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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 3h

Crucial point about the effect of denigrating, defunding, and attacking critical humanistic and social-scientific scholarship in gender and sexuality as 'woke,' 'biased/not objective,' and 'useless' www.chronicle.com/article/at-c...

But it’s not just the toxic echo chambers of the “manosphere” or the darkest corners of internet porn sending the message that women are subordinate, experts on gender and culture say. Institutions of higher learning are being systematically stripped of the disciplines and programs that for decades have countered that message.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 5h

Pretty much everything good I'm reading/hearing right now re "existential risk" vs real current-day risk, longtermism, EA, etc. is recapitulating what @timnitgebru.blacksky.app was highlighting and warning about long ago. like several years ago, before most people were taking this seriously.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 13h

Community Archive Project Brings Power to the People hiddencityphila.org/2026/10/comm... “There were brothers who joined the Black Panther Party, and they could sing. They were called ‘The Lumpin’.”

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Community Archive Project Brings Power to the People

Through a fellowship with People’s Media Record, Mt. Airy resident Regina Jennings reveals a treasure trove of Black Panther Party ephemera

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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

UPDATE… MEMPHIS…

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The rise of "Alpha School" feels similar--you don't want to train talent, knowledge or skills, but dependent minds who believe that what they're doing is entrepreneurship and brainmaxxing, that tech is all-knowing and all-powerful, and that they are being Alphas by being good minions.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky

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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax

There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Elizabeth Catlett received possibly the first MFA at the University of Iowa, which would become known for pioneering this type of program. one more piece of the university's almost-submerged Black history

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The pretense is that the voucher moment including the fine folks from Heritage, innocently standing by, saw the "culture wars" happening around "woke," and decided to then push aggressively for vouchers. First of all, Heritage *created* the CRT panic.

archive.ph

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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good timing…

WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The US securities regulator is set to propose rules on Wednesday aimed at expanding retail investors' access to private assets that have ‌traditionally been reserved for professionals, potentially offering higher returns but also exposing everyday Americans to more risk.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's proposals are part of a broader push by US President Donald Trump's administration to "democratize" private assets, such as private equity, private credit, real estate and venture capital, that can potentially result in higher returns than traditional stock and bond portfolios.

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The Emancipator @theemancipator.org · 30/09/2026

Thousands of Native Hawaiians could lose Medicaid eligibility and access to affordable, lifesaving care once the Trump administration’s new Medicaid qualifications take effect on January 1 — all because the federal government, for over a century, has refused to federally recognize them as a group.

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Student newspapers are keeping journalistic integrity alive

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Same in CT. It's cuts cuts cuts ideology at extreme. Society way past 1980s tax/welfare revolt, past peak neolib austerity of early 2000s. Now completely culturally+socially submerged and political-economically engaged in race of cuts. No space for other creative thinking. Only cuts. @aaup.org

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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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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love the reference to faux-democratization as “predatory inclusion.” It’s perfect! 👏🏽 Stefan & Leah. “We argue that conceptions that reduce democratization to expanded market access are not merely insufficient but, when applied to speculative capital markets, amount to predatory inclusion.”

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a reminder student loan interest rates are pegged to this rate plus an "add-on." Parent PLUS loans were already at **9% interest** before this hike.

table showing that with 10 year Treasury notes at 4.468%, Parent Plus loans were at 9.07% interest 26-27.
from https://fsapartners.ed.gov/fsa-print/publication/1007224

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/09/2026

Talking recently to family members of people snatched up and expelled to third countries by ICE, I learned: 1) All of those captured were in 287(g) jurisdictions; 2) None of the family members had known what 287(g) was and had erroneously thought people with no arrests were safe.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Linda McMahon: "AI is definitely a tool used correctly. I've seen it in action. I have visited the Alpha School in Austin, Texas, where they use AI for the first two hours every single morning. The students have their headsets on, they are watching their computers ... it is incredibly effective"

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Education Dept. Formally Removes Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students A forthcoming amendment would define sex as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female.’ www.the74million.org/article/educ...

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Education Dept. Formally Removes Title IX Protections for LGBTQ Students

A forthcoming amendment would define sex as an ‘immutable biological classification as either male or female.’

