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Lida Maxwell

@lidamaxwell.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Science at BU, author of _Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love_ (Stanford UP, January 2025)

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The retaliation against professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is disgusting. Please support her during these draconian sanctions imposed by the UCI Chancellor. chuffed.org/project/1562...
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Mutual Aid for Tiffany
Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
I have been saying this was coming. And I will sometimes be called paranoid. But even I didn’t think it would happen this fast or be this brazen.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One year after our original Guardian essay, Naomi Klein and I are excited to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. It will be on bookshelves on September 15th and is available for pre-order. More details below. bit.ly/4cbLfEr
Image of a book entitled End Times Fascism - and the fight for the living world. A wide burst on a yellow background with red letters.
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 07/04/2026
Completely unstable and perilous. The House must bring up impeachment articles, and the Senate needs to remove a president who wants to commit war crimes. We cannot sit idly by as Donald Trump threatens to end an entire civilization.
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Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die’ if Iran doesn’t make a deal
The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

April 7, 2026 at 9:22 a.m. EDT26 minutes ago
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As maybe some of you heard, BU administration took down our pride flag (in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies). If you have $5 or more to spare, please consider donating to WGS during BU giving day; we would love to communicate how much support our program has. We are keeping the flag up!
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Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join me in supporting BU Giving Day!
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
As maybe some of you heard, BU administration took down our pride flag (in Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies). If you have $5 or more to spare, please consider donating to WGS during BU giving day; we would love to communicate how much support our program has. We are keeping the flag up!
give.bu.edu
Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program
Join me in supporting BU Giving Day!
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“HarperCollins has announced a multi-year partnership with Toonstar, an “AI-powered” animation studio, to adapt a slate of the publisher’s titles into original YouTube series” Nobody wants this
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HarperCollins Partners with ‘AI-Powered’ Animation House Toonstar
The publisher will co-produce animated YouTube series based on select titles through a “creator-led” process that employs Toonstar’s proprietary AI production technology, beginning with Lisa Greenwald...
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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Becky Zosia Dernbach @bzosiad.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
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Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE
Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I had a real crush on Home Alone Catherine O'Hara when I was a kid. But my favorite adult Catherine O'Hara movie remains A Mighty Wind... www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtvS...
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Mitch and Mickey- First Interview Together
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
REP. OMAR after being attacked with liquid: “We will continue! These fucking assholes are not gonna get away with this! Here is the reality people like this ugly man don’t understand — we are Minnesota Strong. We’ll stay resilient in the face of whatever they might throw at us.”
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up, "Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
mn-ice-witness.org/list/citizens A Minneapolis friend passed along this sourced list (which will be ongoing updated) of what ICE is doing in ther city
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U.S. Citizens & Legal Residents | MN ICE Witness
Documented incidents of U.S. citizens and legal residents wrongly detained or stopped by ICE in Minnesota.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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princess bubblegum 🏳️‍⚧️ @vvv.gay · 25/01/2026
The peaceful protest continued down near Downtown Crossing station in Boston with repeated chanting.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
His whole remarks are pretty remarkable. Liberation theology lives. www.nhepiscopal.org/blog
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Stories — Episcopal Church of New Hampshire
News, information, and updates about the Episcopal Church of New Hampshire.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I think the misogynist contempt that’s evident as a motivation in the murder of Renee Good makes her killing by a state actor more similar to so-called private violence—eg domestic violence homocides—than some arguments that rely on a firm distinction between state and private violence can sustain.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges. Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Prosecute Renée Nicole Good’s Murderer
The ICE agent who killed Renée Nicole Good not only can be held accountable for murder—he must be.
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Congresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026
I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
this is bananas; you must not teach Plato in a "contemporary moral problems" course!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/11/2025
Another way to look at this is when ICE, CBP, et al lie on reports, now they can blame AI. “U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis wrote… that the practice of using ChatGPT to write use-of-force reports undermines the agents’ credibility and ‘may explain the inaccuracy of these reports.’”
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Judge's footnote on immigration agents using AI raises accuracy and privacy concerns
A federal judge called out an immigration enforcement agent for using artificial intelligence to write the narrative of a use-of-force report as just a small part of a scathing opinion that rebutted f...
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Has any one written anything about why so many people seem to use AI so much? Asking bc I truly don't get it - even aside from the terrible environmental implications, and so many other terrible things it does economically. But why do people like not doing their own thinking/seeking/making?
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Has any one written anything about why so many people seem to use AI so much? Asking bc I truly don't get it - even aside from the terrible environmental implications, and so many other terrible things it does economically. But why do people like not doing their own thinking/seeking/making?
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be? Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 19/11/2025
Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
we are going to win
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
this is a great piece - and maybe explains to me why i haven't really watched tv and movies for like a decade...
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Three of my books were here; you should all file a claim…
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/11/2025
Summers must be removed from his post at Harvard.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 10/11/2025
Tonight was a very bad night.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 07/11/2025
Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
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Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
heatmap.news
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Infuriating. MA voters said we don’t want a standardized test to determine whether students graduate, and now they want more standardized tests? Do we need some kind of constitutional amendment banning high stakes standardized testing, to prevent this chicanery? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/16/m...
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State mulls end-of-course tests, but officials insist they won’t be another high-stakes graduation exam - The Boston Globe
State officials said the recommendations are not final and the tests would not necessarily be high stakes.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"Lia Smith was a student-athlete, but she wasn’t allowed to participate this year because of a hostile government and the cowardice of the NCAA. Two years ago, Lia was a talented young swimmer at Middlebury; now, her name is almost entirely absent from the college’s athletics website..."
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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Why Is Trump Autocracy Rising? These Dems Have an Unnerving Answer.
A new Biden administration autopsy, based on internal assessments from many government insiders, has crystal clear lessons for the future.
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Political theorists have lots of explanations for this
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/10/2025
Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Zhao, White House says reut.rs/49eixmn
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Trump pardons convicted Binance founder Zhao, White House says
U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned convicted Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, a White House official said on Thursday.
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I got completely off Blackboard this year for my big intro class. The students seem to be okay.
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 18/10/2025
here is my favorite sign from today
square concrete slab on the ground with “OLD DYKES AGAINST TECH BROS” stenciled onto it
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Lida Maxwell @lidamaxwell.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Fenway Health, founded to give queer people the health care they were denied elsewhere, ceases offering gender affirming care for minors. www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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Facing federal pressure, Fenway Health halts gender-affirming care for patients under 19
Facing federal pressure, the Boston clinic's decision has prompted backlash from LGBTQ+ community members.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe. Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
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'Our communities are being treated as sacrifice zones for the data center boom' | Opinion
This fight is over more than data centers — it is about whether our future will be dictated by corporate greed or by those who call these places home.
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