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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 3h

Foreign student enrollment:

IIT 51%
UChicago 31%
Art Institute of Chicago 31%
U of I 22%
Northwestern 21%

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 16h

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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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 14h

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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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 1d

If you want to read people who actually have intelligent things to say about Watchmen, look up @eruditorumpress.com or @thathoberekguy.bsky.social.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Maud O'Bedlam @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social · 5d

Just did my mandatory ethics training for work. Funny how I, a low level state university employee who can't do shit about fuck, have to worry about accidentally receiving gifts from prohibited sources, but 75% of the federal government currently operates on bribes and insider trading.

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Maud O'Bedlam @madmaudlingoes.bsky.social · 1d

My three year old is an occasional fan of Spidey and his Amazing Friends, and some grandparent or another got him a toy that separates into Peter in a flying car and Gwen and Miles on motorcycles. He has started referring to these, collectively and individually, as "Spider-babies."

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 2d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

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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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 2d

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

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.

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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 2d

I have to say, my least favorite conversation is when somebody else brings up my kid and then uses it as an opportunity to talk about how they could just never have kids, because you know I just value my independence so much and it's a job you can't call in sick for and they're so demanding and they

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I am hereby putting a 200% tariff on all fauns dryads and talking beavers as well as turkish delight. Narnia has been very bad to us.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Judge’s order bars ‘federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois’ for at least 14 days.
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Federal judge hits Trump administration credibility in siding with city and state against National Guard deployment

Judge's order bars 'federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois' for at least 14 days.

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collin cornell @collincornell.bsky.social · 4d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.”

RNS @rns.org · 5d

The pastors’ efforts are part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration as the president seeks to implement plans for mass deportation of immigrants.
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Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who…

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5d

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Tolarian Community College @tolariancommunitycollege.com · 5d

We're going back to the plane of New York City.

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The Wild Hunt News @thewildhunt.bsky.social · 6d

3 U.S. soldiers — an officer, a reservist, & a new recruit — respond to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “Nordic Pagans” remarks, reflecting on faith, honor, & the quiet courage it takes to serve both gods and country.

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#pagan #heathen #asatru #norsereligion #military

The courage to serve: Heathen soldiers respond to Hegseth’s “Nordic Pagans” insult - News, Paganism, U.S., World

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Three U.S. soldiers — an officer, a reservist, and a new recruit — respond to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “Nordic Pagans” remarks, reflecting on faith, honor, and the qu...

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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 6d

What was the build? I need to branch out some, I’ve been playing exclusively with the twin blades.

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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 6d

This is reporting that nobody else is going to do except for @thewildhunt.bsky.social. Lots of outlets snarked about the “Nordic Pagans” remark; we actually talked to military Heathens at length. If you like this coverage, please consider donating so we can afford to do more original reporting.

The Wild Hunt News @thewildhunt.bsky.social · 6d

3 U.S. soldiers — an officer, a reservist, & a new recruit — respond to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “Nordic Pagans” remarks, reflecting on faith, honor, & the quiet courage it takes to serve both gods and country.

wildhunt.org/2025/10/the-...

#pagan #heathen #asatru #norsereligion #military

The courage to serve: Heathen soldiers respond to Hegseth’s “Nordic Pagans” insult - News, Paganism, U.S., World

Witchcraft & Pagan News - Three U.S. soldiers — an officer, a reservist, and a new recruit — respond to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “Nordic Pagans” remarks, reflecting on faith, honor, and the qu...

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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 6d

So much so that she reviewed it for @thewildhunt.bsky.social: wildhunt.org/2023/08/clas...

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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 6d

I live on a narrow street, and at least twice a week I come home to find someone double-parked in the middle of the road with no way to get around them right in front of my house, and every time this happens my face turns a little bit more into my father's.

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Eric O. Scott @ericoscott.bsky.social · 6d

Remember, the GOP is a working class party now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 6d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 7d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 7d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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