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Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.

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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 1d
Boycott complicit institutions.
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 1d
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?

"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 1d
How many Supreme Court justices have been redacted from the Epstein files, anyway?

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d
AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 1d
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 2d
A thing has to stand before it can be said to collapse.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 3d
As the recent discharge petition showed, they have options.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 4d
Because they observe the first rule.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 4d
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 9d
She’s only being charged because she’s a Democrat. If she were a Republican, she’d be honored.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 9d
You are an optimist. Most agree with him.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 9d
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 13d
🥰♥️♥️♥️♥️
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 13d
Every time you think the Times can’t get any worse, they prove you wrong.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 15d
No, Trump decided.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 17d
Just like his best bud.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 17d
all six D's who voted for this god awful thing including the corrupt give away to senators need to be primaried

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17d
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 19d
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19d
Time for change in some high places in the Democratic Party if we are to meet the greater challenges of the moment in this country. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-these-vi...
Why These Vichy Dems and Their Spineless Boss Need to Go Now
We need courage and clarity from our leaders. Schumer and these eight in the Senate have shown they have failed that test. Time to turn the page.
www.thedailybeast.com

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The Onion @theonion.com · 20d
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 22d
Democrats trounce GOP, but it’s Schumer who concedes.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 25d
Despite your best efforts.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 25d
Eagerly awaiting tomorrow's New York Times headlines explaining why this wave of victories is actually bad for the Democrats

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 25d
Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25d
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

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Matthew Wilson @mttwls.bsky.social · 25d
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 25d
Important to compare and contrast the behavior of a Schumer with that of a Raskin— another Jewish Democrat who is obviously quite pro Israel but who has, interestingly, not made his support of other members of the party contingent upon them internalizing his particular preferences.
Mamdani brings Rooseveltian vision, youthful energy and pragmatic hope to the Big Apple. Wishing our Democratic nominee great success today.

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 26d
Map is misleading. There are elections in many states.