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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

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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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 4h

It's television -- so it's tv. But television for an Epstein age. Sharp, and works to tell from the women's point of view. press.hulu.com/shows/furious/

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 4h

Academic Freedom as a Labor Issue: A perspective from Faculty First Responders A sustained campaign against academic freedom can change everything about the conditions of academic labor for as long as it lasts—and for a long time after. @aaup.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

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Academic Freedom as a Labor Issue

New modes of collective action are needed to defend academic freedom.

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 15/10/2026

REVEALED: The Trump administration gave almost $13 million in family planning grants to anti-abortion physicians. More than $8 million went to projects led by a Pennsylvania doctor who recently said girls should think about future pregnancies as young as 8 years old. scoop by @garnethenderson.com

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‘Destructive’: Nearly $13 Million in Family Planning Grants Go to Anti-Abortion Doctors

Millions in federal funds earmarked to train health providers will go to doctors with links to crisis pregnancy centers and the Heritage Foundation for programs focused on infertility and “body litera...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12h

New: Accenture has told employees it will only fund $29 per month of Claude use. Meaning that employees who often spend as much as $1,000 a month are now scrambling to find ways to keep access to the tool. A sign of the continuing crack down of AI www.404media.co/accenture-te...

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Accenture Tells Employees They Can Now Spend Only $29 on Claude Per Month

Some employees who spend as much as $1,000 on Claude usage each month are scrambling to find ways to maintain access to the tool.

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 13h

Just a reminder of how most board members, upper administrators, and state reps see faculty and staff.

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 17h

Time for some serious tax restructuring. She said the wealthy nations will not "grow" themselves out of this debt. Wealth tax. Inheritance tax. High income tax -- very progressive at the top. Cut tax rates on lowest bracket. #taxtherich

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

Pigs and thugs.

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 17h

Smart phone app gambling is a working-class issue. The history of predatory gambling (like predatory lending) targets working and low-income people. Now it is everywhere, the palm of the hand and 24-7. @lawcha.bsky.social @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social #workinglcass

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 17h

Donations for FLIP CONGRESS 2026 Ohio >>>>>>>>>>

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

LACK, the lacanian conference that lacks an acronym, invites paper proposals for the 2027 gathering at the University of Vermont psychoanalysis, culture, politics, philosophy, math get in formation deadline tomorrow! lackorg.wordpress.com/2027-confere...

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2027 Conference

We are excited to announce LACK vi at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont March 11-13, 2027. Please send any general questions about the conference to Hilary.Neroni@uvm.edu or Todd.McG…

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17h

Even when Congress isn’t in session, they work for us — and our loved ones and neighbors can’t wait on protections from ICE. Your representative could provide the 1 signature needed to advance a bill to give legal protections to Dreamers, TPS holders, and other long-term residents ICE is targeting.

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Pathway to Citizenship Now

ICE has shot and killed people in our streets. Dozens have died in ICE custody. These aren’t isolated events. We need solutions today and the Dream and Promise Act is a critical piece of that. Take action now

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Not part of the Drafting the Past crew -- but they're all serious writers and researchers. My guess, they're making a point. No historical fiction, but also no fantasy history (as per the Trump administration). They have a clear ethics statement for accuracy. www.draftingthepast.com/ethics/

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Ethics Policy

While we have a full terms of service and privacy policy available, we want to highlight a few principles about which we feel strongly or that are not noted elsewhere. Fair and Impartial Reviewers: W...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/10/2026

Women trust AI less than men—but no one’s asking them. Men are disproportionately likely to be approached as AI experts, Harvard researchers found.

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Women trust AI less—but no one's asking them

Men are disproportionately likely to be approached as AI experts, Harvard researchers found.

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you are faculty, staff, students in higher education, READ THESE FOUR PAGES. Look at how we are envisioned by upper admin and boards. @aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @campusworkers.bsky.social @seiu.org @rooseveltinstitute.org

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Systems are in free fall. We can plan and build what comes next. Join us in second round Next System Teach-Ins April 2027!! Prep for global wave of Teach-Ins at bi-monthly Organizer Workshops. Coming up: “Wall-to-Wall Organizing: Campuses, Schools & Universities” on Fri 10/30, from 12:00–1:15 ET.

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NSTI Organizer Workshop Series – Session 4 | Next System

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Funny, darkly funny!~!~!~ A haunted house where every room has a new Director of AI from the Teaching Excellence Center who asks how you're using AI in your assignments. @aaup.org @utaustinaaup.bsky.social @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaupyale.org @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hope, organize, plan, and make demands. Join SFNDHE board. Three meetings/year: fall, winter, spring. Webinars, roundtables, panels, toolkits, summits on crises in higher education and what TO DO about them. @chronicle.com @insidehighered.com @higheredlabor.bsky.social @rooseveltinstitute.org

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

So many forces degrading and erasing the public records. The shift from paper to digital, the increasing privatization of collections, and now the increased destruction or removal of records.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"The growing mobility of capital increasingly allowed it to avoid making concessions that might have supported legitimation, while the marginalization of parties, elections...weakened the state’s capacity to secure popular consent for accumulation." nonsite.org/triumph-of-c...

