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Lisa Schiff

@lschiff.bsky.social
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Co-founder, #DefendResearch (defendresearch.org); librarian (ret). Some things I care about: social justice; defending libraries, education, & research; information equity. All posts/thoughts my own. orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981

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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 13h
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 3h
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law Tuesday banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to people. to.pbs.org/4AUIDXc
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Newsom signs California law banning officers from using gloves that deliver electric shocks
In California, lawmakers passed at least two dozen bills this year seeking to fortify immigrants' rights, restrict cooperation with federal immigration agents and tighten regulations on immigrant dete...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h
🚨 BREAKING: Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa has filed an official request to inspect unredacted communications between Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and Elon Musk after roughly 1,400 pages released last year were heavily redacted as “intimate and embarrassing.”
Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa stands indoors wearing a burgundy blazer and dark top, with campaign signage bearing her name and the outline of Texas visible behind her.Official letter dated September 29, 2026, from Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa to Gov. Greg Abbott’s office requesting inspection of unredacted communications between Abbott’s office and Elon Musk and his companies. Hinojosa seeks records previously released with redactions for information deemed “embarrassing” or “intimate,” citing her legislative authority under the Texas Public Information Act.
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Ross A. Isaacs @rossisaacs.bsky.social · 7h
How is this text chain supposed to prove Smith was in Atlanta in the first place? All it talks about is a seat reservation at an unnamed game.
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 9h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Dangerous precedent’: authors sue LA library over cancelled Palestine event
City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 12h
Really great interview! So appreciate the courage that these folks at the #NIH and other agencies are demonstrating!
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great overview of how the Trump admin cultivated fear inside NIH to force compliance, even with harmful, unethical & unlawful orders. Also covers origins of the Bethesda Declaration community. From my friend & co-organizer Dr. Wen-Ying Sylvia Chou. www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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NIH Employees Lived in A Culture of Fear, So They Started Keeping Receipts
Sylvia Chou, former NIH program director, says “nobody’s OK” after massive disruptions to funding policies and infrastructure.
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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens. Pull up a seat🪑. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory www.history.com/articles/the...
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The Long History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America | HISTORY
School segregation, lynchings and mass deportations of Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens are just some of the injustices...
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Register today for the #DefendResearch webinar Thu. (10/1) "Defending Academic Freedom in Texas and Florida: On-the-Ground Stories of Strategy and Solidarity" with @shawntalbrown.bsky.social, Amanda Garcia, Dr. Jonathan Scott Perry, & @drmbutler.bsky.social. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Defending Academic Freedom in Texas and Florida: On the Ground Stories of Strategy and Solidarity. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ...
Texas and Florida state governing institutions have engaged in longstanding attacks on academic and intellectual freedom at state higher education institutions, especially in areas related to race, et...
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: “The culture of rape, sexual assault, and pedophilia is protected in elite institutions across the United States and including Cornell University”
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UCLA illegally fired me as DEI Director. Why? B/c I posted truth about this bigoted piece of garbage after he died. Please consider helping me keep my head above water, until my lawyers reach a fair resolution with UCLA. My pack and I could use your support: gofundme.com/f/waiting-for-justice-auvzc
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"More than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities have reportedly been blocked from entering Gaza for over a year. The UN says Gaza has the world’s highest concentration of child amputees. Gaza amputees: Israel blocking entry of 900 wheelchairs www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k5S...
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Gaza amputees: Israel blocking entry of 900 wheelchairs
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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ceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026
the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/09/2026
Our culture really did not need another powerful, abusive branch but we have evidently one rooted in Silicon Valley.
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
@nytimes.com Is a drugging and 7 hours gang rape at #Cornell not as worthy of your reporting as these other stories?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Doesn't fit The Narrative™️, doesn't get the coverage
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's not just the seven rapists at #Cornell, it's all the guys who saw that message and did nothing. NOTHING #Pinks
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is no centralized data on penalties for campus sexual assault. But the last time I checked schools that posted complaint outcomes, reflection papers were the most common penalty (followed by a 1 semester suspension). The resolution of the Cornell case is not an outlier.
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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 27/09/2026
I think we need to share this starter pack again after a great weekend with @27unihted.bsky.social , @jeremymberg.bsky.social , and the #BethesdaDeclaration crew. #NIH
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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Margaret G @mls0308.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
👇👇👇👇 #RapeCulture #Pinks
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Chandra Steele @chandrasteele.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two full days of news about women being pushed out of education and careers because men getting away with sexual assault is the status quo. And these stories are an infinitesimal representation of the scale of the issue
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/09/2026
Some of us in San Francisco first heard of the Network State and related tech cults from Emily Mills. She documented how these ideas had infused our local politics. It sounded odd at first, but her work sparked mine. On Tuesday, we're onstage together in SF. Tix here: semaphore.thd.org/954-2/
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THE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS PRESENTS: GIL DURAN with Emily Mills
Join Telegraph Hill Dwellers for an evening with journalist and author Gil Duran, in conversation with Emily Mills, discussing his new book, The
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings
"1 person died in ICE detention every 10 days from January 2025 through August 2026. Source: NPR." Image of a barbed wire fence against the sky. ACLU logo.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Conservatives focus on narrative dominance. This is the direct result of centuries of their praxis:
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thinking about this more, because it's horrific: You absolutely cannot have "CNC" if there is any other intersecting power dynamic. If there's any other power dynamic involved, it's not CNC. All this is, is rich bros demanding access to women's bodies with plausible deniability. Nuke it from orbit.
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead?
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WELCOME TO NAZI AMERICA
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"[R]ecords do not support DHS's claims, and DHS has still not provided evidence to change that. Instead, DHS officials continue their attempts to intimidate election officials into compliance and deter voters with [baseless] claims of fraud ... Repeating unsupported claims does not make them true."
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wow, I haven't been paying enough attention to electoral matters at home. Just saw an ad during the Giants/Dodgers game for California Prop 39, a voter ID measure funded in the main by Republican billionaire Richard Uihlein. calmatters.org/california-v...
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Proposition 39: Voter ID
Proposition 39 on the November ballot would require all voters to provide identification to prove they are a U.S. citizen to vote in a California election.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FUCK THIS FASCIST SHIT.
ijv.canada, winchevsky and jewssaynotogenocide

