Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table

Even as attention has turned to other cities, masked men continue to snatch people off the streets of LA. It is a heavy, evil thing to live with.

I really believe that if you tell people the truth and say it with passion and without compromise, they will be receptive. Not everyone, but more than you’d think. It’s the same way I feel about teaching. Don’t act like people are stupid and incurious.

Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime. No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences. Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Making war crimes great again

what Pritzker is doing would be unexceptional if he wasn't the only one with a leadership role consistently doing it! like yes, the bar is low, but barely anyone is clearing it

Kamala Harris’s election memoir shows just how deluded the Democrats still are | Nesrine Malik

Keep your eye on this. A decade ago, Debt Collective launched a student debt strike. Mainstream media scoffed and laughed. Then billions got canceled. We’re repeating that playbook with back rent debt: strike, shift moral culpability, target bad actors, change consumer protection law for the better.

It is a tribute to our dysfunctional information environment that right-wingers can basically commit 99% of the domestic terrorism, for *decades*, and that simple fact never penetrates to the public. They pay zero political price.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

The greatest advantage of Trumpists is that can say whatever they want (no matter how false, racist, inconsistent, or nonsensical) and suffer absolutely no consequences. You don't have to understand any issues or reality - you just make up shit and sound confident about it.

This is such an insane statistic that it's hard to understand. 40% of what is shipped is fossil fuels -- not 40% of things are shipped *by* fossil fuels. 40% of *what is being carried* is the fossil fuels themselves.

Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention. The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.

An unprecedented opportunity for the next Congress to not just restore these programs but to dramatically expand funding for higher education.

It bears repeating: choosing to double down and accelerate our burning of fossil fuels will kill off a substantial proportion of humanity That is something we want to avoid - and can choose to avoid www.theguardian.com/environment/...

She can say this because she's an Irish citizen living in Ireland. Say it in the UK and you could face 14 years in prison. Crazy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a plan for an American gulag archipelago, its second-ever system of domestic concentration camps. The black sites of the Bush administration have finally truly come home

Successive UK govts have expected the City of London to revive the economy. This faith is misplaced. In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange £92.1bn paid in dividends £57.1bn paid in share buybacks. Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity. Yet no govt reforms.

pretty good barometer of a state's soul when nearly 1 in 5 kids grows up in poverty while one local oligarch can make more than $2 billion in just the last few months

📣 New post and article on Scientists and Emergency Action 📣 🥼 On the many ways we can take action... and why we're powerful when we do: abiperrin.com/p/scientists... 💬 On how we can support the movements that drive transformation, via @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/how-scientis...

The right wing in this country and their allies in academic administration are unilaterally destroying what it takes to maintain a free people.

refugees are being housed in hotel rooms that do not meet their basic needs: families are being housed in rooms with no cooking facilities, nowhere for children to play, frequent reports of mould, damp, vermin. if an MP can’t explain that to constituents what are we doing here.

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

It's absolutely wild that US professional associations are still trying to hold in-person international conferences there...

This is no natural disaster - it is a crime scene, a catastrophe knowingly perpetrated by oil companies

At least they ruined a bunch of people’s lives

Whilst the police in London arrest blind pensioners in Wheelchairs for being anti-genocide, in Portsmouth the leader of UKIP makes a nazi salute at an anti migrant demo and the police do nothing. Welcome to Britain 2025.

the american pundit class can't help but cover trump like he's a dog with hands. "while it's not good that the dog strangled a woman to death, you have to admit it's amazing that he could"

if they start threatening wind energy executives with jail time over bird deaths, just remember that oil pits kill three times as many birds per year, according to the federal government’s own data

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

The insanity the world summarised in a headline on Canada: Wildfires threaten Canadian oil sands www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

BREAKING - Mass arrests as over a thousand people attend Lift The Ban protest wedonotcomply.org @eyeonpalestine.bsky.social @youthdemand.bsky.social @just-stopoil.bsky.social

Trump is trying to destroy higher education in the United States. When will universities come together to reject the extortionist "deals" he is proposing with individual universities as they become increasingly untethered from the rule of law, instead nakedly embodying his authoritarian impulses?

It’s wild to me that it’s not a bigger deal that Trump is openly defying a court order to stop kidnapping people off the streets of LA.

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now. Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Police now making arrests. (📸 Saul Staniforth)

They are saying very clearly what they intend to do.

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"

We knew this was coming. The admin is going to want to fold immediately, so it’s up to the students, staff, faculty, and alumni—the people who really *are* the university—to agitate for our integrity.