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Alyssa Ribeiro @riverlys.bsky.social · 10h

So true: “Every department is loaded full of ornery, argumentative, eccentric voices trained in different methods of research, pursuing vastly different subjects, and often battling out their differences ad nauseam. That’s the boring, ugly truth about intellectual diversity at universities.”

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

MTG for one takes the socialism part of National Socialism more seriously than her comrades www.yahoo.com/news/article...

MTG Turns Against Republicans in Shocking Flip on Government Shutdown

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene thinks Democrats have a point on the Obamacare fight at the center of the government shutdown.

www.yahoo.com

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 5m

In the best of all possible worlds, there WOULD have been a Comey perp walk & he would have shown up dressed like this:

Portland protest cartoon critters dancing

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 14m

taking lessons from KJU & Orban? for sure!

Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 17m

They are to be mocked, per @aoc.bsky.social. Or costumed Portland ICE protesters..

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1h

The Trump regime is having trouble prosecuting James Comey on frivolous charges, and hasn’t been able to get charges against Letitia James.

They couldn’t keep Kimmel off the air.

Their desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Hurting people yes, but bluffing a lot too.

Kimmel and Comey Highlight the Trump Regime's Limitations

Their desire for authoritarian abuse is bottomless, their ability to carry it out is not

www.arcdigital.media

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 22m

huh?

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 2h

Trump fired a bunch of Immigration Judges + Board of Immigration Appeals members so that he could stack those orgs with loyalists. Our NSF funded research confirms the work background of IJs and BIA members predict their rate of asylum denial. See also our description of the immigration bureaucracy.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

One thing that piece missed was this collection of ~10 local right wingers who are also creating confirmation bias, MAGA-friendly content about "war ravaged Portland" at the ICE facility. They are adept at presenting as "regular citizens just reporting what's happening." bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d

There is an entire stable of far right "influencers" cosplaying as journalists who are in Portland "covering" events there. The person who compiled this list was arrested for his actions on January 6. He texted a friend from DC to celebrate that the Proud Boys were "beating the shit" out of BLM.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 29m

Mamdani redux.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 1h

I love when Andy Ngo does one of his David Attenborough-style posts about Antifa and highlights some kid who took a bong rip and waddled into the protest dressed like a giant muppet.

My favorite flavor of his commentary by far.

Andy Ngo wants to draw your attention to Barney the dinosaur

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 33m

firetrucks were DEFINTELY way more fun to play with than anything cop-related at the time. but that was just a downstream perk.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 34m

It was the most intense identity thing I recall from my early childhood. 2-3 years before cowboys & indians, which was obviously just something we were playing at. not so cops vs firemen.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 38m

So, a 79-year-old junior senator in 2027 is Dem establishment's play for Maine??? SERIOUSLY???
Does any polisci prof in America have any hair left they haven't pulled out?

Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 6h

77-year-old Maine Gov. Janet Mills has apparently been coaxed into jumping into the Maine Senate race, challenging Graham Platner in a Democratic primary.

The 40-year-old Platner has become a favorite of progressives and Democrats wanting a more muscular response to Trump. He has raised millions.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 44m

When I was 3-4, there were two kinds of boys: those who wanted to be cops & those who wanted to be firemen.
I wanted to be a fireman.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 57m

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 57m

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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estarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 56m

(sings) This is why we needed to defund those assholes.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 57m

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 56m

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Matt Saler @mattsaler.bsky.social · 2h

If we get through this, the #1 response alongside the trials, needs to be an absolutely stacked, muscular Congress.

How we get there through the level of anticonstitutional capitulation and collaboration described here, I don't know

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 22h

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 1h

If it's Tuesday, it must be Reputation Rehab Day at The Bulwark.

There is a Club.

We are not in it.

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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 1h

If Republicans pull their support from Donald Trump, does that automatically mean that Trump stands down from being President, taking his administration with him, to face the music?

Or does it make some desperate gamble, involving the US military, to stay in power and free from jail more likely? 🤔

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1h

Kind of pissed off now because I’ve now seen at least four different pieces that are just this but reworded lol but oh well if you want to know stuff early sign up for my premium

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

well, he IS right that MAGA is fucked. so theoretically a non-idiotic piece COULD be written.
but not by Douthat.
Douthat doesn't do non-idiotic.

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

My family's been over-reacting ever since my paternal grandfather escaped from a Tsarist prison & my maternal grandmother was shipped off to America from Poland at 16, because she was so radical her parents were sure she wouldn't live to see 21
So yeah, for well over 100 years.
Not about to stop now

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2h

If there is one thing the American mainstream media simply cannot resist, it’s a “Relax, the Libs are overreacting again!” take that presents a wildly disingenuous version of what is actually going on in MAGA land to launder the Right and chide “the Left” for being hysterical.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 2h

Two years ago, many of the world's biggest dairy and food companies formed a coalition to cut the methane emissions from their suppliers' herds.

Nestlé has quietly exited the effort, @benelgin.bsky.social reports [gift link]

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact

The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.

www.bloomberg.com

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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 1h

"The Trump administration is not making the most of its mandate, and it may be setting conservatism up for defeat in 2028."
Trump's 49.8% "Mandate"
You need read no further.

Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 2h

Jackass giving space and voice to madman. Welcome to the “failing” @nytimes.com

This is not the time for deeply irresponsible thought experiments. JFC.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | An Ideological Revolution Needs 12 Years in Power

www.nytimes.com

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