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Chandra Ford @drchandraford.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

aje.news/ka163j. He could have fled #Gaza for his own safety. Instead, he stayed to care for his patients. What crimes did he commit other than preserving lives: No charges after >555 days & apparent subjection to torture? Based on international law, is such treatment of #healthcareproviders legal?

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Jailed Gaza hospital chief in life-threatening condition, rights group says

Elyas Abu Safia says his father Hussam can barely breathe or speak after more than 555 days in Israeli prison.

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Chandra Ford @drchandraford.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I saw two adult bald eagles and an osprey in flight today. Magnificent moments, but too busy being present to snap pictures of them! 🥰😁 #addBirder

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Important & urgent: "concerns about reproducibility should not trump concerns about confidentiality or harm...particularly when efforts to ensure reproducibility have the potential to place inequitable burdens on qualitative researchers and to further erode...willingness to participate in research"

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Chandra Ford @drchandraford.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

#MemorialDay commemorations are also incomplete if they do not acknowledge the killings of Black service members (often still in their uniforms) upon returning home from war. White fellow Americans sought to remind them that even their service to the nation did not make them equal to whites at home.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Read this thread.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

To settle his suit with the IRS, Trump reportedly wants to create a $1.7 BILLION slush fund of taxpayer dollars that he can dole out to any of his loyalists who claim the Biden administration targeted them. He would oversee the fund’s commission. The corruption is breathtaking

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Why is Trump so terrified of teachers? Because like every dictator, he knows the greatest threat to his rule is an educated public. I spoke with American Federation of Teachers president @rweingarten.bsky.social about Trump's war on teachers — and how we can fight back.

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Why Do Fascists Fear Teachers? (ft. Randi Weingarten)

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/05/2026

“The AAUP has long emphasized that meaningful faculty evaluation must account for the depth and rigor of teaching, scholarship, and service, not merely based on volume of activity. When institutions drift toward measuring what is most visible rather than what is most valuable, quality can suffer.”

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

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A civic grammar for AI rights

Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

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Decaturish @decaturish.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Two years after pro-Palestine protests rocked Emory University’s campus, three professors filed a complaint against the institution, alleging wrongful arrests and prosecution, negligence and a breach of free expression policies by the university.

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Emory University professors sue over 2024 protest arrests

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AAUP @aaup.org · 20/04/2026

“We call on Emory to make substantive commitments to limit cooperation w/ federal immigration agents to the minimum required by law. We urge Emory to inform the community precisely where ICE may or may not enter without a warrant…” — Emory AAUP

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AAUP @aaup.org · 27/04/2026

Texas public university systems have restricted how faculty teach gender, sexuality & race. The universities' accreditor, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, refuses to take action despite these flagrant violations of academic freedom.

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Accreditor Mum as Texas Politicians Take Curricular Control

Texas public universities are restricting what faculty can teach and graduate students can research. Although they appear to violate its standards, SACS hasn’t responded.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

When people talk about self-censorship, they often focus on campus events or classroom discussions. But self-censorship of research is different and more impt. Big difference btw "I don't want to offend others" to "I don't want to speak truth to power" www.chronicle.com/article/near...

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Nearly One-Third of Faculty in Red States Say They’ve Censored Their Research

A new survey of 4,000 academics looked at the effects of state laws barring “divisive concepts” and federal grant cuts.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

MILAN (AP) — The troubled Caribbean country, Haiti, has fielded two athletes for the Milan Cortina Winter Games, and they will proudly wear Haitian symbols — although one less than intended after intervention by the International Olympic Committee.

The skiers will compete in uniforms designed by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean that originally featured an image of Toussaint Louverture, the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in 1804. The IOC ruled that the image violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism, requiring Jean to come up with a creative solution: painting over the nation’s founding father.

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NPR @npr.org · 08/02/2026

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU

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Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The Constitution gives states the power to determine the time, place and manner of elections. Only Congress can change the rules for federal elections. The White House has no role to play in any of this.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

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APHA @apha.org · 08/12/2025

Health departments & community organizations: Want to strengthen your partnerships? Apply now to become part of the Building Bridges Learning Community, which includes $10,000 and seven months of support. Don't delay! Deadline is Dec. 16: smr.to/p106667

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APHA @apha.org · 11/12/2025

Quiz time! 📝 See how much you really know about this week in public health with the #newsquiz from The Nation’s Health: www.thenationshealth.org/page/quiz

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Chandra Ford @drchandraford.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Congratulations on this important film being screened at #APHA2025. What a privilege it will be to be in conversation with my distinguished co panelists tomorrow.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I'll be at Georgetown University in DC this evening, screening our acclaimed documentary 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' and doing a panel discussion afterwards with Nader Hashemi and Dr Feroze Sidhwa. Come join the audience for free. Register at: events.georgetown.edu/acmcu/event/...

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Public Screening of Film BBC Refused to Air: “Gaza: Doctors Under Attack”

The Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, in partnership with Zeteo, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, the African Studies Pr...

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Jarvis McKenzie said that on 17 July, while waiting to go to work, a white man in a car picked up a rifle, fired over his head and shouted “you better get running, boy!” #Pinks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Black man targeted in racist attack says South Carolina needs hate crime law

Jarvis McKenzie says he was shot at while waiting to go to work by a white man in a car with a rifle

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Chandra Ford @drchandraford.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

outraged and saddened by this unconstitutional action. unilateral bombing of a sovereign country despite prior expert assessments. Don’t know that i can watch any update from the whitehouse. Wouldn’t want to support a narcissistic stunt for tv ratings. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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US BOMBS IRAN NUCLEAR SITES, INCLUDING FORDOW

US attacks three Iranian nuclear sites, joining Israeli air campaign as Tehran promises to retaliate.

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