I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 6mo agoA German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Horrific. Trump’s federal agents shot and killed another person. Republicans in control of Congress could put a stop to this chaos. Enough. Get ICE out of Minnesota, stop funding this violence, and end the assault on our communities.
We are searching for the woman in a red jacket who captured the ICE situation on video. We heard she was taken by federal agents. If anyone has updates, let us know.
The news just keeps getting worse. Hard to tell who's worse: the ICE clowns, their boss (Mr. Is My Uniform Gestapo enough?), their boss's boss (Botox Barbie), or their boss's boss's boss (Orange Cheeto)
How science profs can be subversive under Trump while still staying in their lane, Part 2: include pictures of all scientists you reference in your PPTS (even including all those dead white men brings a focus to the past hegemony). Other examples welcomed!
How science profs can be subversive under Trump while still staying in their lane, Part 1: use examples that include the Gulf of MEXICO, Greenland, and Denali (don't call it Mt McKinley), call it the JWST (instead of James Webb, in support of the LGBTQ community)...
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J.R.R. Tolkien – Geologist?
J.R.R. Tolkien circa World War I, when he was beginning his Middle-earth writings. Wikimedia Commons While Oxford professor J.R.R. Tolkien is best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of …
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Westmoot 2025
For the first time, fans can experience a Tolkien Society conference in person in the US! Westmoot will take place May 9th-11th in Kansas City, Missouri, at the National WWI Museum and Memorial. This ...
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Awesome weekend attending the Tolkien Society's Christopher Tolkien Centenary Conference. Got my paper up on Journal of Tolkien Research already (in the conference papers section) - scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftol...
It's So Meta: CJRT on JRRT on JRRT in CJRT within the 'Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth'
The nested doll structure of the various notes, commentary, drafts, and ancillary texts published alongside the main text of the "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" demonstrate both the depth (and challenge...
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Wow, that House report must have some really damning stuff in it. Glad it is keeping Gaetz out of Congress.
a stick figure waving with the words bye felicia below it
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New report is out from the CDC on states with the highest rate of STD infections. The top 9 are all Republican states. 1. LA 2. MS 3. AK 4. SD 5. GA 6. AL 7. NC 8. SC 9. AR
Linda McMahon as Education Secretary? There isn't enough wine in France to make the next 4 years survivable
I have only 8 more days of classes left to teach this semester. I can do this. Really, I can.
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Appearing on a Christian nationalist podcast last night, Pete Hegseth said he's creating a system of "classical Christian schools" to provide recruits for an underground army that will eventually launch an "educational insurgency" across the nation. www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...
I know which one of them I'd rather be in any public space with. #transrightsarehumanrights www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/p...
Republican introduces anti-transgender bathroom resolution at Capitol after first transgender woman elected to Congress | CNN Politics
A House Republican is pushing to ban transgender women from women’s restrooms at the US Capitol, two weeks after history was made with the election of America’s first out transgender person to Congres...
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