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by Matthew Bunn — Reposted by Stuart Shapiro, Elizabeth Saunders

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Useful thread on the Gaza ceasefire from Elizabeth Saunders, building on a piece from Page Fortna.
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 4h
🧵A thread inspired by this new @goodauth.bsky.social piece from the Dean of Ceasefire Studies, @pagefortna.bsky.social. Also, I like to admit when I'm wrong. I was wrong to doubt there would be a ceasefire, and I have written that Trump destroyed US diplomacy. 1/

goodauthority.org/news/israel-...
The Israel-Hamas ceasefire leaves important questions unanswered
Many important details must still be worked out.
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by Stuart Shapiro

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Right, that is not a tossup.
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by Stuart Shapiro

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Basketball Immaculate Grid superstars

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“It was President Woodrow Wilson, not Adolf Hitler, who first condemned foreign-born residents for pouring "the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries" of American life.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics...
The Politics of Fear in American History
The precedents for the violence and overt use of state power we are now experiencing can be found in the 1910s and 1920s rather than the 1930s and 1940s.
www.liberalcurrents.com
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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“it’s not fair, the dodgers spent too much money”

there is no such thing as too much money. that’s the whole damn idea if you’re rich as sin and have enough money to BUY A BASEBALL TEAM. you spend and spend and if that doesn’t work you spend some more
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by Stuart Shapiro

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Of course back then, the team with the better record played the first two games on the road.
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by Stuart Shapiro

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Yes, I suspect we will see this Dodgers team as the best one since that dynasty.
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by Stuart Shapiro

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Who are highest ranking hitters?
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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New Jersey held the first student-led mental health summit 🗣️ at Kean University last week, hosted by the #NJ Office of the Secretary of Higher #Education; affordability, immigration, and housing remain top concerns for New Jerseyans heading into the gubernatorial election Nov 4th:
NJ Holds First Statewide Student-Led Mental Health Summit – NJ State Policy Updates - New Jersey State Policy Lab
Education First Students Lead NJ Statewide Mental Health Summit - On October 8th, New Jersey held the first statewide student-led mental health summit at Kean University, highlighting youth voices in ...
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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🟣 Idea #29 — a new essay by @nedfoley.bsky.social —
“Educating Citizens on the Complexities of Democracy”

Part of @nyulaw.bsky.social Democracy Project's "100 Ideas in 100 Days" series

👉 Read the full essay here:
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Educating Citizens on the Complexities of Democracy
A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro, Brendan Nyhan, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 5 more

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one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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the greatest moment in tic tac toe history
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by Stuart Shapiro

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I suspect not at all.
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by Stuart Shapiro

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Yup or call collect and then refuse to accept.
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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Netanyahu refuses to release Marwan Barghouti, the most popular Palestinian leader—and the one most likely to bring about a two-state solution. Hamas refuses to disarm. The two enemies are united in opposition to a two-state solution. That makes lasting peace unlikely. wapo.st/3W5yhAx
Opinion | Why the Gaza ceasefire won’t lead to lasting peace
“A new Middle East” will require sacrifices that Israelis and Palestinians show no sign of making.
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by Andrew Rudalevige — Reposted by Stuart Shapiro, James Goodwin

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Indeed so. The only major effort was to repair the Electoral Count Act. Important - but reforms to the National Emergencies Act, the Civil Service Reform Act (to bar Schedule F), the Insurrection Act, etc., should not have been out of reach.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d
Congressional Dems and the Biden admin should have put more effort into passing post-Trump reforms. We need more aggressive reform than what was on offer then, but it could really have helped
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.
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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d
Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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#Rutgers researchers have been examining data related to paid family leave enrollment & found that overall enrollment for paid leave increased for both mothers and fathers between 2000 and 2024 in the U.S., from 29% to 58% for fathers and 47% to 54% for mothers:

@rutgerssph.bsky.social
The Increasing Enrollment of Paid Family Leave for Parents in the U.S. - New Jersey State Policy Lab
Over the past 10 years, many U.S. states have implemented mandatory paid family leave policies to help address the lack of such policy on the national level. In this post, we examine how paid family l...
policylab.rutgers.edu
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro, David Darmofal

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One lesson for pro-democracy advocates currently sitting in opposition around the world -- hammer incumbents on corruption and link strengthening liberal democracy (aka accountability) to anti-corruption efforts.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d
This is what I pay the New York Times for: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
[Gift link]
Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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This is what I pay the New York Times for: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
[Gift link]
Viktor Orban’s ‘Propaganda State’ Is Starting to Show Cracks
www.nytimes.com
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by Stuart Shapiro — Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner

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I generally describe the job as "managing in" - dealing with events and challenges at the school, "managing out" talking to donors and maybe reporters, and "managing up" going to meetings and fulfilling university functions. Circumstances dictate which dominates in any given day/week.
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by Stuart Shapiro

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Ruin a holiday move by making it a Halloween movie:

Nightmare on 34th Street
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 2d
Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

Blood, Actually bsky.app/profile/gene...
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general BOOsician @generalmusician.bsky.social · 2d
Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

It's A Wonderful Knife 🔪

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Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

Blood, Actually bsky.app/profile/gene...
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general BOOsician @generalmusician.bsky.social · 2d
Ruin a holiday movie by making it a Halloween movie:

It's A Wonderful Knife 🔪
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by Stuart Shapiro

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You mean Mickey Hatcher didn't have a glove like this?

Reposted by Stuart Shapiro, Cas Mudde, Kim L. Scheppele , and 3 more

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New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
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Russell Vought embodies the radicalization of the conservative movement; his example captures how far removed from democratic politics the Trumpist Right is. Vought is convinced to be fighting a noble war against a vast leftist conspiracy that has supposedly taken over the country.
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro, Anna O. Law, Nina Jankowicz , and 17 more

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Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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Ultimately, I think this is the right question. The government is losing credibility as an employer. The private sector cannot absorb all federal jobs but those with the greatest expertise and experience will have less difficulty finding jobs--especially in fields like health care.
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Reposted by Stuart Shapiro

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I’ve started watching the film “I’m Still Here” and its depiction of the Brazilian military dictatorship shows how much bleaker it might still get. We can’t wait another 16 months.
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My mentions are full of lefties telling me that the US is a hopelessly fascist country full of selfish people who would sell out democracy for a cheeseburger and I’ll kindly invite all of you to walk into the ocean
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