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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Trump administration announced that it will launch a comprehensive review of both current and upcoming Smithsonian Institution exhibitions, examining display text, online materials, and social media posts “to evaluate tone, historical context, and adherence to American ideals.”

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Jul 10

Community leaders in Chicago are outraged after immigration forces showed up at the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture and refused to identify themselves.

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W. Kamau Bell @wkamaubell.bsky.social · Jun 11

Right now in Oakland, because of course!

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Maman Iwie @mamaniwie.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you!!!!

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We Are Higher Ed @wearehighered.bsky.social · Mar 30

Hello, Bluesky!! We are a collective of academics who are standing up for higher education. Join us: www.wearehighered.org

We Are Higher Ed

www.wearehighered.org

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · Mar 30

USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you

www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...

Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge

For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...

www.post-gazette.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Mar 29

I just spoke with Homeland Security to get more information and I will share when I learn more.

The University of Minnesota is an international destination for education and research. We have any number of students studying here with visas, and we need answers.

www.startribune.com/u-graduate-s...

International graduate student at U detained by ICE agents

In an email to students, university officials called it a “deeply concerning situation.”

www.startribune.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 28

so is it the official view of the white house that race is a biological reality?

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Mar 28

I’m not linking to the damn thing, here:

For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · Mar 27

Dear Secretary Rubio,

Hi, Tufts professor here. As someone who was on campus during the time in question, your claims about what Rumeysa Ozturk did bear no resemblance to reality. So did you just revoke her visa because she co-authored an anodyne op-ed that never mentioned Hamas?

Sincerely,

DWD

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 27

Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."

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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thousands call for the release of Rumeysa Ozturk in Somerville, MA. The Tufts grad student was abducted by ICE last night after publishing an article that was critical of Israel.

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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · Mar 25

This is a fascinating article about how Russia places fake articles in the African media. I feel I've read a lot of this kind of propaganda in recent years. www.ajiunit.com/article/the-...

The ‘ghost reporters’ writing pro-Russian propaganda in West Africa

Al Jazeera finds that an influence campaign using nonexistent writers is spreading anti-France sentiment across West and Central Africa.

www.ajiunit.com

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · Mar 25

“‘No! Here’s what we stand for. We will continue to stand for this. And if you believe that you can legally challenge our mission or our values, that’s up to you to try to do,’” Holley said.

www.wgbh.org/news/educati...

‘No! Here's what we stand for': Western Mass. college leader urges higher ed to stand up to Trump

President-elect Donald Trump and his advisors have threatened to punish or defund colleges for their diversity programs. Mount Holyoke's president Danielle Holley wants other leaders to fight back.

www.wgbh.org

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Mar 19

"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."

Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy

“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Maman Iwie @mamaniwie.bsky.social · Mar 18

There were some beautiful rainbows in the East Bay the past few days.

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Maman Iwie @mamaniwie.bsky.social · Mar 12

Thank you from a constituent!

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Mar 9

This thing about boys not being listened to, not being talked to; good grief. There are plenty of people talking to boys: a major problem is that huge media platforms and algorithms are force-feeding impressionable boys the promise of sexual dominance. Let’s at least acknowledge that, please.

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Yan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · Mar 7

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · Mar 8

Nothing screams HYPOCRITE quite like Trump complaining about & gutting school loan forgiveness for grads dedicated to service & bettering our communities while he’s had HUNDREDS of MILLIONS in debt forgiven due bankruptcy 6 times.

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Report: Trump Had Over $280 Million In Debt Forgiven And Avoided Paying Taxes On Most Of It

The debt largely came from his Chicago tower.

tinyurl.com

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Jasmine Crockett @jasmineforus.bsky.social · Mar 8

Join us for our Texas Town hall! All are invited. Please share far and wide!

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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · Mar 8

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2025 - news thanks to the new US- Taliban axis 😢
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Afghan women students in Oman face expulsion after Trump's USAID freeze

US aid funding enabled the women to study in Oman - but their scholarships have been abruptly terminated.

www.bbc.com

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opera trinitatis ad extra indivisa sunt @mtrkdjoyce.bsky.social · Mar 8

Tucson.

This stuff is only getting worse, not better. The dems *cannot* yield on gender identity and expression as *freedom*

Shoshana 🏳️‍⚧️ @shoshana.bsky.social · Mar 7

Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom.

Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'"

😡 😡 😡

Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)

“The only men in the women’s restroom were the cops,” Kalaya Morton said.

www.advocate.com

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · Mar 3

“We have to attack the universities… professors are the enemy.”

#NIH funds universities.
Jay Bhattacharya believes what Vance says here too. Bhattacharya was chosen by Trump because he would attack universities.

Scientists must oppose Bhattacharya’s confirmation, and there is not much time left.

Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · Mar 3

"The universities control the knowledge in our society (...) We have to agressivly attack the universities (...). Fundamental lies that feminism is liberating (...) There is wisdom in what Nixon said, the professors are the enemy "

bryanalexander.org/politics/the...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FR6...

J.D. Vance | The Universities are the Enemy | National Conservatism Conference II

YouTube video by National Conservatism

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · Mar 3

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Mar 3

I read the above thread, I look at the possible casualties, and I think: Musk’s army of assistants are a death squad. They are no different from the Einsatzgruppen.

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