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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 3h

Calling this extortion & an attack on academic freedom understates the situation. This is an attempt to destroy universities by offering bribes to adopt the political position of fascists. Universities accepting this are committing academic suicide & enabling fascism.

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MIT president says she 'cannot support' proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

MIT's president said she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to feder...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 3h

#disability, #benefits, #UKgovernment

Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 3h

This nonsense about over-diagnosis is dangerous. There's no evidence for this & it puts pressure on people with mental health issues & people that are neurodivergent -- they only want them off benefits. They call them "slackers" -- this is nonsense www.disabilitynewsservice.com/alarm-over-g...

Alarm over government’s choices to lead ‘over-diagnosis’ review that could help ministers cut benefits

The government’s decision to commission a review of alleged “over-diagnosis” of mental health conditions and neurodivergence has caused alarm among many disabled people, with fears that it will all…

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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 1d

SCOTUS Chiles vs Salazar case which argues that the conversion therapy ban in Colorado denies the "freedom of speech" of a Christian conversion therapy specialist whose work is abusing children. Her "freedom of speech" is more important than living children ...

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The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids

During a hearing this week, the court’s theocrats made it clear that they’ll vote to end a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 1d

This is a petition calling for the arrest and prosecution of Britains that went to Israel and fought for the IDF and may have committed war crimes and participated in a genocide. This petition works as the UK recognises Palestine & war crimes in Gaza by the IDF

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Prosecute British IDF soldiers for Human Rights violations

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"A federal judge has ordered Alaska's prison system to reconsider a transgender woman's request to undergo surgery."

"[S]tate policy on the issue is so restrictive that it violates [..] Constitution."

"[F]ollows a seven-year legal battle by Emalee Wagoner."
#Alaska #USA #Healthcare #Incarceration

Federal judge says Alaska’s treatment of transgender inmate violates U.S. Constitution | Alaska Beacon

The ruling follows a precedent that gender-affirming surgery can be medically necessary for transgender people in Alaska prisons.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

Israel has intercepted and detained another 145 activists in the second flotilla effort in a row headed to Gaza to break Israel’s near-total humanitarian aid blockade, after detaining and imprisoning over 450 activists in the first wave of ships last week.

Israel Seizes Second Round of Flotilla Boats, Detaining 145 More Activists

Other recently released activists said they faced torture, beatings, and humiliation in Israeli detention.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 2d

Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails

These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the incarceration of people who are mostly accused of no more serious offense than crossing the border without permission

U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails. In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 2d

"For some, the Trump administration's Chicago assault was a shock."

"But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered."

"We know 'them' becomes 'you' sooner than you think."
#Illinois #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Black People Knew This Would Happen

Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 2d

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Reading the Black Jacobins

Join us for the fourth session of a hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social

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Reading The Black Jacobins with Geo Maher, Week 4 (Ch. 3, “Parliament and Property”)

A hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition &…

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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 3d

Trump is telling lies again to justify sending the national guard troops into Oregon to fight against a non-existent insurrection. Neither are troops on the group and nor there is an insurrection or an troops are not used to "fight" crime. joycevance.substack.com/p/portland-a...?

Portland And Beyond

This afternoon, Donald Trump was asked about invoking the Insurrection Act: “I’d do it if it was necessary.

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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 10d

www.guttmacher.org/2025/09/atta...

Attacks on Shield Laws Are the Next Step in Criminalizing Abortion Care

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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 12d

come on, you cannot be surprised ... subtlety seems to be a lost art

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Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court

Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 13d

"To apologize to an institution with a well documented track record of racist violence for calling them a racist institution amounts to apologizing for getting in the way of their racist violence."
#NewYork #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Policing #Incarceration #Genocide

Cops Are Not a Constituency and Don’t Deserve an Apology From Mamdani - Left Voice

Zohran Mamdani is attempting to build a more positive relationship with the NYPD. But his previous remarks that they are racist, anti-queer, and a threat to public safety remain as true as ever.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13d

Like the Maine cops liberating the autistic girl from the ICE officers using her as bait, here we see senior Portland police officials blaming violence on … fed police.

These strike me as BIG breakdowns in the Thin Blue Line, shows just how far (and unpopular) Trump policies are.

Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 13d

“A Portland Police Bureau assistant chief said in court recently that federal police were “instigating” some of the clashes between officers and protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.”

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Federal cops ‘instigating’ confrontations with protesters outside ICE building, Portland police official says in court

Assistant Chief Craig Dobson said federal officers were “causing some of the ruckus” at the ongoing protests.

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Here for news @cmmcat.bsky.social · 12d

#AbolishICE #NoKings #October18

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12d

79. American citizen.

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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 12d

Annieli on 1) the list of what Trump now considers as indicators of violence & all of these are left-wing ideas. But, political & social violence is done by the hard & far right; 2) violence is GOP commodity form (broadly) a commodity which they are selling.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

AntiCapitalist MeetUp: violence as a GOP commodity form

As an exercise I asked one A.I. platform some questions related to the Princeton edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I (2024). The response was useful but not yet ready to stand alone ...

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Susan Pashkoff @susanp64.bsky.social · 12d

A war crime in the midst of an ongoing genocide against the Lakota - this creep thinks war crimes are perfectly fine and those doing them should not be held responsible or accountable. surprised? really?

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Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor

Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 19 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards.

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wiscotexjess.bsky.social @wiscotexjess.bsky.social · 13d

www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr... #abolishice #defundthepolice

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

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magia76 @magia76.bsky.social · 28d

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Wrath @cscnme.bsky.social · 13d

I know you are all sick of the Charlie Kirk discourse but you NEED to read this absolute 🔥🔥🔥 article by @azrww.bsky.social

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