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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

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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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 17h

Wish I could!

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 21h

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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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 1d

Good news.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 1d

This. This right here. 👇 no question.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 1d

Very important question, to which we know the answer. 🤬

Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 1d

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 1d

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 2d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 1d

What a beautiful essay.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 2d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

therumpus.net

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

'It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense. It would be a description without meaning—as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.'

Albert Einstein, from Max Born, Physik im Wandel meiner Zeit (Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1966).

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 7d

If all these data centers being built everywhere where no one who lives there wants them are so great and wonderful how come they're all being built as fucking secrets

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 2d

The woman who cuts my hair not only does a great job, she has a way of capturing this moment in history. 💜

Ceramic figurine of a ghost in a sheet flipping the bird with both "hands" sits on a wooden shelve in front of an oval mirror with business stickers. A hair salon sink & shelves reflected in the mirror.

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 2d

Arrgghh autocorrect-Lawrence!

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 2d

Raining here in the very dry St. Laurence valley. Grateful!

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 2d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 2d

Truly brilliant! But, your photos are that. I so enjoy following your account.

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 2d

Here is some whimsical beauty - actual natural world.

Constance Lee Menefee @conniemenefee.bsky.social · 2d

Bullfrog of the day!
Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025

Bullfrog on the end of a branch in water, surrounded by reflections of cypress orangey-brown

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 2d

that face! those colors!

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 2d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations and thank you!

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