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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 46 days ago • 1917 comments

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 46 days ago • 120 comments

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university. www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

submitted 49 days ago • 18 comments

Canadians overwhelmingly agree that universities and colleges should be affordable Canadians deserve access to high-quality post-secondary education and all the benefits that come along with it. That education should be affordable for everyone. Learn more at Education2025.ca

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.

submitted 52 days ago • 722 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 52 days ago • 1661 comments

I've always wanted a car with a roof that flies off for no reason, but doors that don't come off while you're burning alive inside it. My dreams have come true.

submitted 52 days ago • 972 comments

To all of my international friends, do not come to the United States! It is not safe for anyone with a foreign accent in this country. Boycott the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/w...

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

1/ Musk says he’s dead but he isn’t. Social Security clawed back 2 months of benefits & haven’t sent more. “He called Social Security 2 or 3 times a day for two weeks, with each call put on hold and then eventually disconnected.” Finally he went down in person www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

submitted 56 days ago • 230 comments

Statement from VOA Director Michael Abramowitz, placed on admin leave this weekend and locked out his office along with more than 1300 other journalists, producers and support staff. Posted on personal FB

submitted 56 days ago • 9 comments

This was the stuff you'd see on white supremacist forums a decade ago and now it's the vice president.

submitted 56 days ago • 117 comments

It's official: US now seen no longer open and free thanks to Trump's "undue restrictions on civic freedoms." The watchdog group says Trump's "Gross abuses of executive power raise serious concerns over the freedoms of peaceful assembly, expression and association" thehill.com/homenews/adm...

submitted 59 days ago • 66 comments

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

submitted 59 days ago • 503 comments

Jfc

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Journalists who frame what's happening in Washington as Republicans vs. Democrats instead of fascism vs. democracy are missing the most important story of their lives.

submitted 61 days ago • 97 comments

This is a chilling attack on free speech. Criminalizing dissent is straight out of the tyrant's playbook.

submitted 62 days ago • 74 comments

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

submitted 62 days ago • 209 comments

The detention and possible deportation of Columbia University student and pro-Palestine organizer Mahmoud Khalil is the most serious attack on the First Amendment by any president in years.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that the Nazis are always the bad guys and never the good guys shows just how woke and out of touch Hollywood has become

submitted 63 days ago • 47 comments

The number of protests that are gonna happen in the coming months just because it’s finally getting warm outside is going to be nuts

submitted 64 days ago • 60 comments

TRUMP TARIFF CHESS Feb 1: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 3: pauses tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Feb 27: announces tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 4: imposes tariffs on 🇨🇦🇲🇽 Mar 5: delays 🇨🇦🇲🇽 car tariffs Mar 6: pauses tariffs on USMCA-compliant 🇨🇦🇲🇽 goods Mar 7: threatens tariffs on 🇨🇦 dairy (250%) and lumber

submitted 65 days ago • 726 comments

Please consider contacting the NS govt about proposed legislation that would hamper teaching and research at Nova Scotia universities, and kneecap #nspse capacity to secure federal research $$ & other partnerships by limiting research to prov govt interests. Link here: nwmd.social/s/copylink/6...

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

OK this ad is actually very good lmaoooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFJ4...

submitted 65 days ago • 34 comments

This is the news we deserve. “These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males 'It was not what I was expecting,' says biologist Stephanie Stack”

submitted 66 days ago • 162 comments

Ontario, Canada cancels Elon Musk’s Starlink contract and bans all U.S. companies from government contracts. 🇨🇦

submitted 67 days ago • 285 comments

Transgenic is not the same as transgender. Asylum seekers are not coming from insane asylums. Holy Mother of god what ignorant dodos. ( I know this isn’t new. Just had to vent)

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Helpful graphic:

submitted 67 days ago • 32 comments

Universities are changing their stance on speech tolerance. What does that mean for the future of higher education? nyer.cm/8J100eW

submitted 67 days ago • 29 comments

oh wow amazing way to fight back this will make them tremble in fear why do they even bother getting up in the morning

submitted 68 days ago • 1388 comments

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

submitted 68 days ago • 37 comments

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: "Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

submitted 68 days ago • 98 comments

Elbows up Canada! Y Mexico también :)

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

trump: I’m going to protect women women: no thank you trump: I’m gonna do it women: please don’t trump: I have kicked those 7 trans girls off the jv volleyball team women: what trump: and brought back andrew tate women: why trump: YOU’RE WELCOME WOMEN also you can’t vote anymore

submitted 73 days ago • 72 comments

This is a great idea

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion... The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.

submitted 74 days ago • 412 comments

When Ontario Procurement Minister knocked on Ontario resident Lisa Crompton’s front door on Feb. 12, he might not have realized he was being recorded. But he was, and Crompton shared the footage with me — footage that appears to show the MPP lying about the Greenbelt scandal. Here’s what happened:

submitted 75 days ago • 17 comments

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight. Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

submitted 74 days ago • 249 comments

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

submitted 75 days ago • 2753 comments

The experiences of the Black miners of Nova Scotia’s industrial past reveal hidden racial dynamics at play. Read more about Aderinola Olamiju's research — and the 'striking' similarities to modern-day attitudes toward immigrant labourers: thenarwhal.ca/nova-scotia-...

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Computer. Enhance!

submitted 75 days ago • 307 comments

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

submitted 74 days ago • 84 comments

So now we are selling US citizenship for $5 million. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 74 days ago • 392 comments

Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities. Political interference in education isn’t just an American phenomenon. It’s alive and well in Canada too. Politicians should not dictate the priorities of universities.

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

Another conservative govt move —unacceptable political interference in universities www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

We are definitely under reacting

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Public blowback genuinely works sometimes.

submitted 75 days ago • 13 comments

Glad this was withdrawn, but we should still be grilling them about how such undemocratic legislation got this far to begin with, seemingly without proper consultation with the actual experts, esp. since we’re seeing something similar in the partisan university-restructuring proposals.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

❤️ Jane Fonda “This is it. This is not a rehearsal.”

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments