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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 3h
"How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance Before Shutting Down CCCC" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... @rcmeg.bsky.social @nobugsnous.bsky.social @writesantonio.bsky.social @voleuseck.bsky.social @biblioracle.bsky.social @insidehighered.com
Screenshot of IHE opinion essay, "How NCTE Effectively Shut Down AI Resistance, Before Shutting Down CCCC"
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
David Walker published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in pamphlet form in 1829. It's one of the most important and influential abolitionist texts in U.S. history. Yet, very few people have actually read it and many people don't know who Walker was especially among young people.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
"What are we, a bunch of BROWN people?" This is white people doing white people shit. Y'all had picnics under our hanging bodies but sure ok. It's like the Taliban.
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The Kansas City Star @kansascity.com · 20/09/2026
The conservative organization that secretly filmed the professor promises “a whole lot more videos coming” from Missouri.
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Mizzou probes professor caught in anti-DEI sting operation as video draws scrutiny
The conservative organization that secretly filmed the professor promises “a whole lot more videos coming” from Missouri.
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE's De-Chartering of CCCC
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
join us! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed
Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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North Dakota Monitor @northdakotamonitor.com · 11/09/2026
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem — producing tools that can collect and analyze information on a scale unimaginable in 2001. Via @stateline.org buff.ly/2Ta533v
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How 9/11 changed the way America surveils its citizens • North Dakota Monitor
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, transformed how American intelligence and law enforcement agencies collect, share and analyze information. Twenty-five years later, that infrastructure has…
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
They are coming for Mifepristone and have been for a while. I can't tell you how much worse things are going to be if they criminalize it. If you are in NYC, come to our teach in about abortion on October 3: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/events/all/a... - do not be passive.
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Abortion: A Community Teach-In — Interrupting Criminalization
Are you curious about how the rightwing successfully overturned Roe v Wade? Are you wondering how organizers and advocates are thinking about what comes next? Join Interrupting Criminalization for a t...
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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 09/09/2026
Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon said she can't make a decision yet on which maps to use, or she risks the same sort of contempt hearing Secretary of State Denny Hoskins currently faces. (@kbianews.bsky.social)
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Missourians' early votes could be voided if legal dispute over congressional map drags on
Boone County Clerk Brianna Lennon said she can't make a decision yet on which maps to use, or she risks the same sort of
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 06/09/2026
Its hard to imagine a more fitting activity for Labor Day weekend than attending the annual Socialism Conference in downtown Chicago, which is now in its 24th year.
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At the annual Socialism Conference in Chicago, signs of promise, protest and disagreement
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becca @beccakilljoy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
bought an new road atlas this summer to begin to ween myself off google maps. it's been a slow transition, but i just deleted google maps and downloaded @mapquest.com
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 28/08/2026
As ICE terrorizes communities, your local government is quietly working with the federal agency to fuel its deportation agenda. Here’s how you can tell – and what you can do to push back 🧵
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
happy first day of school! teaching college does not get easier. below are some resources for solidarity, courage, inspiration, collaboration first: assignment ideas, syllabus language, memes and more for the pro-learning classroom against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 23/08/2026
Republicans in both South Dakota and North Dakota have been frustrated by recent citizen-led initiatives that have managed to bypass the state legislatures. They’re now pushing to raise the threshold for ballot measures in both states.
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"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts
Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state constitutions.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
this is the most predictable thing ever, but glad someone filmed it for the ppl who still somehow believe that these protests have anything to do with "women's sports"
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Marilou @mariloupage.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hear ye, hear ye! I have updated the mediagraphy for critical tech and "AI" sources. I'm not finished, but I'm on vacation with my family so I will pick up the slack next week. Stay tuned, much more is coming! If you have suggestions, don't hesitate to send me a missive.
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Mediagraphy of AI and Big Tech critical sources
One of the biggest obstacles I face in my fight against the scourges that are generative AI, Big Tech and other fascist-leaning clankers, is that most people aren’t aware of all the critical literatur...
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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My Patreon has a free tier that costs nothing. What if 10 of you sign up for free so I can get to 775 subscribers by the end of August? Even though I don’t directly make money from free subs, they encourage the Patreon algo to show my account to more people.
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Get more from FT on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $2/month. Hi, and welcome! I’m FT. I’m a writer and a teacher and this is where…
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I mean, there's really no hiding anymore that the purpose of The Atlantic is to ease centrists into gladly welcoming and accepting the rise of fascism.
The Atlantic - In Defense of Flock: Police cameras can help make the criminal-just system both fairer and less punitive - if we let them. By Charles Fain Lehman
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 30/07/2026
I wrote about how immigration arrests are at all-time highs, even as ICE is trying to assume a lower public profile. How are they doing this? Look to your local police.
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ICE’s Secret Weapon Is in Your Community
While attempting to maintain a relatively lower profile, ICE is managing to arrest record numbers of people. Here’s how it’s doing that.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Will add it's much easier to not start there or shift when you're just starting up than move all your subscribers later. Advice here!
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You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 17/07/2026
I hold AI Disrespect Day in my heart all the year 'round
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becca @beccakilljoy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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South Park: I Do What I Want!
