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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 12h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

The potential for shit like this is one reason why groups like LUCE in Massachusetts urge people to report sightings to them so they and their partners can directly warn people. A decentralized network is a lot harder to shut down. No big tech company will be in ally in the fight against ICE.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Abe El-Raheb / Editor & Writer @eldashraheb.bsky.social · 1d

He had 3 albums but they were each universes unto themselves: intricate, magical, perfectly conceived and executed. A master craftsperson in the studio, with some of the best live shows the world has ever known. It was easy to call him the greatest living musician. A genius. RIP D’Angelo 🤍

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 1d

Jeff Bezos is gonna go down as the man who killed The Washington Post.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

AND that departments must retain draft and edit info! Huge news considering Axon’s product deliberately doesn’t retain info on what parts of the report were written by officers or AI.

Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 1d

Important first step in regulating police AI in CA: Newsom signs SB 524: requiring that police reports written by generative AI say so, also bans AI vendors from selling or sharing info provided by police: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 1d

As I read this, I keep thinking over and over again about the two major groups I see in politics and policy spaces: folks who take opinion polls as gospel and folks who see them as indicators of what people believe at the moment that can be *shaped* into something else.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds like the perfect movie for the #MeToo age. Overreach imagined and come to life in the minds of men who scared themselves into embracing fascism as a result.

Fragile masculinity, indeed.

Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 2d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 5d

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 7d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 5d

White House staff should just make and show him an AI-generated video where he wins, fly him to Duluth and tell him it’s Oslo, and dare the New York Times to say anything more than “Experts disagree about whether Mr Trump was awarded the Nobel Prize”.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

The Atlantic, the NYT, the Post, the Free Press, Persuasion ... god, so many others ... they did it. They participated in the destruction of norms against bigotry & now bigotry is running rampant, out in the open, at the highest levels.

Great work everyone.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 7d

Mountainhead was a documentary.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 7d

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 10d

Ilan clearly knows this, too, which makes it even more infuriating.

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 13d

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 13d

“ICE had made only 85 arrests in Washington from Jan. 20 through the end of July, according to data obtained by the Deportation Data Project. But from early August until mid-September, ICE made around 1,200 arrests.”

NYT on DC: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

www.nytimes.com

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 13d

Am I to understand people were not happy with this performance?

Scott Willis @scott.cannonstats.com · 13d

Arsenal created 2.5 open play xG in this match

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15d

This is simultaneously not an especially radical theological belief and, politically speaking (especially in the U.S. context), quite a thing for Pope Leo to say. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266859/...

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty is not really pro-life," the pope explained.
"Someone who says I'm against abortion but I'm in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro life."

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Universal Hub @universalhub.com · Aug 24

The cruelty is the point: ICE releases woman it had locked up for 10 days by shoving her out the door of its Burlington hole in the pouring rain, with no phone, 30 miles from home; she walked over to the Burlington Mall and begged for help at the Cheesecake Factory. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...

ICE released this Mass. mom with no phone, 30 miles from home in the rain after detainment for a sealed marijuana conviction

Federal authorities refused to tell the Canton woman's husband or lawyer on what grounds she was being detained until shortly before her release.

www.masslive.com

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 15d

What really stands out - in contrast to some recent SCOTUS opinions I could name - is that Judge Young is paying attention to the many interconnected ways in which this administration is trying to punish people who express disagreement

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 15d

In this remarkable opinion, Judge Young concludes it violates the First Amendment for government to deport people because it dislikes their speech, and hopes to chill others from engaging in similar speech.

Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 15d

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

And there’s the issue of masks. This Court has listened carefully to the reasons given by Öztürk’s captors for masking- up and has heard the same reasons advanced by the defendant Todd Lyons, Acting Director of ICE. It rejects this testimony as disingenuous, squalid and dishonorable. ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 15d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 16d

🚨This is a big deal: suburban chicago police launch an investigation into an ICE attack on local CBS news journalists.

Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 16d

Broadview Police have opened an investigation into an attack from federal agents on a CBS crew at Broadview, per BPD Chief Mills.

The following statement can be attributed to Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills:

“The Village of Broadview Police Department has launched a criminal investigation into an allegedly unprovoked attack on a CBS Chicago TV news reporter’s vehicle on Sunday by a chemical munition fired from the direction of U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility. The victim declined medical attention. The Broadview Police Department expects the full cooperation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security into our criminal investigation.”

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 15d

Which makes it a win win for them. They get to hurt universities, which they hate, and international students, who they also hate.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 16d

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 16d

30% drop year over year!

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Tahir Duckett @tahir.bsky.social · 17d

Gregory

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