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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 11h

If you were just laid off by the Department of Education and your job was to help distribute IDEA funds, please be in touch for a @motherjones.com article. I can protect your identity in an article, though I'll have to confirm who you are. My signal is juliametraux.49. Reposts appreciated.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 11h

This is great news! Congratulations!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 1d

While pondering this, it dawned on me that it would potentially change so much I don’t even know where to start.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

if healthcare was not tied to employment in the USA what would you be doing differently in your career?

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering if my flight to NYC next week is actually going to…happen. 🙃 But much more important: it’s outrageous that workers are having to work without pay and deal with dangerous understaffing.

The government shutdown keeps snarling air travel. Officials say it could get worse

A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.

www.npr.org

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 1d

While pondering this, it dawned on me that it would potentially change so much I don’t even know where to start.

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

if healthcare was not tied to employment in the USA what would you be doing differently in your career?

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 2d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Mary Retta on the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed and diversity itself, from the "compact" to their hostility enabling colleges to seemingly stonewall their unions and dispose of roles @teenvogue.com

"I think the numbers of Black and certain other minoritized students and faculty will decrease.”

How The Trump Admin's Attack on Higher Education and DEI Are Impacting Campuses

Several colleges throughout the United States have eliminated funding, offices, and even staff associated with "DEI" — inspired in part by the Trump administration’s bluster.

www.teenvogue.com

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 2d

This extraordinary piece from Gaza by Ali Skaik about the ceasefire made me cry. It contains so much—joy, grief, determination, love, sorrow, hope. Very proud to run it in @thenation.com today. Please read it. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Then my sister Huda, 21, was awakened by a phone call. Her friend told her the ceasefire would begin at 12 PM. "A ceasefire! A ceasefire!" she shouted, her voice shaking with disbelief. The whole house erupted— some of us laughed, some of us cried, and all of us dared to hope, if only for a moment. My 10-year-old brother Abedrahim jumped from his mattress and danced around the room shouting, "The genocide is over! We'll finally eat chicken!"

I walked through the ruins of Al-Rimal to find a cafe with internet so I could submit my exam. The streets were unrecognizable. Shops were flattened. Homes were piles of ash and steel.

I ran into my friend Khaled Al-Saqqa, 27, the sole survivor of his entire family. When I told him about the ceasefire, his eyes filled with tears. “Why was I left to suffer alone?!” he asked. I had no answer. I simply hugged him and whispered, “God gives you strength.”

We’ll welcome back loved ones who fled to the south—but not all will return. The IOF killed many who sought safety in so-called “safe zones.” Among them was the family of my father’s cousin Yusuf. A midnight strike on September 28, 2025, hit the apartment next to theirs as they prepared to pitch a tent. His wife Nidaa, daughter Ruaa, 18, and son Hamoud, 11, with curly yellow hair, were killed. Yusuf survived, along with his daughter Aya, 21, who suffered a broken leg and pelvis, and Aboud, 17, who remembers hearing his mother’s last breath.

We will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again.

The real war is now. The war of healing. Of remembering. Of refusing to forget. Of restarting. Of chasing our dreams.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 2d

I act like I wasn't wearing sweatshirts this whole time and just sweating a lot.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 2d

SWEATSHIRT WEATHER, finally (and probably fleetingly).

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Manisha Krishnan @manishakrishnan.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Some gamblers are placing WNBA bets based on when they think players are on their periods—and advising their followers to do the same. One content creator calls it "blood money." But the strategy is both unscientific and sexist. From @mollylongman.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/men-ar...

Men Are Betting on WNBA Players' Menstrual Cycles

Some sports gamblers are trying to predict WNBA players’ performance—and the outcomes of games—based on the athletes’ periods. One betting content creator has dubbed it “blood money."

www.wired.com

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 3d

I cringe every time I send a follow up email because it's like, "hello, I understand you're likely overworked, underpaid, and juggling 500 things in work and life and everything but just seeing if you saw this." 🫠

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 2d

Such wonderful news: we get another book by @hannahmatthews.bsky.social!

Hannah Matthews @hannahmatthews.bsky.social · 2d

some news

(let’s talk about death and bodies and sickness and isolation and t1d but make it fun and sexy and weird and juicy and queer and…honestly…a WILD ride)

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 3d

If you're a writer in the South with a funny, irreverent novel, this is the time to send it to me. I would love to read something like that right now.

Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · 3d

Serious books bum us out, fun books feel like they're not addressing THE TIMES. Getting something that's both is impossible. Writers are cranking out novels to please their agents, and agents are sending them unedited, and no one is answering anyone's emails because we're really, really tired.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 3d

This is so damn scary. The book claimed that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who introduced Donald and Melania. Now the CEO of Harper UK is out.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 3d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 3d

Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:

www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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Natasha Roy @natasharoy.bsky.social · 3d

Our union members are proud of the work we do at Rewire, but we’re incredibly disappointed and jarred by the vast pay disparity between management and the unit.

By our calculations, mgmt gave themselves $942,817.55 for their 7 salaries, and allotted $464,373.70 for our 6. We deserve equitable pay.

Rewire News Group Union @rngunion.bsky.social · 4d

Since we last shared an update on bargaining, we’ve received additional information about management salaries at Rewire.

The TLDR: The pay discrepancy between management and union members is deeply unsettling.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 3d

I cringe every time I send a follow up email because it's like, "hello, I understand you're likely overworked, underpaid, and juggling 500 things in work and life and everything but just seeing if you saw this." 🫠

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Connor Giffin @connorgiffin.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump administration is reportedly considering cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for Kentucky energy projects.

If enacted, the cuts could be a death blow to one of the state's largest ongoing economic development projects.
www.courier-journal.com/story/news/l...

Trump reportedly eyeing further cuts to Kentucky energy projects, including $316M grant

If enacted, the reported cuts could be a death blow to at least one of Kentucky's largest ongoing economic development projects.

www.courier-journal.com

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Grist @grist.org · 3d

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet.

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

grist.org/global-indig...

#Youth #Climate #Law #Legal #Indigenous

The kids who sued America over climate change aren’t done yet

They want an international human rights body to hold the U.S. accountable — and are spotlighting Indigenous communities on the frontlines.

grist.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 4d

A 9-year-old pepper sprayed in handcuffs, crying for her dad. A teenager wrestled to the ground, and another pepper sprayed while waiting for the bus.

All were Black girls hurt by police.

Police Hurt Thousands of Teens Every Year. A Striking Number Are Black Girls.

www.themarshallproject.org

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