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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · 13d

“If you are protecting the students and faculty of the A&M System from outside influence, you’re doing a poor job because they seem to have gotten exactly what they wanted.

“All we can hope for is that our next president can protect us from you.”

A&M student newspaper to Board of Regents

Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · 13d

Our university’s president was forced to resign. Our student publication responded. thebatt.com/opinion/edit...

Editorial: Texas A&M students first, not politicians

Walking down the steps of the Administration Building as he looked onto a sea of support, a president descended step by step — Gig ‘em sign held high — as he ex

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · 13d

Our university’s president was forced to resign. Our student publication responded. thebatt.com/opinion/edit...

Editorial: Texas A&M students first, not politicians

Walking down the steps of the Administration Building as he looked onto a sea of support, a president descended step by step — Gig ‘em sign held high — as he ex

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AAUP @aaup.org · 27d

The AAUP calls on Texas A&M & Texas State to reverse the ideological firings of faculty members. We condemn the removal of the dean of the College of Arts & Sciences & the chair of the English department at Texas A&M for supporting the academic freedom of an instructor as a draconian abuse of power.

AAUP President Condemns Political Firings of Texas Faculty, Calls for Reinstatements

The sudden firings of faculty members this week at two Texas universities are serious violations of well-established standards and principles of academic freedom and tenure and set a dangerous new pre...

www.aaup.org

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 28d

Lost in the Texas A&M news is that the entire crusade is the product of a former labradoodle breeder turned State Rep whose stunts and grandstanding are so insufferably transparent that even his Republican colleagues despise him. Meet Brian Harrison, winner of Texas Monthly’s 2025 Cockroach award:

“Studio Makeup and Narcissism”: The Texas’s Lege’s Least Favorite Lawmaker

"Cockroach" is an old Lege term for a figure who mucks up lawmaking. In 2025 the title goes to Brian Harrison.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Sep 3

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · Aug 30

Lee Corso’s last College Gameday goes big with the big heads.

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · Aug 21

Orlando City outlasts Toluca in the Leagues Cup quarterfinals. City’s next opponent will be Inter Miami, a team City’s already beat 3-0 and 4-1 in MLS play. One more chance to prove Florida is Purple.

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · Aug 13

Because you care.

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Orlando City SC @orlandocitysc.com · Aug 11

Florida is Purple 😈

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Orlando City SC @orlandocitysc.com · Aug 11

Bring out the brooms 🧹

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Aug 10

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · Aug 5

In defense of your mom, Death by Chemicals could be a My Chemical Romance cover band from Waco.

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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · Aug 2

Student journalism in America.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 2

if u could open your own museum what would it be about what are u going to devote your life to curate

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 1

what is the most unique museum u have visited
for me possibly the ramen museum

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · Jul 20

Add to the list heavy drinking. Daily cocktail hours can add up.

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Ali Karimli @alikarimli.bsky.social · Jun 20

A verdict was delivered in the fabricated criminal case against the Abzas Media journalist collective. The journalists have already been imprisoned for 19 months.

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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · Jun 14

#NoKings Journalism professors for a free press represent!

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Chip Stewart @medialawprof.bsky.social · Jun 9

If it seems like attacks on free speech in Texas are escalating, it’s because they are. My op-ed with @amykristinsanders.bsky.social in the Statesman today, based on our research on First Amendment incidents in Texas over the past decade. www.statesman.com/story/opinio...

If it seems like attacks on expressive freedoms in Texas are escalating, it’s because they are | Opinion

This kind of viewpoint discrimination — where the state determines which speech is good and which speech is not — is particularly chilling. Texans of …

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · Jun 6

If you’re only going to lead for only 0.3 of a second, make it the end of the game #pacers #NBAFinals

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · May 24

This is an impressive large-scale, local, on-the-ground journalism project by The Regina Leader-Post via Kayle Neis and Larissa Kurz. More of this is needed in Canada.
leaderpost.com/feature/no-g...

No going back: The fight to save Saskatchewan's forests

A cast of advocates from Big River and Crutwell areas have growing, complex anxieties about logging practices in northern Saskatchewan.

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · May 21

I had to look up crossover jeans. There is no reason for that level of absurd.

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · May 16

Important journalism:

ProPublica @propublica.org · May 16

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.

So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · May 7

This finish was insane. Pacers head back home up 2-0. (And God might hate the Cavs.)

Daniel Thompson @dr-thompson.bsky.social · May 7

THE NBA PLAYOFFS ARE COMPLETELY UNHINGED !!! Tyrese Haliburton comes up with his own FT miss and cashes out a game winning 3 !! 🔥😱🔥😱🔥😱 Pacers are up 2-0 !!

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