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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 11h

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 11h

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 14h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 14h

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14h

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 15h

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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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 13h

They used the words but managed to use the worst photo, kudos

Low angle to give the appearance of dominance but also to highlight the labial neck folds and barely there comb-over, good work

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 13h

Yes. Let's make it happen

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 21h

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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 21h

Over the summer, men bet on whether someone would throw a dildo onto a WNBA court. Wired has since found they're gambling on something much worse.
www.jezebel.com/men-found-an...

Men Found Another Disgusting Way to Bet on WNBA Games

Over the summer, men bet on whether someone would throw a dildo onto a WNBA court. Wired has since found they're gambling on something much worse.

www.jezebel.com

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Aug 19

BLOOD IN THE MACHINE was given early access to survey data pulled from interviews with 1,400 Californians on their thoughts about AI.

Among the findings:

-59% think AI will primarily benefit corporations and the wealthy
-55% are more concerned than excited
-*70%* want strong AI laws

How California feels about AI

Spoiler: Not great. Plus, how AI is raising our electricity bills, the chatbot therapist that failed to intervene in a suicide, and what lays behind Grok's personas.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 19h

Between this, the resegregation of the military, and the retooling of the Department of Justice to focus on (fake) discrimination against white Christians, and eviscerating Civil Rights Act enforcement, they have nearly erased the structural legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14h

He deserves two tbh

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 14h

a man in a pirate hat stands in front of a group of men

ALT: a man in a pirate hat stands in front of a group of men

media.tenor.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 22h

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 22h

Here we are indeed. 🙃

a cartoon of charlie brown standing on a sidewalk and saying `` good grief '' .

Alt: a cartoon of charlie brown standing on a sidewalk and saying `` good grief '' .

media.tenor.com

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 23h

I had the misfortune of reading through a handful of Yarvin blog posts last week. He often uses the term "low human capital individuals" to sound like a distinguished racist with many leather-bound books. It's incredible pathetic.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 23h

Special education isn't a "nice thing to have." It isn't "charity" or doing something to make us feel better. It is a right. The right to a Free Appropriate Public Education is codified in the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, signed by a Republican president.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 23h

Let's see what happens when we turbocharge the enrollment cliff coming in 2030, by also keeping full tuition paying foreign students out at the same time.

This should be fine.

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 1d

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15%

www.businesstoday.in/nri/study/st...

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15% - BusinessToday

This move is part of a broader policy aimed at regulating academic admissions and funding, and it is set to have significant repercussions for colleges and universities across the United States.

www.businesstoday.in

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23h

Sally Jenkins blocked me a few weeks ago when I suggested her praise of Charlie Kirk might not align with the experiences of those of us on the professor watchlist. She's one of those pundits who sees criticism as a sign she's right--the more criticism, the more she's a "brave truth-teller"