Bobbi Wickham
@bobbiwickham.bsky.social
Academic. I'm trying to rebuild my old feed.
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The irony is, there actually IS one person I can think of who talks eloquently, and often, about how his faith informs him as a person and a citizen, and who does it in a way that even atheists listen to and respect. But CBS canceled his late-night show and it’s going off the air in May.
December 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The irony is, there actually IS one person I can think of who talks eloquently, and often, about how his faith informs him as a person and a citizen, and who does it in a way that even atheists listen to and respect. But CBS canceled his late-night show and it’s going off the air in May.
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Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.
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simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
Sarah McBride knew some Democrats would betray trans people, so she lobbied Republicans
Sarah McBride successfully lobbied a handful of Republicans to vote against a ban on gender-affirming care for youth.
www.advocate.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
simultaneously a good news story on McBride's deftness and a real shattering account of how many Democrats still need to get punted into a hole in the ocean
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
www.advocate.com/politics/sar...
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PTKU fans, I think we just found our offseason conditioning workout 🦈
December 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
PTKU fans, I think we just found our offseason conditioning workout 🦈
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The dumbest person in American letters
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
December 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
The dumbest person in American letters
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Consolidating power for a man who is mostly interested in turning the White House into one of his tacky country clubs.
my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Consolidating power for a man who is mostly interested in turning the White House into one of his tacky country clubs.
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i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
December 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
i’ll add that what substantively seems to annoy silver is the existence of people with principles
"I'll tell him where to put his toys!"
I love that CHRISTMAS EVE ON SESAME STREET also took the time to give cranks their very own Christmas song…
December 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"I'll tell him where to put his toys!"
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Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.
July 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Been banging the drum on this one since he showed up trying to get his DOGE kids access to all those separate silos of data on American citizens and feeding it into AI! No one paid attention. This is it right here. It's always been about "making lists" for ICE and now they got the cash too.
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NEW: Insight from the Bro-Tex Raid: What Activists Saw While Confronting ICE
Last month, dozens of community members were alerted to a raid at a warehouse in St. Paul.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/insight...
Last month, dozens of community members were alerted to a raid at a warehouse in St. Paul.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/insight...
Insight from the Bro-Tex Raid: What Activists Saw While Confronting ICE - UNICORN RIOT
Unicorn Riot heard from two locals who mobilized in response to an immigration raid in St. Paul on the morning of Nov. 18.
unicornriot.ninja
December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
NEW: Insight from the Bro-Tex Raid: What Activists Saw While Confronting ICE
Last month, dozens of community members were alerted to a raid at a warehouse in St. Paul.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/insight...
Last month, dozens of community members were alerted to a raid at a warehouse in St. Paul.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/insight...
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
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The same day Cramer is made president, the BOR unanimously approves the new center’s bylaws at a previously unscheduled meeting dailyiowan.com/2025/12/03/i...
Iowa Board of Regents passes UI Center for Intellectual Freedom bylaws
The Iowa Board of Regents unanimously passed the Center for Intellectual Freedom bylaws at a special meeting on Dec. 3. At the meeting, Regent Hensley spoke in favor of the newly revised bylaws, and ...
dailyiowan.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The same day Cramer is made president, the BOR unanimously approves the new center’s bylaws at a previously unscheduled meeting dailyiowan.com/2025/12/03/i...
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A Tufted Titmouse a bit of snow on his/her beak looking oh-so-hopeful for a peanut (which was offered soon after this photo, there's no way I can say no to that sweet little face.)
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A Tufted Titmouse a bit of snow on his/her beak looking oh-so-hopeful for a peanut (which was offered soon after this photo, there's no way I can say no to that sweet little face.)
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NEW: Doxing-for-hire services are using forging emergency data requests from law enforcement to trick major tech companies like Apple and Amazon into handing over people's private information. @davidgilbert.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doxers...
Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data
A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.
www.wired.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
NEW: Doxing-for-hire services are using forging emergency data requests from law enforcement to trick major tech companies like Apple and Amazon into handing over people's private information. @davidgilbert.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/doxers...
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“And while lithium-powered gear has become nearly unavoidable, problems tied to cheaply manufactured consumer devices have become a significant contributor to a disturbing trend: deep, devastating burns caused not just by flames from a fire, but by electronics exploding on the body.”
Hunter severely burned after heated insole explodes; surgeon warns of rising lithium-ion injuries
A Lehigh Valley man was hunting when the lithium ion battery in heated insoles in his boots caught fire. A surgeon from Lehigh Valley Health Network said these incidents are causing devastating burn i...
www.lehighvalleynews.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“And while lithium-powered gear has become nearly unavoidable, problems tied to cheaply manufactured consumer devices have become a significant contributor to a disturbing trend: deep, devastating burns caused not just by flames from a fire, but by electronics exploding on the body.”
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One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
We asked activists from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
Activists from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritarians
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
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I once cold-called a librarian in the US to see if she'd send me a couple of photos of a book WORLDCAT said they had, because I was having a fight with the author, and she had those images emailed over to me before I could even explain myself.
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I once cold-called a librarian in the US to see if she'd send me a couple of photos of a book WORLDCAT said they had, because I was having a fight with the author, and she had those images emailed over to me before I could even explain myself.
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these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this
December 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
these are two slightly different things but the point is that academia runs on two things: helping others and holding grudges. often at the same time and for the same people. we cannot lose this
Had a student in my office today to talk about his paper having fake citations. He seemed shocked that the AI made things up.
This morning I spent time looking up citations for a student. By the time I got to the third (with zero results), I asked where they got the list, and the student admitted they were from Google’s AI summary.
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
Honestly though I’m relieved I don’t manage interlibrary loan anymore?
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Had a student in my office today to talk about his paper having fake citations. He seemed shocked that the AI made things up.
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Notre Dame has announced it will not participate in a bowl game this year, joining Iowa State and Kansas State in declining postseason invitations.
Notre Dame joins Iowa State and Kansas State in declining bowl bids
Notre Dame has announced it will not participate in a bowl game this year, joining Iowa State and Kansas State in declining postseason invitations.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Notre Dame has announced it will not participate in a bowl game this year, joining Iowa State and Kansas State in declining postseason invitations.
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It’s been a busy day, but I want to draw your attention to this critically important paper by @jonshaffer.bsky.social and colleagues.
In it, they show that since its strict abortion ban was enacted, Texas has seen a significant increase in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies.
In it, they show that since its strict abortion ban was enacted, Texas has seen a significant increase in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies.
Obstetric-Related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act Violations and No Health Exception Bans
This difference-in-differences analysis examines changes in obstetric-related Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act violation filings following state and federal restrictions on abortion.
jamanetwork.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It’s been a busy day, but I want to draw your attention to this critically important paper by @jonshaffer.bsky.social and colleagues.
In it, they show that since its strict abortion ban was enacted, Texas has seen a significant increase in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies.
In it, they show that since its strict abortion ban was enacted, Texas has seen a significant increase in EMTALA violations involving obstetric emergencies.
The head football coach makes over $9 million a year
“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The head football coach makes over $9 million a year
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I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
nymag.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Reported in partnership with @justvision.org's Palestine Reporting Lab and published in @nymag.com