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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 29m

Comparisons to Biden and Obama are irrelevant. The outrage they expressed at Obama's tan suit or "you didn't build" the roads & bridges or Biden's speech idiosyncrasies was all performative. Their plan was always more extreme & disconnected from political norms they pretended to care about.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 40m

I remember back in 2017 that Alex Pareene wrote that Charlottesville was a look into the future of Republican youth. This kind of shows he was not off the mark.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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Maine's Black Lawyer @lutherevers.bsky.social · 20h

"Trans people have no constitutional right to medical care, but parents have the right to force a public school disclose if their kid might be trans" is such an amazing position.

J. D. @jdetc.bsky.social · 19h

Justice Thomas has been the leading voice against substantive due process for decades. So I am just shocked - shocked! - to find him joining a statement where parents have fundamental rights over their kids' identity in disregard of various customs, traditions, and history.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: The Supreme Court will not hear a case over a Colorado school district’s alleged actions discouraging disclosure of students’ gender identity to the students’ parents.

The case was a bad vehicle for considering the issue, even Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch note.

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Elizabeth Harper @cadaverformosus.bsky.social · 23h

if you’re an alum, tell the how you feel
if you’re a student, tell them how you feel
if your kid’s a student, tell them how you feel
if you’re a vendor, tell them how you feel
if you’re an athletics fan, tell them how you feel
if you use their hospitals, tell them how you feel

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Kyle Thomas @kylehemingway.com · 23h

Happy Anita Bryant Pie Day to all who celebrate.

Anita Bryant's Pie to the Face - www.NBCUniversalArchives.com

YouTube video by NBCUniversal Archives

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Dorothy Parker Fucks @dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social · 1d

bari weiss is proof you can do whatever you want in america if you’re an unapologetic bigot, racist and liar. as @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps telling us, democracies need to establish costs for being a lying liar.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

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

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 1d

even gary busey in point break on the beach cutting that stoned dude’s hair flashed a badge!

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 1d

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Dennis K Jr @dkjrhi.bsky.social · 1d

“This is, simply put, bullshit.” - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

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Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 1d

Destroying the Voting Rights Act has been the life's work of John Roberts

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 3d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d

Even more annoying is that the original poster is using the LLM to “wade through a mountain of papers for a systemic review”. Which means feeding a lot of academic material into the plagiarism machine that always lies, without the consent of the authors.

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“The initial newspaper reports mentioned the names of the white crew members, but only referred to the Mexican passengers as ‘deportees.’ That lack of recognition moved Woody Guthrie to write a song …” www.kqed.org/news/1194127...

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Palle! @palleh.bsky.social · 1d

I don't get the determination to make Columbus relevant to US history. He never set foot on US soil. He "discovered" a place where millions of people lived and vikings and Irish fishermen knew about. He thought he visited India until his deathbed. His contemporaries considered him a violent weirdo.

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 1d

i don't know why it's just so fucking funny to me that a spokesasshole for a computer program used about 90% of the time to make busty cartoon porno truly believes his beepboop machine is "real work" when, like, "receptionist at the veterinarian's office" isn't.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 1d

trying to gently explain to a parents’ group why media training before sitting for an interview with someone from the nyt is important and feeling like such an asshole because people should be able to just be themselves without fear and yet…

this place sucks.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 2d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 1d

the whole site crashed for about 15 minutes there, for me anyway. returned with the fixed headline. (the rest of the garbage remains)

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 3d

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below.

Please follow for updates and collection highlights!

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

hatfulofhistory.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 2d

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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