Alt: South Park GIF: Cartman, I Do What I Want!
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“…thinking that food is raised not to eat but to sell at good profit; that houses are built not to shelter the masses but to make real estate agents rich; and solemnly declaring that without private profit there can be no food nor homes. All this is ridiculous.” — W.E.B. Du Bois, 1953
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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Republicans know voters oppose their party’s policies, so they want to disenfranchise voters up in red states.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yeah yeah yeah "OH THEY'RE DOING HRT NOW" we know, we get it. You can't live as a trans person in America and not see 500 ads for HERS AND HIMS and not know that HRT for cis people is actively encouraged and easy to access. This ain't anything new, it is just a new degree of it. And it is so tiring
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South Dakota Searchlight @southdakotasearchlight.com · 15/07/2026
An attorney for ND's Public Service Commission said the agency can’t consider public safety when issuing a pipeline permit. The comment came during a hearing in a lawsuit brought by counties and landowners against the commission and #SummitCarbonSolutions over the permit process.
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Safety not a factor in determining North Dakota pipeline routes, attorney says • South Dakota Searchlight
An attorney for North Dakota’s Public Service Commission said the agency can’t consider public safety when issuing a pipeline permit.
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Utah News Dispatch @utahnewsdispatch.com · 13/07/2026
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order shrinking Utah's Bears Ears National Monument to about 121,000 acres and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to about 182,000 acres.
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President Trump shrinks Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — again • Utah News Dispatch
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to again shrink Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
What can you do to lessen some suffering where you are?
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵
Text written on a book page reads: Looking to hear from people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI.  If that sounds like you, reach out via kellyhayes.org.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
BREAKING: On the 39th anniversary of the founding of ACT UP, protestors have shut down traffic outside Grand Central demanding “Money for AIDS and healthcare, not for ICE and warfare.”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
It’s very telling that the most fight the centrist Democrats have shown is against the left and not Republicans
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Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
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The New York Times helped turn trans rights into political controversy, analysis finds
A new data investigation says the paper of record increasingly framed transgender rights as a debate instead of a lived reality.
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National Homelessness Law Center @homelesslaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
NEW: June 28th marks 2 years since #JohnsonVGrantsPass. Since then, 350+ cities, 14 states, and the Trump administration have criminalized homelessness and moved further away from making housing more affordable. homelesslaw.org/06252026stat...
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Two years since Grants Pass ruling, 350+ cities, 14 states, and the Trump administration have criminalized homelessness
In the two years since the Grants Pass decision to criminalize homelessness, over 350 cities and 14 states have passed laws making it a crime to be homeless. The ripple effects of this decision have…
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Scott Kurashige @scottkurashige.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Full story is an essential read www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...
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Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.
A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/06/2026
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
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Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/06/2026
by request i'm going to share a quick thread of collections where people have pulled together articles / resources / arguments about ai harms and how to resist them this is by alphabetical order in my bookmarks, it's not comprehensive, feel free to add to the list of lists
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
the feds are coming in hard in Minneapolis today it looks like, targeting legal observers. I heard this from a friend there: "An alert was just posted to lock your doors and don’t open them for ICE/officials without a signed warrant. Twin Cities Legal observers’ homes are being raided... [cont'd]
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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 10/06/2026
It's America's 250th birthday—so we made a list of 250 books on why that's nothing to celebrate. bookshop.org/lists/250-bo...
Covers of dozens of books exploring America's long legacy of racism, genocide, imperialism, and dispossession.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Notice how the papacy's good acts are all statements and the horrific ones are actual actions and policies with serious resources behind them? The Catholic Church has a massive healthcare network and inflicted a total trans care ban there last year. They're an enthusiastic part of trans genocide:
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‘It’s a Nightmare’: The Human Toll of the Catholic Church’s Trans Healthcare Ban
Missing hormones. Canceled surgeries. Bureaucratic denials. Late last year the Catholic Church banned all trans healthcare across its sprawling networks. The impact on trans people's lives is devastat...
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 14/05/2026
saw this on an ACT UP poster from 1988 at the Poster House museum today. the more things change :)
THE REPUBLICANS WANT IS DEAD
THE DEMOCRATS DONT CARE
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12/05/2026
When We Are Kin: The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity Join Kyle T. Mays for a virtual conversation with Brea Baker about a bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity. Monday, June 1st at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend:
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Register Now – When We Are Kin: Kyle T. Mays in Conversation with Brea Baker – YouTube
When We Are Kin: Kyle T. Mays in Conversation with Brea Baker – YouTube, Mon Jun 1, 2026 - Join Kyle T. Mays and Brea Baker as they discuss a bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in re...
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
In all my years covering this stuff, I have NEVER seen Americans so explicitly labeled terrorists like they are in the newly released national counterterrorism strategy 👇 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
One of the research projects I will probably never get to, but hope someone does is a mixed-methods study of college professor AND student LMS use, w/ diary studies, observational ethnography, qual interviewing, and quant analysis of digital behaviors.
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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 07/05/2026
This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..
BREAKING: Tennessee Republicans pass map splitting up state's lone majority-Black district

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