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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13h

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 1d

finally AI comes for my job, a guy who writes erotica containing heavy use of the phrase “as a result”

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 7h

"I'm American, you stupid bitch." Incredible.

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 7h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 7h

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Columbia @mdhtrisys.bsky.social · 7h

I was struck by the fact that Americans in the 1910s and Israelis now both make enemies in their power kiss their flag. Nationalism gonna nationalism.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 22h

“It was President Woodrow Wilson, not Adolf Hitler, who first condemned foreign-born residents for pouring "the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries" of American life.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics...

The Politics of Fear in American History

The precedents for the violence and overt use of state power we are now experiencing can be found in the 1910s and 1920s rather than the 1930s and 1940s.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

On the record, I think sneering at these people that they’re somehow *bad* because they stayed on Twitter for this long is incredibly counterproductive

it’s great that more people have escaped the Mussolini Piss Hole and come to Bluesky actually, their numbers shall strengthen us

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 7h

judging from what I’m seeing right now, a large-scale Twitter Exodus Event is 100% what’s happening

good!

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Yair Rosenberg @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social · 7h

I wrote this a little over a month ago:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 6h

Federal agents detained a beloved Hojas Tea House employee of 12 years, Eloy Marin, while he was on the clock.

The full story: lataco.com/hojas-employ...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 8h

A perfect photo of Eugenio Suárez. No notes.

📸 Steph Chambers/Getty Images

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 6h

Welcome to Bluesky, Twitter refugees! 🙂 Methinks you have a thing or two to learn as you explore your new home 😜 We call posts skeets! 😂 There's no ads... yet! 😅 A few people can't take a joke, but that's alright 🙃 you're also allowed to threaten the mods with hammers 🔨

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Penny Shortage @cheatlines.co · Jan 30

Reminds me of when I got an old discard j-nonfic book about WORLD'S BIGGEST DUMP TRUCKS for my too-young nephew just so he could look at the pics and the text was this exact sort of "baby's first geopolitical controversy" explanation of the ins and outs of multinational mining corporations

fishttp:// @fishttp.website · Mar 1

reading to your child is so important! what should kidfish and i check out from the library?

three non-fiction children's books titled "virtual currency", "diamond trade", and "cryptocurrency"

the cryptocurrency book opened to a page explaining the dark web.... for children

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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 21h

One thing I love to do when I identify a doom loop is do the exact things that cause the doom loop.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Politics latest: Reeves hints at tax rises and spending cuts to break out of Britain’s ‘doom loop’

Reeves hints at tax rises to break out of Britain’s ‘doom loop’: Latest

www.independent.co.uk

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 20h

"hello jeffrey. i won. gooslane is sucking my pepper undr table. i will see u in hell mein freund"

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

“A medical source at the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza says two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli attack on the Shujayea neighbourhood.”

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Gaza death toll from Israeli attacks rises, despite ceasefire

Palestinians continue to be killed by Israel as people struggle for aid in decimated Gaza.

www.aljazeera.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

We do need a new generation of leaders and also Moulton sucks. Progressive Dems need to do better next gen leadership development. 😭

WBUR @wbur.org · 22h

Rep. Moulton is challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, saying it's time for a new generation of leadership in the Democratic party.

Congressman Seth Moulton announces run for U.S. Senate

Moulton is challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, saying it's time for a new generation of leadership in the Democratic party.

www.wbur.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

But I thought inflation wasn’t that bad? That’s what the media keeps telling us!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 20h

his announcement post has 7 likes. be sure to drop a block on @sethmoulton.bsky.social so his posts aren't tempting to interact with.

Seth Moulton announces his run for US Senate, 1 repost, 2 quotes, 7 likes

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Natasha Bertrand @natashabertrand.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action
New details here about how the Army’s top uniformed lawyer was fired just weeks after raising concerns about the use of the military domestically and mass firings of DoD employees www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/p...

How the Pentagon sidelined lawyers while testing the legal limits of military action | CNN Politics

For weeks earlier this year, the Army’s top uniformed lawyer had been raising legal concerns inside the Pentagon about some of the new policies being rolled out dictating how the military can be used ...

www.cnn.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 20h

writer, blogger, newsletter writer... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

arstechnica.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 20h

Governance by shitposting

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 20h

Ok but when people say a new generation it’s usually because it also means new ideas and not the ideas of Bill Clinton in 1994

WBUR @wbur.org · 22h

Rep. Moulton is challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, saying it's time for a new generation of leadership in the Democratic party.

Congressman Seth Moulton announces run for U.S. Senate

Moulton is challenging incumbent Sen. Ed Markey, saying it's time for a new generation of leadership in the Democratic party.

www.wbur.org

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 20h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘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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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 23h

4) What’s happening now is an attempt to render those sentiments acceptable in polite company & to make people feel guilty for having negative judgments about people who express their racism and anti-semitism.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 23h

2) As I recall, there was no discussion of the substance of some of the conservative students’ beliefs. Not all conservative students are racists & anti-Semites. Not all liberal students are non-racists & non anti-semites. BUT, consider this story when we think of those previous articles.

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