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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 15h

MAGA minions don’t get to decide which voices the American people are allowed to hear. Join us on Saturday to remind Trump that there are NO KINGS in the USA: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 20h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 20h

Median age by continent as visualized by @xruiztru. Europe is the oldest continent by this definition.

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Leigh Senderowicz @lsenderowicz.bsky.social · 21h

WE'RE HIRING!

The Gender & Women's Studies Dept at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is hiring a TT professor of GENDER AND AGING

I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions

Please share widely!

Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 21h

All sorts of alarm bells in this story about why Congress, not the President, should be making decisions about taxation. Especially decisions about how to spend US taxpayers' money. The Treasury is not the President's slush fund.

www.bbc.com/news/live/c0...

Live updates: Trump says upcoming Argentina elections will decide how 'generous' US will be

Trump is hosting Javier Milei after ordering some $20bn in aid to Argentina, stirring controversy at home

www.bbc.com

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 21h

More perspective about land areas:

Overlaid maps of Brazil, Alaska, Texas, and Iceland. Brazil is very close to five times the size of Alaska, which in turn is nearly 2.5 times the size of Texas

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 21h

It also takes *13* hours to drive from Key West to Pensacola. 🫣

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Lucia Orth @luciaorth.bsky.social · 22h

"If your first amendment rights are threatened, and you don't show up because you're afraid, then you already don't have first amendment rights."

Ezra Levin

#Maddow
See you Saturday, October 18, for No Kings demonstration.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 1d

Just a pedantic detail: this document refers to only one supplemental funding mechanism for FSU faculty conference travel.

It's appalling. The university's leadership should fight back rather than appeasing their political overlords. But this policy doesn't (yet) apply to all university travel.

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 1d

Economists! We’re hiring an assistant professor who focuses on domestic labor or public economics. The Humphrey School is wonderful and Minneapolis is the best city ever in my humble opinion.

More details here:
hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Job Description
Assistant Professor
About the Job
The Humphrey School of Public Affairs seeks applications for a full-time, tenure track faculty position at the assistant professor or advanced assistant professor level in social policy with a field of specialization in the domestic (U.S.) applied policy areas of labor or public economics. The faculty member will join a vibrant community of interdisciplinary scholars at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and support graduate students pursuing the Master of Public Policy (M.P.P.) and other master's-level professional degree programs, and the Ph.D. in Public Affairs program.
Successful candidates must demonstrate the potential to develop an innovative and socially impactful research portfolio that addresses contemporary questions related to social policy.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 1d

123. In 1960, 87% of women got married by the time they were 25 years old. In 2025 it was 24%. (Comment: The 1950s was the closest we got to a compulsory marriage system for women in this country, and the American right has pining for it ever since.) (reposting with sex labels)

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 1d

On this day in 1834, authorities in Wheeling, a city in present-day West Virginia, charged four people with unlawful assembly for convening a literacy class for Black residents.

Oct. 14, 1834 | Four People Charged for Teaching Black People to Read in Wheeling, West Virginia

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

calendar.eji.org

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

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress.

It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.

Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 2d

Paul Noth @paulnoth.bsky.social

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 2d

This did not work in the UK either, but we can keep trying. We need to promote US exports!

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 2d

Same. And life is a tiny bit better because of it 😀.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 2d

international under$tanding

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 3d

A Noviça Rebelde (The Rebellious Novice Nun) is one of my favorite title translations. It kinda misses the main point... 🙄

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 4d

That's literally the first good thing that I've ever heard about my representative, Neal Dunn (FL2).

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Bart Bingenheimer @bartbing.bsky.social · 5d

Pam Bondi is preparing to indict Maria Corrina Machado for mortgage fraud.

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 4d

The No Kings protests I've been to have been 90% Boomer moms and dads. (I'm 66 and the majority have been older.)

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🇺🇦 Carl Schmertmann @cschmert.bsky.social · 5d

In Cash's prime, before everyone had access to a full music catalog via the Internet, radio was the way you listened. Radio stations were segregated by genre. Cash was definitely in the Country category, so for most young people he was corny and uncool by definition. He became cool in retrospect.

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