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Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · 4h

Doing my part to fix this aberration

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 9d

1. The $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina, announced last week by the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, delivers an enormous windfall to hedge fund billionaire Rob Citrone.

Citrone has a longstanding personal and professional relationship with Bessent.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected billionaire

A $20 billion taxpayer-funded rescue package for Argentina is a gift for a hedge fund manager with personal and professional ties to the Treasury Secretary

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12d

"The sheer number of American elites willing to acquiesce to the destruction of democratic institutions is demoralizing. But it’s worth noting that many ordinary people seem to be made of sterner stuff."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Lower Than Cowards

The surrender of America’s elites

www.theatlantic.com

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Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · 15d

Milei is top collector of fake awards

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15d

Excellent piece on the ideological antecedents of Trumpism and MAGA, from @mattpolprof.bsky.social. Core point: MAGA is expressly anti-egalitarian, something that constantly gets airbrushed away or just passes unnoticed in mainstream pundit depictions of it
www.commonwealmagazine.org/sam-francis-...

Only Power Matters

Few writers have argued against modern egalitarianism with more flourish than Samuel Francis. Donald Trump and his gang now practice what Francis preached.

www.commonwealmagazine.org

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dr rv 🚐 (spooky 🎃) @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 20d

SMU Part-Time Faculty remain some of the lowest paid across the entire country at one of the top undergrad Canadian universities.

SMU has offered us a 1% pay increase, and a shrug on contract timelines.

@caut.bsky.social / Canadian academics, please send a letter:
win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 19d

This is the most accurate mainstream news article I’ve seen on the lockout.

Dalhousie Faculty Association ratifies collective agreement, return-to-work protocol

The Dalhousie Faculty Association (DFA) has voted to accept the collective agreement and return-to-work protocol that was presented Wednesday, ending a month-long lockout.

www.ctvnews.ca

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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 20d

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.

Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.

Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · 22d

fReE maRkEt en acción

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Mobility Behaviour👨‍🎓 @davidloisuned.bsky.social · 22d

La trampa de la falsa libertad.

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Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · 22d

The truck was running in reverse

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Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · 22d

Y pagarle a alguien para que lo escriba? Eso es muy siglo XX

Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · 23d

Sounds familiar. Is this the same playbook used by the Dal BoG in the current labour dispute with @dalfaculty.bsky.social Dalhousie faculty members? What's the role of the NS govt? @keepdalstrong.bsky.social

College Faculty @caatfaculty.bsky.social · 23d

“Why are they spending so much money to make the school beautiful...but not offering the very core, the purpose of what a community college is for?”
Great article breaking down the manufactured crisis in the Ontario college system:
www.thegrindmag.ca/the-manufact...

The Manufactured Crisis in Ontario Colleges

Are college finances really so bad that huge cuts are needed, or is Doug Ford up to something else? Ben McCarthy, a college contract faculty worker and OPSEU member, breaks it down.

www.thegrindmag.ca

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · 26d

Here is a detailed and truthful account of what is going on with the Dalhousie labour dispute. @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalfaculty.bsky.social #keepdalstrong www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · 27d

Join us! Friday September 12 for the Solidarity March starting at the Killam Library on University Avenue. Let's show @dalhousieu.bsky.social Admin and Board a level of solidarity they have not seen before! #keepdalstrong @ansut.bsky.social @cautdefencefund.bsky.social @caut.bsky.social

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Spring Farrell @thecupcakechemist.bsky.social · 28d

Another day of #DalLockout2025 means another day of research lost. @dalfaculty.bsky.social members want to get back to work asap. @noreenkamal.bsky.social shares the impacts of the lockout on her research program and long term consequences that @dalhousieu.bsky.social faces #keepdalstrong

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Spring Farrell @thecupcakechemist.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just one example of the huge impact the lockout is having on the research programs of @dalfaculty.bsky.social members. Well said, @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social

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Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · 29d

Let's GOOOO! #KeepDalStrong

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Dr. Jen Frail-Gauthier @coastalseaside.bsky.social · Sep 6

F yeah, we are KEEPING DAL STRONG. Amazing. #KeepDalStrong

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...

There’s a Nous in Dal’s house – Ren Thomas

renthomas.ca

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Claudio Slamovits 🇦🇷🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @cslamo.bsky.social · Sep 6

My thoughts exactly.

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Robert Finbow @rfinbow.bsky.social · Sep 5

From our colleague in Law, this is a brilliant dissection of the Board’s doubling down on unfair bargaining tactics in presenting their tepid "offer"

www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · Sep 3

DFA proposal that @DalhousieU demanded we drop for "interest arbitration"- Dal increase child care spots at Dal to benefit all parents at Dal, not just faculty. Not fully discussed before the Board left conciliation. #KeepDalStrong

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Dalhousie Faculty Association @dalfaculty.bsky.social · Sep 2

DFA proposed a $500/yr increase in the Health Spending Account. About 60% of DFA members max out this benefit. This increase would cost @dalhousieu.bsky.social approx $300k/yr. But they wouldn't discuss it. The Board has saved $5.6 MILLION by having faculty locked out for 2 weeks.
#keepdalstrong

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