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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
High school teachers, I respect the hell out of you and know you are in the trenches doing the hard work. But I am *begging* you to stop telling your students to email a professor to sit for an interview or to guide their special project. I already have my own students. I’m not looking for more.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The fraud charges announced Tuesday totaled $3 million. More than $2 million of that is connected to Peter Meilahn, a Duluth resident" (MN nice!)
mprnews.org
Attorney general’s office charges 9 people with Medicaid fraud totaling $3M
The attorney general’s office has charged nine people with bilking Minnesota’s Medicaid system through state programs.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The reboot of A Different World is fabulous with a lovely sly dig at Phylicia Rashad 😍
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Does the world need one more film about Beirut? Discuss.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The same Cornell where the college president drove over the feet of student protestors? That tracks.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Happy equinox
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Feat. my brilliant friend @sugi.bsky.social!
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
theonion.com
U.S. Vows To Defeat Whoever It Is We're At War With
WASHINGTON, DC—In a televised address to the American people Tuesday, a determined President Bush vowed that the U.S. would defeat "whoever exactly it is we’re at war with here."
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Love to hear well-researched, critical stories about AI on @npr.org interspersed with ads for the very products they are critiquing. Get your shit together, marketing team!
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Academics putting the labor in Labor Day!
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
statepress.com
ASU hires professor who violated former university's consensual relationship policy - The Arizona State Press
Three female University of Wisconsin-Madison students filed complaints against professor Dietram Scheufele, who is now employed by ASU. 
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
theguardian.com
Private equity faces existential crisis in US as unsold companies pile up
Private equity firms and the companies they own employ over 13 million, from startups to rural hospitals and large retailers, but experts’ concerns of collapse are growing
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In Jad Abumrad's excellent podcast on Dolly Parton's America, the distinction he draws between feminists in theory and practice really got me thinking.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I would like older male academics who write obnoxious emails to know that those do get forwarded around and mocked.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
To say nothing of the Jim Crow Halloween costume they decided to sell!
mprnews.org
Teachers call for Target boycott over ICE response
A union is urging parents and teachers to do back-to-school shopping elsewhere, citing Target’s decision not to call for an end to the surge of federal agents to the Twin Cities earlier this year.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
sahanjournal.com
How Unidos MN is organizing Minnesota voters block-by-block
Unidos MN is adapting the block-by-block organizing model that took hold during Operation Metro Surge to share voter information, register neighbors and help communities make plans to vote.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The first of many?
mprnews.org
Minnesota lawyer suspended over fake AI case citations
Minnesota attorney Faisal S. Ahmed has agreed to a 30-day suspension of his law license for filing a 2025 legal brief that cited nonexistent, AI-hallucinated court cases.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“This is going to be three Black women covering a state fair from our perspective, which is like unheard of,” Reece said.
mprnews.org
Her viral video joked about a sponsored trip to the Minnesota State Fair. It’s happening.
Sierra Nicole Reece went viral earlier this year for a video where she stated, “Forget Coachella. I'm trying to go to the Minnesota State Fair.”
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"It was a humanitarian crisis on an unprecedented scale, and churches and relief agencies from all over the world joined together to fly in emergency supplies. Norway's contribution was stockfish."
bbc.com
Nigeria's love affair with a Norwegian fish
How did stockfish - cod dried in Norway’s cold air - became a Nigerian staple?
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Whoever is composing NYT Connections these days needs a vacation, IMHO.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Great article by @durba.bsky.social on anticipatory compliance and complicity at elite universities that have no financial reasons for such obsequiousness. muse.jhu.edu/pub/434/arti...
muse.jhu.edu
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A quick and nauseating glimpse of the American "race realist" fired by Cambridge who launched the allegations that set off this storm.
varsity.co.uk
Nathan Cofnas shouldn’t be silenced
Remy Rushbrooke argues that we should defeat Cofnas' ideology on our own terms rather than censoring him
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Reading a fabulous 2018 book on musicians and online relational labor by @nancybaym.bsky.social clarifies why so many academics use social media for self-promotion though we don't live off article downloads or book purchases. Sounds like it helps some feel like part of hegemonic hustle culture!
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My kind of justice.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you need to procrastinate on your writing..
