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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 19h

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looking across the LA River bathed in warm light, overhead blue sky getting towards sunset. there's some silt in the watery channel

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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 19h

If you don't already have an academic profile / website / portfolio site, I heartily recommend creating a free WordPress site or simple one-page profile via @kcommons.bsky.social !

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 20h

might write this sentence on a postcard and send it to everyone in the regime who needs to read it. hegseth, who else?

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Britta Shoot @brittashoot.com · 30/09/2026

This is one of those important, overlooked stories that's hard to report & even harder to place. I'm grateful @prismreports.org understood what's at stake for students fighting these fragmented free speech battles, while they also endure the chaos in higher ed & the nation in general 📻⬇️

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College radio stations are disappearing

Cleveland State University’s recent transfer of its radio station’s broadcast license to a conglomerate is the latest blow to independent student media

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LAist @laist.com · 23h

California will give local newsrooms tax credits for every journalist they keep or hire under a law Newsom signed Wednesday. 🔗 Read: vist.ly/5kpnj ✍️ Nadia Lathan | CalMatters 📸 Rich Pedroncelli / AP

A man speaks against a dark background with text about a new law for news organizations.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

incidentally i love when people using the join-date labeler assume i only left Xitter in Nov '24 and talk down to me about it; i left in Oct '22 and was on Mastodon only; and this is my 2nd account here (figured i had to rejoin in Nov '24 after spinning up and deleting in summer '23)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

As someone who stayed, it’s both. Liberal/left discourse hollowed out completely as people left, which gave the false impression of a cultural shift, and that drove some people to the right because they can’t distinguish between real life and Twitter.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember when the Democratic party removed "ending the death penalty" from its 2024 platform.

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Meet LA's very first speed camera, now installed outside Kingsley Elementary in East Hollywood. 125 cameras will go up over the next month, mostly near schools. No citations issued until 2027. Here's where you can check the location and status of all the cameras: ladot.lacity.gov/speed-safety...

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📣📣 BTW, there's a comment period (ending Oct 13) regarding proposed changes to the 2030 decennial Census, which would prohibit the inclusion of questions on race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation on the 2030 Census short-form questionnaire & any questionnaire used for purposes of enumeration

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Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions

The Census Bureau is proposing to add two new parts to the Code of Federal Regulations governing the decennial census of population and housing. First, the Census Bureau is proposing to add a part out...

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

who else is noticing that USPS mail is slower and less reliable than even this time last year? (this is primarily about several postcards i've mailed friends, but it's also about the election i suppose)

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

be the person who doesn't... ignore requests from students and colleagues but then when they deign to show up they also grandstand and take up all the air

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

"Shared governance could just as well be described as workplace democracy—which is obviously how we should have been describing it all along" 🔥🔥

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 01/10/2026

i was unfortunately thinking of this story in addition to the cornell situation when i posted. recommend reading, but big old CN's for sexual assault and whatever we call this kind of digitally-enabled retraumatization www.wired.com/story/burner...

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A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work

Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Disability justice activists were an integral part of grassroots efforts to shut down Atlanta’s Cop City. I covered their work in this piece — worth revisiting as we think about who is most vulnerable to the growing police violence in our cities and how we can come together against it.

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Why Disability Justice Activists Have Joined the Movement to Stop Cop City

Disability justice activists are joining grassroots efforts to shut down Atlanta’s Cop City, the largest police training campus in the U.S.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 09/07/2026

this seems like uhhhh... catnip for people here cat zines for sale and some proceeds go to local cat rescues, TNR groups, and the gallery has adoptable cats (Long Beach, CA) coolcatcollective.co/collections/...

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Cat Zine Fest: Featured Zines

Boutique & gallery for cat people with adoptable cats.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 01/10/2026

The Brooks Brothers riot never ended

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 28/09/2026

YOU NEED TO SEE THIS Rob Bonta (California AG): “We think it’s limitless what he (Trump) will try and what he is capable of. So, if you can imagine it, we have thought of it and we have a plan.” Every attorney general should be planning for this.

