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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

How about no solicitations from politicians when the govt is shutting down?!

Withholding an endorsement for the Democratic nominee for mayor in your own city is bad enough, but then issuing a glowing press release praising the corrupt incumbent no one likes? All while doing fuckall to stand up to Trump?

I swear, he's got the political instincts of an Amish child.

Well I’m supposed to go a national park next week…we’ll see if that happens

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets.

• Joy Reid
• Don Lemon
• Melissa Harris-Perry
• Tiffany Cross
• Jemele Hill
• Marc Lamont Hill
• Karen Attiah
• Amber Ruffin

Faculty First Responders Mutual Aid for Academic Freedom

This is a supreme example of mutual aid among academics. Faculty First Responders monitors the media of the anti-intellectual far right to notice when fellow scholars are being targeted, and offers practical support and guidance.

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Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

A bill has been introduced in Congress that would allow Marco Rubio to revoke the passports of U.S. citizens based on their views and speech, such as support for Palestine. Representative Brian Mast (R-FL), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and former IOF soldier, introduced a provision to the Department of State Reorganization Act of 2025 that would grant Secretary of State Marco Rubio the authority to revoke or refuse to issue passports to U.S. citizens if he deems that they have "knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization [he] has designated as a foreign terrorist organization." Notably, Rubio used this as the basis to revoke student visas and detain activists who spoke out against the genocide in Gaza and the Israeli government, as well as in support of Palestine. Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation, told The Intercept that the bill would open the door to "thought policing at the hands of one individual," saying "Marco Rubio has claimed the power to designate people terrorist supporters based solely on what they German Jews' Passports Declared Invalid On October 5, 1938, the Reich Ministry of the Interior invalidates all German passports held by Jews. Jews must surrender their old passports, which will become valid only after the letter "J" has been stamped on them. The government required Jews to identify themselves in ways that would permanently separate them from the rest of the German population. In an August 1938 law, authorities decreed that by January 1, 1939, Jewish men and women bearing first names of "non-Jewish" origin had to add "Israel" and "Sara," respectively, to their given names. All German Jews were obliged to carry identity cards that indicated their heritage, and, in the autumn of 1938, all Jewish passports were stamped with an identifying red letter "J" As Nazi leaders quickened their

The far-right, Trump and his cabinet keep saying we’re being dramatic or “snowflakes” for calling the right what they are: Fascist Nazis. We call them Fascist Nazis because they’re doing EXACTLY what the Nazis were doing in Germany back in the 30s and 40s, now in present day America.

One of my favorite things about Madison is the amount of native planting along the water and in parks. The wildflowers are beautiful!

Donate to Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague, organized by Angel Matos Recently, our colleague Melissa McCoul was fired from her position as a S… Angel Matos needs your support for Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

This poster, which was created and disseminated by abolitionist Theodore Parker, warns black people in Boston to beware of watchmen and police officers, who were legally allowed to act as kidnappers due to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Text reads: Caution!! Colored people of Boston, one & all, you are hereby respectfully cautioned and advised, to avoid conversing with the watchmen and police officers of Boston, for since the recent order of the mayor & aldermen, they are empowered to act as kidnappers and slave catchers ... Keep a sharp look out for kidnappers, and have top eye open. April 24, 1851

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

At this point abolishing ICE and reforming the Supreme Court have to be non-negotiables for every 2028 Dem.

Silicon Valley’s Drive to Get AI Into America’s Schools Is Working Educators across the country are bringing chatbots into their lesson plans. Will it help kids learn or is it just another doomed ed-tech fad?

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

A long ways off, but looking forward to seeing him in March

We can’t have an accurate conversation about trans identity

The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.

i am afraid that university leaders see themselves as narrowly defending specific grants and policies, perhaps even asserting university prerogatives, when they are in fact, like it or not, on the front lines of defending democracy.

It's wild to see how much of higher education is just lining up to cut the fields that they already wanted to cut before the current administration came into office at all. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Just listened to your reveal episode. Continually affirmed by your perspective and in increasingly frustrated by dem complicity and dullness

Go be court watchers or at least talk to court watchers. Go to probation hearings. Interview folks unable to pay bail. The US is built on incarceration and it is only going to get worse. The time to cover the topic ferociously is NOW

A journalistic flop. Come onnnn

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All of this energy and effort to harm a small and precious minority.

Again, the public & parents about to send kids to colleges don't understand the scale of this threat & what it means for the quality & quantity of classes/degrees/etc, bc university leaders are totally MIA (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). Meanwhile, stuff everyone takes for granted is just disappearing:

The Engagement Scholarship Consortium is hosting their conference at VT in October while VT cuts a major focused on service. Disheartening.

The aggressive incarceration of immigrants and homeless people in the US is driven by a corporate desire to do a sneaky workaround to get past the 13th amendment.

They want slavery back but they want to avoid calling it what it is. There's BIG money in prison labor.