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Personally I think this should be true for all scholarly journals

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Today at a demonstration in support of Ukraine — not a bad turnout considering they started organizing it yesterday morning.

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San Francisco Bay Area #NAFO - emergency rally for Ukraine - 2p tomorrow March 2, Ferry Building. Please spread the word.

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Yes. I am sad for my country.

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Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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unleashing social media on the world at large was like inflicting smallpox on immunologically naive peoples. Only psyches scarred over by endless stupid flamewars on usenet or IRC were truly ready for it

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It’s a cartoon. I’m in it.

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"What they have undertaken has been a long, slow, corrosive education in vice: from giving themselves permission to rationalize away Trump’s cruelty, to indulging in it in a quasi-performative way themselves, to realizing—almost to their own surprise—how much they liked the taste."

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Ok yes, that really is a design flaw.

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There was a time in America when a Super Bowl ad from a self-declared Nazi touting a website that sells swastika t-shirts would have prompted widespread outrage and apologies from all involved. That time, however, is not February 2025. My newsletter today: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 54 comments

I feel that we really need more response emojis on Bluesky: this one needs a laughing face.

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In both domestic and foreign policy — university research supports our scientific superiority etc

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I have actually been saying all along that left to his own devices Trump would default on US national debt and not honor Treasury bonds. I’m not a finance wonk; it just seems obvious. I still think it’s more likely than annexing Canada or Gaza.

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You can also learn about quietly effective resistance, like the work of Raissa & Guido Calza, archaeologists at Ostia who smuggled Roman Jewish refugees out from the city in supply wagons and hid them in the Ostia necropolis till boats could take them to safety, all while using Mussolini's money.

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One of the keystones of any civilisational progress in the last 200 years was university education teaching 18-20 year old men that they were nowhere near as smart as they thought they were. We now face being ruled by those who either refused or resented being taught that lesson.

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By the way, when Caesar finally got to Rome in 49 BCE one of the first things he did was confiscate the treasury for his own use. (Illegally, of course.) Given Musk’s interests I’m sure he knows this; given his hubris I’m sure he forgets how Caesar died.

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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

I mean, maybe it used to be a crime in south Africa but I have my doubts.

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I too would like the answers to these questions!

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In case you don’t know what I’m talking about re: Japanese internment.

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It’s not that I’m surprised, given that they plan to do the same to the new internal enemy, but I am appalled.

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headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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I feel like there’s not enough attention being paid to the fact that Trump’s trillion dollar funding freeze was an attempt to do McCarthyism via Presidential fiat, & in the name of combatting a phantom force identified solely by a vague propaganda term the right only started using about 5 years ago.

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To be fair, as an ancient historian I would point out that some of those who were exiled came back for a second or third go as well.

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This is great to see. I already have my congresswoman’s office in my contacts but I called to express my support anyway. How is this at all constitutional?

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If you can’t afford enough food to feed yourself or your family, visit a food bank. 🍎🍌🥔

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

I don’t always agree with George Monbiot but on that he is completely correct. This Holocaust Remembrance Day is a moment to think about where we are now as well as where we were then. Well stated.

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Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

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Yes, this. And it makes me really angry.

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"Total abortion bans are causing significant population outflows according to our estimates. In the year following implementation of a total abortion ban, states are losing on net about 4.3 people per 10,000 residents due to the ban." econofact.org/do-state-abo...

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This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 41 days ago • 318 comments

Yes, this. It isn’t unique but it is important. It’s what makes America America.

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THE ODYSSEY: Tom Holland Will Reportedly Play The Lead Role In Christopher Nolan's Adaptation sffgazette.com/fantasy/movi...

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Everyone is mocking this (rightfully), but an under-appreciated reason Schumer's approach is wrong is the opponents of Trumpism need to notch victories, however small, simply for morale. Stopping this or that cabinet official, enjoining this or that EO. To create a sense that victory is possible.

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Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

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"It was a Roman salute" is an updated version of "actually, the Buddhists also used swastikas." If you are using it post-1945, you know very well that the association has changed.

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Here is how to disable Copilot in Word on a Mac. My version was slightly different. It was this: Expand "Word" menu > Preferences > Personal Settings > Privacy > go down to "Connected Experiences" and click Manage Connected Experiences > uncheck all the boxes > restart Word (cont'd)

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I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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