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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16m

“But she doesn’t tell us what to DO about it 😭😭😭!”

Do something.
Do something with other people.
Do it again.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 4h

Great piece as always from @himself.bsky.social, on authoritarianism as a competitive instance of the coordination problem.

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 1h

Hopefully people read this and get it. Laying low won't work. Giving in to extortion won't work. I'm just hoping that at some point a lot more folks in academia wake up and really start paying attention to where things are going.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2h

👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 6h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 15h

It’s unreal to me that I can watch the Mariners in the playoffs here in California but diehard fans in Seattle with the wrong app/subscription combo are blacked out. Genius level fan engagement from MLB right there.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 16h

Giants should have held onto Doval. He was fun to watch.

Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 16h

The key to success is definitely making it as hard as possible for people to watch their favorite teams. Way to go MLB. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17h

Screw you, MLB, for licensing your games on a case by case basis and not including them in your own streaming package. I had to buy 5 different services to catch all of the playoff games.

But switching the Mariners game to a channel that I don’t have midway through the fourth inning? Unreal.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 16h

Hmmm I wonder why MLB is having trouble retaining fans.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17h

Screw you, MLB, for licensing your games on a case by case basis and not including them in your own streaming package. I had to buy 5 different services to catch all of the playoff games.

But switching the Mariners game to a channel that I don’t have midway through the fourth inning? Unreal.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17h

Screw you, MLB, for licensing your games on a case by case basis and not including them in your own streaming package. I had to buy 5 different services to catch all of the playoff games.

But switching the Mariners game to a channel that I don’t have midway through the fourth inning? Unreal.

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Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social · 16h

So good. Amazing that his dad was also unreal back in his day too.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 16h

It is so damn fun to watch Vladimir Guerrero Jr. play baseball

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely molten-hot language here from Professor Fraser Shilling, Director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis, on the decision to spend *half a billion* to widen Highway 37, which is sinking into the bay.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

Hey friends-

It’s really hard being alive right now for those of us who care about things like humanity, decency, the environment, democracy, etc,

If you are here still fighting for what is right I love u.

None of this is easy. Please take care of yourselves. Logging off sometimes is A-OK.

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 1d

"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government. Governments are the enemies of academic freedom, not their protectors." Brilliant piece by @sivav.bsky.social about the Trump administrations' latest effort to censor universities newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

The "Policia" label on the shields was a clue, but the thing about stupid, lazy people is that they're stupid and lazy. So here we are, having to debunk photoshops that the Right is gleefully meming and sharing. "A lie can travel around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes," as they say

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 1d

I recently wrote about this and other AI-related problems in a higher-ed context. I don't think this piece's relevance will fade anytime soon, alas. www.chronicle.com/article/some...

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons

Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

www.chronicle.com

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 6d

Kids Exploring Ancient Ruins 😄

#archaeohistories

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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 2d

When professors of relevant disciplines are saying this, chills run down my spine.

Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 2d

I have been talking about US autocracy but @dhnexon.bsky.social lays it out more clearly-- the American system has failed. The checks and balances didn't work, so we will need a new constitution and new institutions once the regime is eventually toppled www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

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J.M. Berger @jmberger.com · 2d

This is a must-read

Even if you think restoration is possible, it’s a bad idea. The Constitution has failed. Or, more accurately, the Constitutional order built out of the New Deal, the Second Reconstruction, and the repudiation of the Nixon presidency has failed. This is not a prediction. It’s not a “if we continue on our current course.” The Constitution as designed by the founders, was supposed to prevent the current regime. Its original guardrails did not work. The ones added after the Civil War did not work. The de facto amendments created by the accretion of judicial decisions did not work. The post-Watergate reforms did not work.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING NEWS: Oregon, California, and Portland have taken legal action to block the unlawful deployment of California National Guard troops to Oregon.

Read more about what happened and what’s next.

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 2d

Late tonight, a federal judge issued a sweeping new order prohibiting the president from deploying any National Guard forces—from any state or DC—to Oregon.

The president cannot keep playing whack-a-mole with different states’ Guard units to get around court orders and the rule of law.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 2d

Just in:

State of California joins Oregon and Portland in Amended Complaint in wake of President Trump's alleged effort to send federalized California National Guard troops to Portland - despite Judge's Saturday evening temporary restraining order.

Key:⤵️
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 2d

At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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