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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4h

i am not sure mike johnson’s plan of abandoning the capitol to a bunch of snarky house dems (of which there are many) with nothing to do was a smart strategic move

Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 5h

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 3h

Ohhhh looks great!

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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 5h

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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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 9h

tough but fair.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 9h

or, is it an archive? can we call it that?

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Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · 2d

The decision between “ask the coked-out robot to draw the building you’re literally sitting in” vs “send an intern with an iphone downstairs” is sure indicative of some things

Darwin BondGraham @darwinbondgraham.bsky.social · 2d

Contest!

How many inaccuracies can you spot in the AI-generated image of Oakland City Hall that was sent to media in a press release from the mayor's office today?

Send us your list and you could win some Oaklandside merch.

oaklandside.org/2025/10/06/o...

An AI image of Oakland City Hall is missing some stuff…can you spot it?

A press release announcing Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee’s State of the City speech included a curious picture of a civic landmark.

oaklandside.org

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 1d

great piece!

Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 1d

Today at #AHAPerspectives, @deannahagman.bsky.social writes about Philadelphia's Carousel House and the history of accessible public spaces.

Making Space – AHA

Philadelphia’s Carousel House is a historical case study for the value of spaces created for and with the disability community.

www.historians.org

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

Look I get that it's not sexy that the Florida facility was closed via an environmental lawsuit but Al Capone got taken down by tax evasion. Not everything is sexy!

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 2d

Living wage? What of the laughing wage. How much is the loving wage. Tell me that

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 2d

simultaneously thrilled and annoyed as I add a slide mapping out the new boundaries of Europe after the Congress of Vienna.

Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 2d

I have really curious students in my World History course this semester, which is awesome! However, it also means I'm having to re-study a bunch of key terms and events in case they ask about them.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 2d

I have really curious students in my World History course this semester, which is awesome! However, it also means I'm having to re-study a bunch of key terms and events in case they ask about them.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 2d

ohh what did you have them read? I assign lots of JStor Daily to my students lol

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 3d

Man, if only this country had come up with something, say a motto, that described how we come together as one even out of having many different backgrounds

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Hegseth to the Navy: "Your diversity is not your strength"

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Wolfe Van Mural @guytheguy.bsky.social · 9d

driving home practicing my “aw man, they only filled your fries 1/3 of the way?!” reaction

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 9d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 5d

are you moving all the books or getting rid of many books?

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 5d

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 5d

These people are heroes. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

‘We called ourselves the lifeboat crew’: how fired USAID workers launched a rescue project ‘to save as many babies as we can’

After the Trump administration closed the organisation down, a group of former staff secured new funding for almost 80 programmes, benefiting an estimated 40 million people

www.theguardian.com

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 6d

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 7d

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7d

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

Opinion | The Right Didn’t Catch Cancel Culture From the Left

www.nytimes.com

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 8d

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."

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Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social · 8d

I rolled my eyes when madison cawthorn started his term in congress with hiring only comms, but sadly it was a prophecy of exactly where all of politics was headed

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

and he's obsessed with appearance because that's the only thing he understands.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 10d

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10d

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 10d

If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.

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