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

Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

This is horrific "The Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo outlines an unprecedented push to target migrant children who crossed the border illegally as unaccompanied minors." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

submitted 21 hours ago • 25 comments

I’ve decided to start using the same subject lines in my emails to Democratic leadership as they use in their fundraising emails to me: “Time is running out, Hakeem!” “Don’t you care about our future, Chuck?!”

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

From Religious Studies at York Twitter account: The administration at York University has suspended admissions to the Religious Studies program . . . The faculty have written this statement. We ask you to will distribute it widely and write to York's administration to protest this decision.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Re-sharing – now without the editorializing! “On Friday, Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs, a decision faculty members say was made after programs had already accepted students.”

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

In the depths of the Nebraskan winter, 2400 people came out to listen to Bernie Sanders in Omaha last night. 800 had to be turned away at the door. Over 190,000 tuned into the livestream. There is a movement to be harnessed here. @sanders.senate.gov (📸 Anna Bahr)

submitted 2 days ago • 725 comments

York University recently announced that admissions to the Classics and Classical Studies programs have been suspended for Fall 2025. Classical Studies colleagues and students at York would be grateful for letters of support. How you can help: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/supp... AncientBluesky

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe Trump should freeze Congress's salaries. Perhaps this would wake more of them up or perhaps not since so many of them are already rich.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

"What I did not anticipate, when thinking that the whole suite of behaviours, from Nazi saluting to upturning reality, belonged well and truly to the past, was the sense of paralysis that would settle when fascism finally put its fancy dress on." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

🎵 Stress baking 🎶

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

This. I know many feel the need for a breather. There’s no time for that. It’s not fair. Fascism isn’t fair. Let’s stop it before it’s all there is.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

submitted 6 days ago • 369 comments

New on AJR! Seth Schwartz highlights the interventions that Gross makes in Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve long been a fan of @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social but this essay, about Washington’s empty streets, and a woman who traveled from Alabama to join what protest she could find, moved me. It’s not “news,” but I think it’s a record of this time we’ll need someday. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/revolution...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Here's why I think you should read @robertamazza.bsky.social 's newest book "Stolen Fragments" - published in the Review of Biblical Literature www.sblcentral.org/home/bookDet...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

For #BlackHistoryMonth this year, I’m going to be posting daily about: representations of blackness in Greco-Roman antiquity, the history of scholarship by Black classicists, and the history of Africana receptions using the hashtag #AncientBlackness. Join me.

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

SCOOP: A group including Columbia alumni, professors & parents is trying to get students deported & arrested and urged people to tip off FBI. They’ve also disparaged Jewish protesters & tried to compile lists of JVP members. W/ @natashalennard.bsky.social theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

The gender affirming care ban executive order has been blocked in court! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

In the past weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing white supremacist groups that had been listed among the most dangerous threats to national security. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 11 days ago • 1152 comments

It is my pleasure to announce the program for #ResDiff6 (March 21, 2025), an annual digital conference addressing inequity in classics, which I co-organize with Joseph Romero. Keynote: Sarah Derbew. resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Soaked in Berlant lately, so esp aware of the constraints on trying to connect with one’s own life force these days, and the genres we take up hoping to find it there: romance, moral exhortation and its certitudes, heroic efficacy, sentimental domesticity.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

of course my favorite poem about the Super Bowl is actually about mortality and the absurdity of being alive

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

"The sadistic glee at issue here is not just his; it depends on being communicated and widely enjoyed in order to exist – it is a communal and contagious celebration of cruelty. Indeed, the media attention it garners feeds the sadistic spree." this is why I cant do Twitter any more.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

well hellooooo

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

guys you gotta read the article. people like this article because it's actually nuanced. it's attacking a particular form of political activism, which is quote-dunking. it absolutely does acknowledge that organizing can and does happen online.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n... Welcome to fascism....

submitted 24 days ago • 14 comments

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Over the weekend, about a dozen trans women at a Ft. Worth prison were taken from their rooms and told they were being transferred to a men's prison ASAP. theintercept.com/2025/01/28/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Global refuge (formerly Lutheran immigration and refugee services) were given a stop work order and had all their $$ frozen. 😡

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

respect for a diversity of tactics and all of that.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Among a list of other immigration policies, Gov. Bill Lee is proposing a felony charge and removal from office for local elected officials who vote in favor of sanctuary city policies in Tennessee. Story: @sarahgracetaylor.bsky.social nashvillebanner.com/2025/01/23/t...

submitted 31 days ago • 66 comments

Breaking news: The Justice Department said it will roll back Biden-era efforts to criminally charge demonstrators who interfere with patient access to reproductive health clinics, calling those prosecutions an example of the “weaponization” of law enforcement.

submitted 30 days ago • 58 comments