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Good for Spotify??
theguardian.com
Spotify to distinguish AI artists from real people – and stop recommending them
Music streaming platform creates ‘AI persona’ label that will appear on profiles and track listings in crackdown on fake performers
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Delhi 2026 is uncannily like Cairo 2011 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/...
aljazeera.com
‘My father is in RSS’: India’s Gen Z confronts Modi-loving parents at home
Families divided as children of BJP supporters demand education reforms and reject politics of hate.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
At the risk of cultural essentialism, I'm going to say that if you give an Egyptian the chance to make a joke about you, you are going to get a good one! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Abdul El-Sayed embraces Trump claim he represents ‘very different’ America
Michigan nominee, who spoke to Obama after primary win, vows to fight inequality as president ‘makes billions off you’
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Arday was treated not as a scholar but as a mascot, one who was particularly expedient for an institution that had been regularly embarrassed by its historic record on race"
theguardian.com
The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Government Accountability Office reported 94 percent of Division I colleges spend more money on athletics than they generate — even after accounting for revenue from television contracts, ticket sales and donations to athletic departments.
washingtonpost.com
Most Division I colleges lose money on sports
Over 90 percent of these athletic programs spend more money than they generate, according to the Government Accountability Office.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"A panel of three judges will hear a complaint that Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Lindell violated campaign finance rules by giving away pillows during campaign events." We live in a time of unbelievable ledes..
mprnews.org
Judge finds probable cause that Lindell violated campaign finance law
The complaint stems from Mike Lindell giving out pillows during a July 4 parade.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sanjay Reddy, the tenured Professor of Economics laid off by New School, spoke about the school's lack of financial transparency in 2023.
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The New School as a Neoliberal University presented by Sanjay Reddy
The New School as a Neoliberal University presented by Sanjay Reddy, Associate Professor and Chair of Economics at the New School for Social Research. Presented by the New School Faculty in Exile as p...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
RIP Praveen Nair, Zohran's Nani www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVs...
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Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey)
YouTube video by Mr. Cardamom
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If one more university administrator tries to bully me into allowing AI use in class, I will send them this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
“Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.” campaign-trails.ghost.io/pulling-up-t...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
Pulling Up the Ladder
In recent weeks, Republican representatives in Congress have repeatedly insisted that specific groups of immigrants in their communities will never be assimilated into American life, that they pose a ...
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Abby Vesoulis @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) previously denied a report, also alleged in court records, that he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school. But the woman recently told me the alleged incident remains "one of the more traumatic nights of my life." Inside the investigation: ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp
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Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Go youth!! Inquilab zindabad
theguardian.com
India’s education minister resigns amid Cockroach youth movement protests
Dharmendra Pradhan steps down after demonstrations over exam leak scandal, in major victory for protesters
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When did advertisers on podcasts start calling their advertisements messages? (It is not the host reading the ads). I call bullshit.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Just saw a tow truck take away an Amazon Prime van and it made my day!
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The uncharacteristically long line for the bathroom of my café makes me think that plenty of infected lettuce made it to my town..
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 18/07/2026
A lot of attention has gone to Kennedy making cyclosporiasis optional for FoodNet reporting. But cuts to state and local health departments -- and the loss of CDC expertise -- are a much bigger deal. My latest: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump’s deep public health cuts hinder response to record US cyclosporiasis outbreak
Experts say layoffs, reduced disease surveillance and Medicaid cuts have made the foodborne parasite more difficult to track and contain
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I try not to overdo this bit but ... my man is begging for it. Let's go.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Love this piece on the theatrics of football fandom in Calcutta www.aljazeera.com/features/lon...
aljazeera.com
Kolkata sings for Messi as World Cup fever takes hold
South Asia’s greatest football city has united behind its footballing saint.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
theguardian.com
Ava DuVernay to make Netflix documentary 14th on birthright citizenship
The film-maker behind Selma and 13th will focus on the 14th amendment for a new film out later this year as Donald Trump targets those protected by it
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I know college professors who use Claude to write recommendation letters. And talk freely about it.
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Does it still count as boycotting if I follow today's score on Guardian Sports? #FOMO
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I will be boycotting the World Cup from here on. #FuckFIFA
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S Pahwa @sonipahwa.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Infantino and Messi, fellow fascists.
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