michelle 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@michnolan.bsky.social
STEM Librarian. Union activist. (Gender)queer. Organizing from the trenches of higher education in Florida. I play lots of games and drink way too much coffee ✌ they/any pronouns 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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As I predicted when I first joined BSky during the invitation-only era, it is a problem that there’s no way to go private or to hide your block/follow lists
The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...
Advisory to Academic Workers
In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...
www.aaup.org
September 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
As I predicted when I first joined BSky during the invitation-only era, it is a problem that there’s no way to go private or to hide your block/follow lists
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We're not waiting for our bosses to defend our schools. AAUP, UAW, AFT, AFSCME, and more have joined together to defend UCLA just like we did Harvard. We won that and we'll win this. Your dues pay for these cases so join today!
UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts
University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-billion penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions are ...
www.latimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
We're not waiting for our bosses to defend our schools. AAUP, UAW, AFT, AFSCME, and more have joined together to defend UCLA just like we did Harvard. We won that and we'll win this. Your dues pay for these cases so join today!
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I don't know how many times I can say it, or how many ways, but the right's actions *are not caused by the left*. They want power & control. They want to destroy the left, crush its organizing mechanisms, jail its leaders, and rule without opposition. THEY DON'T NEED EXCUSES.
September 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I don't know how many times I can say it, or how many ways, but the right's actions *are not caused by the left*. They want power & control. They want to destroy the left, crush its organizing mechanisms, jail its leaders, and rule without opposition. THEY DON'T NEED EXCUSES.
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And the Palestine speech exception was the runway for the current moment.
September 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
And the Palestine speech exception was the runway for the current moment.
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What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.
September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.
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In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.
September 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
In my experience, courage is usually the product of love and/or solidarity. When we are deeply invested in each other, we are more likely to take risks that we wouldn't take out of mere principle, or for the sake of people we feel disconnected from. Our alienation mass produces cowardice.
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Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
OREM, UT—As law enforcement officials search for a person of interest in the assassination of 31-year-old Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, witnesses on the scene at Utah Valley University ad...
theonion.com
September 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
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boy, if you thought the smug moralizing was bad yesterday
September 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
boy, if you thought the smug moralizing was bad yesterday
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THIS is political violence.
JUST IN: Virginia State University is on lockdown, and Hampton University says classes are canceled, and students are urged to stay inside.
*As well as Alabama State
Stay safe 🙏🏾
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
*As well as Alabama State
Stay safe 🙏🏾
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...
Two Virginia HBCUs receive threat; VSU on lockdown and Hampton classes canceled
One university in Virginia is on lockdown, and another has said classes are canceled as it urges students to stay inside, after threats were made to both Thursday morning. Both schools, Virginia State...
www.nbcwashington.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
THIS is political violence.
Just block Ezra Klein and move on y'all. You couldn't get me to click on that link even if you paid me.
September 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Just block Ezra Klein and move on y'all. You couldn't get me to click on that link even if you paid me.
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I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
September 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I have no idea what white people are talking about right now. The warnings that the fascists will "use this" to do more violence. WHAT WON'T THEY USE? You've watched them deploy the US military on US soil using bullshit pretexts. What even are you talking about?
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The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
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Remember that you don’t have to post your first reaction and Bluesky is forever even if you delete
September 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Remember that you don’t have to post your first reaction and Bluesky is forever even if you delete
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Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit.
archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...
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archive.ph
September 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit.
archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...
archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...
Why is working in academia just saying "things will calm down in a couple weeks after I finish X thing" over and over until you die lol
September 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Why is working in academia just saying "things will calm down in a couple weeks after I finish X thing" over and over until you die lol
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A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
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Referee: "Holding, offense, number 64"
Number 64: "FUCK!"
Number 64: "FUCK!"
September 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Referee: "Holding, offense, number 64"
Number 64: "FUCK!"
Number 64: "FUCK!"
One of my colleagues said this pic of us doing labor union outreach should be a qual vs quant meme 😂😂😭😭
September 6, 2025 at 2:46 AM
One of my colleagues said this pic of us doing labor union outreach should be a qual vs quant meme 😂😂😭😭
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Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
August 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Anna has had excellent coverage of this developing case in which the Trump administration tried to use the holiday weekend to secretly and illegally deport children.
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Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
A little before midnight, Ensign reported that three of the four children are back with ORR. Once the final child and another child newly a part of the class (who was not on a plane on Sunday) are with ORR, Ensign says DOJ will file another status report. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
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⚠️ US suspends visas for ALL Palestinian passport holders
“The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
“The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
⚠️ US suspends visas for ALL Palestinian passport holders
“The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
“The new measures affect visas for medical treatment, university studies, visits to friends or relatives and business travel, at least temporarily.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
Me: I'm gonna try not to get too political at work today
Also me: Okay but what does the labor theory of value imply about the scholarly publishing landscape
Also me: Okay but what does the labor theory of value imply about the scholarly publishing landscape
August 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Me: I'm gonna try not to get too political at work today
Also me: Okay but what does the labor theory of value imply about the scholarly publishing landscape
Also me: Okay but what does the labor theory of value imply about the scholarly publishing landscape