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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 3h

listen, hospitals are just going to have to shift from a sustainable model where they provide care to an unsustainable model where they close - if they can't accept that, they should close

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 19h

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1h

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

that's still an embarrassing number of people who vaguely believe government might be working better (or aren't sure)

just incredible, historic journalistic and educational failure

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2h

These are terrible numbers for Trump (via @pewresearch.org)

www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"Majorities say trump has used his office improperly; fewer say he has improved government, U.S. standing" (graphs via Pew Research)

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2h

Update: they weren't.

DISAPPOINTING for this to go the opposite way that it should. See who's doing the work and ask to help, vs. share that you want help doing work that's already being done.

Not how to build a coalition or build on the YEARS OF WORK already done. YEARS!!! YEARSSSSSSS.

skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2h

Hoping that some of the longest players in this work are being contacted by 404 for their help and insight.

cc: @flfreedomread.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social @tasslyn.bsky.social etc etc

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 2h

If you know about book bans in your community, @404media.co wants to hear from you!

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 2h

Hoping that some of the longest players in this work are being contacted by 404 for their help and insight.

cc: @flfreedomread.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social @tasslyn.bsky.social etc etc

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 2h

If you know about book bans in your community, @404media.co wants to hear from you!

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 3h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 19h

Solidarity!

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 20h

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 17h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Anna Christine Grant @christorical.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds good, let’s do it

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 18h

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Have you seen 3D animations from the IDF showing secret Hamas hideouts?

According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assets—sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 18h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Peter Chatzky for Congress @chatzkyforcongress.bsky.social · 3d

Crazy how much “Actually Romantic” on Taylor’s #TSTheLifeofaShowgirl reminds me of a certain member of Congress 👀.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13h

Also: nice resonances between Roane's discussion of the "plot" in Dark Agoras and Kameelah Janan Rasheed's plottings at the Print Center show :) We're meeting with Kameelah for our Wayward Classification lesson in November.

A corner installation, walls painted black, screen in the corner, two framed prints, strips of film and text scattered throughout

Screen depicting grid and curve and a photo of a galaxy; grid strip extending from screen; layered film strips, photos and texts

Film cells and transparencies on the ground

Wall text: Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Plot It / Point Moving, 2025

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey cool the NOAA guy who was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics for his role in Sharpiegate has been confirmed as the head of NOAA.

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13h

We're also exploring Alexa Hoyer's Fallow Frames project, photographic documentation of empty tree wells — which reminds me of how much I love the little tags the Parks dept places on newly planted saplings :)

A tag on a newly planted tree that reads: Hello! I'm a [bald cypress] and I was planted on [May 2, 2022]. Help me grow big and tall by: watering 15-20 gallons/week in the hot summer months; adding a 3" layer of mulch

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13h

I'm asking everyone to look at the archived website for 596 Acres. I wonder what happened to them. I had so many students do 596A-focused projects over the years then discovered that they'd gone dormant in 2018.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13h

NYC "remains the only municipality in the US to guarantee the right to shelter, a commitment established through decades of advocacy + litigation. Public Address, by artist Alex Strada, is a citywide public artwork that centers the lived experience of those most impacted by housing insecurity."

Storefront for Art and Architecture

storefront.nyc

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