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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 6h

Imagining Nate Silver writing 3k words about why the left made them do this

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Hyperlexic @hyperlexic.bsky.social · 6h

These evil idiots are dedicated to blowing past every red line that keep civil society together.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6h

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Elise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 11h

Nothing replaces the comprehensive, trustworthy, and timely labor market data found in monthly jobs and JOLTS reports, but unemployment insurance claims—collected at the state level—offer a useful read on one key angle of the labor market.
#EconSky #NumbersDay
www.epi.org/blog/amid-th...

Amid the shutdown data blackout, state unemployment insurance claims continue to shed light on the labor market

On Friday, October 3, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) did not publish the September Employment Situation Summary report. The monthly “jobs report” provides policymakers, businesses, and the ...

www.epi.org

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 9h

"A myopic emphasis on individual privacy also obscures how companies like Argyle impact collective action."

Stellar piece from Eliza McCullough (elizamccullough.com) in Lux that shows what data indebtedness actually means for individuals and organizers.

lux-magazine.com/lux-for-life...

Debt by Data

Predatory lending with a high-tech sheen.

lux-magazine.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, what Buttigieg is doing here is low-key Trump apologia

bropez.bsky.social @bropez.bsky.social · 12h

More of a post-DOGE “build back better”

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 12h

Not to mention its tautological nature. It serves to make the very idea of racial discrimination seem illogical/farcical, and therefore any attempts to remediate it foolish

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 15h

The empty formalism used to constitutionally forbid diversity-enhancing or remedial action—that to “stop discriminating on the basis of race we must stop discriminating on the basis of race”—is possibly the most invidious trope the Roberts Court has cultivated in our modern legal culture.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 13h

Rural health care providers are already stretched thin by a shortage, and now they have to waste precious time debunking medical misinformation?!

In rural America, scarce doctors battle misinformation as they practice medicine

Conspiracy theories about health fill a vacuum created by the lack of doctors in many rural communities. Meanwhile, doctors in these areas say patients have become increasingly distrustful and sometim...

www.npr.org

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 15h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 19h

“On any given week, the administrator of CMS could speak for a few minutes before a shirtless Russell Brand calls in from what appears to be a bathtub, or a former member of The Pussycat Dolls argues that the COVID-19 vaccine destroyed her ability to dance.”

www.notus.org/health-scien...

'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad

A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.

www.notus.org

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 1d

Did not expect a MattY appearance, but it just caps off that whole narrative. Amazing what he decides doesn’t require actually reviewing

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

Frying brains online

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

Once again struck by how many prominent "heterodox" thinkers split off and create their own institutions not because of academic censoriousness but because no one who closely examines their methodology can possibly take them seriously.

Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

Just gonna leave this here.

In survey data, LGBT young people report consistently worse mental health than heterosexual young people.
Whether this is because LGBT causes mental illness (i.e. the minority stress or anomie hypotheses), or because
mental illness causes individuals to be LGBT is beyond the scope of this work.2

Footnote 2: Meyer, I. H. (1995). "Minority stress and mental health in gay men." Journal of health and social behavior: 38-56; Michael Bailey, J.
(2020). "The Minority Stress Model Deserves Reconsideration, Not Just Extension." Archives of Sexual Behavior 49(7): 2265-2268.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite civic employee fights are firefight versus cops, but I don’t think ICE wants to be known as the agency that threatens EMTs. Not if you seriously believe you’d be in danger in the future.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 3d

To quote @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app,

“Ain't no loneliness epidemic. It's a wackness epidemic. You niggas suck.”

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 3d

Accra. Accra?!

ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 3d

An ICE deportation flight (OAE3710) just departed Baltimore, MD for Accra, Ghana. It originated from Phoenix, AZ, and stopped in El Paso, TX before landing in Baltimore. ICE Flight Monitor is actively monitoring and will update here.

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surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 3d

Let’s not put two bad bitches against each other…(but it is Perfect Blue)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Oh my god

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Aisha K. Staggers @akstaggers.bsky.social · 4d

It's that "my son is broke, and I gotta pay this insurance premium bill because I'm divorced now, and his dad said he ain't helping" reality pill!

A good, healthy dose of reality!

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

If a pharmaceutical company could mass produce whatever compassion pills Marjorie Taylor Greene seems to have been taking lately, we could save the world

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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