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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 11h

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 22h

Trump deserves no credit for this ceasefire - even in a backhanded way. He could have stopped the war this entire past year. If you have to thank someone - and there is little to be thankful for given the ruins of Gaza - please thank the global protest movement.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 23h

I have yet to be able to resist the siren call of the posting mines

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 1d

The Ann Arbor NextDoor tirades in defense of single family zoning have begun referencing Sun Tzu. #a2council

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Meredith Kahn @mkahn.bsky.social · 1d

Good union job here for an archivist! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Archivist for Community Collections | U-M Careers

careers.umich.edu

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Donnell Wyche @donnell.bsky.social · 2d

This is our plan in Ann Arbor:
aadl.org/newdowntown.

Voters in Ann Arbor this summer approved, by a 2-to-1 margin, an innovative approach to develop a new downtown library branch that will include both market-rate and affordable housing.

#a2council

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2d

Cities are developing a new approach to developing housing: Integrating it into mixed-use library projects. These investments improve neighborhood vitality, add housing & improve services.

In new research @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, I create a database of such projects & point to success stories ⏬

Aging Libraries Could Offer Cities a Unique Opportunity to Build New Housing While Improving Public Services

Since 2000, more than 1,800 apartment units have been built in combined library-housing developments. These projects not only address local housing needs but…

www.urban.org

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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · 3d

Penn historian Ben Nathans with an op-ed in our campus newspaper:

"No self-respecting university that values its autonomy and the integrity of its teaching and research should sign the compact."

Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

www.thedp.com

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 2d

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

actionnetwork.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear, if anyone is in need of someone to write a piece on this discourse, I and my TikTok-addled brain are available. 💁🏾‍♀️

SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 2d

We are careening closer and closer to Swifties posting rants about misogynoir…

a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

Alt: a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch eating popcorn

media.tenor.com

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 2d

We are careening closer and closer to Swifties posting rants about misogynoir…

a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

Alt: a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch eating popcorn

media.tenor.com

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t have close ups of yesterdays batches. They didn’t get displayed outside of their containers bc we were short on space.

Photograph of a good set up. A table covered in a red checked tabled cloth with pizza, soda, brownies, donuts, cookies, plates, and napkins

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 2d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2d

and when I said “the violence is already here” I also meant: the actual police

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 3d

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

Caleb Crain @calebcrain.bsky.social · 3d

Chilling insight by @barbarafwalter.com: "Once citizens view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this… They’re trying to trigger the very unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

via www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 2d

Tragically, an MLive article failed to feature my entire sign set up. (Or pictures of the cookies!) #a2council

Signs. One with a green back ground reads: “COOKIES!!! For everyone* (Because I enjoy baking)” One below with an legate background reads: “*Unless you don’t see the irony of describing feeding people as ‘a circus’ when you once tore a stuffed pig limb from limb during a public comment.” #a2council

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 3d

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact wld betray everything good and solid about the university & would do deep and permanent harm to the United States & the world.”

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 3d

It’s very clumsy.

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 3d

What do you think about the Macbeth reference in “CANCELLED!”?

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 3d

I couldn’t tell you. Susan thinks this whole CLUP thing is fishy.

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 3d

Someone on Ann Arbor Nextdoor said that exclusionary single family zoning was a myth perpetrated by the Koch brothers. So I got to link Richard Rothstein’s book.

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 4d

Something that just does not sit well with me recently is most things

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 3d

fellas is it gay to live in a city

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 3d

At this point it feels like every major road other than Main has some kind of closure

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