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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Who will organize an "another university is possible" conference with me?

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Laurent Pech 🇺🇦 @profpech.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Academic freedom or lack thereof: Decline of institutional autonomy in the United States compared to its decline in other prominent (former) democracies that have autocratized, namely Hungary, India, and Türkiye academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I’m thrilled to welcome the @pwhlpa.bsky.social to the @aflcio.org as our 65th union! Women’s hockey players are inspiring a new generation and building power on and off the ice. America’s unions are stronger with the PWHLPA in our union family. bit.ly/4lkwBis

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

pretty confident that if our own government bombed, say, Philadelphia, we'd just kind forget about it after a couple more Rocky movies

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Killing a bunch of elementary school girls to distract from having raped a bunch of middle- and high-school girls is pretty fucking grim.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/02/2026

TRANS HERO SAVES DROWNING BABY This story should be everywhere.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 04/07/2023

I'm imagining an instructor somewhere making a syllabus with chat gpt, assigning reading from books that don't exist But the students don't notice, because they are asking chat gpt to summarize the book or write the essay

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If you’re accepting assignments via Canvas, you’re facilitating cheating & betraying students who want to learn. Accommodations matter; good ones don’t feed AI. “But it’s more work!” Yes, resisting fascism—AI is a component—is harder than looking the other way.

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Alejandro Montenegro @aemonten.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

But it does it quickly and congratulates you for asking

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I realized that a lot of the guys who have been found in the Epstein files are probably really struggling because the guy they would have gone to for advice about being discovered in the Epstein files was JEFFREY EPSTEIN

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Wilford Brimless @wool-gathering.com · 01/02/2026

We CAN use the masters tools a little bit, as a treat, to tear down the master’s house.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/02/2026

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

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dropkickCHARNEL @dropkick.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

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Logan M. Davis @loganmdavis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I’ve harped on this for years but the reason there’s a seemingly (or at least relatively) “low” amount of corruption in US politics is because we’ve legalized all of it.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/01/2026

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

there are people going out in the freezing cold and literally putting their lives on the line in defense of their communities and the multicultural secular society they believe in. not interested in what some online wannabe dnc consultant type wants to tell me what is and isn't possible now

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

no amount of screaming Don’t Build The Torment Nexus is gonna stop them from building the Torment Nexus. so we have one option which is “Make it extremely shameful and socially costly to voluntarily use these devices”

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 17/01/2026

It’s in part YOUR FUCKING FAULT THAT THERE ARE NO FUCKING OB/GYNS IN ALABAMA! WE SHOULD NOT NEED ROBOTS AND AI TO PROVIDE MFM CARE, GODDAMNIT!

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Rachel Hatzipanagos @rachelbianca.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This week, I spoke with a St. Paul woman who told me ICE came to her door and asked her to report on her "Asian neighbors." The Hmong community, the large majority of whom are in this country legally for decades now, is in hiding.

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Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 10/01/2026

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet

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Bennett Tomlin @bft.wtf · 09/06/2025

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I WANT LEADERS AS ANGRY AS WE ARE

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Do not let the failures of prosecution post January 6th happen again. Every second you do not charge this person is a second the massive propaganda apparatus around the federal government will use to create a fog of lies to get him off. Arrest him immediately for killing an American citizen.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Every second the murderer is not arrested is another second for feds to hide him in a place that would create a jurisdictional fight. He's on video killing a person. You have to arrest this guy an hour ago, but you might still have time now.

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it’s me AC @wellgoshacs.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I’m eating lunch, I’m having a panic attack, I’m charging my phone, and then I’m going back out to try and keep my neighborhood safe.

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Margaret Patton Chapman @mpchapman.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Do I feel smug that I felt it was easy to tell the A.I. generated texts from the author generated? Yes, I do. Am I also concerned that others found it difficult? Yes, I am. What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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What if Readers Like A.I.-Generated Fiction?

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

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Ryan Ken @ryankenacts.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It’s pretty obvious that Bari Weiss thinks the news is just putting on that voice

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

That Compact essay is very easily picked a part with actual data/evidence, but what has become clear is there is very little will to do so as its dubious claims confirm a deeply held grievance amongst an apparently large % of our white colleagues that they are the victims of rampant discrimination.

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a team of bumblebees @saramchenry.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Lawn darts only killed one kid before they were banned. Meta has killed 36. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

Sextortion scams have become a growing threat in recent years, with thousands of victims - primarily boys - nationwide, according to an FBI alert last year. The FBI has blamed criminals in West Africa and Southeast Asia for operating the schemes. And at least 36 teen boys have died by suicide after being victimized by financial sextortion, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Bergman said the growth team opposed privacy-by-default for teen accounts and dominated internal decision-making.
"There were people of conscience working for Meta that were trying their level best to sound the alarm bell of what these platforms were doing, but time and time again, the concerns for public safety gave way to the imperative of corporate profit," Bergman said.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

What are some of your favourite short stories of all time? The ones that you keep going back to?

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 11/12/2025

The term “unskilled worker” was invented to make it seem normal that people working 40+ hours a week are still living paycheck to paycheck. It’s not normal AND it’s not acceptable.

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

its so crazy that young people became less interested in movies & tv at the same time weird tech guys mostly started deciding what gets made

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

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Erin Elkin @shadell.itch.io · 01/12/2025

So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.

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