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As someone said prior, the only reason Greta got released is because people were very loud about her specifically. There are still 8 other flotilla members detained, apparently without fresh water in bedbug infested prison. They all deserve to be fought for, too.
Guys, please talk about Thiago Avila.
He's the Brazilian activist on Freedom Flotilla kidnapped by Israel. He's still detained and has been doing a hunger and water strike since yesterday early morning. There have been reports of unsanitary conditions too.
Please talk about him.
He's the Brazilian activist on Freedom Flotilla kidnapped by Israel. He's still detained and has been doing a hunger and water strike since yesterday early morning. There have been reports of unsanitary conditions too.
Please talk about him.
June 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
As someone said prior, the only reason Greta got released is because people were very loud about her specifically. There are still 8 other flotilla members detained, apparently without fresh water in bedbug infested prison. They all deserve to be fought for, too.
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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.
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PSA from @johncusack.bsky.social: Democracy is under attack — and paywalls shouldn’t stand in the way of accessing vital public records.
News outlets, it’s time to drop the paywalls for FOIA-based reporting.
@wired.com did it. @404media.co did it.
Now, it’s your turn.
News outlets, it’s time to drop the paywalls for FOIA-based reporting.
@wired.com did it. @404media.co did it.
Now, it’s your turn.
John Cusack: Time to drop paywalls for FOIA reporting
YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation
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April 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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'These folks often say that they are concerned that DEI threatens merit. The real horror they confront is that DEI threatens monopoly.'
#HigherEd
#AcademicSky
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#HigherEd
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
'These folks often say that they are concerned that DEI threatens merit. The real horror they confront is that DEI threatens monopoly.'
#HigherEd
#AcademicSky
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#HigherEd
#AcademicSky
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Grown-ass men teaching kindergarten cootie theory on live television
what a world we have made
what a world we have made
April 8, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Grown-ass men teaching kindergarten cootie theory on live television
what a world we have made
what a world we have made
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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Alternative splicing generates a Ribosomal Protein S24 isoform induced by neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645676v1
April 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Alternative splicing generates a Ribosomal Protein S24 isoform induced by neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.28.645676v1
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A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act.
As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor
YouTube video by Associated Press
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April 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
A Black man just beat the record for the longest filibuster, defeating the record previously held by a man who filibustered the literal Civil Rights Act.
As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
As the time ticked over, Cory Booker announced he did it not out of hatred for who he opposed, but out of love for those who supported him.
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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Free speech in America
March 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Free speech in America
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This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
The Kafkaesque investigation into our university looks like political scapegoating
The Office for Students' so-called investigation into the University I represent was flawed and politically motivated. The implications for the hig...
www.politicshome.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
This article by Sussex university’s vice chancellor about how the Office for Students seemingly oversaw its investigation into worries about free speech at Sussex is… quite something.
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
That the THE published this perspective is deeply worrying. The propaganda machine is in high gear.
March 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
That the THE published this perspective is deeply worrying. The propaganda machine is in high gear.
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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Please keep this in the public eye. It's very difficult to work with individual stories, but the director has a name. Horrible, as always. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Please keep this in the public eye. It's very difficult to work with individual stories, but the director has a name. Horrible, as always. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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just thinking about the job hunting process for no particular reason
March 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
just thinking about the job hunting process for no particular reason
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Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.
March 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Wow. Judge Howell is worried that if she orders DOGE to leave the USIP building it could turn into an “armed standoff” over unwillingness to vacate, and points out law enforcement has shown willingness to help DOGE. Asks if we’ll need foreign mediators to come in.
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NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy
Historians have hindsight when they look into the past; journalists have the facts on the ground and context to help them look ahead. That means we can sometimes be surprised by how prescient a story ...
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March 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
NEW: In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social writes.
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Donald Trump to sign executive order aiming to shut down Department of Education – US politics live
Donald Trump to sign executive order aiming to shut down Department of Education – US politics live
Order challenged by Democratic state attorneys general as NAACP says it is a ‘dark day for millions of American children’
Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news over the next couple…
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Donald Trump to sign executive order aiming to shut down Department of Education – US politics live
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Some updates on our client:
@immdef.bsky.social went to his imm court hearing Monday and received confirmation from ICE that he has been “removed” to El Salvador. The Judge asked “how has he been removed if there is no removal order?” And the ICE attorney responded that they did not know.
@immdef.bsky.social went to his imm court hearing Monday and received confirmation from ICE that he has been “removed” to El Salvador. The Judge asked “how has he been removed if there is no removal order?” And the ICE attorney responded that they did not know.
Posting tonight ti shine a light on what the Alien Enemies Act looks like IRL. Our @immdef.bsky.social client fled Venezuela last year & came to US to seek asylum. He has a strong claim. He was detained upon entry because ICE alleged his tattoos are gang related. They are absolutely not. 🧵
March 20, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Some updates on our client:
@immdef.bsky.social went to his imm court hearing Monday and received confirmation from ICE that he has been “removed” to El Salvador. The Judge asked “how has he been removed if there is no removal order?” And the ICE attorney responded that they did not know.
@immdef.bsky.social went to his imm court hearing Monday and received confirmation from ICE that he has been “removed” to El Salvador. The Judge asked “how has he been removed if there is no removal order?” And the ICE attorney responded that they did not know.
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Rough day for the it’s-not-a-constitutional-crisis-until-he-defies-a-court-order crowd.
March 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Rough day for the it’s-not-a-constitutional-crisis-until-he-defies-a-court-order crowd.
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If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.