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J. Michelle Coghlan
@jmcoghlan.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in C19 AmLit at the University of Manchester. Editor: Cambridge Companion to Literature & Food (CUP, 2020). Author: Sensational Internationalism (EUP, 2016). She/her.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 9h
“In the letter, the government said it would be “reprioritising” the funding of post-16 education in England to focus on “larger than normal maths and high-value A-level programmes to support the pipeline of students for priority sectors””. Grim.
Labour cuts funding for state school IB diplomas
The sudden decision may mean the IB program is only available in private schools
observer.co.uk
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d
Whoa! The shutdown’s ripple effect starting to hit.

Burbank Airport in LA County has no air traffic controllers on duty due to sick calls, last-minute day-off requests, and staffing shortages.

If you’re flying anywhere in the country, check for delays.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 3d
Welcome to J19 journal with Sarah Chinn at the helm!
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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 3d
We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!
Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 3d
”Cher Monsieur Germain…
Without you, without the affectionate hand you extended to the small poor child that I was, without your teaching & example none of all this would have happened…”
Albert Camus wrote to his teacher, after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
#WorldTeachersDay2025
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d
ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.
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Shirley Samuels @shirleyinithaca.bsky.social · 3d
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Haunted by the Civil War
How the legacy of the Civil War—as presented by writers, poets, and artists of the time—has shaped American visions of democracy
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d
I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 3d
Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
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Peacehaven: Fire at East Sussex mosque probed as 'hate crime'
Video appears to show two people in balaclavas at the mosque before a large blaze spreads.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d
BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/
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Truthout @truthout.org · 5d
Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was deported today to El Salvador – a country he fled over 20 years ago — in retaliation for filming law enforcement activities. Officers arrested him while he was reporting at a “No Kings” protest against Trump, even though he was wearing a “PRESS” vest.
Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest
Human rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press.
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 6d
Representatives of three unions on campus—GSU, AAUP, FACULTY FORWARD—wrote about the proposed cuts at UChicago. I'm happy to see these finally in print, and proud to fight alongside so many who care deeply about the future of higher ed

chicagomaroon.com/48537/viewpo...
Academic Workers Will Defend Free Inquiry
Who will defend the humanities? This summer, we witnessed a dramatic challenge for the humanities and arts at the University of Chicago. This challenge demanded faculty intervention. Since taking powe...
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 6d
Always interesting to me when episodes from the back catalog find new life.

This was the second most-downloaded episode of September, trailing only the one new episode we released in September.
Strategic Presentism & Resistance History
with Jeffrey Insko, Anna Kornbluh, Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Walter Johnson, & Astra Taylor
theamericanvandal.substack.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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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10d
Can't we just get healthcare
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 10d
#tdih 9/28 🧵 Begins #tdih 1829 with publication of David Walker's "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World."

U.S. gov't. made distribution illegal, so it was "sewn into linings of clothes . . . smuggled ashore from ships when they docked in port."
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Sept. 28, 1829: An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
David Walker published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, one of the most important documents of the 19th century.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 12d
Couldn’t be any more clear…
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 12d
BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.
FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say
The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d
Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina...

"That's just how it is."
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J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social · 11d
UK HE peeps! If thinking about the crisis our sector is in (& where we go from here) is your jam, I can’t recommend this book highly enough.
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propublica.org
ProPublica @propublica.org · 11d
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.

His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

(Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for r...
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