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Chris Hedges interview with Columbia Prof. Katherine Franke, effectively fired for speaking out in defense of Palestinians. Chilling. Informative. Factual. Recommended for anyone interested in how power works in the academic world . www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgx2...

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apropos of nothing in particular, here's an unlocked report on Special Counsel Jack Smith's final reckoning: wapo.st/4gVE1Vl

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MAGA world has opposed nationwide history & civics standards, b/c "better left to the States." But now in power, the MAGA-ites want to compel "patriotic education" and forbid vaguely defined "anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies" nationwide. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Vance criticizes established German political parties' boycott of neo-nazi AfD and barely mentions Ukraine in his speech to Munich Security Conference. thehill.com/policy/inter...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

Holocaust Remembrance Day

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

JANUARY 6, 2021 was a dividing line. Let's not forget, even as Trump gives them a get out of jail free card - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe4P...

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

New story from @thelogic.co by @patriquin.bsky.social that has a lot of good news for BlueSky users, I think. Paywalled, but the up shot is that it's becoming something like a public benefit corporation to make it "billionaire proof". thelogic.co/news/quebec-...

submitted 129 days ago • 1 comment

This week's net neutrality decision reads, as one critic put it, "like a Verizon press release." The Court buys industry obfuscation hook line and sinker: “Data transmission is only one component of the broader package of services offered to consumers.”

submitted 137 days ago • 1 comment

U.S. anti-fascist film from 1947 - MAGA antidote before its time archive.org/details/0022...

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US is not the only country with "birthright citizenship." A little knowledge about rest of world might be helpful. www.globalcitizensolutions.com/countries-wi...

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Those who feel assaulted by the vax deniers, election & J6 deniers, and god knows what other propaganda is coming our way, might be interested in the WPA's 1939 education campaign on the subject of Propaganda - back when such assaults on truth were considered a threat to national security.

submitted 181 days ago • 1 comment

damn, was just starting to feel comfortable here, and now yr telling me it's ownwed by a bunch of blockchain libertarians?

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

Oops! Warning ahead:

submitted 185 days ago • 57 comments