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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 1d

Venezuela denuncia un complot para atacar la embajada de Estados Unidos | Tensión en medio del despliegue militar en el Caribe - www.pagina12.com.ar/863632-venez...

Venezuela denuncia un complot para atacar la embajada de Estados Unidos | Tensión en medio del despliegue militar en el Caribe

El gobierno de Maduro alertó sobre un supuesto plan para colocar explosivos en la sede diplomática en Caracas. La amenaza fue atribuida a sectores opositores “extremistas” y comunicada a Washington po...

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Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social · 8d

Don't miss this riveting new piece from @katidoyle.bsky.social and @cldorfman.bsky.social on the DEA intercepts that contain critical information on the 2014 Ayotzinapa student disappearances @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

The DEA and Ayotzinapa

Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org!
We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫

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Higher Education Reporter, National

New York City, United States

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight!

Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 6d

Still time to register for Monday's @aaup.org webinar on the state-backed threat to independent higher education accreditation www.aaup.org/event/politi...

Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond

This webinar will explore the historic importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional norms and standards for public higher education and examine the threats a politicize...

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Andrés Pertierra @andrespertierra.bsky.social · 3d

Wrote a short post over on my substack on Mehdi’s recent interview of the Cuban deputy foreign minister

Interview was great but I wanted to add context which further solidifies Mehdi’s claims

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On Cuban Elections and Dissidence

On the Mehdi Hasan interview of Cuban Vice Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío

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T. Christian Miller @tchristianmiller.bsky.social · 8d

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

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Lisa Covert @covertprof.bsky.social · 4d

Important thread:

Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 6d

We can remember Goodall’s accomplishments and legacy while recognizing that National Geographic created a narrative that erased the local people who contributed to her research. Her African colleagues deserve to be credited, not erased (10/10).

Lisa Covert @covertprof.bsky.social · 4d

lol this is really wild. @markricehistory.bsky.social maybe the next edition of your book can have a new section about tourists navigating the Sacred Valley with AI

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“The elevation, the climatic changes and accessibility [of the] paths have to be planned. When you [use] a program [like ChatGPT], which combines pictures and names to create a fantasy, then you can find yourself at an altitude of 4,000m without oxygen and [phone] signal."

The perils of letting AI plan your next trip

An imagined town in Peru, an Eiffel tower in Beijing: travellers are increasingly using tools like ChatGPT for itinerary ideas – and being sent to destinations that don't exist.

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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

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure isn't "just" about academic freedom or free speech, it also about labor, and more - knowing the history helps understand the battles and challenges of the present🗃️ @TIME #madebyhistory time.com/7320703/acad...

The Real History of Tenure

If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 7d

+ "Cowardice in the name of pragmatism" doesn't build a broad coalition; "principles+resolve" do—"if what we actually want is a big tent and not just to avoid being impolite about atrocities to people who some of us identify w/more closely than those the atrocities are being inflicted upon"

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7d

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social · 7d

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

For at least the past 15 years, my colleagues in academia have grappled with angry letters to university officials for doing their jobs. They have weathered campaigns for their firing. They have contended with an internet army obsessed with doxxing them, their parents, their kids. I’ve been contacted by the F.B.I. more than once in my career. Not because I hold any important state secrets or know a biker gang but because one of my colleagues has lived with so much sustained harassment from right-wing “activists” that it has become a matter of federal concern. Watch lists (one of which was constructed by Kirk’s organization) do not distinguish between public intellectuals at wealthy enclaves and hoi polloi who teach popular classes at cash-strapped schools. In either case, an army of trained provocateurs stands ready to destroy their lives to prove their bona fides as conservative activists.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 7d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

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Mexico News @mexiconews.bsky.social · 8d

Rising tides slowly destroy a fishing village in Mexico

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Rising tides slowly destroy a fishing village in Mexico - Yucatán Magazine

A once-thriving fishing village in Mexico is being slowly eaten away by coastal erosion and residents are up in arms about failed promises to relocate them.

yucatanmagazine.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”

“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.

— Judge William G. Young

#AAUPvRubio

Opinion

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8d

the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Post card dated June 19, 2025
(On file in Chambers) TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS ... WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous,
Alone, I have nothing but my
sense of duty.
Together, We the People of the
United States –- you and me --
have our magnificent Constitution.
Here’s how that works out in a
specific case –-
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

I hope you found this
helpful. Thanks for writing.
It shows you care. You
should.

Sincerely & respectfully,
Bill Young

P.S. The next time you’re in
Boston [the postmark on the card
is from the Philadelphia area]
stop in at the Courthouse and
watch your fellow citizens, sitting
as jurors, reach out for justice.
It is here, and in courthouses
just like this one, both state and
federal, spread throughout our land
that our Constitution is most vibrantly
alive, for it is well said that “Where a
jury sits, there burns the lamp of
liberty.”

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UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 8d

Huge victory for @aaup.org in AAUP v. Rubio:

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9d

Meanwhile, in the US, we're facing shortages of both walkable communities and school bus drivers. To the point where a lot of families have to choose between having their kids spend 30+ minutes on the bus each way and driving to school to wait in long drop off/pick up lines.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 10d

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

Paris passe le cap des 300 rues piétonnes près des écoles pour être « plus accueillante aux enfants »

La municipalité, qui a organisé samedi une fête dédiée, tire un bilan positif de ces espaces piétonnisés aux abords des établissements scola

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Lisa Covert @covertprof.bsky.social · 9d

Just sharing this lovely evening sky because I am glad Imelda decided to stay away and I am grateful for my soccer mom moments💕

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9d

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 9d

Hundreds of people have vanished from ICE's system at the Everglades internment camp. Families don't know where their loved ones are. This isn't deportation, it's kidnapping.

That's why I introduced the SUDEM Act to hold ICE accountable and make this info public.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

WHEEWWWWWWWWWW:
"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Cassandra Garibay @cgaribay.bsky.social · 11d

@propublica.org and @theassemblync.bsky.social have been reporting on the impact of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, and one year later, we know recovery is far from over.

Fill out the form or email us at [email protected] to share your story.

www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Are You Still Rebuilding After Hurricane Helene? We Want to Hear From You.

We want to hear from North Carolinians whose homes were damaged or destroyed to better understand how well the state housing recovery program, RenewNC, is working for those who need it.

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Lisa Covert @covertprof.bsky.social · 11d

This: I have been troubled by how I feel about the destruction of a model I knew was problematic - what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social calls the Cold War university model. And it is the absence of another model (at least one that exists in a viable way at this moment) that I think is so troubling.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11d

Yes, some of this is about how much the administrative bloat (i know, i know) is an ideal candidate for AI. It’s about the way academic credentials have become untethered from academic leadership/management.

it’s also, I think, that there may not be an alternative to the Cold War university model

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