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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h
Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.
Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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The Heathen Historian @heathenhistory.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The fact that the tree is as old as the United States should not be lost on anyone. What a metaphor.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/10/2026
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The AAUP is suing the Trump administration over new policies that threaten green card applicants with family separation. 1/
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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 05/10/2026
On October 2, hundreds joined Democratize Yale’s march to Beinecke Plaza to demand a more democratic Yale and oppose a settlement with the Trump administration. Swipe through the coverage—and join the movement: democratizeyale.org More coverage will be added as it comes in.
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Democratize Yale
Four demands for a more democratic Yale.
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Latest protest at Yale on Trump‘s attacks on universities. Alumni, faculty, students stand together along with our elected representatives against encroaching authoritarianism. www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/10/02/l...
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"Lipstick" Traces Latest Yalie Protest - New Haven Independent
Against potential settlement with the Trump administration over the university's admissions policies.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Getting lots of requests for money from politicians right now but I'd rather support the many people, like Nurse Freeman, following their consciences to help others.
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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Black Studies Podcast also offers a great survey: blackstudiespodcast.com
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The Past and Future of Black Studies
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and future
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Lani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words - Harvard Law School
Schlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...
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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences
Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Now THAT is a well-tailored suit
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
remember that one time when the Cornell University President hit students with his car and then pretended not to have done it then justified it just sayin
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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bitter to the Taste is less on the nose and more intriguing. Plus Death in the Pot sounds too much like death on the pot, which makes me think of Elvis…
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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
”Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you are South.” — Malcolm X (1964)
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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 21/09/2026
The Supreme Court still permits universities to pursue diversity through lawful means. LDF warns that a broader settlement could go beyond what the law requires, restrict Yale’s authority over admissions and expose the university to further federal pressure. 3/4
Teal graphic with a faded courtroom illustration and the headline “A settlement could go beyond what the law requires.” Text explains that the Supreme Court still permits universities to pursue diversity through lawful means and that LDF warns a broader settlement could restrict Yale’s authority over admissions and expose it to further federal pressure.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026
This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/09/2026
This is why they wanted Pentagon reporters to sign an oath promising to seek approval before publishing anything. They wanted to lie without pushback. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
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Dozens of aircraft, hundreds of buildings: US loss to Iran attacks revealed
The Pentagon watchdog's report paints a picture of significant losses to US forces and facilities in the region.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
enjoyed making this one youtu.be/zGYmIwM4T90
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Smart Answers to Stupid Comments About Slavery
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Word. I’m mad they canceled Macklemore for the wrong reason, lol.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This attempt to construct a narrative of persecution around being a white guy in America is at base, an expression of profound jealousy and insecurity towards people who have to overcome challenges they will never face
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a massive loss for all of us.
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Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (Gift Article)
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hi Dems, don’t think that millions of Muslims - & not just Muslims but anti-racist liberal & leftist Americans - don’t hear the deafening silence from most of you as the Muslim Democratic mayor of New York is being smeared and attacked by the GOP and right-wing media over 9/11.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I respect Lonnie Bunch enormously. He has done stellar work as a historian, on so many levels. His absence is indeed terrible news -- for the Smithsonian and the country.
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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
ZOHRAN slays all sucker MCs
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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I regularly read @jamellebouie.net for his razor sharp political analysis, not for emotional impact. But this piece is devastating. It can’t have been easy to write, and I’m grateful to him for putting himself through it. RIP Pierre Damas… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...
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Opinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Not Be Dead (Gift Article)
Pierre Damas Bel should still be alive.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
elaborating on some points i've made on here youtu.be/goSvMAf2UKQ
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There Was No Vibe Shift
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026
the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...
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Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)
The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
More Palestinians have been killed (1,300) since the so-called ceasefire began in Gaza on 10th October 2025 than Israelis were killed on 7th October 2023 - including ten times as many children (300!) as were killed on 10/7. This is what a 'ceasefire' looks like for Palestinians.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
critical intervention by @jennifercnash.bsky.social & Emily Owens on the starvation of WGS at Harvard: “how can a university that has produced many of the country’s leading feminist scholars continue to devalue the very program that trained us?” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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We’re Harvard WGS Alumni. Our Field Has Never Mattered More. | The Harvard Crimson
At Harvard, the single biggest threat to the study of gender and sexuality has long come from the institution itself.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
One of the most sane institutional takes I have seen… “However sociable or responsive AI systems become, they cannot substitute for the relationships and practices necessary to grow and mature as a human being.” aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
NEWS: After the Hindu nationalist RSS rally at MSG – and as students across India continue to protest – nearly 100 US politicians are pledging to reject money from the RSS (which birthed Modi’s political party). Includes everyone from Abdul El-Sayed & Haley Stevens, to Ro Khanna & Pramila Jayapal:
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U.S. Politicians Reject Donations From Hindu Nationalists, Days After Far-Right RSS Rally in New York
The pledge comes after a controversial gathering at Madison Square Garden, addressed by Mohan Bhagwat, head of the RSS, the group that produced both the killer of Gandhi and Narendra Modi’s BJP party.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I want to address what happened over the weekend outside Madison Square Garden. A few loud numbskulls must not deter us from building multi-faith, multi-racial coalitions for justice.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is an important First Amendment victory, backed by a careful, well-reasoned opinion from Judge Noel Wise in the Northern District of California. www.newsday.com/news/nation/...
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Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules
Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel and others in its quest to deport noncitizens who...
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