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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 2h

Virginia — we have our own state Voting Rights Act that protects our right to continue this work
— but only with an AG and Gov who are willing.

It’s among the sky-high stakes of November’s election.

Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 2h

As we head into tomorrow, don't forget about *local* politics. We're all focused on Congressional districts, but Section 2 has been used to dismantle HUNDREDS of discriminatory town, city, and county plans — very often striking down at-large systems that can't be reduced to "partisan gerrymandering"

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 23h

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%.

Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1N1kt

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

a close up of a cartoon character 's fist against a blue background .

ALT: a close up of a cartoon character 's fist against a blue background .

media.tenor.com

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

Mine is sentences. Noun verb. That‘s how you know it’s a whole one.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

@philwoodson.bsky.social :-)

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah can you imagine just tryna study mountain rocks at pre-Civil War UVA? Geologists are pretty low-ego, prestige-light as STEM fields go.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

Ta-Nehisi Coates has this beautiful little essay about his time teaching writing at MIT that nails it, I think.

www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

The most Virginian response!

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think MIT‘s response to The Compact was swift because it’s so sincere. Though every institution has sore spots, it’s easily the closest thing to meritocracy I’ve ever seen up close. Tough — sometimes brutal — but fair.

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating chapter in the endless joust between the Bay State and the Old Dominion.

William Barton Rogers | MIT Admissions

At MIT Admissions, we recruit and enroll a talented and diverse class of undergraduates who will learn to use science, technology, and other areas of scholarship to serve the nation and the world in t...

mitadmissions.org

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned that MIT is in Massachusetts because its founder, William Barton Rogers — a UVA prof and the state geologist — decided he just couldn’t with Virginia anymore.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

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 elect...

campaign-trails.ghost.io

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Good for them: it is a violation of the Hatch Act that limits the use of public assets for partisan messaging. Orgeon has its own version of that law, and covers those who run the airport. Other airport administrators should look to see if they are in the same position.

Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1d

PDX continuing to show why it's the best airport in the country.

PDX chooses not to air video of Sec. Noem blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Port of Portland is choosing not to broadcast a new video that shows DHS Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the federal government shutdown."Democr

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Livable Cville @livablecville.bsky.social · 2d

This Tuesday, October 14 @cvilledems.bsky.social are hosting a Charlottesville City School Board Candidate Forum at the Jefferson School from 6-7pm. This may be the only forum, so it’s an important opportunity to learn more about the candidates.

CHARLOTTESVILLE SCHOOL
BOARD CANDIDATE FORUM
Zyahna Bryant | Dashad Cooper | Emily Dooley | Lisa Larson-Torres
6PM-7PM OCTOBER 14, 2025
THE JEFFERSON SCHOOL
JOIN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE DEMOCRATS FOR A FORUM WITH THE SCHOOL BOARD CANDIDATES. THE EVENING WILL BEGIN A LED DISCUSSION, FOLLOWED BY A Q&A. ONLINE ACCESS WILL BE PROVIDED BY CHARLOTTESVILLE UNITED FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION & IN MY HUMBLE OPINION

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 2d

my ❤️ is for the rare precise usage of terrific — tip of the cap

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 2d

And monopoly utilities free to pass on price hikes for more electric infrastructure!

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 2d

Millennials were too young to see the subprime mortgage crisis coming.

Is this what it felt like?

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 3d

Can someone conduct focus groups with travelers in terminals after watching this?

They‘re a captive audience!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 4d

Black families tend to have strong preferences against nursing homes, usually driven by concerns of inadequate care. Seeing that Black nursing home patients have significantly worse outcomes, and that they are driven by *within-nursing home* differences in care, confirms this suspicion.

NBER @nber.org · 4d

Nursing home value-added for black patients is 30 percent lower than for white patients, with most of the gap reflecting differences within, rather than across, nursing homes, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, @nealemahoney.bsky.social, and James C. Okun www.nber.org/papers/w34324

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Gregory Laski @greglaski.bsky.social · 13d

What a beautiful passage from Lincoln in the Bardo, necessary to take in given today’s news

Page from
Saunders novel Lincoln in bardo wherein Lincoln channeled

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 12d

legit the most feel-good reporting I’ve read all week — go get ‘em, goats

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 13d

There’s still a line, and for that, for today, I am grateful.

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Sally Hudson @sallylhudson.bsky.social · 13d

You know a platform has the juice when you post about your problems and get an actual answer from a total stranger. www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-aler...

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