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Trump directs the Smithsonian Institution in Washington to remove `divisive' references to race and gender at its network of museums.

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Should we expect a huge drop in foreign students in US next year?

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We've just published this detailed video investigation into Israeli military attacks on journalists working with drones in Gaza. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLbv...

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If this were an actual war this opportunistic photoshoot would be a violation of the Geneva Convention.

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The clown show continues - Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online www.spiegel.de/internationa...

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It’s hard to face but this is the US now. Secret police can just disappear graduate students. As with any police state, fear is the point.

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Meiselas: Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. Do you believe the Russians now have all of that information and potentially more? Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.

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All you need to know about Twitter

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The election has just been called for April 28. If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...

submitted 4 days ago • 199 comments

There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com

submitted 6 days ago • 125 comments

@indyfromspace.bsky.social is spot on here. I read the original paper too. I also looked at the reviews. My favourite is: “this is very well done. The equations put me off a little and I have no idea what to make of those. But the modeling was super. Good job.” (not a quote, but whole review!😬)

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Uh. clears throat As one of the only people in the world with expertise in Egyptology/Remote Sensing, my official take is that this study is pseudoscientific nonsense+ smells of FreshCowPatties™️. I read the original paper. It should be retracted. www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

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When democracies slide towards authoritarianism, the judiciary will be the last institution to be undermined and captured by the authoritarian system, then it's the people vs. the state - Elon Musk lashes out at US judges as they rule against Doge www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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A year since I made this prediction www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/O8...

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RFK Jr says cell phones cause cancer, DOJ sends women to a men’s prison in El Salvador, Musk's Pentagon war briefings debacle, Trump wants Tesla vandals jailed abroad, and AOC torches the haters. That and more in today’s absolutely bonkers Bulletin.

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Wholeheartedly agree with the conclusion here. Columbia should say “see you in court.” This is, as the author writes, a mob shakedown. Not only @columbiauniversity.bsky.social, but all of higher ed will suffer if it succeeds. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump’s assault on the rule of law: ‘the speed and intent is remarkable’ https://www.ft.com/content/3741dee9-a801-4572-8f61-997c04d6698d

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

The free speech absolutists are going all out for free speech and artistic expression again.

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ICYMI yesterday. (I didn’t but was too distressed to even post about it.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

A simple truth about authoritarianism: if you're not kneeling or bending over, you're the enemy.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

If a friend from abroad asked me about traveling to the US right now, I world advise against it. That’s where we are as a society two months in to Trump 2.0.

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The future according to AI …

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Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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The Trump administration has frozen $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania, citing policies allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports, according to the White House

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Pentagon has been ordering the removal of web site references to General Colin Powell and the Tuskegee Airmen and one of the flag-raisers at Iwo Jima as part of a crackdown on DEI. Have you no shame Pete Hegseth?(hat tip to Task and Purpose, WaPo for reporting) youtube.com/shorts/0HJpe...

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New research using Environmental Performance Indicators (EPI) demonstrates the long-lasting impacts of armed conflict on the environment, in particular direct damage and impacts, and natural resource and wider env. management capacity of the state journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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The Trump Administration likely violated a court order. Let’s break it all down.

submitted 11 days ago • 291 comments

Every academic and member of the media should be following Aaron. In the analytics world, we use data because it's impossible to see everything with the naked eye and compute it in our brains. Aaron is to media what FanGraphs is to baseball. Truly incredible the amount of data he communicates for us

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Donald Trump has illegally invoked The Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a wartime authority, to detain and deport Venezuelan immigrants he deems to be members of criminal gang Tren de Aragua. This was last invoked during WWII to justify the internment of Japanese-Americans.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

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U.S. District Judge Boasberg has issued a 14-day injunction blocking Trump invocation of the Alien Enemies Act from taking effect and ordered planes already in the air carrying noncitizens under the proclamation to be turned around.

submitted 12 days ago • 221 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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🧵 I want to follow up this earlier thread by examining why the USA finds itself in the state it does at the moment; the process of disordered discourse capturing state institutions and how it inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, a process we're seeing unfold before our very eyes.

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