The Gray Sage
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Historian. Economist. Professor. UX Designer.
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Victor Ray
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I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)
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Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/opinion/ai-companies-college-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LlA.Qyuf.IcDEBXxEeU22&smid=url-share
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ProPublica
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Dr. Kirk Moore did not deny giving fake COVID-19 vaccine cards and throwing out vaccine doses. âAll that stuff is true,â he told
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and ProPublica. He also repeatedly made the unfounded claim that the vaccines were âbioweapons.â (Published Dec. 2025)
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Pam Bondi Dismissed Charges Against a Surgeon Who Falsified Vaccine Cards. It Emboldened Others With Similar Cases.
A Utah surgeonâs victory in a vaccine fraud case has encouraged other âmedical freedomâ advocates to consider seeking leniency for similar charges. âThis undermines every layer of the system that prot...
https://www.propublica.org/article/pam-bondi-fake-covid-vaccine-cards-kirk-moore?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1771030813&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Carl Quintanilla
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Itâs been that kind of week.
@wsj.com
@financialtimes.com
@bloomberg.com
@nbcnews.com
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Aimee Gee
1 day ago
#DouglassDay
is here! Looking forward to celebrating and transcribing with everyone this afternoon.
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Mother Jones
2 days ago
Violent interactions with the public arenât surprising, a former ICE official said of the agency under Trump. âThatâs sort of by design.â
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Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/former-ice-workers-trump-violence-by-design-renee-good/
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The History on Film Podcast
2 days ago
Make sure to listen to this week's episode with
@walterdgreason.bsky.social
and Tim Fielder about The Graphic History of Hip Hop, and tell me what your #1 album is! Also, the aide organizations that we mention in the beginning of the episode can be found in the show notes.
youtu.be/x2rorT5tpng?...
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Season 2 Episode 18 Mini-Trailer- "Hip Hop Historians"
YouTube video by History on Film Podcast
https://youtu.be/x2rorT5tpng?si=UQXohuqdY1SRz5Sw
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Spencer Ackerman
2 days ago
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota âquick reaction forcesâ â a military term â to go after âagitators.â Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trumpâs prior âdeescalationâ was a ruse and ICE is still operational
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Anna Bower
3 days ago
Thereâs gotta be a German word for the cursed experience of reading the Fulton County affidavit after reporting on the 2020 election in extreme detail. Even redacted, every niche witness jumps outâmany conspiracy theorists with no real expertise. The US government treating them as credible is nuts.
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Dave Paiz
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Mueller, She Wrote
3 days ago
NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society
3 days ago
***Know Your Rights Information on the IEHS Website*** The IEHS website now has a âKnow Your Rightsâ page with several resources to navigate the current immigration landscape:
iehs.org/resources/ad...
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Know Your Rights
Visit the post for more.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://iehs.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=97f82b26ce828040836a7dc6f&id=40258b8518&e=43b1b4b831__;!!H7yp__TR!eDvWGGFcWpzs3ieJXWTcUOJMfZSZH7kmePRvEBGVpb_b1QD6LoGumEGUUT9FEVPI45VxNphzOGvJYRHyZ4agoVQyvP0$
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When the universe speaks to you, listen carefully.
#BlackSky
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Gillian Brockell
4 days ago
This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.
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t0ussaint â
5 days ago
Judge Bartle rejected the governmentâs argument...Citing more than 100 similar decisions in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, he found that Lopesâ detention under the wrong statute, w/o a bond hearing, violated federal law and ordered his release
#FuckICE
#ACAB
www.newsweek.com/ice-suffers-...
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Alt National Park Service
4 days ago
Please call the Senate they will vote very soon on whether to allow dangerous sulfide-ore copper mining on the edges of Minnesotaâs Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Tell them to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140 (H.J. Res. 140).
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Ashton Pittman
4 days ago
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" killed Medicaid expansion in Mississippi, lawmakers say. It would've helped 300,000 people.
www.mississippifreepress.org/medicaid-exp...
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Medicaid Expansion Dead in Mississippi Due to Trump Cuts, Top Republican Says
Mississippi wonât expand Medicaid this year because of federal Medicaid funding cuts under Trumpâs Big Beautiful Bill.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/medicaid-expansion-dead-in-mississippi-due-to-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-top-republican-says/
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Will Bunch
5 days ago
"The Epstein class" is a global rot In Europe, ties to Jeffrey Epstein are ending careers, sparking spy probes, and possibly toppling governments In America, not so much. How the lack of elite accountability became the tipping point for democracy. My new column
www.inquirer.com/opinion/jeff...
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Europe is holding its Epstein creeps accountable. Why canât we? | Will Bunch
Europeans are pushing to hold Jeffrey Epstein's creepy pals, including billionaires like Elon Musk, accountable. The U.S.? Not so much.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/jeffrey-epstein-europe-us-accountability-20260208.html
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Tim Onion
4 days ago
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
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jennifer uncoolidge
5 days ago
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: âCerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patientâs nose. In another⊠a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patientâs skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injuredâ
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ai-enters-operating-room-reports-arise-botched-surgeries-misidentified-body-2026-02-09/
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Citizen.Coping
5 days ago
Johannesburgâs Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game. Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era. The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.
