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Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · 1h

Love how the dead-azz tree behind our building is a magnet for woodpeckers.

Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · 4h

Highly recommended.

Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 4h

Bookshop has free shipping today, in case you’re looking to pick up the hottest (and also only?) student loan industry heist novel of the year.

The Payback: A Novel

A Novel

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Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · 6h

On brand for Cuomo to be running a cheezy AI-slop campaign ad in his quest to become mayor of a city in which thousands of culture workers are currently seeing their incomes and employment prospects depressed by the advent of AI slop.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

Grant's new mailbag on how you study the history of punk will be a great fit in undergrad classrooms. The footnotes alone are an absolute goldmine.

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 1d

A brand new mailbag—yes, you CAN study that, but how?

You Can Study That?

What could be more satisfying than immersing yourself in the history of something you love?

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Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · 1d

Friendly reminder to keep a little list of all of the fascist collaborators in your life. If we somehow manage to come back from this, we gotta settle some scores with these fuckers.

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Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · 1d

So blessed to discover that I'll be teaching when the university president comes to meet with my soon-to-be-eliminated department in early December.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“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.”

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 2d

Today, @lookheron.bsky.social argues that, for higher education, it's been one battle after another: how the neoliberal era laid the groundwork for the recent authoritarian turn.

The Neoliberal Foundation of the Authoritarian Turn in Higher Education

Recent authoritarian attacks on higher education mark a significant shift from the neoliberal era, which celebrated institutional independence from the state, the role of education in boosting worker…

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 2d

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 2d

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago

As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d

something good to look forward to in chicago in a few weeks, Kashana Cauley and Jason Wozniak talk student debt and heists! interccect.com/2025/09/26/w...

What’s Funny About Student Debt?

For only the second time in our fourteen years, InterCcECT hosts an event centered on the novel’s unique faculty for theorizing capitalism. The Payback is a comic critique of contemporary lif…

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Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · 3d

We just saw One Battle After Another. Very highly recommended -- might be the best film PTA has made. Definitely a timely film for our current predicament. Special props for the scene where our protagonist is getting high while watching Battle of Algiers.

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Cori Bush @coribush.bsky.social · 5d

St. Louis deserves a leader who is built different. That’s why I’m running to represent Missouri’s 1st District in Congress.

We need a fighter who will lower costs, protect our communities, and make life fairer. I’ll be that fighter.

Join us: coribush.org

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 5d

Check out me & @chenjerai.bsky.social & Lorena Grundy of @aaup-penn.bsky.social break down the new Trump compact for higher ed…. Otherwise known as loyalty oaths. This is AAUP TV. @aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/RB1FLkR...

Breaking Down Trump's New Higher Ed Loyalty Oath Compacts and Why We Must Resist

YouTube video by TheAAUP

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Union Jobs @unionjobs.bsky.social · 6d

SEIU Local 1 seeks an External Organizer to be based locally in St. Louis, MO only. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong #UnionsForAll @seiulocal1.bsky.social @seiu.org

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Rebecca Givan @rkgwork.bsky.social · 6d

"A correction was made on Oct. 1, 2025: An earlier version of this article misstated the estimated cost of repairs and improvements needed in the New York City public housing system over the next 20 years. It is $80 billion, not $80 million."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/n...

20-Story Public Housing Building in the Bronx Partly Collapses

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The NewsGuild of New York @nyguild.bsky.social · 7d

STATEMENT: The NewsGuild of New York condemns the violent attack by ICE agents against three journalists covering immigration proceedings in Manhattan and demands that immigration courts take immediate action to prevent similar attacks from happening in the future.

www.nyguild.org/post/stateme...

STATEMENT: NYGuild Executive Committee Condemns ICE Agent Attacks on Journalists

The bedrock of democracy is a free press, which includes the right of reporters to ask questions of and report on the government, including law enforcement …

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 7d

Great article about how two major LA universities are trying bust unions and crush worker democracy

What's at stake as USC and LMU push back against untenured faculty unions?

Administrators say the bargaining units should be dismissed, or that they have no standing. One campus is going after the federal agency in charge of union activity.

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 7d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

www.thedigradio.com

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 8d

ICE brutalizing journalists is nothing short of an act of political violence and an assault on the free press.

We strongly condemn these cowardly actions by masked agents.

www.amny.com/immigration/...

ICE agents assault amNewYork reporter at Federal Plaza immigration court; another journalist seriously injured after shove | amNewYork

ICE agents assaulted amNewYork's own Dean Moses, and allegedly attacked another journalist, on Tuesday morning as they were documenting the ongoing arrests of

www.amny.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 8d

Two weeks from today! I couldn't be more excited to join @eveewing.bsky.social at the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago on Oct 14 to talk about There Is No Place for Us.

Free + open to all. RSVP here: nphm.org/event/there-...

There Is No Place for Us with Brian Goldstone and Eve L. Ewing - National Public Housing Museum

A conversation with author Brian Goldstone, whose deeply reported new book plunges readers into the lives of families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 8d

Trump wants the military to use American cities as "training grounds" and Hegseth thinks rules of engagement are too strict. If these two--plus Miller and Homan--could get away with death squads, they would so do it. 1/2

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AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Shannan Clark @shannanclark.bsky.social · 8d

Useful perspective on the federal shutdown we've been living through since January:

The Government Has Been Shut Down for Months

Today is the day we stop pretending that it’s not.

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