We admire great works of art, architecture, and engineering. Why not cancer?
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoWe admire great works of art, architecture and engineering. Why not debt?
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A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
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good to see a Community Control Over Police banner. a defense of this approach ran in @journalspectre.bsky.social some years back: spectrejournal.com/the-radical-...
The Radical Practicality of Community Control Over Policing – Spectre Journal
Community self-defense requires the capacity to respond to any and all challenges to its safety and self-determination – which requires gaining control over the resources currently consumed by police ...
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amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2w agoMarch in Madison from where Corey Ruiz was shot by a Madison police officer to the police department
Mel Gibson being rehabbed with alacrity after that voicemail was released really should drive this point home.
The thing about the bricks and minifigs scandal is that it has shown very clearly how ACAB and how the police is not there to help us. Like the body camera footage is wiiiiild. Like I hope this shows privileged people what many BIPOC has been fighting for when we say abolish
#WeAreMUN @CUPE1615 @lumun_nl @munfaculty.bsky.social Instructors are true leaders at MUN: we build the university and are in it for the long haul! We must stand up for this important work! gazette.mun.ca/teaching-and...
Shared learning
Over the five years of CITL’s Instructor Series, what began as a modest space for educators to connect has grown into a valuable series that showcases Memorial’s faculty. The Instructor Series is root...
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Join MUNFA at the St. John’s Pride Parade tomorrow.🏳️🌈 Look for MUNFA flags in Zone A3 (purple), near the Mary Brown’s Centre entrance, toward the Majestic Theatre. Tomorrow at 11:45 am.
TIL that this Kesha the kids are talking about is not Kei$ha. I just thought they pronounced her name differently.
Forget religion: bunnies are the opiate of the masses. Black bun hopped on my lap and suddenly I didn't care that our university is being run into the ground by the mediocracy.
“I think people are naive if they think that lawmakers’ political agenda will be limited to just getting rid of DEI and gender studies programs. It’s really an attack on independent learning.” —Hank Reichman, Former Chair of AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure
Public universities face escalating involvement from state lawmakers • Louisiana Illuminator
More states are enacting laws that give greater power to politically appointed boards and administrators while weakening tenure protections and faculty sway over curriculum and university leadership.
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🚸🏫 📖 "The term Judeo-Christian implies a Christian construction of Jewish existence in which 'Jews exist inherently to fulfill Christian purposes' .” www.texastribune.org/2026/06/25/t...
Texas Jewish leaders object to “Judeo-Christian” Bible readings
A required reading list before the State Board of Education would present a predominantly Christian perspective to public school students, Jewish leaders say.
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The Reflecting Pool arrests by Park Police should terrify everyone. The federal government is fabricating accusations out f thin air simply tO protect one man from his own embarrassing failure. There is no sabotage. This is insane.
How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.
@independentnl.bsky.social: Province (through @theroomsnl.bsky.social) claims that Innu have only lived in Labrador for 300 years. Do they believe this is true for all of Nitassinan? Or was the Quebec/Labrador border somehow impermeable until 300 years ago? theindependent.ca/news/provinc...
Province shocks Innu, disputes their history in Labrador – The Independent
Innu Nation cancels cultural exhibit, alleging executives of The Rooms provincial museum told them to remove reference to Innu presence in Labrador prior to 1700s
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Reminder that Bezos fired the reporter who...covered Amazon. gizmodo.com/jeff-bezos-c...
Jeff Bezos Called Washington Post His Worst Investment and Staff He Laid Off 'Terrible' People
The Amazon founder complained to Trump over dinner that nobody there listened to him before slashing staff, according to excerpts from a forthcoming book.
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manage to kill back the algae, ALL of that phosphate that was bound up inside the algae cells is immediately released BACK into the water. They will see rebound growth within a week or two. So, obviously they need to treat the cause of the problem: the phosphate. 12/19
The NYT consistently treats normalization of Nazi internet slang (based, goy, among others) as a sign that the slang isn't Nazi anymore As opposed to a sign that Nazis are reaching kids and it's a major fucking problem
Congresswomen emphasize water as a human right in push to renew COVID-era water assistance program michiganadvance.com/2026/06/16/c...
Congresswomen emphasize water as a human right in push to renew COVID-era water assistance program • Michigan Advance
Speaking at a Dearborn Heights press conference Tuesday, U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Ann Arbor) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) relied heavily on the framework of water as a human right in explaining t...
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These assholes back down when we push back. We should push back more often. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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Chicago nurses are flexing our collective power: This is the second Chicago hospital in a month to join our union! All across the Windy City, we're rising up to unite for patient care as THE union for nurses! 💨⛵️
Chicago nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital vote overwhelmingly to join NNOC/NNU
Registered nurses at Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital in Chicago voted overwhelmingly to join National Nurses Organizing Committee, an affiliate of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest and fast...
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"Why do innocent people flee the police?" Idk, maybe the fact that they kill newborn babies and puppies might have something to do with it. Just saying.
ICE has capped the amount of money detainees can earn in "voluntary" work programs at just $1 per day.
France has joined Germany in cancelling their Palantir contracts, becoming the 2nd country in as many weeks to do so — the UK appears poised to follow suit AOC: “Immediately investigate Palantir — (Thiel’s) secretive data mining company that has weaponized information against immigrant communities”
10 years ago today Cops took Dylan Roof to Burger King after he killed 9 Black people This week Cops killed a 1-year-old Black child named Kohen Wiley on lies that his mother stole diapers A 1-year-old Black baby is more threatening to Cops than an armed white supremacist who killed 9 Black people
After years of vetoes, the Right to Contraception Act and Contraceptive Equity Act were signed today by Governor Abigail Spanberger. Virginians will now be able to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions without the interference of politicians. (1/2)
