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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 3d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 3d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 4d

Unlawfully fired from your job at HHS or CDC protecting the public health? Want to talk through how to tell your story in the press? I'm happy to help you think through messaging strategy.

I’ve spent years doing public health comms and talking with reporters. You can see my work at matthewcort.land

Matthew Cortland

Matthew became a lawyer by necessity. Now they use their training in public health and law to help others.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 4d

Chiiiiiiile can NC taxpayers sue the UNC board for for violating their fiduciary responsibilities?

Screenshot of the article that reads: But those claims have been undercut by a slew of reporting suggesting otherwise. According to NFL writer Ollie Connolly, who broke many of the details of Belichick’s initial hiring at North Carolina in December, the coach has already discussed buyout options from his contract with the athletic administration.

“Belichick has signalled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media,” Connolly posted Wednesday afternoon.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 4d

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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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 5d

UNC ought to be very ashamed here, particularly b/c numerous courts have ruled that these federal guidelines are based on the President’s EO, which has been unconstitutionally vague under the First Amendment

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

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...

www.dailytarheel.com

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a socialist psychiatrist @socialistpsych.bsky.social · 5d

Reminds me of the stuff that went on when I worked at Human Rights Watch

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 6d

So this IL Hospital Association memo describes an incident where ICE detained a US citizen, gave them HEART PROBLEMS, took them to a hospital where the fought with medical personnel, then left when they realized they detained a CITIZEN.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 7d

Nice to see Nabarun Dasgupta on the list of Geniuses!

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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 7d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 8d

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

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blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 8d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 8d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 8d

"On the other hand, precisely because one million additional votes would create a changed electorate, the voting patterns of that electorate cannot be easily estimated from the voting patterns of the electorate in which Black lifespans are cut short." www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States

Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...

www.annualreviews.org

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 8d

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 8d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11d

Stop lying. Your state cops attacked protesters alongside ICE yesterday. I was there. I and others were violently attacked by ICE agents. Your state cops acted in concert with them during the attack.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11d

State, county, and local law enforcement have been working together and coordinating to ensure public safety around the Broadview ICE facility, and to protect people’s ability to peacefully exercise their constitutional rights.

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a socialist psychiatrist @socialistpsych.bsky.social · 13d

Incredibly sick patient spoke their first words in days: "how am I going to pay for this?"

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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 14d

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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