Rick Halpern
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Historian, Author, Cook, Photographer, critical thinker. photos:
http://500px.com/p/ucrahex
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Caleb Ward
about 2 months ago
I've also deleted my academia-dot-edu account. Find all my papers as free PDFs (and apparently a zoomed in picture of my mug) at
www.calebward.xyz
Please spread the word to your colleagues about the academia scam, also those who are not as online as we are.
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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOEās Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/judith-butler-letter-uc-berkeley/
about 2 months ago
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Tom Nichols
about 2 months ago
Nothing at Fox is fireable
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It's 11 September again, and let's not forget that other world historic event that shaped the late 20th century and the early 21st. Remember, another world is possible -- that is a vital thought for these times.
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Opinion | āProfound and Abiding Rageā: Canadaās Answer to Americaās Abandonment
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/opinion/canada-america-allies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
2 months ago
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Ballston Beach, again
3 months ago
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The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of ālecturersā: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-university-started-long-before-trump/
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Kara N. Slade
3 months ago
I didnāt know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.
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Storm Clouds Over Ballston
3 months ago
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Longnook at its sublime best this morning!
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Karl Jacoby
4 months ago
"The Columbia University Board of Trusteesā concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat." National AAUP Statement on Columbia
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Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster
Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...
https://www.aaup.org/news/columbia-university-settlement-unprecedented-disaster
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Bret Stephensās Recent Attack on the āGenocideā Charge Is Both Stupid and Immoral ā Democracy in Dark Times
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Bret Stephensās Recent Attack on the āGenocideā Charge Is Both Stupid and Immoral
Thursday, July 24, 2025 Last week theĀ New York TimesĀ published a powerful op-ed by Omer Bartov, the distinguished scholar of the Holocaust, entitled āIām a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See Itā¦
https://jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/bret-stephenss-recent-attack-on-the-genocide-charge-is-both-stupid-and-immoral/
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Balkinization: Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Ed
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
https://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
4 months ago
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My view today. Not a bad midsummer post
4 months ago
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Editorial | Penn descends into fascism
The Daily Pennsylvanian Summer Editorial Board argues that Pennās concessions to the Trump administration set a dangerous precedent for academic freedom.
http://www.thedp.com/article/2025/07/editorial-penn-descends-into-fascism
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George Conway šŗšøš«ššø
5 months ago
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Stefan Kipfer
5 months ago
Among the many benefits of bike lines: fewer accidents, effective mobility, more cycling, boosted transportation equity for those without cars. From the York U team Mahtot Gebresselassie, Joanna Silva, and Steven Lum.
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Why bike lanes should remain on Ontarioās roads
Efforts to remove bike lanes in Toronto could result in more injuries and make transportation more challenging for people.
https://theconversation.com/why-bike-lanes-should-remain-on-ontarios-roads-249150
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Bruce Dorsey
5 months ago
Truly one of a kind. Sly's music lives on!
www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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Sly Stone, Family Stone Architect Who Fused Funk, Rock, and Soul, Dead at 82
Sly Stone, the wildly inventive musician and head of Sly & the Family Stone who fused rock, funk and soul, has died at age 82.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sly-and-the-family-stone-dead-obituary-1234810064/
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
5 months ago
This is really, really bad. They shouldn't be deploying the Marines, and doing so without clear orders is incomprehensible.
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Paul Cohen
5 months ago
they want to turn LA into 1972 Derry, Portland into 1956 Algiers, and New York into 1989 Beijing
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Regina Schrambling
6 months ago
Todayās NYT euphemism for ālied,ā in South Africa story, is āmade debunked claims.ā
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Jon Cooper
6 months ago
Patrick Gaspard was the U.S. ambassador to South Africa from 2013 to 2016. šŗšø šæš¦
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Union Square
#streetphotography
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Walking the Dog
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Butcher, Muslim Quarter, Xiāan
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Streetcar Series
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Marisa Kabas
6 months ago
Disappearing an elected official.
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Joanne Freeman
6 months ago
The Library of Congress is a research library. The Congressional Research Service researches for Congress. Scholars & researchers apply for passes to research. NO childrenās section. Even the general public has very limited access.
