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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 19h

There's only one King of America

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 21h

Berlin is asking the right questions.

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 4d

No person of good faith actually believed this.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4d

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 6d

This obituary does mention the reason he became a household name in California. The fact that he sued the Berkeley rent board and won, leading to what everyone at the time called Searle Rent Increases.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

John Searle, a philosopher who was best known for a thought experiment he formulated, decades before the rise of ChatGPT, to disprove that a computer program by itself could ever achieve consciousness, died at 93.

John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93

His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

nyti.ms

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 6d

“The only solution.” Dude is so close to saying it.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 6d

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

‘The only solution’: Elon Musk backs call to deploy federal troops to San Francisco

The remarks from the tech leaders come as city officials tout falling crime rates even as overdose deaths continue to climb.

bit.ly

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 7d

Same vibes

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 13d

Since I read "never seen anyone in the passenger seat of a cybertruck" I've been trying and failing to prove it wrong. Please join the game!

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 13d

These people aren't very smart. The NFL is the last thing Americans agree on.

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 28d

this is cool. could you post it here?

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 28d

That was the second part of the chart that I had to cut off.

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · 29d

Important reminder: people are wrong about everything. Innumeracy is real.

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Sep 14

Sanction. Cleave. Dust.

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Sep 13

I never really bought into the whole "words are violence" think when the left was doing it. It feels particularly silly coming from the "fuck your feelings" movement.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 12

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is a very niche post. But I like it.

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 31

Oh.

#LFC

Liverpool reach Alexander Isak agreement with Newcastle

Isak is keen on a move to Anfield and previously published a statement in which he said his relationship with Newcastle “can’t continue”.

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 31

This is a very good reference

Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 28

This might be the most depressing story I’ve ever read.

I’ve never for one second wanted to go to a theme park and this story confirmed every last one of my priors.

Opinion | Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class

www.nytimes.com

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 25

🎶 His name is Rio and he dances down the wing... 🎶

#LFC

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 24

a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds on it

ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting in front of a window with blinds on it

media.tenor.com

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 22

You really have to visit these in the right order.

Collieflower @collieflower.bsky.social · Aug 22

yeah sure there is definitely some demographic crossover going

reptile and cannabis expo at the same dang time

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 20

"I know space is tight. But imagine all the wisdom I can share with people doing the actual work around here. As between them and me who needs the space more...?"

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 20

Please shoot me before I get to this level of entitlement.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · Aug 20

New award winner for Most Tone Deaf article.

No, Emeritus Chaired Full Professor, you don't get to make actual faculty share offices so you can have one on campus.

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 19

Almost word for word in the New Yorker

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Sam Kamin @profsamkamin.bsky.social · Aug 18

"The states are merely an agent of the Federal Government. They must do what the Federal Government... tells them."

If and when this is all over, no member of the Republican Party ever gets to use the phrase states' rights again.

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