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Jarrett T. Gupton

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences
Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Food pantries(even at their absolute best) are no substitute for adequately funding SNAP.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Well we've reached 9.5 million student loan defaults (prior record was 8 million in Dec 2019) apnews.com/article/stud...
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As defaults on student loans surge, millions are trying to get their lives back on track
According to an Associated Press analysis, more than 4.2 million people across the country defaulted on student loans between April 2025 and March 2026.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The correct response to today’s Burning of Entrails by the Wizards in Robes is not only that we need 25 SCOTUS justices & these charlatans need to lose their clerks & building & ride the circuit, but also that we need to get rid of single member districts entirely if we want to ever be a democracy:
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Over 200 Democracy Scholars Call on Congress to End Single-Member Congressional District
More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/04/2026
Like I said: the civil rights era never ended. You are still in it. The most important form of free speech, is the right to vote. Racists don't want Black people to vote. So they wrote down a plan to stack the Supreme Court with people that would make it harder for Black people to vote. It worked
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Supreme Court Deals Devastating Blow To The Voting Rights Act
The court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais takes the teeth out of the Voting Rights Act, making it nearly impossible to draw new minority districts.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old) We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Who Gets a Guggenheim? This Professor Has An Answer
Education and public policy professor Dominique Baker looked at 30,000 Guggenheim recipients to determine how influential institutional affiliation is in determining who gets one of the prestigious fe...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
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Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books
Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
For all those meeting the moment, as best you can, thank you.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
"Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another’s harm; and whosoever in authority exceeds the power given him by the law...may be opposed, as any other man, who by force invades the right of another." - John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, sec. 202
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Holy shit: the guy who cut millions in grants because they were DEI cannot form a coherent explanation of what DEI is bsky.app/profile/lmrh...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
People born in the 2000s will never understand a nation once so innocent that an ice skater kneecapping another ice skater sent us into an existential crisis.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“To notice the difficulty of reading Black literature is to acknowledge the difficulty of rendering Black lives. And to call Black life difficult is not simply to describe the hardship of being Black in an anti-Black world. Complexity, ingenuity, beauty—all are contained within Blackness…”
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A Heartbreaking Work of Swaggering Genius
Namwali Serpell’s study of Toni Morrison – Omari Weekes
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
me finally owning a home in a walkable neighborhood when im too old to walk
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026
All of this is fucking senseless. Minnesota did not have an immigration problem. Trump sent his Nazi thugs here because he's racist against Somali people and to own libs like Tim Walz. Now two Minnesotans are dead and Minneapolis is on the verge of going up in flames. None. Of. This. Was. Necessary.
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Adrian H. Huerta, PhD @adrianhuertaphd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
From a #higher GOAT: academic freedom during the #maga movement #academicSky #webinar #free pullias.usc.edu/how-academic...
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"How Academic Freedom Will Make American Higher Education Great Again" Webinar Set for October 28th at 12 pm PT
Bill Tierney, University Professor Emeritus at the USC Rossier School of Education, will speak about the roots of academic freedom in the 20th century, discuss its strengths and weaknesses, and put fo...
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/10/2025
Help us investigate book bans across the USA. 404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S. 🔗 www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
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Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
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Antonio Duran, PhD @drantonioduran.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
🧵 Tomorrow, the ASU Center for American Institutions will host an event, “The Family Under Attack,” featuring a speaker who uses her interpretation of faith to further transphobia. Read about our response & desire to center trans people’s humanity in this article: www.statepress.com/article/2025...
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ASU LGBTQ+ community expresses concern regarding 'The Family Under Attack' event - The Arizona State Press
Concerned members of the ASU community sign letter advocating against ASU event. 
