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fholt.bsky.social
Political struggles for planetary survival. Scandinavian college professor. Editor of 33 1/3 Europe.
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“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

Tucked in this story: Jo reports major corporations fear they will be targeted by the U.S. government for supporting domestic Pride Month events

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Worth watching in full! youtu.be/qKAdujuHvuQ?...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

If you're visiting the US, this might be helpful.

submitted 35 days ago • 25 comments

Ari Melber: "What do you want to say tonight on live TV to Elon Musk?" Natasha Weinstein, USAID worker illegally fired by DOGE: "What I would say (personally) to him and Trump is that I'm sorry your parents didn't love you."

submitted 40 days ago • 11 comments

"Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies."

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @msnbc.com

submitted 46 days ago • 5 comments

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

submitted 48 days ago • 5184 comments

Look carefully: these are the companies that we must force governments to dismantle if our kids are going to have a mostly habitable planet.

submitted 56 days ago • 10 comments

On day of #CleanIndustrialDeal announcement see our new report w/ @lobbycontrol.bsky.social which looks at biggest corporate lobbies, how much they spend, & what they want Spoiler alert: the Commission is about to reveal a shocking example of #corporatecapture corporateeurope.org/en/2025/02/e...

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

fixed it

submitted 74 days ago • 5 comments

Look, these unlawful and unenforceable executive orders mostly make it easier for nasty transphobic bigots to harass and cause problems in their community, so people of good will need to demonstrate much more strength & power & ferocity to local bureaucrats than the haters do. That’s the strategy!

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

This is the new McCarthyism. And this time, the Witch Hunt will be automated.

submitted 85 days ago • 3 comments

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers. See what changes are in store for your county. By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

submitted 109 days ago • 294 comments

Throwing tomato soup on a painting seems like an under-reaction, to be honest

submitted 110 days ago • 21 comments

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? IPCC authors are not paid.

submitted 167 days ago • 4 comments