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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline

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Prof. at Berkeley, research on design for adaptation to flooding, air quality, justice, and biodiversity. So committed to DEI that there's no going back. Looking for common ground and believing in the possibility of shared learning...but not with Nazis.

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 10d

Try this ONE TRICK! 🧪

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · Jul 7

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- @hislopmd.bsky.social

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 6h

I hope this means all the Anglo-Saxons are going back to England.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 6h

I always say that everyone who attends a protest is marching for 10 people who can't.

Are you one of those 10 people? Can you spread the word? Pack lunches for friends who are going? Donate? Make zines? It's all The Work!

AND! There are a lot of things to do that AREN'T specific to this Saturday ⬇️

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

If you can’t attend a protest, there are many other ways to resist:

• Get connected to the resistance: fiftyfifty.one

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 1d

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon, reports Corinne Smith for @alaskabeacon.com

One dead, dozens rescued and roughly 1,000 displaced in western Alaska communities hit by ex-typhoon | Alaska Beacon

Search and rescue efforts continued into Monday in the Kuskokwim River delta in the aftermath of ex-Typhoon Halong.

alaskabeacon.com

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 1d

I tried to re-read The Stars Like Dust when I was an adult and was horrified by the way he wrote women’s parts in that. Not overtly rude but incredibly dismissive.

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism is a character failing. It requires a surrender to narcissism in a universe with no empathy, no confrontation by others.

Education has no bearing on that.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 2d

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 2d

And when I re-read Asimov as an adult, the misogyny really stood out. It’s right there in the stories… not just in how he treated actual women.

It was hard to be a sci-fi fan asa woman back in the day. But we were, anyway.

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 2d

A very young Joni Mitchell on the original laptop

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2d

Also, Lord, if it's not too much to ask, could you please find it in your merciful heart to forgive me for not mentioning Joni Mitchell earlier in this thread, as one of the greatest vocal and instrumental virtuosos who ever lived, who also composed a catalog that redefined the popular songbook?

'California' (LIVE) - Joni Mitchell (BBC In Concert, 1970) - Joni playing dulcimer.

YouTube video by Rommel

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 2d

This is scary - where is the help ppl need?

Extreme rain from a typhoon in Alaska seems to have floated homes while ppl were sheltering in them.

Hoping everyone affected is found safe.

Angutekaraq Qakvalria @angutekaraq.bsky.social · 2d

People's houses are floating away WITH PEOPLE IN THEM

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 12d

We can remember Goodall’s accomplishments and legacy while recognizing that National Geographic created a narrative that erased the local people who contributed to her research. Her African colleagues deserve to be credited, not erased (10/10).

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 3d

They believe it will happen to someone else, not to them and their families. Like biblical plagues. And make the world better for them when the rest of us are out of the way. 🦠

Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 3d

Read this now.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 4d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 5d

Explosions in Kyiv ballistic missiles everywhere it’s 2 in the morning

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 5d

What is it with fascists and massive arches?

Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5d

Hitler had plans for one of those in Berlin, too. Unlike Trump, he could draw it for himself.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 5d

“Isn’t horrible that billionaires can’t just buy a university, fire all the tenure faculty, and remake it in their image like Bezos did with the Post?”

That’s the question posed by Trump’s Compact.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 5d

Should the universities comply on syllabi and fake justice concerns, and keep the hospitals open for desperate people?

Or stand firm and let the admin force the closure of the hospitals?

You pick.

If it were me, I’d recognize that this is brinksmanship and let them try to close the hospitals.

Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 5d

Here’s the dilemma for many university systems, including the univ of California:

the admin is threatening to cut them off from federal funding for university hospitals.

It’s like the Heinz ethical dilemma about whether he should steal meds he can’t afford for his wife who needs them. 🧵

Crimson Courage @crimsoncourage.bsky.social · 5d

Compelling opinion piece today in the Crimson by Steven Levitsky & Ryan Enos. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

And for those in Boston, see Steven Levitsky on our panel with Archon Fung of the Ash Center at the Harvard Club of Boston on October 23. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/inside-har...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush @raushenbush.bsky.social · 5d

Nice "the ancient art of lying"

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

bit.ly

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, hurt worse than the usual police brutality, wrongful convictions, and being shot with pepper balls to the head.

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 6d

Somebody in the US is going to get hurt by their own government, to feed their desire for a liberal scapegoat.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 6d

Somebody in the US is going to get hurt by their own government, to feed their desire for a liberal scapegoat.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 6d

This is…terrifying.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6d

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 6d

It was a higher than usual tide in the SFBay today.

Always fun to watch the ocean migrate onto the land.

Photo of tidal water crossing an old berm and flooding a dirt road next to SF Bay

Dr. Kristina Hill ☠️ thinks this is a bad timeline @kzhill.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. 🔥

Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 6d

Let's check in and see how September temperatures have changed in the U.S. and Canada over the last 75 years. 🔥😢

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