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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 10h

The Fullcast is effectively our sixth-largest and by-far-most-prolific American Studies department

Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 11h

Frankfurt School / Birmingham School / Psychoanalytic-Lacanian

Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 2d

Editor in chief, city editor, features editor

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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 13h

Universities must unite to reject President Trump’s partisan “Compact for Academic Excellence” which threatens academic freedom and diversity. Only bold, collective resistance can defend higher ed from ideological control and preserve critical thought on campus. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...

Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum

Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 23h

Suddenly your cat has developed a nuanced and sophisticated sense of solidarity

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

I'm never ever gonna forget all the furrowed browed corporatist Charlie Kirk hagiography and sportsball halftime memoriams for a race baiting brigading zealot

Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 1d

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa, Leading to Death Threats for Him and His Family
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Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

newrepublic.com

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 1d

Ben serves the essential social function of reminding us that it’s somehow still possible to fail as an anti-trans grifter in Donald Trump’s 2025

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 1d

Someone’s reading the president bedtime stories from the Illustrated Abridged Don Quixote again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Obviously signing Trump’s compact is the death knell for a university, but the fact that any of them are even *considering* it exposes something deeply rotten at the heart of their leadership. It should disqualify them forever.

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 1d

Rewinding this bear’s origin story by five minutes:

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Lewis Muirhead @bringthenoise.bsky.social · 2d

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 2d

"Ok sure it's the post-apocalyptic commune and chickens are our currency but on the other hand they're finally acknowledging the vital role of Gen X in American society"

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 4d

To a Pittsburgher, that’s a quiet car

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

Stephen Miller
@StephenM
The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.
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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 4d

Don’t show this kid 2001: A Space Odyssey until they’re 40.

Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 4d

I read this as “emotional safeties” and the more I think about it the more convinced I am that my subconscious was onto something culturally significant

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 4d

All the cool kids are doing intentional safeties now.

JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 4d

🚨UCLA gives up the safety🚨
LOL

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 4d

Some days they express startlingly acute insights re: Gramscian hegemony and other days they forget to bring a pen

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 4d

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

404 Media @404media.co · 5d

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 6d

It seems pointless even to say this, but the Fourth Amendment does not permit federal agents to kick down every door in an apartment building just because *some* people in that building are allegedly undocumented. Even in the unlikely event they had a warrant, warrants have to be specific.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 7d

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’”

It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

abc7chicago.com

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 6d

Went to see him speak when I was in law school; during the Q and A he yelled at a student who asked a question he thought was disrespectful.

Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 6d

Like “googling ‘tax penalty early IRA withdrawal’” cooked

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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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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 7d

After a viral video stirred controversy at Texas A&M, Texas Tech ordered course adjustments while UNT and UT launched reviews.

It’s unclear what the reviews will look for.

Texas universities launch course reviews amid push to limit gender identity instruction

After a viral video stirred controversy at Texas A&M, Texas Tech ordered course adjustments while UNT and UT launched reviews. It’s unclear what the reviews will look for.

www.texastribune.org

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Larissa Werhnyak @larisimilitude.bsky.social · 8d

Ominous…

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UT System audits gender in courses as GOP targets 'LGBTQ ideology'

The University of Texas System is reviewing all gender identity courses at its institutions to ensure courses taught "are aligned with the direction and priorities" of regents, law.

www.statesman.com

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