Judd

Judd

@judd.bsky.social

Adjunct Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of San Francisco Holocaust and Genocide studies, Education Democracy, media, e̶d̶u̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶v̶a̶t̶i̶z̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶… Cat dad 😺 🐱 Bay Area sports 🌴 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️

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Ok I’m doing it: Thread of all the unquestionable antisemitism by trump admin and associates, because as a Jew, I refuse to be used to further their cynical assault on civil liberties. 1/x

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It’s so telling that this is the exact dehumanizing shtick he trots out for the autistic, as eugenics, like fascism itself, must construct an Increasingly narrow hierarchy.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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Put the fucking Hawks game in the afternoon you losers

Alexa Philippou@alexaphilippou.bsky.social

BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.

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Replying to @rafiews.com

There is blatant voter suppression happening right now in Brazil: flights cancelled and buses suspended to Northeastern capitals where Lula holds the majority, polling stations changed to thousands of kms away last-minute, voters in London told they need to go to Edinburgh… This is criminal.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

a 25 year old could not comprehend how bad the dining options were in the median American town in 1996

Get in loser, we’re speed running education reform failures, again. MOOCs, Vouchers, and Charters didn’t work but this also won’t.

Dana Goldstein@danagoldstein.bsky.social

My deep dive on the "A.I.-driven" Alpha School, revealing their internal learning and enrollment data for the first time, just as the network expands into public education. There is a big gap between the marketing and reality. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

Digger “expresses an extraordinary amount of open contempt for itself and its audience [that believes] our crisis will be resolved on our screens… [Thus] satire loses everything that makes it distinct as a mode of fiction, though that’s not to say that it loses all of its value as art…“

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The Palestinians routinely victimized by settlers should be no less important but it’s hard to miss here that the photojournalist a bunch of them savagely beat is named Heidi Levine — almost certainly an American Jew. The story says she’s a 64 years old woman Staggering levels of impunity

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When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Leo Marx’s essay on technology as a hazardous concept might be one of those things I never stop thinking about

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social

In the face of criticism, Tim Flock deploys the old "we shouldn't pause progress" canard — because in Silicon Valley brain poisoned culture, any widget with a microchip in it is automatically "progress" and anyone who doesn't think every such widget is good hates all progress

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So Trump not only disarmed Ukraine by removing the Starlink/Starshield capability with defensive drones (the system only operates in Ukraine), he blinded it too with withholding advanced warnings of Russian missile attacks. How evil, cowardly and craven. Is Kash Patel still in Moscow

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My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

Remember not to argue what’s happening to Ilhan Omar on their terms, folks.

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I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social

RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.

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Probably the coolest thing he's done next to being a potential Bomberman fan

Vordio@vordio.net

Good on him. "Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir,’ Teases Joining ‘True Detective’" variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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At this stage it doesn't matter to me if this guy is cosplaying. I want a person who talks like this and then promises to back it up to be the next president. If there's somebody who winds up being more convincing than him in the next year or so, I'll vote for that person instead.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

Not interested inviting this person’s at least partially antisemitic audience into my mentions, so no quote. This came with an apology that sounded sincere until it described the issue as a problem of phrasing, which is not the issue. The apology also came with many comments of support for the OP.

Children and civilians who never served in the IDF were killed during 10/7, many at a music festival promoting peace. Also worth mentioning that not every Israeli serves or that there are former IDF soldiers who are now activists against apartheid and mass atrocities. @breakthesiience.bsky.social

Gartner hype cycle remains undefeated, but what makes this iteration different from previous however recent ones (MOOCs, blockchain, 5G, 3D printing, etc.) is the concerted and deceptive effort to delay inevitable collapse.

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WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge has ruled DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment when it removed Ahmed Soliman to Equatorial Guinea and must facilitate his return to the US. prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...

This shit reads so oddly. Describes a new plane as “nearly for years old” and abruptly says the first officer “launched the attack” on the other pilot like that’s not insane. yeah man, “the attack,” of course. Then says later the drop isn’t clear without pointing out perspective change?

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TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote

npr.orgHow to register to vote and check your registration statusFor the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

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One step closer to justice for my dad, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

Texas Tribune@texastribune.org

Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.

You guys I can’t tell you how much time and effort I’ve put into this fence only for Iggy to conquer every iteration.

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it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats

Jason Linkins@dceiver.bsky.social

"We're told some of the attendees were shocked the former Republican governor would host Raman, a democratic socialist. But after hearing her pitch for tackling L.A.'s problems, some who came in skeptical walked away impressed." www.tmz.com/2026/09/25/a...

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CW suicide I'm having trouble finding a non-paywalled version of the article so I haven't read the entire thing, but gambling addiction has the highest suicide rate of any addiction. This is both disgusting and dangerous.