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Noriko A
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That is to say, she was teaching a curriculum about children's literature in a children's literature course; the student claimed she had offended her religious views, which has not been demonstrated; and the student accused her of breaking "President Trump's law," which is not a thing.
December 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Join us in celebrating those who inspired us and gave us hope in 2025
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December 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🚨My @ms.now SCOOP on VA abortion ban has been UPDATED w/ more detail:

Screenshots of an internal memo sent Monday to the leaders of the VA’s 18 regional care systems by the VA’s under secretary of health say the VA must comply with the DOJ memo effective immediately. 👇
juliannemcshane.bsky.social Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 3d
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.

This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.

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Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The reason so many of yesterday’s free-speech champions transitioned so easily into today’s pro-Trump censors is that their definition of free speech never included the right of others to talk back. They were not defending a universal right to freedom of speech; they were defending a right to monologue. They could say what they want, and you could shut up and like it. The cynicism of the effort can be known by its fruits: an administration that issues executive orders “protecting” free speech while engaging in the most sweeping campaign of state censorship since the Red Scare.
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
nejibana.bsky.social
Opinion | Now that phones alter our photos without us knowing, how do we know what’s real? - The Guardian
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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sesmith.lol
Wild @404media.co story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on being able to stalk himself when Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking cameras livestreaming on the open internet. The panopticon we are living in has my skin crawling and makes me want to stay inside forever.
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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timcarvell.bsky.social
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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milesklee.bsky.social
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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johnholbein1.bsky.social
Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.

"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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newrepublic.com
A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt.

“I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/2LMHIj6
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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drhaup.bsky.social
Illinois created civil rights tool HB 1312, allows residents to sue ICE agents who violate constitutional limits and for unlawful arrests within 1000' courthouse protection zones. Contact your state AG now and demand they adopt policies modeled on Illinois HB 1312.
open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...
Illinois Just Made It Legal To Sue ICE Agents For $10,000 Per Unlawful Arrest
Free states once defied the Fugitive Slave Act by blocking federal overreach. California and Illinois now revive that resistance through modern civil rights law.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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chrismurphyct.bsky.social
This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy.

These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.

They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
judiciarydems.senate.gov Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 9d
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?

Trump nominee: *dodges*

Trump nominee: *dodges*

Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.

Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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glegum.bsky.social
Anyone have Brett Kavanaugh's email, I want to send him a link.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 8d
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
nejibana.bsky.social
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Watching the Watchers
Podcast Episode · IRL: Online Life is Real Life · S8 Bonus · 25m
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December 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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techwontsave.us
🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨

We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
Bracket for the semifinals
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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colincarlson.bsky.social
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
nejibana.bsky.social
Centrist Republicans revolt, signing a petition to force a vote on Affordable Care Act funding - NBC News
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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sahilkapur.bsky.social
And GOP Rep. Rob Bresnahan has signed the Democratic discharge petition for a 3-year ACA funding extension.

He's the third Republican to sign it.

One more and it gets to 218.
December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
Amazon Has Been Conning School Districts out of Millions - The American Prospect
Amazon Business is billed as a convenient one-stop shop for schools. Reality is more expensive.
prospect.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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gavinyamey.bsky.social
A HUGE French study, which examined data on 28.6 million adults, showed high effectiveness & safety:

Vaccinated people had a 74% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 in hospital & lower all-cause mortality over 4 yrs

The MAGA/MAHA crew are just playing politics to serve their masters: Trump & RFK Jr
motherjones.com Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 13d
For its next attack on Covid vaccines, FDA is weighing the use of a label reserved for the most dangerous drugs.
Covid shots may get FDA's strongest warning
The agency's black-box label is meant to flag serious threats to life and health.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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olivierrupert.bsky.social
Massive Layoffs at the Dept of #Education Erode Its #CivilRights Division

Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.

www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM