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@schooley.bsky.socialReposted by @lasseigne.bsky.social

It's strange to document all this and not explicitly pin Trump's violence fetish as being the obvious number one contributing factor. Just because his thirst for violent retribution in politics has blown back on him on occasion doesn't absolve him of blame.

@wolven.blacksky.appReposted by @lasseigne.bsky.social

It's good that the pressure was applied and the order issued, but the fact that these fuckers tried to deploy the Guard to voting sites At All is a direct escalation and attempt to test what level of authoritarian fuckery they can get away with. Very glad DC held firm and said "No."

@dvsmemphis.bsky.socialReposted by @lasseigne.bsky.social

Josh Shapiro put out a fierce call to accountability: "He's not thinking about giving you healthcare or restoring SNAP benefits... He’s making deals that hurt you." Pennsylvania needs leaders who stand up against chaos and put working families first. #momsky#sheshed

@donmoyn.bsky.socialReposted by @lasseigne.bsky.social

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people). Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
@djnoneya.bsky.socialReposted by @lasseigne.bsky.social

"The photo raises further questions about possible White House links to the pro-Russian politician. " Photo shows top Trump aide's daughter with pro-Russia politician in Bosnia

@chrislhayes.bsky.socialReposted by @lasseigne.bsky.social

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

@wellborn.netReposted by @lasseigne.bsky.social

Michael Ian Black had to write a satire column to point out that a sitting president suggested Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego, which by his math are nearly 6 percent of US GDP. The president then doubled down. Satirists can't compete with that.

@lasseigne.bsky.social

"The cost of many everyday items would have DECLINED without President Trump’s tariff policy." Inflation on those items was ENTIRELY due to the tariffs. [article link in comments]

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