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“Lenin walks around the world.
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.”
- Langston Hughes, “Lenin”
The sun sets like a scar.
Between the darkness and the dawn
There rises a red star.”
- Langston Hughes, “Lenin”
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"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.”
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
University of Texas silent on Trump compact as deadline looms
Most other invited universities have rejected the administration’s offer tying priority federal funding to campus policy changes.
www.texastribune.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"This narrative that faculty are indoctrinating students is a manufactured crisis...You can trace it back to a network of right-wing think tanks, but it seems the university is treating it as if it is real.”
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
- Karma Chávez, President of AAUP UT-Austin
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social
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"I never expected to go on Medicaid. I grew up in a comfortable household, had worked since high school, and was a generally healthy 24y/o public policy graduate student.
I also never expected the stubborn lump above my collarbone would be Hodgkin’s lymphoma."
My friend Madison in today's WaPo:
I also never expected the stubborn lump above my collarbone would be Hodgkin’s lymphoma."
My friend Madison in today's WaPo:
Opinion | I assumed I’d never need Medicaid. I was wrong.
As a student with cancer, I needed help. Cuts to the program will make life harder for others like me.
wapo.st
July 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"I never expected to go on Medicaid. I grew up in a comfortable household, had worked since high school, and was a generally healthy 24y/o public policy graduate student.
I also never expected the stubborn lump above my collarbone would be Hodgkin’s lymphoma."
My friend Madison in today's WaPo:
I also never expected the stubborn lump above my collarbone would be Hodgkin’s lymphoma."
My friend Madison in today's WaPo:
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Director of Indonesia Hospital in Gaza killed along with family members - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/director-indonesia-hospital-gaza-killed-along-family-members
Director of Indonesia Hospital in Gaza killed along with family members
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>An Israeli air strike targeting an apartment in Gaza City has killed Marwan al-Sultan, director of the Indonesian Hospital, along with his wife and several of their children, Wafa news agency reported. All of them were transferred to Al-Shifa hospital, where they were pronounced dead.</p>
<p>Sultan had spent recent months repeatedly calling on the international community to secure the safety of medical teams in Gaza. </p>
<p dir="LTR">In a separate attack on Wednesday, two Palestinians were killed and others wounded when Israeli forces bombed al-Zaytoun School in Gaza City. </p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
July 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Director of Indonesia Hospital in Gaza killed along with family members - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/director-indonesia-hospital-gaza-killed-along-family-members
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This should not controversial, but somehow it is.
I believe EVERYONE deserves healthcare, no matter who you are, what you do, or where you were born.
I believe EVERYONE deserves healthcare, no matter who you are, what you do, or where you were born.
WATCH: @katmabu.bsky.social blows Jennings’ mind by saying “everyone deserves health care”
Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll
Reminder: this is how it is in every other developed nation, where the cruelty of the Republican Party has not killed universal health care on behalf of the insurance companies. #MedicareForAll
June 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This should not controversial, but somehow it is.
I believe EVERYONE deserves healthcare, no matter who you are, what you do, or where you were born.
I believe EVERYONE deserves healthcare, no matter who you are, what you do, or where you were born.
There’s not going to be Covid boosters and potentially flu shots. People are going to die.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Critic of Covid boosters set to enact tough agenda as top US vaccines official
Vinay Prasad, outspoken critic of pharmaceutical industry and of his peers in public health, to take over CBER
www.theguardian.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
There’s not going to be Covid boosters and potentially flu shots. People are going to die.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Washington Post Shamefully Endorses RFK Jr's Pseudoscience Report On Trans People
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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Washington Post Shamefully Endorses RFK Jr's Pseudoscience Report On Trans People
The paper, which has had no problem critiquing other pseudoscience efforts by RFK Jr's HHS, appears to fully embrace anti-transgender pseudoscience and conversion therapy.
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Washington Post Shamefully Endorses RFK Jr's Pseudoscience Report On Trans People
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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Dr Oz says being healthy is a patriotic duty
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
May 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Dr Oz says being healthy is a patriotic duty
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
Worse, he says they spend 70% of Medicare & Medicaid funds on chronic illness & aren’t “getting their money’s worth”
This is the quiet part said out loud.
They don’t want to cure chronic illness, they want us to take the blame. They don’t want to pay.
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‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’
One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims
Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.
www.cbsnews.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’
One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.
We’ve reached the stage of liberalism in which R.E.M. is doing a fundraiser for CIA radio.
www.billboard.com/music/rock/r...
www.billboard.com/music/rock/r...
R.E.M. Release Five-Track ‘Radio Free Europe’ Benefit EP Celebrating 75th Anniversary of Service Imperiled By Proposed Trump Cuts
R.E.M. have released the 5-Track 'Radio Free Europe' benefit EP celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the vital news service imperiled by Trump cuts.
www.billboard.com
May 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We’ve reached the stage of liberalism in which R.E.M. is doing a fundraiser for CIA radio.
www.billboard.com/music/rock/r...
www.billboard.com/music/rock/r...
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oh my god
US and Israel have asked Sudan, Somalia and Somaliland if they'd accept mass transfer of Palestinians from Gaza to their territory.
They even approached Sudan, in the middle of brutal war, "with offers of military assistance against the RSF". apnews.com/article/isra...
They even approached Sudan, in the middle of brutal war, "with offers of military assistance against the RSF". apnews.com/article/isra...
AP Exclusive: US and Israel look to Africa for moving Palestinians uprooted from Gaza
The U.S. and Israel have reached out to officials of three East African governments to discuss using their territories as potential destinations to move Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
apnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
oh my god
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Meanwhile, academics can't use an image they are analyzing in an article without fear of being taken to court.
March 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Meanwhile, academics can't use an image they are analyzing in an article without fear of being taken to court.
Is there a single instance anywhere in any format of Musk saying something intelligent? Like, a single thing?
February 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Is there a single instance anywhere in any format of Musk saying something intelligent? Like, a single thing?
Another sign the ruling class is preparing for a new era of open imperialist conflict and war.
Starmer said he will raise military spending from 2.3% of Britain’s GDP to 2.5% by 2027, and then again to 2.6% the following year
UK announces increase in defense spending and cut in foreign aid ahead of PM Starmer’s meeting with Trump | CNN
Britain will accelerate an increase to its defense spending, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced Tuesday, on the eve of a crucial visit to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington.
www.cnn.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Another sign the ruling class is preparing for a new era of open imperialist conflict and war.