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Sonya Posmentier @posypoet.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Coming back after a minute away to kvell about the major victory of AAUP & MESA V. Rubio. So proud to be part of the NYU AAUP chapter that joined the suit.

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 17/06/2025

Zohran has already condemned it and called for Brad's release: bsky.app/profile/zohr...

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Sonya Posmentier @posypoet.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

ny war crimes actively trying to ruin the only happiness we have in this world (and effectively endorsing cuomo despite “concerns”) is peak 2025 bullshit

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Absolutely horrendous.

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Sonya Posmentier @posypoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

My office windows on campus look out on the site of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (now an NYU classroom/lab building) so not a day goes by that I don't think about corporate greed.

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Sonya Posmentier @posypoet.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Confused by outrage over dems not walking out when Al Green left. How many people are willing to disrupt their workplace to fight facism? Most ppl think "disruption" is embarrassing, childish, lacking decorum, at best--in whispers--"brave." Most of us would rather wear pink and hold up little signs.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

“We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

insidehighered.com

Colleges must stand up to the new segregationists (opinion)

In rushing to comply with Trump’s executive actions, universities support a segregationist agenda, Subini Annamma and David Stovall write.

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jonathanflatley.bsky.social @jonathanflatley.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I feel like its not so much about being a Russian operative as it is about creating a global alliance of authoritarian dictators. they are just going for as much power and control of as much of the global economy as possible.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/03/2025

In a new post on Telegram, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy says it is 'very important' that his country’s plight is heard and nobody forgets about it. 🟠 LIVE updates: aje.io/25akw0

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 28/02/2025

US funding cuts to HIV/AIDS programmes in many African countries could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent, warn health experts and aid organisations. Here's all you need to know aje.io/4atuxf

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/02/2025

At least six Palestinian infants have died of hypothermia amid a harsh cold snap in Gaza and Israel’s blocking of shelter from entering the enclave. Read more: aje.io/i3l0f4

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

To truly live Dr. King's legacy means defending the right to speak truth to power, even when—especially when—that truth makes us uncomfortable. Even when—especially when—the greater society moves to suppress that speech.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

NYU faculty members—including my own doctoral advisor, who guided me toward my future work—have been declared persona non grata for exercising their academic freedom and moral conscience. NYU students exercising their constitutional right to protest have faced harsh punishment on this very campus.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

As deeply proud as I am of this honor in Dr. King's name, today I stand before you with a heavy heart. This university, my alma mater, where I found my voice as a scholar, leader, public servant, and policymaker, has chosen to silence voices of dissent.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/02/2025

Folks, we CANNOT memory hole the Hitler salute When we talk about Nazis, it’s not a figure of speech We are talking about an actual Nazi

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Sonya Posmentier @posypoet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

We've opened our own direct line to Linda Mills and her "team"--write to them here! There's even draft language to work with! tinyurl.com/protectNYUCo...

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Sonya Posmentier @posypoet.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If you are an academic anywhere, or you send kids to university, I suggest reading this report in full. The "consumer" model of education on steroids (but only for some consumers).

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Ash McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 31/01/2025

Racist nutjob Elizabeth Rand works for a private equity group because there's no part of society that private equity won't ensuckify.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Mills and other administrators have responded directly to Rand on multiple occasions while simultaneously refusing to answer questions about disciplinary procedures, policies, etc from students and faculty advocating for an end to genocide and cops on campus.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I just wanted y’all to see who NYU President Linda Mills responds directly to and is willing to associate with. According to the Intercept, Elizabeth Rand has a direct line to NYU President Linda Mills. theintercept.com/2025/01/31/n... Rand has been explicit about her desire to deport NYU students

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/02/2025

BREAKING: The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment aje.io/fvp5d6

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

For those of us not directly affected, I urge you to consider how you too may be harmed. Birthright has not only protected immigrant Americans and their children. It has (almost) always insulated the despised from denaturalization and deportation.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 20/01/2025

this is exactly why i worked on this feature on young people organizing under DeSantis in nov 2023 — fighting for academic freedom, trans healthcare, abortion access, against policing and protest criminalization — they continued against fascism and kept fighting (and still are)

teenvogue.com

How Young Floridians Are Fighting “Florida-Grown Fascism” Under Ron DeSantis

“The obstacle is just living, at this point; trying to make sure that everybody lives in peace, and [can] get Florida back to what it was.”

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Chuck, you have a book called Antisemitism in America coming out in March. Care to say anything about the Nazi salutes we all witnessed today?

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CNN @cnn.com · 21/01/2025

President Trump commuted sentences of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders as he pardoned over 1,000 January 6 US Capitol rioters. cnn.it/42lnCpy

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

If there's only two genders allowed anymore then I'm keeping she and they

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Sonya Posmentier @posypoet.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

this is unbearable--what are we doing? x.com/AnasAlSharif...

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I’m so thankful for the solidarity, courage, insight and momentum of NYU Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine. This org and AAUP have given us the structure to support our community including but not limited to students staff and faculty. Please follow our work here. @nyufsjp.bsky.social

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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Same company: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...

Revealed: pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters
Enbridge picked up the tab for police wages, training and equipment – and let county police know when it wanted demonstrators arrested
Hilary Beaumont
5 Oct 2021

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

200 of the best journalists of our generation have been murdered

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La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

administrators of institutions that purportedly advance knowledge keep escalating policing of the experts they hired to advance knowledge. it's all about power.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Several faculty and students were given this designation with no explanation of why other than “violation of university policy.” In my case, the violation could only have been filming interactions between campus cops, administrators and students during a peaceful sit in. This is where we are.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

And let's not forget that Chenjerai was hired to teach *journalism* at NYU, because he is an award-winning broadcaster. For doing the thing he was hired to teach, he is now being being declared "PNG" at NYU. Wild stuff.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I cannot keep up with all of the requests for help, nor am I able to donate (I live on a disability pension that's colloquially known as "legislated poverty"). Please, if you are in need or if you are able to help, contact Gaza Funds which vets and spotlights fundraisers: gazafunds.com

gazafunds.com

Gaza Funds Spotlight Campaign

Find vetted fundraisers for Gaza here

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sophia / صوفيا @brownisthecolor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

This will be our continued reality and academics NEED to buckle down, take a stand, and fucking organize.

tweets from NYU faculty and staff for justice and Palestine about the arrests of three NYU faculty - all Jewish – at a peaceful rally outside of Bobst library. The faculty have been declared persona non grata and barred from campus by their Provost.

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NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The demands from Shut It Down NYU are as follows: 1. Disclose all funds, holdings, assets & capital invested in the industries that massacre ppl globally 2. Divest all funds, holdings, assets & capital invested in companies aiding the Israeli occupation of Palestine!

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