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One way that anti-feminism has been conceptually collapsed into a stand-in for all other political grievances is through the feminization of the state, which is cast as a scolding mommy for doing things like requiring milk pasteurization.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

You there! What day is it???

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Migrants, transgender people, unhoused people, and prisoners will be the last to say goodbye to Pope Francis before he is buried today www.vaticannews.va/it/papa/news...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

jeez this is bleak www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

submitted 10 days ago • 22 comments

University of #Toledo is ending a huge number of programs out of fear of SB 1. An absolute slaughter. Every corner of my hometown will feel the impact #Ohio's Republican politicians passed this bill. Don't let anyone forget it news.utoledo.edu/index.php/04...

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 12 days ago • 757 comments

It’s a truism that corporations are fueled by university research because a corporation can’t afford to take the risks of failure that are involved. They wait and leverage university research success. Which is significantly less expensive because a lot of the labor is trainees (students, postdocs).

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Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

submitted 14 days ago • 133 comments

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

submitted 14 days ago • 1257 comments

Never seen it framed this way by all recent elections Wild

submitted 16 days ago • 144 comments

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

submitted 15 days ago • 123 comments

If you are faculty, staff, or student in the UC system — or if you are an alum — please consider signing this petition, which asks the UC to immediately address the revocation of our students’ visas. Anyone who wishes to share: please do. sites.google.com/view/stop-re...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 26 days ago • 90 comments

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

submitted 26 days ago • 1316 comments

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

submitted 27 days ago • 288 comments

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

submitted 28 days ago • 92 comments

5th avenue, NYC #handsoff

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Boston is ready for Saturday’s national day of action: handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=indivisible

submitted 30 days ago • 88 comments

Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory

submitted 31 days ago • 224 comments

Cory Booker is planning to stay on the senate floor for as long as he can stand. He is planning a marathon speech including a multi part presentation on how President Trump is harming the country. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

submitted 33 days ago • 57 comments

What does 82,000 fewer cars per day look like? Matt Yarri of the @mta.info Data & Analytics team reviews congestion pricing data visualization at @schoolofdata.nyc

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Contemporary Indigenous Horror. Deadline for proposals: May 30, 2025!

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In case you, like me, are a high-anxiety human who missed this piece of moderately reassuring news: Despite many broken things, the FDA did make a flu shot recommendation for this fall. www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/h...

submitted 46 days ago • 69 comments

Chuck Schumer Kirsten Gillibrand Eric Adams Andrew Cuomo Kathy Hochul the entire NY Democratic Party, outside of AOC, needs to be completely burned to the ground

submitted 51 days ago • 170 comments

I’d be interested in hearing from people in academia what Americans can do to inflict consequences on Columbia for its craven and contemptible behavior.

submitted 54 days ago • 77 comments

These 10 Democrats joined Republicans who voted to censure Rep. Al Green for his act of protest during the lie-filled speech Donald Trump, the first felon to be elected president, gave to Congress on Tuesday.

submitted 58 days ago • 71 comments

Times Square today. Слава Україні!

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

spite. somewhere there's a bigot who is FUMING by the idea of a trans Jew building an evolutionary biology lab where inclusion is prioritized, and i am drinking in their pathetic tears like sweet ambrosia

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

runforsomething.net has a list of candidate resources that will help you run for office. One of the biggest reasons we’re in the mess we’re in right now is because not enough good people run for office and take active roles in campaigns. Be the example and @runforsomething.net

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Whoa guys I made a mistake here. Looks like I got it wrong. Mea Culpa. They didn't give unanimous consent 29 times last week. ...they gave it 29 times on that single day.

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

A new website created by about a dozen federal employees, called “We the Builders,” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share stories about how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real-world impact of its access to government tech systems.

submitted 70 days ago • 157 comments

I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 70 days ago • 154 comments

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

submitted 74 days ago • 27 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 76 days ago • 46 comments

Just absurdly bad at their jobs

submitted 73 days ago • 19 comments