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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 19d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

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geogirl1.bsky.social @geogirl1.bsky.social · 1d

The French farmers would!

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

Our classrooms are not safe for us or regular students. Our universities canot be relied upon to protect us. You have to keep speaking up about this. Faculty already are, but we need folks who aren’t in academia raising the alarm for everyone else. The End.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

These students even enroll in our classes so they can do a "gotcha" on us. Imagine this being your entire role as a student? Imagine having time for this!? But they are emboldened now beyond their wildest dreams.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

There are certain groups that focus on professors and their entire existence is centered on harassing us, spying on us, and inciting violence and intimidation against us.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

But the few last weeks have escalated into outright firings of all kinds of professors (even for tenured ones), as well as intense harassment and threats and now, attempts to prevent us, apparently, from leaving the country if we wish to do so.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

There is a Professor Watchlist you can look at if you can stomach it. Obviously, this campaign has been mainly (not always but mainly) targeted at folks of color, LGBTQ folks, and women until now.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

I know people personally, tenured and not, who have endured horrendous harassment that has required campus security walking them to and from class or their cars, having other people handle their email to filter out threats, and people showing up at their offices or calling repeatedly.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

If you don’t have tenure, the threat is very real and sharper, although it is also clear that tenure is not necessarily something that will protect you either.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, that's the hierarchy, artificial and stupid as it is, it's real. Here are the stakes. The threats, of course, have always been present against profs, but have now escalated exponentially every year since 2016.

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

Part of this hierarchy has been created over decades by labor market economic stuff but universities embrace it so they can hire fewer profs overall and more Deans of ChatGPT Strategery 🙄🤮 It's also a deliberate political strategy to tighten up exactly who gets to have "academic freedom."

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 1d

3. Lecturer: this position is somewhat more stable in that you are salaried/have benefits and it is "permanent" but only insofar as they keep renewing your contract indefinitely. Sometimes referred to as a "teaching professor." You are paid less and have a bigger teaching load than TT (tenure track)

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨University of Arizona students, staff, and faculty are speaking out against Trumps demands in exchange for money. Let’s boost their voices! 1/2

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dukeraul.bsky.social @dukeraul.bsky.social · 3d

I've been saying it for at least twenty years - the concepts of American exceptionalism and rugged individualism are candy coated megolomania-narcissism.
It's the American culture. We're witnessing the candy coated veneer washed away in its unabashed horror. Gobbless.

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geogirl1.bsky.social @geogirl1.bsky.social · 2d

This Congress is useless and the Repubs have ceded their power and authority.

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Resistor Vic @vicmeyers.bsky.social · 2d

Call him
youtu.be/QVIMWqbSVOI?...

Swear Her In #resistance #grijalva

YouTube video by Resistor Vic

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geogirl1.bsky.social @geogirl1.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

geogirl1.bsky.social @geogirl1.bsky.social · 2d

Ive called Thune, Johnson etc asking why they can give 20 billion and all of our soy bean contracts to Argentina, but not healthcare to US citizens. Write, call and complain. Let them know.