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Goblin Gower, PhD @medievaliste.bsky.social · 9h

This is a key piece of the attacks we’re seeing on all levels of education: A public that distrusts teachers and professors is a public that is primed to allow government leaders to divert public funds—meaning taxes—towards tech billionaires and their questionable products.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

Fueling distrust in teachers--particularly among vulnerable students--might also be by design. Because tech companies have a great deal to gain financially if they can persuade families and policymakers that AI can replace teachers in struggling public schools. 3/

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 15h

The govt, at time of writing, yet maintains its felony assault complaints against two other men arrested at the 9/27 ICE facility protest:

Dana Briggs, who is 70 years old, and Paul Ivery, who has an intellectual disability and was asked, while in federal custody, to waive his Miranda rights.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 15h

New: the federal government has dropped its case against Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo, a couple who had faced felony charges for allegedly assaulting federal agents during a protest outside the Broadview ICE facility on Sept. 27.

The govt moved to drop its complaint against them this morning.

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Piper French @psfrench.bsky.social · 1d

Great new investigative piece showing how the new Cook County prosecutor has weakened the conviction integrity unit - even as concerns mount over the pressure tactics of a former Chicago detective, with the reporter finding evidence of 24 cases with coercion allegations:
boltsmag.org/chicago-cook...

Exonerations Grind to a Halt Under Chicago’s New Prosecutor - Bolts

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has weakened her office’s already broken system for freeing the innocent, even as allegations of coercion mount against a former Chicago detective.

boltsmag.org

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Genevieve Lakier @genevievelakier.bsky.social · 6d

The admin’s efforts to get universities to agree to a list of demands in exchange for preferential access to federal funding isn’t just “troubling” as Ted Mitchell, prez of the @aceducation.bsky.social says in this article; it looks blatantly unconstitutional.🧵
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

When a state or local law enforcement official violates your rights, you can sue for money damages. When a federal official violates your rights — you largely cannot, thanks to a quirk of the law and the Supreme Court's decision not to find an inherent cause of action to sue under the Constitution.

audreyii_fic @audreyii.bsky.social · 6d

What are the legal options here, either for the individuals or local/state officials? Can they sue? Can someone be prosecuted?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion.

Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

"It was scary, because I had never had a gun in my face," Fisher said. "They asked my name and my date of birth and asked me, did I have any warrants? And I told them, 'No, 'Ididn't."
Fisher said she was handcuffed before being released around 3 a.m., and she was told that if anyone had any kind of warrant out for them, even if it was unrelated to immigration, they would not be released.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").

Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties.

Johnson said he was left tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before agents finally let him go.

“I asked [agents] why they were holding me if I was an American citizen, and they said I had to wait until they looked me up,” Jones said. “I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer. They never brought one.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We are overhauling an inspector general process that has been weaponized, putting complainers and poor performers in the driver seat. We are doing the same with the equal opportunity policies. No more frivolous complaints, no more anonymous complains ... no more walking on eggshells."

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Arti Walker-Peddakotla #DefundThePolice @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social · 11d

If you're in Chicago today, @vetsaboutface.bsky.social will be in conversation with Bill Ayers at @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social. I hope you can join us!

Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · 27d

9/27 @ 6 pm: Arti Walker-Peddakotla & Aaron Hughes in convo with Bill Ayers on the long history of GIs rebelling against US militarism & fascism, highlighting the legacy & revolutionary power of GI resistance against the backdrop of military mobilizations to violently suppress people’s movements.

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Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · 16d

Don't miss this important event this Saturday!

Pilsen Community Books @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social · 27d

9/27 @ 6 pm: Arti Walker-Peddakotla & Aaron Hughes in convo with Bill Ayers on the long history of GIs rebelling against US militarism & fascism, highlighting the legacy & revolutionary power of GI resistance against the backdrop of military mobilizations to violently suppress people’s movements.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19d

Please read about the terrible impact(s) of tear gas which is a weapon of WAR: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 19d

Genuinely curious what the impetus was for this. It produces a lot of misery for immigrants, sure, but also immense misery for Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Google, JP Morgan, Oracle, Intel (now partly owned by the US 🙄), and Tesla, all of whom have lots of H-1Bs and international operations.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19d

We haven’t seen the text of this yet, but to be clear, the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch.

The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"

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Truthout @truthout.org · 19d

The security state and its broad sweeping apparatus depends on people complying, assisting, and enacting the state’s demands. This need for our consent is why the legacy of GI resistance, in all its manifestations, is important to study and build on right now.

GI Resisters Have Long Refused Illegal Orders — Now They Must Refuse Trump

Trump can’t use the military to terrorize US cities if soldiers refuse to back him up.

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Arti Walker-Peddakotla #DefundThePolice @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social · 19d

Grateful for the opportunity to write about the history of GI resistance - a history that is critical to remember in this moment of increased state violence and repression. Shout out to Aaron Hughes for co-writing this piece with me.

Truthout @truthout.org · 19d

The security state and its broad sweeping apparatus depends on people complying, assisting, and enacting the state’s demands. This need for our consent is why the legacy of GI resistance, in all its manifestations, is important to study and build on right now.

GI Resisters Have Long Refused Illegal Orders — Now They Must Refuse Trump

Trump can’t use the military to terrorize US cities if soldiers refuse to back him up.

buff.ly

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 21d

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 22d

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah man, if you’re heading out to a protest these days, assume you are being surveilled and act accordingly. Images and video that you didn’t know were taken will end up in indictments, fusion center reports, and any other intelligence file they got

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19d

an agent on the roof of the broadview ice facility is filming the crowd of protesters below with a dslr.

a protester joking asked, “does it shoot 4k?” and the agent nodded his head yes.

two masked agents stand on the roof of the broadview ice facility. the agent on the left points a dslr at the crowd. the agent on the right looks on, while holding a gun that shoots pepper balls.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 20d

NEW — Witnesses are reporting federal agent activity in various neighborhoods within Chicago.

According to @unraveledpress.com, after agents “snatched a man outside Home Depot” the agents nearly hit a 17-year-old boy who was riding on his scooter on his way to school.

thetriibe.com/2025/09/live...

LIVE: Feds detain man at Home Depot in Back of the Yards, also spotted in West Englewood and Humboldt Park • The TRiiBE

Here’s a roundup of federal agent sightings today, Sept. 18.

thetriibe.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22d

This is not unusual! The warrants are pretext to get inside the facility without warning. In the 2018 Tennessee raid, they similarly had a limited warrant for investigating the company for hiring practices, burst in, and ordered all the Latinos to line up. tennesseelookout.com/2022/09/05/f...

Feds to settle suit over 2018 Tennessee slaughterhouse raid targeting Latino workers • Tennessee Lookout

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is among the federal agencies settling a suit over a 2018 Tennessee raid targeting Latino workers.

tennesseelookout.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 22d

Omg did not realize until watching @chrislhayes.bsky.social that ICE had a warrant for four Latino men when they came onsite to the GA plant. So basically they saw a lot of other nonwhite people and just decided to detain them all?? What’s the reasonable suspicion

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Arti Walker-Peddakotla #DefundThePolice @ajpeddakotla.bsky.social · 22d

I was excited when I saw your email for the next Democracy WIP conference!! Congrats, Quinn, on getting another conference planned and announced! (And yes I will be submitting an abstract, but I first need to write something 😬)

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Wm McKenna @wmmckenna.bsky.social · 22d

"When we use generative AI, we stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Barry Burden @bcburden.bsky.social · 25d

My department @uwmadison.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor with expertise in environmental politics. Send us your application. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25d

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

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