I want a 13th Amendment lawsuit challenging prison slavery, espech in immigration detention I know youre thinkin 'the Constitution's ban on slavery explicitly exempts prison labor' but it's actually slightly narrower, exempting "punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted"

Loathe me for it but, DFrump is a consequence not a cause of freewheeling racist, misogynist, trans/homophobic discourse the US empire upholds internally & globally. He's in power precisely since US-ians voted him in. Significant sections of 'not all ...' folks are part of the problem.

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

THIS is political violence. Why haven’t all of the national political leaders decried it? @governor.ny.gov has said nothing.

As my PhD student @mikesenters.bsky.social says, everything is gamergate (and these men from gamergate have been activated by the right). This is the tail of Bannon and Milo’s work beginning 2015…

“Turnout among S.A. voters increased by 40% compared with the 2021 primary, acc’d to…NYT’s analysis of voter records & demographic estimates based on voters’ names & neighborhoods from a nonpartisan data firm, L2.” shorturl.at/HkJ1U

oh

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

BREAKING: Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters says he is resigning. (Of course, he announced this on Fox News.) www.koco.com/article/ryan...

Two Democrats seeking to challenge GOP utility commissioners in Georgia are running on ramping up clean energy production. They’ve also called for lowering electricity rates, which have increased six times since 2023.

ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

That man is 46 years old. Fascism is worse than UV rays.

Absolutely wild that, in the year of our lord two-thousand and twenty-five, there's a new research article that calls women "females" but calls men "men"

I'm unabashedly on Team Critical Thought here. We call it like it is, we don't whitewash, we stand on evidence, and we don't soft-pedal for your feelings. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Truly amazing

These poor people

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

I...have been saying this for years...and...he just...he blurted it out

Supreme Court: Joe Biden couldn’t exercise executive powers explicitly delegated to him by Congress, while Donald Trump can exercise executive pseudo-powers explicitly denied to him by Congress www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/scot...

This is horrible news: When I look for informative reporting on politics and elections in Washington state, most of what I find and learn from is from Crosscut/Cascade PBS. This will leave a huge void.

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

New: Sarah MacLachlan, Jewel, and more musicians scheduled to perform at tonight's premiere for Hulu's ABC News doc LILITH FAIR have all pulled out after Disney scrapped the red carpet. First notable talent consequence of the Jimmy Kimmel situation.

I am still going to be watching what happens at airports tomorrow. Despite this similarly anonymous statement, the actual federal government has not issued any official guidance to ignore what the text of the proclamation says. The incompetence is staggering. This is governance by chaos.

The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.

NEW: Hours before a new entry ban is supposed to go into effect, the federal government officially acknowledges for the first time that the restrictions do NOT apply to people who currently have H-1B visas. Link: www.uscis.gov/sites/defaul...

While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April:

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

New: A&M officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for Melissa McCoul's termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. But faculty say the real issue was political pressure over her inclusion of LGBTQ+ themes. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

syracuse!!!

How it started: “The next provost search will fully follow our shared government practices.” 😑 shorturl.at/ADc1Z How it’s going: Provost tells deans to review all programs, pausing admissions to 20 programs in humanities and social sciences. shorturl.at/76uVk

Jacobs must resign as chair of the NY Dem party if he cannot support what Dem voters have chosen. He should resign today, or continue to do very serious damage to the party. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

You should read this thread and then sit with it. Seriously. Read it. And sit with it. You don't know everything. You have never dealt with systematic oppression. You can't even fathom that you don't know everything. We're done here. bsky.app/profile/shen...

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Yes please.

wtf

“The very algorithms that reward conflict helped make Charlie Kirk famous, giving his supporters the affirmation they craved and his critics the outrage they expected. This turns the medium built for connection into a loop that scales devotion and division in equal measure,” writes Haileleol Tibebu.

Please do FOIA everything coming out of the National Endowment for the Humanities this year - including all the grants that you were told were never reviewed. That's your labor and your tax dollars, and you have a right to know. www.neh.gov/about/foia

Hi friends! I'm discussing digital hate publics, algorithms, and Hindu nationalism at the University of Science & Arts on Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 7PM. If you are in or nearby, join us! Grateful to @zachsimpson.bsky.social for the invite! #usao #digitalhate #algorithms #hindutva

Senate hearing today, Dr. Monarez testified: Kennedy directed her to commit to approving every recommendation "regardless of the scientific evidence" and also directed her to "dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy, w/o cause" "He said if I was unwilling to do both, I should resign"

Amazing

lol. Yes.

Cool opportunity for fiction/book fiction mentorship in publishing if you are resident of a South Asian country. images.dawn.com/news/1194053

hey, if any religion profs want to talk to @religiondispatches.org about their experiences of being on this shitheel's Professor Watchlist, I feel a series of interviews coming on

This looks excellent.