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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 1h

Losing the war on woke

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 4h

🎬 What does Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También reveal about Mexico at the turn of the twenty-first century?

Annenberg assistant professor @llamasjr.bsky.social explores the film’s original reception, lasting legacy, and its important place in the history of New Mexican Cinema:

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez on the legacy of Alfonso Cuarón’s Y Tu Mamá También

YouTube video by Annenberg School for Communication

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social · 2d

This has been my experience for the past month. Ironically has cured me of my doomscrolling tendencies 🥴

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3d

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

E. Perkins 🎃 @hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social · 3d

Oh crap, it's back at #1 in movies again today on Netflix too. That's awesome!

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Collin Riley @collinriley.bsky.social · 20d

The current moment in America has second VHS tape of Titanic energy

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5d

I’m supposed to believe both that trained and paid journalists couldn’t see through Project 2025 spin but also they’re the people best positioned to tell me what’s happening and how I should feel. Why? They failed at their jobs by their own admission.

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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 5d

These are dark times and we must hold fast against this bullshit. Solidarity!

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...

www.aaup.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

I can't exaggerate how important it is that every ICE officer is met with contempt & mockery in public, everywhere they go, for the rest of their lives.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 6d

Grateful to @aaup-penn.bsky.social speaking out against the Trump administration’s latest attempt to recruit Penn and other universities to sign on to a government takeover of higher education in exchange for a favored status in receiving federal grants.

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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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 9d

The NYT reports on "Kavanaugh stops" of US citizens arrested by immigration agents

Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 9d

You had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect;" U.S. Supreme Court to Dred Scott, 1857
“You’ve got no rights here. You’re illegal, brother,” Florida Highway Patrol to Kenny Laynez-Ambrosio, 2025

‘I’m From Here!’: U.S. Citizens Are Ending Up in Trump’s Dragnet

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9d

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 9d

And yet, every scientific conference and meeting has at least one track with: AI and knowledge production, or how to integrate ethically AI in research. [Redacted] 😒

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 10d

Regular reminder that behind damn near every large-scale "Automated" "AI" system is a team of underpaid and otherwise exploited humans. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

www.theguardian.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 9d

It should be referred to as a Kavanaugh stop.

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9d

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 9d

Masked agents indiscriminately chasing random people on the street who are just doing their jobs and minding their own business provides further evidence that we no longer live in a democratic society governed by the rule of law

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Joanna Schwartz @jcschwartzprof.bsky.social · 10d

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully
in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

79. American citizen.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 10d

It's not the job of intellectuals to do political strategy. They literally have political strategists for that. The job of intellectuals is to have the courage of their convictions and to think and write clearly about them.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 10d

This was revealing. Worth reading. The basic demand is that Coates spend less time thinking/writing his true feelings and more time playing political strategist. Klein asks him over and over him to do Dem strategy; he says no, over and over. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Opinion | Ta-Nehisi Coates on Bridging Gaps vs. Drawing Lines

www.nytimes.com

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social · 12d

It was such a treat to chat with my incredible @asc.upenn.edu colleagues Sarah Banet-Weiser and Aswin Punathambekar about the stakes and joys of studying popular global media —and geek out about K-POP DEMON HUNTERS👩🏼‍🎤 —in the latest Annenberg Conversations podcast!

www.asc.upenn.edu/annenberg-co...

Annenberg Conversations

An occasional podcast hosted by Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser.

www.asc.upenn.edu

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kmosser.bsky.social @kmosser.bsky.social · 11d

The Supreme Court, until we discover otherwise, is now simply a rubber stamp for the Executive Branch.

It is not clear what Congress's role is at this point.

I'm not sure we even need a Constitution at this point.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social · 12d

It was such a treat to chat with my incredible @asc.upenn.edu colleagues Sarah Banet-Weiser and Aswin Punathambekar about the stakes and joys of studying popular global media —and geek out about K-POP DEMON HUNTERS👩🏼‍🎤 —in the latest Annenberg Conversations podcast!

www.asc.upenn.edu/annenberg-co...

Annenberg Conversations

An occasional podcast hosted by Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser.

www.asc.upenn.edu

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12d

It's not fascist to call fascists fascist.

It's not "dehumanizing" to say that terrorizing entire groups of people - which ICE does - is evil.

No executive order can change these facts.

However, people *can* mess things up for fascists by standing up for community and truth. Like this.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12d

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!"

Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12d

Again their entire plan hinges on the mainstream press pretending context doesn’t matter and institutions must be definition be seen a legitimate and neutral and they have been eager to oblige.

Kelsey Reichmann @kelseyreichmann.bsky.social · 13d

Barrett spurns Supreme Court bias claims after string of Trump shadow docket wins

“I want people to understand, agree or disagree with the decisions that the court reaches, that we are engaged in a legal enterprise."
@courthousenews.bsky.social
www.courthousenews.com/barrett-spur...

Barrett spurns Supreme Court bias claims after string of Trump shadow docket wins

Justice Amy Coney Barrett sat for an extended discussion where she defended the high court’s rulings and her jurisprudence.

www.courthousenews.com

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