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Anna Kornbluh

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Dec 5

elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy.
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Power 100

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 14h

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 9h

Foreign student enrollment:

IIT 51%
UChicago 31%
Art Institute of Chicago 31%
U of I 22%
Northwestern 21%

Samantha Brennan @samanthabrennan.bsky.social · 22h

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15%

www.businesstoday.in/nri/study/st...

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15% - BusinessToday

This move is part of a broader policy aimed at regulating academic admissions and funding, and it is set to have significant repercussions for colleges and universities across the United States.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 8h

“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”

The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)

Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8h

incredibly sorry to hear that and hope it’s a little more stable for you now. there are so many like you.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 3d

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social for a town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left, hosted w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Solidarity Against Sadism
Naomi Klein
Chenjerai Kumanyika
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Astra Taylor

An Emergency Town Hall
Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00 pm ET
Sponsored by Haymarket Books and Hammer & Hope

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10h

at last another member of my ferrante truther fellowship

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10h

exceedingly rare mainstream coverage of real college

Jessica Wakeman @jessicawakeman.bsky.social · 10h

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

He was a homeless college student. He found hope in a parking lot.

Long Beach City College reserves 15 spots in a parking lot for homeless students. For Edgar Rosales Jr., the program has been a lifeline.

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Gailey 🍉 @sarahgailey.bsky.social · 11h

books should have an anti-acknowledgements section where the author talks shit about all the people who fucked them over while they were trying to write the thing. not bc I personally want to write one but bc I love gossip

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 23h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 11h

extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.

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Mark Goble @goblemark.bsky.social · 12h

There will be a depressing number of institutions that say yes or flirt with this, but also doesn't opening up the offer to all-comers so quickly seem just a little thirsty? Like they're putting fascism on sale for 20% off because not enough universities are buying?

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Tonia Hill @tonia.thetriibe.com · 14h

windycitytimes.com/2025/10/13/a...

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13h

working on it!

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 13h

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks to American Campus, the podcast about the history of higher education, for featuring my book. We talk about how NPR and PBS emerged from equal access to education discourses. And how Media Studies originated as a strategy of public media activism.

How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd - American Campus Podcast

How public universities gave rise to public mediaReferences and suggested readings:Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press.Laura G...

americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13h

@rachelfeder.bsky.social are you handling the unhinging deluge ok, can you compile a coffee table book

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13h

come to english class, we make defoe exciting, promise!

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 14h

his company has said if people had property rights to the textual and visual work they created his company would cease to exist

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 21h

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h

this is extremely cool!

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h

what a treat! she's very great (and fun).

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 16h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

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Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14h

yay! the comparative theory fb group had a big thread recently about philosophy of comedy and whether it suffers when it is itself not funny; look forward to your syntheses!

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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t sometimes think this, I always think this. Like this is one of the six things I think every day before breakfast

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 16h

sometimes i think we lost something with the disappearance of not just cheap but cheap *looking* mass market paperback versions of "prestige" books

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18h

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 16h

Be sure to spread it around

No kings
No dictators
October 18
Nokings.org

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