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Dr. Karen Carr @quatrus.bsky.social · 4h

In case you were wondering, Mark Bray, who wrote a book about anti-fascism, got death threats from MAGA, and is fleeing to Spain with his wife and young children - yeah, he's Jewish.

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Darcy Sharman @dsharman.bsky.social · 12h

When the satire is more truthful than the news.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"Whether a person is undocumented or not is anyone’s guess, which is why the safest bet is to question everyone."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ice...

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 7h

Incredibly alarming—after the whole ridiculous antifa roundtable at the White House, as Mark was moving with his family to Europe after threats…

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7h

What the actual fuck??? This is a really scary situation. This family is already facing death threats which is why they are leaving.

Because Dr. Bray is a scholar of anti-fascism.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

Solidarity!

RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 11h

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

"Civil War" is the opening track of the first album -- Use Your Illusion II -- I ever asked someone to buy for me. Got it on tape as a holiday gift from my friend's parents. I remember listening to this track and being like, hey, this is a good anti-war song that links the war machine to poverty.

Meia tigela @brunodoamaral.bsky.social · 20h

No show do Guns N' Roses de ontem em Bogotá, o Axl recebeu essa bandeira da plateia durante a música Civil War.

Cantor Axl Rose, homem branco de meia idade com cabelo louro, segura uma bandeira da palestina com o logotipo do Guns N' Roses e escrito "I don't need your civil war".

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Kerri Arsenault @kerriarsenault.bsky.social · 15h

Congratulations to @ievajusionyte.bsky.social and her incredible work on borders and how they affect cultures on both “sides” of a boundary line ❤️❤️💪 www.macfound.org/videos/2025-...

Ieva Jusionyte - 2025 MacArthur Fellow

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 1d

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 18h

Universities must unite to reject President Trump’s partisan “Compact for Academic Excellence” which threatens academic freedom and diversity. Only bold, collective resistance can defend higher ed from ideological control and preserve critical thought on campus. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...

Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum

Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 1d

I maintain that we are in grave danger due not only to the trends noted by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social in this piece, but by the failure of the Democratic party 1) to grasp these dangers and act in advance to prevent or minimize them; (1)

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem

No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

New book: It's an ethnography of white evangelicals in a union in Bethlehem, PA, and Black evangelicals in a number of churches in Moncure, NC. Ken notes that while his subjects view God as an authority, so too did they consider their union and labor contracts too. cc @davidmislin.bsky.social

Cover of Labor Evangelicals: Faith, Authority, and Resistance at Work by Ken Estey, published by Palgrave with a picture of Bethlehem Steel

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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 1d

this is who bsky banned for life

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 2d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

Attention Lehigh Valley folks!

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d

New book: It's an ethnography of white evangelicals in a union in Bethlehem, PA, and Black evangelicals in a number of churches in Moncure, NC. Ken notes that while his subjects view God as an authority, so too did they consider their union and labor contracts too. cc @davidmislin.bsky.social

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

www.rollingstone.com

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 2d

Vandy AAUP on the Compact. Share widely!

"We join the @aaup.org National Leadership in urging the Board of Trust, Chancellor Diermeier, Provost Raver, & the Vanderbilt leadership to completely reject this Trump loyalty oath & any other that seeks to commandeer Vanderbilt’s institutional autonomy."

Statement by the Vanderbilt AAUP Executive Committee on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

October 6, 2025 On October 2nd, Vanderbilt was among nine universities “invited” to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” with the federal government. The Compact, however, i…

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 1d

EFF found the documents, here's our blog:

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

www.eff.org

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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 1d

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago.
So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

Episode 422: Seth Rockman, Plantation Goods: How Northern Factories Fueled the Plantation Economy

Discover how hoes, shoes, and cloth linked New England factories to Southern slavery in early America with historian Seth Rockman.

benfranklinsworld.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2d

It's the first Monday in October which means the Supreme Court is back in session. Here's my preview of all the cruelty and evil they will visit upon us this term.
My *cover story* in @thenation.com :)

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court v. Democracy

The Nation’s justice correspondent previews the court’s coming term—and explains why it will never stand up to Trump.

www.thenation.com

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 2d

Just saw this from Hegseth. Wild that he's going there. Even Teddy Roosevelt, no cringing pacifist, called Wounded Knee a "massacre ... [native women], children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly and with circumstances of marked brutality."

Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled." Which, the last bit, kinda true.

Snippet from Aida Donald's Lion in the White House. Quote is from Roosevelt's defense of the military in the Philippines. He says "nothing had occurred as bad as ... the massacre... at Wounded Knee." At Wounded Knee, Roosevelt recalled, "squaws, children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly, and with circumstances of marked brutality."

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 27d

Migrate to BlackSky instructions:
1. tektite.cc, disable 2FA
2. Login w/ real pw NOT app pw
3. Click migrate to blacksky button
4. Add handle, new pw, use dropdown if non-Black user
5. Click Migrate
6. When done transferring, enter code sent to your email
7. Complete!
blacksky.community is site

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