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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 15h

In Costa Rica there's a flower that walks around looking for pollinators rather than just waiting for a bee to fly past.

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Charlie Masquelier @charlesmasquelier.bsky.social · 20h

The text can be found here: www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds...

www.federalreserve.gov

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 2d

important update: Adidas’ new Pet Collection

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Lisa Stampnitzky @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 2d

This really is beyond parody

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 2d

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 2d

Livestreaming now: The Anarchist News Review! With Starmer threatening to police both how many protests we have and what we can say while doing them, what other Faragist measures might there be on the Labour Party docket for 2025?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NztA...

Anarchist News Review: Labour hammers protest and the Tories hammer each other

YouTube video by Freedom

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Alternative Elon Musk🚀 @elonalternative.bsky.social · 3d

Correct.
#YNWA

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 2d

How delightful

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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minor compositions @minorcompositions.bsky.social · 3d

New massive collection of Ed Emery’s writings from the comrades at Agit Press
Letters To A Future Republic: Selected Writings of Ed Emery.
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Letters To A Future Republic: Selected Writings of Ed Emery — Agit Press

Destroying his final exam papers at Cambridge University during the summer of 1968, Ed Emery embarked on a life committed to the furtherance of revolutionary class struggle: travelling Italy throughou...

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! It’s AA with a 100,000 word preamble! Or, put another way, it’s the academic version of AA.

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Dana Williams @dmwilliams.bsky.social · 4d

The core problem with #trust is not between the DNC & GOP, but between an elite-led Congress (represented in both parties) and a population whose policy priorities never seem to manifest in legislation. A #shutdown is just extreme anti-poor austerity led by those elites.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Shutdown Lays Bare America’s Latest Crisis: A Total Breakdown in Trust

Past shutdowns have been about one thing. This one feels like it is about everything.

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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 4d

A former diplomat: how to get ahead in international relations (not your typical advice...) - youtu.be/xK27WfvmC5M

Career advice: how to get ahead in international relations (not your usual advice...)

YouTube video by Carne Ross

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 5d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d

“The world used to be run by serious people, love them or hate them, but now the Losers have taken over, desperately trying to exert control over everything instead of going to therapy.”

When Losers Ruled The World

If the end is coming at least we can laugh at it

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 7d

Powerful call to action from @dhnexon.bsky.social

The State of the Union is Grim

Americans are living in a consolidating authoritarian regime. I'm terrified that pro-democracy political elites don't seem to understand the implications.

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 8d

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’

Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Nick Dickinson @nickdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

Reminder that California is the largest economy in the United States, with a $4.048 trillion gross state product as of 2024. It is the largest sub-national economy in the world and ahead of Japan if it was an independent state.

Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 8d

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’

Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social · 7d

As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.

UK Universities in Crisis? Time to Transform Higher Ed Finance

by Rob Hawkes and Scott Ferguson Universities in the UK are in crisis. Job cuts in the sector are reaching ‘cataclysmic’ levels, with an estimated 10,000 already lost and many more at risk. Just da…

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🔻Bela Lugosi's Dad (Even More Spooky) 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 7d

Everyone out against the fash in Bristol Coty Centre on Sunday yeah? Together we can all finally answer the question "can Rob Gould swim as well as the Colston statue?".

Bristol Antifascists @bristolantifascist.bsky.social · 15d

Counter Demo! Sunday 5th October 📅
11:30am at The Cenotaph, BS1 4UA 📌

Racist ‘Bristol patriots’ want to rally for mass deportations’. After the recent racist attack in Bristol it is more important than ever that we make it known “racists are not welcome here!”

Let's turn up in numbers again.

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 7d

Asad Rehman’s journey from antiracism campaigner in Burnley to head of Friends of the Earth

Climate crisis is ‘interconnected crisis of inequality’, says Rehman, who began organising at his school in the 1970s

www.theguardian.com

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 8d

Pete Hegseth demands to “untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.”

Donald Trump demands to use US cities "as training grounds for our military,” claiming “We’re under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy.”

Fascism.

A black-and-white photograph showing white National Guardsmen terrorizing Black residents of Newark, New Jersey on July 14, 1967. Waving rifles around, they are menacing a child who has his hands raised as he walks away from them.

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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 8d

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi

I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: four humanitarian boats still sailing toward Gaza, one within an hour of coast

The Rachel Corrie, named after an American activist murdered by Israel in 2003, has just entered Gaza's territorial waters.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

BREAKING: four humanitarian boats still sailing toward Gaza, one within an hour of coast

The Rachel Corrie of the flotilla, named after an American activist murdered by Israel in 2003, has just entered Gaza's territorial waters.

www.thecanary.co

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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 9d

Ethnic cleansing

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Israel says ‘last opportunity’ for Gaza City residents to leave

Defence minister issues warning, while Hamas reportedly considers seeking amendments to Trump plan The Israeli military has issued what it said was its final warning for Gaza City residents to flee as it intensified its bombardment and offensive on Wednesday, while Hamas was reportedly considering requesting amendments to Donald Trump’s ceasefire ultimatum. Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, said the warning was the last opportunity for people to move to southern Gaza as the military encircled the city. Gaza’s civil defence agency said on Wednesday that Israeli forces had killed at least 46 people, including 36 in Gaza City. Continue reading...

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 9d

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Antifa International @antifaintl.bsky.social · 9d

October 2025's Antifa Action of the Month: Welcome Migrants. Welcome Refugees.

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#antifa , #refugeeswelcome , #NoOneIsIlegal , #KeinMenschIstIllegal , #YourBordersKill , #antifascist, #antifascism

October 2025: Antifa Action Of The Month

Welcome Migrants. Welcome Refugees.

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