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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1h

the reward for giving any money to any campaign is 12 emergency text messages a day demanding that you give again RIGHT NOW or the country will collapse.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1h

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1h

FrEe sPeEch

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1h

“Meta on Tuesday removed a Facebook group that was used to share information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Chicago after the Department of Justice requested it be taken down.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/t...

Meta Removes Facebook Group That Shared Information on ICE Agents

www.nytimes.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1h

This is why we have to organize & not just file lawsuits: “Without Section 2, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2h

Two from me. 😞

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2h

“Many have characterized this moment as a rule of law or constitutional crisis. But people at the bottom and on the periphery have experienced such contradictions between promise and reality for generations. Every moment is different and there is no going back.”

lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Movement Law Under Fascism

As fascist tendencies intensify across the United States, social movements continue to organize against the forces of state repression. Legal scholars must stand with these movements…

lpeproject.org

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 3h

“A set of unions will ask a federal judge on Wednesday to block the Trump administration from conducting mass federal layoffs during the government shutdown, arguing that the firings would be illegal and motivated by political retribution.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/b...

Unions to Ask Court to Block Trump Layoffs During Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 13h

I would get behind a Ms. Rachel for President campaign.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 21h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 22h

This was the music I came of age, too. What an incredible, devastating loss. May you rest in Power and Peace, D’Angelo. 😞🙏🏾

youtu.be/JAfuUZRou7g?...

D'Angelo - Cruisin' (Official Video)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 22h

D’Angelo was one of the most talented musicians of my lifetime. 😞

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 23h

This is so sad. What a loss for the world. He died after a long battle with cancer. Rest in peace.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/e...

D’Angelo, Grammy Award-winning R&B singer, dead at 51 | CNN

D’Angelo, whose cool tunes and one hot music video made him one of the legends of neo-soul music, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 51.

www.cnn.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

No engagement with the perils of lopsided growth or the environmental destruction being wreaked by AI. It’s like walking forward with our eyes closed and our fingers in our ears.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

One way to join the effort to fight acquiescence to this compact at your institution is to join your @aaup.org chapter or to start one!

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1d

We now enter the most dangerous phase, but also the one with the greatest opportunity. The U.S. has thousands of colleges, some run by red state governments, so it's too much to hope that NONE sign up for this federal takeover.

But it matters WHO signs up. The administration is taking a risk.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

“Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7, delivered during a Zoom meeting, where he advocated for organizing the working class to form a revolutionary socialist party.”

spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

"The University of Texas System is auditing gender studies courses in response to [new laws] which expand university control over curriculum & define gender in binary terms. Faculty report being told to avoid discussing gender identity and homosexuality..."
www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/t...

Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader push to limit gender identity discussions

At least two community colleges, Alvin and Blinn, are also considering what they can and can’t teach to high schoolers enrolled in their fast-growing dual credit courses.

www.texastribune.org

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

"Florida House Bill 113..would require all public universities & colleges rename 1 campus roadway after...Charlie Kirk... Institutions that fail to comply within 90 days would face the withholding of state funds."
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Bill would make Florida colleges, universities name streets after Charlie Kirk

A new bill would make all of Florida's public state universities and colleges rename one roadway on their campuses after Charlie Kirk.

www.tallahassee.com

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear, no thank you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/s...

Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

My statement on today's profoundly moving scenes in Israel and Palestine.

Today’s scenes of Israelis and Palestinians are profoundly moving: Israeli hostages being freed and families reunited after years of fear, uncertainty, and torture; the first days in Gaza without relentless Israeli bombardment of Palestinians as families return to rubble and loved ones freed from detention.

There is finally a glimmer of hope that this ceasefire will hold and the long difficult work of reconstruction can begin. I also know this news brings solace to millions of New Yorkers, who’ve felt the pain of the past few years. We have watched as our tax dollars have funded a genocide. The moral and human cost will be a lasting stain and requires accountability and real examination of our collective conscience and our government’s policies.

The responsibility now lies with those of us who believe in peace to make sure it endures, and that it is just. Once aid is delivered, the wounded are cared for, and a lasting agreement secured, we cannot look away. We must work towards a future built upon justice, one without occupation and apartheid, and for a world where every person can live with safety and dignity.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

“at OpenAI’s DevDay conference on Wednesday, Altman floated the idea that the work you do today, which might imminently be transformed or eliminated by AI, isn’t “real work.”

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 2d

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