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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h
They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 1d
HA! Yes! There will be plenty of those!
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 1d
hosting a little design charrette to rethink the scope and sequence of an academic program. #design colleagues, what - from your perspective - makes a charrette successful? What materials (e.g., Post-it notes, chart paper) are necessary?
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 2d
with @tylerwmartin.bsky.social away on a work trip, I just lay around, share string cheese with Kiki (our shiba inu), and play hours of Fortnite #FeelsLikeFallBreak #WriteWargoWrite #GetBackToWork
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 2d
Tina Fey returned to ‘Saturday Night Live’ to unveil a new eerily accurate GOP impression: DHS Director Kristi Noem. Lorne, please don’t invite Noem on the show this time.
Tina Fey’s Got Another GOP Impression Up her Sleeve
Tina Fey returned to ‘Saturday Night Live’ to unveil a new eerily accurate GOP impression: DHS Director Kristi Noem. Lorne, please don’t invite Noem on the show this time.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d
Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
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Goblin Gower, PhD (the Ph is for Phantasm) @medievaliste.bsky.social · 3d
Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.
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@cr_possess 👻 @christianrincon.com · 3d
fight them on every front
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d
A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 3d
Metric's Sick Muse on repeat has me cranking out a solid 500 words an hour #EverybodyEverybodyJustWannaFallInLove
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 3d
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 3d
blasting Metric and writing
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 5d
my office has never been cleaner... #WargoIsProcrastinating #TimeToGetToWorkWargo #WritersBlock
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islsnews.bsky.social @islsnews.bsky.social · 5d
Second and final deadline ISLS2026 extension announcement!! ISLS2026 submissions (all ICLS & CSCL formats) now due October 20, 2025, 11:59 PM AOE, in recognition of ongoing academic and personal challenges. See call for proposals for each format at 2026.isls.org
ISLS Annual Meeting 2026 | Home
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 5d
If you are an alum of:

Vanderbilt
UVA
UT Austin
U of Southern California
Dartmouth
Brown
MIT
U Penn
U Arizona

Your alma mater is RIGHT NOW weighing the costs and benefits of giving up its independence and abandoning academic freedom. SPEAK UP NOW:

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STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.
Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 6d
Folks in or around the Boston area, I'm pleased to be speaking at Lesley University Thursday October 23 as part of their Thought Leadership series! Talking comics & thinking as I do! Open to the public - registration link coming soon!
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The Thought Leadership Series | Lesley University
At Lesley University
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 10d
Just posting this. Everyone knows why.
Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 10d
The Fate of Ophelia is a bop for sure...#KeepIt100OnTheLandTheSeaTheSky
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 11d
Now (re)reading
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18d
A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 12d
I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 12d
In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report
Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 12d
IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference." The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 12d
Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12d
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
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islsnews.bsky.social @islsnews.bsky.social · 13d
The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE
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Jon M. Wargo (he/him/his) @wargojon.bsky.social · 13d
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