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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 3h

Everything is awful but the Yankees are out, so there's that.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 5h

a civilization is collapsing before our very eyes, and even if we can stave off the worst, we are not prepared for what is yet to come

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 4h

Good heavens, I'm so sorry about this madness. Much solidarity to you and your family.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 6h

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 8h

Dolly Parton called a press conference to clarify formally that no weapon formed against her will prosper

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 10h

I know I know but good god imagine what the GOP would do with a Biden or Obama "we took the freedom of speech away" sound bite

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 10h

What happened next Jack?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 17h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 11h

Today in polycrisis crossover

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11h

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico was moved from Chicago to Florida amid immigration crackdown, AP source says.

Soccer match between Argentina, Puerto Rico moved from Chicago to Florida amid immigration crackdown

A soccer match between Argentina and Puerto Rico, originally scheduled for next week in Chicago, has been relocated to Florida because of unrest linked to the immigration crackdown in the city, according to a person familiar with the decision.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 12h

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 15h

a McArdle video podcast is also weirdly of the same timeline as Tronc

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 16h

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 16h

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 5d

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

A shameful continued destruction of the innovation engine of the United States. For nothing! For no reason!

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 1d

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
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Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 18h

Nothing But Flowers

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 1d

Today opened class by playing a Talking Heads song and one of my students is going to see the Talking Heads tonight. Will count that a win.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 1d

wut

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 1d

Might have been fun to document the Belichick omnishambles in real time, though.

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 1d

The Bari Weiss ascendancy as the dark, gritty reboot of Broadcast News no one wanted.

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 1d

final boss level of this meme, ugh

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

When they perform outrage about social media posts, know exactly how bad their faith is

When a Guardian reporter pointed out on social media that the image was not a genuine photograph of the generally small and tame protests outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Portland, the Oregon Republican Party's X account replied: "We're not reporters, just bad memers."

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 5d

What a great opportunity! Seminar Native Peoples, American Colonialism and the Constitution with @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social & Ned Blackhawk for grad students & "junior" faculty. In person & virtual. Apply by 10/10.
www.nyhistory.org/education/in...

The New York Historical’s Bonnie and Richard Reiss Graduate Institute for Constitutional History is accepting applications for its fall 2025 seminar for advanced graduate students and junior faculty.
seminar | fall 2025

Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the US Constitution

Fridays, November 7 and 21, December 5 and 12, 2025 | 11 am–2 pm ET
Instructors: Maggie Blackhawk, Ned Blackhawk

As the United States marks the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, this seminar invites a critical examination of a central paradox in American constitutional history: how can a nation celebrate a founding document and constitutional tradition built, in part, on the dispossession of Indigenous homelands? Indian affairs and westward expansion were foundational to the creation and evolution of the US Constitution, yet Native history remains marginalized within the fields of constitutional history and mainstream constitutional scholarship. This seminar explores emerging historical and legal literature that re-centers Native peoples and American colonialism in the narrative of US constitutional development.

Presented in person at The New York Historical and via Zoom

Apply by October 10, 2025

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 2d

big yikes, yes.

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 2d

Not yet! It is an extraordinarily original mess and so so familiar at the same time.

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