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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 1h

as an after school special, it’s mid

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3h

If the regime does go after DSA, the appropriate response will be for as many people as possible to become dues-paying members.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 1d

It's the new highways through Black neighborhoods: Data centers

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 1d

Along with Will Payne and Jovan Lewis, I'm organizing an AAG session on the economic geography of scams for the 2026 conference in San Francisco. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

AAG 2026 CFP: Putting the ‘Con’ in Economic Geography

AAG 2026 CFP: Schemes, Scams, and Flim-flam: Putting the ‘Con’ in Economic Geography Will B. Payne, Rutgers University Desiree Fields, University of California, Berkeley Jovan Scott Lewis, University ...

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 1d

Probably not really what you’re after but could argue that the Scream series is about the horror genre itself being cursed and possessing people…

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

John Stuart Mill failed to consider that creepy loser men would not react well to other people's liberty.

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 1d

Two years. I can't believe it. What a disgusting time. What a horrific time. We live in the age of monsters, and all we can hope for is to finally defeat some of them. Free palestine.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 1d

the Alien franchise hasn’t been this fun since the basketball scene in Alien: Resurrection

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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 2d

The history of Nazis holding rallies in left-wing areas of Weimar Germany, instigating street fights, and then telling the press that only they could save Germany from the "violent communists" seems like an important thing for people to be studying right now.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 3d

genuinely think that people in both parties are aiming to become The Only Party. the right wants to make it illegal to vote for a Democrat. the Democrats want to permanently expel the left and absorb enough of the right to make the GOP redundant. right now, the latter seems more far-fetched...

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Something Ezra Klein hinted at in his conversation with TNC last week is still gnawing at me: That Liberals / Democrats may need to redraw the boundaries of what is acceptable so that Trump is no longer excluded. I think that is precisely the wrong answer to our current situation.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 3d

Grateful for the opportunity to share my thoughts with the BBC about the Trump administration's premeditated killings in the Caribbean.

"Absurd on a number of levels."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 4d

“viewpoint diversity” means hiring a bunch of cretins to balance out the people who can actually read

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5d

this is more awful then you think but also i'm basically fascinated by how so much of this is a social compact to essentially make it your childhood again

John Darwin Kurc @kurc.com · 6d

From DHS. State Run Media.

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Josh Inwood @geogjosh.bsky.social · 5d

state after state could solve this college funding shakedown from the Trump administration by just agreeing to fund universities at the levels they did in the early 1990s.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 5d

also very much a Big California Picture which I appreciated

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 6d

Watercarriers

John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 6d

Guess this one is more like pedo-econ theory but it’s still undefeated

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 6d

[stares in Standard Occupational Classification]

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 6d

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 6d

The costs of interconnecting data centers to electricity transmission grids get paid by ratepayers - i.e., by you - 95% of the time, raising household electricity costs by billions, a new study finds.

Big tech companies can afford to pay for their own interconnections. Regulators should make them.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 6d

The imperial boomerang in action

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 6d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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John Stehlin @jstehlin.bsky.social · 6d

looking forward to 21-year-old TPUSA activists being installed as political officers at the NSF to ensure compliance

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 6d

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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