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En Colombia, nuestro nuevo presidente neofascista hizo campaña bajo el lema "los nunca"

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23h

Catastrophe In Brazil with the far right surging State races, senate and congress races all going for the far right Presidential race going to a second round thankfully with bolsonaro’s son under 50 percent www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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Federico PF @feperfer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This one hit especially hard after returning from Colombia and seeing the shameless AI-slop presidential campaign of our new neofascist president, government hyping of all the facets of AI-extraction, and Teslas flooding upscale Bogotá for the first time thedigradio.com/podcast/musk...

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Muskism w/ Ben Tarnoff & Quinn Slobodian

Featuring Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian on their book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed. What the world’s bizarre richest man reveals about our financially fabulist, hard tech, far-right political-...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Just $25 shy of 500!! A little over a week left! Please donate if you can, this is such an important fundraiser for UNRWA as it’s experiencing these awful political attacks

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Federico PF @feperfer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But who better to write about the "politics problem" of the social sciences than the prof. at the University of the Incarnate Word who wrote this...

At present, liberals make up the vast majority of the academy and, due to their overrepresentation, a considerable number will need to be relieved of their duties. Since standardized tests and measures have been recently discovered to be racist, sexist, and classist, we will make these decisions by putting every liberal professor’s name into ChatGPT and commanding it to randomly select liberal professors in exact proportion to their percentage of the general population. Then we will know how many conservative professors we will need to hire to be diverse, equitable, and inclusive

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good and gutting. (No, really, it is very good—you should read it) David Perry, UMN student advisor, on what the university is for and how deeply the planned budget cuts will mess with that www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

And mostly, it’s worked out for the best. Even if we just assess for dollar value, a 2025 analysis found that for every $1 invested in the U, the state reaped $16.75. In other words, every Minnesotan benefits from our robust systems of public higher education.
It’s been striking to me that while conversation about the budget inside the U has been substantial, I haven’t yet seen Minnesotan politicians addressing these potential cuts as a crisis. Part of that is because public universities like the U have made a trade-off, growing increasingly corporate and independent (despite publicly appointed regents) as public funding has collapsed. As a share of the budget, state funding has plummeted over the decades, falling to about 15%, compared to 39% in 1997. If that’s what you want, then fine. But did we ever have a public debate about whether that’s what Minnesotans actually want?
If you don’t want to more significantly fund the university, which bits are you eager to cut away? If it’s instruction and student services, here’s what happens.

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Federico PF @feperfer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Otros han tenido menos suerte. Algunos de los expulsados a Esuatini hace más de un año siguen recluidos en una prisión de máxima seguridad."

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s important that Google Earth/Maps has done this, but worth noting that so far the updated 2026 imagery is only of southern Gaza—the imagery of northern Gaza is still from before the final destruction of spring-fall 2025, giving the impression that large areas of Gaza City and Jabaliya are…

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Ian Alan Paul @elbienmaspreciado.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As an eviction is blocked in Madrid: “To destitute power is to take away its legitimacy, compel it to recognize its arbitrariness ... to turn it into a temporary configuration of things which, like so many others, have to fight and scheme in order to survive.” IC, To Our Friends

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A great example of a postliteracy argument that seems rooted in pedagogical innovation (or Platonic retvrn, lol) but which will actually be used to justify further defunding and ed tech creep. It won't be the last www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The geniuses who destroyed global hegemonic soft power because they thought it was “suicidal empathy” are now attempting to eliminate the janitors of late capitalism, aka social workers, who they perceive as bleeding heart liberals

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 25/09/2026

At a certain point you just have to call it election interference from the US.

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Fidel Cano Correa @fidelcanoco.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

La cadena de esa tragedia llamada narcotráfico tiene, por supuesto, otros eslabones mucho más arriba. Frente a ellos, en su historia previa Abelardo de la Espriella no se mostró propiamente combativo o cruel: Laura Ardila www.elespectador.com/opinion/colu...

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Cuando el narco se sienta a la mesa

“[Abelardo de la Espriella] hizo negocios con un hombre que había sido condenado por narcotráfico”: Laura Ardila Arrieta.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 25/09/2026

Peter Thiel says the "Antichrist" will preach "peace." Now his cronies in the Trump regime are pushing "Pax Silica" ("Silicon Peace"). It's a grandiose name for AI colonialism and imperialism. 1st target: The Philippines. More from @kieraevebutler.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Tech Bros and the Trump administration are building an AI empire—in the Philippines

Pax Silica aims to lock up rare earths, and hand Silicon Valley the keys.

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Federico PF @feperfer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ditching Canvas, doing everything on proton.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There seems to be a coordinated talking point among the EA folks that the "standard" approach to "AI" on "the Left" is "AI is just stochastic parrots so no need to worry about it". (Sorry for all the scare quotes, but y'know) >>

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Federico PF @feperfer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

uhhh, our neofascist president has militarized the city Santa Marta and was armed and on patrol last night. www.lasillavacia.com/en-vivo/con-...

Abelardo de la Espriella, president of Colombia, dressed in green pants and light brown shirt, with a gun on his waist, walking alongside military official in camouflage and special police force agent carrying an assault rifle (image still from video posted to his X account).

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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is happening today at 1pm ET—join us!

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 18/09/2026

Honduran riot cops are evicting an afro-indigenous Garifuna community so that a foreign billionaire can use their ancestral islands to film the reality TV show "Survivor."

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we're hosting a daylong workshop on how to track the financial interests of university trustees who offer such funding, how to work for legislative protections and workplace protections in the classroom and far beyond, join us! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed

Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…

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Daniel Suárez @selinkoso.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Abelardo les entregó todo en esa firma con Rubio; Restrepo se arrodilló a los sionistas. Y aun así, no les dan esa certificación. Podían volver a certificarlos con compromisos. Pero no. De hecho, Petro fue a Trumplandia a justificar su actuar, y Trump quedó satisfecho y aun así, nada.

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Estados Unidos mantiene la descertificación con condiciones a Colombia

Trump le achaca la calificación del país al gobierno Petro. Destacó la elección de De la Espriella y promete volver a certificar si el país mejora en la lucha antidrogas.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

When Karin reached out to me about this piece, I knew it would be good and it is even better than I expected www.chronicle.com/article/high...

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Higher Ed’s Harvard Problem

An exclusive club of colleges commands the public narrative. Does that come at a cost?

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is neat! A new volume from Rashid Khalidi, based on The Hundred Years' War, and seemingly aimed at younger (High School) readers.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The Boosters say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to solve all of our problems. The Doomers say: AI is a thing, it's inevitable, it's imminent and it's going to kill us all. >>

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the irreducible @anguilline.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Portland is paying more to Urban Alchemy for short term shelter with no clear path to housing AND helping that organization bury allegations of mistreatment of the homeless people it purports to serve than it costs to house people and provide them with job training, counseling, retention services

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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Federico PF @feperfer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“I did not come to play nice with murderers, extortionists and child recruiters. I came to defeat them … Long live Christ the king!” ...as he celebrates among 23 corpes, 3 of them minors. This is a new level of necropolitical spectacle even for Colombia. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Colombia president provokes disgust by posing with bodies of ‘terrorists’

Abelardo De La Espriella posts video of himself with rows of body bags as performative populism continues to sweep Americas

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/09/2026

"The AAUP is not going to stand by & watch President Trump once again attempt to destroy the greatest system of higher education in the world that gives opportunity to a diverse set of students for a diverse country. Yes, emphatically, yes. We are going to fight this." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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IRS targets private schools that help racial minority students

The Trump administration has said it will end the tax-exempt status for universities with programs that help racial minority students.

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