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The Trump regime wants to harm universities & block free speech by throwing up barriers to international students. In the end, young people from other countries will fear coming anyway; the US will lose bright minds & talent, our economy will suffer, we'll all suffer. The cruelty - idiocy - shame!

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Israeli troops open fire as aid group loses control of distribution centre

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Calling all #History departments of #Universities I am re-writing a piece on special collections that are useful when researching #FamilyHistory and #Genealogy Give your project (past/present) a shout out to ensure they’re included.

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Can't wait to see this in person!

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In Jharkhand’s Godda, 180 workers went on hunger strike outside an Adani power plant. Why? Because they gave up their land for promised jobs. Instead, they got shuffled through outsourcing firms with backdated contracts and no job security. Nolina Minj reports: scroll.in/article/1082...

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Yesterday was an emotional, historic and compassionate day for Scotland. Thanks to everyone who contacted their MSPs and raised their voice in support, Liam McArthur's Bill can now progress. But this is just the beginning…

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Congestion pricing was designed to finance more than $15 billion in critical transit upgrades in New York City. Those investments will take years. But the parallel changes at street level are already apparent. Here’s what we know so far. nyti.ms/4mbuGg0

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Lawyers and doctors take a vow of ethics that govern their respective industries. What would be included in a geospatial vow of ethics? #gischat

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Bostonians: Jonathan Tarleton and I are going to be talking about his excellent book on Tuesday at Porter Square Books, come thru www.portersquarebooks.com/event/jonath...

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staring into uncertainty edition.cnn.com/2025/05/06/a...

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“The [Indian] ministry of home affairs (MHA) on Monday directed several states to conduct mock drills on May 7 to enhance civil defence preparedness, ANI reported.” www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/c...

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India Seeks to Block Auction of Buddhist Religious Relics The jewels are delicate, some just millimeters in length, arranged in intricate patterns of circles and lines. Taken from British-occupied India in 1898, the jewels were discovered alongside bone and ash, said to be the remains of Buddha.…

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Back in 8th grade ICSE English Lit, we had WM Thackeray's King Canute, I quote:

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Tonight my students listened to… The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity, James Baldwin Transcript: docs.google.com/document/d/1...  Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGwP... A Humanistic View, Toni Morison Transcript: docs.google.com/document/d/1...  Recording: soundcloud.com/portland-sta...

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#OnThisDay in 2004 actual journalist Seymour Hersh published details of horrific, widespread abuses by US soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, exposing the true face of US & British foreign policy. Read Hassan Blasim’s short story ‘Babylon’ in The American Way commapress.co.uk/books/the-am...

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Destruction of 10,000 trees at a Hyderabad university by Telangana Congress govt with police protection & without legal permission reveals rupture of environmental governance system nationwide: law, court orders ignored, write Atreyo Banerjee And Shardha Rajam article-14.com/post/from-hy...

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It's official. Resistance Summer School is happening. Columbia cancelled my class on Race, Media and International Affairs, but I'm going to teach it anyway. 100+ people have enrolled in just six hours. karenattiah.substack.com/p/enrollment...

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"I have been collecting stories of booksellers in history who have fought for the ideals of liberty and the freedom to read. On this year’s Independent Bookstore Day, it seems fitting to memorialize those booksellers and take a moment to learn from them. Below are a few of their stories."

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Less than two months ago, when this exhibition opened, we invited people to laugh at the constructs of family and nation that keep us shackled in identitarian stasis. On closing day, today, knowing that the Gates will not open, I invite you to look on it with kinder eyes -

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In peacetimes, the Beating Retreat is a vestigial organ of nationalism based governance; a last perversity of imperium. In less than peaceful times, it becomes the low bar for civility. It is this positioning that makes a no-man's-land into a perpetual middle ground.

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A serious attack on tourists in Kashmir. “Multiple tourists were feared killed and at least 20 injured when terrorists opened fire in a picturesque meadow near Kashmir’s Pahalgam town, breaking the calm of a regular Tuesday afternoon…” www.ptinews.com/stories-deta...

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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School! Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101. Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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🎙️📚"I think as readers, as citizens in this country, we are really done a disservice by our mainstream newspapers. They've abdicated so much responsibility and they don't have any allegiance to the reader." A conversation with @rahulabhatia.bsky.social:

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This past week I'd been questioning my decision to leave, and then this: 🤡

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Breaking: A federal judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in two online advertising markets. The case will now move to the remedies phase.

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Legalizing Mid-Rise Single-Stair Housing: Massachusetts edition Next week, Boston Indicators, Utile, and Harvard's JCHS will present a new report examining how we could unlock new possibilities for more affordable, space-efficient housing w/ mid-rise point access blocks www.tbf.org/Events/2024/...

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It cannot be overstated that every city needs to follow what Austin is doing. Rents have dropped 16% in the last year due to the shear number of housing reforms they've passed. Austin just passed single stair reform 10-1 today.

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OMG even MORE incredibly, around the same time "JSTOR users performed nearly 152 million searches, with more than 113 million article views." So as many people were being blocked from reading as were conducting searches. And more were being blocked than were viewing articles. Great system!

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I've got a piece up at @liberalcurrents.com clarifying whether Trump is trying to install merely an authoritarian regime or a properly fascist one in the federal government. My conclusion: we're facing Actual Fascism. www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...

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"If France is interested in being a broker of peace in the Middle East, it needs to do more than just recognising Palestinian statehood. It must act in accordance with its obligations under the UN Charter and the Rome Statute." — #AJOpinion by Xavier Abu Eid ⤵️

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"What emerges is a more intimate picture of Öztürk and how a child development researcher charged with no crime ended up in a crowded cell in Louisiana." www.propublica.org/article/rume...

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Sorry, this coming from The Atlantic of all places is so deeply unserious.

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Fascinating note by @amandamull.bsky.social in Bloomberg: throughout US history, going all the way back to colonial times, "Buy American" was manipulated by wealthy merchants and oligarchs to enrich themselves.

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More than three million children, many of them from Southeast Asia and Africa, are believed to have lost their lives in 2022 due to infections that are resistant to antibiotics, according to a new study.

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The principle at stake here is so fundamental it predates even Magna Carta in English law, and before that stretching all the way back to Rome, and has its similarly ancient equivalents in every legal system in the world, because it's the inherent bedrock foundation of what courts and laws are for.

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“Artistic politics is something of an oxymoron in the United States, an anticommunist country that tends to see calls for the explicit mixing of art and politics as a communist practice.”

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“The United States has become a secret-police state. Trust me, I’ve seen it before.” - @mashagessen.bsky.social

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For National Library Week, we can't recommend enough @shannonmattern.bsky.social's 2014 essay "Library as Infrastructure." A decade on, it remains a potent argument for libraries as social, technological & intellectual infrastructure — part of a critical network of institutions buoying public life.

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DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵

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