amndw2.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

submitted 3 hours ago • 29 comments

The fact that anyone could continue to teach, the idea that this is "as usual" is such a betrayal to their students, to themselves, to the nation. It's completely unconscionable.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

This is why I'm skeptical of any examination of "male loneliness" that doesn't put profit pressures and hustle culture at the root of the problem.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

This is really good

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Big and dangerous news. Two thoughts: 1) this funding can’t legally be revoked without a formal administrative hearing and judicial review. 42 USC sec. 2000d-1, 2. 2) going after Columbia first, which has been quite aggressive in cracking down on protests, sends a message that no university is safe.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Big "Yes / YES / THE TIGER IS OUT" energy right here.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

a very key point is that Trumpism makes his voters worse people on a personal level too. it demands performative cruelty.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

This could be us but etc. etc.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

my fellow Californians of good moral character… trans people need you, i need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

I hope science colleagues asking us to stand up for their research will see that the same solidarity is required for arts, humanities and social science research. If any of us are disposable, we all are eventually.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Oh hey #BSBookClub 🐋 crew, did we already know about this playlist? (Apologies if one of you posted and/or created this ages ago!)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

40-day #TargetBoycott starting today I like to believe about myself that, had I been around for the Montgomery Bus Boycott, I would've both boycotted & helped the Black organizers in any way they asked. I can't know. I do know, though, that I am around now. I can surely boycott Target for 40 days.

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Apropos of a lot of things: I keep thinking about how in 2017 we found out that a lot of Confederate statues are actually hollow on the inside and it's surprisingly easy to pull them down. The visual of this one in Durham, NC, crumpled to the ground, has stayed with me for years.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I need the institution where I teach (NYU) to respond clearly and unequivocally saying this is unconstitutional and they will not be adhering to it. This is a red line.

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

If you’re a professor in a classroom today & you don’t mention this, I believe you’re doing your students a profound disservice. This is targeted 1st at international students, but it’s deliberately broad enough to lay groundwork for a scene Trump & Hegseth have fantasized: troops on campus.

submitted 6 days ago • 83 comments

furiously scribbling notes for future Opera Outfits

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Some figures on the potential death toll from Musk's pointless destruction of USAID, from a memo written by a fired official. He will be remembered as one of the great monsters of history. 1/x

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

I’m so thankful that SHARP issued this statement about the annual conference in July; and I’m so deeply disgusted and enraged that it was necessary to do so.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It’s a beautiful day for a protest. #TeslaTakedown

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

submitted 10 days ago • 497 comments

Re: concerns (good faith or bad!) that #EconomicBoycott, a single, 24-hr action, won't do "anything," pls understand: 1.No single action stands alone; they add up—but only if they happen 2.It's a start; if it works, it'll go bigger 3.Ppl who take one action? Generally keep going. It. All. Matters.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

Psyched about some exciting upcoming international travel in a few months, but at the back of my head I keep wondering: Will my American accent get me shunned? Will we be in another pandemic situation thanks to RFK Jr. and his antivax lunacy? Will it even be safe to fly on a plane?

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Thread. And in case my fellow white people need it to be more explicit: you are facing a fraction of the fear and uncertainty that the Black community has faced in the US for centuries, and it is turning some of you into your ugliest selves.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Everybody needs to see this beastie peeping through a hole in Isidore. #medievalsky

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This! If you can switch from Whole Foods to a different grocery store and buy your books from bookshop.org instead of Amazon, that’s still a big step even if you feel tied to Amazon for other items. If everyone divested 30% that’s more than if a few people divest 100%.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

This is a full purge of every single LGBTQ employee at the NSA. Rufo is falsely mischaracterizing a LGBTQ employee resource group as a "sex chat" to create pretext to fire every single member in it. This is a playbook they will run to purge the entire federal government.

submitted 13 days ago • 168 comments

You first.

submitted 13 days ago • 5841 comments

Last night's piano lesson involved me getting frustrated with my lack of hand coordination on a tricky passage. We ended up working on literally half a measure of it over and over, very slowly, until it started to come together. I feel like this is metaphor for living in these times.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

In every academic leadership position, people must ask themselves: who do I serve? The people above me or below me? #academicsky

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

That should be the populist left line. People hate billionaires and railing against them is immensely popular.

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

Dear manager: 1) wore the bottoms of my trousers rolled 2) parted my hair behind 3) dared to eat a peach 4) heard the mermaids singing each to each 5) do not think that they will sing to me

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Dear manager: 1) went home with the waitress 2) the way I always do 3) how was I to know she was with the Russians too? 4) gambled in Havana 5) took a little risk

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, this is the one

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 16 days ago • 37 comments

My new favorite athlete spoke out at a Huntington Beach (California) city council meeting and made them carry him out. He was protesting “the city's approval of a public library plaque that was designed to use words to spell out "MAGA" www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Make sure these people are never able to eat in public again

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

"We didn’t become the greatest shirtwaist factory in the world by resting on our laurels. That’s why we’ve brought in a new efficiency czar, Noel Skum, whose job is to cut unnecessary spending and roll back overly restrictive safety regulations." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tha...

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

From the article: 'He added, “This post is for any LGBT folks who think that the Trump admin isn’t targeting our entire community. Expect moves to remove us from antidiscrimination laws, plus lawsuits aimed at giving the Supreme Court the chance to overturn decisions that gave us rights.”'

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Call for IMMEDIATE action: LCSH is officially proposing changes from "Mexico, Gulf of" to "America, Gulf of" and "Denali" to "Mt. Mckinley": classweb.org/tentative-su... Send feedback to [email protected] by TODAY, Tuesday, February 18, to oppose these changes

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

“Private University Leaders Display the Same Bravery as Community College Leaders” Challenge 2025.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

submitted 20 days ago • 96 comments