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Jonathan Gilligan @jgilligan.org · 2d

Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms.

vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/09/v...

Vanderbilt Faculty Senate Votes Overwhelmingly to Oppose Trump Loyalty Oath

The Vanderbilt Faculty Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing President Trump’s proposed “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education.” The resolution, citing concerns …

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 1d

Students from Cheyfitz’s course speak out against his suspension and explain what happened in the classroom leading up to it. www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

We Took Cheyfitz’s Class on Gaza. His Suspension Violates Academic Freedom.

Nine students who took the course on "Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance" contextualize the dispute that led to the suspension of Professor Eric Cheyfitz. They argue that his treatment by the University am...

www.cornellsun.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 2d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Dr. Rebecca Dickinson, LISW, RPT-S @dickinsonmsw.bsky.social · 1d

It would be really nice if @cswe.bsky.social & @naswsocialworkers.bsky.social took a vocal stand on why social workers students need these courses to be both effective and ethical practitioners with the marginalized populations they will work with.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1d

Among countless banned & challenged books is "Fry Bread" by Kevin Noble Maillard.

In support of the #TeachTruth campaign & to raise awareness about the dangers of censorship, every Lush store has a display about the ban.

#LetFreedomReadDay #BannedBooksWeek

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Banned Books Display in Lush Stores - Social Justice Books

On the #TeachTruth Day of Action, every Lush store in the United States installed a display about banned books, featuring the picture book Fry Bread (one of 176 books that were removed from classrooms...

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 3d

There can be no social justice without disability justice.

You want to fight fascism? Engage the disability community.

Practice inclusivity. Wear a mask. Make protests and resistance accessible.

Don’t treat us expendable, less than or “better off dead”.

Don’t leave us behind.

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Dr. Rebecca Dickinson, LISW, RPT-S @dickinsonmsw.bsky.social · 2d

A Google doc of current meds, last & upcoming appointments, & all provider names & numbers to share w/ other family members. I know my brother never looks at ours for my dad, but he would have no idea where to begin without it if something happens to me.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

Ireland has approved plans to permanently implement a basic income program that will support up to 2,200 artists.

A cost-benefit analysis found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 back.

Officials from other countries are now expressing interest in the program.

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Dr. Rebecca Dickinson, LISW, RPT-S @dickinsonmsw.bsky.social · 4d

“What Cheer” may have been a famous play leading to the town’s name, but only Southern Iowans will pronounce it correctly as “Watch-Ear.”

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Dr. Rebecca Dickinson, LISW, RPT-S @dickinsonmsw.bsky.social · 4d

What Cheer

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5d

Bookshop has free shipping now! So imma recommend some books for you!

A thread. 1/x 🧵

First of all, this came out yesterday literally by the wonderful @kaitlincurtice.bsky.social

Everything Is a Story: Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives

Reclaiming the Power of Stories to Heal and Shape Our Lives

bookshop.org

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What The Trans?! 🏳️‍⚧️ @whatthetrans.com · 6d

Gender Identity Clinic's Waiting Lists from Shortest To Longest

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Dr. Rebecca Dickinson, LISW, RPT-S @dickinsonmsw.bsky.social · 5d

In the US, the National Association of Black Social Workers issued a position statement in 1972 advocating against transracial adoption, basically because of the systemic harm tearing apart Black families & the additional harm of loss of cultural connections & racism in adoptive families.

Dr. Rebecca Dickinson, LISW, RPT-S @dickinsonmsw.bsky.social · 5d

Curious in if when deciding to remove ethnicity as a consideration in adoption, they explored why kids of color are more likely to be in care and up for adoption. The same issue happens in the US, but we know it’s systemic racial bias at play at all levels of the child welfare system.

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Dr. Rebecca Dickinson, LISW, RPT-S @dickinsonmsw.bsky.social · 5d

It’s been a long time since I was a social worker in the UK, but this sentence floored me: “While we sometimes don’t think about the role of identity as professionals, it's important to stay curious to deliver anti-racist practices.” In the US, this is an ethical obligation, not a suggestion.

Research in Practice @researchip.bsky.social · 5d

Identities are often shaped by a sense of self that stems from our values, attitudes, and beliefs.

Explore a new open access videos that examine the role of identity and race in social work for #BlackHistoryMonth. https://ow.ly/p8Ib50X7AUu

Exploring identity and race in social work: A journey through oral histories | Research in Practice

This collection of videos explores the heritage of Black British social workers and provides insight into the Black Social Workers’ Oral History Project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 ALERT: Police Scotland is developing plans to use live facial recognition technology

Facial recognition tech:
🕵️ is mass surveillance
❌ is NOT compatible with Scotland’s human rights obligations
⚠️ disproportionately impacts racialised communities

We need to oppose this: amn.st/6008AqWA0

Police Scotland has decided move ahead with the use of Live Facial Recognition technology by law enforcement in Scotland.
Amnesty firmly opposes the use of this dangerous technology.

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Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 5d

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 5d

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

Oslo universitetssykehus felt for ulovlig forskning på transpersoner

Forskere ved Oslo universitetssykehus har forsket på transpersoner uten godkjenning. Nå er de felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

www.forskning.no

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

The first Law Dork oral argument report of the new Supreme Court term is a doozy: Chiles v. Salazar, over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban.

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

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Wintersong @wintersong.bsky.social · 5d

Every time the "trans people are 1% of the U.S. population" thing comes up, I feel compelled to point out that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum says that Jewish people made up about 0.75% of the population of Germany in 1933.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 5d

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 5d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 5d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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James Throt @jamesthrot.bsky.social · 5d

SARS-CoV-2 isn’t just a respiratory virus. Its neurological and immunological consequences are real, measurable, and ongoing.

It targets the brain, impairs cognition, erodes empathy, and subtly reshapes populations.

Ignoring it doesn’t make it harmless, it makes the world more dangerous.

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