“They told us that the center is closing, so all staff are being laid off because there will be no center to employ you,” a staff member told The Purple Wire under condition of anonymity for fear of potential retribution.”
Northwestern reportedly set to close Program of African Studies, ending an near eight-decade chapter in higher education
Northwestern is reportedly set to close the United States' oldest program dedicated to African Studies, according to The Purple Wire.
thegrio.com
Really can't be overstated how southernified mass culture has gotten. If you lived in the northeast 20 years ago, you did not listen to country music, could not buy barbecue in a restaurant, and certainly did not know anyone who attended an SEC school
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner notified the FBI of Jeffrey Epstein and reported that a Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by the late financier, according to new court documents reported this week.
Hugh Hefner tried to warn the FBI about Epstein — new docs show they ignored him
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner notified the FBI of Jeffrey Epstein and reported that a Playmate was sexually abused and trafficked by the late financier, according to new court documents reported this week.The FBI reportedly ignored several of Hefner's tips about Epstein for 15 years, according to News...
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Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
Jørgen Heszlein@heszlein.bsky.social · 4d agoNew estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Have you ever noticed that the media selectively misquotes leftists out of context to make them look worse but will selectively misquote Donald Trump to sanewash and clean up his remarks? It's an interesting pattern once you notice it! bsky.app/profile/bene...
Martin Edelweiss@beneluxist.bsky.social · 3d agoIt’s been absolutely insane how every podcast and YouTuber has jumped on those four words and used it as a foundation for *their* prescriptive regarding large groups of people coming together and demanding equality and dignity etc., while completely leaving out the context/what else she said
"I haven't worked since 2024. I cannot afford health insurance because I have no work" "I hosted dinners for colleagues who lost 80% of their salary" "we've seen larger instances of depression, more suicide among our crew" @iatse.bsky.social members *8 weeks ago* on what past mergers did to them:
Daniel Miller@danielnmiller.bsky.social · 3d agoThe DGA and IATSE — two powerful showbiz unions — have sent a letter to CA AG Rob Bonta and Paramount CEO David Ellison urging them to settle the states’ suit seeking to block the company’s merger w/ WBD. It comes a day after CA gubernatorial hopeful Xavier Becerra said the parties should settle.
The fact that the same Taylor Farms products sold at Walmart are packaged under different names and sold at Whole Foods proves that Jeff Bezos is scamming you into thinking you get superior produce a his far more pricey Whole Foods.
Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
GOP Rep. Max Miller has been accused of: —Holding a gun to his wife’s head —Throwing scalding water at his wife —Fracturing his daughter’s collarbone —Releasing photos of his daughter that “could be considered child sex abuse material”
This site lets you scan barcodes to see if they’re part of Taylor Farms: www.taylordetector.com
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Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 6d agoRECALL: Taylor Farms is pulling pre-packaged salsa and guacamole for contaminated jalapenos.
Rest In Power Tasia Fortune. "The Mississippi State Medical Examiner's Office is conducting an autopsy to determine Fortune’s cause and manner of death," a spokesperson tells ABC News #UrbanViewMornings abcnews.com/US/mother-bl...
'She did not do this to herself': Mother of Black woman found hanging in Mississippi says
The mother of Tasia Fortune, a 29-year-old Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in Jackson, Mississippi, said her daughter "did not do this to herself."
abcnews.com
God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014...
Billion-dollar California salad company exploits undocumented migrants, say workers and Teamsters
Taylor Farms, the world’s largest supplier of ‘healthy, wholesome’ cut vegetables and salad, denies claims it threatened to call immigration officials to keep workers on ‘temporary’ status, exposing t...
theguardian.com
Tyler King@tyleraking.com · 6d agoRECALL: Taylor Farms is pulling pre-packaged salsa and guacamole for contaminated jalapenos.
His words! "It's actually a positive"
Climate denial is getting louder. Reality is getting harder to ignore. When parks are brown, rivers are shrinking and firefighters are battling blazes across the globe, governments must accelerate climate action, not slow it down.
This burning summer is the proof: the voices of climate denial aren’t just delusional, they’re deadly | Sadiq Khan
Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan
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god we are a county of dumb fucking idiots jfc
Steve Rattner@steverattner.bsky.social · last wk.Wage growth ticked below inflation again last month. That means Americans' average wages shrunk in real terms over the past year. Real wages were growing when Biden left office, but the trend flipped negative after Trump launched the Iran War.
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NEW: Israel has imprisoned an American teen. Soldiers raided Adam's West Bank home right before his sister’s grad party. They ignored his US passport. As they took him, they blew kisses at his mom. Adam is now the second American in Israeli prison. Trump just hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
Israel Has Imprisoned a 16-Year-Old Palestinian-American Boy for Two Weeks
Adam Karakrah is one of at least two Americans in Israeli prison – both held while Trump hosted Netanyahu for the eighth time.
zeteo.com
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
If you’re an influencer influencing on various platforms do try and source the material you are citing for your pieces. Someone has had to do the work to find this stuff out that you are monetising. So the right thing might be to tell your listeners/viewers where it has come from
Biden tried this. It worked (not at ideal scale) and dems got no credit for it Ask IBEW locals how good Biden policies were for work
Jacobin@jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2w agoLiberals struggle to connect with blue-collar workers. How about offering them high-paying jobs with the fringe benefit of fighting climate change?
Another Sophie Cunningham fan who is concerned about women's sports
Mediaite@mediaite.com · 2w agoClay Travis Offers to Pay WNBA Champions $10 Million If They Can Beat a Boys’ High School Basketball Team
In 2020 I wrote about Cori Bush as a Ferguson activist heading to Congress after her historic primary election. She lost her seat in 2024 but on Tuesday, she's asking voters to send her back. 19thnews.org/2020/08/with...
With Cori Bush, Black Lives Matter could go to Congress
Cori Bush’s Democratic primary win in Missouri’s 1st District means the movement could be elevated into federal halls.
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if you want to stick it to aipac, worth donating to cori bush, whose election looks a lot closer and where there's a lot less money in the race. www.coribush.org
Cori Bush for Congress: St. Louis
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"Her case echoes a similar one a week earlier in Buffalo, New York, where a 56-year-old Rohingya refugee with significant vision impairment and limited English was found dead after the US border patrol dropped him off alone at a closed Tim Hortons coffee shop." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
Exclusive: Daphy Michel, from Haiti, was dropped off in Pittsburgh in 20F temperatures wearing summer clothes
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