportunity cost of having kids

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 3d

Was lucky enough to see this tour and can confirm.

Ryan LaRochelle @rlarochelle.bsky.social · 3d

The world is a shit show, but don’t underestimate the healing power of live music. Especially when the person making that music is David Byrne.

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating thread on how we compare income over time, and why adjusting for inflation isn’t enough.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4d

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4d

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 3d

This was fascinating. Thanks for writing it out!

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · Sep 17

Corporate HR has asked you stop referring to the newly announced mandatory RTO policy as "Poop from Office"

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Daphna @dapati.bsky.social · 4d

Hell yeah--this is awesome.

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