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David M. Luebke @davidmluebke.bsky.social · 1h

Parachute journalism at its worst. Reading this story, you'd never guess that the disturbance, such as it is, is confined to the South Waterfront, a narrow slice of Portland that is sandwiched between a spur of I-5 and the Willamette River.

#ICE
#Portland

www.bbc.com/news/article...

How Portland is wrestling with Trump protests, National Guard threat

As Trump threatens military action, residents in Portland tell the BBC about life amid the protests.

www.bbc.com

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 21h

It's the anti-prime sale on @bookshop.org, with free shipping Oct 7 & 8!

If you have a nerd with a conscience on your "need to buy them a gift soon" list, perhaps HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY might be it? Or perhaps this is just the book for you for #spookyseason / #monstertober?

💙📚 🗃 #histsci

Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Feb 4

Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far.
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
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Launch Day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY!

Welcome back, and hallo, new readers! This is it! The US launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is February 4th. I’m amazed and relieved to get to this...

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Lisa D. T. Rice #MaskUp @lisadtrice.bsky.social · 20h

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? I am.

Join me in signing this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

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Christine Johnson @christinkallama.bsky.social · 20h

For the What's History Feed 🗃️

Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 21h

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

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Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling unsafe on campus.

This is a common claim by right-wing students at present. What they mean is they don't like learning about left-leaning ideas. But college is about being intellectually challenged; that's the point.

Hearing ideas you dislike poses no physical threat.

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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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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 1d

as part of their anti-Prime sale @bookshop.org has free shipping for the next couple days.

you can support your local bookstore by buying from their bookshop page. or a favorite author! We get a lil kickback from any sales we drive. Here's my link w lots of book recs if that is of interest

TJ Alexander Bookshop

TJ Alexander writes about queer love. Originally from Florida, they received their MA in writing and publishing from Emerson College in Boston. They live in New York City with their wife and various h...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

ACLS stands firmly against this latest White House effort to divide faculties by giving special privileges to students in “hard science programs” and its demand that institutions abolish “units that p...

www.acls.org

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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 1d

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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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 2d

Last week: When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle voice we sometimes had to strain to hear at the mosque.

Trump's ICE Has Arrested a Pillar of the Dallas Muslim Community. I Grew Up Hearing His Calls for Compassion.

When I heard Marwan Marouf had been swept up in connection with decades-old charitable donations, my mind went to his gentle voice we sometimes had to strain to hear at the mosque.

www.texasobserver.org

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Christine Johnson @christinkallama.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, they have Tyler Stovall's _White Freedom_ and Gretchen Starr-LeBeau's _In the Shadow of the Virgin_ at Princeton's 70% off sale! 🗃️

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

In the Shadow of the Virgin

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Christine Johnson @christinkallama.bsky.social · 1d

Ooh, they have Tyler Stovall's _White Freedom_ and Gretchen Starr-LeBeau's _In the Shadow of the Virgin_ at Princeton's 70% off sale! 🗃️

press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

In the Shadow of the Virgin

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 4d

If it comes down to it, it would be better for universities to refuse this corrupt bargain, even if they lose federal funding, and sustain their mandate to protect free inquiry. It would cost them a lot of infrastructure, but what would be left would be real universities, not fascist mockeries.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 4d

Opinion | A Defining Choice for Higher Ed

Colleges should say no to Trump administration plans to condition access to federal funding on pledges of fealty to the president’s priorities. https://bit.ly/3IN6CBl

#AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

President Trump walks toward the camera, pointing. He is wearing a dark suit, a light shirt and a magenta tie.

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 4d

UVA Faculty Senate passed a resolution strongly opposing the Trump “Compact.” We, at least, remain committed to the historic values and mission of the university.

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
WHEREAS the United States Secretary of Education has requested that the University of Virginia enter into a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions antithetical to the mission and traditions of the University, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions which endanger the independence and integrity of the University, and
WHEREAS the compact likely violates state and federal law, and infringes upon the constitutional rights of members of the University community, and
WHEREAS the University of Virginia exemplifies American academic values of the highest standard, including universal right to free speech and the cultivation of academic freedom; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written and calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

What are you doing to *hold them accountable* though?????

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 4d

ICE is out of control, and we must hold them accountable for their abuses of power.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 5d

Release the jobs report. And while you’re at it, release the Epstein files.

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Nathaniel C. Green @nathanielcgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Dear Media:
Do not ask Democrats why don't they negotiate with Republicans. Ask Republicans why they have willingly relinquished Congress's power of the purse to Donald Trump. Do not repeat MAGA talking points. The shutdown is Donald Trump's fault, and the fault of Republicans, full stop.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5d

Useful reminder here in some of the replies that people who share your politics are also capable of using them as a pretext to be awful to people and feel righteous about it bsky.app/profile/ocas...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 5d

I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 6d

Anyway, when you hear Republicans saying that they want to keep the government open with a so-called "clean" CR, this is the level they are looking to maintain. Not the levels that were agreed to on a bipartisan basis last year. Not the levels in current law. The levels that DOGE has wrought.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 6d

When faculty are silenced it's not just about what those individuals. The community is also degraded. A new project is documenting these injustices. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/a-new-proj...

A New Project Exploring Attacks on Academic Freedom

Faculty on the Front Lines: AAUP Members Share Stories of Repression and Resistance

academicfreedomontheline.substack.com

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

If you have decided to hold every Jew in the world responsible for the atrocities of one nation that’s bad enough, but to dismiss or celebrate the massacre of Jews in their place of worship on one of their holiest days you are an actual bigot and a monster.

“Jews” are not a monolith.

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Christine Johnson @christinkallama.bsky.social · 5d

Former DJs and others who valued the community-based mission of the original KDHX have organized and are now fundraising for a new station and hosting ongoing community programming.

www.radiostlouis.org

Home | LOVE of Community Radio STL

Join our fight to keep community radio alive and local in St. Louis. Preserve 88.1 KDHX -- now and for the future!

www.radiostlouis.org

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 5d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 6d

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching.

secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Submit a Claim

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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