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Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sorry but it’s not up to you to decide if a student’s accommodations are unreasonable. if a student did everything necessary to get accommodations for “anxiety” then trust me, they need them. I once tried to apply for accommodations & it was so heartless & confusing I gave up.

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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 5h

We leave the determination of reasonable accommodation to the experts, and our job as professors is to accommodate as instructed.

In fact, we can learn a lot about good teaching by considering which accommodations might help all students if built into our policies (e.g. extensions and recordings)

Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sorry but it’s not up to you to decide if a student’s accommodations are unreasonable. if a student did everything necessary to get accommodations for “anxiety” then trust me, they need them. I once tried to apply for accommodations & it was so heartless & confusing I gave up.

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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 1d

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

The Obama Hope poster, but it's a frog and it says "Hop"

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD

50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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JFA @jabbott28.bsky.social · 9h

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This reporter actually did a good job in this interview. Cash is trying to push through the most restrictive abortion bill in history. S.323 as written could take away many contraceptives we have today in addition to criminalizing helping someone obtain an abortion.

Sen. Richard Cash on abortion bill

YouTube video by WYFF News 4

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JFA @jabbott28.bsky.social · 9h

SC is going down this slippery slope of controlling our universities through censoring what our professors can say and teach. Taking away tenure will destroy universities and send these academics to other professions. Just as our state is doing to OBGYNs. #ResistFascism

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Richard Corsi @corsiaq.bsky.social · 21h

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Bob Marley - Get Up Stand Up [HQ Sound]

YouTube video by Jersild & Hammer

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 22h

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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dan @amerkincynic.bsky.social · 1d

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Rep. Jermaine Johnson @drjljohnson.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Breaking. Join me for a special announcement that you may already have a clue about. A #NewSC is on the horizon.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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WhisperingSage @whisperingsage.bsky.social · 1d

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Sara Whitmer
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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 Fscist 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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Jenn @pastafarianti.bsky.social · 1d

Hoping there was only one hippo!

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Holy City Sinner @holycitysinner.com · 1d

600,000 in S.C. face huge health insurance spikes charlestoncitypaper.com/2025/10/17/2...

24.42: Health insurance spike, No Kings protest, Trumpism - Statehouse

The October 17 issue of Statehouse Report discusses how S.C. faces a huge health insurance spike, No Kings protest Saturday and an opinion on how Trumpism is taking a terrible toll on our country.

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 1d

Sarah Parker:

"The fabric of this country wasn't woven by oligarchs, corporations or power hungry politicians.

It was stitched together by workers, by immigrants, by black and brown communities, by women, by queer folks, and by people who refuse to stay quiet in the face of injustice."

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Jenn @pastafarianti.bsky.social · 1d

I saw one little carrying a sign that said "I refuse to learn your hate" handwritten in crayons!!! She was shouting "we the people choose love."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 1d

Long C-19 isn't your friend ♨️☠️

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Prevalence and duration of common symptoms in people with long COVID: a systematic review and meta-analysis — JOGH

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led to approximately two million deaths in 2020 [1]. By January 2024, there were 774 million diagnoses and 6.96 million deaths reported worldwide [2]. COVID-19 is...

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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly! It’s Unsustainable…

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · Apr 23

Al Gore didn’t hold back: The Trump admin is “attacking the heart of truth,” twisting facts like the Nazis did in the 1930s. From climate denial to rewriting the Ukraine war, it’s all about power—not reality.
Gore warned the U.S. is under siege—and every former leader should speak out like he did.

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings, No Kings, No Kings

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Republicans in charge of Congress have abdicated all responsibility for governing the nation to Trump. There are no checks. There are no balances. No Kings.

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Dr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 2d

This is good reporting on the disaster in Alaska if you're looking for a reliable summary.

This is a bigger disaster than I think most are realizing. 1500 people have been displaced by the flooding with an exceptionally complicated response and recovery.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...

Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing says 'ignorance is bliss' more than Florida moving on from banned books to a state-approved vocabulary.

Books banned. Professors fired. Librarians threatened. Teachers censored, but the right of Young Republicans praising Hitler and calling for gas chambers will be defended.

Florida wipes 'culture,' 'diversity' and other terms from UNF teacher-education courses

State officials cast a wide net in seeking to ban certain terms, ensnaring courses where words like “culture” and “diversity” appear in innocuous contexts.

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