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Matt Kavanagh

college professor / contemporary American novel / film noir / financial fiction / writer and reviewer / 🇨🇦 / personal account

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Eileen Clancy 🧿

This post is one reason I follow Brian Finucane. He was at the State Dept as an attorney-adviser for 10 years. Non partisan. Finucane says flatly this war is illegal and tells you why. It isn't a close call. I wish news organizations would say it more often. Follow: @bcfinucane.bsky.social

Brian Finucane

Trump's illegal war with Iran continues. A war launched on a whim. A war in violation of the US Constitution, the UN Charter, the War Powers Resolution, and the US Congress's recently reaffirmed will.

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Don Moynihan

America is weird because we have a free press but also an authoritarian government and so we learn in pretty close to real time the shit that is not revealed in other authoritarian settings until decades later.

Kyle Griffin

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Service felt pressure from the Trump admin to surveil James Comey. Documents detail worries about the legality of the directive to surveil Comey — including surreptitiously tracking Comey's phone without a warrant — in the wake of his 'seashells' photo.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)

i would be fine with this if the scans were made available to the public; i have 0 issue with destroying a single copy of a book to make a digital version available to everyone, in a way that actual archivists think is the most useful futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies RemainAI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.futurism.com
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rev. howard arson

one old the other things is that apart from the trauma, WFH was both good and bad for us in a lot of ways, coming back from WFH was often done in an intentionally abusive way meant to assert the authority of the bosses, and in the immediate aftermath the layoffs began

The Fig Economy

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

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Phil Klay

“I’m also doing this for my students,” Ms. Prabhakar said [of her lawsuit]. “They were robbed — they were excited to come to class.” Disturbing story out of Florida. Educators need to be able to assign challenging work. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...

Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit SaysSouth Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.www.nytimes.com
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Andrea Pitzer

Nearly all concentration camp regimes involve the government making what were previously simple tasks of daily life unlawful or impossible for the group they’ve targeted for detention, bit by bit eradicating any possibility of public existence.

ICE Arrests Surge at Airports, Opening New Front in Deportation Drive (Gift Article)Federal agents are arresting spouses of Americans, tech workers and others whose visas have expired, including many who have active applications to stay in the country.www.nytimes.com
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