On the National Day of Catalonia, explore Catalonia’s literature, history & identity with a free issue of Catalan Review, published for the North American Catalan Society. Available online at: bit.ly/CATR-36-1 #Catalan @wviestenz.bsky.social @berlihe.bsky.social

IMO the biggest differences between universities are: - does the library have books (not only digital subscriptions) and a budget - are there staff for support/admin work or is it someone’s second job - do students have time to study and faculty time to teach No big names or tech matter as much.

US Park Police now doing traffic stops in DC, and charged at me with a baton for filming closer than they liked

I often make this point but while we've all known for a while that this is what they wanted in the end, I think it is notable that high-level officials now across different branches of government are explicitly saying, straight up, that they want a military occupation of the United States

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CFP - Survival, Resistance, Rebirth - 20th International Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, The State University of New York at Buffalo, April 16-18, 2026. Paper and panel proposals due by 10/15/2025 @berlihe.bsky.social

the urge to be an authoritative interpreter of tech to your fellow benighted humanists is an essentially middle-management instinct

What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

Grok where are the snows of yesteryear

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

Imagine if projector salespeople told you projectors were great in the classroom not because they let everybody see an image better but rather because now every course could be about projectors, because projectors are the future and the time to opt out of talking about projectors all day has passed.

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Van Hollen details why he thinks the government of El Salvador is making a huge mistake in turning itself into a concentration camp for Trump

Sometimes you don't need a family office. You need a FAMILY office ... www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

you want to "prove" that birthright citizenship isn't what it has obviously meant for 157 years? go ahead. but don't pretend you aren't interested in this because daddy trump needs someone to give his prejudices a thin veneer of academic plausibility

Guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

I am going to lose my mind. Every previous coronavirus spilled over from animals. A novel virus has never leaked from a lab. Peak Ted Talk Brain to suggest that something *which has never happened* is the occam's razor explanation. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/b...

This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.

NEW: Friends of Neri Alvarado, rotting in a Salvadoran prison on Trump's orders, made a video highlighting his volunteer work helping neurodiverse children learn to swim. Neri was sent there after someone at ICE thought his autism awareness tattoo was a gang tattoo. Vid posted by Noah Lanard on X.

Setting books like The Great Gatsby as required reading risks turning young people against literature forever. If we are serious about instilling lifelong reading habits in our students, we must refrain from assigning any reading whatsoever in our classrooms

So on March 9, a French scientist, on a visa to attend a conference in Houston, was denied entry to the US and subsequently expelled because his phone had messages decrying scientific policies put forward by the Trump administration: www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Here's the full email about the classified and personnel records destruction, which just hit the public record in labor groups' litigation against the Trump admin. The groups say: "Defendants are, as this motion is being filed, destroying documents with potential pertinence to this litigation."

holy shit -- Trump was reading from a literal Tesla sales pitch, complete with pricing, during his White House event with Elon Musk. (Andrew Harnik/Getty)

AI is best understood as using as much electricity as a sovereign nation to recreate Amelia Bedelia

No veig el dia ni el mes, l’estació ni el temps, l’hora ni el punt. faberllull.cat/ca/residenci...

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the richest man in the world has decided that your kids don't deserve special education programs

In addition to being civic degenerates these people are in every case infantile, sloppy and incompetent. Grand flourishes of performative cruelty followed by entitled pleas of "I don't know how to do this. Can you help?"

Again, Twitter WON this case (decisively) at the district court level. The 9th Circuit made it clear that Twitter would win on appeal at oral args. And now it decided to just hand over $10 million to Trump. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/12/e...

If you think intellectual diversity requires including anti-intellectualism — liars, post-truth nihilists, archive destroying fascists, people opposed to the very foundation of free inquiry who would use the state to crush it — it’s past time to realize a version of the paradox of tolerance applies.

Part 3, in which AOC explains that the calls we have been making to members of Congress this week are having an impact on Republicans and Democrats alike. Don’t let up. Keep making noise.

ELON IS ALLOWED IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. NOT YOUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OR STUDENTS & PARENTS. I WILL BE BACK.

Musk’s coup really is just the reductio ad absurdum of the Bush-Obama education policy, where a 19 year old who can code is a more desirable outcome than all the accumulated knowledge of government, science, history, ethics, sociology, etc.

The guy overseeing USAID was identified two years ago as a Jan. 6 participant who entered the Capitol through a broken window. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

Donald Trump’s new State Department appointee.

Rubio's state dept appointee is a white supremacist and a misogynist. I remember not too long ago when a Republican who said this would be disqualified from high profile federal jobs forever.

I see there are also protests planned at the OPM (Office of Personnel Management) everyday this week, 7:30-8:30 a.m. Bring your megaphone.

Indivisible/MoveOn/WFP also promoted this protest at Treasury on Tuesday at 5 p.m., organized by what appears to be a new group supporting federal workers www.instagram.com/p/DFl2CETtrSy/

Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly

An EEOC admin. judge sent a fiery all-department email this AM alleging: 1. Trump's exec orders & instructions to target private citizens with them are illegal. 2. the judge had sent an earlier email with a similar tone yesterday that later vanished from their sent folder & colleagues' inboxes.

Great column from @brianbeutler.bsky.social -- the Democrats need to lead this fight, not wait for the public to catch up to what's going on. "Fear Itself" Is Palpable www.offmessage.net/p/fear-itsel...

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today: *Court injunction protecting USAID *Dems demand hearings on Musk's role *Someone introduce articles of impeachment *Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers *Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

Alice Weidel hört „Gedenkstunde für die Opfer des Nationsozialismus“ und verdreht direkt die Augen. 🙄 Und leugnet es dann live. Was für eine Szene. #miosga

"the US president is threatening expansionism while his car tycoon oligarch friend is allying with the German far right"

dude could get a swastika tattooed on his forehead and the NYT would run 1000 words speculating on his possible interest in Hinduism

quick q for any German politics experts: what kind of political actor tends to urge Germans not to feel guilty for the past?

In relatively short order we’re going to see MAGA rallies with throngs sieg-heiling Trump, and the excuse will be that it’s a “joke” about the time Elon did a totally innocent Transylvanian cavalry salute (or whatever they come up with) and the silly libs were all triggered.