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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · 14h

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · 22h

FINALLY.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · 7d

. “I rejected self-doubt and self-loathing,” she writes. “Instead I chose possibility. I chose purpose.”
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening?

Jackson enters her fourth year on the supreme court on Monday. As its fiercest liberal voice wary of Trump’s growing power, she faces an intense battle ahead

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · 10d

so well stated.

Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Dear Ezra Klein, Bodily Autonomy Isn’t a Bargaining Chip

Let's see if you're willing to walk the talk

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · 11d

For all those out there looking for dual fuel ranges - NEVER purchase a SMEG. They are not reliable, need servicing too often, and the customer service is not helpful.

Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · 20d

if your are in syracuse - consider attending. chng.it/MqrQ654LNX

City & Neighborhood to discuss future of Westminster steps Tuesday

This Tuesday evening, September 23rd, city officials and neighborhood residents will gather at the Annual Meeting of the Southeast University Neighborhood Association (SEUNA) to discuss the future of ...

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · 21d

i found the diacussion quite illuminating podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Free Speech Is The Enemy of Free Speech, Apparently

Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 09/20/2025 · 49m

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Sep 4

finally....
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RFK Jr accused of ‘reckless disregard for science and the truth’ in Senate hearing

Health secretary defended his leadership as Democrats attacked his vaccine policy and demanded his resignation

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Sep 3

@kazbar.bsky.social and I are are hosting a round table at the EAHN in Aarhus in June 2026. Please consider submitting to be a part of the discussion!

Women’s Collective Organizing in Architecture: From the Grassroots to the Global, 1960-2020
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EAHN 2026 AARHUS, 9TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE | eahn

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Aug 15

In a strongly worded ruling, Judge Stephanie Gallagher wrote that the administration had not followed proper administrative procedure, and said its plan was unconstitutional, in part because it risked constraining educators’ free speech rights in the classroom. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Judge Halts White House Effort to Defund Schools With D.E.I. Programs

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Aug 13

Thank you Ilana Amselem for the review.

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New encyclopedia documents women in architecture from 1960–2020

The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960–2020, a two-volume reference edited by Lori A. Brown and Karen Burns is set to be released in the near future.

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Aug 8

Please join us for at the Stone Quarry Art Park next week!

panelists:
Maureen Burke, MD, Division Chief Upstate Medical University
Kim Kelstone, DNP, CNM Upstate Medical University
Sequoia Kemp, doula, Doula 4 a Queen
Shavonne Stevens, Indigenous care provider
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STONE + SCRATCH: Lori Brown

A new series at Stone Quarry’s Hilltop House⁠, the mid-century artist-designed home of Dorothy and Robert Riester.⁠

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you are in NYC this Thursday, please join me at the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial for a conversation with Cynthia Shonaiya moderated by Dr Rachel Bedard.

www.cooperhewitt.org/event/a-home...

A Home for Birthing and Aging | Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Architects Lori A. Brown and Cynthia Shonaiya in conversation about alternative spaces for birthing and aging Join Cooper Hewitt to learn more about how designers and architects are creating safe alte...

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Jul 10

We are thrilled to announce The Bloomsbury Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture, 1960-2020 digital version is live TODAY!!! We could not have done this without our 13 area editors, our advisory board, research assistants, 360 contributors, and James Thompson, senior acquisition editor.

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Jun 14

#NoKings march Syracuse, NY

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Jun 10

we need more of this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Smithsonian rejects Trump’s attempt to fire National Portrait Gallery director

Trump tried to force out Kim Sajet, calling her ‘highly partisan and a strong supporter of’ of diversity initiatives

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thank you Pauline Fleury for writing about the Alabama Women's Wellness Center project. I also would like to thank Stéphanie Dadour, Elisabeth Essaïan and Laetitia Overney for this important project about architectural responses to urban precarity.

architecture-precarites.fr/localisation...

Architecture et précarités

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · May 23

I am so proud of my friend, amazing scholar and feminist advocate Despina Stratigakos, Distinguished Professor!! www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/storie...

Eight named SUNY Distinguished Professors

The UB faculty members were promoted to SUNY's highest faculty rank at the board of trustees' April 29 meeting.

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · May 8

thank you Mia Jones-
my students work is raising awareness!

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Syracuse University architecture students shed light on I-81’s damage to 15th Ward

Seven SU architecture students made an installation that highlighted the history of I-81 and the destruction it caused to the 15th Ward. The students physically traced the locations of old buildings i...

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · Apr 28

Rev Barber has been a leader in the struggle for democracy since long before Indivisible formed. Was honored to have him open up the D.C. Hands Off rally with 100k people earlier this month. When he speaks, we listen - his moral leadership is an inspiration.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · Apr 28

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Apr 25

Trump’s FBI just arrested a sitting judge and turned it into a public spectacle. Defying court orders and bragging about arresting judges isn’t 'tough' — it’s authoritarian. Trump and his crony Kash Patel are openly declaring war on the rule of law.

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case

Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse and is in federal custody.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Apr 21

Columbia cancelled her course on "Race, Media and International Affairs 101." So she decided to teach it over the summer— online.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Apr 21

Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.

This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · Apr 22

One of the clearest signs of our Orbanization.

The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said he will resign because he had lost his journalistic independence.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b... [Gift link]

Top Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Saying He Lost Independence (Gift Article)

The news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Apr 17

they do not care about our students, education, or anything else about higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Trump Threatens to Block International Students Unless Harvard Shares Student Data

The demand from the Department of Homeland Security is an escalation in President Trump’s fight against Harvard, the country’s oldest and richest university.

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Lori A. Brown @loriabrown.bsky.social · Apr 15

makes me proud to be an alumna: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p... #princeton

The University President Willing to Fight Trump

Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.

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