october krausch
@octoberk.bsky.social
freelance sociologist, writer, facilitator, editor. they/them. organizing with Detroit Peer Respite & Abolitionist Book Club. proud union member Freelance Solidarity Project & Rutgers PTLFC-AAUP-AFT. https://www.octoberk.com
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Repression of Palestine Solidarity on Campus Enabled Anti-Migrant Escalation
Faculty are forming support networks to connect with each other to protect students and end the genocide in Palestine.
truthout.org
my latest is out today. higher ed right now is a difficult place to be, and Palestine is at the heart of it. some faculty, however, are working hard to create networks of support and solidarity despite the difficult terrain.
truthout.org/articles/rep...
truthout.org/articles/rep...
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Please do whatever you can to support Lubna and Nasser
Donate to Help Nasser to evacuate Gaza for urgent medical treatment, organized by Lubna Alajrami
Dear compassionate friends,
My name is Lubna Alajrami, an… Lubna Alajrami needs your support for Help Nasser to evacuate Gaza for urgent medical treatment
www.gofundme.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Please do whatever you can to support Lubna and Nasser
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hello, reminder that NYT is unfuckingrespectable for too many reasons to count
Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?
Stuff like this makes me wonder why there hasn't been any reporting about Trump having affairs during his presidencies
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
hello, reminder that NYT is unfuckingrespectable for too many reasons to count
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Does anyone have a tip for the closest place to drive from SW Minneapolis that's likely to be darker/good viewing?
If clear tonight - especially closer to sunset but after dark, tonight could be another big night of northern lights in Minnesota and elsewhere. #mnwx
Northern lights just now at Lake Harriet - and you can see reds and greens with your naked eye.
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Does anyone have a tip for the closest place to drive from SW Minneapolis that's likely to be darker/good viewing?
so much this!
Reminder that not all copaganda is about positive depictions of cops.
Shows and movies that depict the courts as fundamentally good or fair, that show defense attorneys as liars or manipulators, that show bad actors being punished by a self correcting righteous system...they're copaganda too.
Shows and movies that depict the courts as fundamentally good or fair, that show defense attorneys as liars or manipulators, that show bad actors being punished by a self correcting righteous system...they're copaganda too.
November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
so much this!
I appreciate PPI's work so much.
and also wtf.
and also wtf.
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I appreciate PPI's work so much.
and also wtf.
and also wtf.
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Anyone who takes this work is going to hell.
SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Anyone who takes this work is going to hell.
goddamnit
“Private equity is using its newfound control over utilities to socialize costs for the expansion of data centers,” said one critic.
Data Centers Devour Electricity. Private Equity Is Buying Utilities to Cash In.
The seizure of public utilities for the sake of profit may lead to a disaster for consumers — and the planet.
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
goddamnit
please donate and share what you can, every week, either to Alma and her mother or to Sameer Project.
November 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
please donate and share what you can, every week, either to Alma and her mother or to Sameer Project.
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I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”
And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
i'm not gonna lie, a jeans-burning bonfire sounds really fun though
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
i'm not gonna lie, a jeans-burning bonfire sounds really fun though
feeling extremely depressed about the state of the world when I have multiple students in gender studies classes that are literally about the social construction of the body ignoring the reading and just insisting there are only 2 genders.
really trying to keep it together over here.
really trying to keep it together over here.
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
feeling extremely depressed about the state of the world when I have multiple students in gender studies classes that are literally about the social construction of the body ignoring the reading and just insisting there are only 2 genders.
really trying to keep it together over here.
really trying to keep it together over here.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters.
The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.
And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.
And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
Study: Rents for low-wage Atlantans rose 9 times faster than for high earners
Rents for suburban workforce housing in the metro Atlanta region increased by almost 20%, while rents for luxury units increased by 2%, a study said.
www.ajc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A new study shows rents for low-wage Atlanta tenants are rising *9 times* faster than for wealthy renters.
The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.
And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
The affordability crisis is everywhere: housing, healthcare, food, electricity, survival itself.
And the party that won big on "affordability" last week just turned around and surrendered it.
