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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 5h
Today would have been Michel Foucault's 100th birthday. In honor of his Centennial, and our own, we're offering a wide variety of free content related to the great philosopher on our blog. Books, chapters, & articles will be open access until Dec. 15, 2026. #DUP100 #Foucault buff.ly/H2nyiVZ
Black and white photo of Michel Foucault, a bald white man with glasses, wearing a dark suit, holding a sheaf of papers in his hand and looking to the right.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"we know that when they are elected, they will be fighting for a free public higher ed system." Angie Nixon, Sherrod Brown, Abdul El-Sayed, Will Lawrence, Donavan McKinney, Rebecca Bennett, Adam Hamawy, Analilia Mejia, Cait Conley, Chris Rabb let's go! www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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AAUP Forges Ahead With Endorsements
The 12 candidates, all Democrats, were already backed by local AAUP chapters before the national office considered them.
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brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...
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The politics behind the Nobel Prize in economics
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in economics was strategically established to legitimise market-liberal ideology over heterodox economic perspectives.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Sigaret box with a sigaret stick out with “AI" on it. On the box it says:      Using this puts you at risk of:
Misinformation
Violating copyright
Plagiarising
Exploitation of workers
Deskilling yourself
Spreading stereotypes
Contributing to pollution
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"[N]aming is everything. What we name things is how we value them. We name them as valuable. And that naming, monetary and legal, is the driving force by which we get the labor and create these things."
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Introduction to Theory: Karl Marx’s Value, Price and Profit (New transcript!)
In this third installment of our Introduction to Theory series, Maxximilian Seijo deepens Money on the Left’s analysis of Karl Marx’s critique of political economy. Specifical…
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Romare Bearden @romarebearden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wizard's Domaine www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti…
Wizard's Domaine
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brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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AI slop and the destruction of knowledge
Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet?
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The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In which @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social remind us that the risk of AI is not "superintelligence gone rogue," but human reliance on flawed systems in high-stakes situations: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
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Wallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Wangechi Mutu, “Howl” (2010), mixed media.
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
October 1st in NYC, join authors Bhaskar Sunkara, Mike Beggs, and Ben Burgis to discuss their new book, The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World at Woodbine!
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The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World
A book launch with authors Bhaskar Sunkara, Mike Beggs, and Ben Burgis
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Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When you use Claude Code you are using a product designed top to bottom by weird fashy eugenic Rationalists, enriching them and solidifying their power and making them seem more legitimate. Trying to make a show of laughing at theor absurdity won't matter, you just paid their rent!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Forbes gets the headline right. 🏆 www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Jeremy Adelman, The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind – @princetonupress.bsky.social, September/November 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Capitalist Era
A sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century—with essential lessons for today
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John Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
New book on the Atlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis coming out in January Among other findings, “Eltis argues that two-thirds of all enslaved people ended up in the Iberian Americas, where exports were most valuable throughout the slave trade era, & not in the Caribbean or the US” #skystorians
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
A new study from the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study found that 48 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, or nearly 86%, directly profited from slavery. This is 7 more signers than previously known. My latest @theemancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/07/02/i...
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New Study: 48 of 56 Declaration of Independence signers profited from slavery
A new study conducted by the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study found that 48 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, or nearly 86%, directly profited from slavery by enslavi...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Promises to be a major achievement in literary sociology.
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Next week, Sept 10 at 6:00 pm EDT, leading scholar @agordonreed.bsky.social will discuss her latest work, Jefferson on Race, and the meaning & impact of the Declaration of Independence on our nation with @nycbarassociation.bsky.social. A signing will follow the discussion. Register: buff.ly/KMN4T5s
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yorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A prof I work with a lot has their students watch this @emilymbender.bsky.social lecture as part of their prep for our in class CAIL discussion, and write a brief response and questions prior to class youtu.be/qpE40jwMilU
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ChatGP-why: When, if ever, is synthetic text safe, appropriate, and desirable?
YouTube video by GRAILE AI
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Dave Goldberg @davegoldbergjazz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tune of the day…Zakir Hussain, Dave Holland, Chris Potter - J Bhai. This original by Zakir as well as this recording comes out out his Crosscurrents project, of which it was streamlined to this trio, released under their names. This tune is dedicated to John McLaughlin. #jazzsky youtu.be/L9VOE8HeMS0
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J Bhai
YouTube video by Dave Holland - Topic
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank. 
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UVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Happy #pubday to "Reckoning with Race in New Worlds" by Ruth Hill! How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10164/ #readUP #booksky #skystorians
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Urban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Building the Eviction Economy: Speculation, Precarity, and Eviction in Detroit" by Eric Seymour and Joshua Akers, UAR 57(1), 2021.
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On the 91st anniversary of Social Security, these words from FDR are just as important today:
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year www.juancole.com/2026/08/medi...
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Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year
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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds. capitalbnews.org/black-displa...
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From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years
America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12/08/2026
Ruthie Wilson Gilmore recommends three books every radical should read
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brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Task: to be where I am. Even when I'm in this solemn and absurd role: I am still the place where creation works on itself.
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Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 12/08/2026
Have you read? Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost This one is a nod to @noirbettie.bsky.social who's March newsletter brought it up and *I had never read it.* Her whole newsletter was a lesson in things I half-know. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148652...
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026
Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.
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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/07/2026
Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor. In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: propub.li/3S3sflq (Published March)
Graph showing that the number of consumer complaints that credit bureau Experian closed with relief dropped significantly after Donald Trump's inauguration. The chart also shows the total complaints received has continued to rise over time. The x-axis shows year from 2021 to 2025 and the y-axis shows number of monthly complaints from 0 to 200K, with tick marks at increments of 50K.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/07/2026
NEW: A woman who sexually abused a minor. Boxer Mike Tyson, who served time for rape. Both of these people successfully launched private schools that collected public money. As the voucher system grows more popular, few states have guardrails in place.
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Public Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Blanche is a fucking liar. (Ok, we all knew this - but it feels good to say it out loud.)
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Reese Ourso @reeseourso.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Yes, it does! bsky.app/profile/adam... From his son:
"I recognized him immediately: not from his appearance, but from his voice crying in the street as he was bleeding out," Ronaldo said through
tears.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“THE UNIVERSITY IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A SOCIAL SYSTEM THAT HAS GIVEN MORE OPPORTUNITY, MORE FREEDOM, MORE HOPE TO MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER SYSTEM YET DEVISED.”
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brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
how many ounces of revolution do you need to fill the holes in your body
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
More here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804175...
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Anti-Fascist Economics by Isabella Weber: 9798217154432 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all....
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 28/06/2026
“Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers of which Moreton is a member, found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations.”
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/06/2026
The United Nations is calling for independent investigations after at least 50 people have died in ICE custody since President Trump began his second term. The death rate is higher than it's been in over a decade, and this year is already on track to be worse than 2025. This is unconscionable.
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UN Demands Probes Into US ICE Custody Deaths
The United Nations on Friday demanded independent investigations into dozens of deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since last year -- and swift action to prevent more peopl...
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brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The squirming facts exceed the squamous mind, If one may say so. And yet relation appears, A small relation expanding like the shade Of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of a hill.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Please read and call. Flood the zone.
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
NEXT MONDAY! Join us for America at 250: an online event with Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, & David Waldstreicher, moderated by Nikhil Pal Singh. Panelists will discuss their recent essays in BR and @dissentmag.bsky.social on the legacies of the American Revolution. Register at tinyurl.com/44yrhzbt
In partnership with Dissent, join us for America at 250, a Zoom event on Monday, June 29, at 12 ET. Featuring Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, and David Waldstreicher, moderated by Nikhil Pal Singh. The panelists will discuss their recent pieces in Boston Review and Dissent on the legacies of the American Revolution at home and abroad, its gutted promises, and how its ideals might still inform our politics of resistance and solidarity today. 

For a limited time, you can get both magazines in print for just $60, or become a digital subscriber for just $35. To subscribe, just add a BR membership to your cart in BR's online store and use code DISSENT60 to save on print or DISSENT35 for digital.
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...
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Prairieland ‘Antifa’ Activists Sentenced to Decades in Prison on ‘Terrorism’ Charges
Federal judges in Fort Worth handed down maximum sentences to eight people...
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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
New report based on interviews with those sanctioned for their work with the ICC—including individuals in The Hague who now can’t book flights or hotels, and a Palestinian human rights organisation whose website and social media accounts were shut down. coalitionfortheicc.org/news/cicc-la...
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Coalition for the ICC launches groundbreaking report on US sanctions: "Criminalising Accountability: The US lawfare against the international justice system" | Coalition for the International Criminal...
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