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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

I am now an author! Je suis une Fille du Roi is a perfect NH reader set in Québec tied to a young girl's (ME!) desire to trace her connection to the founding mothers of New France after a class trip. Culture focused. stephanie4712.wixsite.com/filleduroi @AATFrench #langchat

This is the ugliest win that the Buckeyes didn't really deserve but I will take it. Hope Sayin isn't out for the season.

Inevitable. Jeremiah Smith.

“It’s only fascism if they manipulate elections!” “It’s only fascism if they disappear people off the street!” “It’s only fascism if they take over the media!” “It’s only fascism if they jail their political opponents!” Is there even anything left?

Unpopular take: I love the replay review.

Julian Saying needs to take a deep breath and clear his head. This is not characteristic of his play.

Americans, please don’t worry about your child coming home from school a different sex. Worry about your child not coming home from school because they were shot to death.

I was proud and privileged to interview Sophia Dasser, the editor-in-chief of the Cornell Sun and now a leader in the #IamJaneDoe movement. We talked about why safety on campus is not an optional extra—it’s an essential precondition of learning katemanne.substack.com/p/telling-th...

Telling the Truth is an Act of Advocacy

A conversation with the Cornell Sun’s Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser about the Cornell case

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Does that area have the infrastructure to support the construction and growth? No, not at the moment. Does the Ohio GOP (which currently controls both the governor's mansion & legislature) sufficiently fund education here to produce the permanent employees once it opens? Also no.

David DeWitt@daviddewitt.bsky.social · 7d ago

Bayer will build a $2.2 billion pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in central Ohio ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/08/b...

Good God, what a wild ending to a game! NFL kickers are definitely earning their paychecks.

The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.

Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.

“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”

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This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?

Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

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republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

They will have to invent books after stealing our books to feed their machines that then killed books.

Matt Binder@mattbinder.bsky.social · 2w ago

the tech industry is about to invent books

“every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of america can sort of say ‘ugh, look at these cities.’ but we are holding a lot of your people who you failed to love and take care of.” 👏 👏 👏

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 2w ago

Holy shit.

Hundreds of French schools stay closed ahead of nationwide day of student protests reut.rs/4jEnNVF

Hundreds of French schools stay closed ahead of nationwide day of student protests

Hundreds of French high schools will begin a second week of closures on Monday as protests over dilapidated schools and classrooms, overcrowding and teacher shortages precede ​a nationwide day of demonstrations on Tuesday.

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That all of these universities producing reports on what the future of higher ed should be are collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute is a tell that they see this moment of higher ed "reform" as an opportunity to entrench reactionary policies and undermine the humanities further.

Ce vendredi 2 octobre 2026, alors qu'il couvrait les blocus étudiants à Montpellier, notre journaliste @valentin.stup.media se fait percuter par un policier en moto. Il a pu collecter des images interpellation violente par les force de l'ordre. Monté et raconté par @splinelnd.bsky.social

The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w ago

Israeli strike kills five in Gaza, including four women, health officials say

Tackling misogyny - what schools can do. @sarahmullin.bsky.social writes in @tesmagazine.bsky.social. "Five research-informed tips to help schools take immediate action." I think this is excellent. www.tes.com/magazine/lea...

6 ways to tackle misogyny in schools

New DfE data shows that schools cannot ignore the problem of misogynistic language - so here are research-informed strategies to address it, says Sarah Mullin

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Gonna have to put 5 on Jeremiah Smith. Go Bucks!

As a French speaker, I greatly appreciate these ridiculous Geico CROISSANT ads. I may have to show it to my students.

Croissant Bakery

ALT: Croissant Bakery

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Great column. And folks should read @sorayachemaly.bsky.social's piece (below). And then maybe if you want to see how this abusive behavior starts from high school, read my book. sorayachemaly.substack.com/p/33-underst...

33. A Long Read About Living in a World Where Men Publicly Bond over Women’s Humiliation and Pain

From the Burnerverse to Cornell to Clavicular, our society is all too happy to shift the cost and burden of sexual violence and male onto victims to protect men

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Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.

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