Henry Laws
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spencerbeswick.bsky.social
Academic freedom in Florida is dead, killed in the name of academic freedom. Florida and Texas are the vanguard, but this is coming soon to all red states.
From a colleague and comrade at Florida International University—a glimpse at the infuriating stupidity of descending rapidly into authoritarianism

A view from South Florida:

1. Last week, the administration removed all of the international flags hanging in the dining area of the student commons, replacing them with a single American flag. At a university called Florida International University.

2. International graduate students in my department have reported being turned away from the student health center. Student IDs, which have always sufficed, no longer do. Now they're requiring passports.

3. Our campus police are in the process of training to serve as ICE agents. Some of our international graduate students are now avoiding campus.

4. Faculty Senates on all public university campuses have been instructed to pass a resolution for free speech and academic freedom in the name of Charlie Kirk. There's no mention of the multiple tenured faculty currently suspended for extramural political speech at Florida Atlantic University.

5. Despite this rhetoric, the provost's office has been going into faculty's Canvas shells and changing language on syllabi without informing faculty. A colleague in my department had an academic freedom statement, adopted directly from our collective bargaining agreement, deleted from her syllabus by the provost's office. 6. FIU's president, formerly DeSantis' Lt Gov, chaired a campus memorial service for Charlie Kirk a couple of weeks ago, declaring that Jesus is our sovereign. And she gave a speech this week declaring that FIU stands with Israel, with Israeli state officials present on campus.

7. There's talk of state-mandated textbooks being forced on our Intro to Soc classes, though nothing is concrete yet.

8. Another colleague in my department was told he wouldn't be reimbursed for giving a talk at a conference in Colombia because, upon reviewing the full program, someone else gave a paper on trauma and collective memory in wartime Ukraine. The administrator reviewing the program deemed use of the words "trauma" and "Ukraine" to be illegal use of state funds for DEI. The decision was reversed when he contested it, but the very *fact* that we are dealing with this crap...

9. Campus police are harassing undergraduates flyering for a sanctuary campus campaign, taking down their names and ID numbers and claiming that it violates the code of conduct to flyer more than 20 feet from their official table. The regulation was changed from 50 feet to 20 feet this year, student organizers told me.

10. The state legislature has proposed a bill requiring all public universities in the state to name a campus road after Charlie Kirk or else lose state funding. We'll see if it passes.
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byroncclark.bsky.social
Because the characters don't age, Homer and Marge are millennials now. A recent episode sees Lisa wearing Marge's old clothes and becoming popular because Y2K fashion is very in right now
Lisa Simpson in in a sunflower dress and big boots
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byroncclark.bsky.social
Also 421 people voted for the openly white supremacist mayoral candidate who's policy was executing traitors to the nation. A small percentage of the population (somewhere around ~1%) but a worrying number of people
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byroncclark.bsky.social
Based on how this article classifies them, here's the political make up of the Christchurch City Council following this years election

Right-wing: 8 councilors + the Mayor
Left-wing: 6 councilors
Centrist: 2 councilors

www.odt.co.nz/star-news/st...
Key city council wards to determine balance of power in Christchurch
Christchurch Mayor Phil Mauger has often come up short of the votes needed to achieve his priorities. If he's re-elected this weekend, who will...
www.odt.co.nz
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byroncclark.bsky.social
The crowdfund for a podcast investigating how the idea of quitting the Paris climate accords went from fringe to mainstream is getting closer and closer to the goal. If 25 more people pledge $5 we'll be three quarters of the way there

www.pledgeme.co.nz/projects/861...
Podcast: Quit Paris? How pulling out of the Paris Climate Accords went from fringe media to the mainstream | PledgeMe
Quit Paris? This podcast will investigate how a fringe idea moved from being a fringe position to one advocated by mainstream politicians
www.pledgeme.co.nz
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nytpitchbot.bsky.social
News footage from Portland shows a calm, tranquil city. But an AI video that Stephen Miller texted to Donald Trump shows the city as a burning hellhole. The truth may lie somewhere in between.
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webjournalist.bsky.social
It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)
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henrymance.ft.com
if only he'd renamed it the DEPARTMENT OF PEACE
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atrupar.com
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
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papa.org.nz
The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture's statement demonstrates that the Waikeria and Paremoremo megaprisons must close, as they result in miscarriages of justice and human rights violations against Māori and youth. newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/10/u...
UN torture committee warns Govt about rising prison population
The UN’s warning about the country’s prison population comes on the heels of Treasury’s concerns about the associated ballooning costs.
newsroom.co.nz
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spencerbeswick.bsky.social
Good for MIT. Let's see more universities rejecting Trump's outrageous "compact" of demands.
bostonglobe.com
MIT became the first university to reject the Trump administration’s compact of demands, after its president Sally Kornbluth said the school already “meet or exceed many standards outlined” by the federal government.
MIT becomes first school to reject proposed ‘compact’ with Trump administration - The Boston Globe
MIT president Sally Kornbluth said the university’s practices already “meet or exceed” the federal government’s list of demands.
trib.al
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spencerbeswick.bsky.social
Mark Bray and his family made it safely to Spain.
mark-bray.bsky.social
Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
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alexblechman.bsky.social
Pilot: (on intercom) There are no air traffic controllers today so everybody look out the window and holler if you see another plane
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kathbarbadoro.bsky.social
The Portland frogs are great but the Chinese frogs were the OGs
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beyerstein.bsky.social
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls  while praying outside an ICE facility.
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oregonian.com
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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iwriteok.bsky.social
They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"
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mark-bray.bsky.social
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.
"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder
Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!
www.freefunder.com
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wired.com
NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.
www.wired.com
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crimethinc.com
Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.
A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."