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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 18h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.

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

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AAUP @aaup.org · 1d

NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

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David Palumbo-Liu @palumboliu.bsky.social · 2d

In “Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition,” Shah provides a critical discussion about the intersection between detention, the prison industrial complex, and anti-immigrant racism

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes' office has released video of federal agents handcuffing her at Humboldt Park Health, as she asked them to present a judicial warrant for another arrest.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

Witness video shows federal agents throwing tear gas canisters in the middle of Armitage Ave today as they appear to be blocked in and heckled by angry neighbors.

This is around the 3500 block of West Armitage.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 7d

ICE is terrorizing immigrants—and being used as a tool to discipline labor. A witness in a wage theft case was detained. Immigrant warehouse workers face discrimination. Day laborers and street vendors are being targeted, and so are rapid response networks. My latest.

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor

While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 7d

A lot of states have taken steps to chill academic freedom - but they’ve mostly couched their “reforms” as “anti-indoctrination.” TX seems to be taking the next step: simply banning ideas it dislikes.

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 7d

And now the UT System is auditing all courses for “gender ideology.” We haven’t been told what that even means.

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 8d

A thread on the illegality of the Texas Tech president’s letter banning reference to more than two genders. We saw a similar confusion of EO’s with law and a similar overriding of free speech and academic freedom in the Texas A@M case.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 7d

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 7d

hell yeah, go @aaup! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students

Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment

www.theguardian.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 8d

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are.

My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder.

a.co/d/29c7EIP

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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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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26d

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11d

As ICE continues to terrorize Chicagoland, protesters gathered this morning outside the Broadview detention center—throwing stuffed animals at DHS agents, playing music through tear gas assaults, and putting their bodies on the line to stop ICE vehicles. My latest.

Fighting for Our Stolen Neighbors: ICE, Tear Gas and a Guitar Blown Open

"Being out here to demand what is right is the only way to stay human," says Jessica Darrow.

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Frank Edwards @frankalready.bsky.social · 13d

This book is so incredibly good. Can’t recommend it highly enough.

Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 13d

Join us for class later today with Eve L. Ewing, author of "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black & Native Children and the Construction of American Racism."

Can't make it to class? Order the book. Beautifully written & a vital history of U.S. education.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/origina...

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Scholar Eve L. Ewing will discuss her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps m...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 13d

Join us for class later today with Eve L. Ewing, author of "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black & Native Children and the Construction of American Racism."

Can't make it to class? Order the book. Beautifully written & a vital history of U.S. education.
www.zinnedproject.org/news/origina...

Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Scholar Eve L. Ewing will discuss her book, Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, an examination of how the U.S. school system helps m...

www.zinnedproject.org

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Laura Benjamin @laura.direct · 14d

I hate how accurate this is.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 14d

1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare.

2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad.

3. There are almost no places to rest, and even when you find them, they cost money.

America in 2025 or Hollow Knight: Silksong?

1. It’s the hotly anticipated sequel of a late 2010s, grimdark existential nightmare. 2. The economy is really, really bad. Like. Really bad. 3. Th...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14d

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14d

It is funny all these super modern rational actors have resorted to essentially divine blood lines and augury.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 14d

New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists.
www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

For about a year now, Thiel has been publicly laying out his understanding of biblical prophecies and the potential for the rapid advance of technology to bring about an apocalyptic future.

In a lecture Monday, he encouraged an audience to continue working toward scientific progress, whether in AI or other forms of technology. Fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said, according to people who attended.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15d

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16d

NEW WRITING:

I talk about a new memoir that’s set to debut next week from Gazan physics student Wasim Said, aspiring astrophysicist, who has created a forceful record of the genocide. I also share parts of my conversations with Said.

The book is a must read. #BookSky 🧪⚛️🔭

Gazan Physicist: "This is happening to human beings like yourself"

New book by Gazan student Wasim Said on life and death during genocide is a cry for justice

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