The signatories to this letter start with Stiglitz and Rodrik and go on to encompass pretty much everyone brilliant and decent in the economics field worldwide. Prof. Reddy’s scholarship is deeply grounded in human dignity and wellbeing — in the direct lineage of his teacher, the great Amartya Sen.

Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School

Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School We, the undersigned, write to express our concern regarding recent restructuring decisions at the New School, includin...

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Sarang Shah@sarangshah.com · 4h ago

An urgent and important read on the unjust circumstances regarding the dismissal of my dear colleague and friend Sanjay Reddy. I hope our takeaway, in part, is a redoubling of our efforts to protect social inquiry and academic freedom against what's coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

An urgent and important read on the unjust circumstances regarding the dismissal of my dear colleague and friend Sanjay Reddy. I hope our takeaway, in part, is a redoubling of our efforts to protect social inquiry and academic freedom against what's coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway. (Gift Article)

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

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🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵

Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)

The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.

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[CW: suicide stats] The most common type of gun death in the US is "white male, registered gun owner, self-inflicted." So yes, you can accurately guess whether a state has a high or low suicide rate, just by answering the question: "Are a high proportion of this states' residents white men?"

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3y ago

Until 2020, white men had the highest gun ownership rate in the US by far. Most gun deaths in the US are suicides. So you could fairly accurately guess the suicide rate by state, just by asking yourself "In which states is the percentage of the population that are white men, the highest?"😢

"There shouldn't be any science or scientists in the first place, there should only be MAGA military-industrial R&D," this new form of Trumpistan Lysenkoism is already pretty obvious

ATTENTION TO ALL DEM TAX CUT SLOPULISTS

LA County confirmed that SoCal Edison's unused transmission tower started the Eaton Fire, which destroyed much of Altadena. The tower had been dormant since the 70's, but was left up anyway. It energized in the high wind and sent molten metal into dry brush underneath. www.cnn.com/2026/08/04/u...

Southern California Edison equipment blamed for 2025 Eaton fire in Los Angeles | CNN

Sparks from an idle transmission tower owned by Southern California Edison caused the 2025 Eaton fire in the Los Angeles area that killed 19 people and destroyed more than 9,400 homes and businesses, ...

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this man should get combat pay bc he was FIGHTING here

Unbelievable backside flip. Dude in the car clearly a skater because he knows you only get one take that good

Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · 16h ago

I hope this guy just drives around town cheering everyone on.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

KEEP THE PRESSURE on our Senators. Still, only 30 Senators have signed S.4814 which will extend TPS and protect Haitians. Mayors are having to speak up because some of our Dem Senators are refusing to step & #ExtendTPS. Here's the script: drive.google.com/file/d/1XXEs.... List of Senators in next/

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 22h ago

Mayor Michelle Wu has joined more than 100 mayors and local government leaders nationwide in signing a letter calling for Congress to extend protected status for Haitians until early 2029 after the Trump administration terminated it.

Even if they were “drug boats“ it would still be murder. 

CNN@cnn.com · 2d ago

The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.

It’s whiplash inducing for the Senate to all vote for the Epstein transparency bill, for Blanche to flagrantly violate its terms, and then vote to confirm him

One more interesting point: this spring I sat down with Sharyn Alfonsi of 60 Minutes for an extensive interview about my Epstein investigation. Subsequently, CBS pulled the segment and fired the reporter. The MAGA buyout of media has unquestionably aided the Trump administration’s cover up here.

Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Treating bigotry as some kind of civil disagreement really says more about you and your value system than you think it says about your kindness

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Tillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

My thoughts on Bluesky not being welcoming to Republicans is Trump blocks disaster relief to states voting blue, & is also legally codifying anyone who opposes him as a terrorist deserving violence, & his kidnapping brute gangs terrorize the streets, & there's much more but I'm out of characters

Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨@ciaraioch.bsky.social · yesterday

"Bluesky is a political echo chamber" okay but I'm mostly here to chat with fun internet people and post art and make jokes, I cannot stress how much I don't care

"US has used 'virtually all' PrSM and ATACM munitions" we are out of ammo www.reuters.com/world/us-has...

EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say

The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, according to three people familiar with the data, ​raising concerns about th...

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Relateable management technique

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

lmao you hired bari weiss to run CBS News dude who are you trying to fool here

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh yeah, David Ellison is legit scared he's gonna lose. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism

Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."

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New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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guys is it normal for majority Hispanic districts in Texas to swing 24 points left in a year and a half

Joel Wertheimer@wertwhile.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ossoff Pulido 2028.

Right out of college I interned for an editor at the Village Voice who had me hand duplicate the department rolodex after he got pushed out of his job

Poor Righteous Teacher@brothaskeeper.blacksky.app · 2d ago

Began my professional life back in 1995, and I surely remember using these, along with another antiquated office device: the rolodex.

Over 40 years ago, the Los Angeles Police Department disbanded its Public Disorder Investigative Unit over similar illegal monitoring of free speech. www.nytimes.com/1983/01/19/u...

AROUND THE NATION; Los Angeles to Disband Police Undercover Unit (Published 1983)

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“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics

Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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