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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20m

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground.

🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14m

I'm looking forward to visiting this exhibition which is free: www.pratt.edu/events/in-ou...

In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois

Curated by Loretta Yarlow September 26–December 20, 2025Public Reception: Thursday, September 25, 2025, 6–8pm Angel Abreu/Studio K.O.S.Derrick Adams Radcliffe BaileyLaToya Ruby Frazier Theaster Gates ...

www.pratt.edu

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

I've been wondering about the possibility of the president shifting budgeted funds from "essential" services to "nonessential" ones by ordering interagency loans during a shutdown because that is what I'd do to every social services and scientific agency from every law enforcement agency

Politico @politico.com · 2h

The Trump administration is considering options to pay members of the military if the shutdown drags on.

Trump could shift funds to pay troops, White House officials say

GOP congressional leaders are resisting standalone military pay legislation, fearing it will take pressure off Democrats.

www.politico.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

So, wrong on two counts then

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

Sometimes my sentences are just ungodly

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 2h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

Belichek violating league rules? He would never!

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 3h

Reports of serious recruiting violations remain under investigation at UNC. Recruiting and practice violations have already been proven by the school, according to multiple sources

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

The percentage of coverage the New York Times devotes to things that could have easily been an angry letter dashed off to the Harvard Alumni Review is disturbingly high.

No one else gives a shit, you weirdos. No one at all.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4h

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

NYT front page headline: "Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture."

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 2h

Does he mean Cincinatti?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 5h

"One of the most insidious things about prison is that it tries to mute us. It can’t take our voices away, but it can make it harder for them to be heard...Amplifying our voices is empowering and powerful. And you can help by joining any number of advocacy efforts."

Lewis Raven Wallace @lewispants.bsky.social · 11h

Talking to folx in prison reminds me that people have been living with extreme authoritarian conditions, including censorship and denial of trans health care, prior to this moment. Let's listen when they tell us how to get through it and what they need. #solidarity truthout.org/articles/bei...

Being Trans Behind Bars in Florida Was Already Hard. Under Trump, It’s Worse.

Trans people in prison are at the front lines of the increased targeting that trans people are facing under Trump.

truthout.org

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 5h

i don't think the news media believes that things actually happen anymore

they're only aware of people *saying* a thing happened, and perhaps some other people saying something different

but the thing itself? they all suddenly become hardline kantians: "no no no, we can't perceive the *noumenal*"

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 5h

Seattle mayor signs orders to counter federal troop deployment, ICE actions
komonews.com/news/local/s...

Seattle mayor signs orders to counter federal troop deployment, ICE actions

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell is set to sign two executive orders Wednesday morning in response to President Trump's federal immigration policies.

komonews.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 5h

So CBS and WaPo are getting Newsweeked then?

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 11h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 6h

An interviewer asked me about America's "cost of living crisis," and I was struck again by how casually we've let such profoundly nightmarish phrases slip into our everyday lexicon.

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Vera Institute of Justice @vera.org · 6h

"A fair chance at housing is a fair chance at a life."

Maryland's Fair Chance Access to Housing Act would increase housing access for formerly incarcerated people—creating safer communities and reducing recidivism.

Maryland must give everyone a fair chance at housing | GUEST COMMENTARY

Applicants for housing shouldn’t be pre-judged based on their criminal history, writes Antoine Lovell and Marquis Howard.

www.baltimoresun.com

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 6h

asking permission from car owners to use their catalytic converters would kill the stealing catalytic converter industry

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 6h

This happened in LA and DC literally this summer

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 7h

Forget reading sci-fi and thinking it's good, these guys read about how IBM counting machines helped facilitate the Holocaust and thought "and look, 80 years later it's still a major profitable corporation!"

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 8h

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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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 9h

The Dallas area Palestinian Youth Movement reported yesterday that Ya'Kub Ira, an activist and martial arts instructor, was abducted by ICE despite Ira's legal status under DACA.

"This is the second unexpected arrest of someone with proximity to the Palestine movement in the past two weeks."

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The Barbed Wire @thebarbedwire.com · 7h

“He was also young himself. God has forgiven him,” Rirhandzu Manganyi wrote.

“AND HIS MINISTRY WILL BE BIGGER THAN EVER,” user Shannon Liddle wrote.

“I still will listen to him!” Pam Ullo wrote.

Meanwhile, Morris must register as a sex offender.

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/08/s...

Supporters Say ‘God Has Forgiven’ Ex-Megachurch Pastor Robert Morris, Who Admitted to Sexual Abuse of a 12-Year-Old

Comments have rolled in expressing forgiveness for the convicted child sex offender and megachurch founder.

thebarbedwire.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 12h

Who else could it be?

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 18h

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Dr Ramsdell, whose phone had been on airplane mode when the Nobel committee tried to call him, told the BBC's Newshour Programme that his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize" was: "I did not."

To which Ms O'Neill replied that she had 200 text messages that suggested he had.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 12h

"Faith in the AI boom has recently been rattled by research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which showed that 95% of organisations are getting zero return from their investments in generative AI"

Maybe this is why we need journalism and analysis rather than "faith" in tech oligarchs

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