This will pretty much end international students pursuing doctorates. A shocking decision and one which will do irreparable damage to the United States in the long term. www.highereddive.com/news/trump-a...

Trump administration caps student visa stays at 4 years under final rule

Critics have castigated the measure, arguing it ignores average degree completion times and creates unnecessary burdens for international students.

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EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

I'm watching The Sopranos for the 1st time in 2026. Setting aside the murder and armed robbery, the Soprano Crime Family's activities--no-bid/fixed contracts, sports betting, pump-and-dump schemes, loan sharking--have become so quaint, either legalized or otherwise poorly enforced today.

Until 1933, German universities led the world. They have never regained that position.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last wk.

If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of our future innovation capacity, prosperity, and national security crumbling. Shattering our university research system and international student pipeline will harm all Conservative & Liberal Americans. From the American Institute of Physics—>

The old world is dying. The new world struggles to be born.

The biggest technological revolution of our lifetime and it has nothing to do with AI, crypto, metaverse, robots or any of the other massively hyped "tech" the media always talks about instead

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2w ago

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Wow, good thing that there's not some kind of existing payment system, let's call it "taxes" as a placeholder, that pays for subsidies that I may never directly benefit from, roads I may never drive on, facilities I may never utilize, emergency services I may never call... bsky.app/profile/usat...

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2w ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

One of the greatest Latvian historians. A survivor of the Holocaust who, just this past year, published a book on those who worked to save Latvian Jews during the Nazi Occupation. A keeper of the memory of the victims. A man full of light and courage eng.lsm.lv/article/cult...

Distinguished historian Vestermanis dies aged 100

The eminent historian, founder and long-time director of the 'Jews in Latvia' museum, Marģers Vestermanis, has died, the museum has announced.

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Progress! Instead of burning the Library of Alexandria indiscriminately, what if we just chopped off rare books' spines and then shredded them individually? bsky.app/profile/drdr...

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · 3w ago

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Nolan's adaptation of the Odyssey has its flaws, but I really appreciated the throughline that followed the consequences of violating a fundamental moral law ("Zeus's law") in the Fall of Troy. Made the film feel contemporary and relevant as international law continues to break down in the 2020s.

Key research questions 👇

In Latvia we are experiencing another attack on academic freedom. During the pre-election time politicians represented in the government are inviting researchers to the parliament to explain their publicly funded projects, particularly, on the topics they find controversial. 1/2

At last, my print copies of Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service arrived. So happy to finally hold this book in my hands! academic.oup.com/book/62363

🎯 “An elite consensus that AI-assisted learning might be fine for hoi polloi but not for future leaders at the most selective institutions cannot be far-off now“ The coming class divide on AI: tech-free learning at elite institutions, AI-centered learning everywhere else.

Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · last mo.

Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

Disgruntled bureaucrat chaperones an expecting mother to the seaside. bsky.app/profile/pete...

Peter Lucier@peterlucier.bsky.social · last mo.

The itinerary for the boys’ trip to Holland may have been overly ambitious. Starring Sean Connery

Reports are coming in that—following the model of the Soviet Republic of Soldiers and Fortress-Builders of Naissaar, Estonia—sailors and workers on Block Island have seized the means of oyster production and plan on exporting revolution to the mainland by ferry.

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

"Grossman’s ability to convince people of all ranks to talk to him meant that he could distill strategic and philosophical talks with officers with deep firsthand perspectives of life on the front for an ordinary soldier." thebaffler.com/latest/the-m...

The Music of Destruction | Mathias Fuelling

Grossman was split into two figures by the Soviet authorities, dissident Jew and voice of the people.

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July 4 is symbolically regarded at the start of the Holocaust in Latvia (though killing began earlier), commemorated as Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Genocide against the Jewish People. In connection, the Facebook algorithm pushed this screed onto my feed... www.facebook.com/PriekuluNA/p...

Omer Bartov (@omerbartov.bsky.social) on the Nazi obsession with Judeo-Bolshevism

The Judeo-Bolshevist Target | Omer Bartov

Popular memory in the West tends to separate the Holocaust from the German war against the Soviet Union, but for the Nazi regime they were two faces of the same undertaking.

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For context, in 1910, only 41.66% of New York City's population spoke English as their primary language (Yiddish: 18.08%; German: 17.66%; Italian: 11.53%; Polish: 2.44%). Miller's own great-grandfather arrived at Ellis Island in 1903 as one of those Yiddish-/Polish-speakers, knowing no English!

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

"Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says" -- seems like a really tough choice 🤔💭 bsky.app/profile/nils...

Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yesterday was likely the hottest day in France since the last interglacial (125,000 years ago). There is going to be some terrible human news from this… #NothingToSeeHere #MoveRightAlong

Though they fought on opposite sides of World War II, Latvian Legionnaires under German command and Latvian Riflemen under Soviet command converged in their celebration of Midsummer (Jāņi), as shown here on June 23/24, 1943 (source of photos: Latvian War Museum).

New, authoritative map of Nordic countries just dropped 👇 🇸🇪🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 🟨🟥🟨

RIP to Carlo Ginzburg. In his memory, I wanted to share a less prominent work, "Just One Witness," which elegantly makes the point that "law and history, it seems, have different rules and different epistemological foundations which do not always coincide." www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Tocqueville on LLMs

"Defeat in the Iranian war looks, on the surface, nothing like other U.S. military defeats. The speed of the war and its remoteness have lent an air of unreality to the whole endeavor." @professormusgrave.bsky.social on Trump's defeat and the ghosts of Vietnam: foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/16/i...

Iran Is a Bigger Defeat Than Vietnam

A war of choice has turned into a strategic disaster for Washington.

foreignpolicy.com