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Bill Flack

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Critical community psychologist pracademic. Research focus: violence against women, campus sexual assault, psychological trauma.

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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... We need to act now.
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Rapid Response Call: ICE Killing and Lawlessness in Minneapolis · Indivisible
Join us to Thursday, January 8th, at 8:00 pm ET / 5:00 pm PT to discuss the killing by ICE in Minneapolis and their lawlessness and harm in communities across the country. We will talk with local an...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Flu looming, measles elimination status, botulism updates, and more open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Flu looming, measles elimination status, botulism updates, and more
Your weekly dose of everything you need to know in public health.
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
www.facebook.com/share/r/1BNG...
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Redirecting...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Are We Losing Our Democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Capitulation to the wannabe dictator violates higher ed independence @UniversityofVirginia. Bad call.
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University of Virginia agrees to Trump administration demands over admissions and hiring
School joins University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and Brown in bowing to White House to restore funding
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Treasury tells employees not to share photos of White House ballroom construction - The Wall Street Journal See no evil
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/10/2025
The call for an ethics probe follows reporting from ProPublica that revealed a web of past business relationships involving border czar Tom Homan, his senior adviser Mark Hall, and consultants and firms seeking DHS contracts.
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Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign
A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #TrumpLies
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White House’s East Wing partially demolished as work begins on Trump’s $250m ballroom
Ex-congressman calls major renovation ‘utter desecration’ as demolition in East Wing reportedly under way
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 19/10/2025
We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
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NPR @npr.org · 20/10/2025
People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today. n.pr/3Jd0PoI
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Photos: Scenes from the No Kings Protests
People gathered for pro-democracy protests across the country today.
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Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
As the regime's brings its lies to Bluesky, it shows that no part of civil society will be spared from attack. Then the toddler President, woken from his nap, posted a video of him dropping poop on yesterday's protesters to make the message clear. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
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White House and Government Agencies Join Bluesky, Then Attack Democrats
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
www.mcsweeneys.net/columns/lest...
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Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u... ~7 million of us. Stay tuned, more to come.
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‘No More Trump!’: Protesters Denouncing the President Unite Across the Country
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Acting Now to Protect the Future open.substack.com/pub/academic...
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Acting Now to Protect the Future
We should not be curious about the Trump higher ed "compact."
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Ten Exercises You Can Do to Resist Fascism - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/09/t...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...
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Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats
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ACLU @aclu.org · 07/10/2025
Thank you to the 14K people who tuned in last night for our Know Your Rights training ahead of the rallies on October 18 💪
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
So he's rereleased the Epstein Files? (Kidding)
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America
A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Live Updates: Sean Combs Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10... An all too rare consequence for men's violence against women.
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Live Updates: Sean Combs Sentenced to More Than Four Years in Prison
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o... Yes indeed.
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Routine vaccinations, sanitation, and a look back at history open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Routine vaccinations, sanitation, and a look back at history
Sanitation vs. vaccine impact, requirements, universal recommendations, Hep B and more
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u... Resist this attempt to coerce bigotry.
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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The Roberts Court: Twenty Years of Democracy Undermined - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/01/t...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
www.committeeforthefirstamendment.com/home An idea whose time has come, again.
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Committee for the First Amendment
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Reuters @reuters.com · 30/09/2025
Trump-backed targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists for deportation is unlawful, US judge rules reut.rs/42ikvOq
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Trump-backed targeting of pro-Palestinian campus activists for deportation is unlawful, US judge rules
A U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's administration chilled free speech in violation of the U.S. Constitution by adopting a policy of revoking the visas of foreign students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestinian advocacy, and arresting, detaining and deporting them.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 30/09/2025
BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:
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Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Why is it that the livelihoods of federal workers or the healthcare of millions of people always end up on the chopping block, but never the trillions in tax cuts handed out to billionaires and massive corporations?
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Measles outbreak growing and common cold surging, hunger survey is stopping, abortion pill watch, why we can't split up MMR, and some great news! open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Measles outbreak growing and common cold surging, hunger survey is stopping, abortion pill watch, why we can't split up MMR, and some great news!
The Dose (September 30)
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Discretion Is Not the Better Part of Academic Freedom
In a free society, we strive to eliminate the punishments that make discretion a rational choice—and not glorify discretion as a virtue when it is actually a vice.
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains
Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ffs
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Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training
Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto... It sure looks like it.
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Could things get darker still for US higher education?
Given the blitzkrieg of attacks on higher education and research in the past nine months, what should we expect from the Trump administration going in...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/letter-from-...
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Letter from the Portland War Front (humor about something deadly serious)
My dearest wife, It is week two of the Siege of Portland, and still these barbarians will not yield to our troops. We have severed the cords of their latte machines but they are making cowboy coffee ...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpCK...
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The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
YouTube video by Big Think
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u... Fight back, or become a tool of fascism.
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Give In or Fight Back? Colleges Are Torn on How to Respond to Trump.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2025
A government report released Friday on sexual abuse in high school Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs estimated that dozens, and potentially hundreds, of instructors have been accused of sexually abusing or harassing students in the past five years.
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Sexual Misconduct by J.R.O.T.C. Instructors Is Pervasive, Report Finds
The high school classes taught by military veterans have been under scrutiny following a Times investigation that found repeated instances of sexual predation and little oversight.
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u... SCOTUS enabling fascism.
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Slash Foreign Aid
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We Must Not Look Away: Resisting Oppression and Pursuing Justice - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/w...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
bbc.com/news/article... Well done OfS for doing this. Now, what is to be done about it?
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Thousands of students report sexual violence at university
Women and LGBT students were more likely to report incidents than their male and heterosexual counterparts.
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... A victory for free speech.
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Court Order Reinstates S.D. Prof Fired for Kirk Comments
A South Dakota district court judge ordered the University of South Dakota on Wednesday to reinstate Michael Hook, a tenured professor of art who was put on leave with an “intent to terminate” after h...
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
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Opinion | Autism Has Always Existed. We Haven’t Always Called It Autism.
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Tylenol and autism: What parents deserve to know open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Tylenol and autism: What parents deserve to know
Nuance and empowerment instead of underestimation.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
No more “Democrats” like him or Sinema, please. Sell outs not welcome.
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
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The Firing of Educators Over Kirk Comments Follows a Familiar Playbook
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Autism report prep, Covid peaking, bad ACIP headlines, falls and loneliness climbing, and more open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Autism report prep, Covid peaking, bad ACIP headlines, falls and loneliness climbing, and more
The Dose (September 22)
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Bill Flack @billflack.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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From Nazi Germany to Trump’s America: why strongmen rely on women at home
Fascist regimes pushed narratives of domestic bliss, yet relied on women’s unpaid labor. In the US today, ‘womanosphere’ influencers promote the same fantasies
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