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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 05/08/2025

In an #OpEd, narrative medicine scholar @sayantani.bsky.social breaks down how the Sydney Sweeney American Eagle campaign controversy relates to medicine. www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/...

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Diagnosing Bias: Eugenics and the American Eagle Jeans Campaign

How the Sydney Sweeney controversy relates to medicine

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Sayantani DasGupta @sayantani.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

“The scientific community can and must challenge pseudoscientific justifications for hate, racism and bias.” Thank you @medpage @gfriedman for inviting me to comment on the viral TikTok I made on eugenics and the American Eagle Jean campaign. www.medpagetoday.com/popmedicine/....

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Diagnosing Bias: Eugenics and the American Eagle Jeans Campaign

How the Sydney Sweeney controversy relates to medicine

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Sayantani DasGupta @sayantani.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🚨ITS COVER REVEAL TIME 🚨 A stolen ruby! A queenly sword! A museum heist! A chase across New York City! Immigrant kids getting the job done! THEFT OF THE RUBY LOTUS 🪷 coming April 2026 available for preorder now!

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Sayantani DasGupta @sayantani.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

So excited to see The Serpents Secret featured in episode 1 of We Were Liars by the ever amazing (and style icon!) 😍🤩@elockhartbooks.bsky.social @primevideo.bsky.social

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

User Zachary Berger recommends the following script: "I'm a constituent in the congressperson's district.
Al regulation is life or death for a lot of the Congressperson's constituents in creative industries, please make sure the section in the budget reconciliation bill banning Al regulation doesn't pass."

User Karla Ortiz gives information on the bill so you can point your senators where to look:

Call your representatives! Tell them just yesterday (R) Congressman Guthrie added a new text to the Budget Reconciliation bill to BAN GenAi regulation in the states for 10 years!
Hell, point
them to the specific section:
TITLE IV-ENERGY AND
COMMERCE (Part II: Al section, (c) moratorium)

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We are disappointed for Texas teens that Tx House just passed HB3225. This would restrict Tx teenagers from using adult books in the library, including classic novels. Pregnant teens can't access books on childbirth. 250 years of libraries in this country without age restrictions until now. Scary.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

To quote @joshthelibromancer.bsky.social among many: if we can free one, we can free them all.

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UNICEF @unicef.org · 09/05/2025

Children pay the highest price in war and violence. #ForEveryChild, peace and protection.

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Kate Messner @katemessner.com · 09/05/2025

Dr. Carla Hayden has done more for literacy and readers, has gotten more books into kids' hands and onto their home bookshelves than you can even imagine. Make calls, please. Demand that she be allowed to finish her ten-year term next year. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Trump abruptly fires Librarian of Congress

Carla Hayden, the first woman and African American to occupy the position, had been targeted in recent days by a right-leaning group.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Mehmet Oz channeling his eugenic ancestors. The installation in this photo was set up at a "Fitter Families" contest in 1926, and draws the same explicit connections between health, the nation and patriotism that Mehmet does here. Have a read through what it says. Source: Eugenics Archive.

Flashing Lights exhibit at the Fitter Families contest, 1926.Some people are born to be a burden on the rest. This light flashes every 15 seconds [light bulb] Every 15 seconds $100 or your money goes for the care of persons with bad heredity such as the insane, feebleminded, criminals and other defectives. Learn about Heredity you can help to correct these conditions. America needs Less of these: This light flashes every 48 seconds [light bulb] Every 48 seconds a person is born in the United States who will never grow up mentally beyond that stage of a normal 8 year old boy or girl. This light flashes every 50 seconds [light bulb] Every 50 seconds a person is committed to jail in the United States. Very few normal persons ever go to jail. More of these: This light flashes every 16 seconds. [light bulb] Every 16 seconds, a person is born in the United States. This light flashes every 7 1/2 minutes [light bulb] Every 7 1/2 minutes a high grade person is born in the United States who will have ability to do creative work and be fit for leadership. About 4% of all Americans come within this class.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

It's nice to see elected representatives visiting their constituents who have been detained by ICE but may I respectfully suggest university presidents consider doing the same

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

North Dakota! Censorship bill SB 2307 passed in the legislature so now we need to focus on pressuring the Governor to veto www.righttoreadnd.org/vetosb2307

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SEND AN EMAIL: Veto North Dakota's Censorship Bill SB 2307

SEND AN EMAIL TO THE GOVERNOR: Veto SB2307! Protect North Dakotans’ Right to Read.

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/04/2025

NEW: Trump said government cuts wouldn’t affect public safety. But staffing changes at the Forest Service have weakened an already strained firefighting force by hitting support staff who play crucial roles in preventing and battling blazes.

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Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.

