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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 4h

The Bought Press

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 1d

Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism, New York: Metropolitan Books. 2023.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

Balaji Srinivasan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—has “acquired a private island near Singapore as part of his…plan to create a ‘Network State’“ 7/5/25 … 1/ www.news18.com/business/who...

Who Is Balaji Srinivasan, Who Bought Island Near Singapore To Launch 'Network State'?

Tech entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan has acquired island to create 'Network State' — a decentralised, digital-first society focused on tech, innovation, and community-driven living.

www.news18.com

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 1d

I would really like to post here more than the other place, but the inability to do so privately makes that problematic, especially in light of the ongoing use of social media by Zionist groups and the far right to target activists, organizers, and scholars.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 3d

I’m sorry that this is happening, Mark. Please let us know if there is anything we can do on our end.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

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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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 3d

NYT constantly devising new ways to render Palestinians infrahuman

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 4d

Or, more likely, the purpose of the university police department quickly mutated in a different direction, so that the phenomenon of fake student matriculators is no longer much of a preoccupation for a force whose energies have mostly been directed at homeless people and black teenagers

ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 4d

interesting thing about the story of the woman faking her way into Yale is that this very phenomenon is ostensibly what inspired the creation of the Yale Police Department in 1894. 131 years and millions upon millions of dollars and god knows how many arrests later, it doesn’t seem to have worked

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 7d

Source and explanation:

> Context: this piece of filth barged into Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) at UW throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “[r-slur] degenerates”.
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> Class didn’t appreciate it.

www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...

From the udub community on Reddit: Nazi interrupts Psych 210, receives predictable response

Explore this post and more from the udub community

www.reddit.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 7d

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 7d

Any college that signs this should be bulldozed

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 7d

After everything they did for cops!

Reuters @reuters.com · 7d

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League reut.rs/48715Qp

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League

The FBI has cut ties with advocacy group Anti-Defamation League, Kash Patel, the bureau's director, said on Wednesday.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 10d

(And escape from a US blacksite, and punch Elon Musk in the face, and [redacted] a Benjamin Netanyahu/Vladimir Putin pastiche.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 10d

Superman (2025) is a power fantasy in which the power that is fantasized is the power to stop an unfolding genocide.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 11d

This is what it looks like when the first Arctic Warbler in the history of Eastern North America shows up on an island in the East River where you used to have to go for track meets in 8th grade

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 11d

I have been reading @dnbrgr.bsky.social’s Stayed On Freedom this weekend, and it is so good that I am posting about it here on this self-satisfied substitute hellsite

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · 29d

I found a white-rumped sandpiper at the pier a couple mornings ago.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · Sep 9

Congrats to Andy, and to all of the contributors.

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · Sep 9

Really thrilled this book is out in the world. I’ve been learning from and thinking with many of the contributors for well over a decade - and in some cases considerably more than that.

andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · Aug 30

You seem upset. Maybe you should cry some more.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Aug 25

A feud is playing out within state institutions between proceduralists—whose system was already racist and oppressive—and outright fascists.

If the fascists win, everyone could face the violence Kilmar Abrego Garcia is experiencing.

But proceduralism won't save us. Build the capacity to resist.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · Aug 25

JUST IN: On X, DHS says that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “will be processed for removal to Uganda.”

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Today, @Sec_Noem announced that ICE arrested Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He will be processed for removal to Uganda.
, Sanctuary politicians and the FAKE news won't tell you the truth about Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a MS-13 gang member, human trafficker, wife beater, child predator and criminal illegal alien. We will.
9:19 AM • 8/25/25 • 3.6K Views

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ZSW @zsw.bsky.social · Aug 19

Yup, plus, as you know, there’s that Kirby Comics Journal interview in which he claims sole responsibility for everything

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Childless Dog Lady is PISSED OFF 🍉🌺 @sgbuggs.bsky.social · Aug 19

I said this on IG but when is the last time you saw any survey where 100% of people said yes to some shit. this is beyond horrific.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · Aug 19

“A report…shows that all Thai foreign workers who work in Israeli agriculture have experienced some form of sexual assault at their jobs.”

654 women.
www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

100% of foreign agriculture workers were sexually assaulted, expert says | The Jerusalem Post

Out of 654 Thai foreign workers questioned, all of them said they had been exposed to sexual assault.

www.jpost.com

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