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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 22h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 4d

Getting strong "glass cliff" vibes

NPR @npr.org · 4d

Japan's governing party on Saturday elected Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the country's first female prime minister.

Japan's ruling party elects Sanae Takaichi as leader, likely to become first female PM

Japan's governing party on Saturday elected Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line ultra-conservative and China hawk, as its new leader, making her likely to become the country's first female prime minister.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

it is just a straightforward statement of fact to say that the trump administration sees any black student at an elite institution as one too many

So Much for Class-Based Affirmative Action

The Trump administration considers even race-blind admissions policies illegal if they’re intended to achieve diversity.

www.theatlantic.com

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18d

WaPo: Pentagon says it will require reporters "to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey."

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 18d

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion.

Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20d

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 21d

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 23d

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.

Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?

My own colleagues are silent.

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Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 25d

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Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 26d

fuentes posting a call to non-violence to his followers (who will most likely see it for what it is: a disingenuous play to placate the "normies" and give him some cover), does indicate that at the very least, he came to the same conclusion my friend and I did: probably the latter.

Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 26d

a friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 26d

it’s early but it seems like maybe this is relevant again (wrote it last week fml)

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 26d

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

onion person @junlper.beer · 26d

the entire media ecosystem is just not built or ready for events like this and far right billionaires like larry ellison buying news orgs will only make this worse

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Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 26d

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 26d

basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 26d

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 26d

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 26d

Of course, Kirk eventually kowtowed to them and began including them in his ranks. But it was never enough.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2022...

Charlie Kirk’s TPUSA signals its surrender to white nationalist Groypers by embracing them

The Groyper War—the internecine battle among far-right groups vying for the college-age audience, pitting Charlie Kirk’s slick Turning Point USA operation with Nick Fuentes’ America First and its whit...

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David Neiwert @davidneiwert.bsky.social · 26d

Just a gentle reminder that white-nationalist “Groypers” like Troy Robinson have long plagued Charlie Kirk’s operations because he wasn’t racist, homophobic or antisemitic enough.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...

Alt-right trolls make life miserable for Charlie Kirk and his Turning Point USA 'Culture War' tour

Charlie Kirk’s attempt at creating a young conservative movement, called Turning Point USA, has long had a complicated relationship with the youth-oriented, white nationalist alt-right. This week,

www.dailykos.com

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Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 26d

fuentes posting a call to non-violence to his followers (who will most likely see it for what it is: a disingenuous play to placate the "normies" and give him some cover), does indicate that at the very least, he came to the same conclusion my friend and I did: probably the latter.

Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 26d

a friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM

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Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 26d

This wasn't a debate in the sense that we were on opposing sides. It was mostly us debating the likelihood in either direction

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Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 26d

A lot of that means absolutely nothing off the internet (outside reddit/twitch/the chan boards really), but those terms really are crucial to the modern political ecosystem, for young men especially

And few are prepared to discuss it in any meaningful capacity, even in academia

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Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 26d

a friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 27d

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

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Alexandra Mathieu @alexmathieu.bsky.social · 28d

the crackdown on universities nationwide and over-policing of millions of innocent students just trying to get an education is going to be worse than what happened at columbia by a mile, i reckon

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28d

a lot of people on the right are going to be pretending to be concerned about guns and political violence today. as it happens, this was just published today about how the present administration is handling gun violence in DC during a hostile occupation it claims it is doing for "safety" reasons

The 51st @51st.news · 28d

D.C. banned high-capacity magazines capable of feeding guns dozens of bullets at a time. The Trump Administration will no longer charge people for carrying them, calling the ban "unconstitutional." 51st.news/high-capacit...

High-capacity gun magazines are illegal in D.C. Trump no longer wants to prosecute violators.

City officials say high-capacity magazines can be particularly deadly.

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