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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29m

Brown is out! They had to do more dancing in their letter because they previously capitulated and needed to reference their previous agreement but, at its core, this reiterates MIT's letter.

The clock is now on for all other institutions.

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

www.brown.edu

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Katie Hauschildt @hauschildt.bsky.social · 15h

“Our values and principles ask more than most of us are able to give - if they don’t, they are probably too weak to be worth holding.”

The truth of this could not be more apparent than when one is ruled by a man who believes himself morally infallible…

From Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò’s article:
“Very few of us are moral saints - certainly not me.
Unlike everlasting, lofty, abstract principles, we who try feebly to live up to them down in the muck of reality face mucky obstacles: we get tired, impatient, envious, and angry. Our values and principles ask more than most of us are able to give
- if they don't, they are probably too weak to be worth holding. But we don't have to celebrate our failures or, worse still, confuse them with our successes. This is one valuable function of shame: it reminds us of who we want to be when we fall short, a goalpost that is necessarily anchored to the lofty height that our conduct fell beneath. We also encourage and defend these general social standards when we hold others to them, and not just ourselves.”

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Rana Awdish MD @ranaawdish.bsky.social · 20h

So #medsky, the secret is out. BIG NEWS!! I am sooo very excited to share my thoughts on healing that truly honors the body’s wisdom and innate healing. I’ve learned so much in the process of writing this. I hope it can be a companion in your journey, as a healer or someone who is seeking healing ❤️‍🩹

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Katie Hauschildt @hauschildt.bsky.social · 15h

Knowing your voice, here’s my pre-review:
“It will make you bawl your eyes out*

*in a good way!”

🥺😭🥲😅

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1d

i am hanging out here with the lovely people from portland immigrant rights coalition, they talk to people who have appointments, remind them of their rights, keep track of who goes in and out. they say every once in a while someone goes in that doesn’t come out

pircoregon.org/donate

a photo of the portland ICE facility in the morning

Signs posted outside the facility displaying people who have been taken

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 2d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Dr. Canuck, MD @drcanuckmd.medsky.social · 1d

Report is that ICE agents threatened to arrest and shoot medics trying to help an injured protestor in Portland on October 5th.

This is Trumps America. Is this what you want?

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Marie 🇨🇦 @pawbaby2.bsky.social · 6d

Portland PD threatens ICE with arrest! More. Of. This. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 6d

I am really glad that @jeremymberg.bsky.social wrote this. Everybody who cares about science, and about knowledge generation and civil society generally, should read and share with their favorite administrator.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

open.substack.com

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Katie Hauschildt @hauschildt.bsky.social · 5d

I love this - just ordered 10 copies to give out here in Portland!

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 7d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 6d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Katie Hauschildt @hauschildt.bsky.social · 6d

As far as I can tell from British murder mysteries pushing someone down a single flight of stairs has a very high fatality rate.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Katie Hauschildt @hauschildt.bsky.social · 6d

And what exactly were those rascals up to in 1930s Germany…?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Katie Hauschildt @hauschildt.bsky.social · 6d

As our current president & his administration criticize and seek to persecute an organization that is not an organization but rather an idea, it’s feels incredibly important that we know and learn from all resistance traditions.

Robin D.G. Kelley, quoted in Michael Munk’s Portland Red Guide:

Unfortunately, too often our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they "succeeded" in realizing their visions rather than on the merits or powers of the visions themselves. By such a measure, virtually every radical movement failed because the basic power relations they sought to change remain pretty much intact. And yet it is precisely these alternative visions and dreams that inspire new generations to continue to struggle for change.
— Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 6d

If you’d like a more realistic assessment; I wrote about it today. www.pbump.net/o/dethawing-...

Thawing out ‘Arctic Frost’ and the new Biden-was-worse argument

A recent American presidency, you may be alarmed to hear, engaged in an action that was "arguably worse than Watergate" — an event still positioned in some circles as the gold-standard of presidential...

www.pbump.net

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

“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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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12d

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 12d

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...