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📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦 @phidipdbq.bsky.social · 9h

Take a page from the notebook of @karenattiah.bsky.social , and offer the class anyway, someplace close to campus, or online.

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JJ @jjbrainstorm.bsky.social · 9h

Teach it anyways. Find a library who can host it and teach the class there.

Students will flock to a forbidden class.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 13h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 7h

Emma Goldman is describing what a nightmare Russia has become, with all media coverage controlled by a single political party, "a militaristic police state that suppresses freedom and human rights, where nothing works"

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Jane N @jdopinkie.bsky.social · 7h

We are amphifa

Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 10h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 7h

Piggybacking on this to share a story I overheard today. Lady in front of me was USAID. Got fired while she and her family were stationed overseas. Kicked out of their home and kids pulled from school. Moved back here, living in a shared apartment, and she’s selling things on Etsy to get by. 💔😡

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 10h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14h

Hello Idaho, we’re here to keep your potatoes safe from Antifa.

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 17h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 13h

I wrote a book about January 6, 2021.

Want to know when the Trump administration began its systematized lying about antifa and the FBI being behind MAGAs' attack on the Capitol?

January 6, 2021.

Rudy Giuliani had a suite at the Willard Hotel that was the command center for broadcasting that lie.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8d

It should be getting wall to wall coverage. It’s crazy.

And re: Miller, I’ve met like 2 people that like him… ever.

Some Republicans like what he’s managing to do with his power, but most of them despise him as a person.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 8d

Nope. Not even for a second. I’m not going to let these assholes chase me out of my country - I care about it a lot more than they do.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Miller seethes when people make fun of him online, so I do think ridiculing him is impactful.

Better, though, would be to start calling him President Miller and telling folks he’s really in charge - that’ll drive Trump nuts.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Damage? It doesn’t appear so, thankfully.

Lingering effects? I hear many of them are furious at even being called in for that bullshit, and several are seriously concerned by that rambling incoherent psychobabble from Trump.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been hearing the same thing from Republicans behind the scenes, but they’ve also been telling reporters that they’re going to put their foot down when Trump does ____ and then they promptly fold.

I’ll have to see it to believe it.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

You know there are about a dozen despicable trash people in DHS and ICE and the administration working to find out who this guy is so they can go after him.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You Deserved Better

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

We appreciate what you did for America

robertreich.substack.com

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Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 17h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

Link | Subreddit

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 18h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 17h

Wow!

ProBon @probon.bsky.social · 21h

Meanwhile the world has stopped buying American orange juice.
It now trades at 43% of the price it went for when Trump took office.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 18h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 17h

I feel like this theory also explains why the “Trump is weird” approach that Walz hit on last year was so effective and why everything fell apart once the consultants got involved and told him to act normal.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 17h

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

www.theverge.com

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 16h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18h

At a time when so many people feel “really powerless, Michelle’s work is a reminder that it’s still possible to be powerful, and she’s done it through art.”

One woman’s quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

www.motherjones.com

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