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@novagone.bsky.social
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physics grad worker, union member, and organizer | liberation, abolition, and particles | this is my personal account | they/them

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nova 1312 @novagone.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A lot of the takes I’ve seen posted about Hong’s loss basically boil down to “don’t be a woman and run for office”
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Spencer Beswick @spencerbeswick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
There is a real contradiction between the argument that academia is controlled by the left and the reality that the professors getting fired, denied tenure, blacklisted, and fleeing the country from far-right death threats are almost all, in fact, on the left.
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nova 1312 @novagone.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
yall my nat union president is so disappointing. this is who we got leading this labor movement? 🫩
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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 30/04/2026
“Calls for academic boycotts often invoke historical precedent. And history does indeed show that boycotts can work. But they are most effective when they emerge from and are led by those directly affected.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
insidehighered.com
How Not to Talk About Colleagues in Texas, Florida (opinion)
We’re not fighting a lost cause.
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nova 1312 @novagone.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I think this thinking also speaks to how vapid people like this dude really are. They think protest is just "go outside & yell w/ signs". Encampments were successful to get (some) material gains because they were strategic and specific. It's not something you can copy-paste to any movement.
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nova 1312 @novagone.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Couple things I've seen missing discourse on how shit this take is 1) there is mobilization happening now like in October 2023, and 2) that the tactics of encampments is maybe not effective here. Protests on campuses specifically pushed institutional divestment from companies complicit in genocide.
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Portland Jobs with Justice @jwjpdx.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Portland Community College could see it's first strike as soon as March 10! More than 75% of PCCFFAP & PCCFCE members have already signed strike pledges. 0.35% annual raise is unworkable for the faculty, academic professionals, & classified staff that make Portland Community College work!
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Strike threat looms at Portland Community College
Raises of 0.35% a year? Yes, you read the 0 right. Two unions at PCC jointly declared impasse Jan. 30 and could strike as soon as March 10.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12/02/2026
I will believe this when folks in Minnesota say things genuinely seem different apnews.com/live/trump-i...
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Live updates: Federal authorities announce end to Minnesota immigration crackdown
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota is coming to an end after thousands of arrests and two killings, Trump's border czar says. Over 2,000 federal officers are leaving.
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AFT-Oregon @aft-oregon.org · 01/02/2026
The moment when ICE fired tear gas at thousands of people in Portland.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
saw someone call schumer cowardly and chide him for lacking the backbone to call for ICE to be abolished, & it must once again be pointed out that that is untrue. he is not trying to oppose the republicans and failing, he is on the same team as the republicans, and his enemy is you
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026
There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
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Cross-laminated Tinder @nickhasthoughts.com · 12/01/2026
the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.
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1312 Press @1312press.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
a very strong & contagious sense of "someone else will take care of this mess" runs rampant throughout US society & prevents people from getting together and collectively asserting agency & self-determination over their lives
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 03/01/2026
Voted to confirm Marco Rubio 👍
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/12/2025
I get that everyone on Bluesky has seen the CECOT video but my question is how does the scale of its spread compare to what might have happened if it had aired on 60 Minutes? Scanning the media, the story seems to have already disappeared. Bluesky is a specific audience.
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
“Are we going to regulate fascism or reject it?” ~ Alissa Azar
wewillfreeus.org
Abolition, Not Fines for Fascism
Portlanders have repeatedly shown up to City Hall with one message: We refuse to negotiate the terms of our own oppression. People weren’t there for symbolic accountability, or for another round of po...
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Ricci @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
“Folks, what they DONT want is a peaceful permitted march that has proven to not change anything. They DO WANT black bloc & fighting with the police. They don’t want you to be pacified! They want to be directly confronted, yeah! This has historically been the case. I know what I’m talking about!”
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Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (AFT 5017) @ofnhp.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
We are in the final hours before our strike begins on Oct. 14th at 7am, and we have been getting trained on how to run a picket line and how to share our story with the public. But we will need your support! Click here and sign up for a picket shift: form.jotform.com/251634890806...
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 29/07/2025
the adl was championing the deportation of college students and a federal assault on academia wrapped in a fig leaf of protecting jewish students and the head of the nation's biggest teachers union says that it's important to continue partnering with them. they are not a legitimate civil rights org!
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
By ratting on Jesse Ventura's unionization efforts, Hulk Hogan denied all of his coworkers, and generations of performers who came after him, insurance and a retirement fund, and in that, shares in responsibility for the early deaths of several other wrestlers.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
i'd support the spontaneous mass unplanned protest against authoritarian racism but unfortunately i saw a picture of someone in the crowd doing something i personally think is bad optics so i'll have to sit the whole thing out. shame
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
We need to fundamentally appreciate those on the streets of LA are there because ICE + the fucking military took family members, neighbors + co-workers - this isn't an abstraction. What would you do if it happened to you? How would you feel about someone crying more over a Waymo than your child?
Mother and children in detention camp in front of guards.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
Americans, especially white collar Americans, not understanding labor organizing is one of the greatest successes of the Reagan era. People just don’t understand solidarity and say stupid shit like “Fuck that union because I don’t like its president” instead of “join and fight!”
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/04/2025
“expect Garber to continue his campaign against all manifestations of Palestine on this campus — along with anything else that challenges the University’s financial and political investment in the status quo.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Do Not Applaud Harvard for Doing the Bare Minimum | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Do not mistake Garber’s scramble to retain a semblance of liberalism as a stand — let alone fight — against the Trump administration. No number of strongly worded statements nor invocations of “indepe...
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism
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DaveAnthony @daveanthony.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Huh
The New York
 Times 
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936
COLUMBIA HEARS PLEA FOR EXPELLED STUDENT
Burke and Two Other Speakers
Demand His Reinstatement at Gathering of 500.
Three members of the American Student Union, including Robert Burke, who was expelled in June for leading the anti-Nazi demonstration last May, addressed a gathering of 500 students of the college and the various schools of Columbia University in front of Hamilton Hall yesterday noon, appealing to
them to sunport the vouth in hig
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nova 1312 @novagone.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
really think that the reason these companies aren't getting rid of their DEI programs (see costco, now apple) is that they know they really aren't that effective at all
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/02/2025
One of my favorite physics experiments is the Stern-Gerlach experiment and Gerlach (the experimenter) never won a Nobel Prize for it possibly because his colleagues thought he was a dipshit for having a leadership role in the Nazi nuclear weapons program en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E...
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Stern–Gerlach experiment - Wikipedia
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/02/2025
People should look up the history of Aryan physics/Deutsche Physik. This has STRONG Deutsche Physik vibes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch...
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Deutsche Physik - Wikipedia
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Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."
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When Kittens Came to My Prison, I Had Not Petted One in 15 Years
I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 02/02/2025
same methods, different era
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The moral and ethical path is for universities to backstop these fellowships indefinitely. No one should suffer as political pawns, but it’s particularly tough to see it happening for talented people at a very difficult and precarious career stage.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
sorry, i’m not taking “resistance” advice from a lawyer whose client list includes weev, douglass mackey, and clearview AI
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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 21/01/2025
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945. They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025
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