Taiwan: COVID-19 hospital visits surge 74.8% 🔸Hospitals reported 18,990 visits for COVID-19 last week, a 74.8% increase from the previous week 🔸PQ.16.1.1 variant accounted for 85.7% of local samples analysed over the past 4 weeks and may possess extra immune-escape properties.

COVID-19 hospital visits surge 74.8% - Taipei Times

Hospitals reported 18,990 visits for COVID-19 last week, a 74.8 percent increase from the previous week, while 62 severe cases were reported, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday, urgi...

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#ResistanceRoots Today in history, 1987: The FCC rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, ending a 38-year policy. Let’s explore why it was enacted, what it did, and why restoring it would not be effective against today’s media bias. We’ll also look at some other solutions that are being considered. /1

This is the tragic yet logical result of a decades-long project—undertaken by rightwing politicians and “business-minded” administrators alike—to distort the meaning of higher education, to deny the intrinsic value of the pursuit of knowledge, to deprive us all of richer, more purposeful lives.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

It’s absolutely devastating. 52 deaths in ICE custody since Trump’s first 500 days in office. But this happens every year, it’s just greatly accelerated. Abolish ICE, create a better immigration system & be fvcking better than THIS! FFS! #Pinks #DoBetter

Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

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Are you paying attention to the GOP assault on history? Then you need to know what’s happening in Texas. Long before MAGA attacked the Smithsonian, conservatives were erasing history in Texas. Learn more here.

On Jan. 11, Gregory Bovino watched as his Border Patrol agents dragged a man out of his car at a St. Paul Speedway, knelt on his back until he lost consciousness, and dragged his limp body into the back of a van. The man's name is Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano and this is his story.

Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano survived a violent arrest in St. Paul. It still haunts him. • Minnesota Reformer

The morning of Jan. 11 began for Orbin Mauricio Henriquez Serrano with an ominous warning: The gas light on his Jeep Cherokee was glowing yellow on the dashboard. He didn’t want to go to work at the r...

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Viles Dorsainvil, executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center in Springfield, said he saw the ankle monitors Haitian residents were given as reminiscent of chains and slavery. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Haitian immigrants report to Ohio ICE office, exit with ankle monitors

Haitian residents reported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in suburban Cincinnati where at least 2 people were given ankle monitors.

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This is why they’re going after Dr Fauci: he impeded grifters

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."

After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather, who considered themselves “pro-life,” were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.” (Published May)

She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help.

Her case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

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A new report is detailing the impact of cuts to USAID and the HIV/AIDS program known as PEPFAR. https://to.pbs.org/3RCtasY

New report reveals consequences of Trump administration's HIV/AIDS funding cuts

A new report is detailing the impact of cuts to USAID and the program known as PEPFAR, which has been credited with saving over 26 million lives since 2003. The study from the HIV/AIDS non-profit amfA...

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"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...

University of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major - Daily Nous

As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media....

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Taking away someone's food and medicine makes you responsible for their death

I am so excited to announce the pre-sale for my forthcoming book, The Struggle Is Always Worth It! This is also the first reveal of the table contents, and let me tell you, there are some superstars who contributed to this book. givebutter.com/SIAWI-presale

Struggle Is Always Worth It book pre-sale

Pre-sale and fundraiser for the edited collection, The Struggle Is Always Worth It, coming out December 2026.

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The waste of teaching talent caused by universities’ obsession with low-wage contract work (which drives people out of the profession long-term) is almost unimaginable. A societal disaster.

Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · last wk.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

@higheredlabor.bsky.social has workshops and ways to build your tools and our collective power. 7/29 – Raise Hell for Pell: Double it NOW 7pm ET/4pm PT Online Join students, faculty, staff, alumni, community members for a Campus Organizing Assembly to launch the Raise Hell for Pell campaign $$$$$

Here's to Silas Soule, the US Army officer who refused to participate in the Sand Creek Massacre. He was later murdered for his testimony against fellow soldiers. coloradosun.com/2026/07/26/n...

At Silas Soule's gravesite, a minister honors a heroic figure by reading his letters

Visitors converged on Soule’s grave at Denver’s Riverside Cemetery for what has become an annual ritual organized by Rev. Dr. Nancy Niero

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The BEST thing on "Save America Act" or "Stop Granny From Voting Act" I have yet seen. Send this everywhere. Tell you Senator to vote NO. This is an emergency. Even if they have to kill the NDAA. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. On The Quiet Machinery of The SAVE America Act open.substack.com/pub/defiance...

On The Quiet Machinery of The SAVE America Act

There is a woman somewhere in America who has never missed an election.

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Unable to control the content of the Smithsonian NMAH, Trump is ordering NPS/Interior to install signage along the NPS-controlled National Mall telling visitors about the findings of the report and to install new exhibits about the signers of the Declaration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Restoring Trust in the Smithsonian Institution

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy. On

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NEW: In response to Texas SB37, the University of Houston might cut 40% of the classes in its core curriculum. Classes like "Intro to LGBT Studies" would be removed. Professors say the process has been secretive and that the cuts would be a loss for students: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

LGBTQ+, women's studies may be cut from UH core classes

Some courses would no longer be a required part of UH's curriculum under the proposal.

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My short essay about two 17th century Powhatan women in London and Bermuda is finally out! commonplace.online/article/the-...

The Other Elizabeth and Mary: Anglo-Powhatan Marriages and the Virginia Company of London - Commonplace

By employing marriage as a technology of imperialism, the Virginia Company hoped to turn its struggling overseas colonies into stable, productive English communities.

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Just something in my neighborhood that I pass every day that needs to be seen by everyone.

I’ve been doing some in-depth reporting on the Prairieland cases, and had to get this out first as I continue to dig: I spoke with Ana Bell, sister of Des, who it turns out co-owns and runs an indie bookstore. We talked about the case, the judge, book banning, ICE killings, and living through this:

My Brother Was Sentenced to 30 Years for Moving a Box of Zines

The sister of a defendant in the Prairieland case, which targeted Texas ICE protesters, speaks out.

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#tdih 1656, Elizabeth Key, of African descent in North American colonies, sued for her freedom & her son’s, & won. Soon after, Virginia legislature passed new laws. 💔 Read ⬇️ & check out podcast on liberty suits with @profjeffries.bsky.social & M. Newell. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...

July 21, 1656: Elizabeth Key Wins Her Freedom

In early Colonial Virginia, Elizabeth Key became the first woman of African descent in the North American colonies to sue for her freedom and win.

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just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 12mo ago

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

This year’s event has special meaning, given labor’s role in resisting Operation Metro Surge minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/19/l...

Labor memorializes 92nd anniversary of 'Bloody Friday,' as history rhymes • Minnesota Reformer

Standing 92 years later on the same ground, Hanson the younger lamented the deaths of Henry Ness and John Belor — the two union members police killed after shooting nearly 70.

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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.