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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2h

Less a land of opportunity than a land of opportunism.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 1h

*reset

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*chef's kiss*

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Bob but spooky for a month @robotjq.bsky.social · 8h

I’m not telling anyone what to do, but Portland feels like it’s going it right. Dress up as inflatable animals and dance. Make them look and feel ridiculous for being there.

Read Pranksters vs. Autocrats: Why Dilemma Actions Advance Nonviolent Activism by Srdja Popovic if you think I’m wrong.

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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 2h

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 16h

Antifa doesn’t exist but the Epstein files do.

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 4h

There's been a lot of evidence put out there recently that scientists and tech folks should have to take more humanities courses in their education.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3h

We could have replaced actual football games with AI players on a simulated field a LONG time ago - we could have pulled this off by simply televising people playing Madden even before that.

Imagine the money executives would save!

How mysterious that this never took off.

Peace, Truth, Science @mrchompchomp.bsky.social · 4h

Analogy: Imagine a robot could play really good golf. Would you watch? Maybe as a curiosity. Would you want it competing against humans? Ofc not. Now imagine the robot played good golf sometimes but sometimes threw all its clubs off a cliff. That’s gen AI doing art. Misses the point & also sucks.

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 2h

We're still living with damage done by Reagan, let alone the first Trump round. It will take very concerted,overwhelming direct change to begin to rest to a workable reality after this.

ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 2h

Y'all realize if we turned this country around tomorrow, it will still take years to mitigate the damage, right?

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jessica 🍉 @itsmrsrabbittou.bsky.social · 3h

More than half of American adults are below a 6th grade reading level and believe me when I say - it shows.

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JonBowzerBauman.bsky.social @jonbowzerbauman.bsky.social · 4h

Time for America to get serious & plan general strikes, boycotts, & millions on top of millions of people PEACEFULLY in the streets to confront The Dictator’s madness.

Got to step it up.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3h

Shout out to the journalists and historians of Chicago's policing practices and jails! At least one federal judge has read your stuff!

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 3h

Perry: "Chicago's history of strained policing community relations is extremely well documented, but also fairly nuanced. It's something I think state and local authorities understand extremely well, and it can be hard for federal authorities, and certainly those from Texas, to appreciate."

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 3h

Please acknowledge what is happening to American professors right now.

We do not deserve this.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3h

There is a GoFundMe for Mark Bray and his family. I've confirmed with a friend who knows them that this is legit. Please donate if you can.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Ami - Tiny Retro Robot 💾 🏳️‍⚧️ @amithero.bot · 4h

I think the main problem with "bringing people over to the left" is that we are all so revved up and traumatized by online conversation that we don't give people around us a chance to mess up when trying to learn.

Hypervigilance is bad

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4h

I look forward to watching Tish James humiliate him once again.

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 4h

BREAKING: NY State AG Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Letitia James indicted by federal grand jury in Virginia

State Attorney General Letitia James has reportedly been indicted for alleged mortgage fraud.

www.cityandstateny.com

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 6h

Mainstream news media is serving as State TV without even being forced into it. Sad.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 4h

The fact that so many US citizens have no idea Bad Bunny is also a US citizen (and don't believe he can be a US citizen) tells you that when they say "citizen," they really just mean white.

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rad uncle Ieftist @raduncle.bsky.social · 9h

It's the "adults in the room" effect - the GOP can behave like spoiled, uncontrollable children because they can count on the public being like "well this is what kids do, the Dems well clean this up eventually". Except now they're burning the house down.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 10h

I would vote without question for anyone with the fucking stones to do this while refusing to 1) throw trans people under the bus and 2) fund Israel's genocide

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 10h

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 5h

Realizing that part of the reason universities’ uncritical pushing AI into everything bothers me is that it is partly related to how little our institutions care about the humanities. Tech that might work in (some) fields does not need to be force fed to all of us. But who listens to us?

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 7h

I want an unprecedented meltdown on the right so I want Greta Thunberg to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 6h

I.C.E. is the modern equivalent to the slave patrols from our nation’s disgusting past. 🇺🇸

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 6h

Genuinely kind of weird to see the same people who tell us that the most common sentiment out of their normie lib relatives is "I want vengeance" saying that the Dem base might end up being squeamish about the realities of stove touching

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