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan, nominated by Trump in 2019, absolutely is a disgrace He’s simply stopped paying postdoc fellow salaries until the hypothetical time that their grants are “reviewed” for consistency w Trump’s edicts He’s canceling climate projects Obeying in advance to the max
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Whitney Alese @thereclaimed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Happy: Black history Black present Black future Black love Black joy Black health Black healing Black people Black community Black family Black kids Black culture Black creativity Black ingenuity Black legacy Black innovation Black liberation Black resistance Black existence ...month🖤
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 30/01/2025
Derrick Bell's reminds us: The goal is DEFIANCE. Resist oppression, harass those who seek to harm us and our communities. We will not sacrifice Black & Brown people, Trans folks, immigrants, Disabled folks, and all of us at the intersections of multiple oppressions. Defiance is the way forward.
White text on Black background: “I asked one of the organizers, Mrs. Biona MacDonald, where she and the other black families found the courage to continue working for civil rights in the face of intimidation….Mrs. MacDonald looked at me and said slowly, seriously, "I can't speak for everyone, but as for me, I am an old woman. I lives to harass white folks."…. Mrs. MacDonald assumed that I knew that not all whites are racist, but that the oppression she was committed to resist was racial and emanated from whites. She did not even hint that her harassment would topple those whites' well-entrenched power. Rather, her goal was defiance, and its harassing effect was likely more potent precisely because she did what she did without expecting to topple her oppressors. Mrs. MacDonald avoided discouragement and defeat because at the point that she determined to resist her oppression, she was triumphant.”
Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well, p. xii
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
For The Emancipator, I expanded on an argument I’ve been making on Bluesky. The so-called anti-DEI movement is segregationist, and we should state that plainly. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...
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Eliminating DEI isn't just racist — it's segregationist
New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.
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Zach Schermele @zachschermele.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Also NEWS -> Pell Grants & federal direct student loans, though not paused, are still among the programs OMB wants more info about by Feb. 7, according to agency instructions. Among other things, OMB is asking whether programs "promote gender ideology" or support "illegal aliens."
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Ron Lieber @ronlieber.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
BREAKING: The Department of Education has confirmed that the federal spending pause does *not* affect Pell grants or student loans. You will get the money. Story coming shortly. 1/2
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Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Whenever he and his team call something a "hoax" it means they're playing defensive. They know book bans are a losing issue for them. So, don't stop talking about book bans. Highlight every single book ban, all the time. We can organize and win political power by advocating for intellectual freedom.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2025
personally i think one should just ignore anti-anti-trump academics who have done nothing but obscure the reality of the situation facing the nation in favor of grinding axes against people they don’t like
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NPR @npr.org · 17/01/2025
All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.
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A planet parade of Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars shines in the skies this month
All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.
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Eric Kelderman @erickelderman.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
www.chronicle.com/article/flor... "Allowing this law to stand continues a dangerous precedent, emboldening other states to adopt similar measures and casting a chilling effect on academic inquiry nationwide."
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Florida’s ‘Vague, Viewpoint-Discriminatory’ Law Is Unconstitutional, Professors’ Lawsuit Says
Six faculty members argue that a 2023 law mandating that general-education courses not teach “identity politics” violates their First Amendment rights.
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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The taxpayer-supported University of Arizona is paying nearly $12,000 *per student* to Google and Facebook to recruit customers for the scandal-ridden for-profit online college it bought for $1 and rebranded. Read more from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social : www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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How University of Arizona Global Campus' Online Recruitment Ads Drain Its Finances
It can cost UAGC more than $11,500 just to enroll one student.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
"The New Segregationists" is a more accurate headline. You could go through nearly this entire article replacing "anti-DEI" with "segregationist," and it would work. Homogeneity is the opposite of diversity, which is what they aim for. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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The End of the DEI Era
As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.
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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
BREAKING: ACLU of Florida filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Florida law that curtails academic freedom by imposing restrictions on university programs and discussions related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Florida Educators File Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Florida’s S.B. 266, Defending Academic Freedom and Free Speech
The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP filed a federal lawsuit challenging Florida Senate Bill 266 (S.B. 266), a law passed in 2023 that curtails academic
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Cody Miller @hcodymiller.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The anti-DEI/CRT/LGBTQ movement from the last few years has always been about removing LGBTQ people from public life and re-segregating public spaces. The movement and its associated politicians started with books and curriculum, but they didn't end there. They won't end there.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Where I grew up, most "storytelling" is fiction.
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