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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5h

A lawyer was explaining to court why he used AI when he was then caught using AI in that explanation of why he was using AI (earlier)

www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 6h

Live ammunition is acceptable to the speaker.

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 6h

Break every structure that conservatives depend on.

The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 6h

Still failed to expose the structural failures of imperialism in South America and Africa between 1526 and 1929.

Maybe the blind spot will never be clarified.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 1d

Institutions are creating new standards that will shape the next eighty years. They cannot be based on M A G A ideologies.

Katherine Knott @knottkatherine.bsky.social · 4d

And MIT president says "we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.”

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding in exchange for far-reaching changes.

www.insidehighered.com

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 5d

Western Mass!! Come on out!

November 13, 2025 5:00pm

Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery | Events & Calendars | Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery

www.amherst.edu

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to announce, two new translations of *The Many-Headed Hydra* appear this month: in Catalán, translated by Marta Cazorla Rodríguez, Manifest Books, Barcelona, and in Polish, translated by Andrzej Wojtasik, by Praktyka Teoretyczna, Warsaw. Thanks to all who gave new life to a 25-year old book!

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 7d

It was my great pleasure last night to speak, along with James Robinson, organizer Peter Rachleff, Walter Greason, and Ben Mchie at the East Side Freedom Library, an inspiring community center and liberated zone in St. Paul, MN! Thanks to Ry Siggelkow for the photo.

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Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social · 5d

I loved listening to this interview @marcusrediker.bsky.social did on @kpfa.org about his new book *Freedom Ship*! Rediker tells the inspiring history of enslaved Black people in the U.S. deep South who escaped by ship with the help of free Black communities and abolitionist white sailors.

Escaping Over Water | KPFA

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, enslaved people who traveled to freedom on foot did so mainly from Southern states that bordered free states. But those in the deep South didn’t have that o...

kpfa.org

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 1d

From the Fortune Center to Uganda, our communities are building lives beyond the legacies of imperialism.
#BlackSky

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 2d

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 245 (10/12/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 245th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more in comments below, please share widely, & en...

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for another great roundup - and for including my Walter Ralegh and Guiana annotations newsletter! 😀

buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Walter Ralegh's headless monsters and annotation as thinking

On writing and picturing as forms of thinking and knowledge-making, with examples of Renaissance mapmakers and publishers demonstrating exactly this in the...

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 3d

And my book, Selling Out Santa, for the history and film lovers looking for the cross over event of the season, explores the tumultuous 1946-1961 post-war, early Cold War period in Hollywood via a case study exploring the political, and cultural changes in the Christmas films of the long 1950s:

Selling Out Santa

Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Netopia.eu @netopia.bsky.social · 21d

Disinformation comes in many forms—memes, headlines, manipulated images. The game *Cat Park* uses play to show how easily narratives can be shaped. A reminder of why media literacy matters. #Disinformation #MediaLiteracy #CatPark #CriticalThinking www.netopia.eu/busting-fake...

Busting Fake News Like a Crazy Cat Lady - Netopia

No shortage of disinformation, trolling, propaganda, fake news… whichever term you prefer. Some of it is just brain rot material; some of it is brought by an actor with an agenda. How can anyone navig...

www.netopia.eu

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Assistant HR Director of Antifa @sethdmichaels.bsky.social · 5d

this is really good

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14d

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 4d

- Millions of federal employees aren’t getting paid
- 15 million people about to lose their health care
- 24 million Americans could see their insurance premiums DOUBLE

Now Speaker Johnson gives House Republicans another week off work. 4 straight weeks out of DC. Unbelievable.

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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 4d

When I am not working to defend human rights or preserve vulnerable communities, I enjoy cooking/baking, doing home upgrades, traveling, and working out.

All foodies, DIYers, travel photographers, and health/fitness folks are welcome here!

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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 16d

They can’t handle the truth

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 4d

‘Jean-Luc Mélenchon seems to be betting on an abrupt collapse of centrism that will leave his brand of radicalism as the sole non-racist alternative to right-wing nationalism. This makes him an authentic revolutionist, but it is a dangerous gamble.’

David Todd: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

David Todd · Parable of the Parakeets: Mélenchon’s Ambitions

Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s rise to prominence since 2015 has often been compared to the contemporaneous if more ephemeral...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

And yes, they're trying to intimidate us but Pritzker's right -- everyone needs to be out in numbers at these events.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

THIS!! 👇👇

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Stevijoe Payne, philosopher @stevijoe.bsky.social · 4d

Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela has been awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6d

Disabled people are not the enemy

Immigrants are not the enemy

LGBTQ+ people are not the enemy

Minorities & people of colour are not the enemy

These division tactics only work because there’s one group who needs to feel superior to the rest of us

They will “other” anyone to advance their agenda

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