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Shanna Peeples 🏳️‍🌈 @shannapeeples.bsky.social · 2d

“Our North Star has always been that academic freedom, free expression and independence are essential for universities to make their vital and singular contributions to society. It must be preserved”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

University of Arizona becomes seventh US college to reject Trump’s ‘compact’

Administration has pushed nine universities to sign a deal that seeks to make changes in line with conservative ideas

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 3d

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 5d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Shanna Peeples 🏳️‍🌈 @shannapeeples.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve been flying all day and the TSA and airport staff have been professional and efficient. I’m so grateful for the folks who show up in this situation. Thank you, tower folks, for your work and your service

Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10d

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11d

You should read this by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social if you haven't already done so: organizingmythoughts.org/the-emergenc...

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley @obi-belonging.bsky.social · 14d

"A belonging story also honors and celebrates difference—race, gender, religion, and all types of group identity are not rendered invisible in service to a larger, universal story or short-term political project." - john a. powell

Full #FightForward Essay: belonging.berkeley.edu/belonging-st...

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 12d

I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.

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futbolfem.bsky.social @futbolfem.bsky.social · 12d

Reposting resources to support students from @larryferlazzo.bsky.social

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/02/26/t...

The Best Practical Resources For Helping Teachers, Students & Families Respond To Immigration Challenges

Many teachers, students and families are understandably concerned about the impact of the Trump Administration’s changes on immigration will affect them: What can teachers do if ICE raids the…

larryferlazzo.edublogs.org

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 15d

“America’s senior military officers, including Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, must approach Trump now and make clear to him that they will not obey illegal orders to act against American citizens or disrupt the American political process.”

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 13d

I still don't have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13d

BREAKING: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

She was lauded for being a “key, unifying figure" in the once deeply divided opposition to the Maduro regime.

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” The former op...

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 13d

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 15d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 15d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Education Week @edweek.org · 17d

While superintendents are reporting fewer overall stressors, a growing number of them still feel the job's stress isn't worth it.

A Growing Number of Superintendents Say the Job Stress Isn't Worth It

At the same time, superintendents this year identified fewer sources of job-related stress in a new survey.

www.edweek.org

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Kat Cho @katchowrites.bsky.social · 21d

If you want to look up if your book is part of the Anthropic Settlement (AI lawsuit) here's a search portal: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

#writersky #authorsky #booksky

Submit a Claim

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 22d

🧒 Inequality reshapes young brains

A study of more than 10,000 US children found that living in states with greater income inequality is linked to structural brain changes and poorer mental health, regardless of family wealth.

🔗 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

#SciComm #Inequality 🧪

Study links greater inequality to structural changes in children’s brains

Researchers say findings show inequality creates toxic environment and reducing it is ‘a public health imperative’

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24d

Mike Johnson: "The WIC program, the nutrition program -- women, infants, and children -- that program won't be funded. FEMA won't be funded."

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Shanna Peeples 🏳️‍🌈 @shannapeeples.bsky.social · 25d

“Children, everybody, here's what we do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.”

From The Fifth Book of Peace by Maxine Hong Kingston

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 25d

Audre Lorde wrote, “Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.”

Assata Shakur embodied this.

The tradition part 1

Carry it on now.
Carry it on.
Carry it on now.
Carry it on.
Carry on the tradition.
There were Black People since the childhood of time who carried it on.
In Ghana and Mali and Timbuktu we carried it on.
Carried on the tradition.
We hid in the bush
when the slavemasters came holding spears.
And when the moment was ripe, leaped out and lanced the lifeblood of would-be masters.
We carried it on.
On slave ships, hurling ourselves into oceans.
Slitting the throats of our captors.
We took their whips.
And their ships.
Blood flowed in the Atlantic— and it wasn't all ours.
We carried it on.
Fed Missy arsenic apple pies.
Stole the axes from the shed.
Went and chopped off master's head.
We ran. We fought.
We organized a railroad.
An underground.
We carried it on.
In newspapers. In meetings.
In arguments and streetfights.
We carried it