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Revolution's Newsstand
6 months ago
'Dark Towns' by Mary Heaton Vorse from Men and Steel. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York. 1920. A chapter from Vorseās marvelous book on the Steel Strike of 1919 sees her travel with Mother Jones through the Steubenville, Ohio area.
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āDark Townsā by Mary Heaton Vorse from Men and Steel. Boni and Liveright Publishers, New York. 1920.
Mingo Junction, just south of Steubenville. A chapter from legendary labor reporter Mary Heaton Vorseās marvelous book on the Great Steel Strike of 1919 sees her travel with Mother Jones through thā¦
https://revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/05/07/dark-towns-by-mary-heaton-vorse-from-men-and-steel-boni-and-liveright-publishers-new-york-1920/
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4 May. We remember: Allison Krause Jeffrey Miller Sandra Scheuer William Schroeder.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
6 months ago
We have to reject bad-faith framing: this is not some grassroots organization of students who are dissatisfied, itās a well-connected and extremely well-funded coalition of folks who look down on academiaās role in society and hate its influence and perceived power.
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Jordan T. Camp
6 months ago
Listen to the newest episode of conjuncture in which geographer Hashem Abushama discusses Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, and conjunctural analysis with
@cheatherton.bsky.social
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@antipodeonline.bsky.social
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trinitysocialjustice.com/palestine-is...
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Emerging From a Collective Silence, Universities Organize to Fight Trump
A recent group statement showed that the nationās academic leaders, at first reluctant to oppose the presidentās moves, are beginning to unite.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/trump-university-presidents.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
7 months ago
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Brace yourselves
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7 months ago
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WATCH: Trump Turned on Canada Again Yesterday, And It Backfired Spectacularly
Trump Says Canada Doesnāt Work ā But the Facts Say Canadians are Smarter, Richer and Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier Lives - Trump is Full of S***
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanblundell/p/watch-trump-turned-on-canada-again?r=j3ati
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Losing DOJās Civil Rights Division
On Tuesday, Reuters reported that leadership at the Department of Justice has reassigned āabout a dozen senior career attorneysā in the Civil Rights Division to perform perfunctory tasks usually assig...
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/losing-dojs-civil-rights-division?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=mm6&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Trump's Loss, Toronto's Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north - Toronto Life
Theyāre coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage...
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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
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Opinion | How I Describe Myself Politically These Days
America needs to figure out how to dominate the industries of the future. Call me a āWaymo Democrat.ā
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/waymo-democrat-advanced-manufacturing.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Opinion | The Very American Roots of Trumpism
The historian Steven Hahn puts Trumpism in the context of Americaās long history of illiberalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-steven-hahn.html?smid=bsky-nytopinion
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Steve Kantrowitz
7 months ago
Ezra's opening started in on illiberalism and I thought "yeah fine, but maybe he should have Steve Hahn on to talk about this" so apologies to the dogwalkers terrified by my sudden cackle when he introduced his guest.
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Opinion | Keeping Trumpās Authoritarian Fantasy From Becoming Our Reality
Trump wants you to think resistance is futile. It is not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/opinion/trump-van-hollen-abrego-garcia.html
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Noel Dickover
7 months ago
#academicsky
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Marianne Piano
7 months ago
This is a tiny obscure corner but a very, very visible one online.
#academicsky
#edusky
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Robert L. Tsai
7 months ago
Harvard goes on offense
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Harvard University Sues Trump Administration (Gift Article)
Harvardās lawsuit comes after the administration sought to force the university to comply with a list of demands by cutting billions in federal funding the school receives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/us/harvard-lawsuit-trump-administration.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU8.CFUu.CJqCTmMR10E8&smid=bs-share
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Inside Higher Ed
7 months ago
What We've Learned So Far From Tracking Student Visa Data More than 1,500 students from nearly 250 colleges have had their visas revoked, but who they areāand why theyāve been targetedāis still largely unknown.
#HigherEd
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Five Key Takeaways From Tracking Student Visa Revocations
More than 1,500 students from nearly 250 colleges have had their visas revoked, but who they areāand why theyāve been targetedāis still largely unknown.
https://bit.ly/4k2h0Cn
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