Casey Hampsey
@champsey13.bsky.social
Serials and Electronic Resources Librarian at Iona University. Lover of games and new media. New aunt. Old internet denizen.
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"Repeatedly accuse your opponents of doing something they are not doing, so that when you take power and actually do it, the worst you'll face is 'both sides do it' handwringing."
It's a low, shitty, dishonest strategy, but it works, again and again and again.
It's a low, shitty, dishonest strategy, but it works, again and again and again.
I seem to recall MAGA complaining a lot about weaponizing government institutions against political opponents. I guess they’re over that now.
June 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
"Repeatedly accuse your opponents of doing something they are not doing, so that when you take power and actually do it, the worst you'll face is 'both sides do it' handwringing."
It's a low, shitty, dishonest strategy, but it works, again and again and again.
It's a low, shitty, dishonest strategy, but it works, again and again and again.
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I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time *I* have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.
Left my hotel with what feels like 80 pounds of baggage at 8:30 am to get to this panel at 9!! So excited to talk about getting video games into libraries!
![Slide on projector: [Core logo] "Building Platforms to Collect, Preserve, and Provide Access to Digital Games; Dr. Colin Post; Department of Information, Library, and Research Sciences; UNC Greensboro" [ALA 2025 logo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:owur4coiwbdpdv5lglnkwd3j/bafkreibat3ftsby6osvykkleh7hxmro2oo6xrmumijiq6h5rqwvssamd4m@jpeg)
June 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Left my hotel with what feels like 80 pounds of baggage at 8:30 am to get to this panel at 9!! So excited to talk about getting video games into libraries!
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Useful technology isn't something people are forced to use. This was one of the really interesting things I heard maybe a year ago from so many pundits. Things like "I'm trying to think of ways to use this so I become good at it." That's not how productivity tools are supposed to work.
this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
June 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Useful technology isn't something people are forced to use. This was one of the really interesting things I heard maybe a year ago from so many pundits. Things like "I'm trying to think of ways to use this so I become good at it." That's not how productivity tools are supposed to work.
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June 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.
Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.
Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
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Why I can't sleep: The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 stripped Jews of German citizenship. If one parent was a Jew, they & their children were no longer German citizens, even if the other parent was German. Today SCOTUS basically said they're ok with that rule here! For at least a generation, RIP America.
June 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Why I can't sleep: The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 stripped Jews of German citizenship. If one parent was a Jew, they & their children were no longer German citizens, even if the other parent was German. Today SCOTUS basically said they're ok with that rule here! For at least a generation, RIP America.
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unsurprisingly, im seeing an uptick in antisemitic rhetoric on the left, a totally predictable reaction to the hideous cowardice of this tactic
Ok that’s it this is a concerted group effort there is no denying it. The Dem establishment got together in a back room and said “how are we gonna stop this man from making change in the party he is too dangerously progressive and popular.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
And then they all agreed “use the Jews.”
Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell says of Zohran Mamdani: "I don't associate myself with what he has said about the Jewish people."
June 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
unsurprisingly, im seeing an uptick in antisemitic rhetoric on the left, a totally predictable reaction to the hideous cowardice of this tactic
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Has the Wall Street Journal called disappearing people and building camps in swamps radical? Turning back the clock on medical research? Cutting off foreign aid, killing children? Turning the Oval Office into a bribe depository? Telling polluters to have at it? Any of that deemed radical?
June 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Has the Wall Street Journal called disappearing people and building camps in swamps radical? Turning back the clock on medical research? Cutting off foreign aid, killing children? Turning the Oval Office into a bribe depository? Telling polluters to have at it? Any of that deemed radical?
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The trans healthcare ban is BACK in the bill (after the parlimentarian removed it, they put it back). Dems need to do a call and vote to remove it again.
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE AND KILL IT.
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE AND KILL IT.
*bangs pots and pans* CALL YOUR SENATORS. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
You want to protect gender affirming care? NOW'S THE TIME.
Trans peoples' health and lives are at stake, including my partner's. CALL YOUR SENATORS.
You want to protect gender affirming care? NOW'S THE TIME.
Trans peoples' health and lives are at stake, including my partner's. CALL YOUR SENATORS.
H/T @sharonk.bsky.social: Republicans decided to keep the Medicaid and CHIP ban on gender-affirming care for transgender people in the bill as well as the legal characterization of "male" and "female."
June 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The trans healthcare ban is BACK in the bill (after the parlimentarian removed it, they put it back). Dems need to do a call and vote to remove it again.
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE AND KILL IT.
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND TELL THEM TO VOTE AND KILL IT.
👏👏👏
Senator Lee, under pressure from colleagues and the public (that’s all of you!) has officially removed his land sale provision from the big abomination of a bill.
