anjali dassarma @dassarma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026brilliant piece- “Learning is a strange and discomfiting experience; it’s a struggle and a frustration… It is not always pleasure in its easiest sense… we also need to talk to young people about reading … for liberation and emancipation… and to have the strength to fight in the arenas of the mind.” 010
Reposted by anjali dassarmaAAUP @aaup.org · 05/08/2026“A bureaucratic restructuring that leads to the selective elimination of faculty members really puts academic freedom in jeopardy… particularly for professors who have displeased admin, trustees or donors.” — Mark Criley, Senior Officer in the AAUP Dept of Academic Freedom, Tenure & Governance.nytimes.comHe Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway.The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes. 24032
Reposted by anjali dassarmaAnnette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026August as an academic 82073290
Reposted by anjali dassarmaHanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 22/07/2026NEW: At least five media companies are using algorithmic pricing to decide how much news subscribers should pay. If you've been told that your news subscription price was determined by an algorithm using your personal data, please take the survey at the end: www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/this...niemanlab.org“This price was set by an algorithm”: News subscribers are surprised by a new line in their renewal emailsOutlets like Wired, NJ.com, and The Wall Street Journal are setting renewal prices just for you — and being forced to disclose it. 11210130
Reposted by anjali dassarmaNora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Another killing by ICE today in Maine. The third government killing of a civilian in less than a week since Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Tyrin Johnson. 5477209
Reposted by anjali dassarmaLaleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/07/2026This is the dirtiest type of research. Princeton scientists took $15 million from BP and shaped their research on carbon capture in consultation with the oil company: www.propublica.org/article/wedg... 02913
Reposted by anjali dassarmaRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Federal immigration agents have fatally shot 10 people in Trump’s second term. 10 human beings. 10 people with families, friends, hopes, and dreams. 10 people who should still be alive today. Everyone carrying out Trump’s deadly agenda must answer for their crimes.theguardian.com‘New terrifying levels’: 10 people fatally shot by immigration officials in Trump’s second termAs Trump’s immigration crackdown continues, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s death marks another high-profile killing by ICE off 621688692
Reposted by anjali dassarmaAdam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...thebulwark.comHe Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor. 11045382483
Reposted by anjali dassarmaRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 07/07/2026"We have been told the Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But the last entry in the Declaration of Independence—the climax of our founders' reasons for rebellion? It's about 'merciless Indian Savages.'" Listen now: nv1.org/first-americanv1.orgFirst America » Native Voice OneFirst America uncovers the Indigenous history at the heart of America's founding and how it continues to shape the nation today. 13219
anjali dassarma @dassarma.bsky.social · 04/07/2026In 1776, the Evening Post also advertised for Margaret, described as having “something of an Indian look,” suggesting that the paper also advertised for Native unfree people. These concurrent semiquincentennial memories demand that we ask: Freedom for whom? www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BA25R...tandfonline.comThe Sinews of Colonial Hypocrisy: Indigenous Unfreedom in Newspaper Advertisements in 1776In 1776, Indigenous freedom seekers Sim, William, and Margaret escaped the enslavement or unfreedom forced upon them by colonists. Advertisements announcing their departures and rewards for their c... 094
Reposted by anjali dassarmaPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This is the legal defense fund for the 15 anti-ICE organizers who were recently arrested in Minneapolis. Please contribute generously. They are going to have millions of dollars worth of needs. chuffed.org/project/1865...chuffed.orgLegal Defense Fund for MN Anti-ICE OrganizersOn the morning of June 16th 2026 fifteen anti-ICE organizers were indicted on federal conspiracy charges in Minnesota, 12 of whom were arrested in aggressive raids across the Twin Cities. This fundrai... 121068870
Reposted by anjali dassarma🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 20/06/2026propublica.orgMore Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food ProgramRepublican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch... 7300155
Reposted by anjali dassarmaThe Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · 16/06/2026"Media is not neutral, it's always shaped by power." New book A Second Sight, by @sjjphd.bsky.social, maps the history of the U.S. through the lens of Black storytellers, who have documented what has been at the margins of official historical record. objectivejournalism.org/2026/06/qa-a...buff.lyQ&A: 'A Second Sight' tells U.S. media history by Black journalists'A Second Sight' author Sarah J. Jackson on how Black media-makers have used second sight to push democracy forward in the U.S. 02612
Reposted by anjali dassarmaAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 17/06/2026We're hearing reports that police have tear gassed a group of protesters outside the Senatobia Walmart where an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. 351276592
