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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 3d

Join the IPK on October 15th for a book talk with Carlo Rotella. He will discuss his new book What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics with
Leonard Cassuto and @dumilm.bsky.social.

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 7d

Join the IPK on October 15th for a book talk with Carlo Rotella. He will discuss his new book What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics with
Leonard Cassuto and @dumilm.bsky.social.

ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 13d

We lost a warrior, a freedom fighter, a visionary, someone who changed the way I see the world. May Assata Shakur rest in power with the ancestors!

Black and white image or Assata Shakur wearing silver earrings with cowrie shells in her locs, looking to the side talking to someone.

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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 13d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KJ0...

LIVE: ARREST NETANYAHU: NYC MARCH TO THE UN

YouTube video by Chenjerai Kumanyika

www.youtube.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15d

Reporting that isn't stenography challenge.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20d

Lots of different protests happening in NYC next week including protests at the UN and an anti-ICE protest on 9.25.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28d

Political violence has no place in this country…

But we will also do nothing to curb the availability of the guns used to carry out said violence.

The denial and empty rhetoric is learned helplessness— because the truth is..

America is sick and there is no cure in sight.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28d

Remember that you don’t have to post your first reaction and Bluesky is forever even if you delete

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · Sep 8

I'll be presenting on crime data. Please join us.

Women’s March @womensmarch.com · Sep 8

🚨 Our cities aren’t battlefields, but they’re treated like it. From police patrols to military occupation, state violence is reshaping our lives.

This Thursday, Sept 11 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT, join our Mass Call on Military & Police Occupation.

Mass Call: Military and Police Occupation

September 11 | 8pm ET/5pm PT Join us in a conversation on the state of liberty and liberation in the face of politicized militarization and police occupation of our cities.

act.womensmarch.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · Sep 8

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued.
"If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

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wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social · Sep 8

Last week, taking cute back to school pictures of my kids. ☺️

This week, talking with them about the lock down drills they’re experiencing and why we as adults have failed them (our kids) so badly. 😢

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Vote for me, they guy that President Trump is happy to delegate power to"

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Sep 8

Andrew Cuomo on CNBC: "If Mamdani wins, let’s just call it Mayor Trump. He would take over New York City. He already is moving to take over New York, right? He took over Penn Station, he's talking about taking over 9/11..."

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thinking about Chicago, race, and repression. Remember when earnest old Twitter made everything into a syllabus --it was corny yeah, but a few things I'd put on my Chicago syllabus 🧵

(I am not from Chicago, this is not an exhaustive list, but work related to Chicago I regularly reference.)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 8

I know this is out of style.

Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 8

A refusal to seriously address racism is why everyone is here. I don't know what to tell you.

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Ian L Morgan @ianlmorgan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Today, I tried to get my COVID vaccine and was denied. Even after showing the pharmacist @govwesmoore.bsky.social 's statement that Maryland law says all Marylanders should have access to the COVID vaccine, I was still denied. They said they had to follow the box. This is RFK's fault. RFK must go.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Sep 7

New (and absurdly short) list of genocide deniers just dropped.

In the entire world, this is all the credentialed people they could find to sign.

www.scholarsfortruthaboutgenocide.com

LEGAL, ANTISEMITISM, HISTORY, HOLOCAUST, AND GENOCIDE SCHOLARS, FORMER PROSECUTORS, AND OTHER AUTHORITIES INCLUDING DESCENDANTS OF SURVIVORS CALL ON INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GENOCIDE SCHOLARS (IAGS) TO RETRACT RESOLUTION ACCUSING ISRAEL OF GENOCIDE AMID CLEAR MISAPPLICATION OF LAW AND HISTORY

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · Sep 6

Listen to the vanishing sounds of Mali’s legendary music scene

Over decades, Mali produced global stars and became a hub for West African guitar. Now, musicians are struggling to hang on amid economic and security crises
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Listen to the vanishing sounds of Mali’s legendary music scene

Over decades, Mali produced global stars and became a hub for West African guitar. Now, musicians are struggling to hang on amid economic and security crises.

wapo.st

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · Sep 4

It shouldn’t take bravery for survivors to come forward about sexual assault.

It only takes bravery because the systems that are supposed to protect survivors betray them. In a more just world, it would be easy for survivors to come forward and we would all be waiting to hear and help them.

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Yolo Akili Robinson @yoloakili.bsky.social · Sep 1

ATL! Black Masculinity Reimagined Leadership Institute is coming September 14th!

Join us for an integenerational space with Black men and masculine folks focused on healing beyond patriarchy and much more. Great food and gifts will be given.🙏🏾

www.eventbrite.com/e/black-masc...

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Sep 1

Famed "normal people" knower Nate Silver.

egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · Sep 1

“Blueskyism”

Rent free lmao

Tweet from Nate Aluminum:

@NateSilver538
X.com
Electorally speaking it's more important for Democrats to avoid Blueskyism that leftism. Not that Bluesky is important but it embodies all the characteristics that make progressivism unappealing to normal people. If you could subtract those the left would win more often.

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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · Sep 1

I adore getting accused of “loving” crime….who loves crime? The people who have done the same thing for 200 years and failed to produce safety? Or the people who actually want to call the policing experiment a failure and try something new?

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Aug 28

It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 28

I will never understand how American elites managed to convince themselves that uncivil debate — not fascism, not impunity and not widespread indifference to facts — is the defining problem of our time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

How We Brought Respectful Debate Back to The Harvard Crimson’s Editorial Board

To us, the solution is deceptively simple. Universities should create environments where students with different views must talk to one another routinely and establish ground rules that ensure they do so without distractions or prejudgment.

Illiberalism on college campuses isn’t inevitable. At The Crimson, it took only a few months to radically improve.

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wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social · Aug 28

Consistently one of the best publications on Palestine and Higher Ed 🫡

NYU Faculty & Staff for Justice in Palestine @nyufsjp.bsky.social · Aug 28

📰🧵Hot off the press! Issue #21 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine.

Click this link to read:
facultyforpalestine.education/2025/08/28/a...

August 28, 2025. FSJP Roundup #21

FACULTY AND STAFF FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE (FSJP) ROUNDUP #21: August 28, 2025 This is the twenty-first issue of an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. As we wr…

facultyforpalestine.education

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wordsbydumi.bsky.social @dumilm.bsky.social · Aug 27

Indeed! Also faculty job descriptions as a whole are sus. They describe about half the labor involved in the job on a good day.

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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · Aug 27

Update: it got funny again

Jeanine Pirro @JudgeJeanine
X.com
Assault a law enforcement officer, and you'll be prosecuted.
This guy thought it was funny—well, he doesn't think it's funny today, because we charged him with a felony.

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