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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Lisa W. Fazio, Will Jennings , and 11 more

jessicacalarco.com
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
IndyStar 2 . Follow 1h: "All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff should be scared by this blatant attack on someone standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement. Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1 IndyStar. IDS The original investigative student newsroom of Indiana University Barge suspends Bloomingtonr LITTLE 500 IDS IDS She should've knownbetter:' nt in N eoiencnalt. A INnpttM Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid push to control student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper. As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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msnbc.com
"I stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend, I will not capitulate, I will not give in, I will not give up."

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks out after being indicted by the Trump DOJ.
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indivisible.org
On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑
(between the No Kings logo and an image of a hand holding a sign that reads “REJECTING KINGS SINCE 1776”) Wear yellow. Show up. Show out. Saturday, October 18th. nokings.org
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Carlos Nunes Silva

wired.com
NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.
www.wired.com
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Reposted by Susan Strasser

ldburnett.bsky.social
this is truly good news. what a relief!

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...
Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance
The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.
craftindustryalliance.org
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Nathan P. Kalmoe

sabrinarina.bsky.social
Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.
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Reposted by Susan Strasser

aaup.org
NO LOYALTY OATHS IN HIGHER ED!

Trump's attacks on our universities are an attempt to consolidate power. This loyalty oath directly undermines our right to academic freedom & goes against every democratic principle our country should uphold.

Please click below, sign, & share.

#DefendHigherEd
University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...
actionnetwork.org
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by Susan Strasser

sustras.bsky.social
PSA is on my podcast feed; many weeks I skip it, just don't wanna listen to the bros do their bro thing, and I was so glad it wasn't that today, and that it wasn't about yogurt.
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Anne Applebaum, Michael Cox , and 42 more

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Timothy Snyder, Kori Schake , and 30 more

atrupar.com
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Peter Thorne, McKenzie Wark , and 5 more

adamjschwarz.bsky.social
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
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by Susan Strasser

sustras.bsky.social
Timothy Snyder on Trump’s terror memo (audio) open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Trump’s terror memo (audio)
It is about regime change
open.substack.com
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Juan Cole, Sebastian Karcher

micahloewinger.bsky.social
My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...
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by Susan Strasser

sustras.bsky.social
Since the shutdown of the NOAA website climate.gov, a group of people who worked on it has been creating an alternative, www.climate.us
Climate.us
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
www.climate.us
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Kim L. Scheppele

pbsnews.org
A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the industry. https://to.pbs.org/4gBPT0k
Judge lifts Trump's halt of nearly complete offshore wind energy project
A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the U.S. o...
to.pbs.org
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Rory Naismith, Paulo Drinot

nicholasguyatt.bsky.social
Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply!

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...
University of Cambridge - UK - Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920 | H-Net
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Christopher Wright, Rebecca Tushnet , and 2 more

adambonin.bsky.social
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Feb. 4, 1939 February 4, 1939, Page 1 BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany. Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence." As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today. What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…
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Reposted by Susan Strasser

50501movement.bsky.social
31 House Dems just voted to promote Trumpʻs occupation of DC! Call them. Go to their offices and townhalls. Hold them accountable!

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Mark D. White, Robert Black

robertloerzel.bsky.social
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.” wapo.st/4mnNDLt
Trump officials order removal of photograph of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
wapo.st
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Norbert Schwarz, Will Jennings , and 7 more

radiofreetom.bsky.social
This is extrajudicial execution, without any clear threat to the US, no authorization from Congress, and far beyond even Article II. The military is not the president's personal hit squad.
Or wasn't, until now.
cnn.com
CNN @cnn.com · Sep 15
The US military killed three people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. https://cnn.it/4na60EM
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Will Jennings, Robert W. Wallace , and 4 more

cnn.com
The US military killed three people in another deadly strike on a vessel in international waters around South America allegedly "transporting illegal narcotics" from Venezuela, President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. https://cnn.it/4na60EM
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Mark D. White, Robert C. Richards , and 5 more

sifill.bsky.social
Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Trump Administration Live Updates: White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups
www.nytimes.com
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Reposted by Susan Strasser

sentencingproject.bsky.social
The Sentencing Project urges members of the House Oversight Committee to oppose bills that disregard evidence-based criminal legal reforms and other attacks on District home rule.
Letter to House Oversight Committee Opposing DC Crime Bills – The Sentencing Project
www.sentencingproject.org
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by Susan Strasser, David R. Miller, Scott A. Imberman , and 4 more

brendannyhan.bsky.social
Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi...

When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · Sep 8
If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Michael A. Clemens, Juan Cole , and 5 more

npr.org
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.
Trump administration blocks groups from voter registration at naturalization events
Nongovernmental groups like the League of Women Voters are now barred from registering new voters at naturalization ceremonies, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced.
n.pr
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by Susan Strasser

sustras.bsky.social
And lots of generosity — people handing out (badly needed — thanks to them!!) water bottles, and signs and T-shirts and stickers.
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · Sep 6
Washington, D.C.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Sep 6
It was just block after block of people coming from Malcolm X Park headed downtown. Lots of energy despite the heat, and cheers from passersby, as well as church bells ringing in support.
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Mark Rice

mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Washington, D.C.
andreapitzer.bsky.social
Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Sep 6
It was just block after block of people coming from Malcolm X Park headed downtown. Lots of energy despite the heat, and cheers from passersby, as well as church bells ringing in support.
16th Street in NW DC, the road filled with demonstrators carrying signs and marching, with the trees of Malcolm X Park visible in e background.
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Reposted by Susan Strasser

lawdorknews.bsky.social
Video from today’s “We Are All DC” protest march: www.instagram.com/reel/DORQ6v6...
pink FREE DC sign + pink subway throwing art sign
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Reposted by Susan Strasser

newseye.bsky.social
Just wow! The “Free DC” march is now on its way the White House.

(🎥 Notify DC)
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Reposted by Susan Strasser, Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma , and 18 more

freedcproject.bsky.social
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
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