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Dan Vitkus

@danvitkus.bsky.social
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Literature Professor, historical materialist, eco-theorist, solarpunk

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This timeline is the worst and everything is garbage “contractors are inundated with requests to make foot fetish images of children’s cartoon characters, shorten a real woman’s skirt, or put people into sexual positions.”
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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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Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
@doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This was a nice series of push notifications this morning. Basically says everything about the state of American media.
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**°•.FAFO.•°** @fafo-ez-one.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Fact!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The water will come…
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Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years
The numbers behind the melting ice are both mind-bogglingly huge and deceptively small.
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Dan Vitkus @danvitkus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Please sign this pledge to hold Biden administration officials accountable for supporting genocide: www.dropthegenocide20.org?utm_source=s...
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Drop the Genocide 20 | Advocate for Justice: Take Action Now
Join the campaign demanding accountability for US officials involved in Gaza genocide cover-up. Support the #DropTheGenocide20 pledge today.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fall of Freedom is a nationwide festival convoking artists to stand up against authoritarian assaults on free thinking, free expression,+creative making. Find events all over here: www.falloffreedom.com/fall-of-free... and join us in Chicago for a packed weekend of ART IN THESE TIMES #falloffreedom
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Fall of Freedom
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation.
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James Kennedy @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's crimes against music have now been overshadowed by his crimes against truth, justice and solidarity. What an absolute puppet. Shameful cowardice. We won't forget. Respect to Macklemore. Free Palestine 🇵🇸✊️
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism
In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/09/2026
Tech fascism is becoming impossible to ignore. It's a key mechanism of the climate crisis, the economic crisis, and the democratic crisis. Use your voice to raise the alarm and fight back. The establishment can ignore some of us. It cannot ignore all of us. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/m...
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Say the End of the World Is Now on the Table (Gift Article)
In a new book, the writers argue that a powerful coalition of “end times fascists” is just fine with the earth’s demise.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 11/09/2026
“The burning towers foreshadowed a burning world.” The horrific Sept. 11 attacks exposed the simultaneous power and vulnerability of the American empire and its imperial citizens, writes Pulitzer Prize-winning author @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/the-burnin...
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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
That awful day a quarter-century ago killed thousands, and the wars it spawned killed thousands more. It also killed a part of our society's collective soul: faith in the future. I desperately want to get it back. jasontebbe.substack.com/p/the-day-th...
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The Day the Future Died
25 Years Later We Still Live in the World 9/11 Made
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A tiny gang of extremists found a flaw in US airline security to commit an atrocity that killed 2,977. Bush and the Epstein class used it as a pretext to weaken civil liberties, establish mass surveillance, put the US on a permanent war footing, and increase wealth inequality to ensure plutocracy
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A quarter century ago, 2,600 people lost their lives in Manhattan, and then several million people lost their story. They were only defeated when their resilience was stolen from them by clichés, by the invisibility of what they accomplished that extraordinary morning, and by the word "terrorism"..
The Real 9/11: Citizens Succeeded, Institutions Failed

I wrote this for the eighth anniversary of 9/11, drawing on my 2009 book A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster; it felt right to revise and reissue for this twenty-fifth anniversary.
A quarter century ago, 2,600 people lost their lives in Manhattan, and then several million people lost their story. The al-Qaeda attack on the Twin Towers did not defeat New Yorkers. It destroyed the buildings, contaminated the region, killed thousands, and disrupted the global economy, but it most assuredly did not conquer the citizenry. They were only defeated when their resilience was stolen from them by clichés, by the invisibility of what they accomplished that extraordinary morning, and by the very word "terrorism," which suggests that they, or we, were all terrified. The distortion, even obliteration, of what actually happened was a necessary precursor to launching the obscene response that culminated in a war on Iraq, a war we lost, and the loss of civil liberties and democratic principles that went with it. 

