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Tamsin Shaw
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NYU, articles in NYRB, NYT etc, formerly Princeton Politics Department, Institute for Advanced Study, King's College Cambridge
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Tamsin Shaw @professorshaw.bsky.social · Sep 30
I love my students. They’re serious, open-minded, intellectually curious, hardworking. When I tell people that, they usually say “REALLY??” Because they think they’re all cancel culture militants or woke snowflakes or whatever the propaganda says this week.
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djlavoie.bsky.social
Rob and Michelle Reiner wrote the preface to one of my dad's books about parenting kids with special needs.

They cared so deeply about kids and families and community.
Book cover: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success It's So Much Work to Be You Friend WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON ASPERGER SYNDROME RICHARD LAVOIE PREFACE BY ROB REINER AND MICHELE REINER Preface As parents and people who care deeply about children, we believe that there is no responsibility more important than striving to give children the support and opportunities they need in order to grow up to be confident, happy, and healthy adults. In 1997 we started the I Am Your Child Foundation, and in 2004 we started the national advocacy organization Parents' Action for Children to raise awareness about the importance of a child's early years and to advance public policy through parental education and advocacy. Through the course of our work, we were very fortunate to meet Rick Lavoie and to learn about the valuable work he does. His profound understanding of the social and emotional needs of children with learning problems has come from his more than thirty years of experience working with children and parents, and this book reflects the best of his wisdom, compassion, and skill. One of the most vital tasks of childhood is forming and maintaining friendships. Successful relationships with peers are known to have a significantly positive effect on a child's self-esteem and sense of well-being, in both the present and the future. The skills children learn through their friendships are ones that they will use throughout their lives. Friendships offer many opportunities for learning, growth, comfort, and pleasure. It is in the context of friendships that children learn how to understand and express their emotions and ideas, re- , learn healthy assertion, increase potion
December 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
professorshaw.bsky.social
Such a great conversation with @johnsipher.bsky.social and Jerry O'Shea for Mission Implausible. I got to ask them some questions!
With some shoutouts to @tim-weiner.bsky.social for his fantastic book The Mission: The CIA in the 21st Century.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Mission Implausible
Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · Do you want to know the truth behind the world’s wildest conspiracy theories? Former CIA officers John Sipher & Jerry O’Shea try to determine where misinfo...
podcasts.apple.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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johnsipher.bsky.social
The threat is huge. The team is inept.

www.thebulwark.com/p/fbi-spent-...
The FBI Spent a Generation Relearning How to Catch Spies. Then Came Kash Patel.
As China’s spies grow more aggressive, the FBI is distracted and off-balance.
www.thebulwark.com
December 14, 2025 at 7:18 PM
professorshaw.bsky.social
It was great fun talking to these guys!
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
professorshaw.bsky.social
Sleep well, friends
December 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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seanhowe.bsky.social
Richard Viguerie: The Moonie Years
December 9, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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zachsdorfman.bsky.social
Interesting story. A few thoughts:

1. Mexico City a RIS hub for a v long time. Lee Harvey Oswald futzed around there, later Boyce/Lee case centered on embassy there.

2. There’s a bit of a goose/gander issue that isn’t raised. CIA’s Mex City station has been at points one of largest in world.
The U.S. Gave Mexico a List of Russian Spies. Mexico Let Them Stay.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
professorshaw.bsky.social
Torture is being used as a punishment in detention centers. The techniques the Bush administration called "enhanced interrogation" are now being used in a brazenly punitive way. We're rounding people up innocent people, putting them in camps, and torturing them.

www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
USA: Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome in Florida - Amnesty International
This report presents Amnesty International’s findings from a research trip to southern Florida in September 2025, to document the human rights impacts of federal and state migration and asylum policie...
www.amnesty.org
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
professorshaw.bsky.social
Long day. I could use a peace prize.
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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sandy174.bsky.social
🥺 oh baby girl, you have many Bluesky friends sharing your story. We will find you a home. Hopefully soon 🤞 Here's MELIA's bio. Please read and repost. She needs someone who will be fully committed to her. ❤️

🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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wajali.bsky.social
Elon Musk has tweeted nonstop about white babies, white genocide, population decline, and fertility rates for the past week.

This is what it's all about, folks. The supervillain plot is tweeted in real time.

White supremacy. Fear. Anxiety. Hatred. A loathing of diversity.
December 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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sandy174.bsky.social
❤️ MELIA needs a quiet adult only home. No dogs. she guards her food & toys. So she needs someone who is experienced to help/ train her. Shes sweet, loving and will be your loyal best friend. Be her hero ❤️🥺❤️

🏠Hempstead Animal Shelter
☎️(516) 785-5220
📍3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit
Wantagh, NY 11793
December 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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urocklive1.bsky.social
"It was all about business. Oligarch money. Projects. Investments. And now Ukraine is about to pay the price for those conversations.

My sources are telling me that in that Miami meeting, Kushner and Witkoff are not negotiating. They’re delivering an ultimatum."
The message, as it’s been relayed to me, is simple and brutal: this is the deal, and there will not be a better one. Putin isn’t moving, Putin isn’t accepting anything else, and if Ukraine doesn’t take the offer being pushed from Trump’s side, they are being told to prepare for American support to dry up — weapons, funding, political backing. The very lifeline that has kept Ukraine alive on the battlefield is being turned into a weapon, used not against the aggressor, but against the victim. They didn’t even have the respect to sit with them in Brussels, shoulder-to-shoulder with European allies. They dragged them into a hotel in Florida to say: take this or stand alone.
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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jonathanslater.bsky.social
No
Music. Just that lovely sound. Goodnight blue sky
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
professorshaw.bsky.social
A Reddish Egret thinking how the hell did I wake up here?
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
professorshaw.bsky.social
How did it happen that every single cafe in the world all at once decided they were no longer stirring iced lattes for their customers? Was it some Pluribus-type event?
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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atrupar.com
Warren: "With Jeffrey Epstein, I really mean follow the money. Here's the deal - JPMorgan Chase - yes, Jamie Dimon, I'm looking at you -- is Epstein's bank, a close personal relationship that spans years. Shouldn't this be in the JPMorgan's ads?...I'd like to have Dimon come in & under oath testify"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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anneapplebaum.bsky.social
For a decade, Russia has been seeking to divide Europe and America, to undermine NATO and weaken the transatlantic alliance. This peace plan, if accepted, will achieve that goal.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
professorshaw.bsky.social
Quick fix described in the article
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23d
Google defaulting all Gmail users to a setting that enables Google to harvest all your emails into chatbot training is straight-up evil and invasive.

www.huffpost.com/entry/opt-ou...
If You Use Gmail, You're Going To Want To Turn Off This 1 Automatic Setting ASAP
Plus: a quick guide to the two-step process for opting out.
www.huffpost.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
professorshaw.bsky.social
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH? This guy really wants to go after David Attenborough? There will be armies of boomers and Gen Xers lining up to bring him down. It's like telling English people they shouldn't love their dogs.
timbale.bsky.social Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 23d
So many laughable assumptions in this opening sentence that I honestly don't know where to start. 🤦

"What I struggle to understand, I say to Danny Kruger in his office at Reform UK HQ, is why a serious Conservative, with a glittering future like yours, would defect to a party led by Nigel Farage?
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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davidhemond.bsky.social
Hey Russia if you’re listening. I recommend aiming higher.
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
professorshaw.bsky.social
"Yes, Harvard scientists, I'd love to have you on the payroll. And why don't you schedule a meeting with my Russian friend who's famous for kissing Putin? You'll find her quite charming."

It's that easy.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.

Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM