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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1h

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1h

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 1h

This is a really clear yet meaty interview with @mark-bray.bsky.social about the actual tactics and history of antifa movements. Will be sharing with students! www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

What exactly is Antifa? | CBC Radio

In late September, Donald Trump designated Antifa a domestic terror organization. Today, we’re tracking the meaning and history of antifascist protest — from 1930’s Europe, to today — and asking: how ...

www.cbc.ca

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 1h

It isn't just that you can't express verbal support for Palestine Action. You may also not even be free to simply question the government's decision to ban it. This is the most basic political expression — challenging how leaders govern. And yet.

Rick @rick-sco.bsky.social · 1h

Yeh, you can't even disagree with the action of declaring Palestine Action a terrorist group. Pretty sure they will just try to arrest anyone with the words Action & Palestine in what they deem to be the wrong order at this point. Some politicians are really in need of swift replacement.

Woman 'arrested' over 'I oppose proscription of Palestine Action' sign

A PROTESTER has claimed she was arrested for holding a sign saying “I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”.

www.thenational.scot

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

This is just a thing that happens, and I’ve yet to get a satisfying answer

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Why are bad faith statements from white peoplethe defining feature of identity politics rather than the writers who actually wrote the theory being referenced?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3h

No university that signs the compact will be a university, in the accepted sense, anymore. They will be mere Trump Institutes, teaching only what subjects Trump doesn't bar them from teaching -- and only until he does. Signing is an abdication of responsibility and an act of great moral cowardice.

Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience

Guest Columnist Benjamin Nathans urges Penn’s leadership to resist the White House’s demands in its “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

www.thedp.com

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 3h

@davidklion.bsky.social gets it

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left

The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

newrepublic.com

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, amid all the buffoonery and over the top violence, this is the real heart of One Battle After Another

Here, we see ordinary working people just trying to live in peace in a country where armed forces of the state intend violence upon them. Resistance, for them, is not an aesthetic posture or a thrill ride or a rejection of stifling social norms, but a matter of basic survival, and it relies on coordination, trust, and secret procedures designed to keep everyone safe. Most people, after all, aren’t looking to kill or be killed; most people just want to know how to build communities that can defend themselves.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 4h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 4h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 4h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 21h

I will be silent no longer

A picture of those popular long bubble wands with the following text: When the bubble solution gets down to about this level, it stops filling up the bubble wand and therefore no longer functions to blow bubbles. It is a failed product.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Lila Everywhere All At Once 👀🏳️‍⚧️ @lila-satori.bsky.social · 1d

I still remember the day I turned 50 and got my card from the government informing me that it was illegal to have opinions about popular culture. It made me sad but those are the rules I guess.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

if this is what is going to pass for "news" why not just put up a screengrab of Sal's Pizzeria burning

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 1d

I mean one thing it gets so profoundly right is that the enemy is *ridiculous*--a complete joke--and also they are absolutely, profoundly, *deadly,* serious

Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 1d

I think we're all going to have to reckon with downer thought that One Battle After Another is set in Kamala Harris's America, not this one. It's the America a lot of people are fighting to get back to, even if the characters are trying to transcend it

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 1d

I mean one thing it gets so profoundly right is that the enemy is *ridiculous*--a complete joke--and also they are absolutely, profoundly, *deadly,* serious

Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 1d

I think we're all going to have to reckon with downer thought that One Battle After Another is set in Kamala Harris's America, not this one. It's the America a lot of people are fighting to get back to, even if the characters are trying to transcend it

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 1d

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 1d

She is painfully good

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 1d

I think we're all going to have to reckon with downer thought that One Battle After Another is set in Kamala Harris's America, not this one. It's the America a lot of people are fighting to get back to, even if the characters are trying to transcend it

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 2d

Look, fuck Trump now and forever, but I am more than a little amazed at how effectively the man steamrolled Netanyahu here. This shit is unbelievable.

How Trump cornered Netanyahu into signing up for peace

Israel’s prime minister has encountered the first US president he cannot easily outmanoeuvre

www.ft.com

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not arguing that they should moderate differently. That's not my fight. I'm just saying that it's reasonable to say "your moderation sucks" and hold out hope it works.

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 2d

Look, "if there is an exit available, you are not allowed to complain" is a bad take. The idea that the right response to any institutional failure is to leave rather than participate in democratic deliberation about its governance is the ideal of the new far right, above all Yarvin.

Loansey Jonesy @loanseyjonesy.bsky.social · 2d

You’re not going to believe this, but we’re actually not experiencing an internet shortage. If you don’t like the way people manage a (free) product, you are free to leave.

Everyone shouts into the void here. It’s up to you to realize that doesn’t mean you are heard.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

I get why TechCrunch would write it this way, but I largely disagree with this framing. The broad conversation here is about power, respect, control and whether the voices of the vulnerable are taken seriously. This is the story of a leader and a team showing that they don’t get that.

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Ellie Margolis @elliemargolis.bsky.social · 2d

This doesn’t surprise me but it upsets me.

Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 2d

So now we have court filings in which cases are allegedly hallucinated by *check notes* LEXIS NEXIS, THE EFFING LARGEST, MOST USED LEGAL DATABASE BY LAWYERS, COURTS, AND LEGAL SCHOLARS.
Seems bad.

Lawyer Blames AI Tool for Inaccurate Citations in Court Filing | Jeff Bazinet posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Is this the first case in which a major provider has been blamed for AI-hallucinated cites? New York. Trial court. AI hallucination-containing filing. (But you knew that.) Attorney subscribes to...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is hog tying protesters in Portland and removing them on Dollies.

This is dangerous and could cause serious injury.

The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a joke.

They’ve shared this video with the tagline “Refuse to Walk? We’ll give you a ride”.

Stay strong Portland.

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 2d

One Battle After Another? On the one hand, a good movie; also, spent part of my time thinking "it's amazing they let this be released in today's US"

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.bsky.social · 3d

A friend in Chicago, top of her law school class, has two US-born children. She can't leave her kids at the school yard before or after school starts even if a teacher is there. ICE is grabbing "latino looking kids" from school playgrounds, and her kids don't look white *enough* for her to feel safe

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Jesus. You think it can’t get any worse, then you read these stories. US citizens and legal residents illegally arrested and held for days. **Native Americans** getting detained and held for days because ICE agents are too stupid/racist to know about tribal IDs.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 3d

Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->

www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

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