Cornell's president, who has precisely zero scholarly expertise in the area, has previously remarked that the course takes "a radical, factually inaccurate, and biased view of the formation of the state of Israel and the ongoing conflict." www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Pretty notable that senior Cornell officials refused to comment for the story and the student aka former member of Israeli military intelligence refused to allow the tapes he had made to be heard by reporters (hmmm, maybe because they aren't so damning after all?).

At Cornell, the Dean broke policy and ignored the disciplinary committee's findings that there wasn't evidence of discrimination, and forwarded the complaint to the Provost anyway. The Provost then opened an investigation.

The whole outrageous story: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

To get to "the DLC/Clintonites were geniuses who proved corporatism is how Dems can now win elections," you must pretend Perot didn't exist (he did), Clinton ever won a majority of the national vote (he didn't), and Americans aren’t now enraged at the corporatism ruining their lives (they are).

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

The Department of Labor has released its plan in the event of a government shutdown. Key takeaway for econ data: There will NOT be a jobs report on Friday (or any subsequent data releases) if funding isn't restored in time. #NumbersDay #EconSky www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov...

Interesting to note that the coal industry in the U.S. employs just a tad over 40,000 people, according to the BLS. The same source tells us that 64,000 people work at wineries.

The suspect, Thomas Sanford, seemed to own Donald Trump memorabilia, with a campaign sign outside his house and a Facebook photo wearing a shirt that reads “Re-elect Trump 2020,” and “Make liberals cry again.” However, local authorities and the FBI have not yet identified a motive. trib.al/0UwICcz

Reminder: In his first term, President Trump ordered his then Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protestors. ht: @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social

“CBS shifts to appease the right under new owner,” David Ellison, the “son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, one of the richest people in the world & a vocal backer of…Trump.” 9/12/25 (Larry Ellison has also been identified as a prospective TikTok buyer, along with a16z aka Andreessen Horowitz.) 1/

No wonder Netanyahu is so happy about Larry Ellison’s pending acquisition of TikTok. It seems the two men are close. Article below from 2021. 1/ www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-on...

Coal is "out of fashion w the Chardonnay set"? Okay. Here's the Texas State Comptroller:

The self-pity in this set of paragraphs is remarkable.

Of course — “Bessent’s announcement had massive economic benefits for billionaire hedge fund manager Rob Citrone, who placed large bets on the Argentine economy... a friend and former colleague of Bessent, who helped make Bessent very wealthy.” popular.info/p/trumps-arg...

"Citrone, the co-founder of Discovery Capital Management, is also a friend and former colleague of Bessent—a fact that has not been previously reported in American media outlets. Citrone, by his own account, helped make Bessent very wealthy."

THE MEME IS REAL

When Trump calls climate change a "con job," he is representing his fossil fuel billionaire friends, not science.   Climate change is REAL. It is an existential threat to the planet and future generations. We must transform our energy systems away from fossil fuels.

Trump’s political prosecutions require members of the public—specifically jurors—to go along with him. Every time Trump wants to prosecute one of his political enemies, the people should say: no. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

At this time there are no further takedown options available. We’re also in discussions with the hosting provider and will continue to monitor the situation and keep you posted. Special thanks to ICANN, Namecheap, and GoDaddy for taking this seriously.

Thanks everyone for taking action! Five websites and one app have been taken down. We just received a response with new details: while a site that was doxxing people wasn’t fully removed, the doxxing content has been taken down so the site remains compliant with its registrar.

The worst cases of Labour Brain on display here. These people are so deeply unpleasant and their strategy to beat a growing progressive party is basically to be even bigger arseholes than they are already.

From someone wildly transphobic who's had multiple public tantrums and lost their seat to a genuinely likeable, inclusive, queer Green candidate... it's almost funny.

Ireland’s natural environment in ‘very poor’ condition, EU analysis finds

Time to update your Palaeolithic palettes... 🔵 Very proud to share our new research on the OLDEST use of blue pigment! We identified traces of azurite - a vibrant blue mineral - on a stone object around 14-13,000 years old. Why is this so exciting? 👇🏺 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

“In 2023, cars and their drivers killed 8,820 American pedestrians and bicyclists — 7,314 pedestrians and 1,166 cyclists. They injured another 136,281, an increase of over 5,300 injuries from 2022.” Put the responsibility where it belongs. Via @jalopnik.bsky.social www.jalopnik.com/1979666/defe...

Similarly, natural gas is often described as using less water for extraction than other fossil fuels. But this ignores the amount of water left so polluted by processes like fracking that it's unusable for drinking or irrigation. @oilfieldwitness.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2023/10/31/t...

Methane from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire US buildings and agriculture sectors. It has surged since ~2007 when the fracking boom began. Nations who are considering importing US natural gas should think carefully about its underestimated climate impacts.

The white cloud here is water vapor condensing out of the air as the (invisible) pressurized methane in the pipeline expands and cools. Methane leaks (and intentional venting) happen all the time. They make natural gas far worse for climate than it appears when looking only at CO2 from combustion.

This semester's seminar series will begin in a few weeks! All are very welcome to join us in person (27 University Square, QUB) or online. For more information, stay tuned to the USIHS Bluesky or head to our website usihs36.com

Our first seminar will be Seán Ó Hoireabhárd (Maynooth University), When Ulster became Ulster and Meath became Meath: The divorce of the Northern and Southern Uí Néill in the Central Middle Ages. Sign up here! www.eventbrite.ie/e/usihs-semi... @hoireabhard.bsky.social @irishhistsoc.bsky.social

‘Some big polluter is breathing sigh of relief’: Questions remain over Blackwater fish kill Inconclusive report must not be last word on devastating incident. www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

The Trump regime is spinning the horrific attack on the Mormon church as anti-Christian terrorism, but the guy who did it thought the LDS church was the antichrist, a Christian concept.

BREAKING A federal judge found it "appears ... that multiple employees of the Department of Justice may have violated" local rules in SDNY guaranteeing Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial. Full order here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The video I filmed of an ICE agent shoving a woman to the ground at 26 Federal Plaza, a New York City immigration courthouse, went viral. Then, in a rare move, the government publicly reprimanded the officer, calling his actions “unacceptable.” By @tilleckert.com

You can do it entirely without confrontation, any woman who survived junior high can tell you how to do this. Make them entirely unwelcome and deeply judged without uttering a word. Freeze out ICE.

Disinvite them from the tailgate. Do not go to the baby shower. Call out their bullshit on Facebook. Do not just purse your lips and nod politely. Ostracize the living shit out of them. Leave their church potluck casserole untouched. These people are extremely vulnerable to social shame.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

The sound works. This is great.

The difference, in so far as there is one on the question of Palestine, between the likes of Golan/Lapid, Bennett/Gantz, and Smotrich/Ben-Gvir is *how* Jewish supremacism as a political and legal system ought to be implemented, not *whether* there ought to be a system of supremacism at all.

This went a little viral, and quite a few people don’t understand that people like me aren’t against driving and want to eliminate cars altogether. We want a more balanced system that allows various choices, including driving. Now there’s basically no other choice except driving. It’s not that hard

By investing huge amounts of money on car infrastructure and underinvesting in everything else, the government is basically creating another tax: you need a car to participate in society. It’s another cost that the government forces you to incur due to its transportation and land use decisions

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A new email to Director Bhattacharya this morning. 1/n

ICE brutally detains U.S. citizen just for filming—knocking her unconscious. "Agents took her to a side alley, beat her up, then called an ambulance," witness said. "Then they kidnapped her from the hospital—without a formal discharge—and took her to Downtown LA Detention Center."

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus