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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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We look forward to hosting @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social tomorrow at Royal Holloway for her talk on ‘How Torture Became Speakable: Fractured Acknowledgements & the Social Reproduction of Denial’ chaired by CVTRC Snr Fellow Dr Yoav Galai. Thurs 20 Feb, 5–6:30pm in Shilling Lecture Theatre. All welcome

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📅 📢 Save the Date! The Society for Terrorism Research 17th Annual International Conference is coming to Royal Holloway University on July 7-8, 2025. Co-organised by CVTRC and the School of Law & Social Sciences. Call for proposals to follow shortly. societyforterrorismresearch.org/conferences/...

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Excellent from @rafaelbehr.bsky.social History isn’t winning the argument. They're not ignorant of history. They are threatened by it and their default solution to any threat is deletion and they can do so because they control powerful levers for directing the global flow of money and information.

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Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 19 days ago • 98 comments

OWNED is out today. The result of years of research into tech, media, the right, it traces how billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen have used their wealth to influence the media to their ends. I hope you check it out

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they got rid of DEI and the right wing tech elites immediately started hiring based on experience oh no wait lol

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The ADL under Jonathan Greenblatt has cynically sold out the Jews it claims to represent in favor of Trump, Musk, and Netanyahu. It's shameful and undignified and a betrayal of the organization's early history, I argue in my debut for @zeteo.com

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Resident Philosopher for AI Ethics existentialcomics.com/comic/588

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Citation is a timeless habit 🗺️. Just look at cartographical sources cited by famed Ottoman mapmaker Piri Reis in his 1513 atlas, which has a map of South America, where he puts in the margins he used around 20 sources, including 8 Ptolemaic maps u.osu.edu/wagner.19/ma... Also it’s on gazelle skin 🦌

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"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup." nymag.com/intelligence...

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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

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With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

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My colleague Ibrahim Halawi is new editor of the Routledge Studies in Global and Transnational Politics. If you have a book idea you'd like to pitch them, message me. www.routledge.com/Routledge-St...

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Publishers for Palestine, a network of nearly 600 publishers based in 50 countries around the world, call for a boycott of the Frankfurt Book Fair publishersforpalestine.org/2025/01/30/i...

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Success is never cost-free. It will demand you sacrifice something in return, which you won't appreciate at the time. Every success comes at the cost of something else valuable, whether it's health, wellbeing, energy for other pursuits/projects, & most of all, precious time for family & loved ones.

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More than 5,300 years ago, the Indus Valley civilization emerged along the Indus River in present-day Pakistan & northwest India. It left behind artifacts, archaeological sites & a mysterious inscrutable script. Officials are offering $1M to decipher the script www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/o...

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The White House has suddenly removed this page. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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I'm very focused on the reporting we're doing at @wired.com and not on takes, but what I'm inferring from the reporting our reporters are doing is that in a very literal, not take-having sense, Elon Musk is the head of government while Donald Trump is the head of state.

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In his book 'On Tyranny' historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social wrote about Anticipatory Obedience. "most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given... In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked"

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The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough. The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023. No acting FAA head has been appointed.

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This seems like a great new resource for students, historians, and others studying the past through the prism of popular culture

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Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...

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I’ve just totted these up. Circa 10000 planned redundancies in UK universities. That’s just the declared figures. What are you doing about it Jacqui Smith and Keir Starmer? Nothing isn’t good enough. qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

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Stalin nods in approval.

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‪Our Senior Fellow @benoloughlin.bsky.social, along with colleagues @andreucasas.bsky.social & Georgia Dagher, submitted written evidence to the Science, Innovation & Technology Committee (UK Parliament) on 'Social Media, Misinformation & Harmful Algorithms' committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

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OpenAI complaining about Deepseek: oh horrors, the plagiarism machine got plagiarised.

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Solidarity with colleagues affected by redundancy announcements at Cardiff today. Is anyone in Westminster reading the news? Are they just hoping to keep quiet throughout the destruction of the entire university sector, or what is the plan here?

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‘also’ - hierarchy of whose lives count as human lives.

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You need to be reading this if you haven't already- my article on what Trump has in store for universities

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Yes, unambiguously after Jun 1941. The Russians tend to get short-changed in how the West remembers WW2. Stalin reportedly said at the Tehran Conference that WW2 would be won through “British brains (intelligence), American brawn (steel), & Russian blood.” The final death toll largely confirmed this

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Devastating article from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social. Children have made up the majority of casualties in the Gazan genocide. Tens of thousands of innocent children lie dead, many still under rubble. Pause for a moment & allow those statistics to become tragedies so we might try to mourn them properly

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Excellent post

submitted 28 days ago • 2082 comments

Depressing that two brilliant, beloved, and impactful TV dramas showcasing British history (Wolf Hall and Mr Bates Versus The Post Office) were only made because the cast and crew volunteered to take big pay cuts If a big streamer isn’t interested, UK dramas are becoming unaffordable

submitted 29 days ago • 43 comments

“Remember that asking for mercy toward scared children and immigrants was enough to trigger a full-scale campaign of intimidation from the highest levels of govt and media. Remember that a sitting congressman suggested deporting an American citizen for the crime of asking the president to be kind.”

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This is excellent from @jfarkas.bsky.social & @aurelmondon.bsky.social We we must now "take decisive and radical action if we are to turn the tide against the dystopian reactionary tech oligarchy." @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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Devastating article from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social. Children have made up the majority of casualties in the Gazan genocide. Tens of thousands of innocent children lie dead, many still under rubble. Pause for a moment & allow those statistics to become tragedies so we might try to mourn them properly

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One of biggest Holocaust archives goes online as the @wienerlibrary.bsky.social digitises more than 150k items that record the rise of fascism. Included are the fascinating Tarnschriften or “hidden writings” – anti-fascist propaganda hidden in everyday items. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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You spelled ethnic cleansing wrong.

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"Better treatment"?! Leaving aside the ugly naked imperialism of all of this, what makes you think Canadians would want to voluntarily die much earlier while bankrupting themselves paying for the US's broken healthcare system in the process?

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The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has requested arrest warrants for the Taliban’s supreme leader and Afghanistan’s chief justice on the grounds that their persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan is a crime against humanity. 👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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