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Steven Hale @iamstevenhale.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I got back home a bit ago from Tennessee's execution of Christa Pike. We sat in the witness room for nearly 2 and a half hours as she received two rounds of pentobarbital. She was taken away in an ambulance shortly after that and I can't say for sure if she is dead or alive at this moment.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

(Campus sexual violence researchers strongly advocate AGAINST mandatory reporting policies. They actually reduce reports, primarily by silencing discussions of sexual violence on campus.)

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Kuan Butts @kuanbutts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anti Palantir/ ICE march in financial district, SF right now

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com · 30/09/2026

I see the French-speaking world wants its own Arday moment 😔

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Who's doing work on what's happening in the online payments space at the moment? Not just Klarna/rise of pay in 3, but the (afaict?) decline of paypal as the market diversifies? Am particularly interested to know if there's a conscious Mastercard/Visa strategy to keep card payments in contention

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 29/09/2026

Activists unfurled a 24-foot-long quilt protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence. Made of 11,000 individual patches representing individuals disappeared by ICE in the state, the “Stolen Neighbors” quilt was stitched together by dozens of volunteers.

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Activists Unveil Quilt Honoring Thousands Disappeared by ICE in Minnesota

The Stolen Neighbors Quilt features 11,000 hand-stitched squares in an indictment of violence against immigrants and a “call for political courage.”

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 30/09/2026

I recently posted about my first professional job, running IT support for the Division of Student Affairs at Duke. This was back in 1998. My best friend at the time was someone who started at the same time as me. She worked at Duke’s Women’s Center, as the Sexual Assault Services Coordinator.

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wouldn't mind a second and longer and more thorough MeToo tbqh

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/09/2026

This open letter is now circulating. Please sign and share through your networks. Thanks. sites.google.com/view/frenk-r...

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We call on Julio Frenk to immediately retract his statements

[Links to several other open letters and faculty statements are below.]

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Graham Trainor @graham-oregon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations to @seiu503.bsky.social Higher Education workers on securing a tentative agreement! Proud to stand with these workers, and the many higher education workers still fighting for a fair contract. www.opb.org/article/2026/09/28/seiu…

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Oregon’s public universities, classified workers narrowly avoid strike

Oregon’s seven public universities reached a tentative collective bargaining agreement with the classified workers' union just before the union was set to strike.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Student journalists across this country have been churning out some of the best journalism these last couple years Thinking of the radio crew covering the encampments in New York, UCLA crew doing the same, not to mention groundbreaking investigation after investigation Brilliant, the best of us

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LAist @laist.com · 30/09/2026

A community-led effort that tested water runoff from the burned Lineage cold-storage facility found that elevated levels of metals made their way to the Los Angeles River. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5kdex ✍️ Alejandra Molina | Boyle Heights Beat 📸 Steve Saldivar/The LA Local

Person in protective gear testing ground near LA River with visible debris.

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 28/09/2026

Breaking: The Texas Tribune has identified the ICE agent who witnesses say fired through an open van window and killed 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston nearly three months ago.

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ICE agent who shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston identified

The federal government has withheld his identification, even as major state and local law enforcement agencies across the country typically identify officers involved in shootings on the job soon afte...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Check this out! Today, Democratic leaders in the Senate are holding a shadow hearing about the Trump admin's mass delegalization campaign. @immcouncil.org's Policy Director @naynagupta.bsky.social is on the ground in DC preparing to livetweet the hearing. Follower her thread for more. 👇

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It doesn't even have to flood to do damage. Santa Monica Bay is dotted with coastal former oil fields. Seawater intrusion is going to push up all sorts of nasty surprises. @kzhill.bsky.social baynature.org/magazine/spr...

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The Sea Beneath Us

Sea level rise has a gotcha-from-behind twin: rising groundwater. It’s already here. And some expertsmaintain, we’re not ready for it.

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

my feeling is, bless you people for thinking about certain topics so i don't have to; i already have my hands full over here

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

“It’s a wave unlike the ones you’re used to at the beach. They don’t crash, you can’t really seem them come by" 📸 in this piece are from where i live (i do not live at the coast) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California

The ocean phenomenon could raise sea levels by up to a foot as El Niño keeps warm water trapped along the coast

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