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This op-ed takes as a given that conservatives have no positive vision that foreign aid could fit into or not. There was no effort made, for example, to spare the International Republican Institute which gives support to center right parties. No, they saw a gay thing and must destroy

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Or! This must be the work of my nemesis, Sartoriarty

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When rigged to explode, bombs often detonate. Things that are well designed usually do what they are designed to do. phew

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This seems like a theory that can't explain change over time. Dockworkers had horrible conditions and pay for a very long time until they didn't. The inherent power of withholding their labor didn't change, they had to overcome the methods used to prevent them from doing so.

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In trying to understand the Trump era I've come to believe two propositions: that people are stupid and that people aren't stupid.

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As protests gain momentum, it's important to recognize and call out COINTELPRO-style behavior Many people who engage in this type of behavior aren't feds. They probably mean well. They are also engaging in behaviors that are so good at disrupting movements that the FBI literally weaponized them

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I have to admit that I didn't think the next stage after climate denialism would be capital account denialism.

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I spoke with nearly two dozen creatives and publishers in the tabletop industry today. It's bad. It's real bad.

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F.A. Hayek: In my book I invented the Road to Serfdom as a cautionary tale Trump Admin: At long last we have created the Road to Serfdom from the classic political treatise, “The Road to Serfdom.”

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I'm saying it. Fuck you Greatest Generation you've been resting on your laurels for too long

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After looking at three more countries I think it's doing this with the goods trade from either 2023 or 2024, whichever is higher.

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it is done

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THREAD Today Altmetric is announcing a major development in collaboration with the Brain Occipital Lobe Learning Observation Centre Kalhausen-Strasbourg. From today Altmetric will be able to determine what research paper you're thinking of, regardless of what you're actually writing/saying. 1/17

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Sometime after October 7 someone who wasn't in academia said to me "god, with all this going on the university [of Texas] must really be leaning on the middle east experts to help explain it to students" And I was like uhhh not exactly how it works no but I can understand why you would think that

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They are willing to take us back to the dark ages to get control. They don't know there wasn't that kind of control in the dark ages because they didn't pay attention in the history classes they want to cancel.

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Followers of coordination game discourse should check this out (because all the other followers of coordination game discourse are)

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To channel my inner Tom Friedman: A taxi driver in Tunisia (post-revolution, pre-Said) told me and my companions that Tunisia needed a Sisi because he saw the "projects" on TV. I got frustrated and said "the projects are for TV!"

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this is murder.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Theres a headline from the 1930s for every single thing happening here today

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Not having to wear masks is the essence of American freedom. Here’s why my agents cover their faces while kidnapping students on college campuses. by Donald Trump

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DOGE claims to have just cancelled an $877 million grant to Texas Department of State Health Services while the agency is in the midst of responding to a Measles outbreak www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

This also functions as a reminder for those who need it that Signal does not protect you from other people in the conversation or whoever has their phones

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If I was a Democratic leader trying to figure out strategic places to attack Trump on "his" issues, I think locking up hairdressers in Gitmo and sending soccer players to blacksites while letting actual MS-13 leaders go seems pretty promising

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Great piece on organizing by Karma Chavez, one of our officers! ⬇️⬇️

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A key step in fighting the Trump admin's attacks on higher education specifically and democracy more broadly is to say as clearly as we can that we share values that are meaningful and that we will not stand by while our institutions are destroyed. You can do that here: bit.ly/DemocracyAndHigherEd

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It's not just stupidity but stupidity in the service of trying to refight years-old battles. Like why are you still doing this, aren't you tired?

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breaking news: the smirking hapsburg fetus behind this is a rich legacy admit

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

Did one of my students write this?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Just shy of two hours left on this deadline, and countless people have taken the few minutes to submit a comment — thank you. Will you ask a friend to do the same? We want to double our numbers before 11:59pm tonight!

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Among other things I don't think this plays well with "US history is whatever I learned in school" conservatism. Who didn't learn about the code talkers?

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🔥 SOUTH CAROLINA Rep. Jermaine Johnson: “You don’t like being called racist in here, but every time we give you a chance to show us something different you show us who you are.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DHRKJy_...

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I'm willing to put Martha Coakley in this category too

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