Daniel Braaten
@danielbraaten.bsky.social
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Dad, Utility Political Scientist, Union Member, Sports Fan, Gardener, Northerner Exiled in Texas.
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#GoSpursGo
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kerry â¨
about 6 hours ago
Ms Rachel went to Delaney Hall
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Mike Finger
about 3 hours ago
Something had to change for the Spurs in Game 3, and it did. Maybe it was skybox karma. Maybe it was a head-clearing, statue-sketching trip to the park. Or maybe it was just getting to the rim, over and over again. But this series ainât over.
www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...
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How Spurs embraced a distraction, possibly turned around NBA Finals vs. Knicks
By ruining what was left of the party with a ruthlessly methodical, stubbornly poised 115-111 victory, the Spurs made it clear this series is far from over.
https://www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs/article/finger-spurs-distraction-win-game-3-over-knicks-22296468.php
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Matt Seybold
about 17 hours ago
Imagine if Tech or Finance allowed their story to be told in the mainstream press almost exclusively by people who hated them. This is what Education has chosen, in large part because it is saboteurs from Finance and Tech who have been doing the choosing.
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friends lets be honest, you do not want to cheer for the Knicks. The stink of Trump is on them and they are going down. The Spurs are the peoples team and they will rise to glory
#GoSpursGo
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about 18 hours ago
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
about 20 hours ago
đ đ 85 degrees and 78% humidity but Texas AAUP-AFT showed up for the launch of Gina Hinojosaâs Team Texas Public Schools initiative! The fight for public education and higher education in Texas are connected! â
@ginafortexas.bsky.social
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im so excited that this chud might be my new Congressman!
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about 21 hours ago
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Texas AFL-CIO
about 21 hours ago
LET'S GO!
#OrganizeTheSouth
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AFL-CIO president aims to unionize 2 million workers in 5 years ⢠Minnesota Reformer
MINNEAPOLIS â Moments after being reelected by representatives for dozens of unions Sunday, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler made an ambitious pledge to unionize at least 2 million workers over the next 5...
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/07/afl-cio-president-aims-to-unionize-at-least-2-million-workers-in-5-years/
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Texas AFL-CIO
4 days ago
đ˘ TEXAS UNION WIN: Workers at the Marriott Marquis in Downtown Houston just won a new contract with higher wages, lower health care costs, and more!
@unitehere.org
Local 23 continues to rack up the wins and show that when we come together to fight for fair wages and worker protections, we win!
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David Roberts
4 days ago
My political opinion for the day is that I really fucking hate fascists and right now they are swarming around us, tearing down everything good about our country, and they need to be stopped.
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LabourStart
4 days ago
GLOBAL:Migration Without Rights is Exploitation - IDWF at the International Migration Review Forum 2026
idwfed.org/news/migrati...
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Migration without Rights is ExploitationIDWF at the International Migration Review Forum 2026 - International Domestic Workers Federation
We are a membership-based global organization of domestic and household workers. A domestic or household worker is any person engaged in domestic work within an employment relationship.
https://idwfed.org/news/migration-without-rights-is-exploitationidwf-at-the-international-migration-review-forum-2026/
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this is a crime against humanity
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5 days ago
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"the pursuit of science . . . is now categorized as partisan politics."
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AAUP
5 days ago
The AAUP is battling Trumpâs attacks on higher education on multiple fronts: on campus, in the courts, and in the streets. âWeâre only getting stronger. I can promise you that we will fight them tooth and nail.â â Todd Wolfson, AAUP President Join us.
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Trump officials went after dozens of colleges. Now they're rewriting the rules for all of academia
President Donald Trump's administration put dozens of college campuses under investigation last year and cut federal funding unless they came in line with his Republican agenda.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-colleges-higher-education-investigations-rules-83d79bc1b371191f77ae571c1df3490d
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Spurs looked tired at the end, bummer. I did see a painted bunting on my backyard camera so that's good
#GoSpursGo
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Alex Kirshner
5 days ago
Not surprised someone in lawless Texas would run on the court. Try that in a small town (Manhattan)
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Mike Finger
5 days ago
In case non-Texan political pundits needed further evidence that potato-and-egg is a time-honored
#PuroSanAntonio
taco option, fans can get one for free if the Spurs win Game 1.
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sad but true
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Julian Champagne was waived by the 76ers so Mac McClung could participate in the dunk contests. Now he's the leading scorer in game one of the finals, lol
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Congressman Greg Casar
6 days ago
I brought
@ocasio-cortez.house.gov
tortillas from H-E-B. They make people feel better after a tough night, and that's what the Spurs are going to give Knicks fans tonight. Go Spurs go!
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Ted Cruz is a Rockets fan. He can fuck off
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6 days ago
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I'll believe it when I see it, partisanship is a helluva drug but even if a fraction switch (or more likely don't turnout) that could be good news for Talarico
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6 days ago
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Cary Clack
6 days ago
There are three levers of celebrity in San Antonio: 1. Spurs 2. Public Injury Lawyers 3. Local TV personalities.
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Paul Renfro
6 days ago
As Iâve argued before, the attack on higher education (and the anti-intellectual project, more generally) transcend the tidy boundaries many of us like to draw between red states and blue states or public and private institutions. If some of us are vulnerable, weâre all vulnerable.
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Jacob T. Levy
6 days ago
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights report on the US policing/ imprisonment system: "The [International Independent Expert ] Mechanism is of the view that unpaid or poorly unpaid forced prison labour in the United States perpetuates slavery to the present day."
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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A/HRC/54/CRP.7: International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context of Law Enforcement - Visit to the United States of America
Summary Pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 47/21, and at the invitation of the Government, the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the Context...
https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc54crp7-international-independent-expert-mechanism-advance-racial
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The New School AAUP
6 days ago
The New School chapter of the American Association of University Professors condemned what it described as âa major gutting of our full-time faculty bodyâ⌠saying that no explanation had been provided for why certain jobs were cut.
www.chronicle.com/article/its-...
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âItâs Just Been Agonyâ: Facing a Big Deficit, the New School Begins Layoffs
One of New Yorkâs most prominent universities has handed layoff notices to about 15 percent of its employees, marking its latest measure to rectify a $48-million budget deficit.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/its-just-been-agony-facing-a-big-deficit-the-new-school-begins-layoffs
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album of the day - Philadelphia's Been Good to Me from Kurt Vile
6 days ago
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The Baffler
7 days ago
The Lower Rio Grande Valley is under threat. Joseph Bullington reports from the Gulf Coast prairies and wetlands that are being razed by SpaceX, Border Patrol, and the fossil fuel industry.
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Rocket Racket | Joseph Bullington
SpaceX is transforming the wildlife refuges of South Texas into testing sites for the rockets it promises will one day terraform Mars.
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/rocket-racket-bullington
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album of the day - De-Loused in Comatorium from The Mars Volta
7 days ago
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Jeff Garcia
9 days ago
WATCH: Alien face hovers over downtown San Antonio following Spurs Game 7 WCF win
open.substack.com/pub/spursinf...
#nba
#porvida
#sanantonio
#gospursgo
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WATCH: Alien face hovers over downtown San Antonio following Spurs Game 7 WCF win
By Jeff Garcia, Spurs In Focus
https://open.substack.com/pub/spursinfocus/p/watch-alien-face-hovers-over-downtown?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7tyyac
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Dan Greene
10 days ago
You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.
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its too bad Texas universities have banned the study of gender.
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San Antonio Current
10 days ago
The revelation that the county, which faces a budget deficit, isnât chasing the money comes after it was revealed Sakai accepted free Spurs playoff tickets on two occasions.
