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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · Nov 14

Hi new (apparently mostly Colorado) people! I am a librarian/archivist at a private university here, I am from Kansas (6 gens back on my mom's side), and I am an abolitionist, believer in harm reduction, and the need to protect public goods and services, including but not limited to libraries.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 3h

When institutional leadership blather on abt student well being...this kind of situation is always my first thought.

Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 3h

We got a mass heartfelt, love and rage filled "I quit" email from an employee who felt that our senior leadership had abdicated responsibility for the queer and BIPOC students at our institution, and had enough.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 3h

And protest axolotls

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 3h

Ended up on a committee with someone I have been hearing about through the grapevine for YEARS and man is that whisper network helpful

Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 3h

"we decided to come down and support our friend Toad" God bless pdx, if this keeps the cameras on the situation, it's working

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3h

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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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 5h

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 13h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 4h

I truly have no skin (ha) in the game on any position on plastic surgery by celebrities. Do it, don't do it, tell people about it, don't, I don't care beyond the standard minor parasocial curiosity. It's just incredibly disconcerting to not recognize someone as themselves.

Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 4h

It's the upper left. I still can't believe it.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 4h

Apologies to the gorgeous and statuesque Carrere for misspelling her name or associating her with this in any way.

a man wearing a hat that says wayne worth is standing next to a woman

Alt: Wayne in Wayne's World turns to the camera while standing next to Tia Carrere and says "god, I love this woman"

media.tenor.com

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 4h

I legit thought the lower left person was Tia Carrrere's daughter but no, it is Demi Lovato.

kristy yummy coochie 🇯🇲 @adrierising.bsky.social · 6h

i am too poor to ever look like this and thank g*d for that

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · Jul 15

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT

“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

slate.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

The South Shore building at the center of last week’s raid was already in bad condition.

The TRiiBE reviewed inspection records filed with Chicago’s Building Permit and Inspection Records.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...

South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE

Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

thetriibe.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back.

The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours.

“I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...

South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE

Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.

thetriibe.com

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

Janitors and cafeteria workers _contracted_ by the federal gov’t will likely see no backpay at all.

“It’s so sad that they think they can play with ppl’s lives,” said Smithsonian Museum of American History cleaner Audrey Murray. “Stop this. Stop messing w/ppl. We have families who depend on us.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 18h

WIC, which for decades has fed kids and new moms, could run out of funding within two weeks.

Furloughed federal workers are stressing about bills and seeing promised backpay threatened.

The regime’s mass deportation operation, however, continues on uninterrupted during the shutdown.

Priorities.

America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 1d

"While new moms worry about formula for their infants and furloughed federal workers stress about next month’s rent or mortgage, the administration’s mass deportation obsession will continue uninterrupted," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

This says everything about this administration’s priorities.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 18h

I would love to see more of the Boomers who actually experienced these diseases pre vaccine to talk more about it. That McConnell, who is famously a childhood polio survivor, is not shouting from the rafters is not surprising but it is infuriating.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 19h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Adrian Walking Dead 🧟‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 1d

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 1d

Making whole groups of people stateless and restricting their right to travel sounds awfully familiar.

ACLU @aclu.org · 3d

BREAKING: We're asking the Supreme Court to reject the Trump administration's attempt to revive its discriminatory passport policy.

Lower courts were right when they stopped the the State Department from denying transgender, non-binary, and intersex people accurate identification.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

I have had one person on here tell me I should read up about Jordanian treatment of Palestinian refugees

I am the daughter of a Palestinian refugee from Jordan

Kragdar @kragdar.bsky.social · 1d

It’s literally unfathomable that people from the Middle East can exist, know things, and speak about them right here with you on Bluesky dot com

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 1d

I am very happy for Charlie Blackmon that he got to retire wealthy and beloved and spend all his time fishing but that's the extent of my allegiance

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 1d

"Faculty were not consulted" 👀

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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