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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off.

The media landscape shrinks even further.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

GOP-led states are blocking college students from registering to vote with campus addresses.

In the context of broader attacks on vote-by-mail and early voting, these efforts will systematically disenfranchise young people across the US.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

NAACP sues Virginia officials, accusing them of disenfranchising student voters

The NAACP has sued Virginia state election officials, accusing them of disenfranchising students by rejecting voter registration forms from students that do not include details like dormitory names, room numbers and campus mailbox information.

www.reuters.com

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jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 1d

From the Tulsa Flyer, Native Nations, including my own, making sure local people receive food. Meanwhile the governor withholds funds for Oklahomans.

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 4d

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 4d

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about Oklahoma's efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”

By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Oklahoma Is Ground Zero in Trump’s “America First” Education Push

Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...

www.propublica.org

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Steph Halmhofer, Big Archaeology @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 6d

Once again urging archaeologists to critically assess the AI push into archaeology. There is a huge swath of problematic ethical issues that come with the AI tech & tech lords & we don't have to make it easier for them to insert themselves in archaeology by welcoming them in. Don't be complicit.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10d

Things are just getting ridiculous. The Trump administration announced that the Justice Department will monitor polling sites in California and New Jersey ahead of the Nov. 4 election.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10d

Cutting off food aid while building a ballroom for dinners for billionaires is the 2025 equivalent of "Let them eat cake."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/24/t...

Trump administration won’t tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says

The Trump administration is rejecting the idea of using roughly $5 billion in contingency funds to keep food aid flowing into November amid the government shutdown, according to a Department of Agr…

www.chicagotribune.com

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10d

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

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jreedmo.bsky.social @jreedmo.bsky.social · 10d

This is bad for students, professors, and budgets— no university should sign anything like this. I have long thought bad actors could/do flood universities with high profile provocateurs requiring extraordinary security. Enough of these on any campus and you destroy budgets for everything else.

Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 10d

Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.

Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.

EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...

ucop.edu

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13d

"No, destroying the White House is not as bad as blowing up boats carrying possibly innocent people. It’s not as bad as corrupting the Justice Department. It’s not as menacing as sending troops into American cities. And yet, this hurt is sharp."

www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-mar-...

Trump’s Mar-a-White House

The president is desecrating a symbol of liberal democracy and replacing it with a tacky, bloated eyesore.

www.thebulwark.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14d

The first time the Confederate flag ever paraded through the US Capitol was on January 6, 2021.

The first time the White House was damaged in over 200 years since the US rebuilt in the 1820s after the British burned it in the war of 1812 was mid October, 2025.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16d

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 19d

it has to be backed with action but this is proper leader of the opposition-coded behavior of the kind we generally don't see in the US

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19d

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

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Mollie Gerver @mgerver.bsky.social · 19d

Opposition to ICE violence is consistent with studies conducted over the years: people opposing immigration still oppose very violent enforcement. They oppose violent enforcement even when it’s necessary to force migrants to leave. See our studies here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · Oct 4

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · Oct 4

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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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Oct 3

not that it will happen but at the very least any reporter who wrote about trump “distancing” from project 2025 owes their readers an explanation for why they published obvious lies

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · Oct 2

I find this attempt to rewrite history to absolve the media of its failures problematic. We can't get better coverage if we won't acknowledge how the media failed. And this @politico.com piece that I referenced did not reflect that "everyone was very skeptical" www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Oct 2

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Sep 26

I hear the President has decreed that it is possibly a crime to refer to Americans as "fascists," but "fascism" is a word that has a relatively clear meaning that's worth understanding. Here's how an official publication of the US Army defined "fascism" in 1945.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Aug 1

The central point is that when fascism came to America it wouldn't call itself that, nor would it be wearing a swastika. It would call itself "patriotic" and "100% American."

Can We Spot It?
(Question: How can we identify native American fascists at work? )
An American fascist seeking power would not proclaim that he is a fascist. Fascism always camouflages its plans and purposes. Hitler made demagogic appeals to all groups and swore: "Neither I nor anybody in the National Socialist Party advocates proceeding by anything but Constitutional methods." Any fascist attempt to gain power in America would not use the exact Hitler pattern. It would work under the guise of "super-patriotism" and "super-American-ism." Fascist leaders are neither stupid nor naive.
They know that they must hand out a line that "sells." Huey Long is said to have remarked that if fascism came to America, it would be on a program of "Ameri-canism."
Fascists in America may differ slightly from fascists in other countries, but there are a number of attitudes and practices that they have in common. Following are three. Every person who has one of them is not necessarily a fascist. But he is

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · Sep 29

President Trump, who has always made things up, seeks to cut off the flow of accurate information at its source.

The U.S. has long been one of the best sources of data on earth. All that is halted under Trump, who doesn’t want any facts to get in the way of his made-up stories. trib.al/iCEGkbH

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Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) @gene4va.bsky.social · Sep 29

Let’s be clear: if the government shuts down, Republicans own it. They’re blocking a budget that protects healthcare, funds schools, and lowers costs for families — because chaos is the point. Virginians deserve a government that works for them.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 29

Presidents get too much credit when the American economy is strong & too much blame when it isn’t. But in the case of farmers who can’t sell crops, Trump clearly gets 100% of the blame. Rare when you can point to economic disaster in a sector directly attributable to a president.

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · Sep 28

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Sep 28

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · Sep 28

If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 28

At this point, any Democrat who votes to keep this government open without extracting very serious concessions — RFK’s resignation, ICE rollback, Epstein Files release, etc — will absolutely face a primary challenger who will set fundraising records.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 28

Republicans run the White House, Congress and Supreme Court on the principle that the only role Dems can play is bailing the GOP out from facing the consequences of their own actions.

They expect Dems to clean up after them and save them from voters’ blame, and sadly some Dems want to do just that.

Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · Sep 28

Actual White House quote: “go fuck yourself.”

Its not being some pearl clutching prude to ask whether this is really how most Americans want their kids to see the seat of our government behave. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Crypt🎃-Z🧿🧿l໐gᴉcal Dis🪓ter 𓆑🏴 @eatyrselffitter.bsky.social · Sep 27

here's why AI can fix that,

Cold November Mar @histoftech.bsky.social · Sep 27

“According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot continue indefinitely” said George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank

www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

www.techspot.com

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