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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 18h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 20h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Kevin @acrossthecurve.bsky.social · 10h

Kavanaugh Stop

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 10h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Mrs. Corpus’s little boy. 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Kevin @acrossthecurve.bsky.social · 16h

Uber booolish stonks

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Kevin @acrossthecurve.bsky.social · 16h

The Canary in the private credit coal mine

Metro North @metronorthcapital.bsky.social · 16h

That’s not quite how I would categorize the reporting.

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Kevin @acrossthecurve.bsky.social · 16h

This reminds me of southern fire eaters who were pushing whigs north of the Dixie to pass their punitive slave laws. Blew up in their faces then, it’ll blow up in their faces again.

Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance is heading to Indiana in hopes of preventing Trump’s mid-cycle redistricting push from stalling.

Vance heads to Indiana after Republicans warn White House of stalled redistricting push

It marks the vice president's second trip to the Hoosier State over the remapping effort.

www.politico.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Kavanaugh stop

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Dow @dow.bsky.social · 20h

The gold price action at this point is simple: Asset managers, reserve managers and pension managers around the world have concluded the US has become less reliable, and they hold too many $. Given the dearth of alternatives, managers are slowly diversifying into gold. But the gold market is tiny.

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Kevin @acrossthecurve.bsky.social · 20h

Hope he runs for senate here in 2026

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 20h

the world of republican congressional leadership, just constantly unaware of anything in the world

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 21h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Kevin @acrossthecurve.bsky.social · 21h

100 seems high, but even +10 would be huge.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Pete Hegseth is furiously screaming "I SAID NO FATTIES!"

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Kevin @acrossthecurve.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI too big to fail.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

The Big Short 2

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

JPMorgan Chase reports that $1.2T of debt is now tied to AI-related companies, making it the largest segment in the investment-grade market (Caleb Mutua/Bloomberg)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

SCHIFF: If a video exists of Homan taking $50k in bribe money from the FBI, will you support a request to provide it to the committee?

BONDI: You can talk to Director Patel about that

SCHIFF: I'm talking to you about it

BONDI: Will you apologize to Donald Trump?

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Kevin @acrossthecurve.bsky.social · 1d

What could go wrong?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

FT: “OpenAI’s Computing Deals Top $1 Trillion”

@financialtimes.com
#IHopeYoureRight
www.ft.com/content/5f6f...

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is exercising more power for a fake emergency than Lincoln did for a real one.

Trump Is Destroying the U.S. Constitution and Amassing Unprecedented Powers by Sending Federal Troops to Invade American Cities

Lincoln faced a real insurrection and still did not go as far as this president

www.theunpopulist.net

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