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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The joy of finishing a project and closing all the tabs!!

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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

But I need to smile more.

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 26/09/2026

This October, in collaboration with @pmpress.bsky.social, we'll be hosting an evening of conversation about resistance and resilience in rural places with three authors: Ian Byers Gamber, Mitch Troutman, and Gordon Simmons!

A photo of three books nestled in a flowering landscape of Abelia. The titles are Ian Byers Gamber's "I Come Creeping", Mitch Troutman's "The Bootleg Coal Rebellion," and Gordon Simmons' "Mutiny in the Mountains."

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We really do live in the stupidest timeline

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"This collection of Harry Cleaver’s published essays is invaluable for socialist organizers and theoreticians to re-center the working-class as the protagonist of struggle within late capitalist society." Julian Assele reviewed POINTS OF DEPARTURE for COSMONAUT.

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Points of Arrival

Julian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dads are so wild. I had one "help" his child pick up balls after their tennis lesson by picking them up and throwing the balls randomly all over the court, while I watched another walk by and hand his 2 kids huge sticks and just watch them beat each other. What is going on here?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...

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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]

Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...

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Nicholas Beuret @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

My book's on sale, with 30% off! Heat dome got you feeling flat? Fires, floods and the collapse of civilisation got you down? Why not make it worse by reading my @versobooks.bsky.social book on the reality of the climate transition, "Or Something Worse"! Now just £8! tinyurl.com/mvbmcmsy

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“Some unis have been cowed into dropping their DEI programs by the Trump admin, but how deeply dedicated these institutions ever were to equity is unclear, given that they run on the backs of highly skilled, low-paid, precarious labor.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.com

Adjuncting Until the End of Time

Universities now have more adjuncts than tenured and tenure-track professors combined. The conditions are unsustainable—for professors and students alike.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.

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Russell Chisholm @baristanomics.blog · 01/08/2026

Shout out to rural organizers winning data center fights in your communities. You are protecting your health and the the lives of people you might never meet.

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Reminds me of how I started writing a piece about translating while caregiving while taking care of my small niece (and feeling like as my niece was learning how language worked, I was just forgetting all the words) Anyways, I never finished writing it for obvious reasons...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

She “also revealed her hand in developing one of the collective’s most iconic poster campaigns — ‘The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist’… The prjct was born from her time in a residency house [w] married male artists who brought their younger affair partners along as… unpaid studio assistants.”

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Joyce Kozloff Reveals Herself as Guerrilla Girls Founding Member

After decades of anonymity, the feminist artist and activist disclosed in an interview that she is the woman behind the mask of “Liubov Popova.”

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Less than a week after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Portland Press Herald is reporting that ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old man from Colombia today:

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Live updates: Man killed in Biddeford ICE-involved shooting ID’ed as 26-year-old from Colombia

Witnesses described seeing one person being shot in the head.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

This is happening during The World Cup. I have seen far less coverage of this than I have previous upticks in ICE activity. Really missing @lataco.bsky.social and @eltragon.bsky.social Daily Memo right now :(

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 24/06/2026

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

A photo of Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada, who looks like a cuddly and rad dude, smiling while holding a sketchbook full of drawings of baby hippos.

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Teach your kids to "use your words" and "name your feelings" and they will very calmly and eloquently explain exactly how they were feeling when they punched their younger sibling in the face.

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

never thought I'd be saying this but the pope is 🔥

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Andboo Haunton 😷🎃 @andrewhinton.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 25/05/2026

This week's immigration numbers: 145,000 U.S. citizen children with a detained parent. 5 suicides in ICE custody in 2026 alone. An $18,000 proposed deportation fine. Here's what each figure actually means. 🧵

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

A young teen organized a march yesterday against two proposed AI data centers in Vancouver, which is facing water restrictions & housing crisis. The first project will be at former Hootsuite headquarters. Hootsuite is also facing opposition for a pilot ICE contract. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Protesters rally against planned AI data centres in Vancouver | CBC News

Hundreds of people marched through Vancouver on Saturday to protest two planned AI data centres in the city, raising concerns about the amount of water and energy such facilities can use as the region...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Rule:
The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising,
translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for
any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course
materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class
content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the
limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their
submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of
prohibited AI use

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M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 20/05/2026

My friend and comrade Alex Colston has been violently detained again by the Israeli state. Please call to push for his release. Free them all, from the river to the sea.

