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Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ @dfertl.bsky.social · 6h

“Police have detained the leaders of #India ‘s "Cockroach" youth movement as well as scores of protesters in #Delhi… capital was put in lockdown… travel and telecommunications links suspended” The protests were for India’s electoral chief to resign #CockroachJantaParty www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Indian police detain 'cockroach' movement founder Abhijeet Dipke

India's youth "cockroach" movement was set to hold fresh protests in the capital New Delhi prior to its leader being arrested.

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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The notion of "second-hand surveillance" (on analogy to second-smoke) seems powerful -- and more generally I really appreciate the idea of zones where one can be free of this. From @ajlunited.bsky.social www.offrecordzones.org >>

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Off Record Zones - Places Where Consent is Respected

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 20h

Crowds of protesters outer 26 Federal Plaza where ICE has its main offices now.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 19h

I didn't know Chris Wickham personally; I just respected his work immensely. But even in grief it's always a delight to see someone honored and remembered so consistently for kindness and generosity, and reminds us all of the legacy we want to leave someday that goes far beyond citation counts.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

... Tamara Lewit, Lea Cantor, Anthony Grafton, AAR, Emily Greenwood, Hannah Čulík-Baird, Harriet Fertik, Andrea Kouklanakis, Jesse McCarthy, @jackiemurr.bsky.social , @platanoclassics.bsky.social , Diontay Wolfries-Thomas, and many more. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Black Cicero
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Mathias Hanses
Classical Presences
Explores how W. E. B. Du Bois engaged with the ancient Roman orator Cicero
Covers the entirety of Du Bois's life and oeuvre, including unpublished materials
Places Du Bois's writings within global discourses on Greek and Roman antiquity
Brings Du Bois's antiracism to bear on the study of Greek and Roman materials

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

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Joe Soss @joesoss.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For anyone who's interested, The Debt Collective has asked @joshpage.bsky.social and me to lead an online session of its Jubilee School on Legal Plunder and tactics for fighting the injustices of criminal legal debt, Nov 17, 8-9 pm Eastern Time. Registration: debtcollective.org/event/jubile...

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Jubilee School: Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice

Predatory criminal legal practices have dramatically expanded since the 1980s, extracting billions of dollars from working-class Americans every year. In this workshop, Professors Joshua Page and Joe…

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tonight. The Washington Monument, in the heart of the nation’s capital. Students converging here after a nationwide walkout from classes against sexual violence, sparked by the Cornell rape case.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 07/10/2026

Thousands of Cornell University students protested on campus on Monday, demanding accountability for the mishandling of the 2024 rape case that has come under national spotlight. According to a 2025 survey, 35% of undergraduate women at Cornell reported experiencing sexual assault at the university.

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Thousands of Cornell Students Protest for Accountability in Rape Case

In a 2025 survey, 35 percent of undergraduate women reported experiencing sexual assault during their time at Cornell.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Something I focused on a lot in my writing class "To What Problem is ChatGPT the Solution?" was helping students look at all the choices that are being made every day by the tech companies, by school districts, by gov'ts, etc. about how AI will be part of our lives. So many of them came into the /1

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Wraithe @wraithe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OK, it took 30 hours to do it, but I finally managed to create Agentic systems to play all my video games for me Now if I can just create some agents to ride my motorcyle for me and drive my car through some winding Mountain roads, I can get back to my life’s work: Working myself to into a grave

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 02/10/2026

One of these OpenAI astroturfed events just happened here. The "Student Leads" of the event are receiving cash stipends. It is not a registered student organization. Unclear if compliant with the Campus Use of University Facilities policy, which normally prohibits commercial use of classrooms.

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OpenAI Student Collective at CU Boulder
Hands-on workshop
Create Your Website
From Idea to Link

Build a website with ChatGPT Work and Sites.
No coding needed. Bring a laptop
Monday, September 28
6:30-7:45 PM
KOBL 352
Leeds School of Business
Scan to RSVP: https://luma.com/y0w9zqlg

What you’ll receive

A ChatGPT subscription and Codex credits for the duration of the program

Funding, credits, and merch to help you organize campus events

Training, resources, and guidance on the latest OpenAI tools and technology

Access to the OpenAI team and a global network of Campus Leads

A cash stipend each semester in recognition of your time and leadership

Opportunities for a HQ visit in June 2027 and other surprises along the way

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

District Attorneys? They are elected officials (in 47/50 states). So yeah, I’d say voting is important on every level this November—and always. 📝

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...

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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico

A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.

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Abraham Gutman @abgutman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The @phillynewsguild.bsky.social ratified a new 3 year contract! Raises? ✅ Bonus? ✅ AI protections? ✅ Faster vacation accruals? ✅ All won, not given — and I couldn’t have been be more proud to fight for my incredible colleagues at The Philadelphia Inquirer at the bargaining table.

