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This is bad. Very bad. Gov. Hochul orders CUNY remove Hunter College ‘Palestinian Studies’ job posting, calls for probe into ‘antisemitic theories’ nypost.com/2025/02/25/u...

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A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

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The West Bank is completely under attack and there’s been very little coverage in American media

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Israeli soldiers dragged Dr Issam Abu Ajwa out of an operating theatre mid-surgery. They beat him, stripped him, and handcuffed him. Israel held him for months, subjecting him to months of abuse and torture. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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wrote about the scourge of non-English-language propaganda and misinformation across the U.S., and why any serious effort to reestablish a durable liberal-media apparatus has to be multilingual in nature: slate.com/technology/2...

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What are the odds a media organization is barred from covering Trump for saying Russia invaded Ukraine? Serious question. Why the AP holding the line is so essential.

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On the anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, honored to make my debut in @thebulwark.bsky.social with an essay about what Trump’s most recent lies about Ukraine mean for democracy. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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For the first time in over two decades, Israeli tanks have entered the occupied West Bank.

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Israel says it is expanding its military offensive across the occupied West Bank and preparing for troops to remain in some refugee camps “for the next year”. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

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De facto annexation: Katz says he instructed IDF to stay for year in West Bank refugee camps and not allow 40,000 residents home www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

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At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” Desmond Tutu

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Reporters: Our latest Bright Line Watch report is coming out Monday with new expert and public survey data on ratings of US democracy, assessments of current and potential threats and new measures of support for political violence. Email me from your work account to get the full report under embargo

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"13-year-old Ayman Nassar al-Haymouni was shot in the chest by #Israeli forces... He was rushed to... Hospital... but succumbed to his injuries shortly after. In a separate incident, 13-year-old Rimas Omar al-Amori was fatally shot in the abdomen by Israeli forces." en.safa.news/post/3602/We...

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Here's another rare story/topic that you don't often get to read about if you live in the West. "The Pentagon ran a secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during a pandemic." #ICYMI www.reuters.com/investigates...

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The problem I always have with these pieces is that there’s never any self-reflection by these voters and no indication that they’re going to do anything different in the future. Are you going to think about how this happened? Are you going to protest or help people being hurt by these actions?

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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I've been seeing lots of super compelling videos of park rangers and federal lawyers and other federal workers telling their stories. Talking about what they did at their job, how it helped the American people, and why they want to keep doing those jobs. This is the way.

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Social media platforms TikTok and X ('For you') show evidence of substantial far-right bias in Germany ahead of Sunday's elections. Study published by Global Witness and w/ important points about lack of transparency and data access in the article. #DSA #CommSky #AfD techcrunch.com/2025/02/19/s...

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"even lawmakers within his party have feared for their personal safety, and at least one has told confidants that it has swayed his decision-making" "Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about 'credible death threats' when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination"

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In contrast to Netanyahu, this statement alone makes it clear Trump is not the mastermind behind the conservative media ecosystem that buttresses his support by, in part, downplaying any negative press.

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Reminding folks of the availability of this sexual and reproductive health starter pack: go.bsky.app/6WuJVjj

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This paper really resonates: "reduced income, increased financial, emotional and cognitive labour, and internalised responsibility – show the financial and mental burden that falls on mothers while conveying a sense that the resulting pressure is a personal, rather than societal, failure" ⬇️

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Scientists of the world, this is happening on our watch and we need to face it down. Evidence-based medicine weaponised for overtly ideological purposes. We do not need randomised trials of 'vaccine' versus 'no vaccine' when those vaccines have already been shown to be safe & effective. #episky 🧪

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"The Panamanian government has barred journalists from visiting the migrants. But The New York Times managed to interview several people inside the hotel, all of whom said they were asylum seekers being held against their will." Don't look away. This is happening. ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

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Charting the opposition to Trump open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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Public commentators saying Trump/Musk "axed" a program should specify whether it's something legally within their power or whether it directly contradicts a duly enacted federal law. If they don't know, they should say so. Not doing this contributes, unhelpfully, to the overall sense of disorder.

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If it’s not on Fox News it didn’t happen for many Americans.

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“These are commitments that the federal government has made to farmers that we’re depending on,” he said. “If you want to change policy, change policy, but just don’t go and blow stuff up.” …also says anyone ever funded by USAID and PEPFAR

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There is a lot going on right now! So much in fact that our news team at @science.org is now running a Trump tracker to keep track of it all. sigh 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Hard to keep up with all the jaw dropping outrages coming from the Trump Administration, but this one bears some attention. Trump's FCC attempts to regulate reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

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It's incredibly disheartening to hear about dedicated public health professionals getting mass-laid off from CDC. Including first year epidemic intelligence service officers. This program has been the backbone of outbreak investigations in US since 1951. Decimating this workforce makes us less safe.

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We are all going to learn a lot of “applied epidemiology” over the next half decade, if you know what I mean.

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#AskAnInfectiousDiseaseDoc For the next 24h ask me anything about infectious diseases and vaccines. I will try to answer your questions below. Answers are not medical advice, just information and education. I will try to do this periodically. Let's go!

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The contemporary information ecosystem, with social media and other mechanisms that inculcate echo chambers, tends to distort the perception of norms, including criminal behavior.

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Great example of the Square One Fallacy, from @jonathanjarry.bsky.social "The square one fallacy is arguing that we have no data to illuminate a particular question, that we’re starting from scratch, when there is an actual body of evidence that we are ignoring, either deliberately or cluelessly."

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Professor who teaches African American studies here. If your school eliminates or bans it, I will personally host free zoom sessions, provide resources, or answer questions for students, parents/guardians, or teachers who are interested in learning or discussing African American studies.

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The passive authoritarian tense

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2034.

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"the chaos is smoke, but the heist is the fire. Don’t look away from the smoke. Look through it for what is being taken, redefined and reallocated. Stop pointing out the hypocrisy. The other side does not care. Its content makes the people there feel powerful but action is the only real power."

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Hello everyone! We are ScienceUpFirst, an initiative of the Canadian Association of Science Centres. Our goal here will be to address online misinformation on a broad range of topics in a clear and succinct way! 🧠

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Steve Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die "the U.S. is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... "A failure to resist... could pave the way for authoritarian entrenchment" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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