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Red Emma’s @redemmas.org · 19h

Because certainly there's no reason why this history might be terrifyingly relevant right now, here's a link to preorder @stschrader1.bsky.social's "Blue Power" on how police in the US organized to exempt themselves from democratic oversight and control: redemmas.org/titles/48838...

Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves

Buy from Red Emma's, a worker-owned radical bookstore

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 17h

Press conference for Prof. Dwayne Dixon's return to classes. Dixon, NC AAUP, AAUP UNC Chapel Hill, NC ACLU, and TranspaUNCy all delivered stinging criticisms of UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and ringing affirmations of our Constitutional rights and academic freedom. When we fight, we win. @aaup.org

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The Academic Resistance @academicresistance.bsky.social · 23h

Universities must unite to reject President Trump’s partisan “Compact for Academic Excellence” which threatens academic freedom and diversity. Only bold, collective resistance can defend higher ed from ideological control and preserve critical thought on campus. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...

Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum

Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.

wagingnonviolence.org

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/g...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters (1)

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

Somehow, in the midst of all of this, there are several hires in Black Diaspora Studies being made across CUNY. This is one of them:

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

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Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio. It is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup...

Balkinization: AAUP v. Rubio and the Big Chill

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 2d

It was incredibly moving to hear Prof Nickel and other non-citizen professors testify in court about the ways in which the arrests and deportations of students had affected them and their colleagues. So grateful to them for their integrity and courage. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 3d

Dispatch for those catching up: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-m...

Judge Hands Down Second, Emergency Ruling Protecting Portland From National Guard Occupation

A federal judge handed down a ruling from the bench Sunday night...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Except no masks

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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 3d

Vigilance.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 3d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

Text of the fourth amendment “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 4d

Dude is pathetic. He classed up by marrying into an immigrant family, then turned around and attacked his mother-in-law’s whole profession. He might be a more honorable person if he could show more gratitude.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jd-...

She advanced DEI at her university. Her son-in-law, Vice President JD Vance, wants to end it nationwide.

Lakshmi Chilukuri helped create a pilot course on race, ethnicity and gender in biology and medicine.

www.cbsnews.com

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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible! Maybe he should show more gratitude to immigrants like his mother in law. He classed up by marrying into her family, and he turns around and attacks her entire profession.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jd-...

She advanced DEI at her university. Her son-in-law, Vice President JD Vance, wants to end it nationwide.

Lakshmi Chilukuri helped create a pilot course on race, ethnicity and gender in biology and medicine.

www.cbsnews.com

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations! What a great group of books. Seeing them gives me hope.

macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...

Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 6d

NC ACLU preparing to take legal action against UNC Chapel Hill if Prof. Dwayne Dixon is not reinstated by the end of the week. UNC is violating Dixon's Constitutional rights, and his and his students' and colleagues' academic freedom. @aaup.org
www.wral.com/news/local/a...

NC ACLU chapter threatens legal action against UNC if professor is not reinstated by end of week

The North Carolina chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to take legal action against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill if the university does not reinstate Dwayne...

www.wral.com

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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 6d

“Fuck them kids.”

That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other.

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

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"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

Watson said trucks and military-style vans were used to separate parents from their children. Other neighbors said agents destroyed property to get in the building.

"They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down," said witness Darrell Ballard. "We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 6d

As president of @aaup.org I stand with Governor Newsom. Every single democratic governor should follow suit

Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 6d

IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.

New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."

The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.

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Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social · 6d

cc @massgovernor.bsky.social

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6d

Gavin Newsom announces that any California university that caves to Trump and signs his “loyalty pledge” will be immediately defunded.

“CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS.”

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AAUP @aaup.org · 6d

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.

This is corruption.

Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...

www.aaup.org

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