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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 3h

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

They have sincerely convinced themselves that the average person wants Nazism. They hang out in group chats where Nazism is based and cool and they’ve been convinced this is a popular agenda

scorch forever @willcrist.bsky.social · 11h

It’s kinda wild how modern ultra wealthy people missed the memo that if you build trains and libraries and museums and fund the arts people are generally less likely to want you dead?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

They have sincerely convinced themselves that the average person wants Nazism. They hang out in group chats where Nazism is based and cool and they’ve been convinced this is a popular agenda

scorch forever @willcrist.bsky.social · 11h

It’s kinda wild how modern ultra wealthy people missed the memo that if you build trains and libraries and museums and fund the arts people are generally less likely to want you dead?

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

It’s bonkers. Like say what you will about Andrew Carnegie but after getting wealthy beyond compare he built libraries. Thiel and Musk and Ellison have been like “what if we restored the third reich? what if I became Big Brother? what if we ushered in an age of superstition, wouldn’t that be neat”

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 3h

Also, Trump seems to think that Biden was President on Jan 6, 2021. Fun fact: Biden was not President on Jan 6, 2021. Donald J Trump was President on Jan 6, 2021, and his people were running the FBI that day.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10h

"Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation, as he strongly backed a free, independent and objective press." apnews.com/article/pope...

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

apnews.com

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 9h

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐠𝐢𝐫𝐥, 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐧, 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫,

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Joshua Rivera @jmrivera.bsky.social · 4h

Call me old fashioned but I think being close personal friends with your subject ought to disqualify you from writing about them

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

Said respectfully, this man got a standing ovation saying this in one of the whitest rooms in America

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 9h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 3h

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

You know there are about a dozen despicable trash people in DHS and ICE and the administration working to find out who this guy is so they can go after him.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

Navin Pokala 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @navinpokala.bsky.social · 3h

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

You know there are about a dozen despicable trash people in DHS and ICE and the administration working to find out who this guy is so they can go after him.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

You know there are about a dozen despicable trash people in DHS and ICE and the administration working to find out who this guy is so they can go after him.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.medsky.social · 4h

Where are all the #fired #CDC and #NIH #scientists going to go? #Academic job market is even worse than #federal #government. A few may go into industry, but most people don’t have skills that #pharma and #biotech may want.

The Worst Way to Cut Government Spending — The Atlantic

The Trump administration is culling the best and brightest from the federal workforce for a rounding error’s worth in savings.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 10h

Wrong analogy.

This would be like if the plumber spent a solid year warning you not to hire a *different* plumber because he's a sociopath who would deliberately break open the water main & flood your house, but you chose to do so anyway *and* gave the other plumber an exclusive 4-year contract.

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2d

this is your fucking job that you're being paid to do. Imagine asking your plumber to stop your dishwasher from flooding your apartment and he's like "well what exactly do you want me to do?" The specifics are your part dog idk!

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

Interesting point here from @lutzfernandez.bsky.social: MAGA hates their designated enemies of the moment (blue America, migrants, etc) so much that they're enthusiastically taking their rage out on their children, too:
annelutzfernandez.substack.com/p/americas-a...

America’s Assault on Children

Using kids to consolidate authoritarianism

annelutzfernandez.substack.com

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 12h

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of indoctrinating students, it’s healthy to teach the controversy. Let the students reach their own conclusions about the number of digits on the median human hand.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

"You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time."

I didn't think George Stephanopolous had that gear, but good for him. That's how it should always be done.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 4h

The idea that "all opinions are valid" is stupid when it shows up in journalism, but that idea makes universities absurd.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 7h

Diverse points of view are good — people from different backgrounds, assumptions, etc.

"Diverse opinions" is bullshit. People have intrinsic value, but opinions only have value to the extent they have justifications.

People deserve a modicum of respect. Opinions deserve nothing unearned.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 7h

i’m so tired of this “viewpoint diversity“ BS. we’re teaching what we think to be the best explanation/theory after scrutinizing the best evidence. sometimes that supports opposing views. frequently it does not. we’re not a damn debating club. diversity emerges between classes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

The freakout in NYC isn’t about Mamdani’s race, but his critics’ perception of his politics (and to some extent his religion).

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder.
They've really convinced themselves that the election of a (gasp) Democratic Socialist will mean the absolute destruction of the city. Cops will quit! Billionaires will flee! Dogs and cats, living together!
I've been trying to place where l've heard this same rhetoric before, and it finally hit me this weekend - this is exactly what southern whites said when the first wave of African American
mayors took power.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 11h

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location.

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Teresa Rayon @trayon.bsky.social · 16h

Model organisms as platforms for training scientific minds

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12h

The new pope is quoting Hannah Arendt. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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