IG screenshot: Alex was on the flotilla, along with many others. We know the US dragged its heels last time. Put pressure now, please
U.S. CITIZEN ABDUCTED BY ISRAD) ALEXANDER
"ALEX" COLSTON
Representative:
Yvette Clarke - (202) 225-6231
New York Senators:
Schumer - (202) 224-6542
Gillibrand - (202) 224-4451
GLOBAL SUMUD US.
@us_globalsumud, katharnukshai, humansofgsf and
adnaanimo

With photo of a white man in his 30s with a close cut beard.

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Common Notions Press @commonnotions.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Did you miss the launch of our new imprint Class Compositions? Watch it on Red May's Youtube channel! @charmainechua.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, Kieran Knutson, and Peter Linebaugh discuss "Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism" with @americanwork47.bsky.social as moderator.

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Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism

YouTube video by Red May TV

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Spanberger has been such a disappointment even for my low expectations

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This is a lot of the reading list for my current translation project. If you've been looking for a feminist perspective - from the global south - on contemporary forms of exploitation, financialization, and the far right, I have just the book for you! (as soon as I finish translating it, lol)

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I've learned a lot from Trevor Paglen over the years, looking forward to this one!

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This. "incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people" -- @parismarx.com

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Translated this great piece by @veronicagago.bsky.social on the meaning of the intellectual today, emphasizing the role of the collective knowledge production of struggles, esp. the transfeminist movement today.

e-flux.com

A Fragment, a Message in a Bottle, a Toolbox - Journal #163

Verónica Gago decenters intellectuals as individuals in favor of collective intellectual “apparatuses.”

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Please sign in support of colleagues and friends at Essex. "At stake is [...] whether universities will continue to support intellectual projects that question dominant organizational orthodoxies and experiment with alternative ways of understanding economic and social life."

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MM Public Statement

For release on 13 MAY 2026 at 09:00 A Public Statement in Support of the Management and Marketing GroupFacing Compulsory Redundancies Essex Business School University of Essex

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

forbes.com

AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/04/2026

In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen methane gas-burning turbines without legal permits to power its data centers, Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, polluting the nation’s largest majority-Black city with toxic emissions. The NAACP is suing xAI for violating the Clean Air Act.

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“Colossus Failure”: Elon Musk’s Data Centers Face Lawsuit for Polluting Black Neighborhoods in Memphis

As tech companies scramble to build massive new data centers to power artificial intelligence, marginalized communities are bearing the brunt of the environmental harms. In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Mu...

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Lol of course this is the first thing in my feed after getting home from a match where I burned 800 calories just to get my ass absolutely kicked. Guess I'm doing it wrong!

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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Great news from Maryland. Meanwhile in Virginia, higher education workers are still excluded from collective bargaining legislation.

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 04/04/2026

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9

A collective photo taken at Firestorm Books. Our team, including five humans and two dogs, is sitting on the sidewalk in front of the building looking relaxed. The sky is bright but cloudy and flags on the building hang without any indication of wind. The building is painted forest green and various posters and signs are visible in the windows, which reflect the sky. The largest reads "Immigrants Welcome."

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

As someone who plays a lot of tennis, I really appreciate good tennis writing, and I also find Sinner absolutely boring to watch

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

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liz m-d @lizmasdes.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

"You, the heirs [to the military coup of 1976], know how to spread fear and how to resurrect the most profound terror that Argentine society has ever known."

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Letter to the Heirs of the Military Junta

by the Comité de Revolución Imaginaria

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

To my astonishment, prosecutors had introduced my seven-year-old analysis of feminism’s relationship to horror cinema as “evidence of ideologically driven intent” the previous day. theintercept.com/2026/03/13/m...

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I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From A Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a Terrorist.

Prosecutors used a copy of a horror movie review I wrote seven years ago to say that antifa protesters against ICE are terrorists.

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