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Kea Wilson @keawilson.bsky.social · 22h

Thrilled that someone finally made a documentary about the rail trail movement that treats that history for what it is: a fascinating and shockingly controversial story about the right to public space, which is every bit as epic as the battle against the highway movement (which sometimes overlaps).

The Shocking Untold History of America's Rails-to-Trails Movement — Streetsblog USA

Some of the fiercest battles for the future of public space in America have happened on abandoned railway corridors — and the battles aren't over yet.

usa.streetsblog.org

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 2h

Please share: now 12 hours to go on today’s giving circle drive—daily because the needs are escalating, so WE escalate.

Nya’s family is mostly kids, and they’re malnourished; it’s still a famine. YOU can help them eat. Not hopeless. Give/find her link here—10/500 chuffed.org/project/hope...

A pink banner titled “Keep hope alive: a Gaza giving circle,” with the text: “We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. More than ever, they need our sustainable support.” On the right is an ink sketch of a crouching falcon, below which says “click weekly to join: https://tinyurl.com/HopeGivingCircle,” underlined with green colored pencil. The background has a watercolor effect.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12h

Discussing this phenomenon w/ a group of profs. Someone morbidly joked, “& northern profs are fleeing the country.” The next person said…”even if we were all willing & able to abandon this place there are not enough jobs for us globally and the U.S. employs a huge # of international scholars too.”

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22h

Tuesday mood:

A panel from Delicious in Dungeon (also called Dungeon Meshi) of the cat girl Izutsumi. She is staring off into space, thinking in a frustrated way as the wind blows past her. Her thoughts form the text of the panel: I can't see the people I like when I want to see them. If I only eat the things I like, it'll be bad for my health. Not to mention that if I only do things I like, I won't even be able to eat at all.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 19h

Spark Space is doing critically needed work in their community, and anyone focused on local education efforts and student safety should think hard about how they can chip in to support them. This is the on-the-ground work we need to be uplifting right now!

Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 19h

I don’t care about being correct. If you care about digital rights, this is a volunteer-run tech space supporting dozens of kids for their exams this week. In Gaza City. Which is being invaded.

They rely on us to cover fuel costs for their generator. Chip in: chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...

chuffed.org

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 1d

We are back with our next reading! Please join us on 2 November, 7 pm GMT on Zoom. More infos about the fundraisers we are reading for & tickets in the link & in our bio. #WeKeepTelling
buytickets.at/sdhepress/18...
@workshops4gaza.bsky.social @divyampersaud.com

Title: “We Keep Telling: a reading series for Gaza.” Text: “Online on Zoom. 2 November, 7pm GMT, tinyurl.com/wekeeptelling.” In the background is a painting of a dancing Palestinian woman in a white, short-sleeved thobe with red tatreez and a keffiyeh tied around her waist. Her long black hair is swirling around her and covering her face. A dove stands on one of her outstretched hands, and another dove dances around her other hand. In the lower left, the painting is signed “Marah.”

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 22h

of these two sides, one of them is getting donations from oligarchs to push a message of hate

and it sure isn't some random college professor who points out uncomfortable facts about fascist movements

Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 22h

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 22h

Applying to jobs while working a full time job is going great

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Tuesday mood:

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 22h

A new piece by us up on Substack: "Against Colonial Conferencing," where we reflect on the akademic conference circuit as an integral part of the global tourism industry, as well as the destruction of Native Hawaiian and Palestinian lands and knowledge.

open.substack.com/pub/workshop...

Against Colonial Conferencing: A w4g screed against the phenomenon of academic conferences in general

workshops4gaza
October 07, 2025

If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please don’t. We don’t want or need any more tourists, and we certainly don’t like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends. Thank you.

“Lovely Hula Lands” by Haunani Kay-Trask

Recently, the Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) announced that it will be convening its 2026 annual conference in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.

The call for proposals describes Hawai‘i as a “space, place, and time through which to collectively reflect on, respond to, and reckon with settler colonial and U.S. imperial desires and designs that continue to shape everyday life and futures.” So far, neither the participants nor the conveners appear to see a contradiction between the theme of the conference and its very material and environmental impact, in which hundreds of primarily North American scholars and their families will flock to a place that is actively under U.S. colonial military occupation.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

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.

trib.al

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

Also drivers in Boulders stop driving away and leaving me with the cost of fixing my car after driving into it! Stop that!! Take responsibility for your actions!!

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

AGAIN

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 1d

Drivers in Boulder stop hitting my car challenge

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 2d

Despite horrific conditions, Spark Space is still open and the second round of high school exams are beginning! Help them provide a safe space for students to pursue their futures by sharing and donating, if you can! Their work is dearly needed: chuffed.org/project/spar...

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...

chuffed.org

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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸🧿 (offline) @divyampersaud.com · 1d

8 hours left, please share! While the occupation is (still) invading Gaza City, these youth are STILL bringing electricity & internet to their community. This week, that's high school KIDS taking their exams.

Be a part of this resistance. Keep the lights on. 804/1000 chuffed.org/project/spar...

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken…

chuffed.org

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 2d

Despite horrific conditions, Spark Space is still open and the second round of high school exams are beginning! Help them provide a safe space for students to pursue their futures by sharing and donating, if you can! Their work is dearly needed: chuffed.org/project/spar...

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers!

In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...

chuffed.org

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 2d

Living in Arizona (without daylight savings time) was amazing. I genuinely felt so much better! We could all have this!

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 2d

As one of the only people I know who hates daylight savings time - only one month to go! Give me back my early sunrises!! Dark mornings are catastrophic to my morale 😂

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

Been offline for a lot of the day so just now seeing they permabanned Link? AJ Link? A person who has done more community activism and organizing than I can reasonably name and one of the kindest, most giving, consistently community-building forces on this website? They fyckiung banned *Link*? jmfc

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 2d

#FreeŁink

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

FREE ŁINK

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

forum wars took over the government. the 10,000-page thread spilled out into the streets. people are getting their doors blown open and hogtied so that nerds can win an online argument. they tanked the dollar and fucked the economy permanently to own you

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