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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, David Darmofal

npr.org
The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.
A tribe in Arizona planned to connect 600 homes to electricity. Then the funding was cut
The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Margot C. Finn, Andrew Perchard

historyworkshop.org.uk
What connects the Irish Famine, the Choctaw Trail of Tears, and seasonal stories of survival?

In this new article, Shelley Angelie Saggar from the @sharinglands.bsky.social project explores the intertwined histories of Indigenous and Irish food cultures.
Recipes for Resilience
Discover the history of the Choctaw gift that symbolizes generosity and connection between Indigenous and Irish communities.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
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by Greg O’Brien

profobrien.bsky.social
apnews.com/article/indi... decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities
Hegseth's decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has dashed the hopes of Native American communities that long sought the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
apnews.com
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joyannreid.bsky.social
TV Whiskey Pete is one of the most embarrassing fools ever to serve in the U.S. government. It's a national humiliation to see this idiot strutting and fidgeting before our nation's top military men and women, every one of whom are his moral and intellectual superior yet required to sit and listen.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Christina Pagel

peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
Excited to co-author this study led by @nathanlo.bsky.social @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social on the devastating consequences of not vaccinating pregnant women vs Covid

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Modeling the Health Impact of Discontinuing COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy in the US
This decision analytical model study estimates the number of avertable COVID-19 hospitalizations in US infants younger than 6 months and pregnant persons with vaccinations during pregnancy.
jamanetwork.com
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Shannon Vallor, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò , and 1 more

otsumamiboy.bsky.social
It is actually peak absurdity that we still have people arguing that voters should bend to the positions of their political representatives instead of the other way around.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Anne Applebaum, Efrén O. Pérez , and 4 more

ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.
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by Greg O’Brien — Reposted by: Greg O’Brien

profobrien.bsky.social
He should go to Pine Ridge and say this shit.
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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 12d
What’s next? Calley posthumously being awarded the DSC? The excusal of atrocities during conflict is a pillar of MAGA national security.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Rebecca Solnit, Jason Lyall , and 1 more

bradduplessis.bsky.social
What’s next? Calley posthumously being awarded the DSC? The excusal of atrocities during conflict is a pillar of MAGA national security.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Alison Phipps, Caroline Fohlin , and 2 more

mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Marco Festa‐Bianchet, Jon Pierre , and 10 more

atrupar.com
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Clark Gray

themhartman.bsky.social
breaking news from unc: former provost chris clemens is suing the university for open meetings and public records violations during their discussion about delaying tenure votes

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...
Former Provost Sues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Over Closed Meetings
Chris Clemens accused the trustees of "hiding matters of grave public concern,” including tenure debates, using a Signal group and closed session.
www.theassemblync.com
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien

socialsecurityworks.org
Let’s be clear: Every year the retirement age is raised is a 7% benefit cut.

Instead of cuts, Social Security can afford to INCREASE benefits if millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share!
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by Greg O’Brien

profobrien.bsky.social
Bloat at the top, insufficient resources at the bottom
mehr.nz
samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16d
this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.

www.afr.com/work-and-car...
The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the bottom.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Christopher Wright

allouryesterdays.bsky.social
70 years ago today, (Sept 22, 1955) a General Electric scientist warned about carbon dioxide build-up.

C02 “may be having a greenhouse effect on our climate” because mankind is “contaminating the earth’s atmosphere faster than nature can clean it.”

allouryesterdays.info/2025/09/22/7...
Portrait photo of John G. Hutton, General Engineering Lab of General Electric
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Anna O. Law, Patrick S. Forscher , and 1 more

mehr.nz
this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses.

www.afr.com/work-and-car...
The net result is the worst of both worlds. Universities invoke the rhetoric of business discipline, but they lack the governance structures that give that discipline bite. They operate without the checks that private ownership provides, yet subject staff and students to the cost-cutting and efficiency drives that profit-maximising firms pursue. The result is waste at the top and insecurity at the bottom.
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medievalmiddleeast.bsky.social
Maybe we should refer to "generative AI" as "calculated mediocrity."
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Edward Witten, Philip Nel , and 1 more

joshtpm.bsky.social
It's important to remember when GOP Reps and Sens are yelling about the 'violent left' that they routinely tell reporters and colleagues how theyre afraid to do this or that because their own supporters routinely threaten violence agains them.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien

democracynow.org
Full interview now available on our website ⤵️
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/19/le...
“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & More
Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman sat down with longtime political prisoner and Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier for his first extended television and radio broadcast interview since his release to h...
www.democracynow.org
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mjgault.bsky.social
As pressure on universities heats up, one academic union has published guidelines to help its members stay safe
Union Warns Professors About Posting In the ‘Current Climate’
Academic workers are re-thinking how they live and work online after some have been fired for criticizing Charlie Kirk following his death.
www.404media.co
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mcopelov.bsky.social
The fact that the folks who want to get rich off of AI are lazy, grifting charlatans - or that we don’t seem to want to adequately fund higher ed anymore - doesn’t mean that what makes for high quality teaching & learning has changed. & it’s bad that so many in the academy are pretending otherwise.
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, Tom Clark, Diane Ravitch , and 5 more

politico.com
Justice Sonia Sotomayor appeared to rebuke calls to target “hate speech” in an apparent swipe at Attorney General Pam Bondi.

“Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed,” said Sotomayor.
Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi
The justice, in public remarks, didn’t name the attorney general, who has come under fire for comments to target people over “hate speech.”
www.politico.com
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
(Jerry Lewis voice): GROYPERS
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newrepublic.com
The right always jump to conclusions, and to talk of revenge, not justice. The biggest jumper of all is Trump himself, who delivered an absolutely chilling address Wednesday night from the Oval Office.

And when Trump says it, we should assume that he and his movement mean it. trib.al/pNOXAAi
Every Shooting Is a Tragedy—and a Chance for the Right to Play Bully
Some on the right are genuinely in mourning. But from Trump on down, they’re using Charlie Kirk’s murder to create a more authoritarian society.
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rockymountviews.bsky.social
So tell me this ...

Regarding the Trumpers calling for WAR! over Charlie Kirk ... are they going to go to war with themselves now?
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profobrien.bsky.social
Yep. Our "phones" are now operated via Microsoft Teams and never work. We have to use our personal cellphones to make any calls.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 28d
American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services.

From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing workers and undermining the university’s public mission.
Universities Are Selling Themselves Off Piece by Piece
American higher ed has become a mesh of corporate contracts and outsourced services. From dining halls to student records, private vendors now run many institutions’ most basic operations — atomizing workers and undermining the university’s public mission.
jacobin.com
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien, David S. Cohen, Dana R. Fisher

willbunch.bsky.social
The Democrat who gets my vote in 2028 will be the one who doesn't condone Charlie Kirk's racism and bigotry by lowering American flags to half-mast
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Reposted by: Greg O’Brien

chriswarcraft.bsky.social
It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time:

1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society

2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth
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