As I've said many times. it's an idiocracy. The never ending the stupidity of this whole MAGAT administration!
Jan McVicker
@jmcvicker.bsky.social
Professor, SUNY (English, INDS) focusing on lit/theory/culture/media. Virginia Woolf studies/modernism. Opinions my own.
"Trump has not explicitly responded, but he posted an infographic of the results on his Truth Social platform Sunday evening, indicating his interest. Former US ambassador to Germany during Trump’s first term...celebrated the results as 'a huge win'..." www.euractiv.com/news/trump-s...
Trump supporters celebrate far-right victory in German state vote | Euractiv
Spain's Socialist Prime Minister warned an 'extremist threat' was advancing throughout the world
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Peter Beinart: Explanation Is Not Justification... on the 9/11 anniversary peterbeinart.substack.com/p/explanatio...
Explanation Is Not Justification
Twenty-Five Years After 9/11, It’s Time Americans Finally Understand the Difference
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NEW: An armed individual lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor Dr. Amy Acton while she was at the Canfield Fair in Mahoning County, resulting in the injuries of multiple people who were nearby. A suspect is in custody. www.wlwt.com/article/amy-...
Amy Acton attacked at campaign event near Youngstown; multiple people reportedly injured
Amy Acton was reportedly attacked at a campaign event near Youngstown on Sunday.
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the court has got to stop this Trump Administration Again Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail Voting Restrictions The filing puts the legality of the president’s push to impose limits on mail voting squarely before the justices even as states begin sending out ballots. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...
Trump Administration Again Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail Voting Restrictions
The filing puts the legality of the president’s push to impose limits on mail voting squarely before the justices even as states begin sending out ballots.
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Jeanette Winterson: there is no need.... jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/in-paris?r...
In Paris
There is no need.
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such a great discussion with Natasha Singer, author of "Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools." If you have kids in school right now or teach... it's a vital interview Technology is reshaping education. But is it helping students learn? www.pbs.org/video/techno...
Horizons from PBS News | Technology is reshaping education. But is it helping students learn?
Technology is reshaping education. But is it helping students learn?
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apnews.com/article/robi... Morgan, poet and feminist whose allies included Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, dies at 85
Robin Morgan, poet and feminist whose allies included Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem, dies at 85
Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and leading second-wave feminist, has died.
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🚨NEW: The Trump administration urged a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to let the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) impose sweeping new mail ballot restrictions for the midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump DOJ asks judge to let USPS mail voting restrictions take effect, despite another court’s block
The request came hours after another federal court blocked those same restrictions, finding they could disenfranchise millions of voters.
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🏛️ Voters recalled the man who let AI in Residents of Independence, Missouri, voted out the councilman who approved their datacentre, the first US case of a politician losing his seat over one. 🔗 nytimes.com/2026/09/01/technology/data-center-recall-vote-independence.html #AI #DataCentres
Missouri Voters Appear to Recall City Councilman Over Data Center Support
Initial results showed that residents of Independence, Mo., voted overwhelmingly to recall an official who backed billions of dollars in tax breaks for a data center.
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This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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The US attorney general is fretting about a ‘pandemic’ of gender transitions in schools | Arwa Mahdawi
The US attorney general is fretting about a ‘pandemic’ of gender transitions in schools | Arwa Mahdawi
Todd Blanche’s remarks are part of a totally-not-invented moral panic that stretches the limits of the imagination
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Timothy Snyder: Three Public Speeches on Freedom snyder.substack.com/p/three-publ...
Three Public Speeches on Freedom
Some Video Reminders Before the US Midterm Election
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English Museum to Repatriate Colonial-Era Human Remains The skeletal remains will go back to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent, six years after formal repatriation efforts began. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/w...
English Museum to Repatriate Colonial-Era Human Remains
The skeletal remains will go back to the Indigenous Naga people of the Indian subcontinent, six years after formal repatriation efforts began.
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In Battle to Use ‘Ms.,’ Gloria Steinem Had to Fight The New York Times In the 1970s, Ms. Steinem confronted the newspaper’s executive editor about the honorific in an exchange of letters, pressing it to use the alternative to Miss or Mrs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/a...
In Battle to Use ‘Ms.,’ Gloria Steinem Had to Fight The New York Times
In the 1970s, Ms. Steinem confronted the newspaper’s executive editor about the honorific in an exchange of letters, pressing it to use the alternative to Miss or Mrs.
