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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 2d

Did @nytpitchbot.bsky.social write this?

Screenshot of NYT op-ed that reads "Academia is Broken. Trump's University 'Compact' Can Help Fi it."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3d

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 3d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 4d

I received an email today notifying me that in January, my insurance premium is increasing 24.8%

Forbes @forbes.com · 5d

Greene said “not a single Republican in leadership” had addressed the issue of people’s health insurance premiums doubling if Affordable Care Act subsidies are allowed to expire.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She’s ‘Disgusted’ Health Insurance Costs Could Double

Greene said “not a single Republican in leadership” had addressed the issue of people’s health insurance premiums doubling if Affordable Care Act subsidies are allowed to expire.

www.forbes.com

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 5d

"Our government is so woke that the police are using Spanish on their shields!"

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 9d

A big congratulations is in order for author Randy M. Browne—his book THE DRIVER'S STORY has just won the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs

The Driver’s Story – Penn Press

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you, Holly!

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks so much, Jenny!

Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you! As you know, your help with this project was vital.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks, David! And by the way, your first book was really helpful in thinking through some of the issues around driver's masculinity.

Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you!

Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks very much, Lou!

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Hey, it takes a village! Thanks!

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks very much!

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks!

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 9d

I am so excited to share this news!

#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social · 9d

Keeping our commitment to recognize the outstanding book on the history of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery, we are delighted to announce The Driver’s Story by historian @randybrowne.bsky.social as the Winner of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 10d

Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play

go fuckin Huskies

Nazi UW students fuck off

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 19d

President Bone Spurs telling pregnant women in pain to “tough it out.” Just wow, what an awful person.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 23d

"This collaboration will integrate enroll ml's AI reasoning and guidance platform into Xavier's enrollment management strategy, focusing on creating more personalized student experiences while advancing ethical AI practices in higher education."

www.enrollml.com/post/xavier-...

Xavier University, enroll ml forge AI-powered partnership to transform Enrollment Management

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECincinnati – September 16, 2025A new AI-driven initiative is revolutionizing how Xavier University enrolls, retains, and supports its students. Today, the Jesuit Catholic universi...

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Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social · 23d

#Convocatoria para el volumen 31-2: "Las primeras resistencias indígenas y africanas en el Nuevo Mundo 1492-1582". Más información aquí👉https://revistas.icanh.gov.co/index.php/fh/announcement/view/105

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations to author @randybrowne.bsky.social, whose groundbreaking book THE DRIVER'S STORY is a finalist for the Slavery Archive Book Prize, granted by the #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative (@slaveryarchive.bsky.social)! bit.ly/3Qs4ZJs

The Driver’s Story – Penn Press

The story of the driver is the story of Atlantic slavery. Starting in the seventeenth-century Caribbean, enslavers developed the driving system to solve thei...

bit.ly

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 23d

also, if I’m not mistaken, the FCC chair just affirmed his plan to end free speech in America in a reply to the guy who played the wheelchair kid on Glee

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 23d

hey so this is insane

Brendan Carr confirming that the FCC is carrying out Project 2025 stuff via a gif on Twitter

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 24d

Literally fascism. Literally what the Nazis did with Horst Wessel.

Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 24d

Possible slogans discussed include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors.” There is talk of using Turning Point USA chapters as recruitment centers.

Military leaders consider recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk

Possible slogans discussed include “Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors.” There is talk of using Turning Point USA chapters as recruitment centers.

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Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social · 24d

And then the dorks cheer the other dorks on because reasons.

Shacknews @shacknews.com · 24d

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI