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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · Aug 8

My article on activism and coalition building is out now at Time! Shout out to the folks at Made by History. We need multiracial coalitions now more than ever! time.com/7307042/hist...

History Can Teach Modern Activists About Coalition Building

Historically, it has been difficult to build and sustain diverse activist coalitions—but they are uniquely impactful.

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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · 10d

JOB ALERT - Please share! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor in sociology at Molloy! Come work with me! Esp if you can teach methods and health and society!
www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · Aug 8

My article on activism and coalition building is out now at Time! Shout out to the folks at Made by History. We need multiracial coalitions now more than ever! time.com/7307042/hist...

History Can Teach Modern Activists About Coalition Building

Historically, it has been difficult to build and sustain diverse activist coalitions—but they are uniquely impactful.

time.com

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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · 10d

You can’t criticize me bc I vote democrat so shhh

Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · 10d

Huh… not only is it not true that they dont criticize each other… squashing dissent among democrats is dumb

Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · 10d

Visiting Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology - HigherEdJobs

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

www.higheredjobs.com

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 22d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Lynn Jackson @lynnjuk.bsky.social · 26d

I’ve just stopped Microsoft from adding CoPilot to my 365 sub. If enough people do this it’s going to smart.

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 28d

Threats of mass layoffs during a shutdown have zero legal basis. A government shutdown is not the purge. It does not magically grant the President permission to do whatever he wants. There are decades of history on this.

Reporting on Trump and Vought's threats needs to make this clear.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 28d

Fascists are commandeering our public lands and dollars to create their very own elite cities on the backs We the People. This, THIS is their IDEA of housing.

To hell with Apartheid Clyde AKA Musk and his band of billionaire TechBro whackjob misanthropes. #Resist

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What are 'freedom cities'? Billionaire CEOs' plan could reshape America

A coalition of "startup nations" have met with the Trump administration in order to create areas of the U.S. free from regulation.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Sep 30

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · Sep 30

Trump to generals and admirals: “this war from within will be the major part for most of you here”

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · Sep 28

BREAKING: Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe (R) just signed Trump’s gerrymander into law.

If courts do not intervene, a referendum effort fails or the GOP again ignores the will of voters, the GOP will have locked in a 7–1 majority in the U.S. House for the rest of the decade.

Missouri Gov. Signs Extreme Gerrymander, Ballot Initiative Crackdown Into Law

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · Sep 28

not like i'm some important predictor of the future, i'm a shitposter, but i sort of thought there might be a climbdown here when i read that neither the pentagon nor the national guard had any fucking idea what he was talking about

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

www.kgw.com

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Michael L. Rosino @michaelrosino.bsky.social · Sep 28

Thanks for sharing this

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Sue Young @suetas.bsky.social · Sep 28

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Sep 27

In the dark dark tragicomedy of the second Trump term, the State Department described a call to not kill people incendiary, reckless, and inciting violent.

Violence is not violence, only nonviolence is violence.

Department of State v
@StateDept
Earlier today, Colombian president @petrogustavo stood on a NYC street and urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence.
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We will revoke Petro's visa due to his reckless and incendiary actions.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Sep 27

The FBI has fired a group of agents who were photographed kneeling with protesters in Washington during the 2020 racial justice protests that erupted in response to the police killing of George Floyd.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 George Floyd protests

The agents’ firing comes amid a broader wave of terminations at the FBI, which some see as a form of political retribution.

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Ernest Deadfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · Sep 27

that Harper's letter just keeps aging worse and worse

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · Sep 27

Birds and Snakes are out, too (not XX / XY). Algae and amoebas, too. Probably also worms.

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Jenny Sampson 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 @jennysampson.bsky.social · Sep 27

This also affects horticulturists, biologists etc

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Hollyphant Pants @hollyphantpants.bsky.social · Sep 27

Suddenly medical schools can’t teach about intersex conditions or gender dysphoria.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · Sep 27

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Sep 27

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · Sep 27

Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · Sep 26

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

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zerogravityy.bsky.social @zerogravityy.bsky.social · Sep 27

So it turns out ‘originalism‘ was just a front for reluctance to reinterpret when that meant redressing social injustice, but now if reinterpreting means increased power to inflict social injustice, it’s totally fine.

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michael spins @michaelspins.bsky.social · Sep 26

I can’t imagine going to law school and trying to learn or teach anything now.

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