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To the 300 Northwestern students refusing to watch US-Israeli propaganda: I applaud your integrity & critical analysis. I may not be able to teach & you may not be able to learn on campus. But we WILL teach & learn throughout the world to make a better future 👊🏾 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I got blood tests the other day during a flare that showed my kidney function had dropped significantly and my creatinine levels were high. I wrote to my rheum to let her know I wasn't dehydrated when I got the test. She basically responds "your tests are normal and I'm charging you for this email."

Wow — Italy and Spain have now both officially announced they're sending military ships to support the Gaza aid flotilla

This is getting interesting. If Israel attacks the Italian ship, NATO must invoke Article V and defend Italy against its aggressor, Israel www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

Glad Science collected this data (though the results are entirely unsurprising). GenAI cannot accurately summarize scientific papers, sacrificing accuracy for simplicity. And shame on publishers who are pushing genAI summaries on readers. Great way to accelerate an epistemic apocalypse.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Senators of conscience. Love seeing VT and OR represented (not surprised about Wyden not being on the list, but disappointed in him as a fellow Jew and Oregonian).

🧵Yesterday, we had an all day reference/instruction planning meeting for the start of the term & my boss (the Dean) was saying some really smart things about capacity and not taking on too much when another colleague disagreed with her. She said that when we're excited about a project, our capacity

Berkeley was already on my list of places I would refuse to pay for my son to attend (along with Harvard, UCLA, Columbia, NYU, Dartmouth, UPenn, Northwestern, etc.), but this really illustrates how readily schools like this will sell out their faculty and students. No sense of a duty of care at all.

PAs generally make minimum wage and have no union or organization to provide a safety net. Certainly all of the assistants are unlikely to have enough saved up to cope with a sudden cancellation or pause, nor could they line up a rescue gig.

There are 2 Black Democratic Senators….. Imagine going along with this.

Has anyone seen this before where a publisher charges a different amount for a print book based on whether an individual or a library is buying it. This seems pretty gross (esp for a collection of articles we already paid through with our Chronicle sub). 🤯 store.chronicle.com/products/und...

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

Thank you @jeffjarvis.bsky.social for saying this.

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

We are at the point where it takes longer for me to get in and see my general practitioner (3 months) a it takes to get in and see my very in-demand specialists. Called this morning and they were like "she can see you in mid-Dec." 🤯 Srsly thinking about going the spendy concierge medicine route.

The report issued Tuesday by experts commissioned by the United Nations' Human Rights Council calls on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible.

JD Vance wants to go after the Ford Foundation, eh? Interestingly, the Ford Foundation has long been in the crosshairs of the American far right for their supposed funding of "hateful, radical left, anti-white propaganda." Here's an example of that talk from the 1955 edition of The White Sentinel.

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

This has absolutely made my day. Somebody Somewhere was so real and beyond lovely and Jeff Hiller was incredible in it.

THIS is why you get the MMR vaccine. It's "rare" in no small part because everyone has been vaccinated. It'll become a lot less rare if people start getting infected with measles again.

Just had to get three skin biopsies in my lower back (really, my upper butt) and am wondering how I'm supposed to sit or lie down at all over the next week. I have an all day in-person meeting next week that I'm not sure I can make it through. This rash has been the gift that keeps on giving.

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

Mainstream pundits have instantly sanitized and ignored Charlie Kirk's core political project and its impacts. He has been remembered by the mainstream press as someone they merely disagreed with, a debate me-guy whose words and actions had zero consequences: www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

OPINION | Eric Adams is Doing Open Corruption the Right Way

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Spain’s PM Sánchez has imposed sweeping measures against Israel, including a total arms embargo, to “stop the Gaza genocide” and “support the Palestinian population.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tcopvq

Just went to a pretty interesting webinar about designing AI-resistant assignments for meaningful learning, but the instructor mentioned she uses AI for all her communication but doesn't disclose that to students. How can you do that while talking about students being transparent about AI usage?

conversely, it should tell you something when CA and former CA residents are telling you NOT THIS GUY while Vote Blues are astroturfing the shit out of him "oh so you want the GOP to win?" no, we want someone who won't throw trans kids away while he's losing to the GOP candidate.

A perfect afternoon in Astoria.

This is real, somehow

Remember when record labels bankrupted teenagers for downloading Metallica?

An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

If you have thoughts on this or how what’s happening with the IMLS is impacting your work, message me here or on Signal (rstauff.20). Trying to dig into some potential related reporting and would love to hear from folks who are working in these fields/are impacted.

Hello, I'm Head CBS News Person Bari Weiss. My top story tonight is that I have been silenced by cancel culture. Your TVs have been jammed and you can't change the channel. That's to prevent the Woke Left from silencing me. Our top story tomorrow will be that I am being silenced by cancel culture.

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Why I didn't go to my high school reunion over the summer, though I really missed my pals. "That vulnerable people, such as newborns and the immunocompromised, may be unnecessarily exposed to vaccine-preventable, life-threatening diseases is just 'part of the experience of life,' Ladapo claimed."

Really hoping they hurry on this! "The governors of Oregon, Washington and California said Wednesday they’re forming a coalition to establish their own vaccine and immunization recommendations."

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

40% of Republicans think the COVID vaccine killed more people than the COVID virus. One in four believe that QAnon is real. No matter how far they radicalize, we are told over and over again that the people being rude to them are the problem.

For those of us with chronic illnesses worsened by stress, it is a terrible second full time job.

A good Fall reminder: "If you feel like you’re overworking, that you can’t slow down when you need rest, if you feel guilty for taking sick days when you need them, if you rely on getting things done for your self-worth, it’s worth interrogating the stories you tell about yourself and your work."

This is a law that will only cause more deaths by suicide.

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