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NPR @npr.org · 24/02/2026

The company's Claude chatbot is one of the few AI systems cleared for use in classified settings. But a standoff between Anthropic and the Trump administration is putting its government work at risk.

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Hegseth threatens to cancel Anthropic's $200 million contract over "woke AI" concerns

The company's Claude chatbot is one of the few AI systems cleared for use in classified settings. But a standoff between Anthropic and the Trump administration is putting its government work at risk.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If you need a reason to resist and refuse the entrenchment of AI technologies in schools and demand a different vision of education, here's one: "The Trump administration is willing to put resources behind AI education and AI literacy, while it strips funds for actual public education."

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/07/2025

Bill Moyers, the “secular preacher” of TV journalism, was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.

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The Bill Moyers that obituaries missed

The “secular preacher” of TV journalism was also a ferocious critic of corrupt politicians and corporate titans—and the spineless media that enable them.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Feels like a good day to mention that “The Merchant of Venice” starring Jonathan Pryce as Shylock that the Globe did a few years ago is an absolute masterpiece & centers on the antisemitism & his relationship with Jessica. Whole room was sobbing at end of the live show. Available on DVD & streaming

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Orel Beilinson @orelb.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Closing the Central Eurasian program at Indiana is a disaster for generations to come. It was a haven for developing expertise in regions virtually no other university would have. If the State Department, for example, has an expert on Mongolia or Tibet, they are likely IU grads.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

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Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees

Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

What can you do? - Don't use genAI if possible - Educate others on the costs of genAI - Let companies know you don't want integrated genAI that you can't opt out of! - Turn off genAI where possible. Eg Google's automatic, often wrong AI summaries: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

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I Loathe AI Overviews So I Use This Hack to Make Google Give Me Just Blue Links

If you want to skip the AI-generated summaries and get straight to the links to websites, here's what to do.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I never thought there'd be a worse freshman-year assignment than me being required to read a Thomas Friedman book for an international relations class but this is it

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 09/05/2025

never ever let someone tell you that libraries are neutral & apolitical (nor are museums, nor archives, nor art centres, nor histories..)

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/04/2025

We tried mass tariffs in 1828, and it crashed the economy. We tried again in 1930, and it crashed the economy. Third time’s the charm, I guess.

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William the Librarian @williamottens.com · 31/03/2025

This is going to harm small and rural libraries and the communities they serve. Now is the time to: ➡️ Sign up for a local and state library card (if your state offers one) ➡️ Visit your IMLS funded museums ➡️ Call your legislators and demand they stand up for funding America’s libraries and museums

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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave

The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

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NPR @npr.org · 31/03/2025

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

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Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave

The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Huge thanks to Dianne Mitchell and Adhaar Noor Desai for organising such an energised seminar on Shared Forms! We discussed hating Tuesdays, collaborative v. competitive sharing, and the seminar form. Also some tables were sat on #shax2025

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Learned about another just published digital resource at #Shax2025 and #RenSA25 "The Court and Kitchin of Elizabeth" (Cromwell) sites.bc.edu/court-and-ki...

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The Court & Kitchin of Elizabeth – A Digital Annotated Edition

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Learning about new online resources at #RenSA25 ! A scholar just told us about her project on Early Modern women's prefaces and dedications in Renaissance Italy! parityinrenaissance.net

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Ending the sessions at #RenSA25 with a truly stunning panel of women scholars on bringing Early Modern women's writing to the 21st century! #publichumanities #makescholarshipaccessible

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Nervous but excited for our panel at 2:30 at #RenSA25! Join us to talk teaching!

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Ready for the SSEMWG (Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender) Plenary Lecture at #RenSA25 & #Shax2025 ! #womenswriting #EModWomen

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Moving speech by the thoughtful @ruben-espinosa.bsky.social during the #Shax2025 lunch- we know that teaching/studying the Early Modern has & can have real effects on our present moment. We have "a responsibility to bear witness" and to "be on the right side of history" based on our deep knowledges.

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Excited for our Shared Forms seminar here in just a bit at #Shax2025 - I had such a wonderful time reading everyone's papers and I'm looking forward to the debates on form(s) and genre(s)! Got to sit in on another great seminar this morning on Grief and Mourning with engaging discussions!

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

There are two wolves inside you at the combined #Shax2025 & #RenSA25 conferences: -I'm so thrilled that these are together in the same city at the same time! Such a cornucopia! -Why is everything, every single thing, I want to go to in conflict with another great thing at the other conference?!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This BBC graphic is a good way to show why reciprocal 25% tariffs will cause prices on some goods to go up far more than 25%. A piston used in a car engine made in Michigan will cross the U.S. border twice, and will be taxed 25% each time. Some products cross the U.S. border even more than that.

Heading: Tariffs could push up costs for car industry. The graphic shows a map, with 5 steps in the manufacture of a piston.

1. Powdered aluminium sent from Tennessee
2. Turned into rods in Pennsylvania
3. Shipped to Canada, Canadian tariff paid at border, rods shaped and polished in Canada
4. Rods sent to Mexico for assembly into pistons. Direct transfers from Canada to Mexico do not incur tariffs.
5. Shipped to Michigan. US tariff paid at border. Pistons become part of engine in Michigan.

