They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 14h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

As Shahram Khosravi wrote on another app, "The question is not why people crossed the border. The real question is why Spain's border is in Morocco."

Sono cominciati i controlli di frontiera negli aeroporti italiani per chi arriva dalla Spagna

Sono cominciati i controlli di frontiera negli aeroporti italiani per chi arriva dalla Spagna

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The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.

www.internazionale.it/notizie/anna... arrivals "may be partly attributed to the ruling against Spain re: pushbacks carried out at the Moroccan border & the later suspension of these practices, deemed illegal... but Rabat may be behind the events... 1/ [article by Annalisa Camilli in Italian]

Perché così tante persone sono arrivate a Ceuta

I motivi delle migliaia di arrivi non sono ancora chiari, ma dietro ci potrebbe essere il Marocco, come è già successo in passato Leggi

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@laurenheidbrink.bsky.social and I curated this collection of short essays from a group of committed scholars and lawyers on what we learn from observing and accompanying in immigration court. The pieces are excellent, both accessible and powerful. @culanth.bsky.social bit.ly/4bm4LOW

On and Off the Record: Ethnographic Witnessing and Accompaniment in Immigration Court

This collection brings together ethnographers engaged in court-watching, accompaniment in and beyond detained settings, expert witnessing, and co...

culanth.org

Wildfires in central and eastern Oregon are prompting evacuations and forcing ranchers to scramble to move cattle and find feed as public range land burns. More than a million acres have burned so far. Most fires have little or no containment. n.pr/4pL5LlN

Oregon is on track for its worst wildfire season yet

Wildfires in central and eastern Oregon are prompting evacuations and forcing ranchers to scramble to move cattle and find feed as public range land burns. More than a million acres have burned so far. Most fires have little or no containment.

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Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe

The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.

bostonglobe.com

Da anni il Marocco usa la sua fiorente industria cinematografica per normalizzare l'occupazione del Sahara Occidentale: "L'Odissea" di Nolan è solo un esempio ilpost.link/HEAcmjNoxw

Per il Marocco il cinema è uno strumento di colonizzazione

Da anni usa la sua fiorente industria cinematografica per normalizzare l'occupazione del Sahara Occidentale: "L'Odissea" di Nolan è solo un esempio

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Today is Assata Shakur's birthday. Here's a new archive celebrating Shakur's life and politics. #AssataLIVES www.assatashakurarchives.com

Job! Postdoc in refugee studies! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Reseacher within DEMCAMP

Description of the workplace The Department of Philosophy is divided into Practical Philosophy, Theoretical Philosophy, and Cognitive Science and is part of the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theol

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Horror story in five short posts

Michael Okun@michael-okun.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

📚Also reviewed in Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 45, No. 2: - "Emergency in Transit" @ucpress.bsky.social - "Undoing Slavery" @pennpress.bsky.social - "Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland" @univpressofkansas.bsky.social cc: @iehs.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

The Supreme Court's order shamefully allows Alabama to use the same congressional map the court struck down three years ago for racial discrimination. This lawless decision ignores the Court’s own precedent — and has no answer to the evidence showing this map is unconstitutional.

Supreme court approves Alabama map that erases majority-Black district

Court decision that represents win for Republicans comes after lengthy battle over state’s congressional map

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Sharing from a new review of Emergency in Transit @ucpress.bsky.social in the Australian Journal of Anthropology, review by Rowan Hunnam 🙏 onlinelibrary-wiley-com.uoregon.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.... ⬇️ ⬇️

my queer (& probably my best) love poem, “i love you to the moon &” is Poem of the Day on @poetry.foundation today. happy pride!!

Labour is worsening the already fairly dire issue of unaccompanied asylum seeking children being wrongly classed as adults. The findings from their own consultation into AI for facial recognition revealed that the margin of error alone was too high for this use. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Charities decry UK plan to use AI to assess age of young asylum seekers

Coalition of more than 100 organisations says move could lead to more children ending up in adult detention facilities

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New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras With Trash Bags

Regretful cities aren't sure how to cancel their surveillance contracts, so they are literally covering their cameras.

404media.co

This is bad. Three Washington state protesters have been found guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of a bus taking people to an immigration detention center in Tacoma, and now face 6 years. Six others took plea deals rather than going to trial. newrepublic.com/post/211138/...

Anti-ICE Protesters Found Guilty in Case That Guts Free Speech Rights

Three protesters were convicted of federal conspiracy charges.

newrepublic.com

Portland State University plans to move forward with layoffs despite unionized faculty calling for a pause. 85% of the PSU-AAUP bargaining unit voted no confidence in President Ann Cudd over proposed layoffs and other austerity measures. @psuaaup.bsky.social

Portland State Layoffs Loom, Despite Faculty Calls for Pause

The university, one of multiple financially struggling Oregon public institutions, hemorrhaged enrollment during the pandemic. Its president has proposed department eliminations and other cuts, drawin...

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UW AAUP delivered a petition to the president & provost demanding faculty input in addressing UW’s financial crisis. “They're not giving us an honest picture of what the needs are & problems are...The trajectory we see UW on is getting worse for the students who we're dedicated to." #AcademicSKy

More than 550 faculty sign petition accusing UW leadership of sidelining input amid cuts, AI expansion

More than 550 faculty sign petition accusing UW leadership of sidelining input amid cuts, AI expansion

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As of this morning, @thenewschool.bsky.social is de facto replacing its History department with a “Center for the American Experience,” which is funded by private and undisclosed donors. The New School has been New Colleged, and there’s no GOP to blame here. Our anti-fascist identity is over.

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

5/ Our new investigation, “Out of Bounds,” examines EPD’s decision to let the federal agents leave a crash scene and meet outside city limits, and puts into question the response protocols instituted prior. Read @ryaninevanston.bsky.social's full story: apps.dailynorthwestern.com/outofbounds/

1/ This line is the border between Evanston and Rogers Park, Chicago’s northernmost neighborhood. On Oct. 31, it became the site of what appears to be an attempt by Evanston police to dodge the city’s sanctuary city ordinance... 🧵

Uni library access remains one of the material distinctions between academia's "inside" and "outside." The decimation of library acquisitions budgets has already eroded that distinction. Even with access, "insiders," too, want for resources. Srsly closing libraries?? Why even have a uni?

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...