What you can do right now, universities’ edition (part 1): support faculty (and programs and therefore students) targeted for cuts @aarweb.bsky.social aarweb.org/news/an-appe...

An Appeal from the Department of Religious Studies at University of Oregon - AAR

A Note from the RSN Editor Religion scholars are currently facing numerous challenges, including issues of academic freedom and censorship, diminished budgets, department mergers and closures, job los...

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White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.

Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.

Israel murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-Sharif

Al-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City.

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I was too young to comprehend the larger geopolitical context in which it unfolded, but some of the most glaring memories from my childhood were images of the famine in Somalia. It's heartbreaking that the hell unfolding in Sudan now is barely being mentioned by the media.

Hend Amry@libyaliberty.bsky.social · last yr.

Starvation is also being used as a weapon of war in Sudan. Famine and death is on the rise and largely absent from the media. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Do not look away and may we never be forgiven. www.npr.org/2025/07/27/g...

His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq. He is 18 months old. And he is starving in Gaza

Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

When you see innocent people being sent to a hell hole concentration camp in El Salvador, you are horrified. But the thing that most people in the USA still don't want to reckon with, is that *more than half* of the white people in the USA see the same exact images, *and like it*. They love it.

“In March, @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and fellow prof @ryanenos.bsky.social authored a letter, co-signed by 800 colleagues, calling on Harvard to defend itself and academic freedom more broadly by mounting ‘a coordinated opposition to anti-democratic attacks.’ Their pressure seems to have helped…”

This professor studies dictatorships. He helped convince Harvard to stand up to Trump

Harvard professor Steve Levitsky has spent decades studying democracies and how they fail. He's now raising alarm bells over what he sees as a slide toward autocracy under President Trump.

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Every college and university should do this to remind Americans that attacks on these institutions are actually attacks on all of us.

Malinda Lo@malindalo.bsky.social · last yr.

Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Nothing more inspiring than finishing the last sentence of a paragraph of academic writing and saying out loud to yourself, "Or some shit. I have no idea what I'm talking about." Also, loving that I'm inspired to work to avoid reading the news!

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

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The antidote to feeling powerless is to do something. This meeting is just hours away, but there's still time to sign up. So if you're looking for a way to join together with others to push back against what's happening, here's your ticket. I'll be there.

We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible

This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...

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The new mantra: mistranslate the manuals.

Nowhere 🏳️‍🌈@nowhere.bsky.social · 2y ago

I had a relative compelled into service to the enemy. He mistranslated all the manuals for captured equipment so that The Thing Don't Work. Mistranslate the manuals, whatever that means for you.

I don't really love scholars calling *Gender Trouble* a "seminal" work.

Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans. This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases. www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...

Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it

Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence

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I am the mother of a 1.5 year old and a 5 year old. I have everything in my bag. What do you need?

Liz Faber@lizwfab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Describe yourself using 5 things that are probably in your bag at any given moment: 1. Carmex 2. Trident White gum 3. Ear buds 4. Lotion 5. Sunscreen stick

a vandy bestie called. we've both been thinking about fernando segovia lately. he once said something in lecture that i never forgot: we have one duty; we figure out who has the least power and we stand with *them.* consistently. empires take. this is how we fight them for every inch.

Nothing says "I'm old" like being super excited for new window shades...

Same

Sumita Pahwa@sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 2y ago

I turned off the speech in disgust, after being really positive on the DNC for the first time in years.

The New York Times Crisis of Confidence: badly shaken in the wake of bad editorial decisions, many are calling for the paper to resign.

“The Post identified at least 1,800 state and local law enforcement officers who were charged with crimes involving child sexual abuse from 2005 through 2022.” www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Hundreds of police officers in the United States have sexually abused children, a Post investigation found. In many cases, the officers have avoided prison time.

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“We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again.” Open letter from Gaza academics to the world. Damn. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I too plan my "tragic mistakes" for months on end. www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

Netanyahu calls Rafah strike ‘tragic mistake’ amid global outcry

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, Sunday night’s strike killed at least 45 Palestinians and wounded almost 200 others taking shelter in tents for displaced people in Rafah.

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they made this same polite request of Roberts last year and he gave them the finger. he will almost certainly do the same this time. the Dems are at a crossroads with the courts. if they want voters to understand this as an existential crisis for democracy they need to act like it is one.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING: Sens. Durbin, Whitehouse request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over Alito ethics scandal, call for Alito’s recusal in Jan. 6 cases. www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Today’s professors are not the young people of 1968, they are the young people of 9/11, “weapons of mass destruction,” and Abu Ghraib. Of Katrina and Bush v. Gore. Some of us are neocons and the rest of us know what propaganda, overreaction, and war crimes look like.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y ago

the funniest thing about this argument is that it shows how terrible at basic arithmetic these people are. as of 2020 the median age of a tenure-track professor in the united states is 49, so *born* at least 2 or 3 years after 1968.