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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” The Trump administration's ultimate goal? “To make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.”
motherjones.com
“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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MEANS TV @means.tv · 01/10/2026
scaretherich.boo
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the hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026
sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too
ad for some AI company called evenfall
copy says "meet derek. ai every day. always hitting a wall. then he found evenfall"
the only graphic is a stick figure holding... a tablet maybe? he's missing an arm
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New NC anthem just dropped. Update your playlists accordingly. tidal.com/track/533982...
tidal.com
Rhiannon Giddens - Carolina Rain
Listen to Carolina Rain on TIDAL in exceptional sound quality, or on your choice of service
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/09/2026
hello you can not form useful policy coalitions with fascists they never actually support corporate accountability when it matters I feel like we've been over this
gizmodo.com
Bernie Sanders to Join Forces With Steve Bannon at ‘Pro-Human’ Conference
Strange times make for strange bedfellows.
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Leave it to the Dems to attack Trump from the right. 🤡 And support an illegal, unjustified war. Both parties love empire.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 13/09/2026
“You have people who are furthest from the classroom, curriculum design, and the subject area of a subject saying all students must take this thing. How is that good for students? How does that suggest they will get the best education?” #academicsky
al.com
Protesters speak out against ‘climate of fear’ after Auburn University dissolves faculty senate
Auburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates.
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Love that they used Whatley’s photo in the headline, even though he isn’t the sex offender. 👍🏻👍🏻
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Help protect universities from Trump’s takeover. #academicsky #academicfreedom www.standupforscience.net/sufs-compact...
standupforscience.net
Demand your school's leadership publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Email your school's president urgently asking them to publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protect Academic Freedom in Higher Education www.nea.org/advocating-f...
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Protect Academic Freedom in Higher Education | NEA
Tell the Department of Education to withdraw its proposal that would politicize college accreditation and threaten students’ freedom to learn.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is egregious and illustrates the *dangers* of compromising independent centers of thought with political ideology. If you’re over feeling unsafe in your classroom, email YOUR uni leadership & tell them to sign America’s Compact for Higher Education: www.standupforscience.net/sufs-compact...
standupforscience.net
Demand your school's leadership publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Email your school's president urgently asking them to publicly endorse America's Compact for Higher Education
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The Electronic Intifada @intifada.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Despite international protest, Israel forges ahead with E1 colony plan to end Palestinian aspirations for statehood.
electronicintifada.net
E1: Not just another colony
Decades-old settlement project not only threatens the contiguity of occupied West Bank territory, it entails forced urbanization in order to squeeze Palestinians into the smallest possible area.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 13/09/2026
A call center paid incarcerated people in Oklahoma just $2/hour to do a political party’s bidding. Here's the kicker — that ridiculous wage is still 3,900% higher than the wages of other incarcerated workers in the same state prisons.
oklahomavoice.com
Oklahoma prison inmates operated political, insurance calls centers behind bars • Oklahoma Voice
Contracts obtained via an open records request confirm that a company called HBW Leads and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections have established several call centers since January.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 13/09/2026
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
truthout.org
This Back to School Season, Kids Face a New Fear: ICE Taking Their Parents
More than 200,000 children in the US are estimated to have had a parent detained by ICE.
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
An Indiana prison allows some residents to raise kittens thanks to a partnership with a cat shelter. "I am thankful that after all these years, my nightmares have dissipated with the healing imprint of Lady’s paw. Other prisoners have experienced the same rehabilitative results with this program. "
prisonjournalismproject.org
In My Prison Cell, a Cat Lives Out Its Life
Indiana State Prison allows select residents to care for a feline companion in their cells.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me
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MEANS TV @means.tv · 10/09/2026
No better film to watch on the eve of 9/11
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
100 Years of Solitude is my Dune. Macondo is my Arrakis. The Buendías are my Atreides (Atreideses?).
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AAUP @aaup.org · 31/08/2026
"No institutional representation about curriculum, faculty status or academic standards should be published without first being shaped by faculty governance." We agree. #academicsky
insidehighered.com
Faculty Should Lead in Responding to Compact 2.0 (opinion)
No university should respond to Secretary McMahon’s letter without significant faculty involvement.
