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CUNY and other academia folks, pay attention. Governor Hochul is telling us whom we can hire and what we can teach, using alleged antisemitism as the pretext for censoring the study of Palestine. THIS is an example of "DEI" being used as thought control.

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Imagine The Matrix (1999), but, like The Muppet Carol (1992), all of the characters are played by muppets except Agent Smith, as portrayed by Hugo Weaving

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Elon and Trump have never liked unions. Wouldn't a massive strike be a great IRL troll? slate.com/podcasts/wha...

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This kind of personal vindictiveness is exactly what bureaucracy is designed to avoid. www.axios.com/2025/02/24/m...

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Let the fact that Elon Musk and Steve Bannon are still upright and platformed forever put to rest the claim that the aggressive repression of students gathered in tents on campus lawns to protest genocide was actually about stopping antisemitism.

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Dear manager: 1. I decided to buy the flowers myself. 2. Met up with my old friend Peter. 3. Threw a shilling into the Serpentine. 4. Considered throwing myself in there, too. 6. Threw a big party instead.

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Being a pregnant frequenter of pregnancy Reddit boards I’ve seen two horrifying stories from Texas crop up recently including a distressed woman with terrible morning sickness early in pregnancy saying to an ER dr that “I don’t even want to be pregnant any more” and being sectioned against her will…

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I'd love to be a fly in the room when their AI's run the (very easy) math to conclude that funding the government is way more "efficient" than destroying it.

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As a historian I’m mostly struck by how dumb those “high agency” tyrants really were. Per Tariq Ali, the intellect of Ayub Khan and his generals barely rose above the level of Reader’s Digest: “Occasionally they might glance at the National Geographic magazine, to admire the photographs.”

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Bee diversity is inherently exclusionary to wasps and hornets and no longer acceptable under the regime:

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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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Man he really called it

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Show my students a single chart breaking down the cost of labor, materials and distribution for single Stanley Cup and how much profit gets made per cup and all of a sudden they're staunch Marxists. I can't help that 🤷🏻‍♀️

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This is a good, sobering thread to keep in mind.

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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...

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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

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“Discriminatory equity ideology”

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“I watched them, sitting in that living room nibbling on corn chips and guacamole, and finally asked, ‘Do you think we’ll look back on this time and know that it was the beginning of the end?’”

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Looking for images of "Victorian classrooms" to help teach Foucault this week and just had an extremely relevant and disconcerting core memory flashback. "HANDS ON HEADS!" Anyone else's teachers use this trick?!

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Just spelled "Czechoslovakia" correctly on the first attempt. Taking the small wins at the moment.

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Saw a Feds Reddit post yesterday where someone asked, “why do they hate us?” and the top answer was that, “we’re the last group of people to have good, stable jobs.” Rather than fight for everyone to have this, people are pushed to jealousy by billionaires gleefully turning us all into gig workers.

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I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

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“…we are witnessing… the convergence of three strains of politics [:] the Wall Street–Silicon Valley nexus of distressed debt + startup culture; anti–New Deal conservative think tanks; and the extremely online world of anarchocapitalism + right-wing accelerationism.” - @quinnslobodian.com

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New org established to defend Department of Education coalition of public education advocates, educators, beneficiaries of federal education funding, and former employees of the U.S. Department of Education www.protectpubliced.org

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NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

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“I’ve downloaded your article as a PDF somewhere” #honestacademicvalentines

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Senior scholars grumbling on a mailing list about there being too many "modern and contemporary" scholars in art history but I literally had to explain to students this week that neoliberalism only fully kicked off in the 1990s and not the 1920s or 19th century as they first thought...

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