BREAKING
Canada defines anti-Zionism as antisemitic

Government of Canada
Gouvernement
du Canada

Public Safety Canada
National Commitments to Combat Antisemitism - Summer 2026
Progress Report
Intended outcome
Institutions across Canada have increased access to tools, guidance, and training to support the recognition, understanding and response to contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism, as outlined in the Canadian Handbook on the IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism.

Public Safety Canada is promoting anti-Palestinian racism and distorting Jewish history

ijv.canada For the first time, the Canadian government has explicitly defined anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism....
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Anti-Zionism is opposition to Jewish settler-colonialism in Palestine, which peaked during the 1948 Nakba and continues to this day by Israel. It is opposition to the ethnic cleansing and ongoing attempted annihilation of Palestinians. It is opposition to the creation of an ethnostate that places one religious group in a position of supremacist power over another. It is opposition to the construction of apartheid walls and the terrorizing of civilians by violent settlers. It is opposition to the idea that Jews must assume state power and dominate over others in order to be safe anywhere in the world.
Fundamentally, anti-Zionism is the belief that Palestinians, like all peoples, deserve to live in dignity and safety, and that Jewish life can flourish everywhere without a violent ethnostate.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This!!! I keep saying "words matter" and here's a great example of why. They're intentionally trying to manipulate our perception. 🤬
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So important to submit comments on these proposed changes to the #census! Check out this great site with amazing resources put together by census and government data specialists like @dataindex.us: handsoffourcens.us
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Hands Off Our Census
The Census Bureau has proposed unprecedented changes to the 2030 Census. Public comment closes October 13, 2026. Here's what's proposed and how to weigh in.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"When small businesses, many of them Black- and women-owned, are struggling in [MI], there never seems to be money for them, but Governor Whitmer has funding for bombs that kill children ... These weapons have been used to commit genocide and murder the family members and loved ones of so many[.]"
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: The White House has blocked CNN from traveling with Trump on Air Force One for a Saturday trip to Knoxville, according to two people familiar with the decision, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive details.
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White House blocks CNN from trip on Air Force One
The White House’s decision puts the state of the rotational TV pool, which resumed on Friday, in jeopardy once more.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/09/2026
With no government enforcement, many southern school districts, along with others across the country, will soon be able to discriminate openly. trib.al/AaSCbXP
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Trump’s Justice Department Gives Up on Desegregation
The DOJ is no longer bothering to enforce racial desegregation of schools..
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
While #education stats have always had room for improvement, we still need to understand how our students are doing. Taking away the ability to see this picture doesn't change what's happening in reality. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet
National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after Doge canceled crucial contracts
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: In a dangerous decision for voters, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized and deeply flawed database of personal information to initiate registration purges. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
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Peter E. AKA Say10 @pelsner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
apnews.com/article/meat... So not only is the food not safe for consumption, they added fake inspection tags too. Someone please tell me when we will start winning...
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More than 160,000 pounds of meat bearing false USDA inspection labels recalled
More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the country because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with false inspection stickers.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"When the Trump administration first announced sanctions against the [ICC] last year, a group of 79 countries, including major European powers like the U.K., France, and Germany, signed a statement opposing the move ... [T]hose nations have not taken decisive action to rein in the Trump admin[.]"
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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So happy to facilitate this 10/1 conversation with 4 #HigherEd activists #organizing and #resisting on campuses in #Texas & #Florida. Register & get more info: "Defending Academic Freedom in Texas and Florida: On-the-Ground Stories of Strategy and Solidarity" us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Defending Academic Freedom in Texas and Florida: On the Ground Stories of Strategy and Solidarity. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ...
Texas and Florida state governing institutions have engaged in longstanding attacks on academic and intellectual freedom at state higher education institutions, especially in areas related to race, et...
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"[Measles] has a mortality rate of one in a thousand. ... If somebody comes into our emergency department with measles, and they go back into a treatment room, and then they leave that treatment room, no one can walk into that room for two hours. That's how contagious [measles] is."
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