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Okay, I just looked at the website. There's no HUMANITIES represented! We, too, contribute to knowledge production. Where do the histories of fascism come from? Where the analyses of how rhetoric & disinformation work? Ignoring the Humanities' contributions to truth-making is what got us into this.

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

'It cannot be seen as wildly elitist to say that there’s a hard choice to be made between immigration and growth; that manufacturing matters but the knowledge economy is a massive engine for future prosperity; that three quarters of a million jobs depend directly or indirectly on higher education'.

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

So we had an earthquake today, and something amazing happened…

submitted 18 hours ago • 724 comments

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1425 comments

I still won’t forget what happened to Claudine Gay. Good for Harvard, but for everyone who cheered her ouster but then all of a sudden are shocked that the government would go this far… I hope this is a lesson.

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

I think an element of the deportation story that is being underrated by folks without strong views on immigration or the Middle East is the government’s persistent conflation of peaceful political protest with support for terrorism. That feels like a significant step toward ending political freedom.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

If you wrote a story about a regime so comically evil that it literally snatches people from their citizenship interviews, you'd be accused of over-the-top imaginings.

submitted 20 hours ago • 56 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 20 hours ago • 568 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 20 hours ago • 672 comments

I saw a trite post yesterday talking about how “crowd size doesn’t matter because 30k in Utah doesn’t help change that state” and it’s such an interesting contrast in spirit to this message.

submitted 20 hours ago • 25 comments

Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

This weekend we dedicated the Franco Institute, a reimagined research institute at ND of which I am the founding director. Our mission is to fund great research, and to work both locally and beyond to make the case for the public good of the liberal arts. It’s a great time to be doing this work.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

If President Trump can wrongly deport a Maryland father to a prison in El Salvador and then defy a 9-0 Supreme Court order to facilitate bringing him home, who’s next? This threatens the rights and freedoms of everyone in the United States.

submitted 19 hours ago • 443 comments

Sanders: A woman is walking down the street, a car stops, and these guys — in plain clothes and masks — grab her, throw her into the car, and take off. That happened in Vermont today. That’s the kind of thing that happens in dictatorships, not in a democracy.

submitted 19 hours ago • 238 comments

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

submitted 19 hours ago • 648 comments

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

submitted 21 hours ago • 142 comments

Perfect victims are slaughtered every day in Palestine — and yet we still look for them everywhere, at home and internationally, as if their innocence will matter to the killers.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

This is my new philanthropic tech company Nazgûl. It is very innocent and good and definitely not made to create a "global terrordrome" that will allow me to bend the world to my will. It will require a $400 trillion funding round. Do not read anything into my title change from CEO to Witch-King.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

submitted 23 hours ago • 871 comments

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process. Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.

submitted 1 day ago • 313 comments

incredibly rich coming from a movement full of men screaming "innocent until proven guilty!!!!!!" when they're credibly accused by multiple women of sexual assault.

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

Since we’re all talking about it I want to blow up a real female space pioneer, Mae Jemison, an actual astronaut. She’s a graduate of Stanford and Cornel Medical School, served in the peace corps, started an educational nonprofit, and worked for the CDC researching vaccines. That’s a woman in space

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 23 hours ago • 896 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 1 day ago • 318 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 23 hours ago • 165 comments

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 2801 comments

It was obvious to me when I was a fucking teenager that neoliberalism would lead to fascism and collapse. I guess now I'm salty as fuck at all the ppl I tried to tell this to over decades, ppl that went on to become lawyers and accountants and whatever, that thought I was nuts. Pig brained stooges

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

They only have to detain, deport, or disappear a quite small critical mass of people for the chilling effects of authoritarianism to spread throughout the entire population. It doesn’t have to happen to you to change your behavior and your world entirely.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Final and definitive evidence that the Liberal Party is completely hollowed out: dressing up members of the leader's family in politicians' cosplay and crying poor. The Liberals are officially the zombie party of Australian politics.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Writing a grant proposal in which part of the 'risk assessment' is me saying that the post-doc will NOT have to travel to the USA as I have already scoped the archives there & will share my materials. (I did this during 'muslim ban' 1st time around and got called out for being 'ridiculous')

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

PhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September). Please spread the word!

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

ben franklin had a child die of smallpox because he (ben) was scared about the side effects of inoculation — which wasn’t nearly as safe as vaccines are today he wrote about his regret, knowing his young son would’ve lived, and encouraged everyone to inoculate their children

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Someone should ask Marco Rubio why students are being deported for saying the same things the guy Trump is honoring with his first foreign visit has said.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

This thread, and this point in particular, is important. I refused to travel to the USA when the ‘Muslim ban’ was in place and missed out on doing lots of events. Only one person acknowledged that’s they would make a note of saying I was unable to contribute for this reason when publishing.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

When my students ask me "what was the most significant change in the last 100 years?" they always expect me to say "the Internet" or "space travel." But most Americans fundamentally don't understand either "some of your siblings will die young" or "women are pregnant or nursing for 1/2 their lives."

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments