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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 8d

more like, we’ll lock you up

Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 8d

it’s like taking a rotting trump steak out of the garbage and wiping it off with a 1997 think different press release and putting it out there like it’s gonna generate 100 billion

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 8d

is this the first product from the national design studio? trying to track how gebbia’s “apple store experience” design ethos gets eaten up by techno-fascism and regurgitated into 80s–90s-style ad campaign trash

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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 9d

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

www.thenation.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16d

Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people.

conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Alt text: Screenshot of a document outlining a new university policy. The bullet points state:

No discussion of transgender topics or anything suggesting more than two genders.

All information in syllabi about transgender topics must be removed.

Instructors must use students’ given names, not preferred names.

Safe-space stickers, LGBTQ flags, etc. are banned and must be removed.

Employees must remove pronouns from email signatures.

The university will not support faculty who teach or discuss these topics in class.

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 18d

the president of the university resigned, the dean, the dept head, and the professor have all been fired or put on leave, meanwhile, there’s no law in TX that gender can’t be taught in a classroom

AAUP @aaup.org · 18d

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom.

The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education.

#AcademicFreedom

How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M

Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.

www.texastribune.org

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 21d

Essential resource.

Also: it would help greatly if BlueSky allowed users to lock their accounts.

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 21d

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

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · 25d

unfathomable
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · Sep 6

extra space in the new seal, too

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · Sep 5

this is real chaos for small businesses: overnight, shipping to the US became impossible. the small publisher I’m working with in Portugal suddenly has to totally reimagine their business or else forfeit the entire US market
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

U.S. shoppers' orders canceled as world shuts down some American-bound shipments

The end of the “de minimis” exemption for cheap parcel shipments, nearly a century old, is prompting countries everywhere to suspend shipments to the U.S.

www.nbcnews.com

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · Sep 1

exactly, as they defund the NSF and NIH and anything else that might possibly enable innovation

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · Sep 1

thank you!

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · Sep 1

exactly what I was wondering too. maybe there’s a hint of US War Production Board, but none of it makes any sense. it looks like they spent 2 minutes on it, at most

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · Sep 1

I love this story of a handwritten community newspaper and how its founder manages to keep it going
www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

‘Our story’: A day in the life of a handwritten newspaper in Bangladesh

Hasan and his team of reporters juggle day jobs as labourers and seamstresses to report on their remote community.

www.aljazeera.com

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Aug 29

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here.

Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws.

For adults, some increases in risk.

Nationwide risk remains extreme.

Subscribe to support my journalism.

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · Sep 1

(link doesn’t work btw)

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Paul Soulellis @soulellis.com · Sep 1

of course, all of that. but at the top of my list is criticality, and that’s becoming more and more challenging to teach. students want AI literacy, and I want AI criticality. how to do both?

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