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Our law school colleague Dick Painter in the news www.mprnews.org/episode/2025...

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

Why is Scott Simon interviewing a racist comedian on @npr.org Weekend Edition?

A fascinatingly strange hybrid of Bollywood and Arabic love songs, with some Brit hip hop thrown in. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrBH...

It is disturbing to see Hitler's willing executioners among university faculty and leadership.

Ohio’s SB1 bans faculty strikes and eliminates diversity efforts, among other things. Ohio’s higher ed lobbying group told colleges to avoid picking fights over it and to try to get more funding instead Great reporting: signalcleveland.org/ohio-univers...

Wordle really tried to break my streak today. Keep trying, evil overlords!

White news anchors only at MSNBC! It's a new era www.theguardian.com/media/2025/f...

Donald Trump’s second presidential administration shut down a national database that tracked misconduct by federal police, a resource that policing reform advocates hailed as essential to prevent officers with misconduct records from being able to move... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump announced he was dismissing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Q. Brown and replacing him with Air Force Lt. Gen. John Dan “Razin” Caine – an extraordinary move since Caine is retired, according to an Air Force official, and is not a four-star general. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

Bad Bunny calling Jon Hamm Jon Jamón is my love language

Republican Rep. Buddy Carter of Georgia has submitted a bill that would change the name of Greenland to "Red, White, and Blueland"—and he's dead serious.

“A record number of journalists were killed worldwide in 2024, figures published today by the Committee to Protect Journalists show. Israel is responsible for nearly 70 percent of that total. At least 124 journalists across 18 countries were killed last year.”

Inject it directly into my..nose

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

Can we get a diss track for UMN's Board of Regents which is throwing faculty governance under the bus? After a year of consultation about unit statements, they trash the Presidential Task Force and Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee's carefully crafted policies on process for unit statements.

Why isn’t this the biggest story rn??? Oh, of course 🤨 “Israeli troops were ordered to shoot and kill captive Israeli civilians on 7 October 2023, Israel’s then defence minister admitted this week.” electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-wi...

New article up www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Now DNA tests are used to validate Best Global Music Album at the Grammys. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWge...

Brave federal workers fighting the coup dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/02/f...

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

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

A truly reprehensible decision by my university. We will fight it.

“We obviously anticipate winning this election. We’re in a better spot than where we were in 2021. We have a track record of bringing the city back. Also, a track record of making decisions." #mediocrewhiteman mndaily.com/292214/city/...

Today I learned my favorite podcast Vibe Check is recording in my town tomorrow, saw that tickets were sold out, and then more were released and I snagged 'em! 🥂🍾

A Democrat lawmaker, no less.

The ice palaces in St. Paul, according to Olsen, date back to an article written in 1885 by a New York correspondent that compared the city to Siberia and considered it “unfit for human habitation in winter.” www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

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At least I fled the platform of that Nazi and am not giving him any advertising dollars.

Same. I didn't know about all of the tracking in Your Offline Activity. Here's how to delete & deactivate it. In Facebook: 1) Settings & Privacy > Settings 2) On the left (at least on desktop) scroll down to Your Information > Off-Facebook Activity 3) Click Continue, log in to Accounts Center

I recommend non-US radio stations in the Tr*mp era, such as BBC's excellent music station Radio 1xtra www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I've never been as jealous of an academic colleague as this UW Madison historian who created a critical companion text to Bad Bunny's new album tonemadison.com/articles/bad...

Kaftans

Singers who once mocked Drumpf are now lining up to join his court, much like tech bros www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Men do not appear to be ok. www.comicsands.com/elon-musk-tr...