(The tradition part 2)
In tales told to children.
In chants and cantatas.
In poems and blues songs and saxophone screams,
We carried it on.
In classrooms. In churches.
In courtrooms. In prisons.
We carried it on.
On soapboxes and picket lines.
Welfare lines, unemployment lines.
Our lives on the line, We carried it on.
In sit-ins and pray-ins
And march-ins and die-ins,
We carried it on.
On cold Missouri midnights
Pitting shotguns against lynch mobs.
On burning Brooklyn streets.
Pitting rocks against rifles,
We carried it on.
Against water hoses and bulldogs.
Against nightsticks and bullets.
Against tanks and tear gas.
Needles and nooses.
Bombs and birth control.
We carried it on.
In Selma and San Juan.
Mozambique. Mississippi.
In Brazil and in Boston, We carried it on.
Through the lies and the sell-outs.
The mistakes and the madness.
Through pain and hunger and frustration,
We carried it on.
Carried on the tradition.
Carried a strong tradition.
Carried a proud tradition.

(The tradition part 3)

Carried a Black tradition.
Carry it on.
Pass it down to the children.
Pass it down.
Carry it on.
Carry it on now.
Carry it on
TO FREEDOM!

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 25d

Assata Shakur’s autobiography is brilliant, and I encourage everyone to spend some time with her poems. My best friend Tim teaches Affirmation every year to high school freshmen and it sticks with them heavy for years.

CULTURE
i must confess that waltzes do not move me. i have no sympathy for symphonies.
i guess i hummed the Blues too early,
and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.

LOVE
Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.
But you, me, and tomorrow hold hands and make vows that struggle will multiply.
The hacksaw has two blades.
The shotgun has two barrels.
We are pregnant with freedom.
We are a conspiracy.

ASSATA
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CURRENT EVENTS
i understand that i am slightly out of fashion.
The in-crowd wants no part of me.
Someone said that i am too sixties
Black.
Someone else told me i had failed to mellow.
It is true i have not
straightened back my hair.
Nor rediscovered maybelline.
And it is also true that i still like African things, like statues and dresses and PEOPLE.
And it is also true
that struggle is foremost in my mind.
And i still rap about discipline— my anger has not run away.
And i still can't stand ole el dorado.
And i still can't dig no one and one.
And i still don't dig no roka fellas.
And i call a pig a pig.
And a party, to my thinking, happens only once in a while.
Anyway, i'm really kind of happy being slightly out of style.

AFFIRMATION
I believe in living.
I believe in the spectrum of Beta days and Gamma people.
I believe in sunshine.
In windmills and waterfalls, tricycles and rocking chairs.
And i believe that seeds grow into sprouts.
And sprouts grow into trees.
I believe in the magic of the hands.
And in the wisdom of the eyes.
I believe in rain and tears.
And in the blood of infinity.
I believe in life.
And i have seen the death parade march through the torso of the earth, sculpting mud bodies in its path.
I have seen the destruction of the daylight, and seen bloodthirsty maggots prayed to and saluted.
I have seen the kind become the blind and the blind become the bind in one easy lesson.
I have walked on cut glass.
I have eaten crow and blunder bread and breathed the stench of indifference.
I have been locked by the lawless.
Handcuffed by the haters.
Gagged by the greedy.
And, if i know any thing at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all.
It can be broken down.
I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth.
And i believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided home to port.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29d

The gap between teacher pay and other college graduates’ pay is the highest it’s been in over four decades.

Is there a “teacher shortage,” or a shortage of jobs that treat educators with the pay, dignity, and support they deserve?

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Shanna Peeples 🏳️‍🌈 @shannapeeples.bsky.social · Sep 21

This isn't reform - it's asset stripping disguised as accountability. As the article shows, these efforts have never been a good faith attempt to improve education, but rather the transfer of public resources to private hands.

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Shanna Peeples 🏳️‍🌈 @shannapeeples.bsky.social · Sep 21

If state takeovers don’t consistently improve outcomes, what’s the actual purpose? These takeovers normalize removing local control whenever the state says it’s necessary
www.texasobserver.org/state-school...

A Wave of School District Takeovers Could Be Coming. Some Past Interventions Ended with More Failing Schools.

Fort Worth ISD is among the districts that could join Houston in having its elected board deposed, while Beaumont and Edgewood ISDs offer a cautionary tale.

www.texasobserver.org

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · Sep 10

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

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