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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

Love after Love. Derek Walcott.

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bradley @oathbound.bsky.social · 1d

Wish I could remember what I even said 😭

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bradley @oathbound.bsky.social · 1d

Me when my students laugh at my jokes more heartily than I was expecting

a man is standing in front of a crowd of people and looking at the camera with a surprised look on his face .

ALT: a man is standing in front of a crowd of people and looking at the camera with a surprised look on his face .

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 1d

Jamie Raskin & Chris Houlihan have introduced a bill to require the DoD to restore books removed from military schools by the Trump Administration. It also protects DoD Education Activity schools from political interference. Tell your electeds to support it! www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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David Waldstreicher @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social · 1d

A little thing, riffing on the great Robin D.G. Kelley (and Noam Chomsky).

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-fascism-and-genocide/david-waldstreicher/

On the Responsibility of Historians - Boston Review

The university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself.

www.bostonreview.net

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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 2d

I’ll be tabling for the MAMAS money team so you should come say hi, buy your books in cash, and give the change (*ahem*) to MAMAS!

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Our next Be the Change workshop is coming right up! This Sunday, October 12 at 5PM our friends from @mutualaidmamas.bsky.social will host a study group about mutual aid; what it is, why it matters, and how we can begin, build, or deepen our practice. And they get 20% of sales during the workshop!

Be the Change Workshop: What is Mutual Aid and How Do We Practice It?

Come as you are—no required materials—but if you would like some additional context, here are some supplementary materials we might reference in our conversation:

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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 3d

One easy way to support your local bookstore WITHOUT SPENDING ANY $$$ is to nominate their booksellers for a James Patterson holiday bonus www.bookweb.org/james-patter...

James Patterson Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program 2025

www.bookweb.org

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bradley @oathbound.bsky.social · 4d

“Yeah, I threw the phone. Yeah.”
—Naomi Campbell

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 5d

For #BannedBooksWeek, we’re highlighting the unjust censorship of political books which impacts countless incarcerated readers each year.

For every book purchased from this reading list, we will be sending a book to someone who is incarcerated.

Books Are For Everyone: A Banned Books Week Reading List

Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

www.haymarketbooks.org

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Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) @appalachianpbp.bsky.social · 5d

We’re out of 2025 world almanacs and low on dictionaries—two of our most popular requests. Can you help us stock up?

It’s #BannedBooksWeek, too, which means that if you purchase a book from our indie bookstore partner wish lists and donate it to APBP, your gift will be matched.

A maroon and gray flyer with a photo of books on shelves in the background. The text reads: “Banned Books Week. Appalachian Prison Book Project. Support the freedom to READ. October 5-11, 2025. Purchase a book from our indie bookstore wish lists and your donation will be matched! @AppalachianPBP.”

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 5d

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

Screenshot from statement “Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge. Faculty carry out the mission by conducting research and teaching students. The knowledge they produce and circulate is independently assessed by professional peers. Interfering with that process by forcing knowledge to pass through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise.”

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5d

There is a direct line from the mushy-centrist scolding about campus "viewpoint diversity" to the stuff he's horrified about now. When you've positioned a made-up bogeyman (the student Left) as "the threat," you shouldn't be surprised when your buddies on the Right take that ball and run with it.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

I can’t believe this Conor person gets paid to write about American politics. My dude, where have you been for the past 9 years?

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Conor Friedersdorf & @conor64
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Every conservative in America should be denouncing this.
Derek Thompson
@DKThomp •13h
This sweaty online lust to obliterate the judicial system and declare martial law is genuinely disgusting stuff.
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Elon Musk • X @elonmusk
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Eric Daugherty © @EricLDaugh • 1d
We need to Bukele our court system.
WATCH how quickly this country is fixed.
Nayib Bukele ©
@nayibbukele
If you don't impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country.
They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats.
@StephenM
Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.
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1/ Judge Immergut just granted a restraining order that prevents Trump's mobilization of the Oregon
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 5d

“Advocacy must shift from isolated book battles to defending institutional autonomy and resisting the ideological nationalization of censorship.”

buckscountybeacon.com/2025/10/the-...

