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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 5h

Is there maybe a wolf treat inside this wee pumpkin?

Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 15h

Although classified as carnivores, wolves may sometimes follow an omnivorous diet. They can eat meat, eggs and even fruit!

This time of year, pumpkins are a special treat for our ambassador wolves.🎃 #wolffact

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 5h

In times of uncertainty (or, revolution) affiliations reconfigure in ways both ghastly (Republicans love Nazis) and wondrous. Here is an example of the latter

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 5h

oll.libertyfund.org/publications...

James Baldwin Shows We Have More to Learn About Liberty for All | Online Library of Liberty

James Baldwin was one of the greatest American writers, a civil rights activist, and someone who stood up for Black liberty. He was not a libertarian, but those interested in liberty should take heed ...

oll.libertyfund.org

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 7h

A late dinner of cheesy potato cakes and mushrooms

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 10h

'It turns out that sweet powdery sugar, the same you might put on funnel cake at a state fair, is a major ingredient to make things go boom, or at least hiss and spray smoke.'

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 11h

The Army is buying 30 tons of powdered sugar to use in its smoke grenades trib.al/XAVV7pK

The Army is buying 30 tons of powdered sugar to use in its smoke grenades

The Army is buying 65,000 pounds of powdered sugar, a little-known but key ingredient in military smoke grenades for the battlefield.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 10h

Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $1mn to a Super Pac opposing Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for New York City mayor. on.ft.com/4qbB5Kd

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 14h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 15h

Oh there’s constant drama….

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 15h

It’s still beautiful and there are smart colleagues and great collections. But the institution is… not what it was.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 15h

Meanwhile the digital edition continues strong and reports accurately on other criticisms of "leadership". At least for now www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Filmmakers say free speech ‘worth fighting for’ in documentary critiquing IU admin

“Freedoms Under Assault” debuted at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Sunday.

www.idsnews.com

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 15h

And now "leadership" has completely cancelled all print editions of the student newspaper (in publication since 1867) www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 17h

I suspect it’s true of my students as well! I think they were scared by brutality against pro-Gaza protesters and put on very tight blinders

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 19h

“I’ve never done a bond or a habeas for a kid this young, ever." – U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns

"The boy remains trapped in a prison 500 miles away from home with an unhealed broken foot, sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket, and crying to his mother on the phone."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Ronald Angelo Johnson @ronajohnson.bsky.social · 21h

Today is the official PUBLICATION DAY for *Entangled Alliances* from @cornellupress.bsky.social!!! Save on your copy of the book with the QR code and discount code. 📚

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

Unexpected good news!

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit challenging Indiana’s student ID voting ban — a major procedural win for young voters and pro-voting advocates who say the GOP-backed law was designed to suppress student voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Federal Court Deals Major Blow to Indiana GOP’s Student ID Ban

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

I do too! I simply refuse to believe that when it’s Trump vs Kermit, the orange one might win

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

I just got an unexpectedly large one for my restaurant book! Books. People are buying books!! Even old ones.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 6d

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 1d

A coup just took place in Madagascar. I wrote about it--and why it's the most interesting island you probably know nothing about.

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Madagascar is a fascinating island home to 30+ million people. It's also home to bizarre, volatile politics that virtually nobody knows about. And the president just escaped on a helicopter.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

Girlfriend of founder of the Resistance

miss piggy from the muppet show sits in a directors chair

ALT: miss piggy from the muppet show sits in a directors chair

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

I think it’s a “wren” but I would be happy to see your paintings of hand tools!

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1d

I have slowly begun to accept that language usage changes and I am “old.” So while I see much that I want to edit, I am gradually relinquishing my red pen. Except in the context of my own prose!