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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 6d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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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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eli @eeveekay.bsky.social · 1d

But did it have elbow patches?

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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 5d

Despicable. He seeks to win the votes of cowards who are willing to sacrifice trans people on the altar of political opportunism and indifference. Up to us to shatter his grandiose dreams.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 5d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Julie Hoffman, EdD @hoffiecup.bsky.social · 19d

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Charlene A. Carruthers @charlenecarruthers.bsky.social · 3d

It would be incredible if folks coming into consciousness around the ICE raids were also able to make the connection the family policing. I highly recommend Dorothy Roberts book “Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World“

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 3d

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation.

It methodically goes through each problem in the review.

The latest from S. Baum.

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New Journal Report: Cass Review “Echoes Fallacies Promoted By Anti-Trans Disinformation”

While American lawyers pushed the anti-trans Cass Review this week, Australia’s top scholars rebuked it.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 3d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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eli @eeveekay.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Mark Helmsing is gone. He was an incredible human, brilliant scholar, and outstanding educator. I will miss so much about him but especially his deep thoughtfulness, his sense of humor, and his bear hugs.

Obituary for Mark Helmsing | Waskom Capitol Hill Chapel

Share memories & support the family

www.waskoms.com

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The Daily Northwestern @thedailynu.bsky.social · 7d

Many NU websites have been updated to fall in line with the Trump administration’s orders and have erased resources, history and information that were once easily accessible to students, faculty and staff.
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Reported by Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez

What Northwestern has changed on DEI-related websites

In recent decades, Northwestern has touted its efforts to support students through Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives. “At Northwestern, we believe that diversity — of background, identity, ...

dailynorthwestern.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state

CNN @cnn.com · 9d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 12d

Incredible ruling in a case brought by the AAUP against Rubio and the State Department.

A federal court found that "arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment." www.aaup.org/news/court-r...

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
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In a landmark ruling, a federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment. The AAUP, the Middle Eastern Studies Association and several AAUP chapters brought the suit with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons (typically because of pro-Palestinian speech).

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12d

CHICAGO / SUBURBS

If you want to know what it's looked like at the ICE facility in Broadview (Chicago), this brilliant photo essay from @almacampos.bsky.social & @pgoyette.bsky.social at @southsideweekly.bsky.social is a very good place to start.

We Want Them Back: Protest and State Violence at Broadview ICE Facility

Hundreds protested outside Broadview ICE in Illinois, resisting Operation Midway Blitz and denouncing raids, deportations, and state violence.

southsideweekly.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12d

This is absolutely a lie. There is no reason shutdowns trigger layoffs. They never have before. Trump is simply using the shutdown as an excuse to take federal employees hostages and to further gut the government.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump: "When you shut it down, you have to do layoffs. So, we'd be laying off a lot of people that are going to be very affected, and they're gonna be Democrats."

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14d

To the 300 Northwestern students refusing to watch US-Israeli propaganda: I applaud your integrity & critical analysis. I may not be able to teach & you may not be able to learn on campus. But we WILL teach & learn throughout the world to make a better future 👊🏾 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training

Students say mandatory training video is biased in favor of Israel and could inflame campus tensions over Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16d

Some say Charlie Kirk did Politics the right way, that he was an authoritative champion of free speech and discourse.

Part of that “Politics” is a 1200-person Professor Watchlist that’s led to harassment, censoring, cancellation campaigns, and death threats.

Politics ‘The Right Way’? How Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist Censors and Harasses Academics of Color

The years-old 1200-name blacklist has ruined professors’ lives, chilled speech, and previewed exactly how the Trump administration is responding to Kirk’s killing today.

zeteo.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19d

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

Kimmel reinstatement preempted Disney+ price increase

The Handbasket reported first Monday evening on Bluesky

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20d

A few strategies I use:
1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20d

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 21d

NYT has been spreading dangerous transphobic misinformation disguised as journalism for quite some time, but it took the Kirk coverage for all to see that they’ve abandoned serious reporting.
If you want investigative reporting in the age of fascism check out
@assignedmedia.org
@democracynow.org

Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 21d

I would strongly argue that you will understand what the New York Times has become much better if you understand that they soft launched the new NYT with their trans coverage, and have been building and expanding from there.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 27d

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration

Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service

A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.

ballsandstrikes.org

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eli @eeveekay.bsky.social · 28d

One of my favorite places!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 28d

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

ML @mlpoole.bsky.social · 28d

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 29d

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 29d

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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