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and right when people were making algorithmic bias/inequality more visible, many of those processes were **mysteriously** relabeled "AI" and that whole conversation got erased...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a good day to google "Foxconn," "Wisconsin," "Trump," "2018," "13,000 jobs" and "didn't happen, didn't even come close"

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 29/09/2026

Interesting details on how the Iowa steel deal got done. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

Mesabi executives have leaned on a Trump-world insider as the company has sought to expand its footprint in the United States. The company hired Jason Miller, a longtime Trump adviser, as its lobbyist, paying him at least $240,000 through his company SHW Partners, according to lobbying disclosure records. The government of India also hired Mr. Miller’s company, paying $150,000 per month for “strategic counsel, tactical planning and government relations assistance on policy matters before the U.S. government,” according to federal filings under the Foreign Agent Registration Act.

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Patrick Clarkin @patrickclarkin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A recent assessment by the UN Satellite Centre found that the number of destroyed structures across Gaza has increased by 9% since a “ceasefire” took effect nearly a year ago. Overall, about 82% of structures in Gaza…have been damaged, and about two-thirds of those have been destroyed.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If someone will sketch out the script for "A Governor Story," I'm ready to share rights

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

maybe the least unsurprising story, given Lahn's wife has basically said she has no interest in moving to Iowa and their alleged home in-state is in the middle of nowhere.

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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Zach Lahn, the Republican candidate for Governor of Iowa, has since deleted his profile. It's not the first time a politician has been caught out by the exercise app's tracking and mapping features. road.cc/news/cycling...

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

Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Trump administration is weaponizing civil rights law (by maliciously reinterpreting it to mean the opposite of what is written) to mandate race discrimination. This is what they did with gender and Title IX during Trump’s first term, but on a bigger scale.

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Trump administration moves to limit fixes for systemic racism in schools

The Trump administration has shifted the approach to civil rights enforcement in American schools. Previously, both Republican and Democratic administrations addressed systemic racism, recognizing tha...

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Unicorns Happen @silvy777.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Dr Alondra Nelson on how AI companies use agnotology, strategic production of ignorance, to avoid accountability. They legitimize ignorance via design opacity; generation of uncertainty; claims of unknowability of AI. Move fast, break things. Cast themselves as both the problem creators & solvers.

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Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26

YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

We hosted Thomas Gokey, Eleni Shirmer, & Jason Wozniak of the @debtcollective.bsky.social on our podcast years ago to talk about misconceptions about debt, how debt burdens schools, and even the impact on pedagogy. One of the best conversations I've ever had: youtu.be/ossPHELTniA?...

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What is the Debt Collective?

YouTube video by Human Restoration Project Clips

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Send this to every university President in the country.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my case is on page 45 www.aclu.org/publications...

In July 2024, Northwestern University suspended a journalism professor and canceled his fall 2024 courses. He was first investigated and suspended for his social media use and views on journalistic integrity. 337 In January 2025, an ad-hoc committee of three professors found no cause for his suspension, and he was cleared for reinstatement in April 2025. Although the professor had been cleared of university policy violations, he was later investigated for his conduct at a pro-Palestine encampment on campus, even after misdemeanor criminal charges against him for obstructing a police officer were dropped, to determine whether his alleged actions violated the faculty handbook. 338 During an April 2024 encampment, the professor says he formed a line between police and protesters to protect student protesters from physical attack. 339 In March 2025, Northwestern denied the professor tenure and said his position

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The ACLU and Amnesty International have published an exhaustive, 322 page repoter about student (and faculty) speech being under attack around the world. www.aclu.org/publications...

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now

He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just the biggest sigh

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Baddies will destroy liberal order to play chicken with climate disaster. They don’t care about the rest of us. We can build better but the window to get in the fight is closing. We have to stop appealing to moral authority here.

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Kansas State University AAUP chapter @kstateaaup.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As Kansas State President Richard Linton celebrates the university's "next-gen land-grant" success, his administration plans to decimate the College of Arts and Sciences. kstateaaup.org/so-much-for-...

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So much for One K-State

As President Richard Linton celebrates K-State's next-gen success, his administration aims to dismantle the university's core, the College of Arts and Sciences. Budget cuts will decimate jobs, departm...

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026

IN MINNESOTA.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

this plus Alpha Academy plus YCombinator plus other "opportunities" all share the American Idol model: we "discover" you by which we mean, we want to own your IP

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Read this: is is from the chair of outside advisors of the Iowa civics center imposed on campus. He thinks he is describing current faculty but he is perfectly describing himself and his fellow travelers

"I think there's a fundamental tension," Lowery told Inside Higher Ed. "We've had a sort of ideological takeover of the universities where you have ideological administrators hiring ideological faculty and they will do everything they can to prevent other ideas from being represented on campus."

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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If it wouldn't all rebound on patients in higher insurance costs etc., I think I would find this kind of funny.

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