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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The students who broke this story have much to be congratulated on, but getting a university provost on the record saying that AI use detectors are unreliable and should not be used to judge academic work is 🤌🏻

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Two books I am currently reading that are helping me understand what is happening with AI and its implications for the political economy. I recommend them both.

the nerd reich: silicon valley fascism and the war on democracy, by gil duran

capital is dead: is this something worse? by mckenzie wark

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Hey Buffalo, did you know about the ICE surge that we have been experiencing? Our community is being ripped apart. The fact that it is done more quietly than in Minneapolis makes it harder to resist, but we can. 1/2 investigativepost.org/2026/09/03/b...

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Buffalo is ground zero for ICE enforcement in upstate New York

The latest ICE arrest data details a summer surge by agents across many upstate New York cities, none more than Buffalo.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I've been less online than any point in my adult life over the past several months, and reflecting on many things that are expressed so well in this essay.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The pressure is working but it only works when we do. Please call today. I really think we can shut this thing down.

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BuffaloResearch.com @buffaloresearch.com · 26/08/2026

After these guys left Nurul Amin Shah Alam out in the cold to die? How could you, @markpoloncarz.bsky.social?

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Buffalo: ICE is holding a two-day "career expo" event in the Buffalo Convention Center--a county-owned building--next week. They want to hire more agents to kidnap more of our neighbors. Do you want to stop this? Instructions below, please share

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I don't want to minimize how authoritarian and messed up this kind of surveillance is, but I also hope folks aren't responding to headlines like this with fear. Basic security practices to resist disruption from this level of infiltration below. 1/

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Housing and food insecurity are at record levels in Buffalo, and ICE will be recruiting at the Buffalo Convention Center--a public building--Sept. 1 and 2

An electronic building for a Department of Homeland Security career expo, featuring images of losers in tactical gear

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

💯💯💯! "Whatever happens in these races, our communities will still need political education, mutual aid, community defense, disaster preparedness, and other projects for collective survival."

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Here to recommend this essay on deep reading as direct action www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...

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Neuroplasticity As A Praxis

We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I know this isn't news to anyone who has worked in or around universities, but the amount of mission-critical work that depends on volunteer labor is WILD. Like, when you think about the "job to be done" for universities and then look at what's on vs off contract...?

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Children should always be welcome in public libraries and hating on children in public is deeply antisocial. And also, many people who seek recreational child-free spaces are mothers who otherwise have a hard time getting a break from children.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

But talking about the left as an alien, infiltrating force, or claiming it's an equivalent danger to fascism, or insisting that you beat fascism by destroying the left rather than allying with it—that's all really dangerous shit right now.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I’m glad that the walls seem to be closing in on Andrew Tate, but it took criminal investigations across three countries, dozens of outspoken victims, and a hit TV show implying he drives boys to murder girls for this to happen—and he still hasn’t been convicted yet. This is why 98% get away with it

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 21/07/2026

They really are trying to kill a lot of us, by disrupting public health & denying necessary medical care, by state & military violence, by impoverishment & malnutrition, by working folks to death, permitting contamination of food, & air, by hoarding and wasting water, & escalating climate breakdown

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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

People continue to cling on to something that is already gone instead of facing the reality that their government, all three branches and both parties, are compromised and corrupt. It is delaying the hard work of organising and action required to fix things.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am currently receiving a *ton* of unsolicited positive feedback about the fact that an org I lead never endorsed Graham Platner, and I needed to come tell bluesky because many of you also knew what was up with that guy, and maybe no one is praising you for it. WE WERE SO RIGHT, Y'ALL!

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 14/07/2026

a decade ago there was an entire movement dedicated to confronting the militarization of state power against its citizens Not only did you not listen... our political actors increased police budgets across the entire country Now military forces are killing White moms and nurses

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I will never praise Kathy Hochul but today I am full of praise and gratitude to those who bullied her into this. Great work, friends! Also, here's what we know about "winning" with Hochul--she will walk this back as soon as you take the pressure off. Don't do it www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI datacenters

Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities

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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I don't think you necessarily need violence to topple an authoritarian regime especially one that is not fully established what you need is a populace that is continuously engaged in acts of civil disobedience that makes it impossible for them to function

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The apologists and normalizers and equivocators and gladhanders proven themselves incapable of moral leadership. And strident moral leadership, leadership that demands decency *and* accountability, is the only path to any kind of just future.

