Regina Mills

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry.
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What I Learned From My Annoyingly Long Correspondence With "Elena Ferrante" | Defector Earlier this month I received an email that, for a moment, made my heart skip. The email came from someone named Elena Ferrante, at “elenaferrante800@gmail.com,” and I feel no remorse leaking Elena’s…

"I imagine the writers who are the loneliest, such as those least connected to a writing community who might warn or advise them, will be the most susceptible to these scams."

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

#ScholarSunday Thread 265 (3/1/26) – Black and White and Read All Over March has come in with more administration lyin’, which means all the more reason to share my 265th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last w...

March has come in with more administration lyin’, which means all the more reason to share my 265th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as you can, & solidarity, all! 🗃️ +

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Texas is on the front lines of the fight against government suppression of academic inquiry. We must continue to hold the line against those who wish to control the range of topics that can be taught in the classroom.

Keep fighting. Our democracy depends on it.
@texasaaup.bsky.social
@texasaft.org

The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

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We’re 23 HBS Professors. This Is the Cost of Silence. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson We urge business leaders to recognize that there is no conflict between their responsibilities as CEO and their responsibilities as citizens. The cost of silence is incalculable.

We are retired Harvard Business School professors who have devoted our lives to business education. We ask that the leaders of the business world in the United States — some of whom it has been our privilege to teach — speak out now, act now, in defense of democracy.

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.

Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

"Assemble the Board of Peace - I'm starting a war".

Kansas Revokes IDs for 1,000+ Transgender Residents Under New State Law More than 1,000 transgender Kansas residents have had their driver's licenses and birth certificates invalidated under a new state law that took effect Thursday. The legislation requires gender marker...

It was never about protecting cisgen women and girls. This law strips transgender adult male and females of their right to pursue liberty.

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Yeeesssss!!!! (This will always be the defining image for me of the “evidence” against Columbia students)

Rio Police Chief & Congressman Convicted in Assassination of Socialist Rio Councilwoman Marielle Franco The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsib...

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts."

massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social

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Texas professors flock to join teachers' union amid academic freedom concerns The union's rapid growth comes as federal and state lawmakers target classroom instruction and personal speech in higher education.

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JUSTICE FOR THE FIRED SIX NOW!

We will not stop until these wrongfully terminated professors are reinstated with full back pay.

Please Sign & Share the petition:

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It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

Generative AI is not just a tool for learning. It shapes how students think Framing this technology as a helpful ‘tool’ disguises how much it guides every element of critical thinking that academics seek to cultivate, says James Garvey

“Insisting on technical precision when it matters can help us resist the easy idea that AI is a helper, ready to assist. Instead we must keep our focus on the uncomfortable thought that these systems partly and covertly structure what we say, think and learn.”

The Derailment That Never Ended Three years after the East Palestine disaster, everybody’s gotten paid — except the victims.

I LOVE a followup story revisiting a major news event: Here's the East Palestine derailment, three years on.

We Must Raise Our Voices Against the Attacks on Trans Care The Gender Liberation Movement’s Raquel Willis says trans youth “are our future” and that new HHS rules amount to a national ban on gender-affirming care for young people.

"So much of this care that is being stolen from trans youth is still accessible to cisgender youth, and that is utterly immoral," says Raquel Willis, one of 25 people arrested Tuesday while protesting HHS rules to ban care for youth nationwide.
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Should be noted that the surveillance devices Amazon, Google, Flock and the rest of them try to sell us are versions of this. The idea of fortress in place of community and surveillance as safety is good for fascists and keeps people buying their products.

This damn snow is likely to affect when we get to see our Biscuits, so help me feel better by sharing this thread widely please! 🗃️ @markanthonyneal.bsky.social

When the higher education sector is organized, we have the power to stop the Trump administration's campaigns against American universities

We are proud of our members and allies at UCLA who successfully blocked Trump from extracting $1.2 billion from UCLA over alleged civil rights violations.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Reading this was infuriating. There are too many fascists among us.

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Feds zip-tied a 14-year-old girl during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics A 14-year-old girl said she was "crying" and "struggling to breathe" when law enforcement officers herded her onto a racetrack with other detainees and zip-tied her hands.

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

U.S. Seeks to Expedite Deportation of 5-Year-Old Liam Conejo Ramos Liam was detained last month in Minneapolis during an immigration enforcement operation in which his father was also detained by federal agents.

Lawyers for the federal government have filed a motion to expedite the deportation of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in a bunny hat who was detained by ICE agents in Minnesota. A lawyer for Liam and his father said the family had legally entered the U.S. through a humanitarian program.

Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

side by side screengrabs of phone lockscreen and X profile with matching photo

Sveum and Vazquez, alongside other BORTAC agents, showed up in reports and body cam footage released by a federal judge in November.

We were able to further confirm Michael Sveum's identity because one of those videos includes his phone lockscreen with a photo of himself at an ultrarunning event.

The process of censorship reviews has been anything but smooth, and there remain classes at TAMU still under review and in limbo. And WGST was destroyed not to "save money" because it barely got any funding to start with! Students and faculty deserve better than TAMU's lies. Thanks AAUP for fighting