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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/10/2026
When I was a teen, my dad told me--if I applied to art school or majored in art, he wouldn't help pay for college. And yes, it was kind of draconian. But it makes me wonder what we could achieve culturally if more parents gave sons similar ultimatums about joining fraternities.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 06/10/2026
New series alert! #MicroPD where I simplify wtf teachers need to do to teach the things. #EduSky
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)
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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools
According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY (Monday, Oct. 5) is the deadline for registering to vote for the midterms in: AMERICAN SAMOA ARIZONA ARKANSAS FLORIDA GEORGIA INDIANA KENTUCKY LOUISIANA — in-person, mail (10/13 online) MISSISSIPPI MONTANA — mail (11/3 in-person) OHIO SOUTH CAROLINA — mail TENNESSEE TEXAS npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Boris B @borisbrum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The degree to which @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us this would happen for over ten years is truly remarkable
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Jazz. @jl3001.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
Looked out the window just now and I see fucking ICE and Capitol police on the street hanging around an empty car, at North Capitol and L Street NE in DC, with Capitol police SUVs and a tow truck there to take the car. They've detained someone.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fascinating new study of New Mexico's universal childcare program, first of its kind, finds the program dramatically increased work for lower-income moms www.the74million.org/zero2eight/n...
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Nearly a Year In, Universal Childcare Is Reshaping Work for Moms in New Mexico
A new study highlights some early impacts of universal childcare on labor supply for mothers in New Mexico.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 02/10/2026
just wanna re-up the part where I wrote that many immigrants in Maine have been sheltering in place since January for their own safety, with ICE still operating in the area. it is October.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ted Lasso: Believe! Jackson Lamb: Oh fuck off
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TED LASSO and SLOW HORSES are both on Apple TV, and unless my entire childhood lied to me, that can only mean one thing. We're due for a very special crossover episode. Can't wait.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
how fun.
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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 01/10/2026
Imagining people who do evil things to be devoid of empathy is a way of comforting oneself, because we all know that we feel empathy and therefore are not the kind of person who could do *that.* It’s much scarier to know that a conglomeration of circumstances can turn basically anybody bad.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think we need to differentiate between “AI uses a lot of water!” (not necessarily bad on its own) and “AI stresses local water supplies” (a potentially real issue). The distinction is important because even “modest” use can cause serious issues, especially given the locations of data centers
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If Hennepin County is your library system, there's some good news about the budget: www.instagram.com/p/DdvBNauOIW...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ICE activity has been picking up again in Chicago A LOT. If you were previously involved with ICE watch efforts, now is a good time to reengage. I’m going to start wearing a whistle again.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Public health is at its best when you don't even notice it's working. It doesn't just pop up during a pandemic. It's clean water. It’s food safety. It’s disease prevention. It’s protecting our communities before a crisis hits. That's why we need public health champions in Congress!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21/09/2026
My colleagues and I have actually done some work on kids' caregiving responsibilities, too. During Covid school closures, we found that families relied heavily on older kids to help with younger ones, and that support helped moms to keep working for pay. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I'm really glad that Code Switch included this part of my interview, because I think these are the points that so often get lost in the discussion of trans panic and why the WNBA might be an ideal target for those anti-trans groups to latch onto. www.npr.org/2026/09/15/n...
We're talking about actual bigotry and the belief that this group of people shouldn't have, like, the same human rights as another group. It legitimizes them. And so the WNBA is a big platform for them to be able to do that. But I think what's actually really insidious about being the target is that transphobia is rooted in white supremacist ideas of who is allowed to be a woman and what a woman should look like. Those beliefs have, you know, negatively impacted Black and brown and non-Western women throughout history.

So what you have is a league in the WNBA that is full of Black women, 7-foot-tall women, masculine women, women who don't fit kind of the traditional markers of conventional white Western ideas of womanhood. And so I don't think it's surprising that transphobic ideas around the acceptable kind of woman are coming and impacting this league.

And I think the last piece that I will say is, I think, in some ways, the lack of visibility that the league had for a lot of years really protected it. Like, it wasn't as successful as it should have been because of racism and homophobia and misogyny. And once it becomes successful, the flip side of that is it really does become a different kind of victim of those ideas. And the fact that you have a league that is all women, predominantly Black women, largely queer women who have been successful and they don't need men to do it, and their product is not necessarily for men. I think that's a threat to the status quo. And so it's not just about protecting women's sports. It's actually about dismantling them from the inside.
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Kevin Meuwissen @kevinmeuwissen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A powerful synthesis of the public problems of educational inequity, school (de)segregation, and choice - and associated Matthew Effects - as experienced by a Black family in a racist system, pressing to strengthen public goods while also meeting their child’s educational needs and aspirations.
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Let's talk about public safety. What I want is for everyone to get home safe at night.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026
I actually wrote my dissertation on images like this.
