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Do you have a passion for creating engaging content and driving growth? We are looking for a talented Social Media Manager to join our team. This on-campus position will provide support for social media campaigns, content creation, and social listening and engagement. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371767

Analysis: DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos | CNN Politics When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation in the federal government’s incursion into Chic...

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

I do media & culture (reciprocal relationship). PhD American Studies

Donald Trump showed us—again—what’s in his heart when he called domestic violence a ‘lesser crime,’ or just ‘a little fight with the wife’ that shouldn’t be counted in statistics. -Kim Villanueva, National NOW President quoted via @afp.com

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Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.

U of M Morris grapples with lowest enrollment in years, raising worries for its future The campus in west-central Minnesota has faced declining enrollment for years. Now Morris faces a critical point.

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This is so many kinds of magic. 😂

Opinion | Heard the resistance was dead? You’ve been reading too much. The zone might be flooded, but an anti-Trump protest movement is well underway.

Do you think "the resistance is dead"? Maybe you are reading/hearing the wrong media. Washington Post opinion: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Research by UMN Morris students from every discipline will be showcased during the 25th Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Minnesota, Morris on Wednesday, April 16. BONUS: a keynote by Diana Cermak, from Knox College and an alumni panel. The schedule is here z.umn.edu/MorrisURS

Chag Pesach sameach, wonderful people.

Ain't none of us free until all of us free. 💗

A Bright Spot Is Emerging Amid All This Trump Chaos The point of mass protest is not to stage a perfectly organized, fully realized one-time event.

This is well worth reading:

"Whatever dam of despair that kept so many Americans quiet or despondent has now broken..."

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Just heard DOGE/Musk are cutting half of the staff at the Social Security offices in Alexandria. 40% of the staff in Rochester.

It’ll make it a lot harder for seniors to get help when they run into issues, which might be exactly what they want.

an Aug academic/professional conference in the US says: We are hoping for a predominantly in-person event to foster collegiality. However, we understand that circumstances might prevent that for some – and given current political conditions, we can’t recommend that noncitizens travel here.

NYT: As conservatives fought against cancel culture on college campuses, they developed a particular fondness for the First Amendment. It was un-American, they argued, to punish someone for exercising their right to speak freely. Today, however, many of those same conservatives, now in power in state and federal government, are behind a growing crackdown on political expression at universities, in ways that try to sidestep the Constitution’s free-speech guarantees.

Nobody could have predicted this:

And here's @joshtpm.bsky.social wrestling with the question. To me, the key sentence is: "The current executive orders explicitly say that the end game is a government the size of the shutdown size."

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www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Many Fulbright scholars say they feel stranded after the Trump administration suspended their funding Fulbright scholars were among those in programs administered through the U.S. State Department who learned their funding has been frozen.

The Fulbright program seems to be at risk. As a former Fulbright scholar that is devastating news. The US risks losing its knowledge base and contacts. woub.org/2025/03/07/f...

Minnesota Public Radio couldn't be more essential to combatting the tides of misinformation. And I love being connected to local news across Minnesota! (Not to mention the beauties of classical music.)

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office.

Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc.

Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Musk annoys workers

send 5 points of "accomplishments" to HR@opm.gov to clog the system

sharing from the social media many of you have left...

Trump and Musk have fired Minnesotans like:

-- Park Rangers at Voyageurs
-- Fire protection engineers
-- Workers who care for our veterans
-- Workers who care for folks with disabilities
-- Workers who dole out small business loans

How does this help anyone?

Public Broadcasting Is In Danger (Again) | On the Media | WNYC Studios The history of public broadcasting and its adversaries; and the modern place of public radio in covering community and crises. 

A friend asked me about the potential risk of losing public broadcasting funding. If you're interested, I recommend this comprehensive report from "On The Media," which explains what's always saved CPB funding in the past, and why it might not now.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Stream PBS and PBS KIDS Free on Prime Video PBS and Amazon announced that more than 150 local PBS stations and the PBS KIDS Channel will launch ad-free as a Prime Video FAST offering. This marks the…

PBS is now live on Prime — ad-free — and you don't need a subscription to watch.

This marks the first time this programming will be available *free* on a major streaming service.

Channels include PBS Drama, Documentaries, Kids + live feeds for 150 local stations

www.pbs.org/articles/str... #TVSky