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Amy Werbel @awerbel.bsky.social · 8d

My latest Anthony Comstock-inspired cautionary tale. theconversation.com/censorship-c...
#censorship #Kimmel #freespeech

Censorship campaigns can have a way of backfiring – look no further than the fate of America’s most prolific censor

Anthony Comstock’s decades-long censorship campaign ended up turning him into a laughingstock.

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Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social · Aug 9

“As traditional sources of news crumble, there is Coker and hundreds of others like her who are keeping journalism alive.”
www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

What keeps local reporters going? ‘We live here and we want a better society.’

One in 3 U.S. counties no longer has a single full-time reporter, depriving communities of a reliable mirror. Meet Margaret Coker and the other journalists fighting to keep local news alive.

www.csmonitor.com

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Michele Bogart @urbaninsideout.bsky.social · Aug 9

New round of #grants! This is an “initiative to help historic preservation-related not-for-profit organizations and similar institutions identify and maintain their archival resources related to stories of historic preservation.”
www.nypap.org/shelby-white...

Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Assistance Initiative Grants 2025 |

www.nypap.org

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Michele Bogart @urbaninsideout.bsky.social · Jun 30

Public art is all about process and collaboration. The conservation of Exodus and Dance exemplifies this fact. I hope it inspires young residents to become interested in art and its history, and in the incredible work of conservators, in this instance, EverGreene and Jablonski. Thanks to all.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · May 18

It has been a long and dispiriting year at Columbia, yet today's PhD graduation reminded me of what is best about academia: bright people consumed with new ideas and novel ways of thinking about the world.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · May 10

Highly recommend following the work of the Southern Environmental Law Center who have tracking this and other polluting data center projects in the South

www.selc.org/topic/data-c...

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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · May 5

Next Thursday, May 15th, Hell Gate is teaming up with @nysfocus.bsky.social for a one-of-a-kind mayoral forum. A livestream for the event will be available on 👇this page👇, where you can also find a 😎 Google Cal invite 😎 to set a reminder for your future self 👍 hellgatenyc.com/mayoralforum/

New Mayor, New Media: A Democratic Mayoral Candidate Forum

Hell Gate is teaming up with New York Focus to present a forum at The Public Theater with the leading Democratic candidates for mayor.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Apr 30

Pritzker: If you're not out there protesting in front of a Republican congressman's office, or out in the street making your voice heard, or calling your friends in another state to have them do it.. then you're not doing what's necessary to put pressure on them to vote the right way.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · Apr 28

Team Trump is cutting money for deaf kids.

“Pediatric deafness is a neurodevelopmental emergency. Without support, deaf and hard of hearing children do not learn to communicate, which has cascading effects on brain, language, social & occupational development.”

www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...

Funding Cuts to Deaf Education Impact Disabled Students & Families

Across the country, from rural Utah to Florida, students who are deaf or hard of hearing will face dwindling access to critical support services

www.tc.columbia.edu

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 23

Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Apr 23

The corollary to the statement "Anti-Zionism is always antisemitism" that the Trump administration has asked so many American institutions to adopt is the statement, "My Zionism prima facie protects me from possibly being antisemitic." And fewer people want to talk about that second part.

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Apr 22

Small colleges have taken the lead -- but they are now joined by 6 of 8 Ivies: Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Yale, Brown, and -- yes -- Harvard.

And, finally, by a handful of big publics: U. of Washington, Wisconsin, Rutgers, SUNY Buffalo and Stony Brook, UC Riverside, UVa, UMD.

Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social · Apr 22

A powerful call has just gone up on the website of the @aacu.org : “A Call for Constructive Engagement” signed by almost 200 college & university presidents (more sure to join), from community colleges to R1s! #academicsky #edusky @academic-chatter.bsky.social www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U

A Call for Constructive Engagement

www.aacu.org

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · Apr 22

Something like 90% of the grad students in my department are federally funded (research grants covering both their stipends and their tuition). There is no way to plug the hole if that money disappears. The number of grad students would shrink by an order of magnitude if not more.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Apr 22

The problem is the teaching will also collapse w/o the federal research funding. Fewer labs, postdocs, faculty, & grad students, plus the end of the “hard” sciences subsidizing what’s left of the liberal arts. So fewer courses, majors, & degrees. The entire model collapses.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Apr 19

I suspect that all selective universities could still break even just teaching and abandoning research. The federal money pays for research, which has expanded a lot. It would be a horrible tragedy if the money went away, and what it would mean is the end of scientific research and many hospitals.

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Apr 22

Fun fact: before pasteurization became widespread (1920s in the US), milk was a regular carrier of tuberculosis, diphtheria, and typhoid. Before FDA food inspection standards, inferior milk was regularly adulterated with chalk, lead, alum, plaster, and even arsenic to improve its color and texture.

Reuters @reuters.com · Apr 21

US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts reut.rs/4cHdnz3

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Apr 21

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · Apr 21

Don't put in the newspaper that she is a history buff.

The review of the Smithsonian museums for "improper ideology" is being led by a 35-year old lawyer who has no experience or credentials in history or museum studies.

But one supporter says she is an avid "fan of history."🗃️

She told Trump the Smithsonian needs changing. He’s ordered her to do it.

Who is Lindsey Halligan, the attorney assigned to help remove “improper ideology” from Washington’s most important cultural institution?

wapo.st

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Andrew Wasserman @onceatrophic.bsky.social · Apr 21

Wangechi Mutu, The Seated III (2019), bronze

Wangechi Mutu’s The Seated III on display in The Modern in Fort Worth

Side view of the sculpture on Ando’s building

Detail of the hands, lap, and garment of the sculpture

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · Apr 21

Yes, and if the history of military conflict teaches us anything, it's that shooting the people in your own trenches is definitely a winning strategy

bmkhawk.bsky.social @bmkhawk.bsky.social · Apr 20

I don't give a shit who says it, but Dems need far fewer conflict adverse geriatrics that don't have the energy to fight. It's a political war right now and we need more people that act like it.

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Kevin R. McClure @drkevinrmcclure.com · Apr 20

“The problem is,” Sinek writes, “for many of the overpaid leaders, we know they took the money and perks and didn’t offer protection.”

I think that’s part of what bothers us about higher ed leaders today.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 19

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · Apr 18

Chloë Bass at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington.

A stone etched with the words “That does not excuse everyday cruelty or
paucity of care, as an invitation for invention.”

Stone etched with the words “We are also capable of acts of great beauty when no other system exists to provide them.”

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MoveOn @moveon.org · Apr 17

Trump’s illegal abduction of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is fascism. Full stop.

Sign to demand his return:

Bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia Home

Kilmar is not alone. He is one of over 250 immigrants deported without due process, as part of Trump’s $6 million deal with Bukele’s government—a plan to funnel immigrants, often with no criminal…

MoveOn.org

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Apr 17

Svrl “media rights grps issued new guidance that urged student newspapers to consider being more flexible abt requests to remove content or ID’ing material from their stories.” “Offering anonymity [is not] just protecting sources from losing their jobs, but… more existential upending of their lives”

Student Journalists Wrestle with Censoring Their Own Work

Navigating a surge in requests to take down previously published material.

www.cjr.org

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Apr 17

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · Apr 17

The 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War is this weekend, a moment when a leader’s arbitrary exercise of power sparked a rebellion.

Opinion | The king we overthrew — and the king some now want

Americans need to reconnect with their innate dislike of arbitrary rule.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · Apr 17

Not the headline I want to post. But for everyone trying to understand what’s happening at UMass Chan, why things are so difficult, this is what’s happening. We are a service institution. We educate; we care; we give; we serve rural MA. We dont make money. Our own govt is crushing us. Link below

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