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PhD | researching teachers w/ precarious labour contracts in a polycrisis. #PublicEducation #PoliticalEconomy #PrecariousWork #FreePalestine 😷 ♑️ 🇵🇸 he/they https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/28889

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · Mar 16

"The more we learn about the dangers of repeated COVID infections, it seems that without better protections, workers’ rights to safe work and students’ rights to safe learning spaces are being ignored to maintain the status quo." #covid #students #education #workers
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

COVID five years later: Governments are ignoring the rights of workers and students

Trying to avoid COVID-19 is seen as a personal choice, despite it being a public health threat for everyone.

www.thespec.com

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

The faux feminism at work here is exactly the kind of shit that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social was writing about when he wrote Elite Capture, the essay and book!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/olu...

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Books to Prisoners (Seattle) @bookstoprisoners.bsky.social · 8d

Without proper oversight, unregulated inmate management funds become guard and admin salary funds, and library resources are already one of the first budget lines cut in prisons and jails.

"The library used to have around 20 newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Those have dwindled to only six."

Prison Journalism Project @prisonjournalism.bsky.social · 9d

"In Idaho state prisons, a certain percentage of the cost of every commissary purchase and phone call goes into the inmate management fund," writes Dennis. "...These kinds of funds, common in prisons and jails across the country, are typically used to benefit the welfare of incarcerated people."

A Prison Fund Is Supposed to Benefit Incarcerated People in Idaho. Has That Changed?

In the past few years, residents at an Idaho prison have wondered how their basic needs are being met after cuts to educational and religious supplies, gym equipment and movie time.

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 3d

The right has been trying to get rid of Wikipedia for ages.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3d

“Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors ***
The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat [alleged] antisemitism” 1/7/25 … 1/ forward.com/news/686797/...

Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

forward.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 3d

Today in an interview with NBC News, Vance said that Trump was considering all of his options for deploying the National Guard to major cities, including invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which grants the president emergency powers to deploy troops on U.S. soil.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 3d

MONTREAL – A recent study out of Laval University finds many foods that are high in sodium and sugar on Canadian shelves are much cheaper than healthier, equivalent options.

Following healthy food guidelines in Canada comes at a high cost, study finds

MONTREAL – A recent study out of Laval University finds many foods that are high in sodium and sugar on Canadian shelves are much cheaper than healthier, equivalent options.

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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coopmike48 @coopmike48.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Crisis as distraction and erasure: How SOR fails diversity and urban students (Journal of Literacy and Urban Schools) | dr. p.l. (paul) thomas radicalscholarship.com/2025/10/12/n...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

Portland 🔥

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Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

Eight other schools have been invited to sign the pledge, which critics have called a funding “extortion” agreement.

MIT Becomes First School to Reject Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” for Higher Education

Eight other schools have been invited to sign the pledge, which critics have called a funding “extortion” agreement.

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 5d

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market url: #covid #covid19 #work #workers #HealthAndSafety jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6d

None of us can do everything but each of us can do SOMETHING.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6d

now do jan 6th

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Man In The High Castle 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🗞️⚖️📚🤬 @davek67.bsky.social · 6d

🚨⚖️📚Tech analyst Dr. John Padfield warns that Oracle and Palantir’s vast data-collection systems are laying groundwork for a “social credit” regime—an algorithmic score based on your behavior, purchases, beliefs, and obedience to authority—enforced without due process through private platforms.

Oracle, Palantir, and the Coming Social Credit System

YouTube video by Business Reform

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 6d

Global Prevalence of Long COVID, Its Subtypes, and Risk Factors: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-analysis url: academic.oup.com/ofid/article...

Validate User

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 6d

"@davidharvey.org's lifelong passion has been that of a restless analyst who continues to inspire with his heart as well as his head."

In celebration of David Harvey's 90th birthday, Andy Merrifield on Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...

The Marxist Restless Analyst

Andy Merrifield on David Harvey's Consciousness and the Urban Experience.

www.versobooks.com

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 6d

Thoughts On The Ceasefire News

When an agreement was reached late last year it never made it beyond the first phase and then the Trumpanyahu administration declared a siege and resumed the killing.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/thoughts-o...

Thoughts On The Ceasefire News

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

www.caitlinjohnst.one

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 6d

MAGA pastor calls for executing 'rebellious' Black men citing Old Testament
www.rawstory.com/maga-pastor/

MAGA pastor calls for executing 'rebellious' Black men citing Old Testament

MAGA pastor Brian Sauvé called for "rebellious" Black men to be executed according to biblical standards during a recent podcast interview, according to a new report. Right Wing Watch reported Monday ...

www.rawstory.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 7d

This is a five alarm fire.

Serious implications here: a sitting governor saying basically that the U.S. president is planning to use the military to overthrow democracy in America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 7d

Prisons never beating the slavery torture death camp allegations

Source: Texas prison officials refused to let inmate out of burning cell

Two former TDCJ employees are charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide following an inmate's death in the Bill Clements unit near Amarillo, Texas

www.newschannel10.com

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 8d

Canpost owns Purolator which reported a $294 million profit in 2024 yet this is not included in Canpost's earnings.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8d

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 8d

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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andrew🌹🍉 @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 8d

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. #PublicEducation #education
www.propublica.org/article/educ...

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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