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Internet Archive @archive.org · 2h

📢 Upcoming #booktalk! 📖
Join Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph for PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET, reimagining open access through scholar-led, non-commercial publishing.

📆 Thurs Dec 4th
🕙 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1839631951...

@SamuelMoore.org @HJoseph.bsky.social

A promotional graphic titled “Publishing Beyond the Market.” The top half has a gray textured background with the event title in large white text and a vertical label reading “Book Talk.” To the right is an illustration of a tall, uneven stack of books. The bottom half shows two headshots: on the left, Samuel Moore; on the right, Heather Joseph. Text below reads “with Samuel Moore & Heather Joseph.”

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 4h

Well we gotta address both at the same time!

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 5h

Information is "behind a paywall" for lots of reasons. Profit for sure, but also salaries and benefits and lights and heat and roof repair and on and on. Stuff costs money for now, revolution pending. Rather than yoink from a pirate site, why not boost usage stats at your local library instead?

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 6h

Congrats to the 21,000 @uptecwa.bsky.social health care, research and technical workers at the University of California on voting to ratify their new contract! After 17 months of negotiations, this new contract is a testament to the power of our solidarity.

UC Workers Ratify ‘Best Contract Yet’ After Four Strikes and 17 Months of Negotiations

The union representing 21,000 healthcare, research, and technical professionals celebrates what union leaders are calling a historic win.

www.independent.com

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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 15h

This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...

PITTSBURGH'S Public Source

Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh journalists return to their jobs at the Post-Gazette after three years on strike
After a court ruling in their favor, long-striking journalists declared victory and returned to a pivotal Southwestern Pennsylvania newsroom.
They return as union organizing continues throughout the region.
Stephanie Strasburg
November 24, 2025

Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the guild, hugs Jon Schleuss, president of the NewsGuild Communications of America, as she hands him the mic. "The first day of this strike, our folks went over across the street and they sat down at a table, and they started talking about that they were going to take care of each other," said Schleuss, acknowledging the guild could not have known how long the path back to work would be. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/Pittsburgh's Public Source)

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.

They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.

More updates TK.

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 1d

Professor Herman Bennett, executive director of the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies (BRES) Program, explains how the program is designed to conceive of other possibilities for the future. #CUNY

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 1d

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 1d

Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book

The Grammy winner, now a scholar in residence at U.S.C., is expanding a one-of-a-kind library featuring rare books by writers of color. (Just mind the due date.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/s...

Solange Knowles Wants to Lend You a Book

www.nytimes.com

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Kelly Wooten @kwooten.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds are getting trained to help with school safety patrols to protect kids and families. It's really something.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 1d

good piece on the destruction of Indiana U, a previously great public university

utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/anat...

Anatomy of a Fall: The Case of Indiana University (Guest Post)

Indiana University on November 3, 2025 by Johannes Türk Chair of Germanic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana Universit...

utotherescue.blogspot.com

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Richard Staff @richstaff.bsky.social · 1d

Brandon Nimmo is the first millionaire to flee Zohran Mamdani's Communist New York City

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Axel Bruns , and 12 more Anna O. Law, Kim L. Scheppele, Axel Bruns, Will Jennings, Elena Litchman, John R. Hutchinson, American Library Association, David R. Miller, Scott A. Imberman, James Goodwin, Brian Keegan, Mark Rice, Ann Bartow, Woodrow Hartzog, Greg Linden

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 2d

Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing

NEIGHBOR KIDNAPPED HERE
ABOLISH ICE

painted on Seattle sidewalk in yellow paint

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Christopher Farnsworth @chrisfarnsworth.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking about how an editor once chewed me out when I was a reporter because a radio station offered me free tickets to see a movie premiere.

I didn’t take them. I just told her about the offer.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 3d

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia.

www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

As I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers; slashed billions in funding from the National Institutes of Health, the world's largest sponsor of medical research; and threatened to oust the panel of medical experts charged with recommending preventive cancer screenings. Hundreds of N.I.H. grants and clinical trials were cancelled, affecting thousands of patients. I worried about funding for leukemia and bone-marrow research at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I worried about the trials that were my only shot at remission. Early in my illness, when I

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d

Former Vanderbilt player Jabo Burrow talks about the economic exploitation players of his era experienced, including the fact that his parents went into credit card debt attending games that they are still paying off.

For the full conversation, check out ep. 146 of @endofsportpod.bsky.social.

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 3d

Quick question: is there a kidlit and YA feed on Bluesky yet? I know that folks were a bit wary of moving here at first... I miss kidlit Twitter and YA Twitter!

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

So psyched for next season already!

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Ivan the K ™☑️ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 3d

BUS RIDES IN CITES SHOULD BE FREE.

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

@claudiaeberger.bsky.social in better news, NEW HAT!

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

85 Democrats voting to condemn socialism in November 2025. That’s wild to me. Like, why are you doing that.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

this guy constantly manages to do shit like this and displace it in the media and discourse with something that goes with a laugh track somehow

bsky.app/profile/newy...

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 18d

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

newyorkermag.visitlink.me

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era

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daniel s. @self.agency · 3d

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

"As a tabletop RPG gamer who loves rules, I volunteer to chair the bylaws committee."

Faculty advisor for our student chapter is my favorite service role!!

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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 3d

Trump filling out his NYC DSA membership card to vote on primarying Jeffries right now

Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

extreme lols!

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

Reporter to Trump: Elise Stefanik calls Mamdani a "jihadist." Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist?

Trump: No, I don't. But she's out there campaigning, and you say things sometimes in a campaign. She's a very capable person.

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daniel s. @self.agency · 3d

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

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