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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

FOUCAULT IN A COWBOY HAT. !!! Big fan of the Collège de France insisting on butchering the spelling of “Standford”; basically “not us”, so not important. But also: Foucault gave seminars in French in the US? Record my slight hesitancy at that being possible today. (Little exhibition for centenary)

Picture of Michel Foucault — known as a natty dresser, known for his bald wise head— with an actual cowboy hat. It’s hard to convey the effect in writing, really

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Again, we can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, where the executive weaponizes the justice ministry & law enforcement to target his political opponents, but it’s not a full democracy.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Calls for civility are almost always attempts by the powerful to silence the less powerful and the powerless.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Frog got a ladder. He put the box up on a high shelf. “There,” said Frog. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can climb the ladder and take the box down from the shelf and cut the string and open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Frog climbs a ladder and hides the cookies high on a shelf.

From "Cookies"
In *Frog and Toad Together*

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The BBC’s transphobia is not just BBC News

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“Guinea-Bissau has some of the highest rates of hepatitis B in the world, with about 18% of adults carrying the virus. While it may be transmitted from mother to child during birth, it could also be transmitted from another parent, relatives, siblings or caregivers.”

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

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Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is actually an excellent metaphor for how British colonial / class power works: through unspectacular and criminally boring bureaucracy. While your eyes glaze over at the excel sheet voila they’ve robbed you and taught your kids you’re worthless.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

what is insane about university policy these days is how institutions make sweeping changes to all parts of their practice on the assumption or suspicion of what government policy might look like in the future - and the government is still not being clear or proactive or specific

Universities are revoking offers en masse made to international applicants from countries including Nigeria and Pakistan as they fear the UK government’s visa crackdown will result in a ban on their recruiting international students

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Oh yes, it’s just presented much more quietly and politely

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The US govt is destroying higher education with an open ideological agenda; here in the UK, meanwhile, it’s all being knocked down via bland neoliberal logics.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Universities are shedding jobs, departments are closing and students are losing local options. Jo Johnson remains convinced that competition and student choice are working as intended.

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The UG students where I work have no 'choice' over the modules they study, Jo. Back in my day I had a wealth of options. These students – who are lucky to study there at all since we don't recruit in history anymore – do the modules they're given.

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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 06/10/2026

A military judge has thrown out the confessions of Mustafa al-Hawsawi, a capital defendant in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay. Carol Rosenberg reports:

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Guantanamo Dispatch: Another Confession Is Ruled Inadmissible in 9/11 Case

A military judge has thrown out the confessions of Mustafa al-Hawsawi, a capital defendant in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay.

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Desperately sorry about this. Yet more HE sector vandalism.

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Essentially this view reduces higher education to a talk show

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Such a trenchant point by Bianca Wylie in the context of the algorithmic decision-making that has become central to our interactions with communities, news, employment, and knowledge itself. "It's arguable that a decision is the unit of democracy." –– @biancawylie.com

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

look at all these pieces of shit

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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 04/10/2026

The government is keeping a list of people who question their policies The Home Office fought for more than a year not to disclose their ‘database’ of critical X and Reddit posts. metro.co.uk/2026/09/25/s...

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The government is keeping a list of people who question their policies

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caatuk.bsky.social @caatuk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

REVEALED: BAE Systems advised at least 13 British universities on how to repress pro-Palestine protests on campus. A new revelation by Liberty Investigates and Al Jazeera exposes the extent of the influence of BAE in the securitisation and disciplinary measures against students.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Cambridge student newspaper Varsity is reporting that James Orr (or, as they call him, "Disgraced theology professor James Orr") hasn't been turning up to his own lectures.

archive.varsity.co.uk

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

oh the government torture lawyer has thoughts about acceptable forms of violence

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s been a while since British English stumped me, but I just had to look up what a tannoy system is.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 01/10/2026

waking up every day in 2026 like:

a construction sign on the side of the highway that says "IT'S COMING IT'S BAD"

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ah yes the circle of life

• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm

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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Vote for James Talarico. He has *one* house."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/09/2026

So-called AI detection tools might be an even bigger scurge than AI. I was talking today with a student (a senior), who shared that they now have to spend time "dumbing down" their papers--shortening sentences, removing advanced vocab and punctuation--because otherwise they get flagged as "AI."

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I just said in my discussion at the IWPR event on women’s economic policy: asking “why am I hearing this and why I am hearing this now” is good praxis for the moment.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I want you to imagine Harry Truman doing this with the Manhattan project scientists

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Following an October 2024 online careers event, during which protesting students posted messages such as “BAE kills kids”, an investigator at the University of Sheffield spoke to BAE Systems before deciding to discipline four people” www.bricup.org.uk/news-2/uk-un...

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UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests – BRICUP

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bricup.bsky.social @bricup.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a joint investigation by Liberty and Al Jazeera, thirteen British universities have been exposed as collaborating with BAE systems to ‘handle’ pro-Palestine campus protests. www.bricup.org.uk/news-2/uk-un...

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UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests – BRICUP

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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

I had a conversation a couple of years ago with a woman who went to an elite university thirty years ago. She told me about the pain of watching the men who raped her friends ascend to power and dismantle women’s rights. It was clarifying for me. Expulsion of rapists is harm reduction.

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