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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10d

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 16d

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 17d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · Mar 24

Karl Hofer
German, 1878-1955
The Record Player, 1939
Oil on canvas
The woman in this painting is lost in her thoughts. One strap of her undergarment has slipped from her shoulder. Red light bathes the left side of her face, shoulder, and arm.
The background is dark and cavernous.
No music sounds.
What could account for this ominous tone?
In 1937, Adolf Hitler labeled Karl Hofer and other modern artists "degenerate." Hofer's paintings were confiscated. He was removed from his teaching post at the Berlin University of the Arts and was forbidden to paint. In 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. World War II began. Still, Hofer painted.
Gift of the Friends of Art, 54-87

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Paul G @wayoutinthe.bsky.social · 20d

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of two microphones in front of a plane .

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𝕭𝖑𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝕻𝖗𝖎𝖓𝖈𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘 @doomdisco.bsky.social · 27d

LOL

A representative for GWAR told The Post, "Normalizing violence? Humans don't need GWAR for that. There is nothing normal about the Looney Toon violence acted out on a GWAR stage. GWAR is absurdist spectacle. GWAR is to violence what the New York Post is to journalism. Ridiculous."

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28d

u know what 2 do.

Prince is resplendent in front of a massive wall of autumn leaves.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · Sep 18

If we have real elections next year, we can get out of this. We need to do everything we can to make sure this happens.

Shervin Malekzadeh @swarthy-bastard.bsky.social · Sep 18

Lot of (powerful!) folks out here treating this political moment as forever more, and not a cobbled-together, rickety ass, *fragile* coalition like any other movement. The emperor gets to appear clothed if *we* make it so!

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Panospria @panospria.com · Sep 17

Curated by Brian Eno, this ‘Together For Palestine’ charity concert is streaming now from OVO Wembley Arena
togetherforpalestine.org
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
@dark-shark.bsky.social

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · Sep 11

One of the defining experiences of my life, and I think yours, is gradually witnessing the internet degrade from the most sophisticated tool for information distribution in history into a cesspit of misinformation and falsehoods.

It's a world-historical tragedy, what's happening to us.

kate conger @kateconger.com · Sep 10

Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine

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Paul G @wayoutinthe.bsky.social · Sep 7

Very good poem

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Mystic Appreciator @urruenjoyer.bsky.social · Aug 20

I have a friend who dreamed she got lost in the basements below a Del Taco. She encountered a man in the darkness and she expressed surprise that the Del Taco had so many levels. The man said "There are more levels to this Del Taco than you'll ever know" Then she realized it was Shaq and woke up.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Aug 18

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 18

Trump administration revoked more than 6,000 student visas, State Dept says reut.rs/45F7hvQ

Trump administration revoked more than 6,000 student visas, State Dept says

The administration of President Donald Trump has revoked more than 6,000 student visas for overstays and breaking the law, including a small minority for "support for terrorism," a State Department official said on Monday.

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Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Well the thing is they are not going to do that because they do not care about the well being of this city but rather yearn to use it as a punching back while encouraging the aesthetics of militarizing liberal/Black urban enclaves and any analysis of this project should start there. Hope this helps.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Aug 13

Although crime is declining, Washington is still far more dangerous than it should be, Charles Fain Lehman argues. Instead of just looking tough, “the administration should focus its resources on the people and places that make the District unusually unsafe.” https://theatln.tc/6RCOGO23

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · Aug 5

the scenario we all feared

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Paul G @wayoutinthe.bsky.social · Aug 4

Are you implying that David Sacks is full of shit?!?!?

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Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @epiellie.bsky.social · Jul 31

People thought I was overreacting when I said Trump’s list of “banned” words meant epidemiology was itself defacto being banned.

But this week U Michigan announced they aren’t even accepting applications for the 2026 epi PhD admissions cycle.

www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026

The University of Michigan School of Public Health will not admit a 2025-2026 admissions cycle cohort to its PhD in Epidemiologic Sciences program.

www.michigandaily.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · Jul 24

The way the Iron Sheik talked about and to Hulk Hogan is a template for how every Democrat should talk about and to every republican. My consulting fee is $1 million.

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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · Jul 24

After 4 months of a near-total Israeli siege, Gaza’s hospitals now have wards for the malnourished children whose tiny bodies are just the width of their bones. Aid groups had warned of this for more than a year. Now a worst case scenario is upon us. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...