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Exactly this. If you want to piss and moan about how it’s hopeless and useless, feel free, but don’t expect a ton of support from the people who are putting their back into stopping it.

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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

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For any tourists visiting these shores this summer, I recommend this detailed map of Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys, from “Topography Of Ireland” by Gerald Of Wales (1187)

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Has your job or program or university been affected by federal cuts and firings? If so, we want to hear from you. Pitch our latest roundtable. We're accepting submissions until April 27.

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the street finds its own uses…

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Tonight while the USA sleeps, 129 million birds will fly overhead as part of spring migration. Many will be tiny, colorful visitors arriving from South and Central America, such as warblers. Migration modeling is fascinating. Yup, that’s BIRDS on the weather radar. 🌿 🪶 Learn more: birdcast.info

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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 3 days ago • 305 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 3 days ago • 2329 comments

I have asthma. When you have an asthma attack, you can't pull in oxygen. It is terrifying. If feels like you're going to die. An inhaler can help, but in a severe attack, it is not enough. You could die. She is being tortured, and she may die. Because she wrote an op-ed.

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Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States? We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!

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SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 204 comments

New book mail yesterday, Anthony Grafton's work on #earlymodern magic and the age of Faust. In the current environment I'm also reminded of remarks in his Girolamo Cardano book referring to 16th-century astrologers as the economists of their day: 🙄 📗 📉 bookshop.org/p/books/magu...

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Why is AI governance so often ineffective at preventing AI from harming people and the planet? My new paper Transfeminist AI Governance addresses this question, now out in this month's issue of First Monday: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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In case you were still wondering if Pierre Poilievre is MAGA/Trump, read this. This is an EXTREMELY Trump thing to do. And he’s getting global attention for saying he’s going to do it. This is worse than the science-muzzling Harper did. And Poilievre will go a LOT farther than this. #VOTE

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As a film photography nerd myself, I'm so grateful to have made the photos for this story alongside @arielparrella.bsky.social! A big thanks to the labs for their time and work to develop Chicagoans' photos! Read the story in @blockclubchi.bsky.social:

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Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities

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“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

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This is a really important point about how the NEH and the Perseus Project has made the ancient world open to all. The cutting of funding this past week continues to break all of our hearts but also to put the walls and silos of traditional academia back up.

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NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

This is exactly why we need decentralized, distributed platform governance in multiple national jurisdictions backed by open content that cannot be removed.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I'm just going to tl;dr the argument about social media that's happening in 15,000 places that I keep getting tagged into because everyone's Magic Solution comes down to it: You are advocating for the government to be able to determine who can speak and what is true. Stop fucking doing that.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

UPDATE: ICE is wildly unconcerned about where this man is and no one will tell me, his registered attorney. The universal answer so far is "let's wait and see where he ends up." This is deeply off. We would have more rights at this point if UPS had lost a pair of shoes I'd just bought from Zappos

submitted 6 days ago • 153 comments

ok for real though how are men supposed to not lose their minds about gender when the “pro-masculinity” side says highkey embarrassing shit like this

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The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

submitted 7 days ago • 254 comments

I wrote this article for Artforum to bring to light how certain phrases are used by unis to promote their adoption of AI despite no demonstrated benefits in education. Here's a perfect example using all the buzz phrases I pinpoint: "collaboration"; starting a "conversation"; changing the way we see.

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🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com #humanities #neh #education #highered

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

harder to make the case that the military action against ansarallah is to protect global trade (it isn't) when you immediately blow up global trade anyway for no reason

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

If you are in any way shape or form someone who both is and understands what it means for you to be in contact with an archive of material, you need to start doing whatever it takes to protect those archives, right now.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

Hi everyone - 10 days til the deadline of our search for a tenured faculty member at Waseda University's GSAPS! We have several areas of interest, including technology and society, global history, and politics, especially in research that includes Japan and Asia. Please DM me with any questions!

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When the going gets tough, people don't rise to the occasion, they sink to the level of their training. It's good that this many people are training themselves to say "Fuck You" in the face of fascism and link arms with their neighbors before shit really goes down.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

so it's about a month until the US copies of ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL hit the shelves and I thought, gee it might be nice to grow some basil, and now im like good job oliver look what you did its haunted you absolute tosser

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

With Yoon removed from office today, by my count that makes 34 democratic leaders convicted since 2010. Only one—Trump—faced no real consequences. Trump's actions weren't uncommon. What was exceptional was how our institutions failed to hold him accountable.

submitted 10 days ago • 52 comments

“Protecting” kids without empowering kids is actually just “controlling” kids and if you remember that you will see through a lot of bullshit

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

So, @elsevierconnect.bsky.social added an AI question and answer to my article in Computer & Education. The answers are wrong! They did not ask permission! The answers are WRONG! How is this science?!

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments