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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"There is no straight path from the viewing of a spectacle to an understanding of the state of the world, and none from intellectual awareness to political action." Ranciere, The Paradoxes of Political Art join us today! interccect.com/2026/09/10/a...
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Art in These Times: an InterCcECT exhibition
ART IN THESE TIMES affirms art’s special obligation to refuse authoritarian assaults on free thinking and creative making. Spotlighting works that circumvent familiar gestures of political ar…
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ABOLISH ICE NOW
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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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Angels In Velvet @angelsinvelvet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please Vote for Dr. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
very bad news, hard to tell just how bad, yet. could be the key to stealing the election though
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Check out this @aaup.org toolkit on FOIA www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
El Niño is breaking every existing record already, and it's got weeks to go before it's likely to hit a peak. We're going to see a warmer world than any humans before us this year billmckibben.substack.com/p/hold-my-wa...
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Hold my (warm) beer
It’s Existential Crises Week!
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Speak at Your Own Risk
Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tell me the system is broken without telling me the system is broken.
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ABOLISH ICE
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
abolish ice already please
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ffs
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
nighttime people!
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nearly three-quarters of people over 18 reported they felt fatigued in the past three months, they found, while over 15% felt fatigued most or all of the time. People with frequent fatigue were also substantially more likely to have other health problems, including depression.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
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Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I try to walk in the woods as many mornings a week as my schedule and the climate will allow. My walks keep me sane.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Strange how this keeps happening.
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 13/09/2026
Look everybody has an opinion on Chicago but not only do I actually live here but I also am probably in the 1% of people who can name their alder, state rep and state senator so you can take my take with that grain of salt. I think there’s a lot happening here that’s shaping perceptions and outcomes
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Get the laptops out of the classroom!! No internet!!! Print readings for the students! Use real books, pens, & paper! We are doing a “low-tech” classroom this semester, and just a week in, I can tell it has made all the difference
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
so so many ways we're doing hegemonicide, economic arson, cultural vandalism blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/08/c...
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Chicago-Area Businesses Lost $1.2 Billion Because Of Immigration Crackdown, Report Says
Border Patrol's Operation Midway Blitz and ICE arrests discouraged Cook County shoppers from spending money, according to a new UIC report.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.
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U.S. employers spend more than $1.5 billion annually on union avoidance
Key takeaways Many U.S. employers hire union avoidance consultants to keep their workers from organizing and bargaining
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Don’t miss this special girldad edition of Some Marvelous Experience! It was so amazing to talk with @andrewepstein.bsky.social and Casey Epstein-Gross about Silver Jews and so much more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Advice to the Graduate
Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · September 1 · 50m
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
higher education is under *direct* attack by our own federal and state governments, and on multiple fronts. we *all* need to join the fight if there is *any* hope in saving higher education in this very troubled nation. Thank goodness there is an organization and a leader capable of leading.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"A projected 111,000 fewer international students are expected in the U.S. this fall — a more than 9% drop in enrollment. A coalition of higher education organizations (AND UNIONS) sued the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the rule from taking effect." www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...
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U.S. colleges, universities brace for loss of international students
The Trump administration is capping the length of time international students can legally remain in the U.S., and declines in their enrollment could spell disaster for colleges and universities.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 31/08/2026
Fall is nearly here. That makes it a good time to plant a tree.
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Plant a tree in early fall
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"What could be more remarkable, more humanly admirable, than the impulse to create a world of happiness for the people you love most to do so without any workable model to draw on, any inherited template for how that would work +how it would be done?" always lovely pete defector.com/dolly-joseph...
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Dolly, Josephine, And Me | Defector
Like all people not gravely deficient of soul, I teared up a little when I heard Dolly Parton died. I am by nature something of a patch of soft pavement—easily impressed upon —and so there’s not much ...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The “radical left” wants you to be able to eat a salad and go to the doctor. Super scary stuff.
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
abolish ICE.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves. If you grew up rich and are now a leftist and someone points that out, the proper response is: “Yes I am. Why aren’t you?”
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
happy first day of school! teaching college does not get easier. below are some resources for solidarity, courage, inspiration, collaboration first: assignment ideas, syllabus language, memes and more for the pro-learning classroom against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
1) I absolutely agree with Sonja 2) I agree with this policy 3) We're going to see more "humans for rich people, machines for the poors" divide in education. *yes not all U of C students are rich, I know. But U of C is rich.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
UChicago law school also put new limitations on AI in the 1st year curriculum - banning electronic devices in classrooms, having in-class written exams, and instituting an oral component of research papers. chicagomaroon.com/53131/news/t...
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“The Template for Law Schools Around the World”: UChicago Law School Announces New AI Strategy
The Law School will prohibit electronic devices in most 1L courses next academic year, according to a broad strategy statement outlining its new approach to legal education amid increasing use of AI a...
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
once again, people like Kustov *literally believe Black people are inferior.* They think they are not racist because they believe their views are objectively true and therefore aren't discriminatory. "I'm not racist but...Black people are actually inferior" is literally what they are saying.1
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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Orddu, Orwen, or Orgoch @troynovaunt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It’s interesting to actually read up on academic freedom. The AAUP, for instance, describes academic freedom as existing in essential relationship to disciplinary standards, a fact I find illuminating for any number of scenarios. www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
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Resources on Academic Freedom
Helpful list of information sources on academic freedom
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MJ @bstnboy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
OMFG! 11 Food Safety recalls in 3 weeks! Never should have fired those 2500 Food Safety Inspectors. www.newsweek.com/dip-recall-u...
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Thousands of dips recalled as FDA issues most severe risk warning
The FDA has upgraded an earlier recall for Whole Foods-issued guacamole and dips to its highest risk level.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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