Reposted by anjali dassarmaThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/06/2026Why is the US bombing Somalia – and who are the airstrikes killing?theguardian.comWhy is the US bombing Somalia – and who are the airstrikes killing?Washington has been stepping up its airstrikes in the campaign against al-Shabaab, but the militants make continued gains and civilians are increasingly the victims 97871
Reposted by anjali dassarmaThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 13/06/2026The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.bit.lyA woman's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicideThe death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office. 7338231575
Reposted by anjali dassarmaInternet Archive @archive.org · 12/06/2026On #LovingDay, explore the legal records behind Loving v. Virginia (1967), the Supreme Court case that struck down laws banning interracial marriage. The Internet Archive has digitized and made available the briefs, lower-court opinions, and related documents. archive.org/details/micr...archive.orgLoving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967) (No. 395) : Supreme Court of the United States : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveCase name: Loving v. VirginiaOpinion filed: 1967-06-12Docket No.: 395Citations:• 18 L. Ed. 2d 1010• 87 S. Ct. 1817• 388 U.S. 1• 1967 U.S. LEXIS... 321870
Reposted by anjali dassarmaJoshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/06/2026welcome to fully automated mechcapitalism where your revolving credit borrows money at 25% APR on its own initiative 519636
Reposted by anjali dassarmaVictor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...rooseveltinstitute.orgThe Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt InstituteBilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi... 922888
Reposted by anjali dassarmaAAUP @aaup.org · 05/06/2026Lots of special guests lined up for the AAUP Biennial next week in Chicago! 🔥🔥🔥 Hope to see you there! #AAUP2026 1195
Reposted by anjali dassarmaDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/06/2026"We are in extreme danger," says climate scientist Peter Kalmus @climatehuman.bsky.social. He warns that this summer "could be the hottest summer we've ever experienced in our lives, but it could also be the coolest summer for the rest of our lives." 9522301008
Reposted by anjali dassarmaPolity @politybooks.bsky.social · 03/06/2026A concise conceptual summary of the key elements of #capitalism and how these operate in the #media and #tech landscapes. Des Freedman’s ‘Capitalism and the Media’ is out now in the UK @desfreedman.bsky.social See more: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... 112
Reposted by anjali dassarmadan sinker @dansinker.com · 09/06/2026Hey NYC pals, we will send you whistles in quantities from 100-thousands to prepare your neighbors and community for this oncoming onslaught. Free! linktr.ee/3Dwhistleslinktr.ee3D Printed Whistles | LinktreeWe ship community protection whistles for free. Need some? Click the email link below & tell us how many you need (between 100 - 3000) & where to send them. 261036507
Reposted by anjali dassarmaForbes @forbes.com · 22/05/2026UC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By Studentsforbes.comUC Berkeley Law School Adopts New, Strict Ban On AI Use By StudentsThe University of California, Berkeley Law School has adopted a new, strict policy governing students’ use of AI. It forbids the use of AI for work submitted for credit. 1229069
Reposted by anjali dassarmaRoss Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 1553912980
Reposted by anjali dassarmaSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Here's a transcript of this portion of Trump's speech. Startling to see such unabashed, settler colonial blood and soil stuff being spoken from a WH podium in the 21st century. FWIW, roughly 20% of the population of the colonies in 1776 was comprised of enslaved people of African descent. 77782245
Reposted by anjali dassarmaLinford Fisher @linford.bsky.social · 28/04/2026People, it is PUBLICATION DAY for Stealing America!! It is officially available to purchase online or in your favorite local bookstore. Come snag your own book cover cookies at RiffRaff in Providence this evening! I'll be joined by my friend and colleague, Mack Scott @ 7 pm. 186
Reposted by anjali dassarmaohpipedown.bsky.social @ohpipedown.bsky.social · 24/04/2026I haven’t been able to stop thinking about her. 073
anjali dassarma @dassarma.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Journalism History has just published my essay reflecting on the role of the press during the American Revolution. as we approach the semiquincentennial, i challenge journalism historians to consider what gets left out from memories of this era. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comThe Sinews of Colonial Hypocrisy: Indigenous Unfreedom in Newspaper Advertisements in 1776In 1776, Indigenous freedom seekers Sim, William, and Margaret escaped the enslavement or unfreedom forced upon them by colonists. Advertisements announcing their departures and rewards for their c... 333
Reposted by anjali dassarmaMichelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 15/04/2026an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...cbc.caJournalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC NewsA new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027. 15754427
