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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 11h

Wow.
When I was looking at Ph.D. programs I applied to one and was accepted but it had recently had Black-white conflict.

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 11h

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11h

This video is part of the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's series, "Faculty on the Front Lines," which spotlights ten AAUP members who share their stories of repression and resistance in the face of partisan interference and violations of academic freedom.

Learn more at the link below👇

Faculty on the Front Lines

Faculty on the Front Lines:AAUP Members Share Stories of Repression and Resistance"Faculty on the Front Lines" is a series documenting the stories of AAUP members. While some of these participants hav...

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 11h

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11h

Shanae Aurora Martinez is a professor of Indigenous Literature at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. In this interview, she shares her story about being suspended for defending her students’ rights to protest the university’s investments in weapons manufacturing.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?

Border agents have become a key force in Trump’s migrant crackdown — operating far from their traditional rural range.

‘Cavalier and aggressive’: why are border agents flooding into US cities?

Border agents have become a key force in Trump’s migrant crackdown – operating far from their traditional rural range

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 15h

Clint Curtis, Shasta County’s thin-skinned elections chief, stopped sending news releases to @shastascout.bsky.social because he didn't like its reporting.

His response when told it's unlawful to single out one news outlet? Collectively punishing of all of them.

Shasta Registrar of Voters Curtis to stop sending out election update press releases

The First Amendment Coaltion threatened litigation after Shasta Scout was allegedly exlcluded from receiving news releases from Curtis' office.

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 15h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social · 15h

"Right now, De Beers’ value has declined to $5B. Botswana already owns 15% of De Beers ($750M). To control 51% ($2.55 billion), Botswana needs an additional $1.8 billion. The government is negotiating with Oman’s sovereign wealth fund to help finance this acquisition."

Guns, Germs, & Cobalt Q&A #9: Insights on Botswana, Chile, Peru, China, and Morocco

What Peru’s guano, Chile’s saltpeter, and Botswana’s diamonds teach us about innovation killing monopolies.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

On top of the endless performative public lying (bsky.app/profile/donm...), this is more of the endlessly offensive/inane “government jobs are not real jobs, except when they’re cops & soldiers” nonsense that every right-wing politician from Ronald Reagan to Scott Walker has been selling for years.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 15h

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John Robinson @jrobin.bsky.social · 16h

UNC caves to Trumpism.

“The lounge has been in the "co-ownership" of UNC BSM since 1973 and has served as a community space for Black students to "gather to study, read, relax and socialize in a predominantly Black atmosphere.”
www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

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Jacqueline L. Hazelton @drjlhazelton.bsky.social · 15h

How about an Emma Peel action figure?!?!!!

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15h

Andrew McCarthy: "there is now chaos in New Jersey federal court" following a judge's finding Alina Habba's appointment invalid, reflecting on Trump's "determination to staff his second-term DOJ with loyalists who could not be confirmed by the Senate" and "to try to stretch" laws to keep them there.

Comey Case Developments: (5) Motion to Dismiss Based on Illegality of Interim U.S. Attorney’s Appointment | National Review

If the naming of Lindsey Halligan as Alexandria’s top federal prosecutor did not comply with the law, there could be chaos.

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Agree to disagree 🍊🍊🍊 @stefgotbooted.bsky.social · 16h

Invest in my new product: AI enabled tulips. Get in on the ground floor!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Trump is clearly frustrated that DOJ hasn’t gone after Adam Schiff yet. Can’t wait to see what pretext they find to charge him.

Trump: The Ukraine Impeachment (of me!) Scam was a far bigger Illegal Hoax than Watergate. I sincerely hope the necessary authorities, including
CONGRESS, are looking into this! Adam "Schiffty" Schiff was sooo dishonest and corrupt. So many laws, and protocols, were violated, and just plain broken!!! President DJT
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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 19h

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16h

The woman on the left in this picture was a TPUSA affiliate back in the late 2010s. She has created viral content that involves her being assaulted by leftists at least 3 separate times. The Proud Boy associate on the right thinks Portland is run by literal Communists.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 9d

Update: Just opened up Twitter and this was the first thing in my "for you" feed. Two of those "local journalists" covering the protests at the ICE facility who somehow were able to get a picture of themselves on the roof of that facility. Surely ICE had nothing to do with this, yes?

Katie Daviscourt
@KatieDaviscourt • 47m
On top of the roof at Portland ICE with @hunnybadgermom!

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 16h

giving every child a chat gpt account at birth and asking it to work out their life. it determines how they do at school, their jobs, their partners, generates pictures of it all and then we store it on the cloud and leave them to die because we've streamlined the process at greatly reduced cost

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 16h

We’ve all worked with people like this: they fuck up, and blame anyone else, no matter how ridiculous. Except in most jobs the stakes aren’t so high 😳😳😳

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 16h

“It happened because of Schumer” is GOP for “I got nothing.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Daniel Carpenter @dancarpenter.bsky.social · 16h

A reminder that E. Nesbit wrote the greatest opening to a ghost story ever.

THIS is not an artistically rounded off ghost story and nothing is explained in it; and there seems to be no reason why any of it should have happened. But that is no reason why it should not be told. You must have noticed that all the real ghost stories you ever come close to are like this in these respects: no explanation, no logical coherence. Here is the story.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h

A draft White House memo, reported by Axios, reinterprets the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act, or GEFTA, to stiff federal workers on furlough amid the longest shutdown in U.S. history. trib.al/nfzTyMJ

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Alan Fisher @amfisher.bsky.social · 17h

“No one checked citations?”

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 17h

“Brand new travel forms.”

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 17h

A little story about gender panic and the state of information before the internet.

I taped "Sweet Dreams" off the radio and spent an evening listening to it over and over trying to figure out if the singer was a man or a woman.

youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg?...

Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (Official Video)

YouTube video by EurythmicsVEVO

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