Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Lots of good quotes here, and I think if anything good comes out of this awfulness it will perhaps be academics rethinking our reflexive obeisance to prestige and wealth. "...the notion of the meritocracy is completely revealed to be gendered bullshit.” - @dannagal.bsky.social

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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development

How much did the government spend on this horrible fucking ad?

You still have time to apply if you are interested in joining my lab!!

nevermind spanish, some of you have three days to learn how to dance

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?" Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

I think the lesson for the Trump administration is they did not have to change the law, or win a court case, to get universities to do what they wanted.

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This is our government now donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

"internal bleeding"

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AOC: What we saw today was a horrific act of violence. What we have seen and are now seeing is that ICE has not just become an anti-immigrant force—it is becoming an anti-civilian, paramilitary organization. People are being taken off the streets for exercising their free speech rights.

Its...not an unreasonable question to ask who is running a country of 30 million people after you kidnapped its President. Its not a gotcha or optics, its pretty important.

Uh wtf

The "Hard Truth" about how hard it is to publish in Development. We wrote this to really drive the point that we are a discerning community journal, and we really want to publish your best developmental and stem cell biology contributions. journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

one great thing about generally ignoring Jordan Peterson is on the occasions when he does crest the timeline you go oh wow, somehow he looks even worse, even death has rejected him and his decay is eternal

OMG Is today festivus? It is !!!

And she assumed it would be easy because it was a topic she had an opinion on and so did not need to do any research. This is the epistemic world view of the ignorant, and, apparently OU leadership.

They say it is unethical, because it is unethical.

Great piece about my dear friend Melissa Hortman. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Simply outrageous!

@jeneyer.bsky.social and Cynthia Harrison (www.votecynthiaharrison.com) have put forward a resolution to codify the removal of the signs and put a timeline on the work!

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

This guy gets it:

Got to admit this was funny, Spotify. Anyway, get in touch if you ever decide to stop ICE advertisements.

Taking apart the racist "Tough on Crime" Neighborhood Watch program is far from over--going to the National Neighborhood Watch Find a Watch Program (nnw.org/find-a-watch...) still lists over 2400 program nationwide, and surely many of them similarly have signs that should be removed.

In 2020, I started to run every street in Ann Arbor and noticed the Neighborhood Watch signs around town. I was curious and learned that they came out of the 1994 Crime Bill effort for "community policing", and are part of a deeply racist tradition that aims to exclude people that "don't belong".

Who has made this 🤣

Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S.

I love whenever articles like this are all “SEE THE UNREASONABLE ANGRY DEMANDS OF THIS SJW TEACHER” and the teacher’s comment are always “please actually cite sources and try not to call your classmates demonic”

Look forward to Bari Weiss asking "has identity politics gone too far?" while studiously ignoring the most virulent identity politics driving American government

People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.

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Get him a Yerba mate!

My quote of the day Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons. Travis Bradberry

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

The senate dems are about to embarrass themselves and us AGAIN! I hope these reports are not true.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"