anjali dassarma @dassarma.bsky.social · 31/03/2026it was an absolute pleasure to host @linford.bsky.social at @asc.upenn.edu yesterday for a brilliant book talk on his new monograph, Stealing America, which rigorously unpacks the colonial conditions and dispossessive practices of Anglo-American enslavement of Indigenous people. 022
Reposted by anjali dassarmaEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...404media.coWikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.” 10982832298
Reposted by anjali dassarmaBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026... 15070692004
anjali dassarma @dassarma.bsky.social · 24/03/2026suuuuuper excited to have Lin here at @asc.upenn.edu. If you're around in philly, swing by!! 142
Reposted by anjali dassarmaAnnenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 12/03/2026Ph.D. candidate @dassarma.bsky.social won runner-up in the '25-26 Journalism History essay contest. Her essay, "The Sinews of Colonial Hypocrisy: Indigenous Unfreedom in Newspaper Advertisements in 1776," examines announcements of Indigenous freedom seekers’ departures and rewards for their capture 131
Reposted by anjali dassarmaSarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can. 23603171
Reposted by anjali dassarmaDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2025ICE Agents Assault Group of Reporters Documenting Arrests at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattandemocracynow.orgICE Agents Assault Group of Reporters Documenting Arrests at 26 Federal Plaza in ManhattanA journalist was hospitalized after masked federal agents assaulted a group of reporters documenting ICE arrests outside immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in Manhattan. Video footage of Tuesday's attack… 512573
Reposted by anjali dassarmaSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 05/09/2025BIG NEWS this morning! medium.com/@TheRefoundi...medium.comIntroducing “The Refounding” from the 14th Amendment Center for Law and DemocracyFar too many Americans still do not know about the promise and potential power of the 14th Amendment, or its role in transforming America 628198
Reposted by anjali dassarmaSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/08/2025This is why we need @baltimorebeat.bsky.social. 447288
Reposted by anjali dassarmaCatherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 05/08/2025📣 In this short essay, I describe how actions of the current administration constitute ➡️ state terrorism ⬅️ and outline how US universities (and professors and students and staff) can survive state terrorism, as people before us have survived. academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...academeblog.orgHow US Universities Can Survive State TerrorismBY CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not fee… 02014
Reposted by anjali dassarmaNieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 03/08/2025“The thought of losing that history, particularly in this political moment, was devastating.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...niemanlab.orgMissouri’s oldest Black bookstore just closed. The Kansas City Defender plans to reopen it as a newsroom and public archive.“The thought of losing that history, particularly in this political moment, was devastating.” 23513
Reposted by anjali dassarmaVeena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 31/07/2025The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...brown.edu 11120491112
Reposted by anjali dassarmadr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 31/07/2025"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name. 240169704665
Reposted by anjali dassarmaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025going to keep saying: important for a society that would like to keep functioning to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities 151751496
Reposted by anjali dassarmaLiz Hallgren @lizhallgren.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Super proud of this pub with an excellent mentor and collaborator @sjjphd.bsky.social Read this, and then make sure to read "News Inside" from @themarshallproject.org, too! 061
Reposted by anjali dassarmaDemocracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/07/2025"I Do Solemnly Swear": Audio Series Highlights Federal Workers' Voices on Trump's Unraveling of Gov'tdemocracynow.org“I Do Solemnly Swear”: Audio Series Highlights Federal Workers’ Voices on Trump’s Unraveling of Gov’tA new audio series published by the group Federal Workers Against DOGE looks at the plight of fired federal workers whose jobs and careers were cut short by the Trump administration’s systematic defunding... 111451
Reposted by anjali dassarmaMiriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 21/07/2025"I don't have the power to cover media anymore. My body is lean and I no longer have the ability to walk” www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...aa.com.trAFP journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation, warns journalists' association'We have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded, prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing colleague die of hunger,' says French news agency's journalists' association - Ana... 14628
Reposted by anjali dassarmamolly taft @mollytaft.com · 21/07/2025NEW from me: after EPA announced it would officially do away with its scientific research arm Friday, officials at the Office of Research and Development had few answers for employees on a Monday call about how many of them will be reassigned to other offices—and how many will lose their jobswired.comEPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research OfficeOn Monday, some employees at ORD, the largest office in the agency, began receiving emails detailing that they had been assigned new positions within the EPA. "There is no action you need to take the ... 5213103