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Lillly @lillly3ls.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"socialism but with patriarchy" is wrong because it is an abandonment of values but it's also just materially wrong in the sense that it can't work, that is how your ship sinks, it's very straightforward

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

For a long time, the New York Democratic machine was corrupt, sclerotic, hostile to progress, and completely implacable. That started to change when 13 women came forward, at great personal cost, about the sexual harassment they experienced from Andrew Cuomo.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Okay I'm here today just to recommend a novel: Make Me Better by @sarahgailey.bsky.social. Deep exploration of cults and community, grief and love, kinship and manipulation, capitalism and communalism, all in a stunningly well-executed puzzle box format. Best book I've read in a minute.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

📢 An announcement for local folks: SURJ Buffalo is now AARC Buffalo: Abolitionist and Anti-Racist Collective. We are in the process of disaffiliating from SURJ National. This will empower us to deepen our local relationships and grassroots engagement. We're excited! 1/2

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Also, hi 👋🏻 I really just stopped in here for a quick proof-of-life post. All things considered, my life is going really well and I hope the same is true for y'all also. I miss my internet friends! But I am continuing to stay away from social media spaces.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I stepped off the library dean path when it became clear that this would be the job--managing the end of academic libraries as we know them. Please know that these changes are just a result of defunding. They do not herald some bright digital future. There will just be less access to knowledge.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I hope you will read this statement from Dolores Bustamante, a farmworker, grandmother, and community organizer who was detained at her ICE check-in in Buffalo today. ericalikesalligators.substack.com/p/dolores-bu...

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Dolores Bustamante: I will face ICE

A 54-year old mother, grandmother, dedicated farmworker and community leader, is facing deportation. Though she fears the worst at her upcoming ICE checkin, she refuses to hide.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I planted sunflowers with friends and met a newborn today, and now I'm watching Star Trek Insurrection. I hope y'all are having a great weekend too 🖖🏻

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

While I'm here I want to thank everyone uplifting the name of our Buffalo neighbor Mr. Nurul Amin Shah Alam, who was murdered by Border Patrol agents. You can read more about his life here. In this thread I will suggest actions you can take in his memory. 1/ investigativepost.org/2026/02/28/s...

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Family of Nurul Shah Alam speaks publicly for first time since death

Fatimah Abdul Roshid and her son Faisel spoke to reporters for the first time on Saturday after the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I just popped in to wave 👋🏻 and say I'm as well as can be and I hope everyone else here is too. I'm going to continue being off social media for a while, but I always love hearing from my online buddies via other channels. Have a great weekend, y'all.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Folks who are struggling with the news about Cesar Chavez, be gentle with yourselves. You are not obligated to consume all of the awful details. You can simply offer your belief and support to those who were harmed.

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Sophie Gonick @professorsophie.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

it's just so devastating that women choose to stay silent in order to make movement gains. may our movements be better to women and girls and may our leaders not be patriarchal monsters hiding beneath the cloak of progress

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Huerta is 95 years old, by the way, and has lived with what happened to her for sixty years. Incredible bravery and fortitude for her to come forward now, and I can't imagine the pain she must be in, learning what he did to those girls.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Academia has always been patriarchal. Now that two generations of women have made some progress in changing that, the guys doubled down, enabled a rich rapist.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

All of the men, in particular, have lost their ever loving minds.

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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It’s impossible to convey how important Our Bodies Ourselves was to the generations of women before the internet. Monumental, positive impact for American women.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I had a weekend full of big magic, and I hope y'all did too

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Now that I'm back here, I have a very important announcement: Chain mail is the best way to clean cast iron. I have tried many methods over many years, and my skillets have never been more perfectly seasoned.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

So many institutions on the left(s) seem to be asking this question: Can we win by embracing a fascist aesthetic without the fascist politics? My answer to this question is: fascist aesthetics are a form of fascist politics, and when you practice them, you build a fascist world.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I've gotten questions about this on several channels, so here we go: 1. SURJ chapters like SURJ Buffalo receive resources from SURJ National, but we are fully separate orgs 2. SURJ chapters have no role in National's endorsement process 3. SURJ Buffalo has not and will not endorse Graham Platner

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Too many people think that the current aggressions of US-Israel is a conspiracy to "distract from Epstein files." Waging sadistic wars is actually proof of - not a distraction from - Epstein files. Imperial violence is inseperable from sexual violence: organized, systemic crimes against humanity.

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Melissa @bibliothecar.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Nurul Amin Shah Alam spent 10 years in refugee camps before receiving his legal approval to join our community. He was here only weeks before police and immigration agents started to abuse him, which continued until he died. Vetted fundraiser for the family www.gofundme.com/f/standing-w...

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Donate to Standing with Nurul Amin’s Family in Buffalo, organized by Fatimah Shah Alam

GOAL : As much as we can raise. Objective: To raise funds to supp… Fatimah Shah Alam needs your support for Standing with Nurul Amin’s Family in Buffalo

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