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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's the last day to comment on the Department of Education's proposed accreditation changes (until 11:59). This is a continuation of the administration's attempts to exert political control over univerities. Please take a minute to comment. The @alliancehighered.bsky.social has templates here:

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Public Comment Regarding the Education Department's Proposed Rules for Accreditation

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

There is one week left to submit comments on a proposed regulation that would significantly reshape how federal agencies award, manage, and oversee research grants. AERA encourages members to submit comments by the deadline on July 13. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

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AERA Urges Members to Weigh In on Proposed Federal Grantmaking Rule That Could Reshape Research Funding

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Two for two -- my second quarter this year of inviting inquiry in my large "DEI" course. (Because that's what we do in these courses.)

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Check out our 2026 #USvsHate youth winners! Posters and stickers heading to participating schools as the year ends. usvshate.org/results-winn...

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

By a San Diego fourth grader, 2019. We stand with our Muslim neighbors against hate and violence and condemn the attack on the Islamic Center of San Diego that took innocent lives. We insist on countering hateful rhetoric and action. #usvshate

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Quite a remarkable exchange between Justice Alito (concurring) and Justice Jackson (dissenting) respecting the Supreme Court’s decision to issue the judgment in the Louisiana redistricting case immediately: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Last day to vote on our 2025-2026 #USvsHate finalists! Which youth-made messages would YOU like to see sparking conversation in schools? Vote here: t.e2ma.net/message/eowf...

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Last day to vote on your favorite youth-made #USvsHate messages!

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Want some inspiration? Check out our #USvsHate youth message finalists and vote for your favorites by April 27 😉 t.e2ma.net/message/eowf...

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

On this Earth Day, I have to tell you: my daughter just wrote a senior thesis on the policies that move states toward the win/win of putting solar panels on land also being used for farming. She called it “Farming Sun”🌿🌞

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Want some inspiration? Check out our #USvsHate youth message finalists and vote for your favorites by April 27 😉 t.e2ma.net/message/eowf...

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

The state has banned “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison from ALL high school library shelves. The “classics” are safe, they promised.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Families of the children from Minab School sent a letter to Pope Leo XIV, thanking him for his peace efforts and urging him to be the voice for their voiceless children. “We ask you to continue to be the voice of children without a voice and to strive to open paths of dialogue"

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Want some inspiration? Check out our #USvsHate youth message finalists and vote for your favorites by April 27 ;) tinyurl.com/4u4zd7zc

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Partisan aspects of these races aside, good evidence here of the value of *pro-opportunity framing* in school board races by candidates who refuse to demonize kids and teachers and instead call for expanding opportunity for all in public schools. open.substack.com/pub/educatio...

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Reading the Tea Leaves

From Hungary to Tulsa, a key theme is emerging

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/04/2026

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.” (Published Oct. 2025)

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Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We didn't deserve this day.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

RAPID ACTION ALERT: WHITE HOUSE TONIGHT Emergency protest at the White House at 7 PM. This morning, Trump posted on Truth Social: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” He has set an 8 PM deadline for Iran to reopen the

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Not one word of this is hyperbole.

AOC:

This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Called my Senators and Representative, urging them to cut their recess short, show up in DC, and prepare articles of impeachment against Trump for violating "18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide," as so clearly explained by my @cipolicy.bsky.social colleague @dylanwilliams.bsky.social

Dylan Williams
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This meets the threshold for intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group as set forth in 18 US Code § 1091 prohibiting the crime of genocide.
It any Iranians are killed pursuant to this threat, President Trump will be guilty of genocide, as will those assisting him.
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Donald J. Trump
@realDonald Trump
A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don't want that to happen, but it probably will. However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS? We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

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Tara Goddard @drtaragoddard.com · 07/04/2026

I have a father and mother in law in Iran. I have a sister in law. A niece. She's 14. She likes silly pink headbands and purses and dresses, just like kids her age all over the world. There are 93 million people like her in Iran. People who do all the normal mundane life things as the rest of us.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress beforehand, or our allies, or coherently explain to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop this.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

350K just in Manhattan, including my dad with banner, which also read Fascism Runs on Fossil Fuels.

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

fwiw, mail voting as practiced today is actually quite high tech & extremely reliable (high tech print runs that put the correct races on each voter's ballot, high tech use of bar codes w/o IDing people). the whole west coast has mailed a ballot to all voters for multiple elections without problems

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11/03/2026

Q: “A new report says the military investigation has found the United States struck the school in Iran. As Commander in Chief, do you take responsibility for that?” Trump: “I don’t know about it.”

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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I am doing a lit review of research published since 2020 that documents the K-12 opportunity consequences of newly spiking restriction pressures. If you have relevant pubs, please share w me so we include them. micapollock@ucsd.edu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/02/2026

Walz: "We've got children that a core memory for them will be their classmate being taken away. That will stick with them the rest of their lives. My hope is what sticks with them is human decency wins out, rule of law matters ... "

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🚨 UT Austin is planning to shutter its African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS); Mexican American and Latina/o Studies (MALS); Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS); and American Studies departments. 👇 aaup-texas.org/blog/f/ut-au...

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UT Austin Closing Ethnic, Gender and Area Studies Departments

Social: X @TexasAaup and Bluesky @texasaaup.bsky.social

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I’ve been thinking today about how our undergraduates have been witnessing this behavior as a national model since elementary school. That’s what I’m thinking about.

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Legal Defense Fund @legaldefensefund.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

There is no justification for racism. There is no justification for using AI, a meme, or stereotype to advance racist agendas and spread disinformation. Dehumanizing Black communities and communities of color will never be okay.

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I love this #USvsHate video. It captures some of our student and teacher participants' powerful voices and anti-hate messages over the past few years. Join us in 2026: submit student messages in any media to usvshate.org by February 27, this year's deadline! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTND...

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Join the Growing #USvsHate Community.

YouTube video by USvsHate Action Project

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Mica Pollock @micapollock.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Also a great primer on basic rights.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Quite a statement by the Republican governor of Vermont

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Chuck Schumer says Senate Dems won't support DHS funding. This thing is really moving now.

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · 17/01/2026

The federal stuff gets the most oxygen, the state stuff never stopped.

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Karin Chenoweth @karinchenoweth.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I know there's a lot of passion to help fix what is ailing America. Here's one thought. You live in a school district. See if your district is holding an election for school board this year. If so, find out if there is a pro-public education candidate. If so, do something to support--put up a

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