The Quiet Creep of Censorship: How ‘Everyday Banning’ Is Reshaping American Schools - Bucks County Beacon

PEN America’s new report “The Normalization of Book Banning” exposes how book censorship has become “rampant and common” in public schools across the United States.

buckscountybeacon.com

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Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Ed @sfndhe.bsky.social · 5d

As states like Florida and Texas gut tenure protections for university faculty, many assume the greatest loss is to academic freedom. But tenure is not just about academic freedom. It also is, and has always been, about labor protection.
@aaup.org @afthighered.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social

The Real History of Tenure

If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

time.com

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Unite Against Book Bans @uabookbans.bsky.social · 7d

#LetFreedomReadDay is in ONE WEEK! On 10/11, take at least ONE action to help defend books from censorship and speak up for those who make them available. Find resources/tools + actions you can take in just 5 mins: uniteagainstbookbans.org/let-freedom-read-day #BannedBooksWeek #UniteAgainstBookBans

On a grayscale background of a stack of books are the Banned Books Week Coalition, Unite Against Book Bans, and Let Freedom Read Day logos. Text reads: October 11, 2025. Banned Books Week. Oct. 5 - 11, 2025. UniteAgainstBookBans.org/let-freedom-read-day

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Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social · 9d

I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review

The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

www.bostonreview.net

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 9d

we need much more analysis on how the attack on higher education has centered the enforcement of gender binaries in everything from discriminatory gender definitions to housing policy and how quickly universities have ALREADY conceded to these authoritarian demands without much pushback

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 9d

Here is the full document that universities are being asked to sign. It's well worth your time to read.

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Sam Klug @samklug.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to @choicereviews.bsky.social and Derek Charles Catsam for this featured review of The Internal Colony: www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

The Colony at Home: How Decolonization Abroad Shaped Black Politics in Postwar America - Choice 360

Read the latest featured review from Choice of "The Internal Colony," which explores Black people's relationship to the US body politic.

www.choice360.org

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 11d

Solange helping build an archive and Mychal hosting Reading Rainbow. At least some good things are happening!! By the way, I do recommend checking out Ntozake Shange's *A Daughter's Geographyt* lithub.com/solange-know... #archives 📖 💃 🌈

Solange Knowles is launching a free radical library.

Once again, Solange Knowles is using her popularity for a good cause. Last night on Instagram, the polymath poet, culture worker, and song stylist announced a new literary project. An archive spons…

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 12d

I’m often saying we need to keep our eyes on Vanderbilt.

proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/d...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 13d

It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.

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WBUR @wbur.org · 12d

At least 20 Starbucks locations in the Boston area abruptly shut down for good this weekend, as part of widespread closures announced by the chain last Thursday, Sept. 25. Here's which locations are affected:

Starbucks shuts down roughly 20 Boston-area stores as part of wider closures

At least 20 Starbucks locations in the Boston area abruptly shut down for good this weekend, as part of widespread closures announced by the chain last Thursday, Sept. 25.

www.wbur.org

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bradley @oathbound.bsky.social · 12d

Am I going to have to boycott The Sims?

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12d

‘Under the terms of the deal, the private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF and Affinity Partners will pay EA’s stockholders $210 per share.

Affinity Partners is a private equity firm run by Jared Kushner’

Video game maker Electronic Arts to be acquired and taken private for $55 billion

Electronic Arts, the video game maker of “Madden NFL,” “The Sims,” and other popular titles, is being acquired and taken private for $55 billion.

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adamxmcneil.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social · 13d

Happy to share my New Books Network interview with historian Mary E. Hicks about her new book!

newbooksnetwork.com/captive-cosm...

Mary E. Hicks, "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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bradley @oathbound.bsky.social · 14d

Not to be “the friend that’s too woke” but…