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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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.

southsideweekly.com

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Jason Morín @jasonlmorin.bsky.social · 2d

Doc?

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5d

YES

Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 5d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Jason Morín @jasonlmorin.bsky.social · 5d

Rewatching Narcos. Just can’t stop thinking about Escobar in the age of social media.

Jason Morín @jasonlmorin.bsky.social · 5d

Tommy Lee Jones still wore it better.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d

This is absolutely right on every point and everyone who sits on a governing board or serves as president or provost or similar should please make the time to read it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 6d

"In a study published in The Lancet in September, UC Davis researchers surveyed over 9,300 people. They found that those who hold racist, xenophobic, and transphobic beliefs and negative attitudes toward gay people are more likely to support political violence and be inclined to commit lethal acts."

The Trace @thetrace.org · 6d

Two recent studies from the Centers for Violence Prevention at the University of California, Davis, aim to understand how political acts of violence are linked to certain beliefs and support of specific organizations. Their findings are striking.

Read more: thetr.ac/GUM7t

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Chris Cooper @chriscooperwcu.bsky.social · 6d

We (Western Carolina University) are hiring for an assistant professor in American politics (w/ focus on & willingness to teach the Presidency, & Congress). Review of applications begins Oct. 15.

jobs.wcu.edu/postings/31915

Good colleagues, good students, good views. Reach out w/ ?s.

#polisky

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 6d

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6d

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 6d

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has initiated an antisemitism complaint against the CSU system. The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights also notified the CSU of alleged racial discrimination due to interactions with the PhD Project. www.calfac.org/csu-administ...

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

The Compact says "Signatories commit... to transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas."

What does this mean for units teaching evolution, history, or climate change?
www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

"Signatories commit themselves to revising governance structures as necessary to
create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas."

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Jason Morín @jasonlmorin.bsky.social · 6d

Life outside the matrix is bleak

AI did this, they replied.

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 7d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 7d

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Tyler T Reny @tylerreny.bsky.social · 7d

📢 New paper w @mfroman.bsky.social and Ben Newman: Why do some conservative White Americans support abortion? It's not gender or religion. They want to slow the growth of disliked out-groups. bit.ly/4mFYYXd

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Jason Morín @jasonlmorin.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent Read:

The Dodgers United Los Angeles. Then the ICE Raids Began. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/m...

The Dodgers United Los Angeles. Then the ICE Raids Began.

www.nytimes.com

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 7d

This is a masterclass in seeking every possible type of relief for a violation of your federal constitutional rights by a federal officer. Injunctive relief, APA, state tort law, Westfall Act, FTCA, Bivens—it’s all in there. Our friends at @ij.org really know what they’re doing.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 8d

Groceries costing more? It’s not just inflation.

"You can blame the admin's chaotic and destructive policies for the pain in your wallet," writes @tusk81.bsky.social

These mass deportation raids are gutting the farmworker workforce, leaving crops unharvested, and prices soaring.

Your Wallet Is Taking A Hit This Year. Blame Mass Deportation

The rapid growth in daily expenses for working Americans has been fueled in part by the administration’s cruel and chaotic mass detention and deportation agenda.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Jason Morín @jasonlmorin.bsky.social · 8d

Bringing in AOC -and really anybody not named Newsom -is an excellent strategy to promote prop 50.

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 9d

DACA Recipient Held at Adelanto Detention Facility Dies at Nearby Hospital, 14th Death in ICE Custody This Year

austinkocher.substack.com/p/daca-recip...

DACA Recipient Held at Adelanto Detention Facility Dies at Nearby Hospital, 14th Death in ICE Custody This Year

Ismael Ayala-Uribe, 39, died two days ago on Sunday while in ICE custody at the for-profit Adelanto Processing Center in California, marking the 14th detainee death in immigration detention since the…

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 12d

CSU faculty's privacy at risk after CSU Los Angeles complied with a request with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to hand over employee contact information. Please get in touch with us immediately if you receive matters related to this issue.

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Jason Morín @jasonlmorin.bsky.social · 11d

Now let’s hand the Astros one more loss for additional pain and misery.

Astros eliminated from playoff contention, will miss postseason for first time since 2016

The fourth-longest postseason streak in the history of MLB is over.

sports.yahoo.com

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