The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 05/04/2025

I don’t think people are paying enough attention to the fact that the North Carolina court of appeals just ruled that 65,000 votes don’t count, and that the Republican Supreme Court candidate who lost actually won. This will be appealed, but make no mistake: they’re trying to steal this election.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

🤞🏾

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Boosting: if you use a public library in the US and use Libby, Hoopla, or interlibrary loan, or have family and friends who do- that funding may be gone as IMLS is dismantled by DOGE. 🗃️

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do. Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand. www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 01/04/2025

Disruption is all they seem to understand—so that’s exactly what they’re getting. For 14 hours, @booker.senate.gov has been on the Senate floor, speaking truth within the rules. This cannot be business as usual when our democracy’s on the line. Thank you, senator.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Today! FL folks, stop in to @thelynxbooks.bsky.social and ask for a FREE copy of -On Tyranny -Blueprint for Revolution -On Disinformation -Big Dirty Money Not in FL? Order and get 10% off all week. Fight the fools. ❤️👊

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Senator Booker is still going 👊🇺🇸🔥 www.youtube.com/live/rCUK2Vb...

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LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor

YouTube video by Associated Press

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock on boards of trustees: “Who actually runs Columbia University?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Who becomes a trustee? At Columbia there are 21, all of them from business, law and technology, with the exception of a former journalist. Although they are in charge of an academic institution, none of them is an academic. None as ever led a classroom or a lab meeting or medical rounds with interns. None has gone through the process of tenure, where their teaching, publication record and service are rigorously assessed by colleagues in the field both from within the institution and outside it. None as ever had their work peer-reviewed by anonymous readers or panels of experts. None has ever published in academic or scientific journals or presses and had their ideas debated in the public sphere. None has ever framed a hypothesis and tested it on the basis of evidence they have collected. None, in short, has sought truth and had their search confirmed by objective scholars and scientists.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker has held the Senate floor for 17 hours and 21 minutes. The record of 24 hours and 18 minutes is held by segregationist Strom Thurmond, who spent that time protesting the Civil Rights Act of 1957. I am pretty sure Booker would not mind changing that history.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker has been holding the Senate floor for *15 hours* to call out Trump’s harm to Americans. More of this energy from every Democrat please.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

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SCOOP: ICE Revoking Students’ Immigration Statuses Without Their or the University’s Knowledge

“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

It was an honor to deliver the annual Albert Morris Lecture at Boston University today and to end the visit with this poignant reminder from the late, great June Jordan. Indeed.

A white banner on a brownstone building at Boston University that reads:”
We are the ones we have been waiting for.” —June Jordan

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you're an author who has or will be publishing a books and you'd like to fight for the freedom to read & against book bans, we'd love to have you join Authors Against Book Bans. (OK, not the most creative name, but, you know, communicative!) All the info & the sign up form at

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Authors Against Book Bans

Our Mission Statement We are Authors Against Book Bans. We, a coalition of writers, illustrators, anthology editors and contributors, and other book creators, stand united against the deeply unconstit...

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Right now there is clear, overwhelming opposition to Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction across the moderate, liberal, progressive & left spectrum. This kind of loud unity is what authoritarians are afraid of. To keep it up we need every institution & public leader to join the chorus.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained

"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

@aoc.bsky.social: "You have a right to see your elected member of Congress... Our job is to hear from people. And if you aren't doing town halls because your own residents and members of your community are upset with what you're doing, the answer is you’ve got to own your decisions."

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It's almost like obeying in advance doesn't work, won't keep you safe, and only emboldens totalitarians to be worse!

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

So they really think I’m going to spend the next four years hanging on every word he vomits? Haha, that’s cute…and not going to happen. Anyway, tonight’s read:

One day, everyone will have always been against this by Omar El Akkad

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snarkyduck.bsky.social @snarkyduck.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The ostriches in “leadership” need a boot camp run by governors like this

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/02/2025

It bears repeating.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Call your rep. Demand a town hall. If they’re GOP and won’t give one, invite a Dem to your district in their place. Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121

Social media post by Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow
) posted recently, with the text: 'Incredible energy at my town hall in Aurora. Thank you to the over 1,300 folks who have come to hear how we’re fighting back against President Trump’s executive orders and budget.' The post includes a photo of a crowded town hall in Aurora, showing Rep. Jason Crow speaking on stage in front of a large audience seated in an auditorium with a brick wall, large windows, and a screen displaying 'Welcome to Townhall' with his image.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Where are my carnegies, my rockefellers? Make me feel torn about hating your immense wealth because you do something good with it!

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Sibani Ram @bunnygal11.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Join us! Join us! @girlswritenow.bsky.social is hands-down one of the most personally impactful orgs EVER! On March 4, they’ll be co-hosting a career chat featuring @sayantani.bsky.social, @lydiakang.bsky.social and Dr. IW Gregorio in partnership with Iowa JPEC and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social.

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