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BREAKING: China orders its airlines to halt any further deliveries of Boeing jets as trade war with the US expands

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I wanted to share a part of the speech Ukraine's ambassador to Germany Oleksii Makeiev gave during the 19th Berlin Freedom Speech If you can,please listen to the whole speech by @makeiev.bsky.social, it’s available online "So what is freedom? The answer depends on who gives it.But also where&when

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I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

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„the officers removed her from the car and shackled her feet and belly before putting her in a different car, she said. “We are not monsters,” the officer told her after she asked if she was safe. “We do what the government tells us.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/14/u...

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One east German coal power plant will reduce its output by half this summer because... there's just too much renewable energy to compete with. www.rbb24.de/wirtschaft/b...

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Seychelles, an archipelagic nation off the eastern coast of Africa, has become the first country to comply with the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) standard that lays down what information about a country’s fisheries sector should be published online by public authorities.

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"A parent is accused of bringing a gun to her child’s school and threatening a teacher over an assignment her child was given." You'll never in a million years guess what the theme of the assignment was 🙄 The bigots are un-fucking-hinged. www.nbc4i.com/news/u-s-wor...

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Can we finally acknowledge the threat: Palantir, now placing white supremacist recruiting ads at US colleges, is the data-surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, who groomed much of the US alt-right. Our VP is Thiel's obedient protege. Thiel's lieutenants hold IT spots across the government. 1/

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You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here. But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.

submitted 23 hours ago • 354 comments

Sharing my regular reminder that Harvard can't just start pulling from its endowment to close federal funding gaps. Endowments are earmarked for specific purposes and heavily restricted. This blog is a great explainer.

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Being an American in the UK is so wild because I told my boss that the news is getting to me and he assumed I meant I’m feeling depressed about the garbage collectors strike in Birmingham

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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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At least one US president cares to denounce this attack.

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So many news stories about political developments in the US, but so few that put into context what we're seeing: rising fascism

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British Airways slash flight prices to US after anti-Trump backlash hits tourist numbers

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Your daily reminder that 'just following orders' is not a viable legal defence. It's not a viable moral defence either - even Nazi perpetrators could refuse to follow orders with no adverse repercussions.

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In one day, the Russian Armed Forces hit an airfield of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, as well as assembly shops for multiple launch rocket systems and attack drones, the Ministry of Defense reported.

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Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

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I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

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Trump allies launch a bid to take control of a powerful Washington legal group Attorney General Pam Bondi's brother, Bradley Bondi, and a top deputy to Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for D.C., are vying for leadership roles at the D.C. Bar Association. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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DC bar members pls be sure you are voting against Pam Bondi’s brother Brad and FOR Diane Seltzer starting Tues 4/15!!

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“Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently told Tucker Carlson that fired federal workers could supply ‘the labor we need for new manufacturing.’ That is reeducation, Trump-style.” Franklin Foer www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Australia things... a train of caterpillars at the @griffith.edu.au Gold Coast Campus.

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The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1098 comments

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Too many people have forgotten that the principles behind the US demand that we welcome people who come here is for freedom of speech, of thought, of assembly, of petitioning the government for change.

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One reason Harvard is choosing to fight is that Penny Pritzker is their most involved and visible overseer/governor and her brother is about to run for president

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Touching grass is not enough I need to get stuck in a hollow log

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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It wasn't a mistake #Sumy

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Proud as punch that my kids’ NH school district is joining ACLU suit against Ed Department over its attack on DEI. I can’t claim I had anything to do with it, but maybe you can get involved with your district stepping up and then you’ll have real bragging rights.

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