So campus speech. Much viewpoint diversity. Very marketplace of ideas.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 34m ago

I'd love to hear why my book White Flight -- which won prizes from the Southern Historical Association and the American Political Science Association -- was deemed not good enough for students at Texas A&M.

Abdul El-Sayed is projected to win Michigan’s Democratic primary for a U.S. Senate seat. The primary bucked simple narratives about Black voters and set the stage for a high-stakes general election. https://bit.ly/3RtGwI4

What El-Sayed’s Michigan Win Reveals About Black Voters and Democrats

The Senate primary bucked simple narratives about the state's electorate and set the stage for a high-stakes general election.

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love to see it

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 1h ago

The co-founder of the 2024 National Uncommitted Movement, Abbas Alawieh, decisively won his primary to become a State Senator in Michigan. Abbas was endorsed by both Bernie Sanders and Gretchen Whitmer. Abbas Alawieh also privately met with former VP Kamala Harris last month upon her request.

Wrote about the border search exception: a massive loophole in the Fourth Amendment that allows border officials to search through your phone without a warrant, the exception provides an easy pretext for the Trump administration to target its political enemies. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone

Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

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Join me, Anat, and Sarah Mehta right now to discuss this pact, Michigan, and more! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

LIVE NOW: Meeting the Moment with Anat Shenker-Osorio and Sarah Mehta

Michael Podhorzer on Substack

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Anat Shenker-Osorio@anatosaurus.bsky.social · 56m ago

How about we make a simple pact? Never make MAGA's arguments for them.

This is a win for @wewill2026.bsky.social, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, @donavanmckinney.bsky.social. This is a win for Michigan. This is a win for regular people everywhere who are tired of being taken advantage of.

Working Families Party 🐺@workingfamilies.org · 4h ago

Yes

These three candidates in Michigan came for the establishment. They all just won. A movement is building.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

This is just the beginning.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 7h ago

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

El-Sayed’s victory was uncomfortably close, but it’s a relief to see Stevens’ hateful campaign defeated, including AIPAC, Clyburn, & huge sums of money all parachuting in from out of state.

An interesting piece out from @democratictheory.bsky.social. One of the things Mamdani’s campaign & admin does that is replicable & good for democracy beyond policy is to broaden opportunities for civic connection & tell increasingly layered stories of peoplehood w/ “the people” being New Yorkers.

Mamdani’s Mending Story: Rescaling Democratic Peoplehood in an Age of Interregnum | Democratic Theory | Cambridge Core

Mamdani’s Mending Story: Rescaling Democratic Peoplehood in an Age of Interregnum

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"As [AI] becomes ubiquitous, it undermines not only our individual ability to write but also a society’s collective ability to reason, a culture’s inner capacity to create and everyone’s reason to care."

Matthew J Kuiper@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 13h ago

Many of us have been saying… Refusing to write with/by AI is absolutely a necessary “act of resistance against an ever-dumber world” (not to mention against the tech companies and powers that want to make us pliable, unthinking slaves)

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

El-Sayed: We live in an era where we continue to see a few very small people try to define America as being as small as they are. We can't control the past 250 years. What we can do is build the next 250

The raw turnout for this race is bananas. It dwarfs previous senate primaries. It’s higher than two of the last three presidential primaries in Michigan, and equal to the third, 2020, with over a dozen candidates on the ballot.

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 15h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

Very plausible, but it would be just as illegal and appalling if they WERE involved in drug trafficking.

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.

I have little to add to the chat, but I will say this: Those of us who spend a lot of time talking about politics overestimate how much other people care about, or are even familiar with, the labels we use to describe, denigrate, or celebrate candidates. Sometimes we’re high on our own supply.

Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...

The above video* ⬆️ is on this CBS 58 page. It shows a reporter on the scene after protesters took back the intersection where Corey Ruiz was killed. Plus a web story describing what happened early this morning when the encampment was cleared. *(slightly longer. I cut it to fit Bluesky's max time.)

Protesters in Madison reclaim encampment site night after law enforcement retreats from area

See Also Protesters

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🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution

Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure, not...

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@wewill2026.bsky.social has won his primary election for Congress in Michigan. He is the only candidate in his race fighting AI billionaires who are bulldozing our communities, standing up to big money and fighting for people who actually live in Michigan.

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

NEW GUEST COLUMN from @nathankalmoe.bsky.social: 'Wisconsin Democrats are favored to win the governorship no matter who they nominate': www.therecombobulationarea.com/p/guest-colu...

GUEST COLUMN: Wisconsin Democrats are favored to win the governorship no matter who they nominate

From Nathan Kalmoe, director of the Center for Communication & Civic Renewal at UW-Madison, and co-author of "Neither Liberal nor Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public."

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Nationalize oil firms, then run them into oblivion as we transfer to 100% renewables. www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterday

These guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.

If you read only one story today, please make it this one. Paywall is lifted. So is the registration wall. By Olivia Carville for @bloomberg.com @businessweek.bsky.social

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

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Two very interesting papers on how minorities respond to exclusion (having IDs not represented in info + categories presented to them). Somewhat different treatments and outcomes, and diff populations, but I think very parallel in spirit -- one account of mobilization, the other demobilization

🚨BREAKING: Nearly a year after voting advocates launched a campaign to prevent a GOP gerrymander from taking effect in Missouri, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins officially blocked the citizen-initiated referendum on the new map from appearing on the ballot. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Missouri blocks anti-gerrymander referendum from November ballot in attempt to silence voters

Voter advocates are expected to immediately challenge the move and ask the courts to ensure that Missouri voters have the final say on the map.

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