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Fascists who have no intention of compromising communicate through violence. Reflecting on the Confederacy and the rightward shift in Germany, I wrote about the dangers of thinking you can work around the far-right's relentlessness for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2026/08/27/f...
prismreports.org
Pragmatic governance will not defeat fascism
Some people act as if they have to work with fascism, letting it grow into the unstoppable beast that will devour them
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Daja E. Henry @dajaehenry.com · 31/08/2026
In the history of Mississippi's Parchman prison, music is inextricable from its brutal legacy. I attended a concert of the newly-revived Parchman Band at the GRAMMY museum and met some talented musicians. Here's my dispatch, for @themarshallproject.org. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/08/28/m...
themarshallproject.org
Mississippi Prison Band Offers a Glimpse of Freedom in a Lifetime of Punishment
The latest incarnation of the band composed of incarcerated people at Parchman prison toured the state and will release an album next year.
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If you’re an academic, the best third place to join is @aaup.org. Join your local chapter, or start one on your campus. #academicsky
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Prism @prismreports.org · 31/08/2026
“This isn't only about their right to free speech—it's about every student on campus, especially the immigrant students who walk in every day carrying real fear of ICE.” Federal court sided with FIU students who were disciplined for a silent anti-ICE protest on campus, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.
prismreports.org
Federal court blocks FIU ban on expressive activities inside buildings
The temporary injunction issued Monday sided with students who were disciplined for a silent anti-ICE protest on campus
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AAUP @aaup.org · 31/08/2026
“In America, free speech doesn’t just belong to the people who say things the government agrees with."
politico.com
Judge declares Rubio’s speech-based student deportations violate the Constitution
Northern District of California Judge Noël Wise, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, sided with the Stanford Daily in its suit against Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Maybe today’s the day I finally get my life together.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/08/2026
The label of “terrorism” is a political tool whose meaning has been shaped by those with the power to wield it. buff.ly/haQwj3v
truthout.org
Calling Israeli Settlers “Terrorists” Helps Cover Up Their State Backing
The label of “terrorism” is a political tool whose meaning has been shaped by those with the power to wield it.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 29/08/2026
#OtD 29 Aug 1970 Ruben Salazar, US Army vet and the first Mexican-American mainstream media journalist to write about the Chicano community, was killed by police during an anti-Vietnam war protest. A 10-inch teargas projectile was shot at his head stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1008...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/08/2026
Employers who fired their staff for posts about Charlie Kirk have lost a string of high-profile disputes. The latest is the Washington Post, which was ordered this week to reinstate Karen Attiah, the opinion columnist it fired last year for her social media posts in the wake of Kirk’s assassination
motherjones.com
Karen Attiah fought the Washington Post and won
Employers who fired their staff for posts about Charlie Kirk have lost a string of high-profile disputes.
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The kind of thing @ntnsndr.in might be into.
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 30/08/2026
READ: The establishment debate over Hasan Piker isn't just about a streamer, it’s a proxy war over Palestine’s growing power in progressive politics. Why the push to exile him proves the center has already lost the argument: mondoweiss.net/2026/04/the-...
mondoweiss.net
The Democratic Party debate over Hasan Piker is really a fight over Palestine’s new place in U.S. politics
The moral panic over Hasan Piker’s involvement with the Democratic Party is really about Palestine’s growing influence in U.S. politics. While Israel supporters might want to ban him and Palestine…
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 30/08/2026
Democracy Now! reached Prairieland protester Autumn Hill and spoke to her via phone from her incarceration in Texas. Hill is serving a 50-year prison sentence on terrorism-related charges for participating in an anti-ICE demonstration outside the Prairieland ICE detention center last July.
democracynow.org
Meet Prairieland Protester Autumn Hill: How Her “Act of Solidarity” Became a 50-Year Prison Sentence
“I’m absolutely being imprisoned for a political agenda,” activist Autumn Hill tells Democracy Now! in a phone call from Texas’s Johnson County Correctional Facility, where the 30-year-old trans woman...
