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Reposted by: Berk Özler, Dean Eckles, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
www.technologyreview.com
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Funny, because people who are not big Tay fans on my TL enjoying this album more than the Swifties...
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One day you're minding your own business as the director of a library and museum no one has heard of, the next one you're out of a job because the crybaby dictator didn't get what he wanted from your museum...

The most random job firing ever.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by: Berk Özler, Katharine Hayhoe, A. E. Dessler , and 14 more

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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
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At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem
Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”
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Young’s opinion, which rules that the Trump admin illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation, is absolutely scathing.

“In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police…ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it.”
And there's the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk's captors for masking- up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence. Small wonder ICE often seems to need our respected military to guard them as they go about implementing our immigration laws. It should be noted that our troops do not ordinarily wear masks. Can you imagine a masked marine? It is a matter of honor -- and honor still matters. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police. Carrying on in this fashion, ICE brings indelible obloquy to this administration and everyone who works in it "We can not escape history," Lincoln righty said. "[It] will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation." Abraham Lincoln, Second Annual Message to Congress (Dec. 1, 1862) . Perhaps we're now afraid to stick our necks out. If the distinguished Homeland Security intelligence agency can be weaponized to squelch the free speech rights of a small, hapless group of non-citizens in our midst, so too can the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, and the audit divisions of the I.R.s. and the Social Security Administration be unconstitutionally [98]
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
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Reposted by: Berk Özler, Joseph Schafer, Michael Kevane , and 2 more

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This rules - @raskin.house.gov straight up called out Roberts to his face.

democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin Prepared Remarks for the Judicial Conference September 16, 2025 Thank you, Chief Justice Roberts, for the invitation. Forgive my directness here but the times are serious, as you know, our time is short. I have just five minutes and don't want to trespass on Senator Cruz's time. Sometimes these days I feel as if all the foundational principles are being trampled and lost. Often, I hear my colleagues in the House, and these are fellow Democrats, get up to protest some Executive usurpation of legislative power and they begin their lament with the plaintive cry, "We are a coequal branch of government..." And I always feel they have lost the argument right there just by repeating that fifth-grade dogma. First of all, co-equal is not even a word. It's an embarrassing redundancy like "very unique" or "irregardless. " But there's a reason all legislative power is vested in the Congress and there's a reason it's in Article I. The Founders had a revolution against monarchy and its constant assaults on liberty. In America, the Framers determined, only the representatives of the people would have power to declare wars, pass budgets, impose taxes and tariffs, and so on. Article lis pages and pages of all the powers vested in Congress. Then you get to Article Il, which is tiny. The key paragraph says a president shall be removed from office upon impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors. If we are co-equal, why do we have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and permanently disqualify the president and he doesn't have the power to impeach, try, convict, remove and disqualify us? The core job of the president is plain: "To Take care that the laws are faithfully executed." That's it. Not abused, not thwarted, not impounded, not redirected, but faithfully executed. A lot of the cases entering the federal courts are variations on this theme. Here's the remarkable thing: Americans have brought over 300 cases in federal district courts against the Administration so far for usurping legislative powers, defying federal laws, or violating the rights of the people. This summer, researchers found that plaintiffs were winning an astonishing 77% of the cases in the district courts. Moreover, they found that President Trump was losing about equally before Republican-appointed judges (72%) and Democratic-appointed judges (80%). The numbers in the federal circuit courts of appeal are similar, with plaintiffs against the Administration winning overwhelmingly and again without a sharp partisan valence to the appeals courts' voting. A good example is the birthright citizenship case where four district court judges, two appointed by Republican presidents and two appointed by Democratic presidents, all struck down the President's purported negation of birthright citizenship. Then, on appeal, three circuit courts again all ruled against the Administration. But everything is flipped when the cases come to the Supreme Court.
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I have never in my life felt as ashamed of the settler state of New Zealand as I am today. #FreePalestineNow
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berkozler12.bsky.social
Nice to have birthdays like this🥰
Five books on a couch: The Arrogant Ape, The Season, A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering, Audition, and Three Bags Full.
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This is truly the bizarro world, where people who are triggered now are the same people who didn't believe in getting triggered a minute ago, calling them snowflakes...
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It's also the thing to do when your chilli plant goes bonkers at the end of the season and you have way too many. This and making fermented hot sauce, of course😋
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Very good...
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"You think it is an error if anything around you casts shame upon you, douses you in fear."

Maybe sometimes it's not...

rottenandgood.substack.com/p/you-love-a...
You Love America
A covenant with death, and an agreement with hell; Yale, Du Bois, Bagehot, Pynchon, Fitzgerald
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It's a cricket term, right? 😉
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It's not a performance. It's acceptance (or lack thereof)...
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We can surely criticize whitewashing without being required to bend backwards to apologize/atone for the sins of others...
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IDK if this is subtweeting the BR article but if not, you might take a look at it for an argument that the "shaming" could be done better, without its recent excesses...
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berkozler12.bsky.social
Something caused enough anger to write those final two paragraphs, which feels more personal than the rest. The column would have done as well, probably better, without them or, at least, a slightly better worded "shame on you..."

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berkozler12.bsky.social
Ezra Klein can often be wrong, he's certainly off-base here. The central point here about shame & cultural pressure also feels right to me, w/ the caveats made in the article. But, I don't think that even Dr. Táíwò thinks that Klein does not "understand what liberal and egalitarian values are."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14d
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
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This is so cool...
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Femi and the Foundation @femiandfoundation.bsky.social · 15d
countless generations of talent and culture
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tru @thetrudz.photo · 16d
John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
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by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò — Reposted by: Berk Özler, Jonathan Portes, Archon Fung , and 23 more

olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
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femiandfoundation.bsky.social
countless generations of talent and culture
thetrudz.photo
tru @thetrudz.photo · 16d
John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
Photograph of John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the Blues. Black and white photograph. He’s wearing a suit and sitting at a table with a mug in front of him and notepad etc on table. Behind him is a chart diagram of the evolution of the Blues, connecting genres over time. Photograph by Clemens Kalischer, 1951.
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thetrudz.photo
John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.
Photograph of John Lee Hooker with diagram of the evolution of the Blues. Black and white photograph. He’s wearing a suit and sitting at a table with a mug in front of him and notepad etc on table. Behind him is a chart diagram of the evolution of the Blues, connecting genres over time. Photograph by Clemens Kalischer, 1951.
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Reposters...
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There's some old research that suggests that unless you (and the reporters) vigorously and repeatedly retract, the original post will continue to have influence. Have an old blog on this, which funnily also mentions Cowen:

blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Misinformation and its consequences
You’ve seen the scenario on “Law and Order” many times: the defense lawyer tosses out a wild accusation that the person on the witness stand (or someone else related to the case) is the real killer – ...
blogs.worldbank.org
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Toh-mah-toh sauce AFD...
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Really tough choice between blue, purple, and brown...
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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21d
with apologies to the obviously-D map going around, let's try to make this a fairer fight.

each of these regions has approximately a billion people in it. which one you got for cuisine?
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/CBBScVWINq
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