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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 9h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Daniel Braaten @danielbraaten.bsky.social · 4h

album of the day - The Low End Theory from A Tribe Called Quest

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5h

Join the AAUP and other allied organizations across the nation on October 18 for a day of peaceful and impactful protest as we come together to make clear: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people!

#NoKings #AAUP #AcademicFreedom #HigherEducation #DefendHigherEd #Education

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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: Texas Bishop Mark Seitz just met with Pope Leo XIV and brought him a packet of letters from migrants terrorized by the Trump administration —
apnews.com/article/vati...

El Paso bishop brings Pope Leo XIV desperate letters from migrants in crosshairs of US crackdown

The Texas bishop on the front lines of the U.S. immigration crackdown has met with Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican.

apnews.com

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jen rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 1d

The latest on TX redistricting: a top TX Republican revealed in federal court Monday he didn’t tell legislators about a phone call with the national GOP operative who drew the state’s new gerrymandered congressional map

www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In Testimony, Top Texas Republican Remembers Another Conversation With GOP Mapmaker

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

INBOX: The Chicago News Guild joined others in suing ICE for attacking journalists at the Broadview facility.

“Our members have a right, protected by the First Amendment, to do their jobs and report the news. They should not be targeted, injured or arrested for doing their jobs.”

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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 1d

Great piece @insidehighered.com by Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg about the considerable threats posed by Trump's (extortion) "compact" with 9 universities. @aaup.org

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

A Compact for Control (opinion)

No self-respecting institution of higher education should accept the Trump administration’s unconstitutional terms, Robert Post and Tom Ginsburg write.

www.insidehighered.com

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Daniel Braaten @danielbraaten.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing concerning here!

steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 1d

Law enforcement historically loves announcing their undercover operations ahead of time

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Under- cover Operations to Infil- trate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence

Daniel Braaten @danielbraaten.bsky.social · 1d

America Last

Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time, renewables are generating more power globally than coal.

But in the U.S., where the Trump administration is dismantling support for clean energy, renewables are expected to grow half as fast as previously thought.

In a Global First, Renewables Overtake Coal

e360.yale.edu

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 2d

We are so screwed if people keep relying on mainstream outlets to protect democracy. @davidchasecohen.bsky.social and I make a case here for why we need independent media and people with resources need to step up and fund it thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/03/b...

Bari Weiss Doesn’t Want You to Read This

Bari Weiss’s reported hiring at CBS News is the latest example of corporate media capitulating to Trump.

thebarbedwire.com

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Jeffers Lennox @jefferslennox.bsky.social · 4d

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5d

Check out AAUP’s statement denouncing the Trump admin’s compact and undemocratic loyalty oaths here👇

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

www.aaup.org

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 2d

NANTZ: “A minute left, Chiefs down six. These are the moments Mahomes lives for."

ROMO: “Absolutely, Jim."

(Producer passes over a promo card)

NANTZ: “Will watching the rest of this game make your children trans? Stay tuned for a new ’60 MINUTES’ to find out."

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 2d

This is both true and also we need to note how eager Texas has shown itself to be to send its own NG into blue states to try and forcibly occupy them. The Texas GOP is a source of evil in this country snd the next Dem administration needs to go about breaking them as an R power center.

Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 2d

okay but its kinda funny that every time Trump is like "I'm going to war with America's cities!" it just kinda falls apart and a judge dunks on him for being a criminal moron

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Daniel Braaten @danielbraaten.bsky.social · 2d

there is nothing Greg Abbott can't make worse

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

Texas proudly invading Illinois.

It’s hard to describe the level of potential constitutional crisis here.

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

AOC "I think 'Abolish ICE' is a call to action on several levels. One is the literal interpretation of abolishing ICE, which I support...I don't believe that an agency that systematically & repeatedly violates human rights, I don't think that agency can be reformed. I think it has to be abolished."

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Daniel Braaten @danielbraaten.bsky.social · 2d

album of the day - Black Samson, The Bastard Swordsman by Wu-tang and Mathematics

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 3d

“The Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written + 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.” ❤️

North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 3d

UVA Faculty Senate with a clear statement of values: facultysenate.virginia.edu/resolution-o...

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" | Faculty Senate, U.Va.

facultysenate.virginia.edu

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Power At Work @poweratwork.bsky.social · 3d

Aimee Loiselle shows why unions must claim space in mainstream media to win the bigger fight in her new piece for @poweratwork.bsky.social! Pop culture isn’t just entertainment—it’s power. Visit poweratwork.us/pop-culture-... to learn more!

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Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 5d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 4d

It's wild how university admin undermines teaching. Faculty across the nation are asking students to come to class & write in a blue book to avoid AI while the university signs a deal w an AI company to embed AI across its platforms. 1 entity impedes the other from doing its job.

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 4d

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...

www.aaup.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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AAUP @aaup.org · 5d

Check out AAUP’s statement denouncing the Trump admin’s compact and undemocratic loyalty oaths here👇

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

www.aaup.org

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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 5d

"Should Universities work together to fend off the administration's attacks on academic freedom and free speech?" is a key question that rank-and-file faculty (i.e., @aaup.org) are answering in the affirmative and University administrators are mostly shrugging off. Time is running out.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Trump’s proposed “compact” with nine major universities “is extortion, plain and simple,” Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a guest essay. “It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it.”

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

nyti.ms

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