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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 28m

His letter reads like ChatGPT also

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 2d

Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…

Stephen Miller asks when in our history have we tolerated unlawful, riotous assemblies around government buildings

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah one of the best lessons I got as a teacher was that most people are more worried about what their peers think of them than what someone in authority thinks of them. And right now I would guess they don’t feel safe talking to each other.

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 2d

icymi - “Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including… a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.” www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 2d

A subset of the South has spent ~150 years resenting the perceived unjustified deployment of federal troops in their communities during Reconstruction. Entire politics and worldviews have been shaped by it. Honestly curious how this is landing there culturally: Amnesia? Vengeance? Schadenfreude?

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 2d

I’m reading this as he thinks he’s doing a favor for healthy people by … canceling their insurance

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Dr Oz: "Some of the reasons that premiums are going up is because if you take people who didn't know they had insurance and therefore never put in any claims off the rolls, then you still have people who are charging enough to make up the difference. But I do think there are criminal elements."

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my personality is "castlevania" @leokitty.bsky.social · 2d

"the south bronx" is not a neighborhood, it's literally the south area of the bronx where there are a lot of neighborhoods

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 3d

I saw One Battle After Another today and as long as we can sit still in a dark room with strangers and laugh and clap at the same time for three hours without mayhem breaking out there is hope for us

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 3d

Great movie. Stomp those grapes!

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NPR @npr.org · 3d

An unusual type of diabetes linked to malnutrition now has a name. Scientists are calling for wider recognition of the newly classified Type 5 diabetes to spur better treatments.

Neglected form of diabetes with unusual symptoms finally gets its own name

An unusual type of diabetes linked to malnutrition now has a name. Scientists are calling for wider recognition of the newly classified Type 5 diabetes to spur better treatments.

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 4d

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 4d

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking on MSNBC:

An FBI agent in the Washington field office has been fired for refusing to arrest and perp walk James Comey.

This news was first reported by Reuters.

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 5d

I’m in there but because they’re pieces I wrote for academic journals I’m not the copyright holder. Grr

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5d

this should be a much bigger story

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 6d

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m.

www.wabe.org/family-says-...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6d

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall!

I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures.

Explore, share, save:

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts

Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so much else... Read M...

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 6d

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword

The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

www.kcur.org

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 8d

Omg the maddest I ever got while teaching was realizing the guy who had the room before me was not only team leave the boards messy but also team rearrange the desks and don’t put them back

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 8d

Text-firsters

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 9d

If you're in the Midwest and have been contemplating a train trip, tickets on the Borealis are ridiculously cheap right now for some dates in October

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9d

i am firmly on the prefer to read the article side of this divide tbh

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 9d

Genius www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/a...

Carol Kaye Is Being Honored by the Rock Hall. She Doesn’t Care.

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 10d

The Haters won. But the Table of Success is forever. tableofsuccess.hellgatenyc.com

Home - Table of Success

Eric Adams has said that “all my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success.” The haters are no longer waiters—on Wednesday, September 25, amidst widening investigations into his...

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 10d

Interesting essay by Sergios Saropoulos on the parallels and divergences between the end of the Roman Republic and ... whatever it is that's going on now in Europe and the US, including alternatives to populism that aren't rules-obsessed technocracy

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 10d

Cato vs Caesar: The False Dilemma of Modern Democracy | The Swamp
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Cato vs Caesar: The False Dilemma of Modern Democracy

From Ancient Rome to Today’s Politics: Elites, Demagogues, and the Search for a Democratic Alternative.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 10d

NEW — Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents outside the Broadview immigration facility earlier this evening.

A collection of Chicago newsrooms is calling for his immediate release.

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Chicago journalist detained while covering protest outside Broadview immigration facility • The TRiiBE

Video posted to social media shows Unraveled Press co-founder Steve Held being detained by federal agents earlier this evening.

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