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League of Women Voters of Indianapolis @lwvindy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

📢 Legislation has switched houses! 📢 Senate bills are now in House committees, and House bills are in Senate committees. 🔥 Now is the time to act! 🔥 These legislators are seeing the bills for the first time—let them know where you stand! Your voice matters. Let’s keep the momentum going.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

a side issue that struck me while reporting on Indiana banning student IDs for voting: how freaking strict Indiana is in tossing ballots when you make an error! at the sole polling place on campus at IU Bloomington, 300 people cast provisional ballots in November... & every single one was rejected!

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Indiana Republicans Move to Ban Student IDs for Voting - Bolts

The new restriction, paired with Indiana’s stringent voter ID rules, would make it much harder for many young people to vote in a state that already ranks near-last in turnout.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 27/02/2025

A student at IU Bloomington opposes a bill that'd ban student IDs for voting: "At best, it's a misguided policy that is building on anti-student sentiment; at worst, it's a targeted form of voter suppression to try to make it harder for students to vote." boltsmag.org/indiana...

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Indiana Republicans Move to Ban Student IDs for Voting

The new restriction, paired with Indiana’s stringent voter ID rules, would make it much harder for many young people to vote in a state that already ranks near-last in turnout.

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MH Truglia, PhD @crowneofbookes.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A belated note of thanks to the fabulous @authormsbev.bsky.social for her talk at the Lilly Library at IU Bloomington! As anyone who has read her books knows, she is intelligent, historically-conscious, witty, thoughtful, and kind. Such a joy to meet you!

Librarian Rebecca Bauman interviews Beverly Jenkins, author, in a cream colored room with large posters of Ms. Bev's covers in the background

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ordered to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.”

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Beverley Kendall Author 👩🏾‍💻📖🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇾 💙 @beverleykendall.com · 02/02/2025

Romance readers and writers, a serious heads-up!!! The lights are flashing RED!! This is not a drill 🚨 🆘

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International Spenser Society @spensersociety.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Thanks to all who came to Spenser@Random with @saaupdates.bsky.social to discuss our randomly selected sonnets by Spenser and Shakespeare! Shakespeare's no-nonsense family planning sonnet is especially funny next to Spenser's exaggerated Petrarchan stylings and "sudden dumps"

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/01/2025

Indiana isn't as big as Texas or Florida, but for those of us in higher education, it's worth paying attention to what is (and has been) going on. Take the Governor's new budget, which cut all of the $10M previously allocated to Martin University, the only predominantly Black school in the state.

State Rep. Gregory W. Porter (D-Indianapolis) released the following statement:

“The active intervention to end or attack anything in the budget that gives state dollars to people of color is sickening. I won’t mince my words: It’s racist. Black Hoosiers and other minorities pay taxes, so we deserve to benefit from the state budget as much as our white counterparts.

“Martin University is Indiana’s only predominately Black institution. The only reason why it’s not an official HBCU is because it’s relatively young. Now they will receive zero state dollars, which is a complete cut from 2023. He also cut the College Success Program, which encourages minority and first-generation, low-income students to attend college. That means a total of $10 million in support for minority students has been eliminated."

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Gene Bryant @genebryant.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The Indiana State Teachers Association is battling a right-wing state House Republican’s bill to dissolve public school districts where more students are attending charter and private schools or being homeschooled, combined, than attend public schools. www.peoplesworld.org/article/indi...

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Indiana teachers battling right-wing bill to dissolve public school districts

INDIANAPOLIS —The Indiana State Teachers Association is battling a right-wing state House Republican’s bill to dissolve public school districts where more students are attending charter and private sc...

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

One thing we can do right now — and those of us trained as researchers or journalists are especially equipped to do it — is to FACT CHECK what we read on social media. Don’t assume. Find the source. Remind others to do the same.

Cartoon image of a purple umbrella with a green handle. The words Media Literacy appear at the top of the umbrella. Under the umbrella are bubbles with text.

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Gorgeous British silk gown with metallic embroidery, believed to have been worn as a wedding dress in 1747 👰 (aaand there goes my morning looking at dresses in the @metmuseum collection) #18c www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

From the Met collection: this 1747 gown displays the exquisite patterning of English dress silks of the period, with delicate flowers and asymmetrical cartouches disposed in a graceful meander across an open ground. The ivory silk faille is brocaded with three types of silver thread, which add rich texture to the lively pattern. Sumptuous textiles such as this one signified wealth and were admired for the brilliant effects of light reflecting off their surfaces. The flat silver strip brocaded at the centers of the flower blossoms creates a coruscating effect, while the crinkled silver frisé of the stems produces a more restrained luster.

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Kyle Hill @khill.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I know we all have disaster fatigue, but the reason why historic LA fires get so much coverage is because there are more people in greater LA county than in *most US states*

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/12/2024

Nikki Giovanni understood that Black American cultural history was, in part, the inevitable result of centuries-long oppression—but that it was also the product of constant evolution, writes Hannah Giorgis:

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Nikki Giovanni’s Wondrous Celebrations of Black Life

The poet’s work crackled with revolutionary fire but also contained jubilation and gentleness.

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