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Prof. Jennie Roe-mick 🏳️‍🌈 @romich.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. My University of Washington colleague Amy Hagopian was expelled from APHA for her pro-Palestinan advocacy. 🧵

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What to Do When Your Professional Association Breaks Your Heart

BY AMY HAGOPIAN Public health professionals are charged with responding to humanitarian crises. When hospitals are bombed, when children are deliberately starved, when doctors are assassinated, we’…

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19h

You know what they say: if you want to win a war, just give up on every battle, let the enemy dictate terms, and let your people die and surely you'll take it in the long game!

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 21h

In unrelated news, here's @juliesulabor.bsky.social writing for @msnbc.com about how Amazon mistreats its package handlers and delivery drivers: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 3d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 5d

Journalist Mario Guevara is reporting that he will be deported to El Salvador today, after spending more than 100 days in detention after he was arrested on June 14 while covering a "No Kings" protest near Atlanta, GA. The charges against him were dropped, but DHS pursued deportation anyways.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 8d

happy 1500th bat to all who celebrate!

Bat Conservation International 🦇 @batcon.org · 8d

You read that right- there are now 1,500 official bat species known to science!
The Bioko pipistrelle (𝘗𝘪𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴 𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘭𝘢) was found on Bioko Island in Africa’s Equatorial New Guinea by former BCI Student Scholar Dr. Laura Torrent and her colleagues.

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Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 13d

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about the political pressure & coercion faced by teachers & staff at Success Academy.

"They explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story," one teacher told me. "It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate."

The charter school pressuring teachers to get involved in politics

“It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate," one Success Academy educator said.

www.motherjones.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Confirms Agents Do Not Have Faces Beneath Masks

WASHINGTON—In response to legislation that would ban officers from obscuring their identities during arrests and raids, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed Thursday that beneath their m...

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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 12d

Let this be your reminder that NYC charter schools’ loyalties lie with the state’s millionaires, billionaires, and most profitable corporations rather than the Black, brown, disabled, and lower-income communities they claim to represent

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11d

Early this month, Eva Moskowitz, the CEO of Success Academy—New York City’s largest charter school network— had an urgent message for her employees that had nothing to do with pedagogy or classroom management:

You need to help push the charter school agenda.

The charter school pressuring teachers to get involved in politics

“It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate,” one Success Academy educator said.

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 12d

The @telliotter.bsky.social network state story is here.

This is a really important concept driving a lot of the thinking coming out of Silicon Valley and influencing the GOP. The characters themselves are also something to behold. Trust me, you gotta check it out: www.wired.com/story/tech-b...

Tech Billionaires Already Captured the White House. They Still Want to Be Kings

From Montenegro to northern California, the tech elite dream of building cities where they make the rules. Is this, finally, their moment?

www.wired.com

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 12d

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.

If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!

Donate at blinkingguy.com

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 12d

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed.

"Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim."

Gifted:

Steve Bannon’s Podcast Is Top Misinformation Spreader, Study Says (Published 2023)

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color

Every queer press org should be picking up this story

Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody

State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12d

The White House is telling Medicaid users to get jobs—while attacking everything that makes that possible.

The biggest hurdle to Trump's Medicaid work requirements: the war on disabled workers

The White House is telling Medicaid users to get jobs—while attacking everything that makes that possible.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 12d

DHS says the ICE officer who shoved the woman in New York yesterday has been relieved of his duties and his conduct unacceptable.

Bit surprised as I’ve seen a lot of not too dissimilar videos of ice actions DHS has stood by.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12d

My lord.

Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 13d

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about the political pressure & coercion faced by teachers & staff at Success Academy.

"They explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story," one teacher told me. "It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate."

The charter school pressuring teachers to get involved in politics

“It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate," one Success Academy educator said.

www.motherjones.com

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 13d

This is how they act ... with cameras all around.

Imagine how they act when there are no cameras.

Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 13d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Laura 🤸☀️🍉 @buttergenie.bsky.social · 13d

This article is absolutely BUCK WILD and you should read it today

Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 13d

For @motherjones.com, I wrote about the political pressure & coercion faced by teachers & staff at Success Academy.

"They explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story," one teacher told me. "It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate."

The charter school pressuring teachers to get involved in politics

“It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate," one Success Academy educator said.

www.motherjones.com

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Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 13d

laura i love you

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Jacob Rosenberg @jacobrosenberg.bsky.social · 13d

"Casey...says the pressure has never been so intense. 'This year, in training, they explicitly started with naming Mamdani and how he is the villain in our story.'"

"It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate"

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The charter school pressuring teachers to get involved in politics

“It makes me feel like we will be fired if we don’t participate," one Success Academy educator said.

www.motherjones.com

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Lindsay Lee Wallace @lindsayleewallace.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you!

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