They defanged it but it's still up for consideration in TN. If passed it will remove all meaningful due process from having tenure and allow the state to put faculty on leave *without* pay while an investigation is being performed. www.newschannel5.com/news/tenness...

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The only difference so far is that it isn't fully implemented...yet.

“More than anything else, women are enjoying being women without men, enjoying their erotic power communally with other women."

Why is it that most sources that lean right have low factuality, while the opposite is not true. Does leaning left mean embracing truth? @groundnews.bsky.social

I am begging: Do not learn how to do activism or organizing from social media influencers. Do not join massive unvetted Signal groups promoted by “revolutionary” influencers. If you want to be an activist, you need to be embedded in local community with people you know and trust. I am BEGGING here

My annual wrap-up of the US Far Right is out! I look at the soaring fortunes of the Active Club, Groypers & Blood Tribe; arrests of neo-Nazis and NVE actors for encouraging & committing murder; and the Trump admin's conspiracy theories & fashy graphics. Please share! newrepublic.com/article/2049...

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Neoconservative Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social has been saying some incredible things lately. he now admits that the conservative mvt of the last decades was "maybe...an aberration" & that the real American conservatism was 1930s-style nativist, racist, pro-Nazi & pro-KKK conservatism.

Why don't I have a million followers so that at least 10,000 would watch this incredible short animation from @risingvoices.bsky.social ? www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8hE...

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Harvard has officially closed its office for LGBTQ life. They folded it into the office of culture and community. There are affinity support offices for veterans and religious students but not for LGBTQ students, students of color, or women. Absolute cowards. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

If I see ONE MORE POST about liberating women in Iran from extremist religion, I am going to become incandescent. How about liberating women in the US from extremist religion??? Seriously. Not asking for a friend, asking for me.

Another fantastic article from the Climate Justice Fellowship program at @globalvoices.org, which pairs sinophone and Global Majority journalists to report together on China's international projects and their impacts:

Even those of you who oppose the war have turned it into some kind of a joke, a meme, an opportunity to be "correct" yet again. And I get it. It's too monstrous to contemplate fully. We're too monstrous to contemplate fully.

Around 20 years ago, when I lived in Iran, I wondered what I would do, how I would grieve, what pain I would feel when and if my identity would be used to bomb the country. To destroy its culture and its people.

Civilians in #Gaza, #Israel & #Iran are paying the price for the violence of those in power. The EU must act: suspend the EU-Israel Agreement, support peace voices in Israel, and stop looking away from Gaza. Now is the time for diplomacy and de-escalation. 🎥 @hneumannmep.bsky.social

Israel is a rogue, genocidal state and it will continue acting like a rogue, genocidal state because it has been enabled for nearly two years to openly carry out a genocide. This will not stop until Israel is forced to stop but the states that can do so are instead enabling it to continue

It's never really about your "tone" it's about the fact that you said something they didn't want to hear, and in fact don't think you should even have the right or audacity to say to them. Don't worry about how you come across when you are saying the truth. There is no approved way you can say it.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

"I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points."

We can't let these seeds disappear

Raise your hand if you think of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower series every minute of every day. ✋

I don’t get how anyone can try to spin this into anything other than what it blatantly is. There is no Palestinian army. There is no way for Gaza, where the population is predominantly children to defend themselves. What Israel is doing is called a genocide because that is what it is.

This: "empowerment narratives that rely on participation in violence do not equate to liberation. True justice cannot be achieved by simply diversifying the face of oppression." from @globalvoices.org globalvoices.org/2025/05/09/t...

It really is this simple. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

I adore this piece on language from @globalvoices.org here's a snippet: "My favourite proverb is “Nyantahurira akambukira omu bwato bwibumba” — he who doesn't heed a warning will eventually try to cross a sea in a clay boat." - Prudence Nyamishana globalvoices.org/2025/02/23/a-

All institutions are made up of individuals. Individuals can say "no". If enough individuals refuse, orders don't get carried out. It's hardest for the first person, but often you discover that others want to say "no", but haven't the practice that gives you courage. 1/3

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“The priority is to save our country. Protesters say 'we are protecting your kids’ future so you don’t wake up in Russia tomorrow'.” The crackdown against protesters in Tbilisi is escalating. One 14-year-old took her camera to document what she saw:

I read it! And it's amazing. I was especially interested in how RACISM was forced on to people by law. It's made me rethink so much of what I know about society and especially about the "rule of law"

Thank you Karwan!

Sometimes, when people exercise all the power they have, they show us that that's all the power they have.

Super excited to read this book from the amazing Dr Angela Sutton