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Caroline Luce

@lucecaroline.bsky.social

American labor history / Jewish studies / digital humanities UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment UC-AFT Comms crew memorywork.irle.ucla.edu carolineluce.com

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Senator Ron Wyden@wyden.senate.gov · yesterday

Bombshell new report out from my investigators this morning spanning our four year investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s financial records. This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. Mega thread following with some key points:

Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says

Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...

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Michael Planey@airplaney.bsky.social · 3d ago

And this @politico.com story from 2021 rightly points out Miller's abusive past and his family's billionaire wealth and long-time Republican connections in Ohio, so it was all known to Bernie Moreno before his daughter's wedding: web.archive.org/web/20211105...

‘He’s a Great Guy’: Trump’s Favored Aide Has Troubled Past

Sources say Max Miller has a history of aggressive behavior that includes slapping his ex-girlfriend, former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham.

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Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · last wk.

The extraordinary wildfire outbreak across Oregon, eastern Washington, and southern British Columbia has become even more alarming amid critical fire weather conditions. Over 500,000 acres have already burned in OR & WA alone, and that number could be >1 million acres by Mon.

An alarming snapshot from NOAA Wildland Fire Portal depicting numerous large smoke plumes and large heat signatures from many wildfires burning across Oregon, Washington, and British Colubmia.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 6d ago

"This idea of a human merger with machines has been a motif in Musk’s intellectual life, which has remained in many ways (and with many terrible results) that of an arrogant and cloistered adolescent boy." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Space Oddity | Mark O’Connell

Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism examines how Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire, by selling a vision of the future that very few people would want to inhabit.

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Deidre Lynch@drbibliomane.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the remarkable thinker & teacher whose Harvard role was just terminated--profiled in Harvard Magazine only 18 months ago. What is happening at the College this summer is awful (as with last summer, when the Women's Center was closed out of the blue). 🤯 www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/01/harv...

Harvard Writing Center’s Jane Rosenzweig on AI and Writing | Harvard Magazine

Harvard Writing Center’s Jane Rosenzweig on AI and writing

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Mary Lewis@profmarylewis.bsky.social · last wk.

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Daniel Swain@weatherwest.bsky.social · last wk.

From the boreal forests of Ontario to the moors of the Scottish Highlands to the grasslands & forests of Columbia River Plateau in NW U.S. to the maritime pine forests in France, these exceptional fires have been preceded, over weeks to months, by exceptional warmth and dryness.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

Please share my post, share my outrage and sign, and share this petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...

Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López

The denial of tenure to Dr. Chaar López has become a national concern because it raises questions that extend far beyond one faculty member or one institution. Scholars across disciplines depend upon ...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.

AAUP@aaup.org · 2w ago

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald@soraya.press · 2w ago

This particular criminalization of parental poverty, used to disproportionately pathologize Black women and steal their children, is called Jane Crow. And it's proliferating because of deliberately cruel, punitive administrative policies like what's happening to SNAP and Medicaid.

Anxious Rage@anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 2w ago

When families can’t eat, on top of everything else, the risk increases of the state stepping in to remove their children because of “neglect”

Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 2w ago

"If Bundism didn’t work and Zionism is a moral nightmare, can the story of the Bund tell us anything about the Jewish present? It can tell us that the moral solution to ethnonationalism can’t be more ethnonationalism." www.liberalcurrents.com/here-where-w...

Here Where We Live Is a Home for Everyone

Molly Crabapple's history of the General Jewish Labor Bund offers multiracial democracy as the alternative to ethnonationalism.

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Caroline Luce@lucecaroline.bsky.social · 2w ago

“There may not be a Young Lords right now,” she said in “Takeover,” “but guess what? A lot of us are not dead, and we’re communicating this to a young generation that’s going to carry that struggle forward.” May she rest in power

Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Denise Oliver-Velez, a Powerful Voice of the Left, Dies at 78 She became the highest-ranking female member of the Young Lords in New York, where she pressed for women’s rights, and later joined the Black Panthers. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

Over the past month, New York has welcomed the world. From neighborhood watch parties to the stadium, we’ve celebrated the communities that make our city the global capital of the beautiful game. Today, we close out a historic World Cup, proud of how New Yorkers showed up every step of the way.

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