Jacqueline L. Hazelton
@drjlhazelton.bsky.social
Political scientist. IR. International security. RT=not endorsement. Author of award-winning book "Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare" from Cornell. She/her.
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 2h agoAI Detectors Are Out, New Assessments Are In A growing number of universities have prohibited AI detectors, arguing they are ‘unreliable’ indicators of cheating. But where does that leave faculty, who know all too well that cheating is rampant in the age of AI? https://bit.ly/4wGitF7 #EDUSky
“Odysseus and his men and Telemakhos, are portrayed as wearing pants for significant parts of the film. In historical reality, the Greeks never wore pants during any period of antiquity and regarded pants as a quintessentially barbarian garment.” PANTS ARE BAD SIGN ME UP!!
Nearly 40 orgs joined us to demand Meta stop using people's faces, voices, & biometric info as free AI training data. Meta killed one creepy feature after backlash — but it’s not enough. It's time for Big Tech to realize people's privacy protections aren’t optional.
What are the splits on young men who actually make money doing it?
I feel like the next two years are going to be millennials razzing their more conservative family members in the family chat with memes of an ascendant communism.
Michigan Election Results Live Updates: Abdul El-Sayed Wins Democratic Senate Race in Michigan
Dr. El-Sayed, a progressive former public health official, narrowly defeated Representative Haley Stevens, a moderate, in a bitter campaign dominated by the politics of Israel.
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In 2025, "with federal judges producing misconduct findings at a rate nobody has seen before, PMRU authorized zero" referrals for state bar disciplinary proceedings. Trump also "fired the head of OPR and the Director of the Departmental Ethics Office."
Over 500 Former DOJ Lawyers Explain How They *Somehow* Managed Jobs Without Massive Ethical Violations - Above the Law
The Trump DOJ claims government lawyers need immunity from professional consequences. Past DOJ attorneys disagree.
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Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4h agoUS attorney’s office offers mea culpa in ‘Broadview Six’ case, says no further inquiry warranted
Humans are the most destructive and stupid thing to ever evolve. Any natural wonder, we’ll fuck it up. Any technology that has great potential for our better we figure how to kill each other with it. We deserve to extinct ourselves.
Russia and Ukraine are producing ever larger numbers of innovative aerial weapons, hoping for a breakthrough as ground combat is largely frozen.
How the Ukraine War Became a Fight for the Skies
Russia and Ukraine are producing ever larger numbers of innovative aerial weapons, hoping for a breakthrough as ground combat is largely frozen.
nyti.ms
The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids. The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...
The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.
The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.
nytimes.com
One of the bigger problems the 2025 ruling has introduced is establishing that, instead of resolving equality cases based on trying to as best as possible integrate everyone's right to be treated humanely, we use philosophical debates about what someone's true legal essence is to decide rights.
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 5h agoweb.archive.org/web/20260108... Here's an archive link of the original business guidance in case the original goes missing. In pretty clear terms the original guidance used to say stuff like "obviously, so long as the changing rooms allow privacy, trans women should be permitted to use the womens"
"Archaeologists have uncovered the full floor of Lithuania’s historic Great Synagogue, revealing treasures nearly erased by Nazi and Soviet occupations." www.jta.org/2026/08/04/g...
Archaeologists uncover treasures of Vilnius' Great Synagogue as Lithuanian Jews dispute its future - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Plans for the recovered ruins have sparked a debate over what should be built on the site, and who gets to decide.
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It is the single worst deliberate change I have ever seen made to a product, and might be what stops me using Microsoft Office after…25+ years? Imbecilic product decision, but just one among *many*.
Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · yesterdayThe most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.
if establishment candidates want to start winning primaries again all you have to do is say that rich people have too much money and that youll prosecute trump admin staffers and republicans that have broken the law
There’s no actual alternative to polling but I just don’t believe they capture public sentiment in any reliable way anymore
Doctors say that you should eat a balanced diet that includes whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seat seats and doesn’t wipe his ass says you should subsist entirely on sauerkraut and steak. For a busy eaters it can be hard to know who to trust.
"The way to ensure against individual extreme events is by hedging — one flood or wildfire in one region may be bad, but others will be fine. "With climate change, that is increasingly no longer the case — droughts and floods and other extremes the world over are suddenly connected"
Extremely niche--anyone know if in ancient regime France the day of a nun's profession might be termed her 'journee?' (Script is clear, abbreviations not an issue, inscription grammar is often...condensed.. so I'm brainstorming)
“The people are fond of him. Shopping makes them feel warm and normal. And after the volcano… ” “I don’t blame them.” “What will you do?” “I don’t know, yet.” “He’s dangerous.” “I know.”
Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.
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