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This really is a remarkable story

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Salt Lake City! They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom

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I don't understand how the Times can never determine whether Trump is lying but can say with certainty when he is joking.

submitted 10 days ago • 158 comments

“Racial preferences” - pretty ugly look, CHE

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Just reading up on the calamitous Pope Francis kerning scandal.

submitted 12 days ago • 73 comments

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

submitted 17 days ago • 399 comments

This is a remarkable letter and everyone should read it.

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New: Paramount owner Shari Redstone in recent days sought to know about upcoming 60 Minutes stories involving Trump. It was part of an increase in scrutiny of 60 Minutes that resulted in producer Bill Owens' departure from the network www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 99 days ago • 490 comments

In other important news today, Wordle was BS

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I didn’t mean to send you that letter with those offensive demands (which I 100% continue to stand behind). But you completely overreacted to my accidentally disclosed demands. I have no choice now but to steal $2 billion dollars from you.

submitted 24 days ago • 29 comments

Not surprising that an administration that rose to power on the spread of bullshit and propaganda is terminating the funding of researchers studying these phenomena. We are just receiving word about funding cancellations re: existing grants to members of our team and our colleagues.

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“My recent performance review was rife with DEI language.” 🤔

submitted 26 days ago • 67 comments

Free Movie Week starts tonight on Criterion Channel! #FilmSky

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Deporting. US citizens. @raskin.house.gov what is Judiciary doing?

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UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.

submitted 35 days ago • 61 comments

“My bad” - rhymes with “eat cake”

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Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

submitted 37 days ago • 272 comments

Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to. Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not. The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.

submitted 43 days ago • 31 comments

In this piece, I endorse Tufts Fletcher School faculty's proposal that universities challenge Trump's speech-based deportations of non-citizen students in court, and explain why this strategy is much better than letting targeted students fend for themselves: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

submitted 44 days ago • 20 comments

Gotta say, with the news this week I’m proud to be premiering an eco-doc in DC tonight. Thanks to the ever more vital DC Environmental Film Festival. Want to show our film? Get at me! www.fiegefilms.com/raising-aniya

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#RIP

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University presidents? Got anything here?

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CMSI’s invaluable State of the Documentary Field survey is up - contribute here! tinyurl.com/cmsisurvey

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

submitted 52 days ago • 1558 comments

Post your favorite Doctor Who (wrong answers only)

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 57 days ago • 628 comments

"We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government.... Our problem in part is a failure of imagination. We cannot get ourselves to see how this is going to unfold in its most frightening versions." --Lee Bollinger, former president of Columbia University.

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

What’s both funny and infuriating to me is that we could end this madness so easily but for a small number of people paralyzed by cowardice, greed, and a collective-action problem.

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 59 days ago • 101 comments

If you're looking for persuasive stories, my 3rd grader today reminded me that _everyone_ in public U.S. schools learns about the inspirational Helen Keller. But Keller became blind & deaf b/c of a childhood meningitis infection - something which is thankfully vastly rarer today _due to vaccines_.

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"Randall hosted a morning town hall Saturday in Bremerton that filled up in minutes. Rather than turning the overflow crowd away, she immediately held a 2nd session. 'I want to hear from everyone who took the time out of their day to be here,' she wrote online..." www.advocate.com/politics/hug...

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“When [aquatic ecologist Riley Rackliffe’s firing] made the local news, a Facebook posting of the story led to a storm of comments deriding him and championing the layoffs. One person called Riley, who is 36 and holds a Ph.D., a ‘glorified pool boy’ whose job nearly anyone could do.”

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

😂😭

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I wrote section 230 to protect the little guys and the upstarts like Bluesky. Repealing section 230 only helps Meta, Musk, and Donald Trump.

submitted 67 days ago • 469 comments

Holy shit, Kwame Ture, 1969.

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If you're an REI member, you can vote to toss out the board that's endorsed Trump's candidate for Dept. of Interior and has worked to stop REI unions. Vote runs until May 2nd. Spread the word. vote.escvote.com/REI/

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At some point, even the oligarchs might turn

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I just attended a sold out screening of NO OTHER LAND and something I’ve never experienced happened. After the film, no one spoke. Every single person remained silent. All the way to the exit. If that interests you, see this film. It is truly a miracle that it exists. @belcourttheatre.bsky.social

submitted 70 days ago • 77 comments

- Conclave cost $20m - The Substance* cost $18m - The Brutalist cost $10m - Anora cost $6m - Flow cost €3.5m - A Real Pain cost $3m - I’m Still Here cost $1.48m Really good Oscar year for modest and low budget indies

submitted 71 days ago • 11 comments

I know everything about Nixon seems quaint in comparison, but this was specifically one of the crimes mentioned in the articles of impeachment against Nixon.

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My wife found a map from The Technocracy, the 1930's group Elon Musk's Nazi-sympathizing grandfather was involved in, that explains Trump's desire to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Behold the Technate of America. Thread.

submitted 87 days ago • 5 comments

Really having some doubts about upcoming travel. Time to cancel airline tickets?

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

We have two job openings in the Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Non tenure-track, of interest for those who work in cultural studies or critical media, don't mind a full-time lecture schedule, and enjoy working with grad TAs. It's a three-year renewable post. Please circulate!

submitted 86 days ago • 44 comments

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.

submitted 90 days ago • 140 comments

Important and appropriate A1 play in the NYT print paper today for the story Kirsten Grind and I did on the 11 federal agencies that had targeted Musk companies for investigations/lawsuit that have now been disrupted in a way that benefits Musk. A free link as well. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 89 days ago • 31 comments