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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections

Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 02/10/2026

Boulder Faculty Assembly passed a resolution calling for no extension of the OpenAI contract. Vote was 39-8-1 after suspending the bylaws. Everyone at CU Student Government public comment has been fired up about their corresponding resolution, talking about trust and societal impact. So energizing.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Vivienne (formerly BillThePony) @billthepony.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Andy Basheer just said to Jake Tapper the KY had 1 (ONE!!!!) transgirl playing sports. She is in 7th grade and SHE STARTED THE FIELD HOCKEY TEAM TO PLAY WITH HER FRIENDS. Think about her when you are demanding democrats crush these young people for the *potential* political gain

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A truck with a sign ‘Palantir tracks, ICE attacks!’ led the crowd through the streets of downtown.”

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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Can they take a Black Journey tour? I thought it was excellent, and walking under the new cameras at the President’s House is really striking.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

free postseason baseball

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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The timing of the Cornell report on public trust is wild. When this is how they handled assault on campus, why should anyone - especially their own students - trust them?

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

I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today on the Engaged Learning Collective, I have a column about thinking expansively about kindness and communication in higher education. And if you're not familiar with the incredible stuff at ELC, take a look around! engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/expanding-...

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Expanding the Reach of Kindness

Distrust is pervasive in higher ed, and it partners with competition to make too many of us miserable.

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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our karmic just desserts after a blown call against Sanchez helped end our season last year!

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

Minnesota has been hosting Truth Councils since the end of Operation Metro Surge, to make sure that the horrors of the federal occupation do not go forgotten. Check out today's, which is the fourth and final meeting.

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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New civic education news roundup - Lonnie Bunch deserved better, to say the least, and Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom is coming apart: @democracyrenovator.bsky.social #academicsky

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Smithsonian Leader Departs, and Constitution Day Marks Progress as well as Challenges.

Your Civic Education News Roundup for September 28.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 29/09/2026

"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 28/09/2026

The mayor of Ithaca (my friend and former fellow PhD candidate in Government at Cornell) announces a moratorium on permitting Greek Life activities until Cornell produces new standards of addressing sexual assault.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That said, the fact that there is so much interest makes me feel like I should mention them at least a little. This thread in no way can stand in place of working with a sensitivity consultant with lived experience! Here is a brief, nonexhaustive list of harmful disability tropes in fiction.

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Ainy @ainy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

state legislatures are where the action happens. this is HUGE—and we should be tackling boards of education next. credit: @amandalitman.bsky.social on the hellsite.

From Amanda Litman @amandalitman on the hellsite:

What's happening in Congress is important but what's happening in state legislatures could lay the groundwork for long term sustainable power.

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All of our remaining forecasts are about to come out and we'll have a tally going but I believe we're looking at DEMs gaining 325 - 400 state legislative seats nationwide. In 2018 they gained 309....

From Chaz Nuttycombe • @ChazNuttycombe on the hellsite

All of our remaining forecasts are about to come out and we'll have a tally going but I believe we're looking at DEMs gaining 325 - 400 state legislative seats nationwide. In 2018 they gained 309.
Ds may get a majority of state legislative seats for the first time since 2009.

Chaz Nuttycombe ® @ChazNuttycom... 11h G ...
Right now I think our forecasts are at around a 360-370 net gain if I can add right. We'll see soon

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Jeff Drake @hatethedrake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I slept on this book for TOO LONG. It is SO GOOD! Beautifully written and intricate like a puzzle box. @amalelmohtar.com & @maxgladstone.bsky.social knocked it out of the park with this one.

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Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

When I watch the Phillies do the absolute least to make the playoffs: @dlchamplin.bsky.social youtu.be/sGBfiProO0U

MAYBE THIS DREAM WON'T BE LIKE EBOLA EATING THE FLESH OF ITS HOST

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/09/2026

"Reading the World" is a new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic participation. We speak with one of its co-directors and a consulting producer.

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“Pedagogy of the Oppressed” Brazilian Educator Paulo Freire Profiled in Film, “Reading the World”

Reading the World is a remarkable new documentary about Paulo Freire, the acclaimed Brazilian educator whose revolutionary approach to teaching connected literacy to critical thinking and democratic p...

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What if we scheduled the 9 hrs and required students to attend? Before you say "it'd never work," let me remind you: this is what the practical sciences do

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you care about keeping the Academy of Natural Sciences open to the public in Philadelphia, I need you to read and share this thread. Trish Wellenbach was sent from the mayor's office to oversee the Academy of Natural sciences situation. She needs to hear from us. Here comes the action item:

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 25/09/2026

Since 2022, the Lioness Justice Impacted Women’s Alliance has worked to empower communities to challenge harmful practices in the criminal legal system. This week they got a major win, after a judge ruled that Texas must air-condition all prisons by the end of 2029.

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The ‘lionesses’ who sued to get air conditioning in every Texas prison — and won

A group led by formerly incarcerated women spent years advocating for those trapped inside prison walls during Texas’ hot summers.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Important on the change in tactics post-Minneapolis

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