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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · Nov 10

"I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I WILL HOLD."

-- 1LT Clifton Cates, Message to Battalion Headquarters, 19 Jul 1918, Battle of Soissons

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 5h

Sal Frelick and @stevevladeck.bsky.social crossover we all need

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 5h

(and I aim to adopt Cory's "enshittigenic policy environment" phrase into my tech law courses posthaste)

Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 6h

If you want to find a good place to start understanding why the tech industry has become this (waves hands around), I always recommend Cory Doctorow's work on the topic.

youtu.be/P1EKQidRooc?...

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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John J. Flynn @johnjflynn.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks to you both! I think he would have loved this discussion I heard this week... It tracks with his writing on this and pharma... youtu.be/P1EKQidRooc?...

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

YouTube video by Adam Conover

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 7h

A bit before our time, but yes.

Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 7h

Oh, and of course, (c) The loss of Rod Carew by the Twins to the Angels

Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 7h

As a MN native, I still weep over (a) the loss of the North Stars (to Dallas, of all places) and (b) Gary Anderson's one FG miss in the 1999 NFC championship

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 9h

If any junior scholars want to chat about the supportive environment that @umnlawschool.bsky.social has built, I'm more than happy to do so. Incredible institution. Great mentorship from a faculty that reads your work. Great city with a phenomenal food scene, fantastic parks, and a ton to do.

Matt Bodie @matthewtbodie.bsky.social · 9h

Minnesota Law is looking to hire a visiting assistant professor — more details here:

hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 9h

(don't forget to mention the professional sports franchises that will rarely fail to break your heart)

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 10h

We're seeing variants of this dynamic over and over (and over). These are not the words and actions of a disciplined, principled, and honorable government agent. They rather reflect the toxic mindset that holds that "if you're not cop you're little people" and "rules just get in the way."

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 17h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 17h

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12h

Do you want to live in a "papers, please" country?

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 15h

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

stanforddaily.com

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 13h

(See also Apple Music)

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 17h

Also, despite the headline, only one law school is mentioned in the piece. This is a classic misinformation tactic.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

This framing is a bit of a choice:
What happened: Ilya Shapiro and the Federal Society wanted an event on anti-semitism at NYU. Campus officials proposed another day, worried about the anniversary on Oct 7. After pushback, they relented. Is this a cancelation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Opinion | I Resigned as Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney. Law Schools Are Missing the Point of My Story.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 14h

Cory is a clear thinker and writer--I highly recommend reading this book.

Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 14h

had the great privilege of speaking with Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification, how he came to coin the word on @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy, the myriad ways the concept has manifested throughout tech's modern history, and how he maintains hope that we may yet de-enshittify the commons:

He Coined the Word That Describes Why the Internet Sucks Right Now. His New Book Could Help Make It Better.

His newest book provides ideas for how to de-enshittify the world wide web that’s become our everyday life.

slate.com

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 14h

Look, creating a deck of impenetrable powerpoint slides containing a maximal number of buzzwords embedded in images of military symbology with an uncountable number of arrows connecting all of the above is exhausting work.

Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 15h

Trump hates us for our freedoms.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump on Egypt: "They have very little crime. Because they don't play games. That's why. Like we do in the United States with governors that have no idea what they're doing."

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 15h

A great moment from Oliver:

“While I would love to keep splitting hairs on whether a country’s starving kids is better or worse if those kids are already sick, let’s just table that discussion for when I see you in hell.”

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

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 1d

I will also readily admit that the Merlin app is set to a hair trigger on my phone.

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 1d

And welcome to Historians At The Movies! Tonight we are talking about space travel and the economics of rescuing Matt Damon with THE MARTIAN on Netflix at 8pm eastern. HATM 1/

Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 6d

This week Historians At The Movies talks about space travel. Join us on Netflix this Sunday, October 12 at 8pm eastern for THE MARTIAN.

Keep #HATM hiring by sharing and we’ll see you soon.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

Ultimately, the death of US manufacturing is about this attitude. It's easy to say "buy american or stfu" because virtue signaling is free. But it's hard to actually sustain a business because many Americans simply don't want to pay what it costs to produce things ethically in this country

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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