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A Converse sneaker ad provokes horror and backlash
A photo promoting the Chuck 70 X sneaker seemed to depict a lynching.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Marginalized people aren't the only people with identities. Dreher also has identities and those inform his politics.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Legislative pushes for “intellectual freedom” at UI mean soon-to-be-required classes operated by a center with no faculty or curriculum whose interim director thinks his mandate is to offer all-conservative content-- meanwhile students’ access to classes they want is endangered by program closures
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Not only are students interested in these programs, many actually flock to them. I suspect there are numerous teachers in these programs who heard numerous students ask “Why wasn’t I taught this before?” When Congressman John Lewis Skyped into my class to discuss the two different versions of 1/
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Grateful to the folks on the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions who put all this together. Resources include a zine, procurement playbook, bargaining tracker, AI/tech divestment guide, state policy tracker, FOIA guide, explainer for ditching Palantir, & AI/tech audit guide
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Toolkit for Activism on AI
The AAUP ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions developed the following toolkit resources to fight against the top-down adoption of technology by colleges and universitie...
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School Library Journal @slj.com · 17/09/2026
Any school librarians with robust zines programming or using zines to collaborate with classroom teachers? We want to hear from you. Reply here or email news editor Kara Yorio at kyorio@mediasourceinc.com #Skybrarians #TLSky #EduSky #zines
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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today is the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street encampment. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/487-oc...
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Occupying Wall Street
The inside story of the protest that has given birth to America’s most important progressive movement in a half century.
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🦀 Shawn Morris 🦀 @theshawnmorris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
You're telling me there's another successful pilot/test case/trial for UBI and it shockingly was effective and worked exactly how every other UBI trial works????????? Get outta town
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/09/2026
LISTEN: EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social joined @npr.org’s Code Switch to discuss how the surveillance state got built, who it was built on first, and why opposing it suddenly now unites so many factions.
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Why we’re all being watched : Code Switch
There’s a growing backlash to the surveillance systems that have quietly wired themselves into American neighborhoods, with concern growing among people who have never felt watched this way before. Ge...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026
An important point here: *Their president* said that Muslims are not to blame, that day, and multiple times in the days that followed. They said “We are all New Yorkers.” Did they forget that? They literally didn’t “Never Forget”, why aren’t they being pilloried for that? These stories never say.
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 05/09/2026
This week on Reveal, we follow a Long Island doctor who once treated 9/11 responders. Now she is a reporter, trying to figure out why the illnesses haven’t stopped.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 05/09/2026
Sharing some of my thoughts about what my family's going through this World Alzheimer's Month. Together, we'll get through this.
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
these deportation flights are the new cattle cars
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
there are a lot of revealing parts of this exchange but "You are exactly one of about 20 people who think that's what the term means" is the top one for me
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What an unimaginably ghoulish outlook. In a rational world, this would be disqualifying. "Darline Graham’s vision, it seems, holds that because her own parents worked so hard, couldn’t take sick days, and died untimely deaths, others shouldn’t expect anything different."
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Chicago Rapid responders are warning that ICE has been seen active in Humboldt Park as of 10 a.m. with another report of activity in Austin at 9:54 a.m. and a near-contemporaneous report of agents seen driving on 79th & Cicero in the Ashburn neighborhood. Please be aware if you are in those areas.
10:04 AM
HUMBOLDT PARK
PULASKI Y DIVISION
NISSAN PATHFINDER
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HUMBOLDT PARK 
THOMAS Y HARDING 
CHEVY TAHOE NEGRA
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IOWA AND KILPATRICK
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THEY ARE IN THE AREA8/28/2026 alert of ICE active on 79th and Cicero. There is a Jewel-Osco at that intersection
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ProfSlevy @profslevy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
gofund.me/61f45bc74 friends of friends have organized this fundraiser - ICE has not left Chicago.
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Donate to HELP OUR FAMILY RESETTLE POST-ICE, organized by Elizabeth Flauto
ASSISTANCE NEEDED! Most of you know part of this story. This is the latest chap… Elizabeth Flauto needs your support for HELP OUR FAMILY RESETTLE POST-ICE
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the center of my message to faculty yesterday was: 1.) We may not be adequately prepared for how angry students are about tech. 2.) They are not all angry for the same reasons. 3.) Being angry at it doesn’t mean they aren’t using it. The sense of entrapment fuels the anger.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Dolly Parton “didn’t see herself as a saint,” our columnist, Tressie McMillan Cottom, writes. “She identified as something we needed even more: a writer.”
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Opinion | Loving Dolly Parton Was Easy. Understanding Her Was Hard.
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
years too late for my mother but not for countless other people. personally I feel pretty strongly that we should continue to fund science research
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/08/2026
US immigration agents arrested more than 49,500 people in July aje.news/u38gth
US immigration agents arrested more than 49,500 people in July
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 24/08/2026
Happening now: A crowd is gathering outside a Target parking lot off 33rd and Damen on Chicago's south side, in reaponse to ICE agents who appear to have been involved with some kind of car collision earlier today. Press, elected officials also on scene.
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Lakewood Indivisible CA @lkwd-indivisible.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
When our city council voted down Flock, they rolled right into adding more Vigilant cameras. Didn't even blink as they swapped companies. And, there are still Flock cameras here on private property, paid for by total weirdos who want to spy on everyone else!
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Antijen @antijen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Yep. My county is putting in Axon cameras. Same stuff, different name. We need to be fighting automated licence plate readers (ALPRs) in general, but that's not as catchy.
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