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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Obama-era White House put Puerto Rico's finances under the authority of a federally appointed board of technocrats. By 2025, it had already run up a bill of over $2 billion, including vast fees paid out to consulting firm like McKinsey. Yarimar Bonilla on Puerto Rico’s water crisis:

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Carrying Water

As enormous sums flow to creditors and investors in Puerto Rico, the state continues to recede.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

“That means that, for the fourth month in a row, Americans’ real wages — how many sandwiches, haircuts and gallons of gas they can buy with an hour’s pay — actually fell.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/b...

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Worker Pay Isn’t Keeping Up With Inflation Once Again

When prices spiked in 2021-22, wages failed to keep up for many workers, new research shows. Now the pattern is repeating.

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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

With sadness and rage, we encourage all our members to attend the vigil organised for Dr Jason Arday today (17th August), Trafalgar Square, 6pm.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

"After Trump’s Venezuela Invasion, Mexico Could Be Next" Administration officials tell Zeteo that Trump remains ‘very interested’ in the idea of sending US Special Forces into Mexico, as the president threatens Colombia and Cuba, too.

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After Trump’s Venezuela Invasion, Mexico Could Be Next

Officials tell Zeteo that Trump remains ‘very interested’ in the idea of sending US Special Forces into Mexico, as the president threatens Colombia and Cuba, too.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

“.. internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.” @nytimes.com $AMZN www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Capacity is filling up quickly for our 10/13 teach-in on the life and work of Assata Shakur with @dreamhampton.bsky.social and @monifabandele.bsky.social in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Become a member today and RSVP at the link below! We can't wait to see you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Hammer & Hope Teach-In: The Life and Work of Assata Shakur

Please use this form to RSVP! If you have any questions, contact assistant@hammerandhope.org. Location: Gladys Books & Wine | Bed Stuy, 306 Malcolm X Blvd, Brooklyn, NY 11233 Date: Monday, Oct. 13, T...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/08/2025

“How does the computer know something happened if no one tells the computer about it” is the easy-reader way to explain why we still need human reporters and data-collectors And I also find it genuinely alarming that even some people on this website don’t seem to grasp this

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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Call your congressional rep! Call your reps, tell them vote NO 5 Calls makes it easy to call. Enter your zip code, pick the issue (the SAVE Act), and just pick the name to call If you want, there is a script you can use

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10/04/2025

Who could’ve ever foresaw except all the people who did and got arrested for doing so

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Robin @robinsloth.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Justice Jackson ends her dissent with a devastating condemnation of the Court's use of the shadow docket and the horror of what's happening here:

I lament that the Court appears to have embarked on a new era of procedural variability, and that it has done so in such a casual, inequitable, and, in my view, inappropriate manner. See Department of Education v. California, 604 U. S. ___ , ___ (2025) (JACKSON, J., dissenting) (slip op., at
1–2). At least when the Court went off base in the past, it left a record so posterity could see how it went wrong. See, e.g., Korematsu v. United States, 323 U. S. 214 (1944). With
more and more of our most significant rulings taking place in the shadows of our emergency docket, today’s Court leaves less and less of a trace. But make no mistake: We are just as wrong now as we have been in the past, with similarly devastating consequences. It just seems we are now less willing to face it.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The cowardly capitulation of universities will only embolden the administration to crack down further on those institutions. Those who show weakness invite a greater spectacle of abuse, given that acts of submission excite rather than satiate the fascists.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

When history of 2025 is written, the early & easy compliance a lot of institutions & people who claim to represent humanities (incl. some museum administrators, people at federal-adjacent-but-not-quite orgs, & of course univs) will loom large. Those who show different choices are possible are why.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

New open access piece in Souls, by Marcel Paret and Spectre's own @grundrza.bsky.social.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

While W. E. B. Du Bois was traveling in newly independent Ghana in 1963, the State Department refused to renew his passport, effectively annulling his United States citizenship. The American civil rights icon became a Ghanaian citizen and died there later that year.

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When W. E. B. Du Bois Was "Un-American" - Boston Review

At the very height of the McCarthy era, he tried to keep alive a free and open debate about American military, economic, and foreign policy.

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Olayemi Olurin-Boleware @olurinatti.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I've given serious thought to the election for NYC Mayor and I cannot stress this enough, under no circumstances should you rank Andrew Cuomo and this is why. My new Olurinatti Production breaking down the rise, fall, and return of a corrupt governor youtu.be/LB4gqnUfp-k?...

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The Rise, Fall & Return of Andrew Cuomo

YouTube video by Olurinatti

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The men disappeared to El Salvador because of their tattoos

The Trump administration sent Venezuelans to El Salvador’s most infamous prison. Their families are looking for answers.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The premise here, just to spell it out, is that no black person, woman, queer person, etc., has EVER genuinely accomplished something. Every time it ever seemed like they had, it was just white people virtue-signaling by using them as tokens or whatever Or in other words that they're natural slaves

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025

Trade unionists everywhere, defenders of the Constitution, of freedom of speech, of academic freedom, and of the right of free association, should be appalled and disgusted by the behavior of Columbia University, and should take it for the clear signal it is.

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UAW @uaw.org · 14/03/2025

As the UAW has emphasized, the assault on First Amendment rights being jointly committed by the federal government and Columbia University are an attack on all workers who dare to protest, speak out, or exercise their freedom of association under the US Constitution.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who headlined an event at Columbia right before Mahmoud Khalil was detained — just joked at a Harvard event that he would give exploding pagers to students protesting his visit

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 02/03/2025

Andrew Cuomo has shooters on here based solely on the fact that they saw him make angry faces while wearing a special little disaster windbreaker on TV and it really illustrates how Trump's success in American politics is not really an aberration at all

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Selene @selenemsc.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I’d really like to say I had more faith in most folks ability to take communicable disease seriously for a prolonged length of time, but I don’t. I remember when we used to close off a room for an hour after a COVID patient, and now they’re lining the halls and they and the staff won’t even mask.

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 28/02/2025

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

For me this is a "can't hurt, might help" situation so I'm gonna do it

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Bezos is not acting out of fear. He is participating in a political project that benefits him. This distinction is important.

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Akela Lacy @akelalacy.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

SCOOP: A group including Columbia alumni, professors & parents is trying to get students deported & arrested and urged people to tip off FBI. They’ve also disparaged Jewish protesters & tried to compile lists of JVP members. W/ @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...

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The Columbia Network Pushing Behind the Scenes to Deport and Arrest Student Protesters

For Columbia University alumni and faculty on a behind-the-scenes WhatsApp group, speaking out for Palestine or criticizing Israel is tantamount to backing Hamas.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Trump shut down the entire refugee resettlement system. Except for white Afrikaners, apparently www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Announcing DARK LAB BOOK CLUB! I joke that I get my superpowers every February when Black History Month and Lunar New Year converge. The Feb edition is a pairing of books by Black authors and / or Asian authors in conversation. Each day we will post 2 books. #DarkLabBookClub

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This. And journalists must not allow them to have us calling civil rights DEI, because that is part of the propaganda.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/01/2025

The Trump admin has cancelled the panels that approve NIH grants, & is also banning scientists from communicating with the public, attending conferences, and hiring. NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research in the world. This will severely halt the development of many lifesaving treatments.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"Lies, violence, manipulation, extortion, cynicism, selfishness, sexism, racism and detestation of the law and institutions – these are the hallmarks of Donald Trump, throughout his career as a real estate tycoon, candidate and president elected in 2016, then defeated in 2020."

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Fighting for facts in the era of Trump and Musk

EDITORIAL. The alliance between Donald Trump and social media platform bosses such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg represents a global threat to free access to reliable information. Le Monde has ther...

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Nona Jabiznez @nonajabiznez.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Hey New Yorkers! The New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and Queens Public library are available to you if you live or work in New York State, and that includes their entire digital catalog.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 15/01/2025

"Every leader on the continent needs to understand that Putin wishes to upend the entire European order—and that the United States is no longer trustworthy as a long-term ally."

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A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe

Putin’s not-so-quiet sabotage campaign against European democracies

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

So, you may ask, why do I get so angry about the new liberal spin on RFK Jr, as in, "he gets some things right, so let's collaborate on those" or "we have to work with him because he has a huge following we need to reach"? Because I've seen this movie before. 1/

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/12/2024

when you have anti-DEI proponents openly going after black military officers for recruiting from HBCUs and suing schools for their black and Hispanic enrollment *even after the schools ended any racial preferences* then the only honest label for these people is "segregationist"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

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Wealth, shown to scale

Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

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