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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 8d

No university that signs the compact will be a university, in the accepted sense, anymore. They will be mere Trump Institutes, teaching only what subjects Trump doesn't bar them from teaching -- and only until he does. Signing is an abdication of responsibility and an act of great moral cowardice.

Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 12d

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 12d

Bro’s got the juice (I would have locked Lupita down tho)

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 12d

…and while I concede it is surely the case JJ had already been cast, due to our uncanny resemblance, I do believe he has, basically, been living a version of my life!

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 12d

As a young man, I played hockey. One day circa 1991-ish, a group of Hollywood casting people came to our rink. They were looking for actors for a film about a scrappy team that beats the odds…

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 19d

It’s here!

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 19d

I have an amazing story about this

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 20d

Basically this was all a game to the right and when Kirk got taken out they’re mad and in panic mode because this wasn’t supposed to be real for -them-

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 22d

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 22d

I knew Lear had ended up in a poem of mine and here it is.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · 23d

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 24d

RIP Jonathan Lear, whose course on Freud changed my life

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28d

Let’s mock them still

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 29d

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 29d

They did it. They fucking did it. They made me like Jimmy Kimmel.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 29d

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 29d

"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"

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V. Joshua Adams @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social · 29d

I am losing my mind

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 15

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · Sep 15

Vance: “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence. This is not a both sides problem. If both sides have a problem, then one side has a much bigger and malignant problem and that is the truth.”

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Sep 10

I know there are tenured professors out there who breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the A&M firing happened to a non-tenure-track faculty member. It’s going to come for you too, so maybe this is a good moment to do unto others etc.