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A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one

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Tenement House: Scottish National Trust site in Glasgow that interrogates 20th C. working class life. I learned that "tenements" in Glasgow were a particular kind of apartment block that were frequently inhabited by people of diverse incomes and family structures.

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Genuine Question because I Do not understand… so if these men roll up in plain clothes and masks, grab a human being… even a child, and throw them in an unmarked vehicle I am just supposed to look the other way and say nothing ?? Ask Nothing ?

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Hey there Scott Walker. I noticed you deleted this after learning that in fact the shooter was from the right. I don’t think it matters either way, violence is violence, so I’m waiting for you to tweet the same thing with corrected facts? Cuz you’re uh, to use your words, “being silent.”

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UCL are going back to all in person exams. There is no other solution to this problem currently available.

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Research on the history and economics of regional Scottish beverage industry, with experiential product survey. Insight into capital formation, rural development, and market globalization. The local enterprise operates in its original location of 1794. 70% of output now sold in the USA!

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Historian's pilgrimage to Columba's Iona.

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I really wonder how this sounds to Estonian, Polish or Hungarian ears.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

babe wake up we've reached the arresting sitting US senators for attending a press conference stage of the US dictatorship

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“ICE” as snatching people from churches now. Never forget they said this👇🏾 MAN AT CHURCH: “We don’t want this in our property.” ICE: “The whole country is our property.” No IDs shown, non-government out of state plates, basic tactical vests that just say police. Who are these men?

submitted 7 days ago • 1109 comments

A US Senator was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by federal agents, and then the DHS Secretary went on to say that they are taking control from the "socialist" local government. That is fascist, there is no other proper word for it than that. No euphemisms are necessary or warranted.

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

The Fort Bragg stunt was a gut punch. If serving and retired senior officers haven’t condemned - on record - the positioning of the uniformed US military as a faction, that’s the beginning of the end.

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New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

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Southern Baptist overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on same-sex marriage calling for a reversal of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 10-year-old precedent legalizing it nationwide. MAGATs first went after transgender people. Their next target will be the gay/lesbian community. 🤬 apnews.com/article/sout...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Those who've been advocating for women deacons in the Catholic Church are taking stock of the possibility under the papacy of Pope Leo XIV.

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A journalist got fired this week for calling this guy a hater, something that's just objectively true and has been true since he was a kid.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

It is a disgrace that the Department of Defense continues to post partisan political messages on social media and a disgrace that the DHS Secretary is making political statements about elections from the Oval Office. They piss on this country’s traditions daily. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 9 days ago • 1152 comments

Opinion of US has worsened in countries around world in last year, survey shows

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I can't believe our government can't stand up to this clown.

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BALDWIN: What is the authority that the administration is using to deploy active duty Marines to California neighborhoods? HEGSETH: The president has constitutional authority BALDWIN: Cite the provision of the Constitution HEGSETH: I'd have to pull up the specific provision

submitted 8 days ago • 769 comments

Two more violations of the Declaration of Independence: “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

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NEW: The board of the Fulbright Program has just resigned after accusing Trump aides of political interference. They say a State Dept. office under Rubio and Darren Beattie has cancelled scholarships to nearly 200 US professors and researchers. Story: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 38 comments

And they wouldn't stop at marriage. They want us back in hospitals undergoing lobotomies.

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You didn’t think they were going to stop with trans rights, did you?

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Families of people who were detained by ICE in immigration raids say they haven't been able to make contact with their loved ones or even find out where many of them are being held.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

Great recs from @mattseybold.bsky.social on resisting technofeudal education: prioritize print, practice ungrading, "Luddify" the classroom; de-mobilize computer infrastructure (root technology in social place!); faculty governance over SaaS subscriptions; instructor choice re: ed-tech

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ICE appears to confirm that California National Guard are being used to provide security to ICE officers during immigration arrest operations.

submitted 9 days ago • 325 comments

Masked agents making warrantless arrests with a “do what you need to do” mandate. "In Irvine, Calif., ICE agents drove a phalanx of military vehicles ... seeking a resident’s son who had allegedly posted fliers alerting neighbors to the presence of ICE agents" www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...

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So the California governor probably shouldn’t be arrested but he should definitely be lynched says the representative from northern Louisiana? What year is this?

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AI is a parasite that is built on stealing (aka "training on") the scholarship of professors. The idea that it might have an enlarged role in higher education is terrifying.

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We @protectdemocracy.org have been saying for years “in the modern era, authoritarianism doesn’t come with tanks in the streets. It’s harder to see coming than that.” Well, we were wrong. Trump’s tanks are here. We are frogs in the water, and it’s already boiling.

submitted 12 days ago • 42 comments

People keep quoting this and saying "stop using AI!" But this is just a regular Google search. The issue is that Google now shows AI results first. Some people know to scroll past them or click the "Web" tab, but many do not.

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High court tells UK lawyers to stop using AI after fake case-law citations

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Why the Grauniad is still essential reading for the U.K., part 46:

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There’s a NYT column abt millennials not having kids that not only coyly bowdlerizes the Larkin poem (“they mess you up”) but also misquotes the 1st line of the final stanza, TWICE, once in a subhead, leaving out a full syllable! I realize there are bigger crises but good god, they need to fix this

submitted 20 days ago • 33 comments

so true. N Y Times has worked to normalize Tp from the start. with its base in NYC, this publication was ideally positioned to investigate Tp's spotty real estate past & his many-times alleged ties with organized crime. they failed, preferring instead to amplify him & pillory Hillary Clinton

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Wisconsining through Colby and Menominie. Cheese history and UW-Stout.

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Another day. Another violation of the emoluments clause. Flooding the zone with corruption.

submitted 27 days ago • 18 comments

“The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” — Treaty of Tripoli, signed by the United States in 1797.

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