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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 3h

Gremlins 2 is a modern masterpiece and it's a testament to Megan's character that she recognizes this fact.

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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 2h

Starred review!

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The Legend of Wyatt Outlaw: From Reconstruction Through Black Lives Matter

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h

"total fascist consolidation of government because kids talked back at cornell too much" is such an embarrassing way to go

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14h

This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.

Or she was saying offensive shit.

Jill Lepore reports in the NYT that halfway through Obama’s second term students became rather difficult in the classroom

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Bob Bell 🇨🇦 @thebirderbob.bsky.social · 1d

I set up my backyard "stage" for winter bird photography, and it seems to have been well received by the birds already. Blue Jay, Dark-eyed Junco, Red-breasted Nuthatch, White-breasted Nuthatch. Hoping for some winter finch! #birds #birding #Bobsbackyard #Ancaster #HamOnt

A blue jay looking in the window at me, while perched on a mossy old log that I saved as my winter "stage"

A red breasted nuthatch, with its head down and back towards me, while looking for seeds on a mossy old log that I saved as my winter "stage"

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 19h

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 20h

“I think most people are going to say, OK, I had a great deal during COVID,” said Club For Growth President David McIntosh. “But now it’s back to business as usual, and I should be paying for health care.”

Republicans Face Voter Anger Over Rising Health Care Premiums

Notices of rising health insurance premiums are landing in voters' mailboxes and sending some to Republican town halls to vent their frustration.

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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 18h

Ok, this is cute.

Rev. Carson Hollis @carsonhollis.bsky.social · 1d

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 21h

What on earth can UNC schools expect from an accreditation agency whose principal proponent espouses these kinds of destructive know-nothing policies? Don't get on a train that's heading for a fatal crash! @aaup.org
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Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says

The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.

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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 1d

My recommendation for teaching around the newest supposed hit movie about nuclear annihilation. First, Disney’s 1957 “Our Friend the Atom,” and then Kubrick’s 1964 “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

“Students & education workers form the backbones of communities in every state & are witnessing firsthand how Trump’s policies are wreaking havoc on campuses & beyond. We need a massive movement of higher ed workers & students...As higher ed goes, so goes democracy.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

STUDENTS RISE UP: NOVEMBER 7TH DAY OF ACTION

Students and education workers across the US are organizing our schools towards mass non-cooperation on November 7th! Find an action on your campus!

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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 1d

I’m teaching “Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam” with @dukepress.bsky.social to first year, first semester undergraduates, and they are reading images and words closely, drawing crucial connections. Thank you, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, for your research and words.

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Peter Anthony Holder @paholder.bsky.social · 1d

In the court battle between George R.R. Martin and Open AI, Martin is currently in the lead

George R.R. Martin Is Carving Up OpenAI In Court, So Far

The scales have tipped in favor of the 'Game of Thrones' author and his cohort suing OpenAI, with a recent ruling advancing two additional theories of infringement against the AI giant.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

It's funny to start a group called "fix the city" just to funnel money to the guy who fucked up the city

🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 2d

Everybody gets that Bloomberg is the main reason Cuomo is still afloat, right?

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Donors opposing Mamdani
Name Amount Donated Group(s) Supported Net Worth
Michael Bloomberg $8.3 million Fix the City $110 billion
Joseph Gebbia $3 million Fix the City · Defend NYC · Put NYC First $7.9 billion
Lauder family $2.6 million Fix the City · Sensible City $25.9 billion
Bill Ackman $1.75 million Fix the City · Defend NYC $9.2 billion
Tisch family $1.2 million Fix the City $10.1 billion
John Hess & family $1 million Fix the City $2.4 billion
Daniel Loeb $775,000 Fix the City · Defend NYC · NYers for a Better Future $3.8 billion
Barry Diller $500,000 Fix the City $5.1 billion
Steve Wynn $500,000 Fix the City $3.9 billion
Marcella Guarino Hymowitz $400,000 Fix the City · Put NYC First $2 billion
David Walentas $350,000 Fix the City · Empower NYC $2.3 billion
Reed Hastings $250,000 Fix the City $6.5 billion
John Fish $250,000 Fix the City $2.3 billion
David Lichtenstein $250,000 Fix the City · NYers for a Better Future $2 billion
Alice Walton $200,000 Fix the City $115 billion
Deborah Simon $200,000 Fix the City $11.6 billion
Jerry Speyer $150,000 Fix the City $2.2 billion
Stephanie Coleman $150,000 Fix the City $7.1 billion (family)

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

Sam Gamgee is the hardest person in middle earth

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 2d

“I think it’s good, especially for the young people, to see those people out there that are crazy enough to stand at a Peace Booth for several hours,” said booth volunteer BriAnne Dopart.

Give Peace a Chance!

www.theassemblync.com/place/state-...

Give Peace a Chance?

For 75 years, local pacifists have organized a “Peace Booth” at the State Fair. Is it exactly what our moment needs, or a relic of the past?

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Amy Laura Hall @profligategrace.bsky.social · 2d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

'No more fear, free thought here': UNC community members rally for academic freedom

Volunteers at the rally encouraged attendees to sign an online petition created by the American Association of University Professors, calling for higher education leaders to reject and denounce the Tr...

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog and Toad ate many cookies, one after another.

“You know, Toad,” said Frog, with his mouth full, “I think we should stop eating. We will soon be sick.”

“You are right,” said Toad. “Let us eat one last cookie, and then we will stop.”

Frog and Toad stuff their faces with cookies, one after another.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 3d

anyone interested in a combination antitrust, First Amendment, government ethics hypo

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Edward Swaine @edswaine.bsky.social · 3d

tbf, there's no thing under the sun in which he lacks material interest

NPR @npr.org · 3d

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS

'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking WaPo:

The White House just fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of Trump's construction projects, including his planned arch in Washington. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects

The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

“There’s almost been a great forgetting that’s happened across agencies,” former FTC head Lina Khan tells me, noting that Dems should better deploy power. Trump officials have no qualms about using federal power to their own nefarious ends, she says:

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

In a striking passage, former officials criticize Biden WH for being skittish about publicizing Labor Dept corporate enforcement actions to avoid “politicizing” them.

When voters don't know who's on their side, it risks "fascists stepping in," one says.

newrepublic.com/article/2023...

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 4d

It sounds like employees at this school became inhuman robots in service of the inhuman robot, which demanded results regardless of the cost.

The child was supposed to meet metrics or not get food. MEET METRICS.

When Barrios’ husband brought their daughter to a previously scheduled checkup soon after, her doctor noted with concern that she had lost a significant amount of weight in a short time. Her dad then brought her to school with a note from the pediatrician, Barrios says, instructing her to eat snacks in between regular meals and saw her walk into school with it in her hand. She told her parents she delivered it to staff. Even though Alpha had asked parents in its handbook to “refrain” from sending in “midday snacks,” Barrios and her husband wanted to follow the pediatrician's recommendation, she says.

For the first few days, Barrios says, her daughter ate her snacks. Then one afternoon she returned with them still in her backpack, uneaten. Barrios, alarmed, asked if Alpha was providing different food instead. No, the 9-year-old answered. She told her mom that staff at the school said she didn’t earn her snacks and wouldn’t get them until she met her learning metrics.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 4d

Fly-by-night private schools & charters open & close, causing disruption for the children & parents in those schools and causing disruption in the neighborhood schools they pull funds from under many charter, voucher, & ESA programs--which often exist under the guise of helping low SES students.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 4d

There is so much to unpack here, I don't know where to begin.

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Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out

In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

www.wired.com

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