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Philip Nel
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Philip W. Nel is an American scholar of children's literature and University Distinguished Professor of English at Kansas State University. He is best known for his work on Dr. Seuss and Harry Potter, which has led to him being a guest on such media programs as CBS Sunday Morning, NPR's Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and CNN's Don Lemon Tonight. .. more

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Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · Jul 26
1/2 ⬇️ This is an excellent idea & I am co-signing & invite my fellow academics to join me. Academia depends on a lot of unpaid labor. Withhold your labor from Columbia. ⬇️
jtlg.bsky.social James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · Jul 25
In light of Columbia's capitulation to the Trump regime's illegal and extortionate demands, I have resolved not to write for Columbia publications, speak at Columbia events, or perform other free labor for a university that has repudated its values.

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Columbia’s Capitulation
Universities exist to promote the discovery, preservation, and transmission of knowledge. While they can help make to make a society virtuous, prosperous, and free, they do so by pursing their mission...
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Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 1d
A report from a 9-year old held in Dilley Concentration Camp, Texas. (After several months of imprisonment, she was released. Months! At age 9.)

Reposted by Philip Nel

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 1d
Kansas secretary of state ‘appreciated’ invitation to FBI’s election briefing #ksleg via @anna-writes.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2026/02/14/k...
Kansas secretary of state ‘appreciated’ invitation to FBI’s election briefing • Kansas Reflector
Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab appreciated an invitation from the FBI to attend a briefing on the upcoming midterm elections, a spokesperson said.
kansasreflector.com

Reposted by Philip Nel

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d
There should be nationwide marches against all the gigantic concentration camps.

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Philip Nel

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 1d
Read this: How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention, by @micarosenberg.bsky.social
How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
www.propublica.org

Reposted by Philip Nel, Susan D. Amussen

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d
Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.

Reposted by Philip Nel

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1d
⬆️

It is important to look at the history of concentration camps operated by the United States, to remind ourselves that “yes, it can happen here.”

www.zinnedproject.org/news/concent...
Concentration Camps in U.S. History
Examples of the U.S. government holding people in concentration camps.
www.zinnedproject.org

Reposted by Philip Nel

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Mica Rosenberg @micarosenberg.bsky.social · 1d
I met Maria Antonia inside Dilley in mid-Jan where she had been detained for four months. She told me she was on her way to Disney World when immigration agents intercepted and interrogated her in the airport and sent her and her mom to detention www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention
A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
www.propublica.org

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 2d
🇬🇱 🇩🇰 24% of adults approve of how T**mp is handling Greenland, while 72% disapprove.
🧐 So, over 1/3 of the 38% who approve of T**mp overall recognize his recklessness in at least this one area.
🤔 I’m baffled that his approval is this high, but encouraged by this—even cult members can disapprove.

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 2d
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A majority disapprove of how Trump is handling Greenland - AP-NORC
Twenty-four percent of adults approve of Trump’s handling of Greenland; 72% disapprove.
apnorc.org

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Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon @scanlon.house.gov · 3d
By repealing the EPA regulation that underpins all US regulation of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is sacrificing our global climate so that fossil fuel companies can make even greater profits.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump repeals U.S. government’s power to regulate climate
The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.
www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Philip Nel

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d
The SAVE Act has passed the House, making it harder for 69 million American women to vote.

This isn’t about voter fraud or undocumented immigrants.

This is about suppressing the female vote.

They want to repeal the 19th and this is a step in that direction.

Reposted by Philip Nel

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frontline intellectual | critical management theory | abolition @organizer.bsky.social · 7d
unsolicited advice in hindsight |
lesson from my body

do one less thing even if something isn't going to get done |
even something in the Signal

we haven't done 2026 before |
we're just humans

i know

i see you, hear you

(together) we keep us safe/r

Reposted by Philip Nel, Rebecca Tushnet

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Analilia Mejia for New Jersey @analiliafornj.bsky.social · 7d
I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Philip Nel, Brian Keegan

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 8d
In light of Trump’s post yesterday, some history:

“On Memorial Day 1927, 1,000 white-robed Klansmen marched through the Jamaica neighborhood, eventually spurring an all-out brawl in which seven men were arrested. One of those arrested was Fred Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...
In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was arrested after a Klan riot in Queens
On Sunday, Trump declined to disavow the support of white supremacists.
www.washingtonpost.com

Reposted by Philip Nel

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 8d
"This crusade is much more important than the anti-lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom." — Carter G. Woodson

#tdih 1926, Woodson initiated Negro History Week which led to Black History Month. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...
Feb. 7, 1926: Carter G. Woodson Launched Negro History Week
Carter G. Woodson initiated the first celebration of Negro History Week which led to Black History Month.
www.zinnedproject.org

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Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 9d
“How to Resist Like Minneapolis.” There are many versions of this advice floating around out there. But I’ll share this, since it’s good & since I’m a Dessa fan. (She wrote this.) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
How to resist like Minneapolis
Meet the block, shop the indies, and check on your people.
www.motherjones.com

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 9d
I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11d
Exciting announcement from Jeff Bezos's reimagined Washington Post!

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Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 11d
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How things happen has always been
unclear. Hurricanes begin
in a place where no one lives.
Agents of the government start
to wear masks. Fascism is
a word my neighbors won’t use
yet. They are following
the law, they say, and the sirens
are coming for someone else.

—CHARLES RAFFERTY

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Philip Nel @philnel.bsky.social · 11d
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“The Problem with Early Warnings”
CHARLES RAFFERTY

People don’t like to leave a party
unless the house is actually
on fire. Even then, if the flames
are far enough away
to be pretty, they’ll finish
their drink, take one more pass
at the hors d’oeuvres.

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 11d
This made me weepy

Reposted by Philip Nel, Nelson Flores, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 12d
Philadelphians are bringing the history back to the President’s House. 🦅

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Mostly Leftist Supply Depot Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 12d
Some wildly generous person just spent a bunch of their credit card points and bought us a huge gift card to Polymaker so we can buy filament!

I did not know that was a thing you can do (I'm afraid of cards b/c ADHD trauma) but HOLY SHIT?? BRILLIANT???

More gift card links are now added here!
WhistleWishLists | Linktree
We're the Whistle Avengers. We turn each spool of filament into 400-700 whistles which we send out into the world. Sponsor whistles in your favorite colors!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13d
New in PN: The regime moves to make journalism a crime

"The way he’s targeting the press isn’t just about quieting criticism so he doesn’t have to hear people being mean to him. It’s the same impulse we see on the streets of Mpls: He wants to dominate those who oppose him and force them to submit."
The regime moves to make journalism a crime
But try as they might, they won't silence the voices of dissent.
www.publicnotice.co

Reposted by Elizabeth Saunders, Mark Bray, Philip Nel

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Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl @deardara.bsky.social · 13d
Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Ben H. Ansell, Brendan Nyhan , and 9 more

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 13d
If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Steven Heydemann, Jonathan M. Gilligan , and 7 more

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 13d
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Timothy Snyder, Steven Heydemann , and 16 more

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 13d
I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
vanhollen.senate.gov Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14d
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
 
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
 
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Lisa W. Fazio, Ben H. Ansell , and 24 more

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13d
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
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