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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12h

youtube premium is giving me three free months of discord nitro. crunchbucket plus is giving me ninety free days of splorb. fubo ultra is giving me a complimentary fortnight of bonk concierge. grackle platinum is giving me six years of squak. quibi eternal is giving me three fiscal quarters of tobi.

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

abolish DFCS and all forms of policing. this is not the answer to any social problems (and it doesn't prevent child abuse)

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘Chat make me grocery list…’ Men would rather burn up the carbon budget and deplete fresh water than take on the cognitive tasks that the median working mother takes on everyday.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Would love a labeler for all the 'no iced coffee at an interview' accounts. Hmmm, how hard is it to make a labeler?

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NHJ's daughter says kids at her new high school are no smarter than at her old school, plus she's facing racism for the first time. But white readers take away that privileged Black families should send their kids to superior white schools and maybe apologize for trying to help maj Black schools.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Rabb for Congress! (PA-03) @chrisrabb.com · 25/09/2026

I wasn’t arrested yesterday in front of the UN, but Netanyahu should’ve been!

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brian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Instead, he appeared to rely on his own imagination as a rich and powerful middle-aged white man” Madiba Dennie’s takedown of Brett Kavanaugh is excellent.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the basic points in Mills' The Racial Contract (originally published in 1997!) was that, if nothing else, White Supremacy deserves to be taken seriously as one of the great motivating ideologies of modernity and it's bizarre that political philosophers are so disinclined to treat it as such.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’ve seen some good critiques of the recent Hannah-Jones piece, but which don’t seem to focus on NHJ’s claims. Some responses interpret NHJ’s choices as a theory of change, which feels like a misread. I interpret her choice to disengage from school choice as a kind of harm reduction.

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

gentle reminder of the active call to boycott writing for the opinion page of the NYT, because that's what they use to whitewash all the disgusting shit they publish as "news" by sharing "opinions" about genocide, transphobia, fascism and more www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...

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No Opinion — The New York Times: Boycott, Divest, Unsubscribe

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

My mom was a volunteer in the Black Panther breakfast program, which importantly was a grassroots effort that the community organized for itself, not because people swanned in and said here's a check, do something nice with it, clean up your community The community was fighting for itself

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I really appreciate how this thread prods us to look closely at the NHJ piece! I didn’t interpret NHJ as saying that proximity would address systemic gaps. Her thesis seemed different to me (though now I’m thinking about a reread). Thread definitely worth a read!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i simply cannot imagine the level of delusion and sheer ignorance it takes to believe that the rise of Republican Nazis is some outside imposition and not something that has come from within the American right.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

The other third rail of textbook discourse is that there really needs to be some equity between the amount of $ students are expected to invest in STEM textbooks vs humanities textbooks. gwhatchet.com/2019/09/02/s...

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STEM course materials about 85 percent costlier than humanities, arts textbooks

Students enrolled in STEM courses pay about $45 more for books than those in non-STEM courses, a Hatchet analysis found.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 14/09/2026

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thinking about how a girl at Christian summer camp asked me if my dad was in Al Qaeda and I got in trouble for asking if her dad was a Klansman bc “her question was understandable”

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this is the legacy of 9/11 that should ALWAYS be talked about. absolutely catastrophic loss of life as the doubled down on imperialist war, which many of us tried in vain to stop

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

*takes a bite of Pringle* *nods at waiter* "Yes, I'll have the whole tube."

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past.

Ruby Bridges flanked by three U.S. Marshals on the steps of her school

Norman Rockwell’s painting depicting the event, “The Problem We All Live With,” originally published as a centerfold in the January 14, 1964 issue of Look magazine.

Ruby Bridges talking with President Obama as they look at Rockwell’s painting while it was temporarily displayed at the White House in 2011.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“So in summary: using AI for coding led to depression, apathy, existential dread, and worse software. Not good.” Appreciate the honesty in this piece. What’s also striking is how much this experience matches the kind of alienation that workers have experienced under capitalism.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A rational society would attempt to protect and nurture one of its most valuable exports (educational services), but we unfortunately don’t live in a rational society. Great thread!

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Capital flight is both regional and international. It’s harmful to workers when it doesn’t cross an international border. But international borders are also integral to how many industries manage the labor process. It’s all connected.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Part of why I wrote my book The Age of Insecurity was to get at some of the economic dynamics now being weaponized against some parts of the socialist left. Yes, “middle class" (hard to define), professionals, and even affluent folks are in DSA. That’s good! 🧵

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/08/2026

Activists have set up a protest camp in the Arizona border town of Lochiel to prevent the destruction of a grove of ancient cottonwood trees. Federal contractors plan to destroy the grove to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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John Muller @johnspacemuller.com · 21/08/2026

Welcome back for a new season, here are some soccer dorks to follow

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They spent a decade minimizing, mocking, and/or gleefully criminalizing Black Lives Matter and other street movements, making them at once seem silly and naive and actively dangerous and terroristic, but they covered the alt-right or dimes square or tradwifery like a quirky new subculture

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 19/08/2026

journo request — looking for folks in Maine doing ICE watching/observing/tracking stuff!

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

More than 140 people have joined the hunger strike at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, WA, @laresistencianw.bsky.social announced just now. The hunger strikers' only demands are the bare necessities to live: edible food, meals on time, hygiene items and medical care.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

A lot of arguing in here about whether there was austerity following 2007/8 crash and whether Obama was responsible. The U.S. absolutely went into austerity & it’s because states were forced to make massive cuts to their budgets. Was Obama responsible?

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I just started at a unionized job. This very cool.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Just to be clear here are some things that I, a community college professor in an open enrollment institution, was forced to during so-called woke 1: A 30 hour paid training in which I learned about the educational barriers various students face. Doesn’t seem crazy to me.

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julia 🌋 @hypv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

i am old enough to remember when obama declined to prosecute anyone in the bush admin for war crimes and bailed out wall street from the financial crisis while ordinary people got nothing. hope and change became we must look forward not backward

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Men in Blazers Media Network @meninblazers.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

WHAT A MOMENT FOR OMAR ARTAN 👏 Two months after the U.S. denied the Somali ref entry to the country to officiate the World Cup, Omar Artan is the first non-European to officiate the UEFA Super Cup 💙🤍

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A quick reminder whenever the issue of hiring in higher education comes up. Assistant Professor is an entry level position. If you have a phd in the specialization(s) in the call then you are qualified to begin the work. PPL easily forget this because it’s highly credentialed and very competitive.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/08/2026

#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376...

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

In the modern job market it’s not uncommon to have job searches that produce dozens of qualified candidates and several who are tenurable on the publications they’ve placed before even finishing their PhD. It’s all but impossible to create an “objective” process to select among them.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

U.S. democracy means we have nonstop voting but minimal ability to influence how we’re governed. It’s the legacy of the U.S. Constitution as an anti democratic backlash.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

PLEASE GOD LET THE AMERICANS HAVE A WEEK WITHOUT ELECTIONS. How are they still electing people who will then have another election before it matters? This should not be possible. Nowhere needs this much voting.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

If a billionaire villain buys your team do you get a free pass for choosing a new team to root for? Kinda like QLE (Qualifying Life Event) for fandom.

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The right’s war on higher education has been so successful in part because so many university trustees and presidents also hate professors and students.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.

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David Sparrow @davidsparrow.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My pet theory is that global warming should always be reported in F in the U.S. because Americans are so self-centered and, uh, not great at conversions. I think too many Americans are like psssssh 1.7 degrees is fine and they’re not thinking that it’s closer to double that in *our* degrees.

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