Sharon Manna

Sharon Manna

@profmanna.bsky.social

Canadian-American. Community College professor and dean; Harry Potter nerd; mediocre golfer; sports geek. Stuck in Texas. Confusing the algorithm.

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sydder
@sydder.bsky.social

This guy?? This loser who directly contributed to the harassment of a woman who had her and her family's life basically ruined by fake rumors and this man who did not face any consequences and in fact has been promoted and paid a shit ton of money since then????? Be for fuckin real.

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com

Pat McAfee says he was "uncomfortable" during Utah College GameDay and alluded to the Charlie Kirk killing. This all comes after a school video of students commenting about him upset him. Also said he might not show up if GameDay goes back there. www.nytimes.com/athletic/772...

nytimes.comPat McAfee says he was ‘uncomfortable’ during Utah ‘College GameDay,’ alludes to Charlie Kirk killing (Gift Article)McAfee said he was upset about a video posted on university social media accounts asking students to give their best impressions of him.

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Don’t let the tank tops and bro talk fool you, Pat McAfee is softer than melted butter

RedditCFB@redditcfb.com

The wildest part about Pat McAfee's weird comment about the University of Utah is the video that provoked it... *this* is the video that broke him:

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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social

It’s just so appalling and enraging how casual and commonplace this has become. I’m out of words.

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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Tressie McMillan Cottom
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

Dan Mauler 🎃@meelar.bsky.social

I just think Matt's wrong about this. We're at a point in our technological development where a ton of problems spill over national borders--if Flavio Bolsonaro burns down the Amazon, that will flood houses in Miami.

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Philip Bump
@pbump.com

It’s nice when a global fascist movement can crumble without millions of people dying.

Sharon Manna
@profmanna.bsky.social

Correlation (and alliteration) for the win.

Mike Vorkunov@mikevorkunov.bsky.social

Seems this is a pattern. Oct 30, 2022: Lula wins the runoff election in Brazil Luka has 44 points and 5 assists in a win Oct. 25, 2026: Lula wins the runoff election in Brazil Luka has 52 points and 8 assists in a win

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

My $4 million ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my $4 million ad campaign

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The Associated Press
@apnews.com

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

bit.lySerbia’s strongman leader Vucic concedes defeat to student-led movement in seismic political shiftThe long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

Replying to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

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Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

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Ken Tremendous
@kentremendous.bsky.social

The most maddening part of this -- which is saying something -- is that the cop who has torn his town into shreds thinks the remaining residents are cool with him because they smile at him when he walks by. Mind-numbing levels of cope. www.propublica.org/article/depo...

propublica.orgThe Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His NeighborsIngram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of t...

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Will Bunch
@willbunch.bsky.social

Read this thread

Francesca D'Annunzio@francescadnunz.bsky.social

Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

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Scott Horton
@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

For Trump, who is heavily invested in the fossil fuels industry, windfall profits for that industry are a wonderful thing. For US consumers, they're a nightmare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "While oil prices are temporarily high ... the United States oil and gas business is making hundreds of billions of dollars"

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Allison Gill
@muellershewrote.com

Found some voter fraud. Surely Blanche will make arrests.

Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com

NEW: GOP operative Scott Presler built his reputation registering Republicans and accusing Dems of voter fraud. But a review by The Bulwark found GOP operatives from other states voting from his home—and evidence raising questions about their residency. www.thebulwark.com/p/gop-operat...

thebulwark.comTop GOP Operative Let Out-of-State Voters Vote From His PA HomeLegal experts say Scott Presler’s houseguests could run afoul of election law.

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Nemo. 🎃
@sirnemo.bsky.social

The replies are nothing but NBA puns about otters, and it's just the loveliest shit ever. Truly delightful work. Enjoy.

Howard Beck@howardbeck.bsky.social

Giannis Ottertekounmpo

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e.w. niedermeyer
@niedermeyer.online

behold the dazzling purity of our meritocratic economic system

Build-A-Pear@b-rambler.bsky.social

Am I reading it right that Boring Co still has basically 0 real revenue streams but possibly 2 projects in feasibility study phase, so now it's worth $23B?

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Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social

He is remarkably consistent in supporting alleged perpetrators and enablers of sexual violence and attacking their victims

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

Sharon Manna
@profmanna.bsky.social

Just trash behavior.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Vance just held an outrageous presser in which he defended Vivek's vile attacks on Acton, agreed w/ Witkoff's assessment of Putin as a "humanitarian," and had gall to claim "there's no person who hates people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the govt than Donald J Trump" Supercut:

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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social

Saying the polls are fake a necessary step to insisting the election results are fake

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

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Jeff Fecke
@jkfecke.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Camp Lejeune water contamination claims: "If we win the House and Senate, I am directing the Department of Justice to settle all remaining legitimate claims as soon as possible ... if we don't win, there's no money."

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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social

To the cable news producers and hosts who follow me here: Find time to book Whitney on your show. No need to mention me or my podcast. But she deserves to be heard. And Texas voters need to be reminded of what Gregg Abbott did.

Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social

Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

radleybalko.substack.comHer fiancé and caretaker was murdered by a far-right extremist. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned the killer. My interview with Whitney Mitchell.For my new podcast, The Watch With Radley Balko, Mitchell and I discuss Abbott, the coming election, and the legacy of Garrett Foster, her late fiancé

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Stephen Lautens
@stephenlautens.bsky.social

Every abusive husband: "I don't view the relationship as ruptured. I know that she looks at it differently..." #cdnpoli

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social

Pete Hoekstra: "We don't view the relationship as ruptured. I know that the Canadians look at it differently."

Sharon Manna
@profmanna.bsky.social

But please, look towards Minnesota and not behind this gilt curtain.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

this is like a reverse "daisy." an ad so reprehensible that it detonates the candidate's campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

tiffinohio.netAmy Acton’s mother defended husband accused of raping her daughter at 12. Now she’s in a pro-Ramaswamy attack ad.Acton’s brother is speaking out after their estranged mother appeared in a political attack accusing his sister of lying about her childhood. He says their mother remained married to the man who sexua...