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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1h

Free speech is when the government forces you to rename specific roads after someone

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 1h

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk

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Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don’t rename roads after Charlie Kirk

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uumediaculture.bsky.social @uumediaculture.bsky.social · 5h

Meet the new socials team!
Hi there! We are Rosalyn and Merel and we are the socials team this semester! We are exited to share all things media with you!

Hoi iedereen! Wij zijn Rosalyn en Merel en wij zijn het socials team dit semester! We hebben zin om alles over media met jullie te delen!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 7h

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 18h

Seriously: it doesn't take evil geniuses. Being assholes is enough.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19h

You don't have to be good at fascism to be good at it unfortunately.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 1d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 1d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 1d

Reading Caroline Nevejan’s splendid essay “shaping trust” with my honours students today.

Don’t know what they will make of it, but I sure needed this today.

www.nevejan.org/caroline-nev...

Shaping Trust — Caroline Nevejan

Caroline Nevejan writes about the YUTPA framework she developed, the ideas and developments surrounding this 'talking tool'.

www.nevejan.org

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: "I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses. I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre and just dumb so many of the people architecting this were going to be"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the land of reality, here's what one of the Black people whose home was smashed into during the apartment raid last week said about his Venezuelan neighbors: "They were cool people."

Mr. Jones, a U.S. citizen, was dragged out in handcuffs and held outside for hours.

Jones, who lives on the fourth floor, said most of his neighbors were Venezuelan and often took turns cleaning the hallway because the property owners did little to maintain it.

“They were cool people,” Jones said as he looked into his next door neighbor’s unit. “They didn’t speak a lick of English, but we used translator apps to talk to each other.”

Jones wondered what would happen to his neighbor’s young children.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 2d

This goes deep into the bartender soul: we're trained to pick up on the layers below the surface of who people pretend to be (often exposed while drunk).

AOC says: "Laugh at them! The risks are real but one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is to laugh at them."

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 2d

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve spent years thinking about production and reception in radio and have landed on a position that I think the power of reception in media is both under- and overestimated in specific ways. Few media theories arrive at solving this problem, most fall on either side.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Bonta: Just minutes before the hearing, we got word that the Texas National Guard has been federalized.

We asked the judge to issue a broad order — one that applies to every National Guard unit in every state — stating that none of them can be deployed to Oregon.

She issued that order

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

They still haven’t found all the missing children from the floods. Why are they more worried about Illinois than about the children in Texas?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The President of the United States is lying and/or delusional, and it seems like we should be talking about this and nothing else.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 2d

The conference will be in person with the potential for some opportunities for remote presentation.
For any inquiries, please contact Dr Helen Warner: @helenwarner.bsky.social