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Kathleen J. Frydl
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Fall 2025: Liberalism & the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/liberalism-and-the-reinvention-of-the-modern-corporation-9780197567401?lang=en&cc=us#
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paleofuture.bsky.social
"When a female AFP reporter changed her settings to male, LinkedIn's analytics data showed the reach of multiple posts spiked compared to a week earlier."
Women don fake mustaches in LinkedIn 'gender bias' fight
Flipping their gender setting to "male" and even posting photos with fake mustaches, a growing number of women on LinkedIn have posed a provocative challenge to what they allege is an algorithmic bias...
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December 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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unlawfulentries.bsky.social
While some unis are paying millions of dollars to fired sportsball coaches for contract buyout & and other unis are forking over tens of millions to cave to the regime, this is CUNY Brooklyn College, chronically underfunded so basic infrastructure is crumbling.
An email from facility opps: "Dear Campus Community, Due to the falling temperatures outside and lack of adequate heating in some buildings and areas on campus, it is recommended that staff and faculty work remotely if conditions inside their office and classroom are unsuitable. Facilities staff has been continuously attempting to take corrective measures but some of the repairs need emergency parts and equipment being procured and installed by outside service vendors as well as capital project renovations. If needed, please work with your supervisor and department to work remotely until repairs are completed and conditions improve...."
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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kateristau.bsky.social
Here’s some great info about the Anthropic Settlement for textbook and academic authors.

www.taaonline.net/anthropic-se...
Anthropic Settlement
TAA Position Statements
www.taaonline.net
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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lindsaypcohn.bsky.social
This company charges disabled vets millions, even after VA said it's likely illegal

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This company charges disabled vets millions, even after VA said it's likely illegal
A Florida-based company is charging military veterans as much as $20,000 for help with disability claims, even though the VA has said that may be illegal and the service should be free. But so far nob...
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December 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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timkmak.bsky.social
Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:

The U.S. unexpectedly halted deliveries of certain weapons to Ukraine and has reduced contact with German officials providing Ukraine aid, The Times reports.

The U.S. has paused aid deliveries without warning multiple times.
German army chief says contact with US military cut off by Pentagon
Lieutenant General Christian Freuding fears the longstanding military partnership between the two allies is unravelling under President Trump’s administration
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December 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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davidcole-gtown.bsky.social
No, you can’t shoot survivors hanging on for dear life to boat debris. And no, you can’t shoot suspected drug smugglers, either. This entire operation is illegal. Here’s why.

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Getting Away with Murder | David Cole
During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose
www.nybooks.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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mclem.org
Republican voters in the United States are far from monolithic.

Fascinating new research by @snfagora.bsky.social & @publicagenda.bsky.social identifies and characterizes three broad constituencies: "Trump first", "Constitution first", and "Party first". All three are concerned for US democracy.
Understanding Evolving Republican Attitudes Towards Democracy
Survey from SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins and Public Agenda Pinpoint Distinct Divides Within Republican Party
snf-agora.shorthandstories.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
kfrydl.bsky.social
A preoccupation with secondary strikes implicitly suggests that the initial strike was warranted & legal.

Don't do that.
bcfinucane.bsky.social Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d
What if—bear with me now—both those strikes and all those that followed were illegal?
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Markwayne Mullin defends Hegseth: "If there was a second strike, it wouldn't be to just simply take out the survivors. It's because there was still a threat or opportunity for them to run."
December 2, 2025 at 2:55 PM
kfrydl.bsky.social
quote from article: Senator Kim made to wait to provide his testimony against the bill
December 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."

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The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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jbendery.bsky.social
Hakeem Jeffries is out with a new Dear Colleague letter, saying there are "just 13 legislative days left" before ACA tax credits expire, and that House Dems are planning to introduce a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on a three-year extension of ACA tax credits.
December 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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michelleboorstein.bsky.social
1,000 US evangelical pastors are in Israel this week on an Israel-backed tour to show support. It's being billed as the biggest trip of US Christian leaders ever, and reflects some evangelical leaders' concern that support for/focus on Israel is waning in their community 1/3
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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kfrydl.bsky.social
Never will another play be as resonant for me as Stoppard's Rock n Roll.

