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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 8h
There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;
SOUTH SIDE WEEKLY Donate "The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said. According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents. ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.
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Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 1d
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The Mad King's Unverified Information Hose - Truthdig
Trump is ordering federal troops to occupy Portland, in defiance of a federal court, based on video clips from 2020.
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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 1d
And if you are used to thinking such a system is the best system the comparativists have had some bad news... for decades!
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 1d
Put another way, I don't think it's an accident that the comparativist political scientists have been far more clear eyed about the present moment than have lawyers or (some) domestic elections strategists. They have more experience dealing with more comparable sets of events.
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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d
After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects

Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 3d
My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...
LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d
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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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 3d
She is complaining about having to study...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d
Popularists, or pollingists—or whatever you call the pundit/consultant thinking that dominates Dem politics—take on the straw man "no one should use data," but avoid the more substantive criticism "you're using data poorly."

This, by @anatosaurus.bsky.social, is an excellent version of the latter.
Bringing a Survey to a Gun Fight
“Pollingism” Has Failed Democrats and Voters. Here’s Why, and What to Do Instead.
www.weekendreading.net
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"
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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 6d
ICE initially claimed that the officer was "seriously injured" sustaining "severe injuries" and in "serious condition" but actual body cam footage of the ICE agents now shows that they LIED. The officer himself says it was "nothing major" via Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d
Sen. Schatz: “They have the money to cover for Trump's economic incompetence, but apparently they don't have the money to prevent a small business owner or a taxi driver or an early retiree from losing their health care.”
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4d
A great way to keep kids safe: Place automatic traffic cameras near schools.

After cameras were installed in Toronto:
🔹 Share of vehicles speeding ⬇️ 45%
🔹 85th percentile speed ⬇️ 10.7 km/h

Droivers speeding the most were most likely to slow down.

injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/inju...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d
Hunh weird did someone do something to US trade relationships worldwide?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Joni Ernst: "Unfortunately, our farmers do need that assistance. They don't like it. They consider it welfare. They want trade, not aid. So we really need to see some of these new markets opening up around the globe ... but if there's anybody that can make a deal, it's President Trump."
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Amelia Benavides-Colón @ameliacolon.bsky.social · 5d
After analyzing hundreds of projects being canceled by the Trump admin, @annackramer.bsky.social, Manuela Silva and I found that funds for energy projects in blue states are being cut while the same work continues to be funded in red and swing states.
www.notus.org/energy/trump...
Trump Cut Biden-Era Energy Projects in Blue States. Red States Got to Keep Theirs.
The Trump administration is canceling energy projects that it says are part of the “Green New Scam” — but leaving similar ones intact in Republican-led states.
www.notus.org
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 5d
The wannabe king is huddling with his fixer to decide which vital services to rip away from Americans. Shutdown or not, Trump admits this is just more of their Project 2025 assault on our government.

And these are the people who want a blank check from Congress? Hell no.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d
You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...
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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 7d
Amazing technology, not intelligent
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Gary Lupyan @glupyan.bsky.social · 7d
A wild exchange with Gemini Pro 2.5. In preparing some examples for my seminar (cogsci-llms.netlify.app) I remembered @randomwalker.bsky.social old tweet about playing Rock paper scissors with LLMs. Decided to see what it's like now ....
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stephen fowler @stphnfwlr.com · 7d
NEW @npr.org: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency effort has failed to deliver on its outsized promises to cut costs and increase efficiency, NPR's latest analysis of federal data finds.
Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut
Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.
www.npr.org
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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 7d
Imagine if we treated any other form of safety like this:"We should only install outlet covers in day care centers on a case-by-case basis, such as where a toddler has stuck his fingers in an electrical socket."
So instead of supporting universal daylighting, Brewer is now saying that the city should instead restrict parking at corners on a case-by-case basis, such as where there's been a crash or a fatality, a position that mimics that of the DOT.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 8d
NEW on Press Watch: Why is the national media ignoring this revelatory quote? I'll tell you why. presswatchers.org/2025/09/trum...
Trump: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?' | Press Watch
Trump's Second Term
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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 8d
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 8d
30% drop year over year!
Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison
This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 8d
The Trump Administration is defunding important surveys and undermining federal statistical agencies, suppressing data that would reveal the harmful effects of the Republican megabill’s deep cuts and leaving families’ struggles harder to track. www.cbpp.org/research/pov...
Federal Data Are Disappearing as Statistical Agencies Face Budget Cuts and Political Pressure | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Federal statistical agencies face increasingly overt politicization by the Trump Administration on top of chronic underinvestment, uncertainty, and recent and proposed budget cuts, all of which threat...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12d
WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status.

He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.
PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d
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Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?
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