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The Senate thinks its voting to avoid a government shutdown. The shutdown is already happening, and it is permanent.

submitted 6 hours ago • 37 comments

Other corporate CEOs would have long banded together to protect their “sector.” US uni presidents—despite having an association and communication channels—are failing at a basic corporate move.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Luiz Pacheco, Untitled, 2025, Digital Art, 18x24”

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Does anyone else include cultural references in your classes that students won't get, simply to make yourself happy?

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: CISA, the federal agency responsible for the nation’s cybersecurity, officially cut funding to support state and local election offices. A CISA spokesperson told Democracy Docket the slashed program "no longer effectuates department priorities.”

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

The misery that they clearly find themselves in shows you what fascism offers: nothing for the fascist, infinite suffering for everyone else.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

On my way to Utrecht to strike against the proposed decimation of higher education. I still have the hat from the malieveld in 2019… then I was on sick leave from stress. Same shit, different decade, only deeper this time. But we’re not going away. #doehetniet

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Heel veel aandacht in de pers voor de zeer geslaagde aftrap van de estafettestaking in Leiden gisteren. Vandaag staken de universiteit en hogeschool in Utrecht! 1/ Met estafettestaking hopen universiteiten en hogescholen bezuinigingen tegen te houden www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The U.S. government spent $710 billion in Trump’s first month, an increase from the same period a year prior. Cost-cutting efforts are ineffective, and job losses are occurring without clear justification.

submitted 2 days ago • 132 comments

Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Here is tomorrow’s program. We’re meeting at 11 a.m. at the Garenmarktplein in Leiden. The program starts at 11.30. The teach outs are throughout the day in The Hague and Leiden: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

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geschichtedergegenwart.ch/postpreussen/

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This #InternationalWomensDay, the Women and the F-Word team at Aix-Marseille Université launches its 5th Six Weeks for Suffrage campaign! Join from March 8–April 12 to map memorials to the women’s suffrage movement. Learn more & take part: framacarte.org/fr/map/sites... #SuffrageMap #GenderHist

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This is DEI, but it now stands for Degrade Every Institution. If this fever dream ever breaks, detrumpification will take years.

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In light of the news about Columbia, I want to reiterate a point below by me and Levitsky: universities, collectively, are among the most economically powerful and geographically thick sectors in the US. If they stood up together in opposition to this tyranny, they would be incredibly powerful.

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS on the "sheriff's posse" and the "Bloody Sunday" beatings in Selma, sixty years ago today. campaign-trails.ghost.io/work-in-prog...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Some 1930s Germany with rising fascism, some 1990s Russia with thieving oligarchs, some 2010s Hungary with democratic backsliding, some later 19th century United States with the failure of Reconstruction and imposition of segregation, some Gamergate <sigh>, and some aspects uniquely 2020s America.

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

If you're in London, come to the launch on 3 April @burleyfisher.bsky.social! Excited to be reading with the brilliant @shevchenkoknight.bsky.social! bsky.app/profile/outs...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

OK, every year I try to explain to my students how LLMs work, and every year I have to do a big trawl for good resources and activities. Here's this year's haul of introductory materials. (In-class activities + visualizations, not so much readings.)

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison

submitted 7 days ago • 195 comments

The enshittification of America goes turbo. The billionaires have agreed they owe you nothing.

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In Ukraine, the media would have called this a bribe. The USians don’t seem to be able to take the word into their mouths, unless speaking of another country

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

(Further) judicial capture in full swing.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Democrats are focusing on winning a handful of swing seats 18 months from now. That’s not unimportant. But they think they can do that by downplaying, rather than drawing attention to, the constitutional crises going on right now. This makes the crises worse.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

The Trump administration wants to tamp down on dissent and protest from universities and headlines like this allow it to maintain the claim that it’s about anti-semitism

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

Job Claxon: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Translation: “I’m taking your taxpayer dollars, using them to buy crypto that I’m already invested in, and making myself and my rich friends billions of dollars.”

submitted 9 days ago • 74 comments

ICYMI: Sen. Ted Cruz flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude method for identifying research he calls “woke.”

submitted 11 days ago • 41 comments

Standing in solidarity with everyone protesting in support of our beloved national parks in California, and the workers who protect them. We're not going to let Trump and Musk get away with this. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

The Trump administration is: breaking the law by not spending appropriated money from Congress breaking the law by ignoring a court order lying about it killing people *silencing public employees who are pointing all of this out

submitted 9 days ago • 111 comments

If you don't see how a tool like this could be weaponized in a heartbeat against particular faculty and students, you haven't been paying attention to higher ed lately.

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

If you've never been part of a government procurement process, it might be hard to understand just how much of a "go to prison" thing this would have been at any point from 1946-2024.

submitted 13 days ago • 40 comments

On just now on BBC Radio 3:

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Seems like Hegseth's Stand Down Our Defenses Against Russia order should be getting a bit more attention.

submitted 10 days ago • 462 comments

This article is a classic and so depressing, because Rushkoff explains to the billionaires that improving the world right now will keep them safer and happier than any amount of money possibly could in the event of apocalypse, and it bounces off them, just like every idiot boss you've ever had.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

Many of us in the Netherlands knew he was a toad. We tried to say…

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AI is a prejudice replication machine. Bog body is found, without a head. So, no idea about hair colour. Enter AI: It's in Ireland, so it must be a readhead. @archaeologynews.bsky.social: you should stop using this.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did.....

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.

submitted 11 days ago • 348 comments

Having just researched Nazi funding for circuses, I’ll add that the difference between Nazism & Trumpism is that Nazism controlled the arts by funding some forms & mediums while denigrating others (tho never fully!), while Trumpism controls by defunding hyperallergic.com/991223/donal...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

What this administration wants more than actually solving problems is to create a perpetual state of emergency, which will justify any and everything it wants to do. Declaring the cartels terrorist groups rhetorically makes this a continuation of the War on Terror. The same toolbox is coming out.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It would take seven patriotic Republicans to stop this. Only seven. And we can’t even find one

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments