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Lisel Hintz @liselhintz.bsky.social · 1h

Adding to the regrettably relevant research.

We explain how authoritarian regimes use local forms of bureaucratic hamstringing and rhetorical vilification to delegitimize opposition actors.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 3h

Icon. Legend.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 7h

If you work in the Office of Special Education for the Department of Education and have been RIF'ed or if you work in a school that has been notified about it, please message me. My Signal is emgarcia.85. I'll protect your identity.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 11h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 5h

A key goal of this administration is to wholly exclude disabled people from society.
They are ghouls.

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 8h

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 5h

K: “Wait this really happened? Are there more Titanics?”

“Yes it sank. there are other cruise ships”

K: “But are there MORE? More Titanics!”

Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 5h

Awful. Hope it’s mild and no one else gets it.

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 5h

My house is entering a new era today: the kindergartner brought home a very large library book about the Titanic.

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 5h

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

An excellent catto

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 6h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Chrissy Wiley @chrissyone.bsky.social · 9h

Never give up hop 🐸

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☠️mawls slaughter☠️ @oddletters.bsky.social · 10h

look i dont want to get all historian/art history/journalism posty about AI videos but we *have* ways of autheticating recorded/archival material, its chains of custody and provenance research, and you shouldn't have been trusting random videos on the internet to begin with???

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 10h

Ithaca as well!

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 11h

New conference swag just dropped

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 13h

The ideal conference outfit doesn’t exi-

A still from a Thom Browne runway show of a person with an alien mask on holding up a little sign with a green bar on. They are dressed in a gray outfit with a white button down and tie, where the jacket has multiple arms and the pants have multiple legs, wearing platform heeled shoes that look like saddle shoes.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 15h

The party atmospheres of North Halsted and Greek Town also cannot be beaten.

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 15h

I used to live above part of the route, so I’d get up early to watch the elites and then make my way down to cheer for everyone else.
One of the best days to be a Chicagoan

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 15h

They used to hand out tequila shots in Pilsen, and I hope they still do!

John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 15h

The Chicago Marathon will take more than 50,000 runners through 29 neighborhoods where more than a million people will come out to cheer them on.

More media should be covering this event as a counterpoint to Trump’s chaos narrative.

Chicago Marathon looks to defy Trump's

Nearly 2 million spectators are expected to line Chicago streets to watch the marathon on Sunday, providing a stark contrast to the Trump administration's negative messaging about the city.

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John Carpenter’s ‘Halloran’ @profhalloran.bsky.social · 15h

The Chicago Marathon will take more than 50,000 runners through 29 neighborhoods where more than a million people will come out to cheer them on.

More media should be covering this event as a counterpoint to Trump’s chaos narrative.

Chicago Marathon looks to defy Trump's

Nearly 2 million spectators are expected to line Chicago streets to watch the marathon on Sunday, providing a stark contrast to the Trump administration's negative messaging about the city.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 1d

Ok but what is his VO2 max?!?

(I actually don’t care but cardiac age is really silly)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Erin S. Pumpkins @erincikanek.bsky.social · 1d

But Jake! The liquids!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

The preferences, they have been revealed

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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