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Huge congrats to Transom teacher David Weinberg who was recognized today at #Tribeca2025 for his new show "American Explorer" -- a #TribecaAudio official selection! What a great event (hosted by Transom alum @chenjerai.bsky.social)!

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"This is what the people who've assigned themselves the duty to run things believe that leadership should look like: a man with a famous name declaring that nothing can really be different." defector.com/andrew-cuomo...

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A former D.C. police lieutenant convicted of leaking information about a police investigation to the leader of the Proud Boys group on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, was sentenced Friday to 18 months behind bars.

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Oooh look at what @debtcollective.bsky.social‬ has cooking

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Any "nees" organization that's "leaning in" on AI has lost all credibility and right to claim the mantle of journalism. Don't darken my door with that shit. You are dead to me. www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

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#tdih 1863, Combahee River Raid co-led by Harriet Tubman, freed close to 800 people from slavery & destroyed Confederate supplies. ⬇️: links to Uncivil "The Raid" podcast with @chenjerai.bsky.social; @blackpastonline.bsky.social; lesson on abolitionists; books by Dunbar & Fields-Black; & more 🧵

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A review by THE CITY of thousands of pages of court documents …. paints a striking picture of how intensely his Cuomo’s legal defense has come after any woman he sees as part of his downfall. And taxpayers have footed the bill, to the tune of $19 million

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Much respect to Local 6741 for your leadership and there are key resources here for organizing in higher ed👇🏿👇🏿💪🏿

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Cutting Medicaid and Social Security is immoral. aftvoices.org/cutting-medi...

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Read our latest article by @chaficnajem.bsky.social'on smuggled digital technologies and how incarcerated people in Lebanon make their voices heard. With lessons for those interested in abolition media everywhere! Now available from @ccc-journal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1093/ccc/...

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Interesting study. If students are primed to think about the threat of automation they value courses with more "creativity" focus, if students are primed to think about threat from foreign labor they value courses with more technical focus. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Here we go ⬇️

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staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

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It’s coming…

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"Empire City" creator and host @chenjerai.bsky.social recently took home a Webby Award! ICYMI, Kumanyika and Futuro Media founder Maria Hinojosa were recently on Laura Flanders & Friends to discuss foreign detention, attacks on free speech and the war on education: bit.ly/4jZqeiL

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This is unbearable

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📰📷Hot off the press! Issue #20 of the FSJP Roundup, an irregular bulletin for faculty and staff at NYU interested in Palestine. May 19, 2025. Click this link to read: facultyforpalestine.education/2025/05/19/m...

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BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1

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www.ilrc.org/practitioner... nationwide police agreements with ICE

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BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be freed from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

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Ras Baraka elevated in 1 day for standing up to fascism. Democrats, learn from this.

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Holy cow! This lineup of audio storytelling programs coming up Tribeca is sure to feed your ears and your soul. Includes @chenjerai.bsky.social @ohitsbigron.bsky.social @thisamericanlife.org @nytimes.com @inthedarkradio.bsky.social and more. Can't wait!! tribecafilm.com/festival/aud...

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NEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:

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Texas state retirees haven’t received a boost in their pension since 2001, during Rick Perry’s first term as governor. That’s why AFSCME Retirees like Rick Farias, who dedicated their careers to helping Texans, support House Bill 886 – a 13th check for our retirees! #txlege

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🚨NEW: Eric Adams and top NYPD brass met with group linked to Israeli far right NYPD won't say why. prismreports.org/2025/05/07/e...

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Host John Biewen shares the most honest moments about race from @prx.org’s @sceneonradio.bsky.social, co-hosted by @chenjerai.bsky.social—hear the history of forgotten coups, stories of racial healing, & conversations from the intersection of race & gender. share.harkaudio.com/25n1prNWyid4...

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I am telling everyone who ranks this person that you are ranking Donald Trump. Period.

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A Maryland town wanted Trump to cut waste. Now it's a target www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

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Immigrants are not more likely to be criminals, but the Trump administration is using the myth of criminal immigrants to detain swathes of people. Meanwhile, a different kind of crime is on the rise, says Peabody Award-winning audio journalist @chenjerai.bsky.social: bit.ly/4jZqeiL

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If only the rest of the media focused as well, as clearly, on reality as @chenjerai.bsky.social.

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I am your lord and savior, only I can do it, and I’m addicted to my phone but…

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"Of the 1,500 postdoctoral researchers at Penn, 1,000 signed authorization cards in support of forming Research Associates and Postdocs United, according to the group." @rapup-uaw.bsky.social www.thedp.com/article/2025...

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A federal judge just ruled that our case seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty who participate in pro-Palestinian protests can go forward. Read our statement: knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...

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The sixth issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. It’s morning again in America. Federal agents snatch students off the streets. The White House boasts of banishing hundreds of people to a Salvadoran prison. Head Start and domestic violence shelters await the chopping block. hammerandhope.org

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Note: When right-wing activist Sean Feucht held and impromptu evening worship service in the Capitol Rotunda back in 2023, police occasionally walked in to speak with lawmakers participating, but no one was arrested. religionnews.com/2024/07/08/t...

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