Helen Shin
@h-x-s.bsky.social
She/her.
Formerly @H_X_S on Twitter.
Formerly @H_X_S on Twitter.
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My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 PM
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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hard to express the feelings of practicing a scenario here where the church is being sieged by immigration to kidnap someone
“We are doing anti-racist work under a fascist government, please act like it.”
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
hard to express the feelings of practicing a scenario here where the church is being sieged by immigration to kidnap someone
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“We are doing anti-racist work under a fascist government, please act like it.”
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
“We are doing anti-racist work under a fascist government, please act like it.”
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
Words I don’t think I ever anticipated hearing while sitting in pews before a pulpit
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New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
Here’s How Much Eric Trump Is Worth
Crypto took the real estate heir’s fortune and supersized it, briefly making the president’s second-oldest son a billionaire in early September.
www.forbes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New: “Eric Trump Has Gotten 10 Times Richer Since Dad’s Election”
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
@kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com
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The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.
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“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
December 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.
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Why am I not surprised?
NPS has made Trump's birthday a free admission day, while deleting MLK Day and Juneteenth.
NPS has made Trump's birthday a free admission day, while deleting MLK Day and Juneteenth.
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Why am I not surprised?
NPS has made Trump's birthday a free admission day, while deleting MLK Day and Juneteenth.
NPS has made Trump's birthday a free admission day, while deleting MLK Day and Juneteenth.
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Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.
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To be fair, the justices are not technically wrong that the standard here, which the district court reviewed, was that if the gerrymandering was for partisan reasons, it's legal. It's only illegal if it was for race. But that allows the justices to just out & out say "THIS IS FOR PARTISAN REASONS!"
“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 5, 2025 at 2:54 AM
To be fair, the justices are not technically wrong that the standard here, which the district court reviewed, was that if the gerrymandering was for partisan reasons, it's legal. It's only illegal if it was for race. But that allows the justices to just out & out say "THIS IS FOR PARTISAN REASONS!"
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I wish I were kidding.
Imagine lecturing district court judges for not assuming the Texas Republican Party was full of honest public servants who sincerely have the best interests of their constituents at heart.
Imagine lecturing district court judges for not assuming the Texas Republican Party was full of honest public servants who sincerely have the best interests of their constituents at heart.
Texas clearly did a racial gerrymander, which is illegal.
A district court found that Texas did a racial gerrymander, rejecting the new map because it is illegal.
But the Supreme Court reversed it.
Because? Must assume the gerrymanderers were acting in good faith (despite the evidence otherwise).
A district court found that Texas did a racial gerrymander, rejecting the new map because it is illegal.
But the Supreme Court reversed it.
Because? Must assume the gerrymanderers were acting in good faith (despite the evidence otherwise).
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I wish I were kidding.
Imagine lecturing district court judges for not assuming the Texas Republican Party was full of honest public servants who sincerely have the best interests of their constituents at heart.
Imagine lecturing district court judges for not assuming the Texas Republican Party was full of honest public servants who sincerely have the best interests of their constituents at heart.
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“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
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It turns out when you exude the vibe that you don't care about other people, you're unappealing. S H O C K E R
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
It turns out when you exude the vibe that you don't care about other people, you're unappealing. S H O C K E R
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This is so funny, as someone who was a finance bro in NYC on the apps at one point. Levels of skill issue I cannot even begin to describe from ole boy at the hedge fund.
"Men need to spend money to get laid!"
Meanwhile, just the other day...
Meanwhile, just the other day...
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is so funny, as someone who was a finance bro in NYC on the apps at one point. Levels of skill issue I cannot even begin to describe from ole boy at the hedge fund.
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makes you wonder how much the conservatives on the court are also in a fantasy political world
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
makes you wonder how much the conservatives on the court are also in a fantasy political world
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funny thing about this is depending on the scale of the swing next year this might end being worse for republicans than striking down the maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
Supreme Court Conservatives Reinstate Texas’ Gerrymandered House Maps
The Supreme Court, in a Thursday evening order, put on hold a...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
funny thing about this is depending on the scale of the swing next year this might end being worse for republicans than striking down the maps talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
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I shared this WILD post with my husband, who proceeded to Google me for fun, and according to Google AI I'm married to a coworker whom I've spoken with maybe twice. We met when we both had covid, apparently. 💀
December 5, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I shared this WILD post with my husband, who proceeded to Google me for fun, and according to Google AI I'm married to a coworker whom I've spoken with maybe twice. We met when we both had covid, apparently. 💀
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Okay, so, every time I add an additional question mark to the search, *everything changes*...
December 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Okay, so, every time I add an additional question mark to the search, *everything changes*...
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<rooting around in the bowels of the internet for a couple hours, backing out with grease stains all over my face> - “Ok yeah, here’s your problem buddy, you searched for ‘Chuck Wendig,’ not ‘CHNURK MANDOG,’ who is clearly the real Charnk Warbog. That’ll be $3trillion, you doing cash or card?”
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
<rooting around in the bowels of the internet for a couple hours, backing out with grease stains all over my face> - “Ok yeah, here’s your problem buddy, you searched for ‘Chuck Wendig,’ not ‘CHNURK MANDOG,’ who is clearly the real Charnk Warbog. That’ll be $3trillion, you doing cash or card?”
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I checked mine, and apparently I have recently lost a cat named Mikey, own a goat named Nina, and have also posted publicly about growing up Jewish!
Gosh, the things one learns from the internet.
Gosh, the things one learns from the internet.
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I checked mine, and apparently I have recently lost a cat named Mikey, own a goat named Nina, and have also posted publicly about growing up Jewish!
Gosh, the things one learns from the internet.
Gosh, the things one learns from the internet.
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It's time to talk to you about my cat.
Vital Cat Update
It’s time to talk about my cat. To which you might be saying, “Chuck, I didn’t know you had a cat!” and I’d respond with, “I didn’t know I had a cat either…
terribleminds.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's time to talk to you about my cat.
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Whatever you think of "abundance" agenda, the fact that you have to launch a plan to (supposedly) help middle-class people in a billionaire-bankrolled magazine that employs Caitlin Flanagan and Thomas Chattertom Williams....is a big problem.
December 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Whatever you think of "abundance" agenda, the fact that you have to launch a plan to (supposedly) help middle-class people in a billionaire-bankrolled magazine that employs Caitlin Flanagan and Thomas Chattertom Williams....is a big problem.
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(2/2) Noah Feldman and Neal Katyal will lose their shit. Ezra will say Roberts et al are doing justicing the right way. The Atlantic will do a special issue opposing it.
But letting effete centrists gate-keepers control left-liberal discourse is why we are in such bad shape to begin with.
But letting effete centrists gate-keepers control left-liberal discourse is why we are in such bad shape to begin with.
December 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
(2/2) Noah Feldman and Neal Katyal will lose their shit. Ezra will say Roberts et al are doing justicing the right way. The Atlantic will do a special issue opposing it.
But letting effete centrists gate-keepers control left-liberal discourse is why we are in such bad shape to begin with.
But letting effete centrists gate-keepers control left-liberal discourse is why we are in such bad shape to begin with.