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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 2d

Again in awe of the tremendous good that is the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive. Thank you to Alexander Huber bsky.app/profile/c18a... for this fantastic archive.

#C18L
#poetry

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 6d

That the Administration and their MAGA cronies in Congress have shut down the government but insist on keeping national parks open with very few staff or amenities is just one more step in destroying our public lands.

www.npca.org/articles/359...

What a Federal Government Shutdown Means for National Parks

Congress has allowed a federal government shutdown. Our FAQ explains how this impacts national parks ― and your plans to visit.

www.npca.org

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 6d

The benefits of having a college roommate who is a kickass crossword constructor!

A crossword in black and white squares, with one answer - "Sacajawea" highlighted, along with its clue: "Indigenous explorer featured in historian Megan Kate Nelson's "The Westerners""

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 4d

I want to teach a LONG NOVELS class.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels

Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

www.thetimes.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 4d

Unless I’m misreading, this short statement actually seems equivocal or at best a placeholder. It does not say they are refusing, and to the contrary seems to hold the door open.

Dear Dartmouth community.
As many of you know, Dartmouth was one of nine universities asked by the White House to give feedback by Oct. 20 on a draft of its "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education."
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I am deeply committed to Dartmouth's academic mission and values and will always defend our fierce independence.
You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.
Best,
Sian Leah Beilock
President

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Raggedy Android @egrunin.bsky.social · 6d

Perfect. Alas.

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11d

Part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city and making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O for short.

ICE’s Training Manual for Determining Who to Terrorize

“The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a federal judge’s order prohibiting government agents from making indiscriminate immigration-related stops in t...

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 6d

45 oral examinations this week (17 today!) and I tell you this:

these university students? They are hungry for learning, hungry for thinking, hungry for intelligent, learned conversation.

I am utterly blown away by the quality of their work. Don't listen to the cranks about 'kids these days.'

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 7d

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

www.aaup.org

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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 8d

I've said this many times before, and I'll keep on saying this until it finally happens:

I don't want ICE to be abolished.

I want ICE to be fucking destroyed.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

Fix this @apnews.com.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

BREAKING: Democrats vote down a GOP bill to keep the government open, putting it on track for shutdown after midnight.

Democrats vote down GOP funding bill, putting government on path to shutdown

Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence.

I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

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Catherine Prendergast🇺🇦🪬 @badtoss.bsky.social · 7d

I love this for Columbia.

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 7d

Big case brought by @aaup.org defending the First Amendment. Bravo.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

www.nytimes.com

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 7d

Big case brought by @aaup.org defending the First Amendment. Bravo.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

www.nytimes.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”

“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.

— Judge William G. Young

#AAUPvRubio

Opinion

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d

Stop letting Republicans get by with the "well, I didn't see that particular tweet from the president."

They show the clip & Tapper describes it too, so there's no excuse. "The president is portraying the Speaker of the House in a sombrero and mustache. Do you think that's respecting the office?"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Ron Johnson on the racist AI video Trump posted last night: "Honestly, I haven't seen it. Don't know what you're talking about."

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Cindy 🇨🇦⚢🏳️‍🌈 @bilbow.bsky.social · 11d

...Since then, she was asked to report to immigration authorities every six months. She was arrested in San Francisco when she had gone for a check-in. She spent 60-70 hours in detention without a bed, forced to sleep on the floor despite double knee replacements.
#Pinks
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Harjit Kaur: Woman, 73, deported to India after three decades in US

Harjit Kaur had lived in the US for over 30 years before being deported to India.

www.bbc.com

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Charlotte Garden @charlottegarden.bsky.social · 11d

Here's the operative portion of the memo. It is ominous but also vague, which will pressure admins towards overcompliance.

Current state and federal law recognize only two human sexes: male and female, as outlined in House Bill 229, Governor's Letter, and Executive Order. Therefore, while recognizing the First Amendment rights of employees in their personal capacity, faculty must comply with these laws in the instruction of students, within the course and scope of their employment. As a system, our role is to provide clarity and guidance to administration, ensuring that each university fulfills its legal obligations. I appreciate your continued diligence in reviewing course materials, curricula, syllabi, and other instructional documents and following established procedures to make timely adjustments where needed.

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 11d

fascinating!

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 12d

This is here and this is now.

Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd.bsky.social · 13d

Video below: “I am American. I am American.” A man pleads, “Ayúdame, ayúdame. Help me!”

Meanwhile, an ICE officer pulls a gun on innocent bystanders — in Hyattsville, MD. This is happening in America. Right now.

What are we doing about this? It MUST stop. @SenateDems @HouseDemocrats

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 15d

@bostonglobe.com I fixed your headline for you.

Added “^FALSELY” to the original headline saying “Trump links Tylenol to autism.”

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 13d

@aft.org and @aaup.org kick off higher ed campaign: 'Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy'

www.aft.org/HigherEdBene...

Higher Education: Saving Lives, Building Futures, Powering the Economy

www.aft.org

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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 14d

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13d

Every time another university wins a case against the Trump administration, I am reminded yet again of the folly of Columbia's effort to strike a "deal."

Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 14d

UCLA’s funds reinstated after yesterday’s court order! Thanks to the brave researchers and their amazing counsel, including Dean Chemerinsky, who brought suit. This is just another turn in the ongoing fight, but a great result for now.

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C.N.R. Shiotsuki/塩月奈緒 @engetsunao.bsky.social · 13d

Seeing stories like this where people organize and work to protect their neighbors reminds of what @prisonculture.bsky.social always says on here: People are in motion in everywhere.

www.coyotemedia.org/sonoma-count...

A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch

Sonoma County’s ‘Adopt a Corner’ program aims to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE.

www.coyotemedia.org

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