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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19h

President Trump says he was talking to the President of Somalia and said,

"We have someone from Somalia telling us how to run our country, would you like her back?"

Trump is referring to Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar

Just a bit of casual racism from The White House 🤷‍♂️

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 14h

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Janet Frick @jfrickuga.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone who works at, attends, or cares about American universities needs to read.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Energy Storage Pro @besspro.bsky.social · 15h

Excellent work disemboweling the proposed higher ed "Compact". I am appalled that the initial reaction from the University of Texas was positive. Disgusting.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17h

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

www.pbs.org

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 17h

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod

Text: 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.

Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

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Katie (she/her) @librariankqm.bsky.social · 16h

"The Trump Administration abruptly ended federal support for a highly effective intervention that helps disabled people experiencing or at risk of homelessness access benefits to help them stabilize their lives."

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

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Tim Karr @timkarr.bsky.social · 16h

Last week Trump lackey Brendan Carr, went into full damage control before a panel of disbelieving journalists.

But no amount of dodging and dishonesty could save Carr from the truth, or salvage his reputation as Trump's go-to censor at the FCC.

@mattfieldwood.bsky.social has the receipts:

Another Carr Wreck

How the current FCC chairman is ignoring the truth about free speech

pressingissues.org

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 16h

"Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world." @sivav.bsky.social

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 17h

PSA: remind your first-year university students that they need to turn on "anyone can view" if they're submitting assignments by pasting a link into the Canvas submission box.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

Tulane "terminated an academic director this summer after the syllabus she'd helped create for an infectious disease class was rejected by a newly hired instructor because it included an academic article about a polio outbreak in Gaza."
#Louisiana #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Genocide

Tulane changes syllabus, fires academic director over Gaza article • Louisiana Illuminator

Some say that the incident is yet another glimpse of the tense climate experienced on local and national campuses by people who support Palestine.

lailluminator.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 18h

Peter Thiel’s favorite blogger “says he’s considering leaving the U.S. because the Trump administration is failing to kill democracy to his liking and he fears political retribution from Democrats if they regain power.” via @sfstandard.com

sfstandard.com/2025/10/07/c...

Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.

sfstandard.com

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JL Weissman @jlw-ecoevo.bsky.social · 19h

Stony Brook is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor in Marine Molecular Ecology (assistant encouraged, molecular broadly defined, includes microbial omics!): apply.interfolio.com/174869

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 18h

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox.

usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

Open-rank Assistant, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at USC

usccareers.usc.edu

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

What's happening in Chicago is not normal.

The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 17h

👏👏👏

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 17h

Bari: Let's do the fucking news!

CBS reporter: Have you ever done the news

Bari: No

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 17h

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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M Maher @marvelle.bsky.social · 17h

Going out on a limb and saying the ubiquity of pro wrestling and the rise of blood sports (UFC, Slap League, etc) were bad signs that we were not clocking.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 17h

Just go ahead and delete article 1 entirely while you’re at it.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 18h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 21h

How do you find a compromise budget that reflects the priorities of 535 members of the House and Senate when Trump will just withhold any money he doesn't want to spend? A representative democracy cannot function as Trump has broken the US system this year. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 17h

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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