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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 3h

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1h

The US Administration has done zero impact analysis to consider how the lightspeed evisceration of our public health system will affect the health of American families.

WIRED @wired.com · 1h

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

www.wired.com

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Guy Edwards @guywhedwards.bsky.social · 1h

🎉Congrats to the editors @timmonsroberts.bsky.social, Carlos R. S. Milani, Jennifer Jacquet and Christian Downie for pulling together this monumental volume on climate obstruction.

Delighted to have been able to contribute to ch. 8 on climate obstruction in the Global South.

See the link below!

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 1h

My book is officially here! Today (well tomorrow, actually) is the release date for The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000. If you like the art check out Shakti Kroopkin, whose painting Journey Into Freedom graces the cover. shaktikroopkin.com

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 3h

surprising and chaotic convergence of forces shaping Melanie Newport, news at 10.

also, he's 93?

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 3h

Be sure to check out this upcoming virtual event featuring a round table with Dr. @emmaamador.bsky.social and her new book, The Politics of Care Work.

@drsarahmac.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 3h

On Oct. 1, a gas explosion caused a public housing project in the Bronx to partially collapse.

On Friday, HUD fired all the federal government's housing inspectors: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Affordable Housing Left Vulnerable After Trump Fires Building Inspectors

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development cut its inspection team two weeks after a public housing building partially collapsed in the Bronx.

www.bloomberg.com

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 4h

Given that the election is in 12 days and everything indicates Milei's party will lose seats, wonder how this will go.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 5h

Congrats?

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 5h

i mean, joel must know granovetter, so by means of weak ties he's practically already won it ?

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 6h

Last week, Public Books published a roundtable that we put together on higher ed under Trump. Six contributors, six essays, six ideas for what those of us in higher education can do now to make the world a little better, a little saner, and a little safer. Read the series here (my intro below):

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 4d

“Taken together, our roundtable contributors present a suite of ideas that, if enacted, just might make higher education more livable for us all.”
The full series “Higher Ed Under Trump” is live at Public Books. Read all the contributions here:

Toward the Next American University: A Roundtable Discussion on the Future of Higher Ed - Public Books

The path higher education was on before Trump’s reelection was neither certain nor stable. There is not much to go back to now.

www.publicbooks.org

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Mark Healey @healeyparera.bsky.social · 6h

might not work in Canada, for example!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 8

the maga constitution doesn’t allow any institution, public or private, to explicitly work to ameliorate racial inequality but allows the government to racially profile

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Sep 8

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

Garibaldi was like, "Hey Mr. Lincoln, I'd be happy to lead your forces to victory if you free the slaves. "

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Garibaldi day to all who celebrate

Giuseppe Garibaldi, founding father of modern Italy. Leftist revolutionary. Presented here with sword and flag in hand after landing on a beach. In the background there are ships and the silhouettes of soldiers.

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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 1d

“‘Bending the knee’ has become the most popular Washington exercise because obsequiousness promises to improve the health of your bottom line. Whether you’re a trustee…or CEO…you are now engaged in servility cross-training.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky

James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 1d

“We must be steadfast in opposition to extortion under the guise of dealmaking, and we must create alliances rooted in a common devotion to freedom of inquiry…We have rejected tyranny before, and we can do it again.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com #HigherEd

What’s a College President to Do in the Trump Era?

Not going on bended knee to Washington would be a good start.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Mark my words, "Toward an Inflatable Liberationist Theology" is gonna fill an auditorium at AAR.*

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2d

Reposting for info, *not* commentary.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...