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dan, crisp & juicy enjoyer 🦀🏳️‍🌈👋🏾 @justupthepike.bsky.social · 9h

MCPS is redrawing school boundaries before Woodward HS opens in 2027—while Bethesda-area schools will largely stay the same, high schools in Silver Spring will become even more segregated by class and race. bethesdamagazine.com/2025/10/09/w...

New Woodward High boundary options keep current Whitman, Bethesda-Chevy Chase attendance zones

Attendance zones for Walt Whitman and Bethesda-Chevy Chase high schools would remain the same while those for schools such as Walter Johnson High and Northwood High School would shift.

bethesdamagazine.com

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 8h

it’s honest work…

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 12h

Trying to imagine applying for a neuroscience postdoc and your cover letter is just five pages of race-IQ madness

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 12h

But also…who’s expressing unsolicited opinions in job materials? It doesn’t make sense at all.

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 13h

“I’ve now won this 3 years in a row. Never been done before…”

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 14h

[looking at this dataset I’ve had to send back twice in the past 5 weeks and doing QA on for a third time]

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 14h

Just make him a prize, named after himself, and hire people for the ceremony. He literally wouldn’t notice the distance.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 15h

It had not occurred to me to worry about what happens when Norway *doesn't* give the Nobel Peace Prize to Trump. And it sure seems as if the administration is engaging in some, ah, late-award-season campaigning for the prize www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Norway on Edge Over Trump Ahead of Nobel Peace Prize Verdict

Norway is bracing for the aftermath of the Nobel Peace Prize announcement on Friday as the Nordic nation has faced increasing pressure from Donald Trump and his administration to award it to the US le...

www.bloomberg.com

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 17h

This Day in Labor History: October 9, 1961. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Tennessee state Supreme Court order revoking the charter of the Highlander Folk School. Let's talk about the most important organizing space int he South for both labor and civil rights!

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 14h

I always go back to Bomani talking years ago about the killing of arts programs in schools and the slow death of the Black church killed a lot of musicality in contemporary art. I think that also isolated kids from adults who could be better creative mentors or guides as they grow.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...

Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor

Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...

www.leftanchor.com

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

SILS is one of the top library schools in the country. Not good.

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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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 1d

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 1d

BILL BELICHICK GO ON STUDBUDZ.

Courtney: Twin, what's wrong?

BB: *grumbles with his arms crossed*

C: I feel you. Aye, T, do a backflip! Do a backflip!

T: *does a backflip*

BB, grumbling: Ws in the chat.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1d

when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34

Wasn’t really sure what to expect from Chapel Bill. But after that drive, I have him as second best college coach I’ve ever seen, just below Saban.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

“I’m English on my mom’s side and ethnically a kidnapper on my dad’s”

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

It is very American, and weird, that the klan aren’t more universal villains in our video games. We could, until recently, expect a pretty regular array of games where you battle Nazis; but the klan has always been kinda niche

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

For *years* I’ve wanted like a Far Cry or AC style game set in reconstruction or even during the civil war precisely because of the richness of the era, the unique difficulties Black characters would face, and the heroic qualities of the story. shooting Klan members in the face is good gaming

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 1d

This special issue of @jhppl.bsky.social is a must-read. 👀 See why, in this thread:

Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social · 1d

US public health is in crisis. In this special JHPPL issue edited by @oberlanderunc.bsky.social & @sarahgollust.bsky.social, you’ll find articles that help contextualize the erosion of public health infrastructure & adoption of policies harmful to public health. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/advanc...

Advance Publication | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 1d

This horrible story captures the street safety paradox

Requests are ignored or given lip service...until a tragedy creates public pressure that DOTs can't escape

Advocates will then ask for similar improvements elsewhere...to which DOTs will say, actually *this* street is different (for...reasons)

Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 2d

Every time this happens, I brace for a story like this. Just devastating, heartbreaking, beyond infuriating

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 3d

5 years before her son died there, a mother tried to make an intersection safer

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 2d

segregationist say like John Roberts. He believes in a national rebirth through the elimination of internal enemies, those enemies being non-white and the “left”. *that* is absolutely fascist and should be recognizes. But it does grow from “traditional” US conservatism

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 2d

to enjoy the same rights and privileges as other citizens into serious account. This offers incredibly fertile soil for fascism to arise. It’s why Paxton labeled the klan as proto-fascist, especially combined with Lost Cause-ism. But, Trump is a real inflection point. He’s not *merely* a

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 2d

I think where critics of folks who say “this is nothing new” are wrong is that they don’t properly weigh how authoritarian American conservatism *always* was. At no point in history has American conservatism not been explicitly white supremacist, if you take actively opposing Black folks’ attempts

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 2d

This also is why taking American authoritarianism a la Jim Crow seriously is an important bit of context for understanding where Trump deviates from the traditional GOP which was, and remains, segregationist without being eliminationist. That’s a subtle distinction without whitewashing

HouserDave @houserdave.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. There are many good reasons to loathe Reagan's policies. But he wasn't fash. His language (and even actions) on just immigration were day & night from this. And when it comes to how the polity gets moved by leaders & language, that matters.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 2d

An 8 year-old blog post on causal thinking in epidemiology that I'm sharing for no particular reason (ICYMI).

darrendahly.github.io/post/2017-02...

Cause vs. Consequence |

Principal Statistician | Senior Lecturer

darrendahly.github.io

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