June 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
👏👏👏
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9 am panel time! Happy to be at "GAYSSS IN COMICSSSSS" with a fantastic group on the last couple days of Pride Month.
June 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
9 am panel time! Happy to be at "GAYSSS IN COMICSSSSS" with a fantastic group on the last couple days of Pride Month.
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Let’s definitely ban any regulations on this for the next 10 years
NEW: People are being involuntarily committed to psychiatric care facilities — and even ending up arrested or jailed — after becoming fixated on ChatGPT and other chatbots and spiraling into psychosis.
futurism.com/commitment-j...
futurism.com/commitment-j...
June 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Let’s definitely ban any regulations on this for the next 10 years
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law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called yesterday's decision about nationwide injunctions "an existential threat to the rule of law."
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
She's mistaken.
My latest in @theatlantic.com: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Supreme Court Put Nationwide Injunctions to the Torch
That isn’t the disaster for birthright citizenship that some fear.
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
law professors have been unable to understand why people are actually concerned about this case. it’s not about nationwide injunctions per se, it’s about a court that waited until the issue hurt the GOP, and then intervened on behalf of one of the most egregious constitutional violations we’ve seen
Long morning of walking the floor (and hoarding too much swag). Now it's panel time. This panel by the Library Freedom Project is on AI ethics. Looking forward to a very productive conversation!
June 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Long morning of walking the floor (and hoarding too much swag). Now it's panel time. This panel by the Library Freedom Project is on AI ethics. Looking forward to a very productive conversation!
My first time eating Filipino food! I got fresh lumpia from Tambayan in Reading Termimal Market.
June 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
My first time eating Filipino food! I got fresh lumpia from Tambayan in Reading Termimal Market.
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As one does when one is simply impartially applying the law in the obvious constitutional way with no underlying agenda
It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.
June 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
As one does when one is simply impartially applying the law in the obvious constitutional way with no underlying agenda
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the NYC mayoral election might be an opportunity to reset some terms.
the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”.
the Lander faction are “liberals”
the Mamdani faction are “leftists”
if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people
the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”.
the Lander faction are “liberals”
the Mamdani faction are “leftists”
if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people
June 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
the NYC mayoral election might be an opportunity to reset some terms.
the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”.
the Lander faction are “liberals”
the Mamdani faction are “leftists”
if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people
the Cuomo faction are not “liberals” but “centrists”.
the Lander faction are “liberals”
the Mamdani faction are “leftists”
if you’re mad at centrists but complaining about liberals you are mostly pissing on the wrong people
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*Biden tries to forgive student loans*
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.
*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.
*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
June 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
*Biden tries to forgive student loans*
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.
*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it.
*Trump revokes part of the constitution*
SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.
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They said they were going to do stuff like this in Project 2025 and we all said, he that’s bad, and then they said, that’s not what we’re going to do, and then the press just fell for it again and now we don’t have climate dot hecking gov.
Well the “NOAA Climate” and “NASA Climate” social media feeds - a key tool to communicate the massive challenge of climate change to the world - are now gone.
June 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They said they were going to do stuff like this in Project 2025 and we all said, he that’s bad, and then they said, that’s not what we’re going to do, and then the press just fell for it again and now we don’t have climate dot hecking gov.
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A patient at UC San Diego received a letter threatening to have their care discontinued if they continued to request staff wear N95s.
The letter calls this behaviour “disruptive”
Covid isn’t over. An N95 is one of the best ways to protect yourself.
It’s not disruptive to fight for your health.
The letter calls this behaviour “disruptive”
Covid isn’t over. An N95 is one of the best ways to protect yourself.
It’s not disruptive to fight for your health.
June 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A patient at UC San Diego received a letter threatening to have their care discontinued if they continued to request staff wear N95s.
The letter calls this behaviour “disruptive”
Covid isn’t over. An N95 is one of the best ways to protect yourself.
It’s not disruptive to fight for your health.
The letter calls this behaviour “disruptive”
Covid isn’t over. An N95 is one of the best ways to protect yourself.
It’s not disruptive to fight for your health.
Excited to be at ALA Annual for the first time! So many amazing speakers already. Looking forward to a weekend of learning and networking!
June 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Excited to be at ALA Annual for the first time! So many amazing speakers already. Looking forward to a weekend of learning and networking!
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I'm shocked this isn't done more. Makes total sense that populist policies can go further than populist politicians, given the state of politics in the US.
Bernie and AOC, Put Your Platform on the Ballot
Bernie and AOC have a national platform, an energized base, and the infrastructure to gather small donations. Now they need winnable policies to back. It seems impossible in the MAGA-controlled govern...
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May 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I'm shocked this isn't done more. Makes total sense that populist policies can go further than populist politicians, given the state of politics in the US.