Reposted by mmrzaVirginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026While women’s and gender studies programs are being closed down all over the country, the work feminist scholars have done has never been more important. 623087
Reposted by mmrzaGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 295113474115
Reposted by mmrzaAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 5030971089
Reposted by mmrzaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They’ve almost achieved the dream of Black capital without any actual Black people. 1025158
Reposted by mmrzaMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/09/2026"On Monday, I can take a Zoom call from a Mexico City Airbnb that used to be a family’s house, and on Tuesday, I can send an email from a short-term rental in Bali that was once a women’s shelter. I bill my employer for the time I spend on my Instagram." buff.ly/CsWhmEybuff.lyMy Remote Job Gives Me the Freedom to Displace People All Over the World“By working remotely, I break down boundaries. I’m a traveler and a worker, a learner, and a teacher. I’m a digital nomad and a real-life colonist.” 9/14/23 ... 1389130
Reposted by mmrzaKenji @elementaleucology.com · 19/09/2026"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis [and its] seductive production of specialness... made [Jason Arday] vulnerable... [His] predicament was [unique] for a particular type of Black scholar... 102
Reposted by mmrzaAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026I think at this point, a lot of millennials just want some sense of stability without having to grind themselves into dust to advance their careers. It feels like a collective loss of faith in the system and an attempt to find meaning outside career advancement in a increasingly nihilistic society. 943835
Reposted by mmrzaAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 30/06/2026lol Europe is getting humbled in this World Cup and I AM LOVING IT.static.klipy.comNew Girl: Winston Says 'Straight Up Delicious'Alt: New Girl: Winston Says 'Straight Up Delicious' 1147551
Reposted by mmrzaJoseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 30/05/2026New post alert. The University Will Never Love You indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io/the-universi...indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.ioThe University Will Never Love YouAfter twenty years in higher education, I know the university will protect itself over its people. Rather than explain the value of the university, we have to refuse the language of the market and def... 12516
Reposted by mmrzaRabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026evidently the kids are starting to say "that's AI" as slang for "that's bullshit" and I could not be happier 12966195
Reposted by mmrzaPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening. 151044303
Reposted by mmrzaKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook 105112932895
Reposted by mmrzaNick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education 251553356
Reposted by mmrzaAndrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 07/04/2026My 96 year old Jamaican aunt who has a very sharp understanding of US politics asks me with increasing agitation each time we speak why these fools don’t stop him & at some point there is nothing to say except I’m sorry auntie they are more aligned with him than not we’re doing our best despite them 621644
Reposted by mmrzaKieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The President of the USA declaring that "a whole civilisation will die tonight" is not something that arrives out of a vacuum. It is precipitated by the widespread international failure to hold USA, Israel, and their allies including the UK, accountable for their actions for many decades 112341869
Reposted by mmrzaMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 6228431230
Reposted by mmrzaNational Network of Abortion Funds @abortionfunds.bsky.social · 24/03/2026We have always had abortions, and we will continue to! Today, we’re feeling especially appreciative of abortion providers, abortion funds, and all our volunteers continuing to make abortion access possible! 114340
Reposted by mmrzaWill BOO!-rows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Every picture of ICE agents in airports is just this again 56202084812
Reposted by mmrzaH.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social · 20/03/2026The struggle to defend Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, pensions and public services cannot be separated from the struggle against war. They are the same struggle. The $200 billion the administration demands is money taken from the programs working people depend on to survive. 11310
Reposted by mmrzaMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 17/03/2026wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog 11552551561
Reposted by mmrzaelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world 1773332497
Reposted by mmrzaDeath Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police www.patreon.com/posts/152641...patreon.comAbolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) | The Death PanelGet more from The Death Panel on Patreon 116380
Reposted by mmrzaPrison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 11/03/2026➡️ Expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report. Since last year, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day has grown by nearly 60%. 24633
Reposted by mmrzaashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/02/2026I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this. I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it. I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.theguardian.comShe’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it tooAshley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid 863816948
Reposted by mmrzaMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026This guy gets it. 446234855656
Reposted by mmrzasouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12/02/2026It will very much be worth your time to read this. 11570262
Reposted by mmrzaAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/02/2026THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die. 14363722373
Reposted by mmrzaSteven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 09/02/2026If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare. 492980602
Reposted by mmrzaWilliam C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026“Around 3,500 detainees, more than half of them minors, have cycled through the center since it reopened, more than the population of the town of Dilley itself.” 12717
Reposted by mmrzaProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/20261/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵 203115177368
Reposted by mmrzaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change. 262206388516
Reposted by mmrzaHank Single @hanksingle.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Hey, this Bovino thing is a pathetic attempt to make all these horrors the fault of one guy, and it would be a serious, serious crisis if people fell for it. ICE needs to be abolished, bc this - terror, murder - are what it exists for. Nothing else. This is just an attempt to mollify us. Stay angry 302705846
Reposted by mmrzaHarsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Conflicting info about whether Pretti was murdered by ICE or CBP makes it clear that ICE is not single "rogue agency" ICE, CBP and ALL policing & borders must be abolished. This isn't just one agency; its an entire infrastructure of carceral control, illegalization & criminalization, and fascism. 5814273
Reposted by mmrzaHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 20/01/2026ICYMI Watch this important webinar to learn more about the Stanford 11 trial, political repression against the Palestine solidarity movement, and strengthening our resistance for the long road ahead. Stream here:youtube.comStanford 11 on Trial: Defending the Student Movement for PalestineAs the new year begins, the student movement for Palestine is facing its first felony trial for a 2024 demonstration at Stanford University. If convicted of the felonies brought against them, the… 093
Reposted by mmrzaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/01/2026i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS. 8281252166
Reposted by mmrzaMbsolheim @mbsolheim.bsky.social · 08/01/202610,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder 149142373350
Reposted by mmrzaBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see. 273235066711
Reposted by mmrzaAAUP @aaup.org · 17/11/2025"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.” - Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.socialtexastribune.orgUniversity of Texas silent on Trump compact as deadline loomsMost other invited universities have rejected the administration’s offer tying priority federal funding to campus policy changes. 14125
Reposted by mmrzaBeatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Alice Wong’s legacy is the political horizon she helped articulate. A horizon where disabled knowledge is central, and care is a shared commitment. She taught us to name grief & rage without collapsing under them, to celebrate disabled brilliance without ignoring the material conditions shaping life 127787
Reposted by mmrzaVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/11/2025If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory. 262809998
Reposted by mmrzaRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11/11/2025in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said 61772601191
Reposted by mmrzaJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc 242614911
Reposted by mmrzaPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Cuomo, once again being reminded, in a ruinous fashion, that no means no. 121570232
