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Joe Feagin

@profjoefeagin.bsky.social

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Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University; researcher on systemic racism and the white racial frame

Joe Richard Feagin is an American sociologist and social theorist who has conducted extensive research on racial and gender issues in the United States. He is currently the Ella C. McFadden Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. .. more

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1h

article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Librarian Fired in Books Dispute to Receive $700,000 Settlement

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1h

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sad news, more political attacks

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2h

Study: Institutions, Over Peers and Tribes, Bolster Indigenous Student Belonging https://bit.ly/3J0aaQE

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

A group of four college students of different races/ethnicities talk and laugh together as they walk across a campus.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 3h

Senate OKs Richey to Lead @usedgov.bsky.social Civil Rights Office https://bit.ly/3Wz4UXm

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Kimberly Richey, a white woman with blond streaks in her hair, sits at a table in front of an audience during a confirmation hearing on Thursday.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

Employees at Social Security field offices say the government shutdown has left them unable to carry out an important service: help recipients with benefit verification letters. n.pr/3KNzJF8

Social Security workers say the shutdown has them unable to help with benefit letters

Employees at Social Security field offices say the government shutdown has left them unable to carry out an important service: help recipients with benefit verification letters.

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Gregory Rothman @gregoryrothman.bsky.social · 9h

This bird was not having its photo taken. Running and searching and running. One image, underexposed and it was gone. #RedSatinBird.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Photography
#EastCoastKin #Photohour #PhotographersOfBluesky
#PhotographersUnited
#Birding #BirdsOnBlueSky

The bird perched on a rustic wooden fence has a bright, fiery red-orange head and back, with deep black underparts. Its feathers appear smooth and glossy, especially the wings, which show a warm orange sheen. The bill and legs are black, and the bird’s posture is alert, angled slightly forward as if ready to hop or take off.

The Red Satinbird is a small bird-of-paradise relative found in the mountain forests of New Guinea, usually at elevations between 1,800 and 3,500 meters. Males are strikingly colored — brilliant red-orange above and black below — while females are more camouflaged, in browns and olives.

Males perform simple perching displays to attract females. Their diet consists mostly of fruits and berries, which they forage for in the forest canopy.

This species is part of the family Cnemophilidae (satinbirds), which were once classified with birds-of-paradise but are now recognized as a separate group.

ICUN lists as Least Concern, but they depend on intact montane forests, making them sensitive to habitat loss.

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 10h

A long and informative thread on Trump's proposed "compact" with universities

#academicsky

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 11h

rest in peace, and thanks from us all

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 11h

Sister Jean, nun who became a national icon during Loyola Chicago's Final Four run, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, team chaplain for an unheralded underdog Loyola Chicago squad in 2018 that notched upset after upset en route to the Final Four, dies at 106.

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 11h

GOP-run state

Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 11h

A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them. Public Health Watch publichealthwatch.org/2025/10/09/t...

A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them. - Public Health Watch

Last year, state epidemiologists studied an industrialized region east of Houston. They reported finding high rates of cancer, but refused to release key geographic details — a decision some experts s...

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 11h

Sister Jean, nun who became a national icon during Loyola Chicago's Final Four run, dies at 106

Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, team chaplain for an unheralded underdog Loyola Chicago squad in 2018 that notched upset after upset en route to the Final Four, dies at 106.

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 11h

well deserved, and ironic indeed.....

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 16h

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 11h

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Our new article on anti-democratic US MAGA movement in regard to US systemic racism. Comments welcomed.

The lessons of the hour: the anti-democratic republican MAGA movement and systemic white racism

Here we examine the resurgence of far-right racial politics in the US through the lens of Donald Trump's “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement and its deep ties to systemic white racism. Drawi...

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 11h

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Great opinion piece by our AAUP chapter Vice President! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I teach LGBTQ+ history. The University of Texas may soon ban my course | Opinion

Across Texas' public universities, faculty like me face course reviews and political pressure to erase LGBTQ+ studies, UT professor Lauren Gutterman writes.

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 11h

A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them. Public Health Watch publichealthwatch.org/2025/10/09/t...

A Community Burdened by Chemical Waste Is Demanding Cancer Data. Texas Health Officials Won’t Give It to Them. - Public Health Watch

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 12h

Judge rules federal agents can't deploy chemical irritants at journalists, protesters who don't pose threats

From my colleagues @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Judge rules federal agents can't deploy chemical irritants at journalists, protesters who don't pose threats

The temporary ruling stems from a lawsuit filed this week by news organizations, unions, independent journalists and protesters against the Department of Homeland Security following tense interactions...

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Lee 🖇️🇺🇸🦋🐾🇨🇦🇺🇦 @characterfirst.bsky.social · 13h

Guess who never had to have a semi annual physical…

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair wearing sunglasses and making a funny face .

Alt: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair wearing sunglasses and making a funny face .

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 13h

So the Nobel Peace Prize was given to someone who fights authoritarianism and was not given to an actual authoritarian.

Makes sense to me.

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We Are Saners @wearesaners.bsky.social · 14h

The Constitution does not specify Who must give the oath to an incoming Representative (or other official). We don’t need Mike Johnson or any other GOP protector of child rapists.

Have AOC swear in the new Rep and put all the sex offenders and accomplices in jail.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 16h

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Chelle 🔵 @chelle78.bsky.social · 17h

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I’m just glad it went to someone standing up for democracy instead of tearing it apart!

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela

US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 1d

#kristinoem back at it again. These videos really just write themselves at this point.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

"Ultimately, no matter how intelligent machines become, biologically the human brain ..wins. It has ..86 billion neurons and 600 trillion synapses, many more than .. artificial equivalents. The brain doesn't need to pause .. is constantly adapting to new information."
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Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

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Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

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Steve Rattner warns the GOP: Health care cuts will hit red states the hardest

The former Treasury official said the data, which shows GOP-led states use ACA subsidies at a higher rate, has put Republicans under pressure.

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

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Nobel Prizes This Year Offer Three Cheers for Slow Science

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Joe Feagin @profjoefeagin.bsky.social · 1d

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Federal judge slaps back ICE in Chicago; must show probable cause, no more “collateral arrests."

Good news: A federal judge in Chicago has sharply curtailed ICE’s ability to make arrests without warrants, siding with plaintiffs in a long-running class-action lawsuit. The ruling, tied to a 2022 co...

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

"Guys, I'm stretching my legs and wings and you can see my body is made of silk. Love you."
Little egret.
#birds

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RNS @rns.org · 1d

A federal judge in Illinois has issued a temporary restraining order barring government agents from using a number of forceful tactics against faith-based demonstrators who have been protesting outside a Chicago-area ICE facility.

Judge bars ICE from taking some violent actions against religious activists, journalists

(RNS) — The suit was primarily brought by journalists who allege they have been targeted by federal agents, but the list of plaintiffs also included the Rev. David Black, a Chicago-area Presbyterian…

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Yanyun Huang @yanyunh.bsky.social · 1d

It's that time of the year blue jays ask for protraits. 🪶💙

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