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How Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine Transformed the Publishing Industry The feminist icon insisted that women were not a niche audience — and proved it in 1971 with the start of an influential publication owned and operated by them. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/b...
How Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine Transformed the Publishing Industry
The feminist icon insisted that women were not a niche audience — and proved it in 1971 with the start of an influential publication owned and operated by them.
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Appeals Court Maintains Block on Federal Voter Identification Tool A federal appeals court panel declined to let Homeland Security reopen access to a voter-screening tool that incorporated Social Security data. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/u...
Appeals Court Maintains Block on Federal Voter Identification Tool
A federal appeals court panel declined to let Homeland Security reopen access to a voter-screening tool that incorporated Social Security data.
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Homeland Security Dept. Asks for Inquiries Into Voting Machines Critics of ballot-marking devices have claimed that hackers could manipulate digital codes on ballots. Election experts say the systems are safe to use. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Homeland Security Dept. Asks for Inquiries Into Voting Machines
Critics of ballot-marking devices have claimed that hackers could manipulate digital codes on ballots. Election experts say the systems are safe to use.
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Justice Department Issues Subpoenas for Voter Data in Nevada The request comes as the government has escalated efforts to prove President Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Trump Administration Issues Subpoenas For Voter Data in Nevada
The request comes as the government has escalated efforts to prove President Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud.
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Judge Once Again Blocks Mail-In Ballot Rules The ruling arrived before the Supreme Court could decide whether to intervene but appeared certain to set off yet another round of appeals. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Judge Once Again Blocks Mail-In Ballot Rules
The ruling arrived before the Supreme Court could decide whether to intervene but appeared certain to set off yet another round of appeals.
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Rebecca Solnit: Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone www.meditationsinanemergency.com/gloria-stein...
Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone
To become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists, and to live among peers who sometimes remember that country and among younger people who mostly don't know how different the p...
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BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
more unhinged by the day; who will rein him in? Trump Threatens to Halt Some Trade Unless the Fed Cuts Rates The president said he could halt trade between the United States and countries with which it has a trade deficit if the central bank doesn’t do his bidding. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/b...
Trump Threatens to Halt Some Trade Unless the Fed Cuts Rates
The president said he could halt trade between the United States and countries with which it has a trade deficit if the central bank doesn’t do his bidding.
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We link to Critical Noise and much more in our storm tracker: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
SUNY UFS Storm Tracker (9/4/2026)
U.S. Secretary of Education National Call to Action (Compact 2.0) 1 Vanderbilt Declaration of Principles (6/29/2026) 2 Florida Presidents’ Joint System Response (8/18/2026) 2 UNC Letter (8/18/2026) 2 ...
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Chris Newfield@cnewf.bsky.social · 3d agoI was induced to critique that Vanderbilt slam of humanities scholarship, and had a strangely good time doing it. I explain why Appiah should like and help, not trash The Activist Humanist. Collaboration can cure ALL real epistemic ills in the humanities: do this! criticalnoise.org/the-struggle...
Preparing students for careers is only part of higher education’s mission. In the latest AASCU Edge blog post, Frank E. Ross III reflects on civic engagement, student leadership, and meaningful dialogue. Read more: tinyurl.com/yc8knbku #HigherEd #CivicEngagement
Islamophobia in the U.S. dates back decades, from 1960s FBI surveillance of Muslim and Arab communities to the sweeping surveillance programs launched after 9/11. Rozina Ali traces that history in "Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America" www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Rozina Ali and Amna Nawaz discuss Islamophobia in America on 'Settle In'
The history of Islamophobia in the U.S. dates back decades, from FBI surveillance of Muslim and Arab communities in the 1960s to the sweeping surveillance programs launched after 9/11. Journalist Rozi...
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Shiyazh Pete on inspiring Navajo Nation and the speech that made him a viral sensation www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Shiyazh Pete on inspiring Navajo Nation and the speech that made him a viral sensation
Most professional football players gain fans and win fame from what they do during the game. In the case of rookie offensive lineman Shiyazh Pete, millions came to know him from what he said afterward...
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great tribute Remembering Gloria Steinem and her trailblazing fight for women's rights www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Remembering Gloria Steinem and her trailblazing fight for women’s rights
Gloria Steinem, the pioneering journalist and activist who became one of the most recognizable voices of the modern women’s movement, has died at the age of 92. For more than half a century, Steinem c...
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