A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books (including an amazing Welsh collection.) Please help us spread the word. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

OTOH: “Even today, colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates only bodies, but appropriates data, transforming personal lives into exploitable information.” (Par178)

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

I've waited three years for this daylily plant--"Wild Horses"--to bloom, and it finally opened its very first flower on what would have been my dad's 69th birthday. A lovely present in his memory.

here's how it usually goes: conservatives bring the fascists into the coalition so they can do dirty work (killing the left, enforcing racist and gender boundaries, etc) the fascists do the work, but in doing it they get more powerful vis a vis the conservatives this is happening all over (1/?)

🔴 ACTUALIZACIÓN #EleccionesAndalucía | Vox da el 'sorpaso' al PSOE en Almería y se convierte en la segunda fuerza más votada de la provincia con el 91,46 % escrutinio social.elpais.com/bla52

Too be clear, the empirical definition of Christian nationalism is not “loving Jesus and being patriotic.” CN is a desire to fuse a particular expression of Christianity with American civic life, with the gov’t at all levels preserving and enforcing that fusion.

🗳️ El 95% escrutado certifica la dependencia del PP de Vox, la caída del PSOE y el renacer de la izquierda andalucista El PP se queda con 53 diputados, el PSOE con 28, Vox logra 15 y Adelante Andalucía, con 8, hace el sorpaso a Por Andalucía (5). www.lavanguardia.com/politica/202...

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

'A beautifully sequenced, in-depth study of gothic literature from the post-Franco period.' A brilliant review of @heidibackes1.bsky.social's 'Spectral Spain' by Patricia Keller in the most recent issue of the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies! Read more: muse.jhu.edu/article/986879

Republicans are going to make taxpayers pay for Trump’s ballroom. All Trump’s claims over 16 months that “donors” were going to pay for it was always a lie and just another con. You will pay for it.

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Sen. @MarshaBlackburn calls for a special session to steal representation from majority Black MEMPHIS, making it 9-0 for Republicans in a ~35% Dems state. We are hearing it may happen as soon as next week. The racist, anti-democracy spiral continues. www.facebook.com/share/v/1ESC...

(🚨) We’re mere *hours* from a constitutional crisis of historic proportions—and many Americans don’t seem to realize it. Why? Because nearly no corporate media outlet will properly report on it. So please consider sharing this new report widely.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

It's that time again! Tell us your favourite gothic, wyrd, horrific nonfiction and we'll add it to the list. Book, article, blog post etc. Self promo welcome 👻 makingitwyrd.wordpress.com/non-fiction/

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

One of the remarkable things I have heard when talking with professors who decide to incorporate AI intentionally into classroom instruction is that the students do not then limit their use of the tool to the agreed upon tasks, but still "cheat" to use it for other things as well.

AI is best understood as a cyberattack against a functioning society and should be treated as such

This right here. And the bulk of university service is carried out by an ever-shrinking group. Admin love to talk about everyone needing to do their part, but few acknowledge the current reality, in which many faculty are doing their own part plus that of their former colleagues, with no extra pay.

Political historians: has there EVER been a supposed liberal democracy that's even remotely as corrupt as this?

If you attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, you should be legally barred from using the term "journalist" to describe yourself from that point on.

Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least 3x… a pattern.” The most corrupt regime ever.

The final manuscript has been submitted. Keep an eye on this space for publication details!

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

It's hard to track amidst all the chaos but there is no combination of words to adequately describe how horrific this mining would be. More here: www.savetheboundarywaters.org

“Yale admits roughly 2,300 students a year. SUNY’s 64-campus system serves nearly 400,000.”

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

📌Pope Leo XIV TODAY: “The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants. Blessed are the peacemakers, but woe to those who manipulate religion and the name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth.” He is NOT backing down.

BARTIROMO: Did you see Europe is drafting a plan to open up the Hormuz Strait without the United States? TRUMP: It's so sad. Look at Greenland. We should have Greenland.

This is why Russia is still fighting, why the war continues and why people are dying: Because Trump and Vance encouraged Putin to believe he could win

This is a favorite strawman of the Religious Right, asserting that the exact phrase "separation of church and state" isn't in the Constitution. They ignore that there are only three references to religion in the entire Constitution, all three of which work to separate church and state.

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

"Society needs specialized humanities research—research that delves deeply into literary, linguistic, or cultural topics," says @paulakrebs.bsky.social. We need to invest in humanities research for the advancement of society. #TalkAboutHumanities

Be the tsunami. We can do it. We just watched it happen. And Orban conceded!

There is now a massive street party with huge crowds dancing in Budapest. Hugs, tears and bottles opening. Orban is gone, Peter Magyar took power

It's so nice to feel hopeful again.

This podcast is sooo good. One thing we learn is that Reagan's 1976 primary campaign comeback was masterminded by a far right eugenicist named Tom Ellis in NC & by appealing to George Wallace voters in Texas...an idea hatched by Arthur Finkelstein. Recognize that name? www.npr.org/2024/03/06/1...

BREAKING: Orbán defeated in Hungary after 16 years in power

They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be dictating terms.

Today, Hungarians are voting. These elections loom large the world over. Viktor Orbán is a central figure in the international far right and his loss would be blow to familiar figures like JD Vance and Donald Trump, who are his pupils. snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...

To scholars of democratic backsliding, it is difficult to overstate how big a deal today's election in Hungary, a country of less than 10 million people, is likely to be as a narrative milestone for our age, regardless of which way it goes.

Jaén fue una de las primeras ciudades españolas en sufrir la “guerra total”. Un documental evoca el feroz bombardeo sufrido por la población civil de la ciudad el 1 de abril de 1937, con 159 muertos y más de 200 heridos

Major anti-Orbán protests in Hungary tonight! I really hope these people can take their country back tomorrow and free us all from the burden of dealing with an overgrown russian puppet.

Those polls must be bad.

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

You can see why he's had several cognitive evaluations.

Top Democrat on House Judiciary formally asks White House physician to conduct cognitive exam of Trump: “Experts have repeatedly warned that the President has been exhibiting signs consistent with dementia and cognitive decline… increasingly incoherent, volatile, profane, deranged, and threatening.”