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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 2d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

Sulzberger's paper, for instance, is helping the good people adapt building one of fascism's niche realities for them.

Anyway, just some morning thoughts from lived experience. 10/n --end--

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

It's not just the rightwing in its own media bubble that will revel in fascism. Good people, decent people--people we know--will adapt, are adapting into increasingly walled off social realities. 9/n

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism is totalizing in the sense that it produces a new total reality, a new normal, but it is not totalizing in 'coming for us all' even tho the sphere of who it comes for expands more widely than what it was under liberal regimes (thinking of the US here). 8/n

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

They will come for more of us and many of us, but those they come for will generally be marked as already on the outside in some way. And there will always be perfectly reasonable seeming explanations/justifications for what happened to them. 7/n

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

This--not coming for us all--is perhaps actually a strength of auth and fascist regimes. It intensifies different social realities. It produces a political impasse, a breakdown where there should be solidarity. 6/n

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

They find it implausible. They don't see it around them. It is beyond the scope of their imagination bc in fact they do live in a different day to day reality. 5/n

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

Fascism produces its own niche social spheres. This is why, if you until recently you went into certain circles in Pakistan for instance, these good people, decent people, just don't believe any of the stories about the disappearances, the tortures, the destruction. 4/n

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

This to me is a lesson in authoritarianism and its cousin fascism. We imagine that rn it begins with ICE taking Latinx and but eventually they will "come for us all." But the thing is, they usually don't. We are waiting for the other shoe to drop. 3/n

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

When that happened, there were people, good people, who thought there must be a reg bureaucratic reason, or that he shldn't have been so loud in his activism -- essentially a million explanations/justifications for how/why it happened other than the obvious: the military & authoritarianism. 2/

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

This reminds me of the cancellation of a domestic flight ticket of an antiwar leader inside Pakistan some years ago. It's not the only time; it happens there bc of the inordinate power of the military & intel agencies (thanks to the US). It got me thinking abt the current US moment 1/

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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MT @madiha.bsky.social · 2d

Safe travels! I hope your time in Spain is restful and safe.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

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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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

This lady has pancreatic cancer and is about to be evicted unless she can raise a few hundred more :(

gofund.me/f2ccaebad

Donate to Shawn's Urgent Need for Housing Stability, organized by Shawn Kellum

Hi, my name is Shawn. First, please let me apologize for needing to create a n… Shawn Kellum needs your support for Shawn's Urgent Need for Housing Stability

gofund.me

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 2d

Stay until the end to learn it’s possible to buy an inflatable axolotl costume…

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

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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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 8d

Folks going to hell for this

American Guy Next Door @formerlyknownasus.bsky.social · May 31

"Qualified" equals white r@psist.
Unqualified equals ziptied child...
www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

Agents zip-tie kids in new immigration crackdown in Texas

At least three children were taken into custody and zip-tied at the San Antonio Immigration Court.

www.mysanantonio.com

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Milan Markovic @profmarkovic.bsky.social · 8d

Periodic reminder that a local DA could prosecute this.

Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 8d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

This is what @govpritzker.illinois.gov is protecting

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 8d

This is how ICE drove by protesters yesterday. A row of state police separated protesters and ICE vehicles.

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Goldenseal @danvie.bsky.social · 9d

Palestinian scholar and feminist Eman Abdelhadi arrested today in Chicago. Here she is calling shame on the cops and demanding they question their life choices.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

@emanabdelhadi.bsky.social tells these cops about themselves.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Federal judge BLOCKS a new ICE policy that went into effect last week to automatically detain unaccompanied migrant children on their 18th birthday when they “age out” of shelter care.

The TRO enforces a court order in a case brought by @immcouncil.org and @immigrantjustice.bsky.social.

Garcia Ramirez v. ICE case caption.

ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER AND TO ENFORCE FINAL JUDGMENT AND PERMANENT INJUNCTION
Upon consideration of Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and to
Enforce the Permanent Injunction and accompanying Memorandum of Points and Authorities
and Declarations (the "Motion"), and all other materials properly before this Court, it is hereby
ORDERED that Plaintiffs' Motion is GRANTED; and it is further
ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert with them, are hereby ENJOINED from implementing any new directive regarding age-outs;
ORDERED that Defendants and all persons acting under their direction or in concert
with them, are hereby ENJOINED from detaining any class member in an adult ICE facility in
any manner that contravenes the Permanent Injunction;
ORDERED that Defendants immediately rescind any determinations to detain based on this directive;
ORDERED that Defendants immediately produce that directive, any related policies
regarding that directive, and the Age-Out Review Worksheets of any class members who may
have been impacted by that directive, including all AORs issued since October 1, 2025.
SO ORDERED this 4th day of October 2025.

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 8d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 8d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9d

Israel’s army is using remote-controlled vehicles packed with explosives to demolish entire neighbourhoods in besieged Gaza City www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...