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Sakai says Bexar County won't pursue $5 million Spurs owe for failed soccer project
Departing Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai speaks to reporters during a recent event. Bexar County Judge Peter Sakai this week told reporters the county has
https://www.sacurrent.com/news/san-antonio-news/sakai-says-bexar-county-wont-pursue-5-million-spurs-owe-for-failed-soccer-project/
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Ryan Boyd
11 days ago
It's a sociopolitical mystery as to why so many college professors dislike the political party whose platform includes the plank "fuck you woke gay commies, we're going to obliterate your profession"
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given his penchant for high school girls I think we can safely assume that Wooderson would be MAGA
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12 days ago
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
12 days ago
Karma ChĂĄvez, pres. of AAUP chapter at UT: âWhen you lump [the disciplines] in together as one thing, youâre actually erasing decades of scholarshipâŚThe only thing that brings them together is the fact that theyâre targeting marginalized people, especially on the lines of race, gender, + sexuality.â
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The Blueprint for Banning DEI: How Texas Is Using Department Consolidation to Reshape Higher Ed
Some faculty members say it is a politically-motivated, top-down defunding of teaching and research that centers issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and citizenship.
https://www.theeduledger.com/leadership-policy/article/15826058/the-blueprint-for-banning-dei-how-texas-is-using-department-consolidation-to-reshape-higher-ed?utm_source=chatgpt.com
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album of the day - Mer De Noms from A Perfect Circle
12 days ago
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Amy Kristin Sanders
13 days ago
A win for academic freedom and the First Amendment at West Point. Faculty should always be permitted to speak freely on their subject of expertise.
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Judge Lifts West Pointâs Restrictions on Civilian Professorsâ Speech
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/nyregion/west-point-trump-free-speech.html
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album of the day - Fondness, Etc. from Shakey Graves
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
14 days ago
This report should get as much if not more coverage than the other Yale report. It wonât, however, because it doesnât fit the media narrative about higher ed as a woke indoctrination factory.
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album of the day - Middle of Nowhere from Kacey Musgraves
15 days ago
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Christopher Mims
15 days ago
Texas shows that in the freest energy markets, solar beats fossil fuels: In 2026 the state will produce WAY more energy from solar than coal. Naturally, Texas is also the neck and neck with CA to be the battery storage capital of America.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Solar electricity is poised to overtake coal inâof all placesâTexas
Looks like clean power isn't a woke scam after all.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/solar-electricity-overtakes-coal-texas-ercot-energy-power-grid-resilience/
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AAUP
18 days ago
"The secrecy & force of the changes are akin to the massive disappearances of immigrants that are happening in our streets & to the history of forced disappearances of people around the world who are hunted & targeted for their knowledge & beliefs." â Mariela NuĂąez-Janes, VP, UNT AAUP
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UNT students protest censorship with a funeral at Board of Regents meeting
A handful of University of North Texas students traveled from Denton and Houston to Fort Worth on Thursday morning.
https://www.keranews.org/education/2026-05-22/unt-students-protest-censorship-with-a-funeral-at-board-of-regents-meeting?_amp=true
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin
19 days ago
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
By our chapter president, Karma Chavez:
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The Myth of the Academic Social Contract
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/08912432261431258
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It's the same thing with universities. Fire professors for their constitutionally protected rights in a sop to the right wing attack mob, get sued, payout to the victims (hopefully anyway)
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin
19 days ago
www.texastribune.org/2026/05/20/u...
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UT System regents to vote on rule guiding academic program cuts
College students and professors are protesting with mock funerals across Texas, saying universities are dying from political interference. School officials say theyâre responding to shifting needs.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/05/20/ut-system-vote-streamline-academic-program-cuts-mock-funeral-texas/
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NPR
19 days ago
Amin Abdullah, Nadir Awad and Mansour Kaziha distracted and delayed two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Their actions saved the many children and staff inside the mosque and cost them their lives.
n.pr/4uRJkwk
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The San Diego mosque shooting victims remembered as 'heroes' for protecting children
Amin Abdullah, Nadir Awad and Mansour Kaziha distracted and delayed two gunmen at the Islamic Center of San Diego. Their actions saved the many children and staff inside the mosque and cost them their lives.
https://n.pr/4uRJkwk
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If the New York Times is interested in schools where students also work jobs do I have about 7,000 places for them to investigate
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19 days ago
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Annie McClanahan
19 days ago
Amazing news--congrats UPTE!!!
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Valerio De Stefano
19 days ago
đ¨ BREAKING - The International Court of Justice has just recognised that the right to strike is protected by international law, under ILO Convention no. 87 đ¨ This is a momentous decision that protects the fundamental rights of workers worldwide and upholds the rule of law in workplaces everywhere.
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