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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social

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Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, 18th-19th centuries, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | new project: rethinking assessment in an age of "AI" | he/him.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · Apr 20

You have your church, I have mine.

A pristine baseball diamond on a beautiful sunny day

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

yes bsky.app/profile/bill...

billypilgrim65.bsky.social @billypilgrim65.bsky.social · 3h

And take away their power to choose their own clerks, give it to an independent body with an explicit remit for diversity away from Ivy League hires. It's a racket.

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 4h

Came across some fall fashion advice today that everyone who has ever been a grad student will appreciate

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Philip K. Dick Trickle @pkdtrickle.bsky.social · 5h

Sports media is largely a world of the mediocre who all know each other and make sure they all stay employed until they die. Why do you think Schlereth, Sanchez, Tess, or Gus are always here. It’s not because they’re good at their jobs.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 6h

Oh there’s some quality shithead quotes in here

Vince Guerrieri @vinceguerrieri.com · 6h

Jim Nantz was in the tank for him too! It was astounding! www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2...

Marla Ridenour: CBS’s Jim Nantz criticizes media critics of Browns’ Mike Lombardi

When it comes to the polarizing Browns’ hire of Mike Lombardi as vice president of player personnel, the voice of CBS Sports believes the Northeast Ohio media is “picking on the wrong guy.” Jim Nan…

www.beaconjournal.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 11h

I'm so so sorry to hear this, Thomas. Holding you and your family in my thoughts and sending love and comfort your way.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 1d

The Uncanny Valet

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

our economy is currently being propped up by the promise of billions of fully autonomous robot butlers coming in a year or so

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 17h

What's important here is that it's the ICE raids that are capturing their attention.

This is why the reliance on focus groups and polls and the inevitable claim that voters only care about "kitchen table" issues misses the mark.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

Why Trump Lost the Podcast Bros

It's cool to support the Rebellion. It's not cool to support the Empire.

paulwaldman.substack.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15h

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 1d

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 1d

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

One never knows when a roofing emergency might occur. Best to be prepared.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

At least we no longer have to hear about freedom being in Americans' DNA or whatever. Turns out we love to eat shit and bow to some bloated halfwit like any other people throughout history

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

1000% Gonzo is actually one of those wearing an inflatable animal suit

Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 2d

I like to think the Muppets would be 100% behind the Portland protests

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

every big AI pitch is like “what if we took away your means of survival and devalued all your skills to make stonks go up temporarily? You’d like that wouldn’t you?”

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

Is this why we didn't have the rapture?

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angrygrrrl1111.bsky.social @angrygrrrl1111.bsky.social · 1d

The Kavanagh Stop:

Crash into the car, drag a woman kicking and screaming out of it, then throw her on the ground to ziptie her hands before leaving her car wide open in the street. Presumably her purse, *with her ID*, is still in the fucking car.

Guess we know where the Proud Boys are now.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Hegseth restored the name of a confederate general to the base.
Taking care of your troops matters. You can't eat the culture war.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a boil or a tumor

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Tube Amps for Justice @curiousaudio.us · 1d

IT HAS EMERGED

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Blair met with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in London during his time as prime minister, it has emerged

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

www.thenational.scot

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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 1d

I think that what we can infer is that insider trading is rampant, there is an expectation that if you are onside with the administration you will not be prosecuted for it, and there is a belief this admin will not be leaving, so YOLO.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

There. Are. No. Exceptions. To. Human. Rights. If one of us isn't free, none of us are free. I want to live in a country where a politician who stands on this principle isn't the exception. But until then, Mamdani is an example of what's possible, and what we should demand from our leaders.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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