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Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · 3w ago

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think functionally all of the post-resignation coverage that was about him rather than Cambridge was excessive (e.g. this poisonous review of a book nobody is going to buy - why)

54books@54books.bsky.social · last mo.

„Wenn man sich jenseits einer rechten politischen Gesinnung zum Verteidigungskampf bereit erklärt, kann man sich medialen Interesses sicher sein. Das gleiche gilt für die geäußerte Verweigerung eines zukünftigen Dienstes an der Waffe.“ @simonsahner.bsky.social über vier Bücher zur Wehrhaftigkeit

Stell dir vor, es ist Krieg und alle haben eine Haltung – Über eindeutige Meinungen und komplexe Debatten

von Simon Sahner In den letzten Wochen habe ich vier Bücher gelesen, die ein unangenehmer Blick in die Produktionshallen der Debattenkultur waren. Am…

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Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 3mo ago

If for whatever reason you used to be a real piece of shit, and now you look back on that period of your life with regrets, that is good and laudable, and also, there might be some jobs that you shouldn't have. I do not find this to be especially complicated.

Africa Is a Country@africasacountry.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive, and primitive. africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...

How to read postcolonial writing

The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive...

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angrangy@angrangy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Leute reden drüber, was an den Unis gestrichen wird, wenn die AfD an die Macht kommt, aber dass jetzt schon seit einiger Zeit Studiengänge gestrichen und Institute aufgelöst werden, darüber können wir ruhig auch sprechen.

Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Second (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais. For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA:

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VoteHub@votehub.com · 4mo ago

LANDMARK DECISION — The Supreme Court has narrowed Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act with their decision in Louisiana v. Callais, opening the door to sweeping redistricting changes across the South that could erase up to 10 majority-Black seats and flip them from blue to red.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 4mo ago

More Kagan: "[Callais] will effectively insulate any practice, including any districting scheme, said by a State to have any race-neutral justification.... Section 2 will play no role. “Whatever”—whatever—results from the State’s asserted justification is all its minority citizens are entitled to."

"Today’s majority does not. Its supposed “updating” of Gingles overthrows Congress’s decision to make Section 2 liability hinge on an electoral practice’s effects—on how it actually works. The new Callais requirements will effectively insulate any practice, including any districting scheme, said by a State to have any race-neutral justification. That justification can sound in traditional districting criteria, or else can sound in politics and partisanship. As to the latter, the State need do nothing more than announce a partisan gerrymander. Assuming the State has left behind no smoking-gun evidence of a race-based motive (an almost fanciful prospect), Section 2 will play no role. “Whatever”—whatever—results from the State’s asserted justification is all its minority citizens are entitled to. Ante"
Dr Anna Hájková@ankahajkova.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Die jüdische Wochenmagazin Tachles berichtet über den National Jewish Book award für Menschen ohne Geschichte sind Staub. Die Preisverleihung ist morgen abend und die deutsche Ausgabe seit letzter Woche wieder im Handel erhältlich. www.tachles.ch/artikel/kult...

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Die Historikerin Anna Hájková ist mit dem National Jewish Book Award ausgezeichnet worden, wie der Jewish Book Council bekannt gab. Hájková erhielt den Preis in der Kategorie Holocaust Studies f...

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