Somnambulistrising
@somnambulist1.bsky.social
Academic teaching literature, writing, research, and information/media literacy. Antiracist, antifascist, FJP, and pro everyone doing whatever the F they want with their own damn body. Obviously. Oh, and their own homelands 🇺🇦🇵🇸
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BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 AM
BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that would criminalize gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 18 and put doctors in prison for providing this care.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
This bill is an unjustifiable threat to the well-being of trans youth and their families. The Senate must reject it.
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Trump has revoked guidance that directed hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women when necessary to stabilize their medical condition — eg when women are experiencing medical emergencies and need abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications
Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions
The Trump administration said that it would revoke guidance to the nation's hospitals that directed them to provide emergency abortions to women when they are necessary to stabilize their medical cond...
www.statnews.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Trump has revoked guidance that directed hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women when necessary to stabilize their medical condition — eg when women are experiencing medical emergencies and need abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"Hell is in the dystopian choreography that moves the six masked people in a circle around the woman, before they force her into an unmarked car. Hell is that circle." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/med...
Meditations on Hell
“I’m coming to Boston, I’m bringing hell with me.” —Tom Homan, “border czar” and former acting director of ICE
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Hell is not a lake of fire, no...
www.mcsweeneys.net
April 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
"Hell is in the dystopian choreography that moves the six masked people in a circle around the woman, before they force her into an unmarked car. Hell is that circle." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/med...
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The Trump regime is starting to have a chilling effect on the four pillars of civil society — universities, science, the media, and the law.
The chill is the point. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-big-chill
The chill is the point. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-big-chill
March 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The Trump regime is starting to have a chilling effect on the four pillars of civil society — universities, science, the media, and the law.
The chill is the point. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-big-chill
The chill is the point. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-big-chill
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Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
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I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
March 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.
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Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...).
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
March 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Academics (and others!) want to fight back against the attacks on higher education and democracy (and diversity and civil rights and trans people and immigrants and and and...).
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
Our letter is at bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd and is designed so that ANYONE can sign.
There are other letters - thread
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Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine
At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics, a group of Democratic Senators have decided to collaborate…
www.techdirt.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Okay, I wrote a longer thing about @durbin.senate.gov, @amyklobuchar.com, @klobuchar.senate.gov, @whitehouse.senate.gov, @blumenthal.senate.gov apparently wanting to hand Donald Trump a huge weapon with which to censor online speech.
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/d...
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Columbia University buckles to fascists, setting the stage for the end of higher education as we know it in the United States. Cataclysmic:
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Exclusive | Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding
Columbia’s agreement is a significant moment in the intensifying battle between Trump and elite universities.
www.wsj.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Columbia University buckles to fascists, setting the stage for the end of higher education as we know it in the United States. Cataclysmic:
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Universities keep thinking "If we just give Trump what he wants, he won't attack us" despite the entire 20th century (and most of human history) proving otherwise.
Do none of these institutions have history departments?
Do none of these institutions have history departments?
Northwestern should be ashamed that they've bowed to political pressure, thereby threatening us all.
They hired Steven, in part, for the very social justice activism they are now denying him tenure over. I'm proud to call @thrasherxy.bsky.social a friend and appreciate his courage.
They hired Steven, in part, for the very social justice activism they are now denying him tenure over. I'm proud to call @thrasherxy.bsky.social a friend and appreciate his courage.
My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...
March 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Universities keep thinking "If we just give Trump what he wants, he won't attack us" despite the entire 20th century (and most of human history) proving otherwise.
Do none of these institutions have history departments?
Do none of these institutions have history departments?
This is a mistake. Capitulation won’t stop them. They’ll keep coming for our faculty, our students, our free speech and thought until they have eradicated anyone who doesn’t fit their white supremacist ideology. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
The University of California Will Stop Requiring Diversity Statements in Hiring
The statements had risen in popularity as colleges sought to improve campus culture, but they drew criticism from conservatives who argued they were a political test.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
This is a mistake. Capitulation won’t stop them. They’ll keep coming for our faculty, our students, our free speech and thought until they have eradicated anyone who doesn’t fit their white supremacist ideology. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...
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The more people who sign the less risky it is for all of us. We're over 900 in just about 13 hours since we first posted it. Share with your colleagues, your friends, your list servs, your professional associations, your department and campus email lists -
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
March 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The more people who sign the less risky it is for all of us. We're over 900 in just about 13 hours since we first posted it. Share with your colleagues, your friends, your list servs, your professional associations, your department and campus email lists -
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd
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Yet again, it’s time to bring up a very important episode of @ricksteves.bsky.social . It’s very much worth your time to check it out and pay attention to how eerily similar it is to our current state of affairs.
youtube.com/watch?v=JU1I...
youtube.com/watch?v=JU1I...
Rick Steves' The Story of Fascism in Europe
YouTube video by Rick Steves' Europe
youtube.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Yet again, it’s time to bring up a very important episode of @ricksteves.bsky.social . It’s very much worth your time to check it out and pay attention to how eerily similar it is to our current state of affairs.
youtube.com/watch?v=JU1I...
youtube.com/watch?v=JU1I...
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/2 First, it presumes you have the right “they” — that this person the state has captured is, in fact, a person who has violated the rights of another. What kind of servile dunce to you have to be to trust the state to get it right?
March 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
/2 First, it presumes you have the right “they” — that this person the state has captured is, in fact, a person who has violated the rights of another. What kind of servile dunce to you have to be to trust the state to get it right?
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We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
March 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!
A Reckoning is Coming For My Political Party
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
A Reckoning is Coming For My Political Party
Chuck Schumer may have felt he was being prudent. But his voters saw a betrayal.
open.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:09 PM
A Reckoning is Coming For My Political Party
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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This is why the Trump administration is trying to destroy higher education.
Diving into some research this morning...cause curiosity. Also thinking how important a role our education plays in our political decisions. Data courtesy of NBC.
March 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is why the Trump administration is trying to destroy higher education.
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Current mood:
The beacons are lit
Gondor calls for aid
The beacons are lit
Gondor calls for aid
March 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Current mood:
The beacons are lit
Gondor calls for aid
The beacons are lit
Gondor calls for aid
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New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
Primary Every Democrat
It’s exhausting to watch poll-tested, donor-beholden congressional Democrats continue to be too old, too cloistered, and too bumbling to do anything as the government burns.
newrepublic.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New from me in @newrepublic.com: “Primary Every Democrat.”
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
If the current crop cannot demonstrate they care more about democracy than enjoying three-day weekends, we should flood the zone and challenge them all.
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Little known, recently discovered fact:
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
February 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Little known, recently discovered fact:
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...
Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk.
Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines.
Gift🔗👉
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...