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submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

Yesterday Mayor Adams told me he should have his campaign fully up and running soon, website and all. Petitioning begins today Here’s my look from last month on his ghost campaign to keep his job www.thecity.nyc/2025/01/17/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Bonjour à tous ! On entame le troisième jour du procès de Joël Le Scouarnec au tribunal judiciaire de Vannes, sous un temps breton 🌨️ Le témoignage de l'ex-épouse du chirurgien est très attendu. On devrait aussi entendre plusieurs proches du cercles familial et amical. LT à suivre pour @franceinfo.fr

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www.independent.co.uk/news/world/c... “Ms Le Scouarnec said: “I wondered how I could have not noticed anything. It's a terrible betrayal that he committed against me and my children.” See further live coverage @juliettecampion.bsky.social

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This this this

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Bonjour à tous ! On entame le 2e jour du procès de Joël Le Scouarnec à Vannes. Le programme est chargé : on entendra l’enquête de personnalité de l’accusé, ses trois fils et son ex-femme (l’audition de celle-ci aura lieu demain si le planning est trop serré). LT à suivre pour @franceinfo.fr

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

HUGE: The Supreme Court sides with Richard Glossip, holding that prosecutors violated his constitutional rights by failing to correct false testimony at his trial. It directs the Oklahoma courts to vacate his conviction! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Hegseth joined a church whose leader preaches that slavery produced "a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony." This context helps explain his laser-focus on pushing Black leaders out of office. www.salon.com/2025/02/25/s...

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slate.com/technology/2... we “need to reckon with American diversity in ways that, ironically, the anti-diversity Republicans have figured out. That means speaking other languages, finely targeting messages through various media, and figuring out how to present effective counterinformation.

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Oxford friends go and make me jealous! #skystorians

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I'm involved in this programme with a project on 'Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars', which is recruiting a Career Development Fellow and funding a PhD candidate in early modern European history – please share widely! I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying #earlymodern

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“Mr. Le Scouarnec has already been convicted twice. In 2005 he was found guilty of possessing child sexual abuse imagery…allowed to continue to treat children until…2017. Then, in 2020, he was found guilty of raping or sexually assaulting four children.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

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"Multiple kidneys had to be thrown out because of transport delays — couriers not picking them up in time or airlines misplacing them. One was accidentally left on an airport luggage trolley." www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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ProPublica is recording the casualties of the DOGE purge, highlighting the scale of what is being lost as public health programs and seasoned experts are caught in the Trump administration’s blunt-force drive to shrink the federal government. Read 👇 by @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Uk friends beware this isn’t Disneyworld

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I want to say again to academics who are interested in public writing. Look locally. Sure national outlets are good and I do that too, but this kind of visibility in your community can have a real impact.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

slate.com/news-and-pol... “This particular faux-medieval aesthetic depicts wealth and power while criticizing a certain other—more tech-y, maybe more tacky, definitely more male—version of wealth and power.” @lollardfish.bsky.social @profgabriele.com #medievalsky

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To support students facing urgent financial hardship, the Office of Fellowships and Financial Aid is offering Helping Hands Emergency Grants, providing up to $3,000 in one-time assistance. Learn more: www.gc.cuny.edu/fellowships-...

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@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

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Plus there will be free food!

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Hey NYC area #medievalsky folks and fans of astrophysics, mothers, and/or miracles. Want to meet @saavikford.bsky.social ? I sure do! March 7 CUNY GC (this event made possible, ultimately, by @lollardfish.bsky.social )

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The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

⚡️63% of Ukrainians approve Zelensky as president, poll shows.

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

Sobering words from @sulliview.bsky.social: “The free press may be going down, but if so, we should go down swinging.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

share.newsbreak.com/bme4kx29 How sad. Indiana wants to stop free books for kids. #FUINDIANA

submitted 7 days ago • 677 comments

«Une héroïne pour les survivantes du monde entier» : Gisèle Pelicot nommée parmi les femmes de l’année de «Time magazine»

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

@amandamarcotte.bsky.social “Fascism was supposed to bring them their Hallmark movie, to make the prodigal liberal daughter give up her career to marry the pickup-driving lunkhead next door. It was supposed to pull Taylor Swift off the Billboard charts, and turn her into a "tradwife" instead. ”

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

"A new generation of young women garment workers are organizing across factories and borders. They are even building relationships with women workers in the US. The fashion industry has no idea what's coming."

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“This is someone who made his money by ripping off American taxpayers and who shouldn’t come anywhere near a position of authority over tax dollars,” Sen. Ron Wyden told @propublica.org's @peterelkind.bsky.social about Schuler. “He’ll fit right in with the Trump administration.”

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w... “In one window visible from a sidewalk below the hotel, a woman clawed at a latchless glass pane in an attempt to escape. When she noticed journalists below, she held up a piece of paper that read “Afghan.”

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

We are so grateful to the sources and families who trusted us with this reporting. Investigative reporting is more critical than ever in this moment in history. Support the fourth estate!

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Department of Education FAFSA changes are open for public comment. The changes include requiring trans students to misgender themselves and removes the nonbinary option on forms. Note: comment period is 60 days, and comments are publicly visible. Form here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

submitted 10 days ago • 66 comments

As the UN OEWG convenes in NYC today, Pavlina Pavlova provides a roadmap for strengthening cyber norms. She argues a gender-sensitive approach to cybersecurity strengthens national security: www.justsecurity.org/107353/gende...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

As a French person, I sympathize I cannot live in France any more because of le woke. I heard cheese has been banned and people cannot do the French hon hon hon laugh anymore for fear of being turned into baguettes

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Melissa and I wrote about our research being purged... www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

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