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Zach Lucas

@zachlucas.bsky.social

These Bluesky posts are like the mercator projection: shitty and never, ever going away. Pittsburgh, PA

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Namdor@smrodman.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I’m just going to tell the story. Back in 2000 I was volunteering for the Gore campaign when he came along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Alfre Woodard and Dule Hill to a GOTV event here in MN. He ended up sitting down across from me stuffing his envelopes.

Dave DiCello@davedicello.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham@jeffreybigham.com · last yr.

I work in the best university in the world, less than 3 hours from my rural hometown, yet superstar students travel here from all over the world… if we keep treating them badly, will centers of excellence move elsewhere? "If my kids excel, will they move away?" jeffreybigham.com/blog/2025/wh...

In Pittsburgh, I’m a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the top computer science school in the world. I’ve also worked in various large technology companies, who have offices in Pittsburgh to connect with and employ Carnegie Mellon faculty and students.

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Amy Westervelt@amywestervelt.bsky.social · last yr.

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

David A. Graham@dgraham.bsky.social · last yr.

Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last yr.

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

American. Citizens. Cannot. Be. Deported. I know we all want to be concise, but we simply cannot use the shorthand terms of the fascists when they describe wildly illegal & unconstitutional things. Extrajudicial renditions. Kidnappings. Wildly unconstitutional fascism. All right there as options.

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last yr.

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online · 2y ago

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Moira Donegan@moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’re in a situation now where the president is unilaterally expanding his own authority beyond anything the constitution recognizes, and then we wait to see whether his deeply compromised judges will decide to change the law in his favor post-hoc.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 2y ago

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

Jason Kirk@jasonkirk.fyi · 2y ago

The "he's not gonna listen to her" reactions are missing many points. Lots of other people are also hearing it. Lots of people can see him hearing it, then weigh what she's said with what he'll do. Lots of people can see her refusal to surrender these ancient teachings to the latest face of empire

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2y ago

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y ago

i think my position on this is that if it happens, it's unconstitutional. if the supreme court affirms it, it's still unconstitutional. it's an illegitimate and unlawful action and should be treated as such.

Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 2y ago

Apparently Trump just announced he is unilaterally ending birthright citizenship. I would have ridiculed it as preposterous a few years ago. Now? Well, watch the Federalist Society start holding seminars on why he’s right, and I am not confident this Supreme Court will disagree.