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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 29/09/2026

“Hegseth thinks the problem w/military education is too much education. Ending new tenured appointments will make it harder to recruit outstanding scholars & easier to pressure professors to tell political leaders what they want to hear.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I voted today, & here's my sticker. I cd hear an elderly voter get upset bec she cdn't color in the bubbles, so a Dem judge & a Rep judge teamed up. One filled the bubbles & the other watched to make sure it went right, & as I overheard, I teared up w admiration for democracy in action. #Voting

A sticker showing a voter holding up a sign that says "I VOTED."

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I normally keep my basketball obsession out of my social media, but what a hoot to watch Schmidt, who doesn't know the diff betw the Atlanta Hawks & the Iowa Hawkeyes, accuse Smith of perjury & end up just proving that Schmidt is an idiot lost in the wacky obsessions of the Trump cult. #Basketball

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Louise Erdrich has spent more than four decades reshaping how American literature represents Indigenous lives and stories. Now, the acclaimed Anishinaabe writer is being honored with one of the country’s major arts prizes. redpopnews.com/louise-erdri...

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Louise Erdrich Receives 2026 Gish Prize, Honoring a Career That Changed American Literature

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AAUP @ UIUC @aaup-uiuc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Read our Chapter's letter to University of Illinois & UIUC administrators in response to Sec of Ed Linda McMahon's "National Call to Action to University Presidents and Governing Boards."

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Our Chapter Responds to “A National Call to Action” - AAUP UIUC

On September 18, 2026 on behalf of the Policy Committee, Professor Carol Symes (UIUC Chapter President) sent the following letter to President Timothy L. Killeen, the University of Illinois Board of T...

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Champaign County Indivisible 📎 @cc-indivisible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hey, Illinois - mail ballots get sent, and early voting begins, on Thursday. Midterm season is bringing cool weather with it!

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Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Wow, what a great assignment. This should be a transformational and unforgettable learning experience for your students!

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Heid Bearnation @heideerdrich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

WONDEROUSNESS has taken place and my gratitude is sky-wide!!!!! McKnight Names Heid E. Erdrich 2026 Distinguished Artist - McKnight Foundation share.google/9EAQV9wYePzR...

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McKnight Names Heid E. Erdrich 2026 Distinguished Artist

Poet, editor, curator, and teacher has spent decades bringing poetry into public life and creating opportunities for other artists.

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AAUP @ UIUC @aaup-uiuc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The journals include American Journal of Public Health Cancer Family Medicine JAMA New England Journal of Medicine Science Scientific American

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Delighted to see this new review of The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression from Dan Colson (in the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association), who thoroughly gets what the book tries to do. global.oup.com/academic/pro... (The book is online at many academic libraries.)

Image of an excerpt from the review, including these words: a methodological masterclass filled with stunning close readings

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From “End Times Fascism” by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. Featuring Jeff Bezos, William Shatner, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Zohran Mamdani, Venice, New York City, Minneapolis—and all the world. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

An unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"If U.S. News Also Ranked Courage" "One might wonder how it is that academic freedom is not already a criterion for Best Colleges. Perhaps it is because, in the United States, it has always been taken as a given. No more." www.aaup.org/if-us-news-a... #Education @aaup.org @aaup-uiuc.bsky.social

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If U.S. News Also Ranked Courage

A measure of academic freedom could make college rankings more reflective of the conditions under which education occurs.

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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/09/2026

"The AAUP is not going to stand by & watch President Trump once again attempt to destroy the greatest system of higher education in the world that gives opportunity to a diverse set of students for a diverse country. Yes, emphatically, yes. We are going to fight this." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

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IRS targets private schools that help racial minority students

The Trump administration has said it will end the tax-exempt status for universities with programs that help racial minority students.

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

How will money from the Anthropic settlement help out small publishers? Will big publishers do something special with it or just take the profit? It's a lot of money. #Anthropic #Publishing #Booksky

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The Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network @faulknerstudiesuk.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Tenth colloquium, "The Time Has Come: William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and American Modernity"! The event takes place May 1 and 2, 2027, online via Zoom. Abstracts are due March 1st, 2027. For more info, see the images below or message us here!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Remains of 12 children who died at Carlisle Indian School to be returned to their tribes. The disinterment is set to begin Sept. 1 and is expected to continue through mid-October. www.witf.org/2026/08/31/r...

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Remains of 12 children who died at Carlisle Indian School to be returned to their tribes | WITF

The remains of 12 Native American and Alaskan Native children who died while attending Carlisle Indian Industrial School will be returned to their tribes following their disinterment.

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Now Russia is trying to destroy Ukrainian books by bombing printing presses and publishers, as well as museums, art galleries, film studios, libraries, and opera houses. www.bbc.com/news/article... #Booksky #Ukraine #Reading

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Russian strikes destroy 12 million books in Ukraine ahead of new school year

Ukraine says Russia is deliberately attacking its culture, after strikes on publishers and churches.

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Now list how much they paid to get their pardons.

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How dare you smear Dolly Parton as "neutral in the culture wars"? There's nothing neutral about her Imagination Library, her support for LGBTQ+ people, her fierce devotion to Black communities in Nashville, her vaccine funding, her nondiscriminatory love for all, &&&. She just refused their games.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canada should rename Lake Michigan after Chicago's greatest son, and call it Lake Obama

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#SilentSunday is a thing on Mastodon, and it would be nice to see it take flight on #Bluesky On Sundays, post an image you took of something quiet and calm. Add Alt text and the hashtag #SilentSunday

A green prairie speckled with flowers, white Queen Anne’s lace and yellow cone flowers, beneath a line of dark green trees at the horizon under a dramatic sky of gray-blue clouds.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Requisite Tony Judt quote about the single greatest institutional achievement in 250 years of the Republic:

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

"Now the Holocaust becomes an elective." The MAGA destruction of Texas Tech continues.

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The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We are still looking for one or two more short reviews (200-300 words) of publications from 1926! Enduring, popular or forgotten, we welcome any suggestions. If you are interested in contributing a mini-review in our next issue please email spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com

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NewWaveAndPunk @punkandnewwave.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Woodstock booking fees:

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

In that photo, it looks like Trump is dating the censored Epstein files.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The Trump administration is trying to gut one of the strongest laws protecting tribal sacred sites, burial grounds, and ancestral lands. Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act has worked since 1966. Now a handpicked Council voted to rewrite it..in one week. Here's what at stake.👇

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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

An amazing public service! Adding to my syllabus now!

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Robert Dale Parker @robertdaleparker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

www.news.com.au/technology/o... #Booksky #Monsters From the company destroying books to feed them to AI: “A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted & encoded into an AI model, . . . 1/2

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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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WritingPIs @writingpis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Informative article by an established author about not using AI in your writing, as well as not in your publishing ("Don’t incorporate ‘AI' into any part of your publishing process, either: Don’t use ‘AI' editing, don’t use ‘AI' art, don’t use ‘AI' translation…") #writers #writing #AI

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