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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Modern Day Bartleby @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social · 5h

The Profa Republican Party is an International Crime Syndicate of epistemic irresponsibility

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

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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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

Motion to refer to RFK as Rumpledforeskin from this point forward.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

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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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 5h

Ontario declares end to measles outbreak after almost a year

Province’s top doctor says the decision is based on careful monitoring and analysis by public-health experts

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 14h

Worth repeating: "University presses are essential infrastructure for the humanities & should be financially supported in the same way that other higher education inter-institutional infrastructure is." Some powerful examples here:

Institutions and funders must recognize the contributions of university presses to the humanities infrastructure (opinion)

Recognizing the university press community’s essential contributions to that infrastructure will be crucial as institutions and funders plan for the future, write Charles Watkinson and Melissa Pitts.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 13h

I still can’t believe the same media that ran wild on sensationalism for years spends all its time downplaying the legitimately outrageous actions and words of the WH.

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

Benny Johnson and Oregon MAGA activist (and convicted J6 felon) David Medina accompanied Kristi Noem during her visit to Portland. Here they are amplifying a local MAGA influencer with some, well, interesting ideas about race and religion.

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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 21h

#ShowYourFaceCopsLaw

Mayor Bruce Harrell 2nd Executive Order strengthens services to immigrant & refugee communities

Proposes legislation to prohibit the practice of masked, non-uniformed federal agents conducting immigration enforcement raids within Seattle

harrell.seattle.gov/2025/10/08/m...

Mayor Harrell Signs Executive Orders to Protect Seattle Communities from Unlawful Federal Troop Deployment and Unjust Immigration Enforcement Actions - Office of the Mayor

Seattle – Today, Mayor Bruce Harrell signed two Executive Orders to safeguard Seattle communities from federal overreach and unlawful actions from the Trump administration, with a focus on preparednes...

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14h

"Pope Leo made an urgent plea for the world to help immigrants in his first major document, which was released on Thursday and invoked one of the late Pope Francis' strongest criticisms of U.S. President Donald Trump's anti-immigration policies."

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1d

Make no mistake. This nonsense about Antifa is directly tied to the 2026 and 2028 elections. It’s the “crisis” they will use as justification to shut down key voting centers.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h

“The only difference between me and other recently sworn-in members is that I am the 218th signer” of the Epstein petition, says Adelita Grijalva, who easily won her Congressional seat by nearly 40 points: english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-...

Adelita Grijalva: ‘The first thing I’ll do is sign the petition for the release of the Epstein files’

Democrats claim the Arizona congresswoman’s swearing-in is being delayed to prevent the publication of documents related to the sex offender

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h

“… who’s losing out here are the constituents in Arizona,” she told El País. “I can’t hire staff. I can’t open up an office. We can’t get our computer set up. I can’t walk into the Capitol without security clearance. It’s frustrating. My colleagues treat me like I’m already in, but I’m not.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14h

“The only difference between me and other recently sworn-in members is that I am the 218th signer” of the Epstein petition, says Adelita Grijalva, who easily won her Congressional seat by nearly 40 points: english.elpais.com/usa/2025-10-...

Adelita Grijalva: ‘The first thing I’ll do is sign the petition for the release of the Epstein files’

Democrats claim the Arizona congresswoman’s swearing-in is being delayed to prevent the publication of documents related to the sex offender

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 16h

A loud reminder that this administration wants to bring back SEGREGATION as @victorerikray.bsky.social has pointed out and they're starting within the administration.

A literal page out of Woodrow Wilson's playbook. #blacksky #news

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 14h

I was in a meeting were some university administrators (not mine) talked about using GenAI to write their emails, reports, and other documents.

I wanted to ask them what the point was. If they couldn’t be bothered to do it themselves, did it need to be done at all?

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 15h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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ljconrad @ljconrad.bsky.social · 15h

AM Must Read: Trump is The Insurrection >>> "The only issue is whether the Supreme Court will allow the president to say that there is an insurrection ..." Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social hits it out of the park! h/t Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-insu...

Trump is the insurrection

And the Supreme Court's conservatives are his shock troops.

www.publicnotice.co

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15h

Accepting this as an argument means accepting that, as an educator, your primary commitment is not to educating your students, or to propagating knowledge of your subject, but to finding and securing new markets for products in whose success your employers (or their bosses) have some kind of stake.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15h

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15h

This also indicates the essential dishonesty of saying “it’s just a tool.” A hammer is a tool. Nobody writes about the “inevitability” of hammers. Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers “responsibly.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15h

Generative AI, in both form and content, and whether looked on favourably or critically, seems to embody a collective hopelessness about the prospect of human learning and creativity, if not human knowledge altogether. It’s as if climate change had fans.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Every single boot licking propagandist who spoke at that event was either someone who was fired for being a bad journalist, or is someone who never actually held a job with a non-propagandist media outlet.

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