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Triumph of Capital, Crisis of Democracy

We argue that Trumpism arose from a political and social crisis generated by the success of accumulation. This crisis resulted not from the decline of capitalism or the exhaustion of accumulation b…

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Turtle doves are a labor issue -- related primarily to farmers and agricultural practices as a last space for the species. The UK population of Turtle Doves declined by 99% between 1967 and 2023.

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Turtle Dove conservation - Advice for Farmers

In the UK, turtle doves are now largely confined to southern and eastern England. The UK population of turtle doves has declined by 98% since 1967.

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

History worth reading. We're creating a new home to celebrate nonfiction history books. Book reviews, interviews, craft essays, publishing news, and more.

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Drafting the Past

Reviews, craft essays, news and more for readers and writers of history.

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's Launch Day for DRAFTING THE PAST, a new platform for history book reviews, essays, and more. Next! @lollardfish.bsky.social's review of a book about Charlemagne that seeks to recast the Carolingians w/in the long history of rising and falling empires. www.draftingthepast.com/waking-up-fr...

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Book Review: Waking Up From a Carolingian Dream

A new history of Charlemagne’s empire dethrones the usual narrative of its rise and fall

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This guide positions refusal as a disciplinary and principled response to the emergence of Generative AI technologies. We created this guide to add to ongoing efforts to think through approaches for responding to GenAI in writing studies, and in higher education more broadly. @aaup.org

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Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"how the court has taken more power than the framers entrusted to them. Tracing the growth of the court’s authority through history, they describe our current system, in which the high court can veto Congress’ will, as judicial supremacy. Rather than a constitutional construct, it is a social one."

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How the Supreme Court seized power to rule over the rest of us

A false mythology put the justices on top. The people could knock them down.

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

These were the days: "It wasn’t until 1913 that states ratified the 16th Amendmt... populists and progressives had rallied support around an income tax, lamenting that tariffs were a consumption tax on lower-income Americans and that federal revenues should come from the wealthy."

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas." Except migration of people and pathogens are not like Vegas... Two weeks from today, online, so open to all, but you have to sign up.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 12/10/2026

Working people are working harder than ever, yet our paychecks are stuck and CEOs are bringing home record pay and bonuses. This election season, let’s elect candidates who will help make this economy work for all of us, not just the billionaire bosses. Betterinaunion.org

U.S. workers get a record-low share of the output we make. "American workers are getting the smallest slice of the pie on record." - NBC News, 9/7/26 | AFL-CIO

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"Today, policymakers should restructure the tax code to reintroduce more tax brackets, coupled with greater progressivity at the top end." First, since Reagan, income inequality across income distribution has exploded. Second, income inequality within top end of income distribution has skyrocketed

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Reaganism Broke US Tax Brackets. It’s Time To Fix Them.

The US once had dozens of income tax brackets. Samarth Gupta argues that restoring more brackets at the top would better address today’s extreme income inequality, raise revenue, and give policymakers...

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Local efforts in an administration of federal bullying.

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Rotten and delusional, and part of the history of wealthy elites claiming their greed, violence, and selfishness are "natural."

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Aimee Loiselle @aimloiselle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Soon, I hope municipal/state agencies will do more to train workers off the landscaping tread mill: gasoline mowers, leaf blowers; toxic pesticides and herbicides; ornamentals rather than native flowering plants. It's not that (mostly) men landscapers are bad, but their jobs need to change.

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UNITE HERE @unitehere.org · 10/10/2026

S/O to UNITE HERE Local 1 - #SolidarityForever 💖 Power to the WORKERS!✊✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 | Poder a los TRABAJADORES! ✊✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 Now on STRIKE! WE WORK TOO HARD TO LIVE LIKE THIS!! | Ahora en HUELGA! TRABAJAMOS DEMASIADO DURO PARA VIVIR ASI #HotelStrike #Local1 #unitehere1

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Why the F is Ka$h going to Russia?! Patel is scheduled to visit Russia on Oct. 14-15, first stopping in Moscow and then St. Petersburg. His host is likely to be the FSB, the heir to the Soviet-era KGB. There needs to be immediate bipartisan classified briefings. 🧾 www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

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FBI Director Kash Patel plans Russia trip

The plans come as the U.S. and Russia have failed to come to terms on ending the war in Ukraine.

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