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Couldn't be clearer that Democrats aren't a party in the way that Republicans are a party. The GOP has an ideological project. They build power to accomplish specific things. The project of the Democratic Party is getting Democrats reelected. 80-90+% of Congress is, so it doesn't take much effort.

submitted 15 days ago • 97 comments

Black scholars argued this incessantly after the war. Britain killed 10’s of millions of Indians, Belgium enslaved and genocided the Congo, France slaughtered its Algerian subjects. Nazi Germany was the logical extension of US and European colonialism, not an aberration.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 15 days ago • 271 comments

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

submitted 20 days ago • 112 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 28 days ago • 1328 comments

The title of this piece from The Nation (@thenation.com) might raise a chuckle, but the issues it raises from trans bans to bodily autonomy in general to just finding an easily accessible washroom when nature calls in many major cities are serious. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I’ve got the morning shift. This guy is dangerous and unfit to serve and I’m about to explain why. Tune in: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

submitted 25 days ago • 2228 comments

Bizarre that someone who admits Elon holds far-right beliefs, openly courts Nazis and deliberately did the salute still insists that he's not technically a Nazi. What does the distinction even mean at this point?

submitted 35 days ago • 134 comments

I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

submitted 35 days ago • 69 comments

Mexico has launched an app for Mexican nationals in the U.S. (legally or no) that has an emergency button you can tap to alert the closest consulate if something happens or you feel in danger from immigration. Please share.

submitted 36 days ago • 13 comments

Good thread on why China’s DeepSeek is a real open source threat to overhyped ChatGPT et al

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Here's the archived page from last week: web.archive.org/web/20250118...

submitted 36 days ago • 10 comments

The administration took down the reproductive rights website that women need access to. So The Skimm bought a url and brought the content back. Pass this on! Go to reproductiverightsdotgov.com

submitted 38 days ago • 118 comments

Trump does not have a mandate.

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

The French Human Rights League is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X on January 20 www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...

submitted 45 days ago • 385 comments

every single one of these guys is an incel loser who thought that being rich would make them popular and well-liked and when it didn't happen they lost their minds even further

submitted 52 days ago • 384 comments

It’s amazing how Mark Zuckerberg looked at the mass exodus from Elon’s Twitter in large part because its now become 95% deranged hate speech, and went “we’ve gotta allow more deranged hate speech on our platforms” Good luck with that, you dead-eyed ghoul.

submitted 53 days ago • 62 comments

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months. Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

submitted 56 days ago • 100 comments

CARTOONS OF THE DAY 🫤 (Cartoonists are rallying around @anntelnaes.bsky.social as she leaves the @washingtonpost.com )

submitted 56 days ago • 433 comments

I have seen a number of accounts expressing this exact line of thought almost verbatim on the other site over the last few days and It appears we are seeing a narrative emerge that will be used to try and go after any kind of support,real or imagined, for those who go against the wealth class

submitted 64 days ago • 65 comments

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

submitted 70 days ago • 91 comments

I am sure this holds across countries and regions to some extent, but it will hold much stronger among extremely unequal countries like the U.S. U.S. academia is far more unequal than academia in any other country I worked in.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Florida students are giving up Saturdays to learn Black history lessons their schools don’t teach

submitted 71 days ago • 114 comments

Enabling ignorance.

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

I wouldn’t have known about this until you amplified it

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Fake AI versions of world-renowned academics are spreading claims that Ukraine should surrender to Russia A new campaign uncovered by @antibot4navalny.bsky.social is cloning the voices of Cambridge and Princeton professors to circulate pro-Russian disinformation.

submitted 80 days ago • 10 comments

UK proposes feeding your life’s work into the climate-destroying garbage generator for rich people to profit from, you peasants, you meaningless peons, how dare you believe your creativity has any value we will sell yuor soul for one corn chip

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: The biggest strike against Amazon in U.S. history is happening right now. The Teamsters are picketing facilities across the country. The union has organized workers at 10 Amazon locations AND they're putting up picket lines at hundreds of other Amazon sites nationwide.

submitted 74 days ago • 1007 comments

My home state. I was born in Flint, Michigan. Michigan House Democrats pass bills to ease name changes and codify changing gender markers michiganadvance.com/2024/12/13/m...

submitted 73 days ago • 6 comments

The memes around this case - which seem to be cohering into a fully-fledged folk iconography - are going to make someone a remarkable PhD thesis. The first chapter could be on this post and the replies to it alone.

submitted 73 days ago • 18 comments

lot of strong work by photo editors today on musk/trump stories but this might be the winner www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 73 days ago • 146 comments

Despite numerous setbacks, Biden cleared $180 billion in student loans, mostly by having Dept of Ed staff fix programs that were broken.

submitted 73 days ago • 28 comments

My senator:

submitted 73 days ago • 19 comments

"Abbott said the new billboards also be displayed in Russian, Arabic and Chinese. He didn't explain why those languages were chosen."

submitted 74 days ago • 70 comments

The richest man in the world who is about to shutdown our government tweeting support for a German neo-nazi party in the middle of the night

submitted 73 days ago • 723 comments

Think mine is either Watergate —especially the tapes— or Nixon’s subsequent resignation

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Disney is not your friend. Disney has never been your friend. Disney will never be your friend. The Moon Girl thing was not a one-off, nor was Gravity Falls, nor was Owl House, nor was the disaster that was Strange World Every year at & around Pride, Disney wants LGBTQ money but yearly they do this

submitted 76 days ago • 140 comments