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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

I do think about the PATHETIC mostly white people who have cried for 10 years about "free speech" and "cancellation" who are either currently SILENT or avidly applauding what the vigilantes and the GOVERNMENT have and are doing to Ilhan Omar.

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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 10h

embarrassed that I’ve been saying this about Ronald McDonald for years and no one has corrected me

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 9h

lol I’m really not sure anyone read it

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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 10h

"Mr. President, the air fryers just took over Europe"

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Merle Eisenberg @merleeisenberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Went on American Campus Podcast with @llassabe.bsky.social to offer a primer on university budgets. Listen here or via Spotify, iTunes, etc: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis.... The episode is broad on purpose, but I hope faculty use it to explore their budgets and ask questions.

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The university budget with Merle Eisenberg - American Campus Podcast

Apologies for the mic difficulties on Lauren's end!References and suggested readings:Merle Eisenberg’s faculty pageInfectious Historians podcastDean O. Smith, How University Budgets Work (Johns Hopkin...

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 9h

Up for today's graduate reading course, @llassabe.bsky.social!

Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars in Modern America by Lauren Lassabe Shepherd

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 9h

"Wow, I wonder what David Brooks thinks of this?" - said no one, ever

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 10h

This guilfoyle business is so weird. I don’t believe for a second that they fired her bc she’s corrupt. Corruption is a basic qualification in this administration

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 19h

Ha yes like a bar for academics

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Three months and the officers remain unnamed.

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La Girafe @lashawndab.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

There’s a straight line from Obama’s birth certificate to the Omar raid.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 21h

We dramatically underestimate the degree to which real estate is a conduit for white collar crime and outright bribery

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Academic urban legends - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014

Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently,...

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 20h

If you are feeling grim about the state of the world, as many of us are, that there is joy to be found in organising and that hope lies with the collective. Join your union, get involved in solidarity movements, sign up for campaigns, do as much or as little as you can but do something.

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Shrek: That's Okay Buddy, We're From The Union

ALT: Shrek: That's Okay Buddy, We're From The Union

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 20h

I will email someone back in three seconds or three years there is no in between

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 20h

The woman, who was wearing a “release the Epstein files” T-shirt, was attacked “by at least three men, one of whom appeared to throw a punch at her head, as well as pulling her hair. Police then arrived, but ignored the violent attacker and whisked the woman out of the arena.”

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Trump Mocks Looks of Woman Violently Attacked at His Rally

The president taunted the woman as a man punched her.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 20h

Because I'm going around speaking and doing workshops on these issues at schools and colleges, all of this is very familiar to me, most particularly the angst faculty feel over turning to surveillance, and... www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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The New Nanny State

In their fight against AI, professors are monitoring their students in ways previously unimaginable.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22h

"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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What’s Wrong With Civility?

Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

APA* invites you to the first in a series of public talks in collaboration with orgs creating possibilities beyond the limits of our existing institutions. Register at bit.ly/APeoplesAcademy 🤓

A People’s Academy post titled “Reimagining Leadership Institute” Saturday Oct 17 at 3:00pm.

Register at bit.ly/apeoplesacademy

Cohosted by Black Birthing Futures. Black Girl’s* Guide to Surviving Menopause. Bloom Collective. Climate Justice Universities Union. CLLCTIVLY. Circles ofCourageous Commons. Critical Internet
Studies Institute. Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. Immigration Justice Collective. Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.
Options Program Inc. Powerful Pathways. Therapy Fund Foundation. School for Poetic Computation. School of Radical Imagination. The Privacy Center at Georgetown.

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My students said I looked very “tumblr” and “tweed” today and I didn’t know whether to thank them or fail them.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

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Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes

Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My toddler’s love language is emotional terrorism

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I just looked up a fancy restaurant I want to go to and saw they open at 5 pm and my first thought was “dang night owls only I guess”

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 08/10/2026

Cornell doesn't need its own police department. No university does. The reason they have their own police departments is so they can control exactly these sorts of circumstances.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

He doesn't even deny his son-in-law is a white supremacist. He simply claims it's out of bounds to ask about his support of white supremacy because he's family.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The media calls him a “moderate”

Newsweek headline from 2023: “Republicans Choose Emmer, a Moderate, as their Third Speaker Nominee”

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You’ve been warned, parents.

MOVIE REVIEW
I Called Him Morgan
*** (Out of four stars)
• Directed by Kasper Collin.
Distributed by Submarine Deluxe.
• Running time: 1 hour, 29 mins.
• Parent's guide: Not rated (adult themes, drug use, murder, jazz).

[I circled JAZZ in red]

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

if I see the words "our increasingly interconnected world" one more time I will scream.

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Life has made me into the kind of woman who purses her lips when aggravated. So, always.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...

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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions

Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yesterday my bb finally did daycare to completion

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Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

More evidence that I am, in fact, a raccoon

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

interesting that conservatives were militantly “we must reward hustle” when the target was affirmative action at elite universities and now, when faced with the success of south asians and other groups, it is “i think we are too meritocratic”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump called for a massive Iranian attack on Los Angeles. But what did he really mean?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026

12/ We spent months compiling every case we could find of immigration agents detaining Americans. We did it because the government hasn't. And now, we're sharing every one of those cases with you. Explore our database: propub.li/4egbSK2

Screenshot of database titled "Explore All Incidents Where Citizens Were Detained." Text below explains that this is every incident ProPublica could find in which one or more citizens were reportedly detained between January 2025 and September 2026. There are 506 citizens' cases in the database, and users can sort by what the incidents involve, where the incident is located, and the recency of the case.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026

I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.

The Trump administration says none of this is happening.

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children."

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new JOD piece arguing against the “cure polarization” approach to saving democracy.

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