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phd student studying comparative fascism and the lives of women and queer peoples in germany and italy @ uni of southern california
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caving to a weak president with a 60% disapproval rating implies you AGREE with him
Fuck, Northwestern just caved. Reading the deal now. ( www.northwestern.edu/president/do... )
www.northwestern.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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🗃️ Hot off the presses: "The Power of Photobooks: Crafting (Jewish) History from Below by (my student) @swsamols.bsky.social. Congratulations, Steven!
www.ghi-dc.org/fileadmin/pu...
www.ghi-dc.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This is murder.

Hegseth et al need to be in jail.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store.

Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
it's that time of the year! i made maggie wear her festive collar!
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
happy thanksgiving maggie is being indecisive over whether she wants to lay on my bed or my friends air mattress.... tough choices are being made
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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For a small fee, I will go to your historian enemy’s seminar presentation and say “I guess I’m just wondering what the “so what” of this paper is?”
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
that's my pope! (i'm not catholic)
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...

It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD

Key findings:

Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Important insight from Dagmar Herzog on the New Fascist Body venerated by today's right.

publicseminar.org/2025/11/new-...
Fascism's Body Politics - Public Seminar
Dagmar Herzog explains how ableism's historical legacy informs the fascisms of Donald Trump and Germany's AfD.
publicseminar.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:46 AM
we are at the "eye twitch" part of the semester
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
you know two southerners are staying together when one requests cricket sounds as the nighttime white noise
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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Again: Memphis is being poisoned so Elon can create a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda to benefit the ultra rich.
November 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
one of my best friends is in town this week.... how am i supposed to focus on work?!
November 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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I made something fun and cute!!!
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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⚡️ UPDATE: Comey & James charges tossed…

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Boy oh boy do companies love to pollute Louisiana. Especially the places where all the Black folks live.
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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i am willing to compromise by just insisting on prison terms for ICE employees. that is the moderate position.
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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"the entire second season is grounded by internal drama within a polycule of French theater queers in post war Paris being explained to a terminally catty Anthony Bourdain clone" sounds good here's millions of dollars get at it
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
this is actually how i advertise it to my friends
like i did not realize it was possible or even legal to make a show this gay. truly an achievement for the ages.
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM