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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1h

“We are calling on this government to put in place a three-year emergency brake on private rents, let wages begin to catch up with the rents that have outstripped them for far too long.” Zack Polanski on the fight for fairer, more affordable rents.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 23h

Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.

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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.

Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 30/09/2026

Here's a small thing you can do for the future: 🌐 Find a webpage you care about. 💾 Save it. ✔️ That's it. One saved page becomes part of the web's shared memory. Try it today 👉 web.archive.org #ToolsYouCanUse

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "The Afric-American Picture Gallery" by Britt Rusert, which examines William J. Wilson’s journalistic imagining of a museum that centers African Americans at a time when none existed. buff.ly/8b8fwac

Cover of The Afric-American Picture Gallery: William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art by Britt Rusert. The cover features an installation resembling a Victorian picture display. Floral wallpaper holds framed historical photographs of various shapes. Two decorated tables flank the display and a small deer sculpture rests on the grass below. The title is in green serif at the top, with the author's name printed vertically in purple.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 30/09/2026

Recent recruitment strategies have included the use of neo-Nazi memes to appeal to potential hires, and seeking out extremists at events like gun shows, Ultimate Fight Club venues, and other places where far right individuals are typically present.

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Trump Administration Plans to Add 5,000 New ICE Employees by End of Year

Recent recruitment strategies have included using neo-Nazi memes to appeal to potential hires.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...

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Acknowledgments – To Hear Her Speak

Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The plot to enslave America entails destroying every university except for the business school

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Dr. Scandal Piñata @dr-g.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

I’m in this webinar and, academics, take some time and learn who Marc Rowan is and how he steers our pensions into his company’s maw with one hand, while helping Trump come up with punitive policies aimed at hostile control of universities and curricula.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 28/09/2026

So let me get this right... SpaceX's "successful" orbital launch of Starship lost an engine in flight, was cut from a planned six orbits to two (and SpaceX isn't saying why), neither part is reusable, and the top part blew up on splashdown.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 28/09/2026

#OtD 28 Sep 1864 the International Workingmen's Association was formed in London, UK. It was a gathering of socialist, anarchist and trade union organisations from around the world dedicated to the emancipation of the working class shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Want to make it v clear that I was one of many, and credit @bparsia.bsky.social for pushing for this in his union capacity

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This one’s for everyone who was ever confused about the concept of corporate capture

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This University has just shut down all undergraduate Humanities degrees, including History, where we had some amazing modules on Black and African History for first years. 🤡

Email subject: Development at Herts: Support through change | Career growth | Black History Month

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J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I look forward to the start of a new academic year the way my kids look forward to waking up on 🎄. The volatility & cuts across UK HE made that hard to feel this year. But I just taught our L1 students & I’m here to cherish the joy of reading & thinking with them *AND* demand that right for all.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 27/09/2026

On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a 162-page White House report argued the Smithsonian had “moved the Museum’s mission away from straightforward historical education and scholarship toward an extreme political activism.”

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How the Smithsonian Became the Latest Front in Trump’s Culture War

The Smithsonian — particularly its National Museum of American History — has faced withering pressure from the Trump administration. It’s the culmination of decades of criticism by conservatives and o...

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Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I can only second this. If you are in Glasgow, visit Category Is. It's much more than a bookshop. It's a community hub, a place of active resistance, and a big fucking hug.

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I share a version of this with my grad classes each year, but my attribution is Kant via Spivak. 1985. academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/...

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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Everyone I know who has been diagnosed has said they are happier in general and much more content/productive with work since being diagnosed and getting various forms of help based on the diagnosis.

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks

In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.

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The Mix @themixjazz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This makes me so incredibly happy. Delivery workers deserve so much better and DoorDash is equally as awful financially for restaurants. I really wish everyone would realize how truly horrible they are and stop using them.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A reminder that all the aspects of our economic system are made up and we can have a better system if we wanted to. Homelessness for example. We could have an economy that builds homes for homeless people. It does not have to be this way.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually hell, right?

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J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Keep an eye on this playbook, UK HE peeps. The party of Farage + the crypto billionaires already has it in motion on our side of the pond, too.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'“It could lead to an over-concentration of research funding in a few places, and with a few individuals, which would stifle the ecosystem and is definitely at odds with the government’s ‘growth in every postcode’ message, which I think is the higher priority here,” Rich said.'

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cole adams @cole-adams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm glad to be able to share this essay about what the last few years of higher ed crises felt like from one grad student's vantage - thinking about what the future holds for the post-COVID cohort of humanities PhDs.

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reform’s new deputy leader in Wales says that the are “the most united opposition” that Welsh politics “has ever seen”. - Last week one of their MSs defected to Plaid. - Their new leader was elected in a 17-15 vote. - Reform MSs are already briefing against the new leader.

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Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not doing normal enforcement against obvious criminality is bad enough. Doing extreme enforcement against relatively peaceful protesters while simultaneously not doing any against life threateningly violent people on viewpoint is wildly corrosive.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'student representatives have described the proposal as “tone-deaf”, highlighting that two-thirds of undergraduates are now in term-time employment and describing an expectation for them to take on additional labour as “absolutely ridiculous”.'

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Paid employment ‘biggest barrier’ to rolling out work placements

Survey comes after vice-chancellors said they wanted every undergraduate in England to undertake work experience as part of their degree

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh good lord. Did he read 1/5 as 5x?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)

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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues

The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...

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Truthout @truthout.org · 21/09/2026

After 9/11, the US built a separate system of justice — a national security exception to the Constitution — that largely targeted Muslims. While non-Muslims were assured it would never apply to them, that assurance has expired. It is now being used to take aim at immigrants and the left.

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The National Security Exception Was Never Going to Stop at Prosecuting Muslims

For 25 years, the US ran a parallel legal system targeting Muslims. It now reaches activists, immigrants, and the left.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 19/09/2026

I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.

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UoM English, American Studies & Creative Writing Department @uomenglish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Looking forward to this one! Natalie Adler in conversation with @mbpearl.bsky.social, 9th October @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social. Natalie will be discussing her debut novel, Waiting For A Friend, set amidst the AIDs crisis in 1980s New York. Tickets: buff.ly/whu6suu

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I found this piece really thought-provoking (though dispiriting). It's interesting to think about literacy retaining "honor"—grotesquely saluted by the outputs of Large Language Machines—even as reading and writing were slowly, and now more quickly, losing their social and cultural importance.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My TLS piece on the Exeter cuts ✨

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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...

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Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

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Sophia Woodman @sophisteria.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Closing off the options for future students to understand and engage with the rest of the world is vandalism, and ultimately self-destructive. It must stop! c.org/yF7rC4wgWR

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Firma la petizione

Stop redundancies at the University of Birmingham

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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Welcome! Follow along for all things Data by Design 📖💻📊📈. Get updates on the book, meet the people behind it, and explore the history of data visualization along the way. Available for preorder now. Published by @mitpress.bsky.social. Visit us online at dataxdesign.io.

Front cover of Data by Design co-authored by Lauren F. Klein with Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, Shiyao Li, Marguerite Adams, Nicholas Yang, Dan Jutan, Jianing Fu, Anna Mola, Zhou Fang, Yang Li and Silas Munro

Spine of Data by Design co-authored by Lauren F. Klein with Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, Shiyao Li, Marguerite Adams, Nicholas Yang, Dan Jutan, Jianing Fu, Anna Mola, Zhou Fang, Yang Li and Silas Munro

Back cover of Data by Design co-authored by Lauren F. Klein with Tanvi Sharma, Jay Varner, Shiyao Li, Marguerite Adams, Nicholas Yang, Dan Jutan, Jianing Fu, Anna Mola, Zhou Fang, Yang Li and Silas Munro

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The questions are 'which AI tools' and 'used how'? Presumably UKRI is using (say) CoPilot, secured to UKRI, not feeding applications into commercial training models without applicants' knowledge or consent. And presumably (never presume) the pilots are built with past UKRI EDI failures in mind.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

spoke to a former employee over a drink who told me that (before the refurb at least) behind the scenes, the Warburg had a bath in a room accessed from behind another door, where apparently EH Gombrich used to go to do his thinking and said former employee confirmed they had tested the bath out 👌

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We met with the new Science Minister Chris McDonald yesterday. He indicated his strong support across all R&D disciplines which was great to hear. He is keen to get to know the social science, humanities and arts, and has offered to meet with our community which we'll take forward

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