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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 19h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Abigail Segel @abigailsegel.bsky.social · 17h

For the WNBPA and the NWSLPA, solidarity is an ethos as well as a strategy. I spoke with leaders from both unions to learn more about the organizations' strong relationship:

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together

For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

www.theguardian.com

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trans people are experiencing genocide in the US and UK @oh-that-amy.bsky.social · 1d

and there we have it. Gavin Newsom is exactly who we told you he was.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Jenny Lobasz @jennylobasz.bsky.social · 2d

Holy crap!

Jenny Lobasz @jennylobasz.bsky.social · 3d

Yikes!

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4d

there's a picture of her with the front of her shirt just soaked in blood. imagine trying to crack an 84 year old woman's skull and body slamming an 84 year old vet leaning on a walker.

is this the warrior ethos we've heard so much about?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

Justice Jackson is obviously correct. SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE are now illegally going to have their status terminated early — as every court other than the Supreme Court has found so far.

Not a single word of justification from the Justices in the majority to justify this. NONE. Not one.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

Sotomayor and Kagan would deny the application.

Jackson, alone, writes, accusing the majority of "privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families’ pleas for the stability our Government has promised them."

Our lower court colleagues have already chosen the obvi-ous—i.e., least disruptive and most humane-answer to that question.? So, this stay application presents us with an antecedent decision: whether the Government's interest in terminating TPS right now is so urgent that this Court, rather than the able judges currently exercising jurisdiction over the matter, should be the one to decide those individuals' interim fate. See Noem v. Doe, 605 U.S. .
(2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting from grant of application for stay) (slip op., at 7-8); see also Magnum Import Co. v.
Coty, 262 U. S. 159, 164 (1923) (explaining that "this Court requires an extraordinary showing" before it will override the stay decision of a lower court, rendered "with a much fuller knowledge [of the case] than we can have"). Only if the Government demonstrates such a time-sensitive need should we even consider vetoing the lower courts' unanimous judgment about the most equitable interim status.
The Government has made no such showing. Yet, for the second time in this same case, the Court grants it the

JACKSON, J., dissenting
extraordinary relief it seeks. We once again eschew re-straint—ignoring the need for exigency or any other prudent threshold limitation on the exercise of our discretion— and wordlessly override the considered judgments of our colleagues. We once again use our equitable power (but not our opinion-writing capacity) to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible.
I view today's decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket. This Court should have stayed its hand.
Having opted instead to join the fray, the Court plainly misjudges the irreparable harm and balance-of-the-equities factors by privileging the bald assertion of unconstrained executive power over countless families' pleas for the stability our Government has promised them. Because, re-spectfully, I cannot abide our repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference with cases pending in the lower courts while lives hang in the balance, I dissent.

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

That last excerpt is from the Chicago Sun Times story about the raid. It makes my blood boil. bsky.app/profile/walt...

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”…

“Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 6d

We don’t need to know who the US is killing in these fishing boats to know these acts are crimes for which the US government should face international and domestic consequences; that we don’t even know who the US is killing in these boats is an additional set of crimes and transgressions

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 7d

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people."

Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

Some say canceling is an act of redress. Others blame it on a mob.

“People have used the word ‘cancel’ so loosely,” Ernest Owens author of “The Case for Cancel Culture,” said, “that everyone’s calling everything a cancellation.”

How cancel culture came for everyone

Few issues in recent years have united the American right as much as their professed hatred of cancel culture. That’s changing.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 7d

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.

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Jenny Lobasz @jennylobasz.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, absolutely.

John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 7d

Gift link: essential and sadly brave writing for dark times from Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

www.nytimes.com

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Kerith Burke @kerithburke.bsky.social · 8d

Elena Delle Donne weighs in with back-up for Phee’s statement 💀

EDD says she’s not sure if Cathy knows she retired.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 10d

Wild stuff. Wild

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Sonya H @sonyah.bsky.social · 11d

That “Hamas hospital camera” was actually one of Reuters’ cameras. The IDF fired several rounds of tank artillery at the hospital stairwell, killing 3 journalists and hospital staff. The journalists were from Reuters, AP, and a freelancer who had previously worked with both organizations.

Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 11d

Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Visual evidence upends Israel’s official story for deadly attack on Gaza hospital

Israeli troops say they targeted a Hamas camera in an August strike, but a Reuters investigation found the device belonged to one of the news agency’s journalists. An Israeli official now says troops fired without required approval. The five journalists who died in the strike are among 200 killed by Israel that it has yet to fully explain.

www.reuters.com

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Jenny Lobasz @jennylobasz.bsky.social · 12d

In the US, non-drivers can get a state ID card from the DMV that serves the same purpose. I had one for the two years between when I started working part-time and when I received my learner’s permit. Yay, federalism?

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Jenny Lobasz @jennylobasz.bsky.social · 13d

So thankful for this column by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14d

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

www.chronicle.com

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Jenny Lobasz @jennylobasz.bsky.social · 13d

FIFA Men’s World Cup 2026: The Get Along Gang Returns

Cartoon animals host a moose in a sports jersey aloft in celebration while another animal in athletic attire crosses his arms and looks sad.

Cartoon animals dresses as children surround a wooden board painted the phrase, “The Get Along Gang.”

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · 13d

CHOTINER: You've been cited by some pretty heavyweight contemporary figures. Is that vindication?

THUCYDIDES: All one can hope for is a few discerning readers who really get what the work's about.

CHOTINER: Henry Kissinger, Steve Bannon...

THUCYDIDES: I see where you're going with this.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 14d

We see this with incarcerated people, too: Transferring people to remote locations in the system to make it harder for them to receive visits from family and friends, and disrupt their relationships with their attorneys.

ICE Is Transferring People in Its Custody Away From Family, Lawyers

One group ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call.

capitalandmain.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14d

I’m less worried about not having an election at all (even autocratic states have bogus show elections) than about having one so compromised the results are meaningless. Either way, I don’t know anyone could be paying attention and NOT harbor that fear.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Newsom: "I fear that we will not have an election in 2028 -- I really mean that in the core of my soul -- unless we wake up to the code red, what's happening in this country, and we wake up soberly to how serious this moment is."

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Jenny Lobasz @jennylobasz.bsky.social · 15d

Actually listened to the clip to see if this was what Trump actually said it if Aaron was being sarcastic. Of course it’s what he actually said…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 16d

Leave it up to SCOTUS to ruin Fat Bear Week

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Jenny Lobasz @jennylobasz.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations, Chad!

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