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Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

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So I would like some recommendations for histories about people who successfully fought back against corrupt election systems (1950s Mississippi? Apartheid South Africa?) I'm seeing people say "game over for democracy" a lot and I feel like we might have the wrong sense of what the game is?

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The AAUP is suing the government for academic freedom. I renewed my membership at AAUP and if you want to as well, here's the link: www.aaup.org/membership/j... #academicbluesky #academicfreedom #aaup #nokings

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"Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided on Friday to impose a minimum tax of $100 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by ships...effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions." apnews.com/article/ship...

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Like how he wants to take fluoride out of the water bc what if it’s a neurotoxin? But also he’s cutting funding for treating lead poisoning, which is absolutely a neurotoxin. It’s because everyone’s water has fluoride (a public good!) but it’s mostly poor Black + Brown kids’ water has lead

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I agree with Prof. Vladeck regarding not misstating what happened/what was expected. But we can also hold space for the horrificness of the system working as intended - for the knowledge that his baby will likely be born while his baba is in a cage. The fight is ongoing. Keep going.

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So you're telling me that asserting your rights, rather than saying, "thank you sir, may I have another" may actually be an effective tactic against clear assaults on academic freedom?

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Boy this week is quite the year, ain't it?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Take note law firms and universities.

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

Deporting people means a judge signs a final deportation order, and the person is returned to their own country. What we are doing is kidnapping a person off the street and paying for them to be held indefinitely in concentration camps outside US courts' jurisdiction. 100% deliberately extralegal.

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

Just remembering that bomb talk means bombed people www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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In case you missed it, Trump also signed an executive order today directing the AG to go after state and local climate policies. Potentially bigger deal than coal order, imo… www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

I'm not going to stop saying this. We need to stop calling it "deporting." It may not always be fair or humane, but deportation has a process. And it means you're sent back to where you came from. These people are being trafficked and sold to slave prisons. Not deported.

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

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The rationale for this cancellation is climate denial. There is no dressing it up, there is no tiptoeing around it. Yet climate change doesn’t care if we believe it. It will destroy our homes, multiply insurance rates, wreak economic havoc and more — regardless of our opinions or voting record.

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“While the threats to impeach federal judges based on their decisions are largely performative, they are also designed to foment disrespect for the judiciary and the rule of law,” said former federal judge John Jones, who is now the president of Dickinson College. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Can we stop calling these atrocities "deportations." These people sold to El Salvadorian prisons were not deported. Deportation is a process that did not take place. They were rounded up and removed with no process. They were kidnapped, not deported.

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“To protect both themselves and the entire educational system, then, university leaders should commit, collectively and immediately, to challenge unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom and university self-governance. Nothing in the antitrust laws prohibits this sort of coordination.” 👇👇

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75%

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In more uplifting news, 1,000 people protested ICE’s abduction of a mother and children at the home of the agency’s acting head Tom Homan. Notably, the entire population of the town is just 1,450. www.syracuse.com/state/2025/0...

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

Let's build a thread on what the cancellation of NEH grants is doing to state councils. Add yours here, I'll start:

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This! Research shows that protests 1) raise awareness, 2) empower people (especially the disadvantaged), and 3) exert pressure on elites. Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Alt: cartoon beardo avatar: at seisinenfeoffin tweets: "when I say the 'protesters' went to brunch, i mean literally" I am begging people to learn the history of movements. Do you know how much of the civil rights movement happened in Horn and Hardart's?! People gather and talk over food.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 20 days ago • 919 comments

I was proud to write for the New York Times for more than 20 years, but I’m not proud of the newspaper’s buried coverage of the nationwide #handsoff protests. Compare the printed front page today to 1970 Earth Day.

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If you want to learn how to organize a People's Assembly focused on public libraries in your community, join us on 4/17 for the launch of a new resource from FTP: www.eventbrite.com/e/public-lib...

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

The DOGE agenda is unpopular. In fact, the only government agency any significant part of the American public would like to see eliminated is DOGE itself.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people who know it's dumb can't break free

submitted 8 days ago • 61 comments

Does the Privacy Act not exist anymore? It is bewildering how many laws which governed basic public sector practices for decades are being ignored.

submitted 7 days ago • 73 comments

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

submitted 7 days ago • 289 comments

can't normalize without normies. make your peace with this now

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

Hey friends if you were at a protest today and you’re thinking “yes, but what next?” Don’t forget that one of the people who decides what next is you. #HandsOff

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

If you work at a university, make sure to demand that staff do a routine check if SEVIS twice a day. It’s the only way to know if your student is being targeted for disappearances. Also make safety plans for anybody with even minor citations like parking tickets.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Here's how you end a Hands Off! demonstration, Santa Barbara style. Thanks to the Society of Fearless Grandmothers, who organized the human alphabet and took the drone shots! #indivisible #handsoff

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

Harper Collins did not sign. So weird how being owned by Rupert Murdoch means they can't even advocate for their own survival. Libraries are a HUGE part of all publishers' bottom lines. If you can't speak out bc it's right, speak out bc otherwise this destroys your bottom line ffs

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