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Massive development in Sudan today with the SAF breaking the siege of El Obeid. Game changer for the Kordufan’s and Darfur. This is not a temporary SAF assault/war fortunes. It appears there is a real military strategy.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

💕💸🍉 verified @butterflyeffect24.bsky.social line 1262 #Gaza #Palestine

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Step 0. Everyone needs to take step 0. What is your step 0? Do you believe in an expendable class of people? Do you believe the land is none of your business? Do you believe in owning property? Do you believe suffering is inevitable? Do you believe children have nothing to teach?

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Preliminary thoughts on the German election results so far: 1) Chasing the far right vote by demagoguing on migration has brought the CDU/CSU it's second worst performance in history. It's in first place, but it's a weaker result than anything Merkel posted.

submitted 8 hours ago • 9 comments

The Romans also had a hatred of monarchy but their government still became an autocracy

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The Syrian National Dialogue Conference will take place on February 25. Discussions on the constitution, institutional reform, and the economy are expected to be had. According to committee members, consultations across the country took place last week, engaging 4,000 Syrians in the process.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

Israeli tanks have entered the North of the West Bank for the first time in 20 years.

submitted 10 hours ago • 7 comments

Is anyone keeping a running list of which grad programs (subjects) at which universities have decided to freeze PhD admissions and/or rescind offers? Please lmk me if so.

submitted 12 hours ago • 43 comments

You allowed to decide, at any point “I ain’t gotta live like this” and take steps to immediately change your life.

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

What did you do last week questions aren't new. "Monday: Try to prove theorem Tuesday: Try to prove theorem Wednesday: Try to prove theorem Thursday: Try to prove theorem Friday: Theorem false" Julia Robinson, asked to summarise her activity as part of getting a permanent position at Berkeley.

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

The Israeli cabinet decided to break the ceasefire agreement and not to release the 600 prisoners slated for release today.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The vast majority of these 600 are civilians that were kidnapped in Gaza. Not accused of anything, not charged of anything.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Worth noting that a large number of federal employees, such as NIH and NSF program officers, were not allowed to do their jobs last week.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Screams at the fact that chronically ill people are still dying from Covid because society doesn't care to even make hospitals safe. Covid is very real. Yes, Covid kills people, especially those of us with pre-existing health conditions. Covid also triggers chronic illnesses.

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No surprise here given Ruto just hosted Hemedti/the RSF in Nairobi: Kenya expects to receive a $1.5 billion loan from the United Arab Emirates by the end of next week. bloomberg.com/news/article... via @markets

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Thinking today about theoretical physicist Gerard 't Hooft, whose surname is apparently so unspellable that his website features a curated list of all the ways in which he's seen his name misspelt haha First entry is the correct one

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As many of you know, ~170 Program Officers at #NSF were fired on Tuesday, including a number that worked in Divisions important to the EEB community (e.g., DEB and GEO/OPP). 1/3

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"Salama Ma’rouf, the head of the Government Media Office(GMO), said the Gaza Strip needs no less than 60,000 mobile homes & 200,000 tents [agreed in the ceasefire agreement] to provide temporary shelter for hundreds of thousands of families who lost their homes." english.palinfo.com/news/2025/02...

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lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/21/c.... Federally supported Native American university in Lawrence KS loses approx 40 of 146 employees by DOGE firings, including faculty, staff, and maintenance. This violates treaty, trust, and statutory obligations. Outrageous. I taught there 15 years..

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Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

submitted 1 day ago • 139 comments

A real struggle right now is thinking that the people in charge just want the US to be the us with more white guys in charge when in truth they want to destroy democracy

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Every time I see these stories I don’t only think about how much effort it is to defend every single program, I think how much it must infuriate the people who thought they could just sweep everything away to keep getting told no. Tiny wins are still wins

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Today’s #FebruArty prompt is ‘divided’ & mitosis feels like an excellent response 🐡

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'Universities in Wales have expressed concern that the Welsh budget, announced on 20 February, does not contain additional support for higher education institutions.' 1/2

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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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everyone’s talking about “asteroid this, asteroid that”, but no one’s asking HOW the asteroid is

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What an instructive parable: Wisdom personified as a bird with the knowledge and diligence to hunt, take care of her children, and travel a great distance one day at a time.

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BREAKING: Supreme Court maintains pause on Trump's bid to fire the head of a watchdog agency in the administration's first case to reach the high court.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

I'm sorry, WHAT?

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#BIPOCMA #MutualAid #HelpSky 💕💸

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Not being physically in the US right now, I am going to submit comments on everything I can!

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My house was on debate It was my house It kept my children safe It kept us free My house is gone It wasn't my house It was on stolen ground It kept us in debt I miss my house Where there was never rest Where suffering was certain Where I knew what to expect No no no no no I do not want it back

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

broke AND woke let's go!

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#Mathematicians if you are or were in the US, did you get a survey from the AMS executive about future directions for the organization? If so, what did you think about it?

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Yelling at your senators may not be that big of a thing, but I guarantee it's more helpful than merely yelling into the void

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Pressure mounts on VC Wendy Larner. Maths cuts ‘will cause lasting damage’ to Cardiff Uni, warn Nobelists. Proposal to merge maths and computer science at under-fire institution risks damaging one of its ‘crown jewels’. - Times Higher. 👇👀 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/maths-c...

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www.campaignmathsci.uk/post/mathema... #MathSky

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The first paper of my PhD is now on arXiv! 🙌

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It's probably not good that progressive liberals writing defenses of trans rights in the broader context of a defense of identity issues like racism seem to think that the biggest problem is being barred from the military and not our existence being made illegal Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Remember a fake video in October that showed a fake poll worker destroying pro-Trump election ballots in Pennsylvania? There's now a copycat fake video with the same script about the German election, showing a fake poll worker destroying election ballots for the AfD in Hamburg.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

if nothing else can convince you to do this, you can think of it as spamming them back

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments