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Pretty sure the people who make the Spelling Bee have never taken a college-level literature class

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I did an NEH Institute on East Asian literary traditions last summer, one of the most pivotal experiences of my career. It gathered academics and translators of varying career stage, language skills, and professional and scholarly experience to learn from one another. These cuts are devastating.

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Blueskis, I am hearing rumors that DOGE is at the NEH building. - They will fire 50-70% of staff. - Almost all open grants since 2021 will be closed. - Almost all NEH Grant programs will be eliminated. Note: this has not yet been confirmed. What is confirmed: DOGE CAN GO FUCK THEMSELVES.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

hell yeah

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is scholarship that meets the moment. We should ask nothing less of each other.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

it is now the situation that if you dissent from this in public, even a word, and have any legal vulnerability at all, you get accosted by masked thugs and thrown into a van, then deported

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This is a statement of genocidal intent. There is nothing “voluntary” about migration compelled by literal violence and destruction.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I don’t care if everyone else is saying it: We Should Have Done This in the USA

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

as students are being thrown into vans and deported for school paper op eds I can’t help but think about the years many of the most well compensated and secure intellectuals in the US had the courage to sign so many letters about the dangerous climate of left wing censoriousness

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Imagine being able to do this Oh, wait a second

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At least 80 Palestinians have been killed and 305 others injured in Israeli attacks across besieged Gaza in the past 48 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️

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The bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a "mass grave," a week after they went missing following attacks by Israeli forces.

submitted 3 days ago • 170 comments

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

submitted 4 days ago • 238 comments

😱😱😱 Horrifying capitulation.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students' immigration status. It's coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning. It's Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.

submitted 4 days ago • 184 comments

American academia is dead

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Today in Instanbul, Turkey. A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it! Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel: “Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

The Trump administration has detained another international student—this time from the University of Alabama and without providing any justification. All are assaults on free speech and are blatant violations of immigration law.

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

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This week, my Somerville constituent Rümeysa Öztürk was abducted in broad daylight by DHS officials and sent to Louisiana to be locked in a detention center. She has not been charged with any crime.

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HEY ALL YOU FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS GOING TO POMONA: Rumeysa Ozturk was a Fulbright Scholar so you should go somewhere else because they're gonna put you on a list to get snatched up.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

We need to understand as Canadians that we could easily go further down this road, given the retribution and intentional harm towards people who have spoken in support of Palestinians. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

bring woke back www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 378 comments

Dr. Liu said she was stunned to be canceled by NYU a few hours before the scientific conference where she had been invited to speak to the emergency dept of her alma mater. Dr. Liu wasn't inflexible. She suggested changes in her talk. After a 3-hour discussion, NYU canceled her anyway.

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

Woke up to an email about someone pulling a contribution about Palestine from a thing I edit. This week, I was invited to be on a panel that has Palestine in the title. I slept on it before agreeing. What does academic freedom even mean when academics are being snatched off the streets? +

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

“Asked about the epic clash over a decade later, Miyazaki’s answer seemed calculated to further enrage the disgraced producer: ‘I defeated him.’”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Currently at a recollective impasse with my kid who insists that in Back to the Future 2, “Marty totally fucks his mom”

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Another reason it is cowardly to simply obey and let them take over your newsroom or university is that if you don’t they often will be like “well fuck, that was our main idea”

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

It is truly sick that universities have preyed on international students for exploitatively exorbitant tuition fees and now they are allowing those same students to be thrown to the wolves with nary a fucking complaint.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Disappearing international students who wrote an op ed you didn’t like is coward shit. I don’t care how much power the cops, Trump, or “neutral” institutions possess — they’re cowards.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Everybody keeping up with this? Ireland just joined Finland, Denmark, the UK, and Germany in issuing warnings to its citizens about travel to the United States. Travel warnings from additional European nations are anticipated in the days ahead. www.newsweek.com/ireland-issu...

submitted 8 days ago • 15 comments

No one ever told me that Rambo: First Blood was such an ACAB anthem

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And a main reason those ghouls shouldn't be using Signal is because THEY ARE SUBJECT TO OPEN RECORDS LAWS.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

I use signal. You should use signal. Top US government officials should not use signal. Don't spread panic or misinformation. Signal is still the best general comms tool for journalists, protestors, activists, organizers, and vulnerable people.

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

Spotted along the Brooklyn-Queens expressway, and 💯 correct.

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