The original definition of academic freedom came from the American Association of University Professors--the union for professors--in response to suppression against professors for being "too left" & it focused a LOT on universities not being beholden to corporate funders or wealthy benefactors...🧵

No one gets to claim ignorance; there is no plausible deniability for anyone. We even got a preview of what this white nationalist regime would attempt to do in the fall of 2024, when the Right’s leaders tried to incite a pogrom against Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.

Looming over all the details here of dishonesty, etc. is that in the first weeks of the Administration's deportion push, they deported a man in error. And rather than simply admit that and bring him back, they have gone to Kafka-esque lengths to punish him for the effrontery of being innocent.

If telling troops they must disobey unlawful orders is sedition, you’re gonna have to hang all the military academy instructors, boot camp drill instructors and training manual authors, along with every member of congress that authorized the UCMJ by voting yes on the most recent NDAA.

This is completely and utterly false. The exact opposite is true.

As a reminder: The USIP building was raided and taken over by DOGE (with assistance from federal and local law enforcement) despite being an independent agency and owner of the building. Litigation is ongoing, but Trump does not own this building.

A modern military does not need to prove how lethal and dangerous it is. That is obvious to any civilian. It DOES need to prove how ethical and moral it is because that is very much in doubt for civilians on the battlefield.

Re: gen- #AI, I don't actually know if I've ever seen an accurate archaeological image made this way that wasn't the work of many hours to remove all the errors/misrepresentations, or so impressionistic that it doesn't communicate anything except 'vibes'.

4. You see, the problem is this: History Reclaimed don’t know much about British colonialism. They’re not actually interested in it. They are a private company funded to prevent any truthful examination of the past that might challenge a right wing, white-centred version of the national story.

i'm actually struck by how pete hegseth isn't just a cowardly man but a capital-c Coward. a guy who gets off on abusing and hurting people he thinks are weaker than him and then tries to run and hide when there might be consequences

“Color revolution” refers to pro-democracy protests that overthrow authoritarian governments, and it’s Putin’s personal boogeyman.

It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

It seems there are three, and only three, crimes in America: Being poor Being brown-skinned Resisting Trump C’est tout.

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

I heard there was a secret verse That David used to make AI worse But you don't really want to pub that, do ya

Op het #Malieveld staan zo’n honderd rolstoelen, die nog vele mensen meer vertegenwoordigen die er niet bij kunnen zijn. Ze zijn ernstig, langdurig ziek. Online volgen ze alles. Ik sta er voor hen. #PAISprotest #NietHersteld #LiefdeVoorCéline

Ah, the techno-politics of the railway gauge is back... Check out a short version of the long history here: www.inventingeurope.eu/governance/c...

Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:

1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

fuck everyone involved in this decision. scum.

tv teachers! teachable overview-y piece about the history of television and gender / domesticity? covering soap operas+ a little industrial history, as well as a little more theory synthesis about femininity and tv as the presumed aesthetic inferior to cinema?

I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.

I remain convinced DOGE was a massive, planetary scale data exfiltration scheme and that Palantir has it all now

En nog een: Vacature senior beleidsmedewerker media-technologie stichting democratie en media: sdm.nl/gezocht-seni...

Radio : nom féminin, mondes masculins. Déborah Gay. Presses Universitaires du Midi 2025. Coucou les réac', j'ai encore pensé à vous en lisant ce livre ! youtube.com/shorts/NaIBG...

Violating the First Amendment to hide the record of all their violations of the Fourth Amendment.

Editorial: 'Addressing the nation' by Kate Murphy &Kate Terkanian is available here:

Spotlight on #OpenAccess article: 'Mediating women: the International Council of Women and the rise of (trans)national broadcasting' Kristin Skoog & Alexander Badenoch (@alecbad.bsky.social) available here: doi.org/10.1080/0961...

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*. Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”

Trump is so far detached from reality it’s absurd. It’s past time to talk seriously about the 25th Amendment.

It gets lost in the shuffle, but the Speaker of the House is someone who, by all rights, should’ve had his career ended a decade ago by a Shreveport TV news investigative team.

Re: my earlier comments about not giving these fascists the benefit of the doubt. Can they be sued for destroying evidence?

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

AMEN. I actually cannot imagine doing scholarship without the play of language.

The authoritarian threat is serious, and people should take it seriously. AND the threat is under-resourced and full of incompetents who got their job because they put breaking the law for Trump above personal integrity or fear of consequences. Push the regime beyond its limits and it'll break.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

At this point, we have to consider whether a pandemic is their goal. Beyond RFK's eugenicist fantasies, a pandemic would offer pretext for various 'emergency powers' not to mention suspending elections, etc.

Makes me think of stories of German soldiers who went back as tourists to the cities they’d occupied in WWII, totally surprised at the locals who didn’t want to see them

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

🌍 42.5m refugees Over 70% of them are hosted by low- and middle-income countries. 🇬🇧 548k refugees = 0.78% of the UK population. It is not refugees who tear our country apart, it is the mainstreaming of far right policies. And that’s a risk to all of us. My letter to my MP. #asylum #Mahmood 🧵

The work that Jessica does here developing an idea of music as 'multimodal, multisensory' is SO philosophically important as people in that field CONTINUE to treat 'sound' or 'listening' as like uniquely auditory and ear-and-voice-based phenomena

Dressed up like you’re in patrol in Fallujah, passing some retired banker from Myers Park out to pick up birdseed.

Something centre-right journalists absolutely love is the "enrages environmentalists" framing It presents climate / enviro folks as irrational, salivating and constantly infuriated idiots, whereas 'centrist' pro-fossil politicians are Very Serious, level-headed Adults In The Room archive.ph/0PsH4

I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.

Thrilled that @marklewisohn.bsky.social has contributed this passionate, personal post to the CST series against the recent BBC Written Archives policy shifts. His cri de couer is directed squarely at those who came up with the changes. Please read and share widely. cstonline.net/defending-th...

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Absolutely this. (Barely) plausible deniability has greased every damn cog in the machine the drove us here.

A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.