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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 16h

SILS is one of the top library schools in the country. Not good.

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 17h

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 16h

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 17h

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

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Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 17h

BILL BELICHICK GO ON STUDBUDZ.

Courtney: Twin, what's wrong?

BB: *grumbles with his arms crossed*

C: I feel you. Aye, T, do a backflip! Do a backflip!

T: *does a backflip*

BB, grumbling: Ws in the chat.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18h

when UNC scored on the first possession of the first game and Colin Cowherd immediately posted this, and then UNC lost by 34

Wasn’t really sure what to expect from Chapel Bill. But after that drive, I have him as second best college coach I’ve ever seen, just below Saban.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22h

“I’m English on my mom’s side and ethnically a kidnapper on my dad’s”

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 23h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 20h

It is very American, and weird, that the klan aren’t more universal villains in our video games. We could, until recently, expect a pretty regular array of games where you battle Nazis; but the klan has always been kinda niche

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 20h

For *years* I’ve wanted like a Far Cry or AC style game set in reconstruction or even during the civil war precisely because of the richness of the era, the unique difficulties Black characters would face, and the heroic qualities of the story. shooting Klan members in the face is good gaming

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 21h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 21h

This special issue of @jhppl.bsky.social is a must-read. 👀 See why, in this thread:

Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social · 22h

US public health is in crisis. In this special JHPPL issue edited by @oberlanderunc.bsky.social & @sarahgollust.bsky.social, you’ll find articles that help contextualize the erosion of public health infrastructure & adoption of policies harmful to public health. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/advanc...

Advance Publication | Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 1d

This horrible story captures the street safety paradox

Requests are ignored or given lip service...until a tragedy creates public pressure that DOTs can't escape

Advocates will then ask for similar improvements elsewhere...to which DOTs will say, actually *this* street is different (for...reasons)

Josh Linden @joshlinden.bsky.social · 1d

Every time this happens, I brace for a story like this. Just devastating, heartbreaking, beyond infuriating

The Banner Montgomery @bannermoco.bsky.social · 3d

5 years before her son died there, a mother tried to make an intersection safer

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

segregationist say like John Roberts. He believes in a national rebirth through the elimination of internal enemies, those enemies being non-white and the “left”. *that* is absolutely fascist and should be recognizes. But it does grow from “traditional” US conservatism

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

to enjoy the same rights and privileges as other citizens into serious account. This offers incredibly fertile soil for fascism to arise. It’s why Paxton labeled the klan as proto-fascist, especially combined with Lost Cause-ism. But, Trump is a real inflection point. He’s not *merely* a

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

I think where critics of folks who say “this is nothing new” are wrong is that they don’t properly weigh how authoritarian American conservatism *always* was. At no point in history has American conservatism not been explicitly white supremacist, if you take actively opposing Black folks’ attempts

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

This also is why taking American authoritarianism a la Jim Crow seriously is an important bit of context for understanding where Trump deviates from the traditional GOP which was, and remains, segregationist without being eliminationist. That’s a subtle distinction without whitewashing

HouserDave @houserdave.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed. There are many good reasons to loathe Reagan's policies. But he wasn't fash. His language (and even actions) on just immigration were day & night from this. And when it comes to how the polity gets moved by leaders & language, that matters.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 2d

An 8 year-old blog post on causal thinking in epidemiology that I'm sharing for no particular reason (ICYMI).

darrendahly.github.io/post/2017-02...

Cause vs. Consequence |

Principal Statistician | Senior Lecturer

darrendahly.github.io

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 2d

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 2d

The argument presented by Allen is both politically naive and historically erroneous. Accepting a compact *for higher education at this point in time* is suicidal. A 🧵

Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 3d

Danielle Allen has proposed many good things for Harvard, so I’m puzzled by her reading of the word “compact” here, as if this would be an agreement freely entered into. She rightly says that, as written, this shouldn’t be agreed to. Maybe leave it there? therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

Why I’m Excited About the White House’s Proposal for a Higher Ed Compact

Now we have a chance for collective action

therenovator.substack.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Also

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Trump take pasta

Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 3d

Italy trying to get US to call off mega tariff on imported pasta that will double prices for American consumers. Via Reuters

Rome calls on US to reconsider extra tariff on pasta imports

With almost $800 million in exports, the U.S. is one of Italy's top three export markets for pasta, a staple of the country's culinary heritage and a substantial export commodity.

www.reuters.com

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 2d

the plan? we combat the effects of trump's increasingly unpopular policies by sending americans checks with trump's name on them.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

A must read for ANYONE who wants to understand why Black women are experiencing a uniquely bad labor market and why the 300,000 number isn't telling the full story.

Dr. Valerie Wilson gets deep into the data around job losses and why paying attention to Black women matters. #blacksky

What’s behind rising unemployment for Black workers?

For the last five years, I’ve given the same answer in response to questions about any one-month increase in the Black unemployment rate. Given the relatively small sample size used to calculate the n...

www.epi.org

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 2d

Ordo Malleus Inquisitor: “I’m built different…”

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

One difference between me and many people in the 40k universe is that I would simply learn about chaos enough to understand its mysteries and make use of its powers without becoming corrupting myself.

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 3d

The thing about these masculinity grifters is the comical disconnect between rhetoric and reality. The "legacy" will end up being a drop shipping business with a squarespace website or something. Not exactly Charlemagne.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Look, I'll take every opportunity to remind the world that Stephen Miller has a BA from Duke University but as he lectures a federal judge about the letter of the law, I'd like to remind the world that is his *only* degree and he never went to law school. A Duke degree is all this kind of guy needs.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 3d

i guess someone told Miller before bed

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There is no legal distinction between a state volunteering guardsmen to guard the border and volunteering guardsmen to guard a federal immigration facility.

Either we have a federal government, a supremacy clause, and a nation, or we don’t.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3d

Just a reminder -- anyone who was paying attention could see all of this coming, from miles away

Re-posting what I wrote in MAY 2024, or 17 months ago

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