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Caroline Casey

@cacasey.bsky.social

pyrrhic victor, enemy of fun

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ProPublica@propublica.org · 2d ago

NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.

Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.

With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...

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Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 2w ago

Target paid its CEO $21.8M last year — 794x the median Target worker's pay of $27,506. Target has also spent $13.9B on stock buybacks since 2019, while remaining among the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients in America. This is what I mean by a rigged economy.

Matt Bell@mdbell79.bsky.social · 3w ago

For as long as my pro-AI university allows me to ban generative AI, I'll continue to do so. But because so many classes allow or even encourage it, even in the Humanities (ugh), I feel like I have to lay out more of my reasoning every semester. Basic argument: LET'S MAKE HUMAN THINGS, WHILE WE CAN.

Generative AI Policy: Other classes at ASU may allow or even encourage the use of generative AI, but in this course, you will not use it for either your fiction or your reading responses Together, we’re reading and writing work made by humans, for humans, in search of a human reaction. It is not appropriate to ask me or your classmates to read fiction or other prose written primarily or in part by machines (I will also not use AI in my class prep or in any of the materials I make for you: this course is an expression of my ideas, art practices, and imagination, designed for you by me, based on years of study and experience) Especially at the start of your artistic and academic careers, I believe that even light reliance on tools such as AI will inhibit the development of the skills, mindsets, and abilities necessary for your success TLDR: I want your fiction, and your reactions to the books we read. That’s the path to an A in this class (and, more importantly, to learning all that this class has to offer)
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 3w ago

The IDF does this all the time. They lie until they can't, then they say they'll do an investigation, then the investigation leads nowhere. It took 2.5 years for them to even admit they opened fire on the car, something we all knew happened hours after they did.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3w ago

"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle." www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...

Hari Kunzru@harikunzru.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Restitution for every aspiring young fiction writer with the misfortune of being white and male and therefore…cut out of the game of literary prizes and publication opportunities.” Yes, Bret Stephens, who will compensate David Szalay (2026 Booker prize) or Daniel Kraus (2026 fiction Pulitzer) ?

Save the Boundary Waters@savetheboundarywaters.org · 3w ago

BREAKING: Governor Walz takes sweeping executive action to protect the Boundary Waters from toxic sulfide-ore copper mining. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Walz executive order moves to block copper mining near the Boundary Waters

Four months after Congress reversed a ban on mining over about 350 square miles in the watershed of the northeastern Minnesota wilderness, Gov. Tim Walz has issued a state executive order to block cop...

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus@wwborders.bsky.social · 4w ago

“Maia has charted her own literary territory,” writes critic Anderson Tepper of the novel translated from Portuguese by Padma Viswanathan. Read his review “‘One Step Behind Death’: Ana Paula Maia’s BURY YOUR DEAD” here: wordswithoutborders.org/book-reviews...

“One Step Behind Death”: Ana Paula Maia’s Bury Your Dead - Words Without Borders

“Maia has charted her own literary territory,” writes critic Anderson Tepper in his review of Ana Paula Maia's "Bury Your Dead."

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Matt Cameron@mattcameron.bsky.social · 4w ago

there is a tired line of out-of-touch argument from Bluesky leftists that the difference between Rs & Ds is so insignificant that you're just being an "electoralist" if you care which party is in power With you there, in a lot of places. But elections sure as hell do matter in immigration court