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The past will continue to be present in the future.

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BREAKING—basic summary of a news story from a week ago, but made you look [insert incendiary photograph of angry-looking political opponent]

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“I voted for Trump. I support the things he wants to do. But I didn’t vote for this.” A) Yes, the problem with that statement is that actually this is just what Trump promised to do: gut the federal workforce indiscriminately, which of course will crater tons of 1/ www.facebook.com/share/1A6DEP...

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My top-line takeaway: “‘Don’t change anything until it is absolutely legally required,’ Gavin told his colleagues.” These are conversations we should all be having in higher ed, urgently.

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Black scholars argued this incessantly after the war. Britain killed 10’s of millions of Indians, Belgium enslaved and genocided the Congo, France slaughtered its Algerian subjects. Nazi Germany was the logical extension of US and European colonialism, not an aberration.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

roses are red some whales are white if you can't find true love may I recommend spite

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I don’t know if you need another reason to not use Airbnb (academics, looking at you), but here’s one:

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BREAKING: In response to our motion, a federal judge has extended a temporary pause on the firing of USAID employees.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

The supposed new name of the Gulf of Mexico is dumb and feels colonialist, but I am also a little baffled by all the old map images being shared with the apparent argument “this is why it’s called the Gulf of Mexico: look at the early success of Spain’s brutal colonization”

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This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

submitted 12 days ago • 390 comments

[Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

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For those keeping score, so far this week Microsoft has found that regularly using generative AI reduces a person's critical thinking skills, and the BBC has found that AI news summaries contain "significant issues" 51% of the time. www.404media.co/microsoft-st... www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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finance.yahoo.com/news/target-... 🤪

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

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Sick

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team bigboi

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The thing about being incurious dillweeds is that they heard this phrase, did not bother to look it up, and just ran with comparing themselves to one of the most notorious villains in literature who gets destroyed at the hands of a ragtag group of double brunchers armed with weaponized hope

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Great News! In response to our motion, the court has restricted access to the Treasury Department payment system, barring sharing of sensitive data with Elon Musk’s DOGE.

submitted 18 days ago • 62 comments

This is from Jay Michaelson, a visiting professor at Harvard Law School. It's very inspiring.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight was pizza on the porch and stoop, chalk on the sidewalk, bats in the air, katydids buzzing in the bushes (one of which we found with a flashlight!), unexpected fireworks from a block away, and eventually stars and planets and satellites (the latter of which C could soon find faster than us)

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I don't know if anyone caught it during the Treasury rally today, but. Rep. McIver straight-up said that her Republican colleagues are leaving their phones off the hook because they don't want to hear from their constituents. THAT is what Dems should be preaching from every corner, every day.

submitted 19 days ago • 57 comments

On 2/13 at 4pm EST on Zoom, join UMass History's Feinberg Series for a convo on the historical & present-day relationships between US unis & Indigenous peoples: "From Land Grab to Native Sovereignty: Indigenous Futures at Land-Grant Universities"; info & reg: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/land/ 1/4 🗃️

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

This is not only being an asshole to a fellow member of Congress, it is also incredibly dangerous language to suggest that a US citizen should be stripped of citizenship and deported.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

This is effectively a ban on sociology. Banned words include "inequality" (and "inequalities" just in case), "socioeconomic," "status," "gender," "race and ethnicity," "institutional," "systemic," "biases," "polarization," and even "sense of belonging." Is there any subfield left?!

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

This is unhinged and a necessary read

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Listen, who really needs safe food or clean air or cars that don't randomly blow up or banks that don't collapse the economy or airplanes that don't run into each other or

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Musk using Trump to try re-establishing apartheid wasn’t on my bingo card, but it absolutely should have been.

submitted 21 days ago • 13 comments