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Welcome to Pyongyang on the Potomac.

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Democrats lose because they constantly give the impression that they don't believe in anything.

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"The data analytic tools now being used to scour social media were enhanced during the Biden administration, a former Biden [admin] DHS official said. But to use them to search social media of nonviolent students, the official said, is different from what the previous administration intended." 🫠🫠🫠

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Ideas

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Nature have picked up our survey. We think it's the largest survey of AI researchers ever conducted. Here's a quick thread on some of the headlines @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Superb interview w/ Princeton president Chris Eisgruber - a model of resistance that is thoughtful, clear-eyed, but adamant of ultimate lines to draw -- applies for all univ and law and media too. Really worth a listen. The University President Willing to Fight Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

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This is what college prez should be doing! Prez. Eisgruber said "Princeton will not 'make concessions,' even if it risks losing federal funding...It is essential for us to protect academic freedom." The schools include Princeton, Brown, Wesleyan, and Mount Holyoke College.

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Columbia gives Trump basically all he asks for, fires their president when it seems she may not comply fast enough, and then still gets all its remaining funding frozen. These demands are not good-faith demands about antisemitism. They are efforts to break universities.

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Columbia’s reward for bending over backward to comply is checks notes $700 million in more funding freezes. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 22 hours ago • 28 comments

The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.

submitted 22 hours ago • 71 comments

If I was a single issue voter, this would be my single issue!

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A real Art of the Fucking Deal moment authored by a gaslighting serial abuser.

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Nothing has prepared you to live under Trump 2 as much as growing up in 1980s/90s Latin America. It was exactly like that! The sudden announcements changing everything, the overwhelming uncertainty, the sheer vertigo and whiplash. Plus, the sense that democracy is fragile and could collapse...

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More to come on this but please go to your favorite podcast streaming services and subscribe Death County, Pa - a new limited series from Wondery and yours truly podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

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They are doing reparations for insurrectionists.

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you can't spell "tariffs" without "FFS"

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here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

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"On March 7, German national, US permanent resident Fabian Schmidt was detained by CPB officers at Logan Airport...Schmidt is currently being held by ICE at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls RI 'without clear charges or justification'" www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

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May I introduce you to the financial panic of 1873? 1893? 1907? The counter-revolution that ended Reconstruction? The introduction of Jim Crow segregation? The "Mississippi Plan" of 1890? The Populist revolt? The first nationwide strike on the railroads in 1877? Pullmans strike? Homestead?

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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

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Do you train students--including scientists and engineers--how to think about the ethical, social, political, and policy dimensions of their work? Check out @stpp-um.bsky.social's new report, which includes recommendations on how these programs can be cultivated. And come to our webinar on April 10!

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Michael Roth: can't stop, won't stop. Kudos to him for continuing to say what needs to be said. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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"Abductions by government agents; unexplained, indefinite detentions; the targeting of allegedly dangerous ideas; lists of those under government scrutiny... Jews have been here before, many times, and it does not end well for us." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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Another absolutely amazing piece from Michael Roth. I thoroughly agree with every single word. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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Local news matters: “You saved me, whether from another beating or death, that article made them think, if we touch this kid, it’s going to hit the New York Daily News, and whoever is connected to that is going to burn,” he told THE CITY last week. www.thecity.nyc/2025/04/07/n...

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"Jew hatred is real, but today’s anti-antisemitism isn’t a legitimate effort to fight it. It’s a cover for a wide range of agendas that have nothing to do with the welfare of Jewish people." At least one University president gets it.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...

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Encouraging news I would've missed if it weren't for Liz's weekly update: "The Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution proposing a Mutual Defense Compact in which members of the Big Ten conference will pool funding and legal, policy, and communications capacity and expertise." More of this!

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The Trump administration doesn't even want our military to know anything about its own history. This will most certainly make it easier for Trump's goons to whitewash its history even further.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

New measles death in TX - a child. C/w last week: CURRENT CASE COUNT: 569 Texas: 481 (+59) New Mexico: 54 (+6) Oklahoma: 10 Kansas: 24 (+1) HOSPITALIZATIONS: 58 (+14) Texas: 56 (+14) have been hospitalized, 11.6%. New Mexico: 2 (No change). This is 4.5% of NM cases. DEATHS: 3 (+1)

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Israel’s ousted Shin Bet head makes clear that “the war's continuation, on multiple fronts, was for Netanyahu's personal benefit. He is actually worried about a hostage deal that would return all 59 hostages held by Hamas, since this could bring down his…coalition.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Today, as Duke’s Khaman Maluach, of Rumbek, South Sudan, prepared to play in the NCAA Final Four, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced his department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders...”

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RFK Jr. said he will rehire thousands of people he mistakenly fired — and claimed the erroneous cuts were "always the plan."

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Just put me out of my misery. Unfuckingbelievable. This reads like the most oniony Onion article but apparently it’s real life. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

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Democracy is alive in Pittsburgh.

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University of California announces that several (>20 but actual sum unknown) international students had visas revoked. Multiple campuses are affected. At least one deportation already. Faculty, it's time to STOP WORK and push UC into PROTESTING this. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/u...

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Cool stuff still happens!! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...

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Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

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In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."

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