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This is the nightmare that Javier Milei has created in Argentina. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to emulate it by gutting Social Security. Every Wednesday, police beat up retirees outside the Argentine congress. This coming Wednesday, football hooligans will turn out to defend the retirees.

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Mixed media portrait of Trump. Chicken schnitzel, pistachio shell, wool, crayon and carrot. Artist is 8.

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JOB ALERT: I'm hiring a part-time research fellow to work with me @healthy-societies.bsky.social at @sydneyuni.bsky.social on my research program on migration, im/mobility and belonging, with a specific focus on healthcare worker migration. Applications close 27 April bit.ly/4iAohs3 #Academicsky

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'I am disgusted but not shocked that claims to Jewish safety have been turned into Trumpian weapons to dismantle higher education. And I am dismayed that university administrators and Democratic leaders have so readily laid the ground for these attacks'.

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"The 1952 law, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act, codified immigration restrictions of “subversives” and communists. The act’s quotas and ideological litmus test were widely understood at the time to target Eastern European Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet agents."

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You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

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Mariam Barghouti on 'Operation Iron Wall' www.dropsitenews.com/p/west-bank-...

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Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.

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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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Bleak and familar account from Cardiff University: voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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The List of Digitized Anarchist Periodicals (LIDIAP) is an incredibly valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of anarchism. It is run entirely by volunteers, we are rolling out new features soon, and we are always looking for more people to get involved. lidiap.ficedl.info

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The story of how Katherine Viner, Guardian's editor-in-chief, has "maintained a vice-like grip over the paper’s output on Israel & Palestine" that amounts to an abhorrent double standard I read this, and have cancelled both my Guardian membership & monthly contribution (& told them why)

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It's not uncommon for Ministers to jettison successful ARC grants before they commence if they seem too woke, but to suspend an active grant 3/4 years in is unheard of. Racist, reactionary response to Murdoch smears #academicfreedom @arc-tracker.bsky.social www.afr.com/policy/healt...

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'We would never look back and say that calls for the elimination of apartheid South Africa amounted to anti-white racism. Likewise, to call for the end of such a discriminatory political arrangement in Israel, or debate whether Israel should exist in the form that it does, is not antisemitic.'

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Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace crimethinc.com/becomeananar... Neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take direct action on their own initiative, on a decentralized basis—in other words, to become anarchists. 🏴

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

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Life expectancy at birth dropped in the Gaza Strip by 35 years between October, 2023, and September, 2024. Here’s the study in The Lancet. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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I have remained fairly silent over the past few weeks, largely because I have been processing the reality of an organization dedicated to improving government services being repurposed into the vector of destruction of those very same services. I wrote up some thoughts. Quick tl;dr🧵

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Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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Let's see how the intrepid Elon inspired team at DOGE - the folks who are currently examining your tax records - are doing! Today they put up their their idea of "open data" which they call a "Wall of Receipts". And look here - two cancelled DEIA contracts for $9,999,999. Wow, they saved $20M! 1/

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#Teslatakedown It's important to shed light on the investors and actors that are propping up this madness

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Israel has violated the ceasefire in Gaza 266 times since it came into effect on January 19, killing at least 132 people, Palestinian security sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dh48s1

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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

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TASA strongly opposes the recent decision by the Education Minister Jason Clare to direct the Australian Research Council (ARC) to undertake an investigation into the work of ARC Future Fellow Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. www.tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

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The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

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The British Sociological Association @britsoci.bsky.social have removed replaced "gender" with "sex" in their member equality survey, and erased the "non-binary" response option entirely. Love to see the professional body of sociology echoing Donald Trump.

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My latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, “Anatomy of an AI Coup.” With the takeover of the US government by tech elites underway, we must examine its goals and next steps — and how we will know if it has succeeded. www.techpolicy.press/anatomy-of-a...

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Open letter in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah and condemning the latest attempt to silence her — please sign & share docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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“What started as a purge of the security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup, as technical units aligned w/ oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at Treasury, block outside access to personnel records, & take offline comms networks.”

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At @okfn.bsky.social, we have been thinking about and testing approaches for fast and low-cost ways to rescue datasets. www.404media.co/archivists-w... It is time to scale our efforts and decentralize critical data archiving.

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Very good advice to find after a day of doomscrolling

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If you are in danger unless you comply with a regime, you are in danger whether you comply or not

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Without congressional approval or constitutional authority, the richest man in the world has taken over payroll of the US government. How is this not a coup?

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SCOOP from me & @marciabrown.bsky.social: USDA ordered to scrub climate change from its websites. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

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I wrote on Hannah Arendt, Gaza, and personal responsibility under genocide (especially in the academy) Now published by @thenewarab.bsky.social www.newarab.com/opinion/hann...

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Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Francesca Albanese on Palestine after the Ceasefire www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/01/30/y...

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Your regular reminder that the first known clinic to offer gender-affirming surgeries was … destroyed by Nazis. In 1933. (Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft.) They always come for trans people first.

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I signed this international petition along with 12,397 people today, to release to release Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah. I hope you do too: www.change.org/p/release-pa...

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'It’s not simply that tech leaders are openly embracing reactionary and right-wing politics (though many are). It’s that they are seeking a change to the underlying system by which firms accumulate capital and wield power'

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Can't wait til US citizens get over votescolding as their basic orientation to current affairs.

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