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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 13h

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 1d

Well well well…

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 3d

Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 4d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 5d

It's a damn shame Jonathan Metzl's pre-pandemic Dying of Whiteness is still so relevant:

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Dying of Whiteness

A physician's "provocative" (Boston Globe) and "timely" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times Book Review) account of how right-wing ...

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 9d

TNC: we win and we lose. The promise of Reconstruction violently defeated and followed by the nadir.

Klein: here’s a Buddhist meditation.

Not the same conversation

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 9d

Klein reminds me of the 2016 “no one does political history anymore” brouhaha. If you reduce politics to electoral persuasion, then winners do it right, losers wrong. TNC tried to broaden the political by grounding it in Black history. It didn’t work.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 9d

Klein doesn’t feel he can say what’s the right way to do politics (except by publishing pieces announcing who he thinks does politics the right way)

John M. Cunningham @jmcunning.bsky.social · 9d

IMO, the most revealing part is Klein wrestling with the question of where "the line" is (between acceptable and unacceptable politics). Realizing that what he considered past the line is now the GOP mainstream doesn't make him commit harder to fighting it. He wonders if he needs to move the line.

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 16d

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 16d

Read this as Slaughterhouse case. Still a bunch of bastards.

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 16d

#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 19d

“Hit roadblocks” is a really funny way of writing “failed to fake evidence”

NYT headline reading: Fight Erupts Over Fate of U.S. Attorney Investigating Two Trump Foes; Trump officials told Erik S. Siebert that he was likely to be fired. He had hit roadblocks investigating New York’s attorney general, Letitia James, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey. Below is a picture of Erik S. Siebert.

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 20d

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 21d

He did not say conservatives had been purged. Republicans. Because partisanship the only salient idea. Party takeover of institutions the goal.

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 29d

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · 29d

Fraud in defense of genocide - and on day when Israel is destroying Gaza City’s last remaining towers and ordering more than a million to the south.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29d

My name was added to this letter without my consent. It is perhaps worth noting that it lists my old professional affiliation rather than my current one.

It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.

Nondescript Roman Statue (bsky edition) @cancelkultur.bsky.social · 29d

@tedmccormick.bsky.social wondering whether you signed the recent “scholars for truth about genocide” letter because if not, and like @nkalamb.bsky.social, your name would appear to have been added without your consent.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29d

My name was added to this letter without my consent. It is perhaps worth noting that it lists my old professional affiliation rather than my current one.

It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.

Nondescript Roman Statue (bsky edition) @cancelkultur.bsky.social · 29d

@tedmccormick.bsky.social wondering whether you signed the recent “scholars for truth about genocide” letter because if not, and like @nkalamb.bsky.social, your name would appear to have been added without your consent.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29d

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social · Sep 4

Mine in today’s New Yorker. Greetings from America’s High-Capacity Server Coolant Reservoirs, formerly the “Great Lakes.” Read my cartoon-filled rant about this at open.substack.com/pub/paulnoth...

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · Sep 5

By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Cover of the Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction and Justice edited by the Nursing Clio Collective

Front page of essay: Theresa Ventura, The Magic Liquid that Guarantees the Life of the Infant: Breast Milk as Superfood

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · Sep 5

By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · Aug 29

I truly understand that cancer is complex, multi causal and not something you can diet your way out of. But with colon cancer becoming a young person’s disease, MAHA’s meat protein fetish is a time bomb — and that’s leaving aside environmental costs

Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · Aug 29

MAHA and the war on fibre

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · Aug 27

The future of civilization sounds a whole lot like 1859

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · Aug 18

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

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Theresa Ventura @theresaventura.bsky.social · Aug 10

In 2019 I had a 1 minute panic attack about the 7 yo not going to a coding camp. On reflection, that was 1 minute too long.

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 10

“Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively, according to a report… That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates”

Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.

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