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Ann Bartow
@annbartow.bsky.social
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Big fan of free speech and academic freedom. Strongly recommend avoiding UNH Franklin Pierce Law until change to less toxic leadership and more positive student treatment. She/her or gender neutral pronouns.

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Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 14h
There is no reason people of good faith cannot figure out a path forward in sports. It's just entertainment. The big problem in women's sports is lack of money. Fixing the money gap would help a lot more women than blocking the participation of any group of people.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15h
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 14h
Im glad Sasha is back. Always a fun listen!
youtu.be/CBCujAQtdfQ?...
Big Tech Is Faking Revenue
YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin
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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 14h
The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 15h
After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | @austinstatesman.bsky.social

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion
What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.
www.statesman.com
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 15h
Scraping, which is essential for AI, is inconsistent with nearly all core privacy principles in privacy laws.
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 15h
Classism in academia, Onion edition.

theonion.com/after-carefu...
After Careful Thought, Teen Applies To College Where Family Donated Building
CORAL GABLES, FL—Saying that she had given the decision considerable thought, local high school senior Katie Simmons told reporters Monday that she would be applying to Bristol College, a school where...
theonion.com
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h
A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...
t.co
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15h
The Harvard Crimson is very clear about what’s happening to their campus and student workers.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
FOOTBALL The Harvard Crimson THE UNIVERSITY DAILY, EST. 1873 | VOLUME CLI, NO. 21 | CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2025 DIVERSITY OFFICES Out of Work After DEI Office Closures POLITICS Trump Claims White House Is Nearing Harvard Deal Harvard Football Beats Brown in Ivy Opener SWEET REVENGE. Harvard roared back after last year's fourth-quarter loss to Brown, securing a decisive 41-7 win over the Bears. The home game was the first in a decade to take place on a Saturday night. SEE PAGE 22 BY DHRUV T. PATEL, AVANI B. RAI, AND SAKETH SUNDAR CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS COLLEGE ADMIN Inside the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra *FELT LIKE A SECRET/ When Harvard College's three diversity offices shut their doors in July, more than 30 undergraduate interns lost their jobs and for weeks after the office closures, nobody told them. SEE INTERNS ON PAGE G XINY! C. ZHANG - CRIMSON DESIGNER President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday in the Oval Office that the White House had "reached a deal" with Harvard, before cautioning that the agreement had not been finalized. "All you have to do is paper it, right?" Trump asked Education Secretary Linda E. McMahon, who concurred. "It'll be great." When a reporter asked for more information on the details of the deal, Trump seemed to back up, saying an agreement was not yet finalized. "We're in the process of getting very close, Lindas finishing up the final details, and they'd be paying about $500 million, "Trump said. "And they'll be operating trade schools, and they'll beteachingpeo-ple how to do Al and lots of other things. Engines, lots of things," he added. A Harvard spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. neynected announce-
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15h
After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.
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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 15h
“Playbook: Inside JD Vance’s redistricting rescue mission” electionlawblog.org?p=152454
"Playbook: Inside JD Vance’s redistricting rescue mission" #ELB
Politico: VP JD Vance once again descended on barn-red Indiana yesterday to make the case for mid-cycle redistricting to reluctant Hoosier lawmakers, his second trip to the state and third meeting wit...
electionlawblog.org
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15h
Military members lined up at a food bank because Trump's shutdown means that people aren't getting paid.

This video from @scrippsnews.bsky.social is getting wide circulation on Instagram, which is where I downloaded it from Don Lemon's account.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15h
Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...
Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16h
“Trump administration officials have expressed confidence that they will continue to win at the Supreme Court — where the president has racked up multiple victories this year. That might make them less concerned with activities in the lower courts.”

They believe they own John Roberts …
Skeptical judges increasingly question administration’s veracity
Judges have increasingly shown exasperation with Trump administration court tactics. The White House has shot back, raising tensions to previously unseen levels.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h
New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 16h
“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”
Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders
www.nytimes.com
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annbartow.bsky.social
Ann Bartow @annbartow.bsky.social · 16h
Quite a story: open.spotify.com/episode/0wCI...
Will the real William Woods please stand up?
Spotify video
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h
The Pentagon has to provide The New York Times information about Elon Musk’s security clearances, a federal judge ruled Wednesday—and the billionaire’s own posting habits helped decide the case. trib.al/f74QkIn
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h
“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
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Alovelydai™️ @alovelydai.blacksky.app · 17h
Fabia! Sing it to the dinkin!
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Reposted by Steve Peers, Ann Bartow, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
www.kare11.com
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h
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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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 17h
Love it. Public companies are required by law to adopt and publish a code of conduct. Ergo, codes of conduct are meaningless and investors cannot rely on them as truthful statements of corporate policy.

🤌🤌

In re Exscientia PLC, DNJ
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 18h
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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NPR @npr.org · 19h
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'
Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 20h
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Excerpts Excerpts
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Dr Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 22h
Interview with the amazing Bryan Stevenson on preserving the difficult histories, esp in the current whitewashing climate in the #USA. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told
www.nytimes.com
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Dr Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 22h
The frogs 🐸 are killing me 🤣🤣✊✊
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
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Elisabeth Bik - Perpetrator 5, a fraudulent microbiologist @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 1d
NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers

‘These bottlenecks have gotten so bad that some labs have had to ration gloves and paper towels.’

Ian Morgan for TheScientist

www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...
NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers
Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.
www.the-scientist.com
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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