Only We Can Terrorize Ourselves
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11/09/2026
Progressive candidates won Democratic primaries by centering Palestine. Now, advocates warn that without a firm demand like an arms embargo, politicians can co-opt 'pro-Palestine' rhetoric without real accountability. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/demo... #Palestine #Israel
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Colleen but feral ❌️👑 @sickofthisbs77.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
youtu.be/ee9fYVwhBsU?... 1:16 41 billion tons a year of CO2 we add each year, 38 billion is from burning fossil fuels That is the decarbonization we need.
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Natural Disaster Expert: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse | Aaron Bastani meets Bill McGuire
YouTube video by Novara Media
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fionafc.bsky.social @fionafc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Couldn't agree more - people must know what's happening and what needs to be done.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Turns out, lots of people have studied how higher education works under dictatorship. Curious how these points echo so many of our current travails.
Screenshot of article which reads: Hungary is not the first country to experience this coup d’université. The conclusion to an incisive collection of essays, appropriately titled Universities Under Dictatorship (Penn State University Press), notes that gaining control of higher education was “a vitally important goal for every dictatorship” they studied. The dictatorships profiled in the essays, from Germany to Spain to Poland to Russia, used multiple pathways to exert power over universities: coercing institutions to adjust research and teaching topics to align with the government’s preferred ideology; expelling faculty, staff and students; gaining additional control over who can access higher education; replacing university leadership with people who agree with the government (thus reducing institutional autonomy); and reducing access to international colleagues and institutions.
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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unpersoned.bsky.social @unpersoned.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.
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Ahana the Sun Goddess ☀️ 🌞 @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
AI is not posthuman—it’s anti-human, and anti-animal and anti-plant and anti-earth. it’s anti-life.
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump made $2.2 bn-yes BILLION- in 2025 while in office -crypto schemes, foreign gifts, selling early access to his posts for $100k/month. A million investors lost $3.8 bn in his coin. Experts call it the most openly corrupt presidency in history. That's looting & it’s impeachable. #OneV1 #Pinks
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The War on Iran: Six Months of Epic Failure
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The War on Iran: Six Months of Epic Failure
Trump’s illegal, unauthorized, unnecessary war is the worst strategic defeat in U.S. history
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The Onion @theonion.com · 04/09/2026
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-politely-re…
Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cool paper 👍 We argue similar: "Even though universities have been the fora where much of the vital knowledge warning us of avoidable disaster - & the massive injustices this entails - has been produced, there is little sign as yet of the transformational changes required in the HE sector"
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Frontiers | “No research on a dead planet”: preserving the socio-ecological conditions for academia
Emergency declarations, most academics continue to operate according to 'businessas-usual'. However, such passivity increases the risk of climate impacts so ...
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John Finch🇺🇸 @jbird1848.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Despite all the confusion around voting rights coming from the White House and the Supreme Court, it’s important to know that the system is holding. Make sure you have a plan to vote, and follow the Brennan Center for updates: Brennancenter.org. Keep the following in mind when you vote:
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/09/2026
New York City Public Schools, the largest school system in the country, has banned student-facing generative AI tools in classrooms through eighth grade for this school year, adopting one of the most aggressive AI policies in the nation. wapo.st/46EjUbw
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/08/2026
The phenomenal singer-songwriter Jesse Welles just wrote a song called "The Nerd Reich" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwz1...
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The Nerd Reich
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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Dan Vitkus @danvitkus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The Next Election May be Our Last chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-next-e...
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The Next Election May be Our Last
Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike.
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Juan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Climate Breakdown: Nepal Flash Flood and the Looming Extinction of the Himalayan Glaciers www.juancole.com/2026/08/brea...
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Climate Breakdown: Nepal Flash Flood and the Looming Extinction of the Himalayan Glaciers
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Climate change devastated towns and villages of Nepal on August 26 with enormous flash floods that were produced by a melting glacier. The size, speed and relentlessn...
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 29/08/2026
This thread by @cblevins.bsky.social is really thoughtful about the challenges agentic AI poses to online teaching, which largely can’t be solved by shifting assignments to analog & in-class work Every degree of distance—online, asynchronous, etc.—compounds the issue & huge % of students are online
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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/08/we-t...
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We Think in Society: Notes on the Destruction of Colllective Intelligence
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
From "You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows" to "not even the weathermen know which way the wind blows": A Study in the Social Destruction of Knowledge www.upworthy.com/weatherman-h...
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Despondent weatherman goes off-script on live TV to explain why he 'can't' forecast anymore
A veteran meteorologist warns that federal budget cuts are degrading hurricane forecast accuracy.
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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
It’s so great that school and university leaders want to hand everything over to these people.
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton turned down offers for the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice during his first term in office
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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**°•.FAFO.•°** @fafo-ez-one.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Jon Stewart: “We’re in the upside down. The Trump administration is a smash and grab on the American public. It is the most corrupt, utterly unsheathed, unleashed on us and they are just grabbing whatever they can and pretending that it’s remuneration for some victimhood..."
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Jay Varner @jayvarner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Preach @doctorow.pluralistic.net! Hook to my veins!
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Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
All for a bunch of tax cuts to the richest families and corporations, while sending billions in weapons to apartheid nations to bomb women children and old people. No universal healthcare, nor childcare, skyrocketing living costs and another 100 bil war for Netanyahu. We need a revolution.
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Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hey look it's the libertarian currency that's entirely dependent on government action to gain value
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Dan Vitkus @danvitkus.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Hope comes through solidarity and organized dissent
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
* Why Big Tech’s AI Spending Is $3 Trillion Higher Than It Seems @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-...
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am more or less at peace with organizations destructively scanning many books in part because university libraries have been doing it for decades, but it is eye-opening to see how widespread the practice is. Clever way to get a story, too
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