"There's nothing ethically wrong with what I'm doing, but for some uh, other reason, I cannot allow anyone to know I'm doing it"

Bryan Toporek@btoporek.bsky.social · 5d ago

lmfaoooooo www.businessinsider.com/claude-users...

We told you this would happen. ♥️🕊️👍🏿

Mhgreen3000@mhgreen3000.bsky.social · last wk.

Baltimore cut homicides 68% with 400 fewer cops, which is a deeply inconvenient plot twist for the “more police is the only way to safety” narrative.

Terrific piece.

Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · last wk.

wrote about the sad and predictable fate of those who go into the contrarian profession badfaithtimes.com/from-edgy-to...

A question for readers & writers here on Bsky: what are some works you'd consider *contemporary* notable examples of what would be labeled "the poet's novel." I'm thinking not simply of novels *by* poets, but of novels that defy usual fictional expectations & unfold on highly poetic/lyrical axes.

"Another round of intense heat is expected to sweep across large swaths of Europe this week. Forecasters warned that rapidly rising temperatures, combined with persistently bone-dry conditions, could worsen a severe threat of wildfires." @climatecasino.net www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/w...

Europe Braces for Another Heat Wave. Here’s What to Know.

High temperature warnings were in place across western, central and southern Europe on Sunday as a heat dome intensifies across the continent.

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Might keep a copy of this in my wallet.

Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 2w ago

New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching

Nobody is less interested in what *actual* rural people & interest groups *actually* say & want than the rural romanticizers always lecturing Dems to reach out more.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Ameaka Fatima Nkempu, a Johns Hopkins University researcher in public health, was detained by ICE while boarding a domestic flight. She says she is Cameroonian in a Medium article that she authored. As of Thursday morning, the ICE Online Detainee Locator did not list where she was being held.

Baltimore Banner@thebaltimorebanner.com · 3w ago

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

NEW: Do Democrats funded by AIPAC pay an electoral penalty in a general election? We find that a Democrat funded by AIPAC performs significantly worse against a Republican than a Democrat who “rejects all outside financial support from industry groups and PACs.”

I know Fauci rightly has been advised to plead the 5th since this is a set up but in another universe he might remind Moreno that DJT was president when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, the economy collapsed & over 100,000+ Americans died of Covid-19. Too many forget that.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

"What is Fascism?" The third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin today" A guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...

What is Fascism?

The third lecture in my new course, "Hitler and Stalin today."

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Wackiest AI scam email I've received yet--I'm invited, under an incorrect name, to participate in a Boozy Book Lovers' (!) chat in DC for a book I've never written about a state I've never visited. The actual author appears to be an AI creation too. Good times, good times 🤡!

Let's try this again, w/out typos: First there were the rando promo (scam) emails. Recently, new ones have been coming from ClaimsHero about AI claims, etc. No thanks for me. But don't just take my word for it: writerbeware.blog/2025/11/07/p...

Predatory Opt-Outs: The Speculators Come for the Anthropic Copyright Settlement - Writer Beware

The enormous, $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright class action settlement is reputedly the biggest copyright infringement recovery in history. With such a high-profile case, it’s inevitable that eligible...

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Her oeuvre will continue resonating with folks struggling against misogynoir, other forms of anti-Black racism, and white supremacy. May she now rest in celestial peace.

Betye Saar by Kayla James, 2024 #RIP "Saar says that it’s about keeping everything clean, keeping politics clean, keeping your life clean, your actions clean. She wants America to clean up its act and a lot of her art has to do with this idea that we haven’t cleaned up our act." - Wendy NE Ikemoto

Betye Saar in her studio, with Black Girl’s Window 📷 Bob Nakamura, 1970 #RIP "The piece represents a cross section of Ms. Saar’s interests, & signaled the turn her practice would take toward found objects & more overtly political content." - Jillian Steinhauer www.nytimes.com/2019/10/17/a...

#RIP Betye Saar Black Girl’s Window, 1969 Museum of Modern Art Saar was inspired by Joseph Cornell's shadow boxes. "They were beautiful and funny and fascinating. I saw his work and realized that it was OK to make art out of anything."

#RIP Betye Saar 📷 Mimi Jacobs, 1979 "I’ve always felt that old objects hold a power. They’ve survived, and they have a sense of the previous owner. They have a spirit."

The incomparable, groundbreaking artist #BetyeSaar has passed, at 99: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/a...

Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99

Working with dolls, family photographs, fabric scraps and other found objects, she became a leading figure in assemblage art.

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"Coastal elites" are the ones literally paying people to shill for her online.

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 4w ago

Get in, there’s a new secret political influence campaign paying people to post. This time, a network targeting people in Michigan. First paid to post about how hard it is to afford groceries and gas, the accounts have gone hard in recent days, supporting Haley Stevens. www.ms.now/news/haley-s...

Apropos of the *Odyssey* conversations, I haven't seen anyone mention the great African American classisict Frank M. Snowden, Jr. (AB, PhD Harvard, taught for most of his career at Howard), who wrote 2 foundational books about Black people in antiquity.

Those divas! The movie and play have stuck with me since I was a teen. Last summer, I saw it on the big screen at IFC, and what a blast to see it in a crowd. Lately, I've obsessed over the Venable's home and how the set design encodes the queerness that censorship tried to repress.

Denise Oliver-Velez

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · last mo.

Denise Oliver-Velez, a Powerful Voice of the Left, Dies at 78 She became the highest-ranking female member of the Young Lords in New York, where she pressed for women’s rights, and later joined the Black Panthers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

matthew always brings the receipts

Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · last mo.

It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...

the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · last mo.

a bad thing is running a phd program with brilliant international students who must reckon with a volatile xenophobic saboteur government in fresh ways every day, no thank you, 0/10

A quick update on the Cyclospora outbreak.

I took a hard look at the financial donors to ICE’s biggest supporters in Congress. These are people who want to significantly expand ICE’s power and have sponsored or co-sponsored legislation to do so. Here are the top 25 consumer brands bankrolling the biggest ICE supporters in Congress:

"Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps

Arizona’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program rolls have plummeted, offering a possible preview of national trends as states try to avoid new federal penalties.

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Boards! Accreditation! All the sexiest higher ed topics.

Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · last mo.

How can higher education better withstand political attacks? In a new essay, @bakerdphd.bsky.social argues that power must be shifted away from governing boards and governments, and toward faculty, staff, students, and accreditors.

Niche post but if you want to write a story about a queer person in Europe c. 500-1000 CE your best bet is researching transmasc monks because there are surprisingly a lot of them.