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Historian, Kentuckian. Stuff about Yemen, S. Asia, Arabian Peninsula, and all things guitar . . . https://www.johnwillishistory.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@WalthomstowC/featured https://johnmwillis.bandcamp.com/album/for-palestine
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If you're in Cambridge, MA go see this experimental guitar show featuring Roger Miller. My brother @pandrewwillis.bsky.social will be opening!

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Another entry in the chronicle of our educational race to the bottom . . . www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Utter idiot in charge of counter-terrorism plan, which will no doubt be awful www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

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FBI and local police raid homes of pro-Palestine activists--more criminalization of free speech. www.metrotimes.com/news/fbi-pol...

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JD Vance knocks Eisenhower for opposing the tripartite invasion of Suez in '56. That's an odd position to take, but I guess not of character for a horrid little man . . . unherd.com/2025/04/jd-v...

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Jesus, hasn't he done enough already? www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/p...

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republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

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Person who thinks we should be ruled by a philosopher-king appointed by God also edging pretty damn close to eugenics . . .

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BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

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Coercing the Houthis, Knights told CNN, is “really, really difficult.” “They are an extremely aggressive movement. The best way to end them permanently is to overthrow them, remove them from the capital, remove them from the Red Sea coast.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/06/m...

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Middle East crisis live: Israeli troops shot Gaza paramedics ‘with intent to kill’, says Red Crescent

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A program that emphasizes coexistence is now anti-Semitic?

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nymag.com/intelligence...

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Don't think you can keep calling it the "Trump plan" when it's something the Israeli government has wanted to do for a long time . . . www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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Lost their damn minds . . .

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UC Davis . . .

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Hegseth doing the serious work of banning books . . . www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

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I had always thought of him as a kind of right wing Gerber Baby (Goebbles Baby?), but I think "little pig man" better captures his nature as an odious, middle-class striver of the worst sort . . .

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Folks are right that this Administration is *generally* anti-academic But to understand its particular configuration, one has to acknowledge a lot of its specific program is about quashing dissent on Israel Until folks who are cool with the latter do this, we will not win the fight on the former

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Absolutely shameful behavior from Harvard's dean Cutler: Kafadar and Bsheer removed from the Center for Middle East Studies.

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A declaration of war on anyone who has expressed public sympathy for Palestinians. Columbia U's shameless surrender along with every university admin and Dem pol that repressed student protestors has paved the way for this: mondoweiss.net/2025/03/trum...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

The age of repression . . .

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To be fair, I'm from the same country and I don't want to talk to them either. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Remember that it's the speech that matters, not one's visa status. The latter just makes it easier for the state to expel or imprison people. The question is what tools they'll use to begin arresting students with U.S. citizenship for the same speech.

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This is mukhabarat style behavior, pure police state stuff . . .

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“We can eliminate an entire district court. We have power of funding over the courts and all these other things,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Rashid Khalidi: "If it were ever really about discrimination, the university would have taken action against the ceaseless harassment of Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students and faculty, and their allies and supporters, instead of endorsing and enabling it" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We have arrived at the point where Iran’s supreme leader is critical of the Trump Admin’s record on civil liberties and human rights.

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"The new vice provost, appointed by Columbia, will review curriculum, nontenure faculty hiring and leadership “to ensure the educational offerings are comprehensive and balanced.”" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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This is utter cowardice. No other way to describe it.

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Thomas Friedman's great reformer . . .

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The Trump admin's thuggish letter to Columbia is garbage, legally speaking. The admin has no statutory authority to make these demands, and many of them are unconstitutional. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

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