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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Van Jones Isaiah 48:22!

Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Asking for the police to be abolished under whatever timeline is not an excess when this is how they act. Fucking insane.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 3d

These are fascists. They should be arrested and prosecuted for assault. Nothing about this is legal. Nothing about this is defensible.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 3d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 4d

My friend Naftali Kaminski is an Israeli physician, a professor at Yale, and the child of Holocaust survivors. For me he is a model of absorbing his parents' stories intensely, looking the horror of the 20th century in the eyes, and drawing the lesson of radical empathy for the suffering of others.

Standing by Our Colleagues in Gaza — A Plea to the U.S. Medical Community | NEJM

In the face of Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza’s health system and the catastrophic famine caused by the devastation, U.S. physicians have an ethical obligation to respond and support immediate ch...

www.nejm.org

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 3d

How can i rationalize bed rotting as a good thing lol

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leχi (fae/she) @queenofthefae.art · 3d

Cartoon of a man looking through a window. The man is in a black shirt that says “Sickos” and is saying “Yes… Ha Ha Ha… YES!”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

He uses this framing a lot. His boss clearly loves it. It also works for him because, in his own way, he is the minoritized Other in that little power cabal — he isn’t really one of them. He does this to show *his* gratitude which I suspect they demand frequently.

But also such a smarmy so and so.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d

An important part of racial segregation in public accommodations (that economists and economic historians regularly miss) is that it was NOT about racial animus. It’s about dehumanization and debasement. It’s using the public sphere to tell people that they are is not fit to walk the Earth.

Mark G. Sheppard @markgsheppard.com · 4d

The Green Book Project is a fantastic resource for anyone trying to understand the full weight of the Jim Crow era, and how segregation —not of homes and where Black families could live— but the segregation of everything.
#EconSky #GreenBookProject

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3d

They didn’t infiltrate. They were invited in by the Admin. And the mainstream WH press corps didn’t stand up for their own (Yamiche Alcindor, AP).

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

How Maga cheerleaders have infiltrated the White House press corps

Trump administration has transformed tone and tenor of media interactions by centering rightwing voices and reporter sycophancy

www.theguardian.com

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KFF @kff.org · 3d

Most Americans, including most Republicans and MAGA supporters, say they want Congress to extend the ACA enhanced premium tax credits that help make Marketplace coverage more affordable. https://on.kff.org/4q7ElGy

KFF graph showing that more than 3 in 4 adults (78%) support extending the enhanced premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage, based on a KFF Health Tracking Poll from September 23-29, 2025.

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Civil rights violation in the department of justice lol who is supposed to hold the… department of justice accountable

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Kinda makes the point about the need for a true publicly owned digital “public square,” a gap twitter used to fill but has since been enshittified. I think @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said something to that effect when Musk bought it & ppl started leaving.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Talented & gifted programs are essentially a tool set up in public schools to keep white/affluent parents anxious about their child’s specialness & human capital from fleeing to private school. All kids would benefit from smaller classrooms & more attention.
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

PROOF POINTS: Gifted programs provide little to no academic boost, new study says

A new study raises big questions about whether gifted education benefits the kids who are lucky enough to be in it.

hechingerreport.org

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 3d

Do you really believe that teachers can objectively identify “giftedness” in 4 year olds? Lol maybe tracking toddlers is a bad idea and every kid should get ample opportunity?

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3d

A baby has died of whooping cough in Mississippi amidst their worst pertussis outbreak in more than a decade.

If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

www.nytimes.com

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Steve Rathje @steverathje.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New preprint 🚨

Across 3 experiments (n = 3,285), we found that interacting with sycophantic (or overly agreeable) AI chatbots entrenched attitudes and led to inflated self-perceptions.

Yet, people preferred sycophantic chatbots and viewed them as unbiased!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social · 10d

It's unclear what the exact effect of a national Medicaid work requirement will be, but Aparni Soni et al. offer an important glimpse at who is doing community engagement to the required degree to sustain Medicaid coverage under these terms, & equity implications read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 4d

“I can see you clearly vividly emblazoned in my mind” is such a bar. Mariah Carey’s pen is really unmatched.

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 4d

Mind you perp walks are unconstitutional

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

An FBI agent was reportedly fired for refusing to arrange a “perp walk” of the bureau’s former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras

FBI Agent Fired For Refusing James Comey Perp Walk

Comey, who has denied wrongdoing, is due to appear in court on Thursday.

www.huffpost.com

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · 4d

Thank god for family members with rare/unusual first names. Can’t be using max or jordan in any kind of password lol

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Arturo Dominguez 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @extremearturo.bsky.social · 4d

Fetterman's numbers should alarm any pundits or consultants who believe Democrats should shift to the right and meet conservatives in the middle.

open.substack.com/pub/extremea...

Analysis: Fetterman’s Polling Numbers Should Be a Warning For Democrats

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman’s polling numbers highlight the already failed strategy of trying to appeal to the political right

open.substack.com

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