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Erin Palmer @erinpalmerdc.bsky.social · 4h

Bakers of Takoma DC & beyond, assemble!🧁 Enter Spookyville’s No Tricks, Just Treats! bake-off. Sign up by Oct 17; bring goodies to DC's best Halloween party Oct 24. Meet judges Daniela Galarza (WaPo) + Cornelia Poku (The 51st) & win GREAT prizes. RSVP www.spookyville-hauntedalley.com/event-detail...

NO TRICKS, JUST TREATS! BAKING CONTEST | Spookyville: Haunted Alley

Show off your spooky baking skills and help support Spookyville: Haunted Alley! Enter our Halloween treat contest and contribute something delicious to the Haunted Alley.

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Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social · 2h

Had me at subway takes guy

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 3h

The crown jewel of the Dodd-Frank Act

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3h

What's your rewrite? "President Trump on Wednesday issued a document claiming he could grant himself powers not granted to him to snatch up federal funds the Constitution grants Congress jurisdiction over, in a move sure to meet with legal challenges."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4h

I was prepared for Roe. For years I was prepared for Roe falling. I was not prepared for “the 14th and 15th Amendments preclude enforcing the Voting Rights Act because it’s anti-white discrimination.”

Any white grievance you have? SCOTUS is here for you.

But Black people? We can go fuck ourselves.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

Whew!

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 12h

Louisiana v. Callais, in one sentence:

The only way to stop discrimination against Black voters is to stop discriminating against white voters in remedying the initial violation.

This case is about appeasing white voters, and nothing else.

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Ronald Angelo Johnson @ronajohnson.bsky.social · 15h

Today is the official PUBLICATION DAY for *Entangled Alliances* from @cornellupress.bsky.social!!! Save on your copy of the book with the QR code and discount code. 📚

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11h

In complete seriousness, what does the government think this will do in terms of suppressing pro Palestinian sentiment long term? In fact it seems like it would only further concretize the tenacity of those who feel so strongly.

Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 13h

A British couple who are members of a grassroots pro-Palestine organisation which had its bank account frozen have had their joint personal account closed without explanation.

John Nicholson, 70, and Norma Turner, 76, barrister and nurse, received no explanation. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation

John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society

www.theguardian.com

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Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social · 10h

That flag is like my whole childhood

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 11h

UPDATE: Cornell Drops Its Discrimination Case Against a Pro-Palestine Professor After Public Outcry:

“I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.”

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

DOE's public statements about this say that all the ad hoc committees, including HEPAP, will be replaced by a single committee. As an STS researcher, I am compelled to point out that this overlaps with the Nazi playbook for taking over German physics. My slides about how they did that:🧪⚛️🔭

APS April 2017.pdf

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social · 10h

For the behavior to be understood as an outlier, anyway. We’ve learned it takes a lot less time to reveal the widespread desire to engage in a shamed behavior than to force the behavior out of the mainstream in the first place

Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social · 11h

Absolutely gonna see all that in my town this Sat

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

“Go to a No Kings rally. What do you see? You see moms and grandmas and kids and dogs and funny signs and dancing and happy displays of opposition to the regime that are foundationally nonviolent. And on the other end, you’ve got a regime that’s led by a guy who cheered the January 6th insurrection”

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

Regarding past rallies Indivisible has organized, such as the “Hands Off” rallies that took place in all fifty states in April, co-executive director Ezra Levin said: “It was far larger than January 6th, and there was no violence. None.” www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...

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Fernwood Publishing @fernpub.bsky.social · 12h

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"Because antiBlackness knows no borders, our freedom struggles are connected."

A Conversation with Robyn Maynard

Robyn Maynard’s bestselling Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present offers a comprehensive account of the state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization, and puni…

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 13h

Save 30% on #NewBook "Exorbitance" by Deborah A. Thomas, which calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life rather than the state. #Anthropology
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Cover of Exorbitance: A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance by Deborah A. Thomas. The collage-style artwork features layered images of a central figure, a Black woman in a historical headwrap and blouse, and pants made of newspaper clippings. Her hands lay atop the surface of what might be a drum, that has been superimposed with a black and white photograph. Behind her is a masculine silhouette in a solid black color, though flecked with stars. At the bottom, rows of small, identical images of women in red and blue skirts appear in procession.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 14h

The AHA, @socialstudies.org, and @oah.org encourage our members and other supporters of a full account of history to submit comments on the proposed patriotic education funding priority by October 17, 2025. Learn more and take action here 🗃️:

Action Alert: Submit Comments on Proposed Patriotic Education Funding Priority

The American Historical Association (AHA), National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS), and Organization of American Historians (OAH) jointly encourage our members and other supporters of a full ac...

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Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you so much for this thread.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 1d

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15h

via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.

VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 27d

New opportunity for professors in the humanities & social sciences in the US: Our Transatlantic Bridge Professorships support research & exchange in Germany & the US (€300,000 for up to 3 years). Apply from Jan 15, 2026. 🌉🇩🇪🇺🇸 More: 👉 www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/f...

Transatlantic Bridge Professorships

The programme is aimed at professors at US universities who are conducting research on the future of democracy, fundamental rights and academic freedom, or the future of transatlantic relations and wh...

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Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social · 14h

Oh no! The protestors have colorful hair and are…human?

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 16h

My latest @npr.org story: A Supreme Court case over Louisiana’s congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and allow Republicans to redraw 19 more House seats

A Supreme Court ruling on voting rights could boost Republicans' redistricting efforts

A Supreme Court case over Louisiana's congressional map could determine the future of Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination and allow Republicans to draw 19 more House seats.

www.npr.org

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d

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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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 2d

UVA's Sociology department is looking to hire a tenured sociologist of religion at the Associate or Full level. Here is the advertisement. @sssreligion.bsky.social @asareligion.bsky.social

Details here: apply.interfolio.com/173879

The Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia invites applications for a tenured Associate or Full Professor position specializing in the sociology of religion. We are particularly interested in a theoretically engaged scholar whose work addresses religious pluralism in complex modern societies, the relationship between religion, civic engagement, and democratic political cultures, the social and economic impact of religion from a cultural and historical perspective. Relevant questions may include but are not limited to: how does religion shape cultural and political conflicts? How does religion relate not only to political participation but to the shaping of collectives? How do different understandings of the sacred inform the development of, and dispute over, morality?

For additional information about our dynamic department, please visit https://sociology.as.virginia.edu/. For questions regarding this position, please contact Isaac Reed, Search Chair, at iar2c@virginia.edu.

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