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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 1d

wait this makes me so happy omg i didn't even know VC was in danger of closing!!

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 1d

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, and I believe now most of us are back around to liberal again. This isn't a defense of platner it's just weird how normal this shit is for guys that age.

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 5d

pleasantly surprised to have been wrong here, UVA making the right decision for once. incredibly happy for what this means more broadly if even the current BOV couldn't stomach this.

Cville Right Now: UVA declines Compact participation. The University of Virginia has become the fifth of the nine schools to receive the letter not to agree to the Trump Administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education

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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 5d

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 5d

dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated

Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions

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Ashley Feinberg @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social · 6d

never forget

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 6d

incredibly well-crafted ragebait, honestly props

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d

This minimalist, paper-based to-do manager can help you focus on completing your important tasks while staying offline. nyti.ms/4h8ijiC

An Ugmonk Analog card standing up in the card holder on a desk beside a keyboard and laptop sitting on a riser.

ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 6d

if you are old enough to have known peace and stability in your professional life I genuinely don't wanna hear about it :)

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 6d

everything is falling apart all the time always

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 6d

UVA too high, I have 0 confidence they'll do the right thing.

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 7d

did not know this part... zoinks.

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 8d

there's something so affirming about posting for no one. yes, blank void, pls, smother me more!!!

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◥◤CDFI, Frankenstein @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 8d

On Oct. 1, a gas explosion caused a public housing project in the Bronx to partially collapse.

On Friday, HUD fired all the federal government's housing inspectors: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Affordable Housing Left Vulnerable After Trump Fires Building Inspectors

The US Department of Housing and Urban Development cut its inspection team two weeks after a public housing building partially collapsed in the Bronx.

www.bloomberg.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 8d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 8d

quick lil run through of Mack's recent shows to contextualize the two newest in OH and NY: 202arts.org/2025/10/13/o...

ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 9d

i dunno if i have the mental bandwidth to finish this blog post bc i included too many shows but i need to underscore how good eric n mack's show at arts & letters is

Eric N. Mack's "Cartouche" (2025), a series of brightly patterned and colored fabrics stretched between two parallel wires running between neoclassical buildings in a courtyard.

Eric N. Mack's "Pocket watch and chain" (2025), a set of stainless steel rods, possibly for a wall-mounted umbrella, adorned with an array of patterned hanging fabric, some cut and sewn together and some coiled to form ropes of textile between and among the bars.

Eric N. Mack's "A truer before / Cape" (2025), a set of stainless steel bars forming a wide armature against a wall with a set of curving, almost armlike bars stretching forward, all draped in a red and yellow striped sheer fabric, appearing alternately like a figure with arms spread or an abstracted mantis ready to strike.

Several works by Eric N. Mack, all comprising various fabrics stretched like paintings, hanging from the vaulted ceiling, or arranged over metal armatures.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻🚫👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 9d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 13d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13d

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d

SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill

FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 14d

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 14d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 14d

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

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 15d

I spot "August the Squared Fire" (now owned by SFMoMA www.sfmoma.org/artwork/2014...), "Double Chain" (at one point owned by Long Beach Museum of Art but unclear if they still have it), and a few early "Lynch Fragments"

August the Squared Fire

Explore the artists and artworks of our time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

www.sfmoma.org

ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 15d

1966 episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, focused on a sculptor who relies on his girlfriend for money. All the sculptures are actually by Melvin Edwards.

You recognize it from the first close-in shot of a sculpture.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKPK...

chrysler theater crazier cotton

YouTube video by hard to find films

www.youtube.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 16d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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