NEW: Republican officials were set to vote on a plan to cut almost half of Election Day voting locations in Tarrant County, a major Texas battleground county. But all that changed when outraged voters who packed the meeting room demanded their voting locations remain open.

GOP backs down from suppression scheme in Texas after voter outrage

The plan changed at the last moment, when Republican officials were faced with a massive backlash from outraged voters

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NEW: Hours after the DOJ was handed its 20th loss in its legal bid for states' unredacted voter data, a judge asked the department if there was any meaningful difference in its Washington case. The DOJ's answer: "No, your honor." But that didn't stop it from defending the lawsuit in court.

After 20 straight losses, Trump DOJ struggles to defend demand for Washington state voter rolls

The concession left DOJ asking the Washington court to reject a judicial consensus that now includes 20 district court rulings and one federal appellate decision — without identifying any distinct fac...

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A lot of people are going to try and insist in about six hours that being outspent by tens of millions of dollars and winning by five to possibly fifteen points is actually not that big of a deal

in every context ive seen AI used the number one overwhelming result has been the users becoming loudly and confidently wrong about whatever theyre using AI for at some point you just have to consider that its the purpose of the technology to create people like this

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

When we went to Congress the first time, we took on Big Pharma to cap the price of insulin, took on big landlords to keep millions from being evicted, and delivered more than $80 million in disaster relief. Now, we’re going back to do even more.

STAY TUNED ON THIS Republicans may have poked the bear. They used gerrymandering to weaken Black voting power. Instead, new data suggests they helped drive higher Black voter turnout across parts of the South. 1/2

We are having , secret bboy talks

Opposition to AI data centers is uniting Wisconsinites across the political spectrum. I’ve been on the side of the people since day one. As governor, I’ll call a special session of the Legislature for a moratorium on new construction. We won’t get Foxconned again.

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

If Mitch McConnell is well enough to serve, prove it. If he isn’t, say so. Kentucky deserves honesty…not weeks of silence while a critical deadline closes in. #USDemocracy newrepublic.com/post/213823/... via @newrepublic.com

Mitch McConnell Still MIA Days Before Key August 3 Deadline

Senator Mitch McConnell remains missing as a major deadline for his potential replacement approaches.

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"Students anted to know what their classmates thought rather than what a large language model produced; they wanted to wrestle with difficult readings+complex ideas. They didn’t want to outsource any of this effort to gen AI. They wanted to do the work.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Students as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)

We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect.

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Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...

Don’t listen to me, listen to the NYT (okay not about everything) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...

Opinion | The Second Home Tax Is a Win for New York

The recent debate over the new pied-à-terre tax in the city offers a useful case study.

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I beg you to read a major criminology journal or attend a major criminology conference and try to tell me this is a remotely accurate characterization

What if sociologists thought deeply and just landed on emancipation and social justice as important? Why would this be difficult to believe, unless you are so arrogant that you think you are one of the only “deep thinkers” in the field

Why would this be bad? Inequality covers an immense amount of topics and is a normal thing for sociology to focus on, especially if other disciplines are not

Chicagoans remember the victims of ICE. #AbolishICE

Overall, so many falsehoods, misrepresentations, and faulty assumptions in this article made by people who claim to be white knighting for “truth.” Embarrassing

Chris Maggio@chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thoughts on this article

Ya this is one of the wilder parts of the “essay”… there are mountains of research definitively proving discrimination takes place and is the major driver of inequality that a good sociologist would know about… shame on our colleagues who slandered the discipline here

Chris Maggio@chrisjmaggio.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is false. There is a huge amount of scholarship using experimental methods to study discrimination in sociology, and I would even argue that that type of methodology has become *more* favored in the field in the past 10 years

It is insane to say that sociology is not covering these issues. Who is doing this if not sociology?

In what universe is sociology not using cutting edge methodology? This is a complete misrepresentation

This is false. There is a huge amount of scholarship using experimental methods to study discrimination in sociology, and I would even argue that that type of methodology has become *more* favored in the field in the past 10 years

The Red Scare, but Dumber. In an interview with @onthemedia.bsky.social, I expose the chilling strategy behind Trump’s fake “communist” talking points. Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for boosting my analysis! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The Red Scare, but Dumber | On the Media | WNYC Studios

This week, the State Department published a report accusing Cuba of being the “capital of 21st-century communism,” and of plotting an anti-American revolution. On this week’s On the M...

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There’s nothing more beautiful than a well sculpted repayment schedule.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w ago

We admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?

people make fun of Sun Tzu for being not terribly profound stuff like "do not needlessly anger your allies before you need them" but you do kinda gotta hand it to the guy, White House would have been well served with someone who knew those things

NYT politics reporters whose only experience was Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller for a year, questionable hiring even according to them: bsky.app/profile/orig... Jeremy Peters: bsky.app/profile/ryan... Crypto-conservative "centrist" editors grooming their great replacement

NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · last yr.

Michael Barbaro failing upward because "I’ve been on a journey that I know Ross approves of," Barbaro said, referring to his ending his same-sex marriage and marrying a woman. "It’s no secret that [Douthat] wants people to have children and to enter into monogamous heterosexual relationships."

People often talk about how overturning Roe v Wade was a decades-long Republican effort that eventually paid off for them in a big way. What's happening with media right now is a similar long-term campaign of theirs that's paying off.

The continued right-wing takeover of media (traditional media, social media, etc.) is one of the most depressing things happening in the world right now. It makes affecting positive, progressive change on any issue more difficult.