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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 5d

With just over a week to go until the ballot opens, @dyfrigjones.bsky.social had a message to UCU higher education members at last night’s Live.

Speak to as many people as possible, speak to your branch, speak to colleagues, get the message out there.

Vote early. Vote YES

#WeAreTheUniversity

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Changes to the UK’s post-study work visa will apply from the start of 2027, the Home Office has confirmed. @twilliamsthe.bsky.social reports #edusky #visas
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/shorter...

Shorter UK graduate visa to be introduced in January 2027

Six-month cut in amount of time people can stay post-study has been fiercely opposed by universities

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 14 Oct 1896 a meeting of 'London Anarchist Communists' to 'bid farewell to Louise Michel and Pietro Gori on their departure to America on a lecturing tour' took place in Holborn stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 23h

"My profession - that of university teacher - is in this way dangerous. If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our pupils are fit to become our critics and rivals. We should be delighted when it arrives." - C. S. Lewis

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Truthout @truthout.org · 22h

Miss Major died at home on October 13 in Little Rock, Arkansas, surrounded by loved ones. A Stonewall veteran and surrogate mother to her community, Miss Major was a lifelong advocate for trans liberation.

Trans Activist and Movement Leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Dies at 78

A Stonewall veteran and surrogate mother to her community, Miss Major was a lifelong advocate for trans liberation.

truthout.org

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J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social · 23h

I’m not gonna lie: this was a sheer delight to work on & I’m excited to see it now has a cover. That I got to include Emma Goldman & Dawn Powell alongside W.D. Howells, Audre Lorde, Dorothy Parker, Paule Marshall, Djuna Barnes, Helen Keller & Margaret Fuller (among others) was a great bonus.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 1d

look at this incredible list of contributors and interlocutors for CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

so many thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and Emory for hosting our launch symposium -- which is free and open to the public.

maybe you want to join us?

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1d

On Friday, November 7, I'm hosting a symposium at Emory for the launch of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, which I edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. If you plan on attending, sign up for the eventbrite—hoping to get a rough gauge for attendance www.eventbrite.com/e/close-read...

Program for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, with a large slate of speakers from the volume.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

extramural nonprofessional political speech. no freedom.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs” includes a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” written about a deportation flight crash that killed 28 migrant farm workers in 1948.

🎶 They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves 🎶

Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs on vinyl

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 1d

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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

"Don’t tell us another New York City is not possible — we are already winning it." - tenant organizer Dorca Reynoso

tenant organizer Dorce Reynoso on stage at the podium

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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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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

In twelve days, New Yorkers will begin to cast their ballots and face a stark choice.

A choice between democracy and oligarchy. Between a city you can afford or more of the same. Between the hope of a brighter future or a broken past.

We will choose the future.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 3d

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.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

“It is still a disruption to families. It creates this mistrust, that you are gone and back and gone and back," said Lisa McConachie of the Oregon DeafBlind Project.

Ed Dept Restores Funding for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss After Outcry

The Trump administration targeted the programs in its attacks on diversity…

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

Never forget that when Bondi was appointed, Democracy Docket immediately called her out while The Washington Post gave her a thumbs up.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media that won't bow down or obey, support Democracy Docket today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 2d

Believe it or not, it's already time to think about MSA 2026 in Loughborough, UK. The conference will meet July 1-4, and proposals for panels, papers, roundtables, workshops, and seminars is December 1. Please note this MUCH earlier deadline. The CFP is here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

An image of a Tarot card empress with a crown of stars on a mustard yellow background. The text says: Weird Modernism, BAMS/ MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026. Loughborough University, UK

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘When Asa Briggs left school, there were only fifty thousand university students in the whole of Britain. Today, to a substantial degree because of Briggs’s campaigns and ideas, there are more than three million in higher education.’

Neal Ascherson on the historian: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Neal Ascherson · Professor Heathrow: Asa Briggs says yes

Asa Briggs used sweeping educational change to increase equality in England. He helped to make history, as well as...

www.lrb.co.uk

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