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Leaked recordings challenge Greek account of deadly shipwreck

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Undocumented immigrants paid about $26 billion per year into Social Security, even though they will get nothing out of it. They subsidize citizens to an extraordinary degree. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/b...

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White House restores HBCU scholarships after pressure from Ossoff, lawmakers ajc.com/education/wh...

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"To not teach students about such topics is, we believe, to fail in our role as educators. To forbid teaching it is an attack on the core mission of educational institutions in a democracy" important legal / historical reading of the Dear Colleague letter ⬇️⬇️

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The @washingtonpost.com has just broken the story about my cancelled art show that was three-plus years in the making and due to open in three weeks. A press statement is being prepared, and further responses will be announced. For those of you who have already expressed support, thank you.

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‼️ Two years ago today, the tragic shipwreck off the coast of Cutro occurred, killing at least 181 people. The boat had been spotted by Frontex the night before, but the Italian authorities delayed the rescue!

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Ora #ilcavalloelatorre #Rai3 @raitre.bsky.social #Guerra Stasera veglia a #Cutro Basta #stragi. La mia tavola.

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Hochul’s move here is profoundly racist and dehumanizing. Defining Palestinian studies as fundamentally antisemitic means defining Palestinians as something to be erased. It is genocidal. This is also an unacceptable attack on academic freedom. The governor should have no say in faculty hiring.

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Are you kidding me nypost.com/2025/02/25/u...

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I am ordering all of my opinion-writing employees to only write about the importance of personal liberty, if they don't want to write on the assigned topic, they will lose their jobs

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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

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The AP was banned from the event but the French press corps conspired to get a US AP reporter inside and insisted she be allowed to ask her question.

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It's as important right now to affirm the positive as it is to sanction the negative. If someone or a group or an organization refuse to comply, let them know you appreciate them.

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❤️ my colleagues & my union!

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I'm tuned in here! Join me!

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Proud of my department! And excellent coverage from the SBU Statesman. sbstatesman.com/133028/news/...

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Happening now! Join us here: www.labor4highered.org#register

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[📚 Call for Book Reviewers] New titles available for review! Would you like to contribute to our blog by reviewing books on border control and migration? Get in touch at [email protected] to claim a title. Please share!

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I repeat: the new state media www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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I am so pleased to announce a Palestinian Studies cluster hire at @huntercollege.bsky.social - we are hiring one person in the arts and another in the social sciences. This is an incredible source of pride for me as a faculty member & one of the many reasons that I feel so lucky to work here 1/

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Dear Manager, I have 1. Walked 500 miles 2. Walked 500 more 3. Was the man who walked 1000 miles 4. Fell down at your door 5. Da da dumb

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UPDATE: @POTUS rescinded the stop-work order that halted legal services for unaccompanied immigrant children. We'll continue to work to ensure that kids are not deprived of their constitutional right to due process & legal counsel. Read our updated stmt:

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German exit polls are bad, no sugar coating that. But very interesting that they are not AS bad as many polls suggested it could have been. A historically huge turnout seems to have contributed to slightly smaller than expected proportions for the right & extreme right.

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Wow! DIe Linke does much better than expected, while both CDU and AfD fall below symbolically important 30% and 20%, respectively. FDP might still make it, BSW less likely. Grand Coalition is possible but narrow margins... #BTW25 #GermanElection

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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👀 bookmarking ... & glad this includes some additional info beyond biomed, too, like hiring freezes. Who is tracking humanities & social sciences?

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Here we have the so-called "Third Term Project," a campaign to change the American constitution -- in the same way that Vladimir Putin, who has been in power in Russia since 1999, changed the Russian Federation's constitution to serve as dictator for life -- to allow for a third term as POTUS. 1/7

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This was in 1973. Border and the rhetoric about it completely transformed.

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When we fight, we win. Judge Halts Implementation of Trump Anti-DEIA Executive Orders Nationwide The AAUP is proud to stand up & defend our campuses & communities against those attempting to squash civil rights & halt progress toward an equitable, multi-racial democracy. www.washingtonpost.com

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DOGE has spent $40 million in one month

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A couple of us put this together at Georgetown for next week. Anybody in DC very welcome to come through

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The UN Migration Agency, IOM, has dismissed 3000 employees this week in mass lay-offs responding to Trump's USAID and USRAP cuts. More cuts are expected to follow. www.devex.com/news/scoop-u...

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Grateful to announce that the anthology Brynn Saito and I have been working on the past couple of years — of poetry on Nikkei (Japanese Okinawan American Canadian) incarceration by 66 descendants of people imprisoned during WWII — is out 4/1 @haymarketbooks.org. Cover Rob Sato: thegateofmemory.com

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Saying the things on the floor of the senate! Take note I guess!!

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this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

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Inside the lobby at NSF…

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If you, like me, were racing around to find the link for today's NEH Fellowship application webinar... it was canceled.

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“According to several aid workers and officials involved in the response, it is Syria’s 7.4 million displaced people, particularly the estimated 2.3 million who live in formal and informal camps, who will bear the brunt of the initial impacts.”

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Useful Project 2025 tracker www.project2025.observer

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Portland joins sanctuary city lawsuit against Trump administration The lawsuit, filed in California, alleges that recent executive orders and administrative actions illegally harm cities and states with sanctuary policies related to immigration enforcement. www.portland.gov/hello/news/2...

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When someone says any variety of “if you fight back they’ll authoritarian crack down you” I always wonder what they think is going to happen if we don’t fight back

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