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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 1h

Just jokin’

Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 1h

Not 100% sure my students appreciate my singing the “Slow Horses” theme song when they file in and out of the seminar room but it’ll grown on them #pedagogy

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 4h

ahhh gonna go put on Warm Canto for the early birds to my 8am class

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 4h

Prospects for the U.S. bombing its way to victory in the war on drugs—specifically cocaine headed to Europe—appear dim.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Drug Smugglers Change Supply Routes to Evade U.S. Warships

www.nytimes.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20h

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 5h

“‘None of this works without him speaking up on Gaza,’ said Gaspard, the former Obama administration aide, who likened it to Barack Obama’s opposition to the Iraq war before the 2008 presidential election.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 13h

"Charlie Brown had hoes."

David Pakman @davidpakman.bsky.social · 20h

The extreme left’s weird soft treatment of Nick Fuentes is a reminder that if you go far enough in either direction, you loop back around

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

The lengths of self-protection Chicagoans have to undertake is criminal. What constant pulsing background fear that masked armed agenst raiding, say, schools does to kids and everyone else is real, and destructive.

But thin manpower gives room for real resistance--as we also see in Chicago.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

Arguably, Trump 2.0 is all about stochastic authoritarianism.

He lacks the ability to punish multiple cities with an iron fist. He can't even really punish all of ONE with an iron fist. ICE and associated unnamed Fed LEOs roam Chicago, but only strike a limited number of places at a time.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13h

"Florida House Bill 113..would require all public universities & colleges rename 1 campus roadway after...Charlie Kirk... Institutions that fail to comply within 90 days would face the withholding of state funds."
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Bill would make Florida colleges, universities name streets after Charlie Kirk

A new bill would make all of Florida's public state universities and colleges rename one roadway on their campuses after Charlie Kirk.

www.tallahassee.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 14h

Yeah that actually bothers me too. Could’ve been perfect!

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 15h

"Eric Adams and Randy Mastro honor absolutely scumbag Bernard Kerik during the lame duck period" is so stunningly outrageous that it's almost unbelievable.

Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent potted bio of the late Bernie Kerik, a scuzz for the ages. Mind-boggling how he stuff so much corruption (on multiple continents) into one life. Fine reportage like this is why I subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

hellgatenyc.com

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15h

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 15h

And the piece didn’t even have space to mention Kerik’s friendship with the abusive creep who ran the Sarah Lawrence sex cult! A scuzz for the ages www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/n...

Ringleader of Sex Cult at Sarah Lawrence College Gets 60-Year Sentence (Published 2023)

www.nytimes.com

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent potted bio of the late Bernie Kerik, a scuzz for the ages. Mind-boggling how he stuff so much corruption (on multiple continents) into one life. Fine reportage like this is why I subscribe to @hellgatenyc.com hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

hellgatenyc.com

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 18h

What would it look like for a bunch of jetski dealer jihadists to secure the monopoly over the legitimate use of force while they rewrite your kid's textbooks to show Jesus invented dinosaurs with the help of Prime energy? I dunno man ask Florida and stop thinking they're backwards. They're ahead!

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Stephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 18h

The US could've forced Israel to accept a ceasefire two years ago. Instead, it spent $38 billion enabling Israel's genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and fighting a regional war on Israel's behalf.
www.stephensemler.com/p/us-has-spe...

The US has spent at least $38 billion on Israel since October 2023. The single column chart shows $38.2 billion in US military spending on Israel from October 2023 through September 2025, including: $18 billion arming Israel, $6.1 billion defending Israel, $14.1 billion waging war on Israel’s behalf. Data: Pentagon financial records, enacted legislation, media reports, author analysis. Figures are conservative estimates in constant 2025 US dollars.

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Ugly Reykjavik @uglyreykjavik.bsky.social · 18h

This week's theme is ugly doors. Specifically, ugly doors on ugly walls.

#Iceland #photography #streetphotography #decay #door #window #concrete #rust

An ugly white door on a run down building.

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 19h

So what is it that Benioff needs from Washington?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 20h

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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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 20h

The Catcher in the Rye is about a teenager struggling with the grief of losing his younger brother to cancer and it's strongly hinted that the narrator has been a victim of childhood molestation or worse and everyone who takes that story and turns it into "rich kid won't stop whining" is illiterate.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 20h

‘A display rammed with formal and intellectual inventiveness’ – Digby Warde-Aldam is bowled over by Sam Gilliam’s paintings at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin

Sam Gilliam, master draper

An inventive show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art is a thrilling introduction to a modern master of American art

buff.ly

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 20h

The disturbances in Portland are basically limited to a single block. And Trump says the city is burning. Why would a president and his aides lie so nakedly about an American city?

For one thing, because they hate it. But mostly, because they want to make this nation a fearful one. trib.al/Eu0MgCh

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 20h

Bluesky *couldn’t handle* that one

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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 21h

No not yet! Looks dope tho. You read it?

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