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Video game 'reloots' stolen artefacts, by reclaiming works of art from Western museums
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250726-video-game-reloots-stolen-artefacts-by-reclaiming-works-of-art-from-western-museums
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
5 days ago
Exactly!!! And they're forming community, the very bedrock of activism from which collective action springs:
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Dr. Vaughn Joy
4 days ago
Everyone's homework is to watch "Hello Tomorrow!". It's about a sad conman (Billy Crudup) with a vacant dream of casual moon travel in a retrofuturism era in which that's conceivable but not possible. He takes their money and gives them promises, telling himself the optimism is the real product.
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MPR News
5 days ago
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. âHe canât sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, âDaddy, Daddy,ââ Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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âHeâs not the sameâ: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/09/father-of-liam-conejo-ramos-says-he-continues-to-suffer-after-ice-detention-release
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 days ago
To put that in visual terms, imagine how far off the chart 15% would be.
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Liam Davis Temple
5 days ago
When they boxed Elliott and I in and came to my car they literally said to us right away: âThis is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you areâ
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Ecstatic to be a part of growing new audiences for history everywhere!
#Blackademics
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Stand together.
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The People's Fabric
5 days ago
âWe rely on Hispanic labor,â said Chris Gross, a second-generation farmer who grows sweet corn seed and mint in Wilder. She added, âNobody thought something like this could happen here.â â91 percent of voters in the precinct that includes Wilder backed President Trump in 2024.â
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Want to understand intersections of African, Indigenous, and European cultures and their evolution over time? Take a deep dive into the history of the Caribbean and all of the Americas!
#benitobowl
#afrolatine
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ANTY
6 days ago
(1/2) - Bad Bunny just delivered one of the most heartfelt, beautiful and -important- Half Time shows that the Super Bowl has EVER seen. It was an incredibly thought out love letters to his ultimate love, Puerto Rico and to the people of Puerto Rico. đ”đ·
#SUPERBOWL
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Steven Beschloss
6 days ago
And these words on Bad Bunnyâs football held up to the camera at the end: âTogether We Are America.â
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Marisa Kabas
7 days ago
A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:
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Learotha Williams, Jr. PhD
7 days ago
Walk with me through Early Black Nashville.
#NashvilleSitesTours
#BlackHistoryMonth2026
nashvillesites.org/tours/early-...
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Nashville Sites
https://nashvillesites.org/tours/early-black-life-and-culture
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Robert L. Tsai
6 days ago
This is a populist message and alternative to MAGA that can form the basis of constitutional renewal
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Always one of the best sources of new ideas - Black and White and Read All Over.
@learothawms.bsky.social
@myhnn.bsky.social
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Today. Minneapolis. Saint Paul. Minnesota.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
8 days ago
Just going to say that the PBS documentary about Wilmington gave me an opportunity to drive down there for the first time in years. Re-read The Wilmington Lie etc. It was all veryâŠclear, in a way a lot of people will tell me the present isnât.
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daviss
8 days ago
Protesters marching through Downtown Minneapolis this afternoon. "TOM HOMAN LOOKS LIKE A CANNED HAM" "Mr. Rogers... ICE IS EXECUTING THE HELPERS!" "BLOOD on the snow ICE has got to GO" "STOP PRETENDING RACISM IS PATRIOTISM" "IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO MELT ICE" February 6, 2026
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Victor Ray
8 days ago
This week at Group Threat, I spoke with
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about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).
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What's the Matter with Florida? An Interview with Zachary Levenson
A discussion about Florida's censorship of sociology and teaching under authoritarianism
https://groupthreat.com/p/what-s-the-matter-with-florida-an-interview-with-zachary-levenson
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Rolling Stone
8 days ago
President Donald Trump went on a wild social media posting spree late Thursday night and into Friday morning, one that included a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
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Trump Posts Wildly Racist Video of the Obamas
Donald Trump posted a video that included a clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, set to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-racist-video-barack-michelle-obama-apes-1235512093/
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
9 days ago
We shouldâve known when they brought in Tom Homan The âdraw downâ of ICE in Minnesota is nothing but a hoax -Theyâre still threatening protesters at gunpoint -They continue to conduct warrantless arrests -Kids are still being detained Itâs only a matter of time before they kill somebody else
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
10 days ago
Theyâve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. Thatâs the plan.
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Brandon Friedman
10 days ago
Let me explain the math behind why the destruction of the Washington Post isn't about money. The paper is now losing $100 million a year. Jeff Bezos is worth $253 billion. This means he could self-fund the Washington Post for THE NEXT 2,000 YEARS and still have $53 billion LEFT OVER.
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Jess Calarco
9 days ago
This desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving the billionaire class's efforts to cut, curb, and control higher education. Because academia is the machine that produces the white collar class.
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David Carroll
12 days ago
the mercers on epstein client lists; they bankrolled bannon, milo, gamergate, breitbart, cambridge analyticaâŠ
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The New Republic
9 days ago
The Trump administration is trying to erase Black history anywhere it can.
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Anonymous Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that they were being ordered to make incredibly political omissions to the brochure that accompanies the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.
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Kathleen Clark
9 days ago
âOne officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." ⊠She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.â
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