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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, wearing a black suit, speaks to an audience. A headline reads: "Salesforce Pitched ICE on Services to Recruit More Staff, Documents Show." Photo by Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle, via Associated Press

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

Cuomo’s desperate final act is bankrolled by the very billionaires who brought us Donald Trump and the broken status quo.

New Yorkers are ready for change.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 8h

The textbooks always had same "knowledge" that a professor was "teaching", so clear for centuries that point of young people attending university is multidimensional and indeed one dimension is improving critical thinking through immediacy of face-to-face interaction/accountability with others.

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · 8h

Clifton Fadiman's anthology, Reading I've Liked, was one of the best-selling books of 1940. Its 900+ pages is an eclectic selection of excerpts from classics and now-forgotten books. You can read about some of the neglected ones here:

neglectedbooks.com/?...

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conputer dipshit @davidcrespo.bsky.social · 8h

amazing opening
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 8h

Early data show university endowment returns of nearly 11 percent in Fiscal Year 2025, but that lagged behind a 70/30 stock/bond portfolio for the third straight year. TIAA for the win!

Harvard’s Endowment Jumps to $56.9 Billion

Harvard, MIT, Stanford and others earned robust returns last year, though battles with the Trump administration are keeping universities on edge.

www.wsj.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 14h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social · 15h

Some @wmata.com station manager is doing a hell of a job @wmatagm.bsky.social

(Side note: this Facebook page for DC tourists is just constantly full of praise for our city. People are constantly praising our residents, transit, offerings. I never see complaints about crime or anything else)

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 22h

Photos from Sumbrungu library

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 22h

Visite à la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho

Le 01 octobre 2025, l’assistante chargée de programme, Yamboué Hagnilé a visité la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho, situé dans la commune de Houndé. Cette visite avait pour but de s’imprégner des nouvelles du fonctionnement de la bibliothèque après…

Visite à la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho

Le 01 octobre 2025, l’assistante chargée de programme, Yamboué Hagnilé a visité la bibliothèque communautaire de Koho, situé dans la commune de Houndé. Cette visite avait pour but de s’imprégner des nouvelles du fonctionnement de la bibliothèque après la tenue de la semaine du café littéraire du 08 au 13 septembre 2025 et profiter mener des activités avec les usagers du jour.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 22h

It's a federal felony for anyone at the White House or Executive Office of the President to order the IRS to investigate anyone. And yet, the plan to do just this is now underway ... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Rep. Sam Liccardo @liccardo.house.gov · 1d

Hey Mike, help me help you.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

Now, Dems hold 7 of 33 US house seats (21%) across AL, LA, MS, SC & TN. Dems won 37% of 2024 presidential vote in those states.

Now Supreme Court may allow those states to eliminate >all< Dem seats by undermining the VRA www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Our democracy being chipped away, bit by bit.

Current vs a plausible congressional seat map, if the Supreme Court heads in the direction it appears to be by killing elements of the VRA.

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Omduart @omduart.bsky.social · 1d

Un universo compartiendose

El día 13 de octubre de 2025 salió publicada mi primera novela titulada Un universo Compartiéndose. Estoy tan feliz que sigo encegado. Desde que empecé a publicar relatos, artículos y ahora mi primera novela, a participar en certámenes literarios de todo tipo, ya sé que…

Un universo compartiendose

El día 13 de octubre de 2025 salió publicada mi primera novela titulada Un universo Compartiéndose. Estoy tan feliz que sigo encegado. Desde que empecé a publicar relatos, artículos y ahora mi primera novela, a participar en certámenes literarios de todo tipo, ya sé que el mundo literario tiende a la crueldad. Más ahora en esta época de sobreproducción donde el ruido ensordece a cualquiera y invisibiliza a quien no tenga un megáfono bien grande e insistente.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 1d

Luigi Pascali perhaps referenced these in his paper on the invention of chronometer to measure longitude? His data starts in 1750 it seems... econ-papers.upf.edu/papers/1823....

econ-papers.upf.edu

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 2d

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 2d

September activities newsletter from Burkina Faso libraries!

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September activities newsletter from Burkina Faso libraries!

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 3d

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 3d

A good day at the office for IB Traoré's masked secret police. All these people were rounded up earlier today in different parts of Ouagadougou, Burkina

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Sam Sacks @ssacks.bsky.social · 3d

Don't miss Tom LeClair, loving but tough, on the new Pynchon: '“Nothing so loathsome as a Sentimental Surrealist,” says Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow, but the word “sentimental” is all over the text of Shadow Ticket' openlettersreview.com/posts/shadow...

Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon — Open Letters Review

A review of the new novel from the legendary Thomas Pynchon

openlettersreview.com

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 3d

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social!

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

From the Community | We must refuse the 'Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education'

Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford's AAUP chapter to condemn the White House's compact on higher education.

stanforddaily.com

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think people have updated enough on the capability gain in LLMs, which (despite being bad at math a year ago) now dominate hard STEM contests: gold medals in the International Math Olympiad, the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics, International Informatics Olympiad...

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Michael Kevane @mkevane.com · 5d

Two new colleagues fortunately had applied shortly before and received h1b. But university now apparently saying for new searches to only consider people with existing work permits/citizenship

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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