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Robert Talisse @roberttalisse.bsky.social · 2h

I've studied the great works of political theory for over half my life, yet the most important insights for our times can be gained from Scorsese films. Like this one:

Friendships formed for the purpose of making money will break as soon as it's profitable to become enemies

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 4h

All those German politicians railing against migrants should explain how they will solve the Pflegenotstand (care emergency) in an aging society. Many of my mother’s caregivers are migrants. still have to wait 2+ mos for rehab and drive 1+ hrs each way. Same nonsense in US

Daniel Drepper @danieldrepper.bsky.social · 5h

German chancellor Merz saying the quiet part out loud. Asked about migration, he praises himself for reducing numbers by 60 percent, but “we still have the issue of visibility in our cities” (“im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”). Welcome to Germany in 2025.

Philipp Eckstein @eckstein.bsky.social · 1d

Migration und das Stadtbild... bemerkenswerte Aussage von #Merz: "Bei der Migration sind wir sehr weit [...] Aber wir haben natürlich immer im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem und deswegen ist der Bundesinnenminister ja auch dabei jetzt in sehr großem Umfang auch Rückführungen zu ermöglichen" 1/x

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 6h

I have been concerned for years that red states will limit the ability of public university employees to attend conferences if the association takes a strong stance in favor of DEI. We're marching closer to that point, and it will hit education schools hard.

Under Anti-DEI Pressure, Ohio State Limits Conference Funds

The Education Department recently criticized Ohio State University’s involvement with a nonprofit that encourages people from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue doctorates. Now, OSU is rethinking ...

www.insidehighered.com

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 10h

Sociology professor jobs in Copenhagen 🇩🇰!

Repost: We're hiring! Open rank. At least 2 profs.

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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · Sep 11

We're hiring in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰

Two or more open rank sociology professorships (tt assistant, associate with tenure, or full prof with tenure).

You'll join a leading sociology department in Europe with many core fields represented!

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 9h

Jesus fucking Christ

Miriam Vollmer @miriamvollmer.bsky.social · 1d

Zumindest auf den Bildern im Netz wirken die Palästinenser ja nicht besonders mager. Gab es da denn jetzt eine Hungersnot oder war das gelogen?

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 9h

This woman is my hero

Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 13h

🔥🔥🔥 Today at immigration court 26 Federal Plaza this woman went ballistic to the masked ICE agents who detained her family member. Where are the people standing up to the Gestapo? I never saw this in 4 months I’ve been filming. 👏👏👏👏

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Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social · 8h

One of the best things I’ve done in BCN is @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social tour - a real deep dive into the history of the civil war through the city streets. You get to see and handle an utterly unique collection of archive photos and objects from the time

Iconic photo of Marina Ginesta shouldering a rifle on a rooftop, shown in front of the building in Placa Catalunya she was stood on top of when it was taken

A milk label from when industries were collectivised and the anarchists were running the buses, the cinemas, catering etc. the label says “Socialised dairy industry: CNT milk”

Two postcards, one an illustration of a militiawoman with a resemblance to Marlene Dietrich, the other showing a group of men admiring the illustrations in poster form in 1930s barcelona

Famous antifascists poster of an espadrilled foot crushing the swastika

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 15h

Not the point, but that man is 45 years old, yet another testament to the physically corrosive effects of full on evil

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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National Education Policy Center @nepc.bsky.social · 17h

Layoff notes sent to ED staff official emails, which admin said can't be checked during shutdown. Admin now says it's okay to check, just to see if laid off. But they won't check cuz they don't trust the admin. ('Sorry, you checked email, so you're fired for cause.') www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

White House Guts Education Department With More Layoffs

www.nytimes.com

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Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 18h

Looking forward to chatting about liberal socialism with Briahna Joy Gray this Thursday

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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 1d

"According to this study, however, employers, at least in
Milwaukee, continue to use race as a major factor in their hiring decisions. When we combine the effects of race and criminal record, the problem grows more intense." Devah Pager scholar.harvard.edu/files/pager/...
@danshafer.bsky.social

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

Epistolary novels are kind of dope

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 1d

Shoutout to Brento, who was a senior English major when I was a freshman, and on the warmup run through the arb one practice straight up laughed at me when I said I didn’t like Jane Austen. He made me promise to take Susan Jaret McKinstry’s class, and thus I learned

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 1d

I did an mfa in fiction writing with a lot of men who had never read Jane Austen and weren’t even embarrassed about that and I had no respect for them

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 2d

Coooooool cool cool cool

TMJ4 News @tmj4.com · 2d

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been identified in a backyard poultry flock in Racine County, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced Monday.

Bird flu case confirmed in Racine County backyard poultry flock

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza has been identified in a backyard poultry flock in Racine County, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced Monday.

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 2d

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 2d

Moi's 2003 piece on theory boys:

www.torilmoi.com/wp-content/u...

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 2d

Stumbling on the fact that, for this man, peace is good iff there’s an award in it for him personally.

Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 2d

Indonesian president reportedly to visit Israel after Sharem summit. Trump is really pushing to get his peace to happen.

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 2d

That’s FIFTEENTH-CENTURY SPAIN, you guys.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 2d

Etsy recommended for me, but
@jeremylsinger.bsky.social & @sarahlenhoff.bsky.social, it has your names on it

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“Maybe the intelligence we most need is the capacity to see beyond the hierarchies that determine which knowledge counts. Without that foundation, regardless of the hundreds of billions we pour into developing superintelligence, we’ll keep erasing knowledge systems that took generations to develop.”

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

aeon.co

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Justin Parmenter @justinparmenter.bsky.social · 2d

Sweeping layoffs announced by the Trump administration landed another body blow to the U.S. Department of Education, this time gutting the office responsible for making sure states provide special education services to the nation's 7.5 million children with disabilities.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

www.npr.org

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Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social · 3d

"Auf der Konferenz wurde vor diesem Hintergrund die Frage intensiv diskutiert, warum ... sich [viele] vom 'Möglichen' abwenden. Und sich für eine Politik entscheiden, die teils gar nicht ihren eigenen Interessen entspricht, ja ihnen sogar oft entgegensteht."

www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/amlin...

Soziologie-Kongress in Basel: Was hat Trumps Aufstieg ermöglicht?

In Basel versucht die Prominenz der Kritischen Theorie drei Tage, sich den Aufstieg autoritärer Tendenzen zu erklären. Ihre Debatte zeigt aber auch: Ideen, wie dem Backlash begegnet werden kann, sind ...

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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 2d

Romantic comedies are so, so philosophically rich.

Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 2d

Great reconsideration of beloved American film wh/ gifted women the terms “high/low maintenance.” Occurs to me, theory as such is “high maintenance:” never satisfied with what’s offered, putting the sauce on the side, thinking harder about what presents as “obvious”, always (re) considering.

The Quiet Cruelty of 'When Harry Met Sally'

The classic rom-com invented the “high-maintenance” woman. Thirty years later, its reductive diagnosis lives on.

www.theatlantic.com

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