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also I think most parents of small children, if presented with actual evidence that hamas is funding ms Rachel, will initially respond with "so I guess hamas does good things too?"
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
also I think most parents of small children, if presented with actual evidence that hamas is funding ms Rachel, will initially respond with "so I guess hamas does good things too?"
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This leads us to the obvious question: Is The NY Times operated by a covert ring of child sexual predators? WHY WON’T THEY ANSWER?!
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
This leads us to the obvious question: Is The NY Times operated by a covert ring of child sexual predators? WHY WON’T THEY ANSWER?!
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the NY times asks: Did Ms Rachel ruin the workplace?
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
the NY times asks: Did Ms Rachel ruin the workplace?
more, in case you thought you were reading the paper of record for its serious journalistic credibility.
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
more, in case you thought you were reading the paper of record for its serious journalistic credibility.
I am once again begging everyone to stop reading and citing this rag! their priorities are clear and a lot of the horrors we are living through have been directly fomented by the NYT.
happy to share many other places to play games and read recipes that don't actively work to make genocide happen!
happy to share many other places to play games and read recipes that don't actively work to make genocide happen!
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I am once again begging everyone to stop reading and citing this rag! their priorities are clear and a lot of the horrors we are living through have been directly fomented by the NYT.
happy to share many other places to play games and read recipes that don't actively work to make genocide happen!
happy to share many other places to play games and read recipes that don't actively work to make genocide happen!
so glad to see this get some national attention! good work Ypsi folks <3
"'This project is furthering inhumanity, this project is furthering destruction, and we don’t need more nuclear weapons built by our citizens.'"
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
so glad to see this get some national attention! good work Ypsi folks <3
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NWU member @octoberk.bsky.social thoroughly illustrates how the attacks on pro-Palestine int'l students and faculty normalized violence and repression of immigrant communities by ICE. We remain committed to protecting the right to organize and pushing pack on political repression.
Repression of Palestine Solidarity on Campus Enabled Anti-Migrant Escalation
Faculty are forming support networks to connect with each other to protect students and end the genocide in Palestine.
truthout.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
NWU member @octoberk.bsky.social thoroughly illustrates how the attacks on pro-Palestine int'l students and faculty normalized violence and repression of immigrant communities by ICE. We remain committed to protecting the right to organize and pushing pack on political repression.
OK well now that family drama has blown up my day, I'm trying to convince myself it's an act of resistance/survival to get back to my writing for a little while.
November 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
OK well now that family drama has blown up my day, I'm trying to convince myself it's an act of resistance/survival to get back to my writing for a little while.
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Detroit and Dearborn folks - a local farm donated a bunch of produce last night! Looks like cucumbers, greens and cabbage. We will also be delivering prepared sandwiches and salads (halal) this morning by ~9 am.
Come get food if you need it!
1176 Abbey Lane Dearborn 48124
Come get food if you need it!
1176 Abbey Lane Dearborn 48124
November 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Detroit and Dearborn folks - a local farm donated a bunch of produce last night! Looks like cucumbers, greens and cabbage. We will also be delivering prepared sandwiches and salads (halal) this morning by ~9 am.
Come get food if you need it!
1176 Abbey Lane Dearborn 48124
Come get food if you need it!
1176 Abbey Lane Dearborn 48124
tldr: the image of Trump standing around was accurate.
the man who collapsed was an Eli Lilly patient (not an executive). he was there to talk about how great GLP-1 drugs are but fainted instead!
the man who collapsed was an Eli Lilly patient (not an executive). he was there to talk about how great GLP-1 drugs are but fainted instead!
A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.
A man collapsed in the Oval Office. The internet got the story wrong.
A case study in how bad information can spread — and how hard it is to correct it.
dandiamond.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
tldr: the image of Trump standing around was accurate.
the man who collapsed was an Eli Lilly patient (not an executive). he was there to talk about how great GLP-1 drugs are but fainted instead!
the man who collapsed was an Eli Lilly patient (not an executive). he was there to talk about how great GLP-1 drugs are but fainted instead!