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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Incredible. If you grew up in Indiana, you know what a big deal this is.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 18h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 10h

Oh and I'll also be at Bartlesville Pride next weekend! So there's def good people out that way

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 14h

#MMIW #MMIP

Missing: Rachel Dawn Stephens, Cherokee female, 17 years old.
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 120
Hair color: brown
Eye color: brown

Last known contact was at her residence in Tahlequah, OK. She left in a 2014 silver Malibu. Tag is unknown. She might be in Sequoyah county.

If you have tips or information, contact the Cherokee Marshal Service at 918-207-3800

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15h

it is far better to be in a country with a mass visible protest movement than one without it

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 16h

Yes!

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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 18h

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 17h

This is a town of 6000 people

Neal Harkness @nealharkness.bsky.social · 17h

#NoKings #BelfastMaine

I thought I'd go down to the harbor and hang out with a few of my friends

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 18h

As someone living in Oklahoma, it's so encouraging to see all the people out protesting. It's not just that hundreds are turning out in Tulsa and OKC, it's also that there are protests happening in towns like McAlester and Ponca City

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 18h

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 1d

I worked there too, and it is so so jarring to read about this happening

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 1d

Superior 'tis said never gives up her dead

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St. Simeon the Pumpkin Spice Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 2d

J. D. VANCE: We need to end DEI.

MONKEY’S PAW: (raises one finger)

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 2d

In case you are looking for Indigenous thrillers/horror stories this October. Fricking love libraries that put together lists like this.

pima.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...?

Indigenous-Authored Chills and Thrills — a staff-created list from Pima County Public Library

The Many Nations team collected spooky titles by Indigenous authors to celebrate 2024's yíiyáh season. "Yíiyáh" is a Navajo expression that ranges in meaning from "scary" to "dangerous." Dive into the...

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to believe I used to be a copy chief at this paper

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 3d

i think we should bring dadaism back as a response to The Horrors. it made sense during world war one

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Bethany Stoller @bethanystoller.bsky.social · 2d

🥰🥰🥰

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 5d

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 4d

surprised there hasn’t been more discourse around the illegal firing of NCHS leadership, including those in vital statistics.

which are vital

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 6d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 6d

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.