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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The people outraged over the academic freedom of Cofnas (which is apparently the freedom to harass & drive a man to suicide) I dont recall your outrage for the profs who got harassed & fired for speaking on Palestine I'm just a silly gal, I guess I dont understand what I'm free to do as an academic

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 18/04/2026

Some members of my doctoral cohort are super “wait until course evaluation time” & it GIVES ME THE ICK. We’re all professional educators; you can’t send an email / set up a conference to explain why things aren’t working for you? BE AN ADULT. And yes, they are.

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Black Film Alerts 🎥 @blackfilmalerts.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Happy ‘Sinners’ Day! One year ago, Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners,’ released in theaters.

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Paula Chernoff @paulachernoff11.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Burrowing Owl on the ground making sure visitors read the sign!!! #birdoftheday birds on the ground photo by David Chernoff

Burrowing Owl on the ground, standing in front of a sign telling visitors it is a violation to disturb the burrows or harass the owls.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 20/03/2026

Oh good, you're awake. Welcome to America, the year is 2026 and we're setting oil on fire until gas gets cheaper

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/03/2026

I just made myself sad - I was thinking it'd be nice for Eid to do something new & make a little signal boost post for Muslim artists and writers and developers and creators, and then I hesitated because I know there's a real risk and threat in making a nice easy-to-collate list of Muslim creators.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 20/03/2026

LIVE: Eid prayer at the Grand Mosque in Mecca Worshippers gather at the Grand Mosque in Mecca for the Eid prayer that marks the end of Ramadan. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_43...

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LIVE: Eid prayer at the Grand Mosque in Mecca

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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FDA declines to review Moderna's mRNA flu shot

Under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Food and Drug Administration has taken an aggressive stance against mRNA technology.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

"She’s still there, waiting for safety. Waiting for softness. Waiting for someone to finally say, “It’s okay. You don’t have to hold this anymore.”" medium.com/@maerssonall...

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Independence or Grief?

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I also recommend turning off automatic updates.

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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Asking because the use of "occupation" seems odd to me when there are clear examples of U.S. occupation worldwide. There are clear threats of U.S. occupation right now.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Genuine curiosity.. is it occupation if its our own federal government and ICE agents who are part of the same communities they are oppressing? Or is this the Jim Crow era policies people voted for?

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 15/01/2026

At one point today, there were 283 Minnesota attorneys doing a training on how to file emergency habeas petitions to keep our neighbors from being shipped out of state and held indefinitely. That would be the second largest law firm in the state. And that training was just put together this week.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

My Mexican neighbors sometimes play music well into the early morning hours. My academic colleague commented that I should call the police on them. I said, I'm an abolishinst. Thier response, "couldn't be me" and this is how mental health providers can uphold oppression.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I'm shocked by the business as usual vibes conferences and overall higher education is continuing.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/01/2026

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Hearing people say the "left" lacks institutional power gives me the ick. They want us to believe they are different while they all give us the same solutions that keeps us stuck in hell.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I'll take mornings page. Anything over people telling us all their thoughts. It's okay to keep some things to yourself

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/01/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but cops are not allowed to shoot people just because you didn't do what they said. That is called murder when they do that. Some cops are working hard to convince people otherwise.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Everything about today feels like 2020 again... Everyone is sick, and the police/ICE are killing people. The only difference is that people have stopped calling things "unprecedented" because we've already seen this play.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

it is understandable to be doomscrolling right now, but maybe try and do something else in 10 minutes? sometimes a timer helps or putting your phone in another room. You still deserve time to rest and recover.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

On Substack, someone said the next world war will be the world against the United States. I've been thinking about that all day.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

People will say this was one bad agent... yet history reminds us that there is a list of all the people who came before. All the times we could have had a revolution, and instead turned away.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I keep thinking about how this was blocks away from where the video captured George Floyd's final moments. Six years later, it seems we haven't learned anything.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Looking back, everyone will one day realize that all that woke stuff was right. Unfortunately, being right won’t erase the suffering.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

A clear reminder that nothing protects you. Not your identity, not your citizenship, not free speech, and currently not the constitution. At any moment, time, day, or night, this could always be you. To think otherwise could cost you more than your freedom.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Watching people with POWER lower their standards, throw out their ethical standards, and rewrite historical events when video evidence exists while standing on a pedestal to tell everyday citizens that they are the change we need is CRAZY WORK. Not reporting the facts is a continuous choice.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Yes, and for me, this feels deeper than institutional power or bad actors. I'm seeing "leaders" using slogans to gain votes and traction while actively voting against change in the name of keeping their seats.

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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Defund the police Abolish ICE Black lives matter Silence = death No means no I don't think the left has a problem with communicating our goals and ideas. They are direct and unambiguous to anyone *operating in good faith*

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Being responsible and accountable on social media can also mean not sharing videos or graphic content on your platform. Not everyone needs to see video evidence to believe this is possible. I haven't watched a video since Eric Garner, I only needed to see one to know what is possible.

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it," Zora Neale Hurston

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Dr. D @blackacademic.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"Hope is not a course of action." 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Paul Rieckhoff dropping lines tonight

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