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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

NEW inside CBS—

Staff are insulted executives will spend $150 million to buy The Free Press & make self-proclaimed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief, while many of them are set to be laid off.

“If I wrote 90 percent of what’s on The Free Press, I would get flagged and fired,” one says.

‘What the F**k?’ CBS News Insiders Prepare for Takeover by Self-Described ‘Zionist Fanatic’

Bari Weiss is expected to be announced as editor-in-chief of CBS News, as employees worry her new role will bring a pro-Israel bias, more censorship, and lower editorial standards.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 2d

Nails it. Nothing matters—tyranny, labor vanishing or abused, universities because AI

Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 9d

My new post at the Remaking blog on getting higher ed out of its limbo drift in relation to Trumpism. Attack is the mode in which one’s movement story is written while one’s base is being organized. utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...

Liner Note 39. Attack Theory for Education

Bodrum Castle, Türkiye Sept 12, 2025 At our friend Andrea’s birthday in Hampshire last weekend, the Man in the Lime Suit said to ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

Am I reading this correctly?

A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?

What the hell?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 11d

In addition to antisemitism allegations, Frenk said the government has charged UCLA with illegally using race in admissions and discriminating against women by recognizing transgender women in sports and other areas.
Frenk said, "those are valid concerns, and we need to address them," adding that UCLA follows state and federal laws.
He said UCLA has been "compliant" with decades-old state law that bans use of race in admissions. Regarding transgender athletes,
"that's not an issue we're dealing with on this particular campus" because UCLA is part of the National Collegiate Athletics Assn., which bans transgender women from sports teams.

As for the government's demand that UCLA end all gender-affirming care for minors, the chancellor said, "We are going to have to follow whatever rules the federal government proposes." UCLA, he said, does not offer gender-affirming surgery for transgender minors but does offer other treatments, such as hormonal prescriptions or puberty blockers. He said the campus would "have to see" how federal policy on the matter developed.
A UCLA representative later said the university stopped offering gender-affirming surgeries in June 2024. The services offered before that, the person said, were chest procedures. They did not indicate why the medical care stopped.

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 13d

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 14d

Smart and endearing video about what politics actually is

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 14d

This is my fight song.

Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 16d

fantastic news, both-- really great!

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 16d

really great news - congratulations!!

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 16d

As your fellow and very newly minted UK ILRer, I believe that Nigel Garage will convert more ILRs into new British citizens and create more new holders of British passports than any UK politician in modern history.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 16d

Just think about the effect of having this many people in a country feel like their lives are under the hammer, either because of their migration status or their ethnicity or both; what effect that has on community, belonging, collective mental health. In this way, the damage is already being done.

Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 16d

It is difficult to describe the feeling this gives me, as someone with IDL who has build her entire adult life in the UK. I've been feeling unwelcome and unsettled ever since Brexit and its anti--immigrant platform. It breaks my heart everyday, but this is why the UK can never be my actual home.

Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 16d

Nigel Farage: "We will abolish indefinite leave to remain (ILR) status", and "We will rescind ILR statuses that have already been granted".

The first sentence is worryingly ignorant. The second sentence is frighteningly fascist.

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 16d

Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What is the endgame in this toxic immigration debate: is it friends and neighbours thrown out of the country? | Jonthan Liew

The notion of remigration was abstract, but the right is dragging it towards respectability. If the goal is homogeneous whiteness, they should say it, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

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AAUP @aaup.org · 22d

BREAKING:

A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts

University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions camp...

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 20d

Steve Battaglio's story at the LAT www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

ABC drops 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' indefinitely over host's Charlie Kirk remarks

Kimmel said on his Monday telecast that the suspect in Charlie Kirk's killing might have been a pro-Trump Republican.

www.latimes.com

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 20d

More of the abject collapse of corporate America before Trump. The head of the FCC threatens ABC with (illegal) license pulling, ABC owner Disney's CEO Bob Iger cancels Kimmel. Iger suspends the First Amendment: Boycott Disney!

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 22d

new post at the Remaking blog, called The University of California's Charlie Kirk Tribute Act. It's about what we've learned about UC sending in names to Trump's Office of Civil Rights. It's about betrayal, dumb strategy, fighting back utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 22d

Hold on, these are the "we don't have to bake your gay wedding cake" people?

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 22d

Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’

Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Department of Justice is considering bringing charges after a now-fired Office Depot employee refused to print flyers advertising a vigil for Charlie Kirk. The post Pam Bondi Threatens Charges Over Office Depot Employee Who Refused To Print Charlie Kirk Flyers: ‘We Can Prosecute You’ first appeared on Mediaite.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 22d

a LARGE number of University of California unions and related organizations are rallying at the Board of Regents meeting on Tuesday. It's united opposition to capituation to Trump. Do join if you can! and please spread the word.

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · Aug 29

Hinson "has been remarkably unpopular at town halls across [Iowa] as she ardently defends Trump’s agenda. She faced even more heat in May when she told a crowd...she was 'proud to vote for [the OBB], eliciting so much contempt from the crowd that they yelled at her until she stopped speaking."

“Stop Lying”: Voters Erupt at GOP Lawmaker’s Shocking Claim on Economy

Iowa State Representative Ashley Hinson’s comments were met with boos and jeers.

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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · Aug 29

I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.

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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · Aug 29

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · Aug 28

Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook?

This is excellent from @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Also ties into what I see as Trump's "genius," his ability to personify how the politics of strategic racism are inseparable
from corruption.

Can We Please Talk About the Racism of Trump's Attack on Lisa Cook?

Is it JUST about her being a Black woman? No. But it's the elephant in the room, and the coverage of the controversy is almost completely ignoring it.

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · Aug 25

what I get from this @jaweedkaleem @latimes coverage is that UCalif officials desperately want to capitulate to Trump. They would were Gov Newsom not actually fighting him. Faculty are up for fighting. Administators are not. www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC marks red lines as it moves to negotiate with Trump administration over $1-billion fine

UC leaders are treading carefully in UCLA's conflict with the Trump administration over allegations of antisemitism and a $1-billion fine. Unlike Gov. Newsom, they have not publicly endorsed a lawsuit...

www.latimes.com

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · Aug 25

what I get from this @jaweedkaleem @latimes coverage is that UCalif officials desperately want to capitulate to Trump. They would were Gov Newsom not actually fighting him. Faculty are up for fighting. Administators are not. www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC marks red lines as it moves to negotiate with Trump administration over $1-billion fine

UC leaders are treading carefully in UCLA's conflict with the Trump administration over allegations of antisemitism and a $1-billion fine. Unlike Gov. Newsom, they have not publicly endorsed a lawsuit...

www.latimes.com

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Chris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is what a post-university sounds like.These could be corporate lab employees. One standout: “From my background as a German, I [saw] what is happening from Day 1, and I was much more concerned than other people around me. There has been too much complacency.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

Columbia Got Most of Its Research Funding Back. The Damage Goes Deeper.

www.nytimes.com

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