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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026

The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States. n.pr/3VNx83v

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Theaster Gates bets on fine china

The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.

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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In January, Ramirez introduced a standalone bill to abolish ICE and redirect its funding to safety-net programs that can help people navigate the spiraling affordability crisis. truthout.org/articles/the...

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The Movement to Abolish ICE Is Gaining Momentum

As activists rally around federal legislation to dismantle ICE, Amnesty International joins the call for abolition.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/09/2026

I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...

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‘Shoot Him!’: Police Threaten Third-Country Nationals Imprisoned in African Hotel - The American Prospect

‘I’m fighting for my life,’ said Ahmed Soliman after the latest in a string of abusive incidents in Equatorial Guinea, where ICE expelled him five months ago.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Jacob Lawrence, The Library, 1978. Lawrence loved libraries, where he did research for his paintings from early on in his career, most notably at Harlem's Schomburg Center. He made numerous pictures of libraries that celebrate the librarians & library workers who keep them running

Picture of a library, showing a figure pushing a cart in the foreground

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Good that it’s down, but bad for it to be forgotten Considering that major news outlets including NPR could cover TPUSA as a “free speech” organization without mentioning the “watchlist” even while it was still up, I’m not hopeful

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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/09/2026

Indigenous leaders say the US government's decision to close 3 National Archives sites was made without tribal consultation. buff.ly/KCGAvUK

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3 National Archives Locations Are Set to Close. Tribal Docs’ Fate Is Unclear.

Indigenous leaders say the US government’s decision to close the sites was made without tribal consultation.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When, in January 2025, I wrote that the Trump administration was segregationist folks said I was exaggerating. I would have *loved* to be wrong about this but the unfortunate evidence remains on my side. This is just racism, pure and simple.

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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 01/09/2026

“It is naive, perhaps, to think that the liberal arts as practiced on an elite college campus might fix today’s world. But a future that abandons it is a dire one.” thebaffler.com/latest/class...

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Class Dismissed | Hannah Gais

Private liberal arts schools were never going to kickstart the revolution. But the closure of Hampshire College further narrows the political imaginary.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 01/09/2026

Nearly a year after launching its deadly and illegal bombing campaign near the Caribbean, the Trump administration has killed at least 227 civilians at sea. The administration has provided no legal justification or reparations for these strikes, which is why we're suing.

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Return of Trump's boat strike campaign reignites questions of legality -- and usefulness

The revival of the Trump administration's boat strike campaign targeting alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean has prompted a fresh round of scrutiny from critics.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect

On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ceres estimates data centers in 7 states used ~3.4 trillion gallons of freshwater for electricity in 2024 alone, ~12X the combined total of Los Angeles, Phoenix & Washington, D.C. Big increases projected (4T to 8T) for 2030. Tech companies say they're working on it, talk about how ag is worse.

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Data centers’ hidden water footprint is linked to the grid

A Ceres analysis shows that data centers’ indirect water footprint from power plants dwarfs direct cooling.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

RIP to one of the most gifted songwriters to ever pick up a pen and a guitar. youtu.be/FkUB5XPXXZg?

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Don't Let It Trouble Your Mind

YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'A number of faculty members at Texas A&M University–Victoria have quit after the university announced in late June that full-time faculty are required to be on campus for eight hours a day, five days per week this fall.' 1/3

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Faculty Quit as Texas University Orders Them Back to Campus

The new policy, announced in June, is a response to a Texas law restricting remote work for public university faculty. The Texas AAUP says it has prompted chaos and tears.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 25/08/2026

#BREAKING: US country music legend Dolly Parton dies at 80: family

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

More thoughts from me--- and a breakdown of the arbitrator's decision. The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back. karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

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The Washington Post Fired Me. I Fought—and Won My Job Back.

Nearly a year after being wrongfully fired for my comments on race, gender and violence, an arbitrator has ordered my immediate reinstatement.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The economic elites I interviewed also hated obligatory schooling because that made it harder for their businesses to engage in child labor. www.dukeupress.edu/the-business...

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The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Go deeper. This is the bare tip of the iceberg here.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Ruth Wilson Gilmore defines racism as ‘the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death.’

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 10/08/2026

The State Must Provide, my first book baby, a history of racial inequality in higher education, turns five today. I shared some thoughts about it on IG, but figured it might be good to share here, too: First: I wrote the book because I felt like I had to.

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Honored to join Ellen Schrecker & Sam Lebovic in submitting the Historians' Amicus Brief in AAUP v. Rubio. 🗃️ The brief focuses on the First & Second Red Scares, & on the development of free speech jurisprudence. Read ⬇️ Grateful to @brennancenter.org & Counsel www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Historians’ Amicus Brief in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio

Historians filed a brief supporting a challenge to the federal government’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty on the basis of their speech and associations.

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Jeremy White @jeremywired.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

SECRET SAUCE: @thiccreese.bsky.social wanted to find out what data McDonald’s loyalty program had on him. He got back a 515-page file that was equal parts amusing and concerning, even showing how the brand's algorithm predicts his next purchase. Full piece on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

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McDonald’s Built a 515-Page Dossier on Me. It Says I’ll Never Stop Eating There

I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program and received an extensive, personalized report that algorithmically predicts my next purchase.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In reporting this, I also learned there is a Pizza Hut museum, where people can write Pizza Hut-related memories on napkins. An expert told me most memories are about 3 things: first dates, celebrating something with family, or Book It!.

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BOO!👻 LAO GATE! @cheflubu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

"That's so AI" and "you sound like a chatbot" are also both things I've heard young people say in Berlin. I heard a girl at a BAR tell a young man he sounds like ChatGPT. That's the Scorpion fatality of shutdowns.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 05/08/2026

it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This

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How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor

“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I'm going to teach my Black Feminist (Insurgent) Politics course this fall online for the public. There will be tuition costs on a sliding scale. We will work on core concepts, writing, and reading. Stay tuned as I plan the course and release more info.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is terrifying and disgusting. Haitians are being convoked to appointments, to wear ankle monitors from now on to prepare for deportations. And our tax dollars pay for the ankle monitors to line the profits of the GEO Group. investigations.resistmap.com/p/breaking-i...

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BREAKING: ICE Is Using GPS Ankle Monitors to Prepare a Mass Roundup of 350,000 Haitian Refugees

Haitian refugees being summoned to check-ins are being fitted with GPS monitors and sent home — making them easier to locate and round up for mass deportation later.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22/07/2026

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

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New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I found this fascinating. I don't think I've ever seen a Museum publicly list the costs of an exhibition before. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri... - It's actually super helpful for people to see what it takes.

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A Museum Dares to Reveal What It Really Costs to Make an Exhibition

“Performing Conditions: Artistic Labor and Dependency as Form,” at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, stars Autumn Knight, Dread Scott, Ghislaine Leung.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Great article (gift link) from @jamellebouie.net on Musk's racism being largely indistinguishable from themes in The Turner Diaries. And I think Musk gets a pass because lots of folks in the media agree, in broad strokes if not specifics, with what he is saying.

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Opinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? (Gift Article)

Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?

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Carla D. Martin @carladmartin.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Today in solastalgia: "Japanese vending machine manufacturer SDRS has developed a human-sized, stainless-steel fridge to stave off heatstroke amid the increasingly sweltering summers brought on by climate change." www.dezeen.com/2026/07/27/h...

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"Human refrigerator" provides escape from deadly heatwaves

Japanese vending machine manufacturer SDRS has developed a human-sized stainless-steel fridge to stave off heatstroke amid the increasingly sweltering summers brought on by climate change.

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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