A genuinely Czech--earnest while also nuanced--POV on intellectual & cultural allegiance
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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sarahemilyduff.bsky.social
From Stoppard’s Arcadia:
We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language … You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
The US is setting some examples here which will make it more difficult to take a coherent stand against a Chinese blockade of Taiwan.
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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rikefranke.bsky.social
In the Eurostar, you are not allowed to attack anyone with a spear. I think.
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
kfrydl.bsky.social
Never will another play be as resonant for me as Stoppard's Rock n Roll.

A genuinely Czech--earnest while also nuanced--POV on intellectual & cultural allegiance
November 29, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by Kathleen J. Frydl
rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Former US military lawyers speak out:

"The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both."

Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes

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• If the U.S. military operation to interdict and destroy suspected narcotraFicking vessels is a “non-international armed conflict,” as the Trump Administration suggests, orders to “kill everybody,” which can reasonably be regarded as an order to give “no quarter,” and to “double-tap” a target in order to kill survivors, are clearly illegal under international law. In short, they are war crimes. • If the U.S. military operation is not an armed conflict of any kind, these orders to kill helpless civilians clinging to the wreckage of a vessel our military destroyed would subject everyone from SECDEF down to the individual who pulled the trigger to prosecution under U.S. law for murder. Highlighted sentence at the end of the document reads: Again, the bottom line is that, since orders to kill survivors of an attack at sea are “patently illegal,” anyone who issues or follows such orders can and should be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.
November 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Harvard Law School’s Jack Goldsmith:

“In short, if the Post’s facts are correct, it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the ‘two men were blown apart in the water, as the Post put it.’”

open.substack.com/pub/executiv...
11:19 14 in shot, i the Post's facts are correct it appears that Special Operations Forces committed murder when the "two men were blown apart in the water," as the Post put it. It is unclear from the Post's Seporting precisely what role Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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ryanjreilly.com
Sarah Beckstrom's ex-boyfriend told NBC News she dreamed of becoming an FBI special agent.

She didn't want to deploy to D.C.

"She hated it. She cried about it."

But she started visiting monuments and museums and started enjoying it.

May she rest in peace.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
National Guard member killed in D.C. shooting remembered for 'heart of gold'
The slain soldier’s former boyfriend recalled her empathy and generosity. “She doesn’t even have to know you and she’ll do anything for you,” he said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“ICE is about to have a bigger budget than the entire military of Israel. It’s an insane way for us to be spending our resources as a country.” - @timmiller.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
kfrydl.bsky.social
No one is more upset & outraged by the shooting of members of the National Guard than ppl like me; ditto the killing of Charlie Kirk.

We can anticipate & then bear witness to the weaponization of these evil acts of violence & it's terrifying.
November 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
kfrydl.bsky.social
I went in with middle-tier expectations...but I thought the Springsteen film was worth seeing.
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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bcfinucane.bsky.social
Pleased to share my new essay in @foreignaffairs.com on the broader implications of the Trump administration’s killing spree at sea.

www.foreignaffairs.com/central-amer...
America Unbound in the Caribbean
The real costs of Washington’s use of force.
www.foreignaffairs.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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zflixfootball.bsky.social
🇪🇸 Atlético Madrid 2-1 Inter Milan 🇮🇹 (Champions League LIVE)

⏰ 9' Julián Alvarez ⚽️
⏰ 90+3' José María Giménez ⚽️

⏰ 54' Piotr Zieliński ⚽️

José Giménez seals it for Atlético right at the death 🫨
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#Atlético #Milan #ChampionsLeague #zflixsports #zflixfootball
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM