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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

New POLITICO report: Trump admin is “exploring options to sell parts of the government’s $1.6T student loan portfolio to the private market.”

We're announcing our willingness to purchase the portfolio for its market value. We will then subsequently cancel the debt.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration considers sale of federal student loan debt

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 1d

Now: Debt Collective Raises Hand to Purchase Chunk of Federal Government Student Debt Portfolio

The Debt Collective has purchased billions in household debt over the past decade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after a new POLITICO report that the Trump administration is “exploring options to sell off parts of the federal government’s $1.6 trillion student loan portfolio to the private market,” the Debt Collective is announcing its willingness to purchase the entire portfolio for its true market value. The Debt Collective will then subsequently cancel the debt.

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Till Eckert @tilleckert.com · 8d

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 12d

"In this moment, the thing that will actually get us through this, is solidarity...It's up the federal workers that are actually in the building to do that, & that's what FUN is about. We make sure people know they are not alone." - FUN organizer Paul Osadebe. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgsW...

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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 BREAKING: HUD just fired 2 of the 4 civil rights attorneys who blew the whistle on illegal discrimination, political interference & the dismantling of fair housing protections.
This comes just one week after Sen. Warren called for an IG investigation. #ProtectWhistleblowers #FairHousing

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 9d

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

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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Federal Workers United @fedworkersunited.bsky.social · 16d

🚨 HUD whistleblowers and federal unionists reveal Trump’s appointees have gutted civil rights protections in housing.
Here’s what you need to know: 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/r...

Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Morten @cmorten.bsky.social · Aug 19

Excited to announce an upcoming event w @nyuengelberg.org!
My first back at @nyulaw.bsky.social!

"Fixing a Broken System: The Path to Public Pharma in New York"

5:30-7 pm Thur Sep. 25, 2025 @ NYU

Co-hosted w T1International & @racepowerpolicy.org!

Zoom & IRL, free & open to all! Join us!

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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 21d

It’s actually quite unstrategic to abandon vulnerable people in your coalition. It doesn’t make you look tough, it makes you look like a coward.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 25d

everybody go home and think about what you’ve done to our cultural memory

Benito Cereno @benitocereno.bsky.social · 25d

When you’re the paper of record and have definitely understood the franchise up until this point

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june $118/$3900 @juneever.green · 28d

is it political violence when a trans woman dies because she was denied healthcare

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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · Sep 8

In our latest, we break down the Trump administration's latest attacks on covid vaccines, key moments from RFK's Senate testimony last week, and why calls to force RFK out of HHS need to include removing many of the figures he's managed to bring in with him

www.patreon.com/posts/138451663

Dead Kennedys (09/08/25) | The Death Panel

www.patreon.com

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Lindsey Muniak @lindseymuniak.bsky.social · 29d

happy birthday artie!!

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 29d

Really thrilled this book is out in the world. I’ve been learning from and thinking with many of the contributors for well over a decade - and in some cases considerably more than that.

andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 29d

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 29d

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

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Asian Labour Review @asianlabour.bsky.social · Sep 8

To understand the uprising and crisis in Indonesia, here is our selection of articles from ALR: labourreview.org/indonesias-u...

The Anatomy of Indonesia’s Uprising

Since late August 2025, Indonesia has been gripped by a wave of spontaneous and violent protests that shook the foundations of the new Prabowo-Gibran administration. What began as online discontent sp...

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · Aug 30

“An interminable crisis of hiccups and vomiting” couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy

Revista Fórum @revistaforum.com.br · Aug 29

Carlos Bolsonaro revela que seu pai “tem crise interminável de soluço e vômitos”

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Carlos Bolsonaro revela que seu pai “tem crise interminável de soluço e vômitos”

O vereador usou as redes sociais para fazer um relato dramático sobre o estado de saúde do ex-presidente

revistaforum.com.br

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Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · Aug 25

More than 2,000 workers in the Zangezur Copper and Molybdenum Combine (ZCMC) in the town of Kajaran, Armenia—the largest industrial complex in the country— went on a wildcat strike for 11 days last February.
longhaulmag.com/khudoyan-noi...

Noise, Vibration, and Dust: A Wildcat Strike in Armenia’s Largest Mine | Long-Haul Mag

This summer, the Canadian Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) brought a strike of running trades workers at Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited (CPKC, or just “CP”) t...

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Lindsey Muniak @lindseymuniak.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Ian Goldstein @iangoldstein.bsky.social · Aug 25

Me on my deathbed

Me: I wish I worked more.

Boss (right next to my deathbed): you should have.

Me: (dies)

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Lindsey Muniak @lindseymuniak.bsky.social · Aug 20

another fan of @long-haul-mag.bsky.social

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Long-Haul Magazine @long-haul-mag.bsky.social · Aug 13

Issue 3 is on its way to you now 👀 👀

Design by Sara Sukhun

Photographs by Gauri Gill

longhaulmag.com/subscribe/

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Aug 6

UMD forced to settle with SJP for $100k and readmit them as a student group in good standing after banning vigils, chalkings, etc. Probably the largest such settlement for a pro-Palestine org in the US.

Civil Rights Groups Announce Historic $100K Settlement for UMD SJP — Palestine Legal

Today, civil rights groups Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced a historic $100,000 settlement agreement for their clients, University of Maryland Students fo...

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