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Reinstate the Fired Six at VSU
On December 16, 2025, Dr. Harbans L. Bhardwaj, Dr. Adnan Beker Yousuf, Dr. Vitalis W. Temu, Dr. Maru K. Kering, Dr. Toktam Taghavi, and Dr. Molla Fentie Mengist were abruptly removed from Virginia Sta...
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A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File. Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4mo agoAmericans paid a collective $23 billion more to file their 2025 taxes after Donald Trump shut down the free tax filing program Direct File last year.
“The Times reported last month that Kushner’s representatives had already met with officials from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, which under an earlier deal must get the first chance to invest whenever Affinity tries to raise additional funding.” Kushner and and Trump are selling U.S. out.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoJared Kushner is seeking peace deals in the Middle East. He’s also raising money for his own firm | Mohamad Bazzi
According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts. (1/2)
Trump’s war on Iran has cost close to $30 billion. That could fund a year of the Affordable Care Act subsidies that he and Republicans have refused to extend. Instead, millions of Americans have dropped their insurance because they can’t afford it. Priorities.
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...
Dolores Huerta has broken silence about the sexual abuse and assaults she survived from Cesar Chavez. Her statement comes as story about other assaults by Chavez drops in the NYT. medium.com/@dolores_hue... More reports here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/u...
A Statement from Dolores Huerta
March 18, 2026
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Stuck in an hours-long security line at the airport? It’s because Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ bill to fund DHS agencies that don’t conduct immigration enforcement, like TSA. That’s how dead set they are on allowing ICE to keep terrorizing communities with impunity. Remember this.
Trump's health policy: -Slash grants for Alzheimer's research by 50% -Increase production of cancer-linked weedkiller chemical -Gut protections against forever chemicals -Throw 7.5M Americans off Medicaid How does ANY of this Make America Healthy Again?
Take control of AI at your uni! @aaup.org now compiles guidance and tools for artificial intelligence, including working group reports, bargaining and union resources, auditing and public records request tools, and sample syllabus language. Please share widely: www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
Artificial Intelligence
The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...
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These Pernicious Gambling Apps Will Embed Themselves Deeper and Deeper Into Public Life, Disintegrating Social Trust In Unpredictable and Dangerous Ways vs. No It Won't
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · 5mo agoCrazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...
This feels like the only answer that makes sense
Better Things Are Possible@internethippo.bsky.social · 5mo agoThere's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
From the St. John's University mission statement: "Wherever possible, we devote our intellectual and physical resources to search out the causes of poverty and social injustice and to encourage solutions that are adaptable, effective, and concrete."
AAUP@aaup.org · 5mo ago“A university that sits on a one billion dollar endowment does not get to reinvent Catholic Social Teaching…Catholic Social Teaching for over a century has repeatedly affirmed that the common good requires unions.” —Jeremy Cruz, St. John’s University AAUP Equity Officer and Professor of Theology
This is what solidarity looks like. @psc-cuny.org stands shoulder to shoulder with St. John’s University in their fight to maintain faculty union representation and collective bargaining rights on campus.
"You can't just disappear a union that's over 50 years old." — @yuhline.bsky.social, New York State Assembly Member Our leaders are coming together to demand that Father Shanley respects the collective bargaining rights of faculty at St. John's University.
Inspired by St. John's University AAUP's action today at Madison Square Garden? Moved by political and labor leaders' calls for Father Shanley to recognize faculty unions and collective bargaining rights? Be sure to support by signing and sharing the SJU AAUP petition. Hands off SJU unions!
FATHER SHANLEY: HANDS OFF ST. JOHN’S FACULTY UNIONS!
We are shocked by President Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P.’s recent attack on the two faculty labor unions at St. John’s University. On Thursday, February 19, 2026, Father Shanley informed faculty via em...
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For months, we warned DOGE's access to Americans' private data was ripe for abuse. And here it is: A former DOGE employee stole the Social Security numbers & personal info of over 500 MILLION Americans. Musk, Trump, & their DOGE lackies must be made to answer for this, NOW.
Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job
The Social Security inspector general’s office is investigating allegations that the former DOGE engineer took sensitive data on a thumb drive in a major potential security breach, said people familia...
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When even war crimes arent enough of a distraction!
“Father Brian Shanley is violating New York state law & ignoring decades of St. John’s institutional practice & centuries of Catholic social teaching around respect for labor & workers." — Sophie Bell, St. John's University AAUP President
St. John’s University in New York No Longer Recognizes Faculty Labor Unions
St. John’s University’s recent decision to cease recognizing faculty labor unions after 56 years stirred a conversation on Catholic social teaching.
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Crow: "Friday night, Trump filmed this tough video where he talked about the cost of war & how hard it's gonna be & how we're gonna lose troops, then he literally went behind the curtain & hosted a million dollar a plate dinner & dance party at Mar-a-Lago. That tells you everything you need to know"
Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Last month, a Pennsylvania farmer rejected $15M from data center developers to sell his farmland. Another in Wisconsin turned down $80M. America's farmers and others across the country are pushing back on Big Tech. This is what integrity looks like.
US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’
Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land
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Brad Lander: “It’s pretty outrageous…once people think that they don’t have to follow the law because the president doesn’t, workers suffer, our universities suffer, students & faculty suffer.” St. John’s University can’t just UNrecognize faculty unions after 56 years. That’s not the law works.
