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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 1d

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v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

This is like planting evidence and then making an arrest.

The image is an X post by Acyn (@Acyn
) from 13 hours ago, quoting Pritzker: "He's saying that Chicago is a war zone. None of that is true. They're just making this up. And then what do they do? They fire tear gas and smoke grenades, and they make it look like it's a war zone." The post includes a screenshot from CNN's "State of the Union" showing two individuals discussing, with a chyron indicating DHS officers fired at a driver who rammed their vehicle, later determined to be someone trying to storm the Presidential Palace, as the South Caucasus Coalition.

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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the same way with Super PACs always hitting people up for donations and then not supporting the candidate or cause.

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 2d

Not one of these Instagram advertisers donates any of its proceeds to the cause it claims to support

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 2d

If "states' rights" mean anything, they must include the right to not get invaded by another state in peacetime.

Americans everywhere: Speak up and stand against Trump's outrageous assaults on Illinois and Oregon.

gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

Gov. Pritzker Statement on the Texas National Guard Being Deployed to Illinois

CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker released the following statement after the Illinois National Guard was informed that the Texas National...

gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources."

Oracle is about to own TikTok.

Eli Clifton @eliclifton.com · 5d

Execs at Oracle, the likely new owner of TikTok, are VERY outspoken in Israeli media about the company's "mission to support the State of Israel" & "unequivocal support for Israel."

Insufficiently pro-Israel Oracle staff receive mental health counseling. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...

Oracle execs: Love Israel or maybe this isn't the job for you

Employees who disagreed were reportedly referred to company mental health services

responsiblestatecraft.org

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 2d

From @cnewf.bsky.social , here’s a piece arguing for democratic control over the actual mechanisms of university business—with suggestions for how to start building.

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 2d

I think @foodandwater.bsky.social is doing some of the best work on fighting data centers, awesome use of local regulations!!

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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 4d

Louder for those in the back.

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3d

(Anti capitalism now earns you a terrorist designation) you know what I’m mad about? Tankies

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Hausu M.D. 🎥👺📼🍉🖤 @suspiraserhead.bsky.social · 3d

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 4d

wizard frog is insane

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/\__/\__/\__/ @cardiograms.bsky.social · 3d

Learning that the CEO of this website reads books from the middle to skip the "boring" parts really clarified the whole project for me tbh.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

👇🏽

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

🤣🤣

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Sarah Klosterkamp @sklosterkamp.bsky.social · 5d

📢 CFP | AAG 2026, San Francisco
Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism

In many cities, crisis isn’t rupture—it’s everyday life.
Evictions, debt, precarity, housing struggles.
But also repair, care, solidarity.

@geographers.bsky.social #geosky

Schwarzer Hintergrund mit weißem Text: „Call for Papers – AAG 2026, San Francisco. Crisis between the Ordinary and Eventful: Housing, Material Conditions, and Everyday Urbanism. Deadline: October 20, 2025.“ With email addresses from both organizers: klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de & cristina.temenos@manchester.ac.uk

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Dan Rosen @danrosen.xyz · 8d

You can opt out by tapping the privacy settings link and toggle the 3 options. I had to opt out of the general features 2x

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 5d

My friend @rorshock.bsky.social — CS undergrad, humanities PhD — has built a brilliant prgm @ The New School: “Code as a Liberal Art” nurtures “code + computational thinking as tools for critical + creative inquiry,” and as forces for 👍+👎 social change. His spring Software Engineering class looks 🌟

Software Engineering Applications

Software Engineering Applications Spring 2026 Code as a Liberal Art, Eugene Lang College, The New School This course gives students the opportunity to experience and critically examine the software e...

docs.google.com

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 6d

“We are surrounded, one might say, by everyday anti-fascists.”

— @lopatto.bsky.social & @sarahjeong.bsky.social

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America

But don’t call that fascism. That would be bad.

www.theverge.com

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 6d

I've obtained the Trump compact document, let me summarize it for you.

Screen cap of a document reading "COMPACT FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
INTRODUCTION
American higher education is the envy of the world and represents a key strategic benefit for our
Nation. In turn, the U.S. university system benefits in a variety of ways from its extraordinary relationship
with the U.S. government. These include (i) access to student loans, grant programs, and federal contracts;
(ii) funding for research directly or indirectly; (iii) approval of student and other visas in connection with
university matriculation and instruction; and (iv) preferential treatment under the tax code. To advance the
national interest arising out of this unique relationship, this Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher
Education represents the priorities of the U.S. government in its engagements with universities that benefit
from the relationship. Institutions of higher education are free to develop models and values other than
those below, if the institution elects to forego federal benefits." with bits circled in color and translated to "Nice college you've got there. We hold all your money. It'd be a real shame if anything happened to it."

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Josh Inwood @geogjosh.bsky.social · 5d

state after state could solve this college funding shakedown from the Trump administration by just agreeing to fund universities at the levels they did in the early 1990s.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 5d

There has always been an iterative relationship between imperial #security & domestic #policing, e.g. Jon Coaffee & I on "security is coming home" (2006), Steve Graham on "Foucault's boomerang" (2008), or Al McCoy's book, Policing America's Empire on the story of the USA in the Philippines (2009).

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 6d

This dovetails with another paper I co-authored — featured by the incredible @nerd4cities.bsky.social — covering how the amazing urbanism of Seattle's South Lake Union hides a built environment that serves surveillance.

CityNerd: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLay...

Paper: dillonm.io/papers/the-u...

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Dillon Mahmoudi @marxist.af · 6d

Our location on our phone is constructed using a variety of algorithms and data inputs about the built environment. This leads to various "views" on our location that conform into the needs of Google and Android.

Awesome collaboration with @dancohen.bsky.social and Tommy Cooke!!

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