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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 47m

More than 5,000 federal employees have received layoff notices. We’re working to ensure that the administration isn’t using state voter rolls to target registered Democrats for termination. More details soon.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 5d

After a federal court blocked Trump from deploying Oregon’s own National Guard, he responded by sending 300 federalized California Guard members to Oregon early Sunday, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago

"Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

As fascism becomes more entrenched, microblogging will become even less reliable and likely useful as a site for communicating. So many bots, bad actors and an inability to discern.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 6d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 11d

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 11d

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent’s license following his arrest by federal immigration officers

State panel revokes Des Moines superintendent's license following Friday arrest

A state educational licensing board has revoked the license of Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts following his arrest by federal immigration officers last week.

www.thegazette.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 12d

In honor of the passing of John Searle, I recommend this article by Michelle Rosaldo

The Things We Do with Words: Ilongot Speech Acts and Speech Act Theory in Philosophy
Michelle Z. Rosaldo

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 12d

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 13d

As of this week, every public university in California is under investigation from the Trump administration for alleged antisemitism www.latimes.com/california/s...

Cal State universities now target of antisemitism probe by Trump administration

The Trump administration has launched a systemwide investigation into allegations of antisemitism at California State University and has started issuing subpoenas for employees' contact information.

www.latimes.com

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 14d

E-bike autumn

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It’s because dreaming of new cabinets is the only thing that brings me joy isn’t it.

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 16d

My favorite part is the political humor on social media

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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International Gender & Language Association @igala.bsky.social · 21d

IGALA is on Bluesky & Instagram (IGALA_insta) now!
Help us grow online and off by following AND nominating yourself or a colleague for an executive board position 🙃

IGALA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS DUE SEPTEMBER 30TH
PRESIDENT-ELECT, SECRETARY, COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER, TREASURER
tinyurl.com/nomyourself
tinyurl.com/nomyourfriend

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Ty @tyanna.bsky.social · 23d

Empanada and Kiwi having a (supervised!) interaction! They approached each other it was very interesting 🐥🐈

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 23d

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23d

“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 23d

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious.

@mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes.

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...