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Today locals in Asheville, NC rallied against the G20 financial summit taking place in the small Appalachian town this weekend. While US Sec. of the Treasury Scott Bessent meets with central bank governors and other financiers, residents lined the streets and spoke out vimeo.com/1222372992?s...
vimeo.com
Amid G20 Summit Boasting Recovery After Hurricane Helene, Locals Speak Out
This is "Amid G20 Summit Boasting Recovery After Hurricane Helene, Locals Speak Out" by Unicorn Riot on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The kind of song that makes you ugly cry. tidal.com/album/549433...
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Kalandra - Let Me Be Open
Listen to Let Me Be Open on TIDAL
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Ryan Singh @singhisking.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A 2,000 foot chunk of glacier snapped off and dropped 4,000 feet in Nepal. The flash flood killed 98 people. 391 tourists are missing. 47 Americans unaccounted for. 19 bridges gone. This isn't a natural disaster. This is climate breakdown.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/08/2026
Faculty of the South! Please take a few moments to fill out the 2026 AAUP Faculty In The South Survey:
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
As election season ramps up, here’s your reminder that “working class” is not an income bracket, a job title, a collar color, or a culture. It’s a position in the socioeconomic structure. If you don’t own the means of production, you are working class.
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just another day teaching college students in America. This student thinks the US Empire assassinated Bin Laden as "an act of justice" for the people of Iraq. 🤔
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The president has a lady Renfield that sleeps in the White House crawlspace and travels in the wheel well of Airforce 1 and prints out his posts for him on a portable printer and wipes the poo poo off of his giant ass and that's supposed to be funny?
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upstream @upstreampodcast.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 19/08/2026
Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a "demilitarized Palestinian state." These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no people should relinquish. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/trum...
mondoweiss.net
Trump and Israel are demanding that Palestinians disarm. Here is why that is wrong and unjust.
Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a “demilitarized Palestinian state.” These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no…
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 19/08/2026
Something has got to give! Student loans are hurting working people, and the current minimum wage certainly isn't helping. It's damn near impossible to pay off tens of thousands of debt with poverty wages. Public service workers need relief, not the wealthy who bribe the Trump admin!
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MEANS TV @means.tv · 18/08/2026
Ms. Rachel x Free Palestine tee just dropped www.meansworkwear.com
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You know these idiots are just going to end up zapping themselves and other officers because they forgot to turn them off.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 16/08/2026
For workers at Asheville’s Mission Hospital, Hurricane Helene turned the climate crisis into a workplace crisis. @sarahlazare.bsky.social reports, in partnership with Workday Magazine, that staff kept caring for patients through days without power and nearly 11 weeks without running water.
inthesetimes.com
Smoke, Heat, Storms: How Climate Change is Making Bad Working Conditions Even Worse
As wildfires, heat waves and hurricanes intensify, workers are increasingly fighting for basic protections on top of everything else.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.
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Bill Shein @billshein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Great reporting by @jessecoburn.bsky.social
propublica.org
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/08/2026
Daniel Sanchez Estrada moved a box full of radical literature. A right-wing judge sentenced him to 30 years in prison. It's a prime example of how the Trump administration is weaponizing conspiracy charges against dissenters. “We are not terrorists; we are being terrorized."
motherjones.com
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Comrade Whale Shark @comrade-whaleshark.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Dear students: The purpose of college isn’t to assimilate you into this unjust, broken world. It’s to give you the skills and constitution to make it better. May you enter college as a student, and graduate as a radical, a revolutionary, a rabble rouser, a troublemaker, a dissident, or a killjoy.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
From the standpoint of prices, wages, and jobs, not so much.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 14/08/2026
A new documentary American Doctor tells the story of 3 U.S. doctors who volunteered in Gaza along with local medical staff who risk their lives on a daily basis to care for the sick and wounded. Israeli attacks have killed about 1,700 healthcare workers in Gaza since October 2023.
truthout.org
Film Follows US Doctors to Gaza as Israel Bombs Hospitals, Kills Staff, Patients
Poh Si Teng says the film rose out of “deep despair” over Gaza and Israeli attacks on her former Al Jazeera colleagues.
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