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Sara Goldrick-Rab

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AUTHOR of Paying the Price 📚 FOUNDER of the #RealCollege movement to support students’ basic needs + Believe in Students (nonprofit) + Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice 💡 TEACHER at Community College of Philadelphia ✏️✏️ MOM of teens 🌱🐶🐈🐈‍⬛ .. more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28d

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Senator Marsha Blackburn tagging a public university for a facebook post where a professor share's Kirk's comments saying gun deaths are worth it.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 29d

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 29d

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29d

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 29d

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

www.nbcnews.com

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Brian Allen @allenanalysis.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

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jawnphilly @jawnphilly.bsky.social · Jul 11

The Monkey & The Elephant set to close, dealing another blow to Brewerytown’s small businesses

https://tinyurl.com/ynu7lbc8
#philly #philadelphia #jawnphilly

The Monkey & The Elephant set to close, dealing another blow to Brewerytown’s small businesses

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jul 7

Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and other deep-red states are leading the pack in rural hospital closures. This is what happens when you gut Medicaid, reject federal dollars, and treat healthcare like a luxury.

You can’t blame “woke” when there’s no ER for 100 miles.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Jun 22

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi is en route to Moscow to meet with Putin.

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BJCampbell @bj25.bsky.social · Jun 17

Jon Stewart @thedailyshow.com is 😂😂❗️🔥now

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · Jun 15

The shooting at Salt Lake City's "No Kings" project told through the lens of on-the-scene Salt Lake Tribune photographers.

‘Man with rifle’ — Photos capture the frightening scene of the shooting at Salt Lake City’s ‘No Kings’ protest

The shooting at Salt Lake City's "No Kings" project told through the lens of on-the-scene Salt Lake Tribune photographers.

www.sltrib.com

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Jun 15

It's pretty obvious that a lot of US mainstream media either doesn't recognise authoritarianism or doesn't want to call it out. Either way, it's an excellent way to destroy trust in your institution.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · Jun 14

today in one pic

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Jun 14

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman.

She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jun 14

Two Minnesota Democratic lawmakers & their spouses were shot in their homes by someone impersonating law enforcement. Former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman & her husband have since died from their wounds.

Days ago, a sitting U.S. Senator was forcibly removed from a DHS press conference;…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: former House speaker and husband killed in politically motivated shooting

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says former state House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed in a politically motivated assassination.

apnews.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · Jun 14

Jesus.

The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

10:30am:

"Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead."

10:49am:

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · Jun 14

Nightmare in Minnesota: A gunman shot State Senator John Hoffman & State Rep. Melissa Hortman.

Political violence is a lethal threat to our freedom & democracy.

Let’s keep the nonviolent movements of American history close in our hearts today & pray for these public servants.

2 Minnesota lawmakers shot in apparent 'targeted' incidents, in grave condition; manhunt underway

Two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot in apparent "targeted" incidents on Saturday that left them in grave condition, officials said.

abcnews.go.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · Jun 14

I’ve activated the State Emergency Operations Center.

Local law enforcement in Champlin and Brooklyn Park have the full resources of the State of Minnesota behind them.

We are monitoring the situation closely and will share more information soon.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · Jun 14

Alternatively, “Thousands of Americans expected to take to the streets in defense of their neighbors and their democracy” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · Jun 13

Who else nearly fell out of the seat when you heard Cosplay Kristi accuse Sen. Padilla of “political theater”?

Kristi Noem pictured in various law enforcement and military-style gear, including tactical vests, rifles, and uniforms—alongside police, ICE, military, and fire personnel.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 13

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · Jun 12

The most important words of our Constitution are the first three: We the People. We have no Kings here, no monarchs, no slaves and no subjects.

We the People.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jun 5

Happy Musk vs Trump day for all those celebrating.

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Sara Goldrick-Rab @saragoldrickrab.bsky.social · May 31

Congrats. Leaving the university is so liberating!

Sara Goldrick-Rab @saragoldrickrab.bsky.social · May 21

I’m 99% sure it’s already happened.

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Sara Goldrick-Rab @saragoldrickrab.bsky.social · May 21

The main cause of rising student debt is RENT.

Andrew Gillen is out of touch, to put it mildly.

Sara Goldrick-Rab @saragoldrickrab.bsky.social · May 21

So glad that Russell Lowery-Hart is there to speak for community college students, overlooked in policy conversations!

Sara Goldrick-Rab @saragoldrickrab.bsky.social · May 21

Today’s Senate hearing is clearly about making higher ed private, Christian, and white again.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · May 20

House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it.

I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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