Amazon’s BR-319 highway, a road to division. www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

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"What might result from the refashioning of our sensorium, as we rehabituate ourselves to the gentle hum of electric motors rather than the roar of engines? To the absence of the smell of gasoline? Might those experiences be the first steps towards decarbonization?"

truly, it is an unforgivable outrage how much of our sensoria we have ceded to the internal-combustion motor

It was liberation theology priests in Latin America that let me let go of my anger at Christianity after my apostasy - that let me see that there were people who followed the example of the Christ I still respected, even if I did not call him God. I'm always glad to see the tradition maintained.

I was thinking about my answer to Erin more and ofc the other things going on here are SK dared to puncture American exceptionalism, and was right at the wrong time. The wrong kind of messenger can pretty much never bear this sort of msg and be acknowledged for it

Happening Now: 100+ people rally outside of Apollo Management Group headquartered in NYC to protest its CEO Marc Rowan, the conservative billionaire behind Trump's Higher Ed compact deal that undermines universities ‼️

this essay is a true cheat code for "western civilization" IMO

NEW: @govpritzker.illinois.gov's office says 3 masked ICE agents stopped & questioned an IL Department of Transportation employee working in Park Ridge about his immigration status & whether he had traveled to New York and his awareness of NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social before leaving.

DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Targets Van Nuys and Panorama City, Snatching Street Vendors, Pedestrians, and Day Laborers Again Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-n...

Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...

James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, and one of the worst people who ever lived, is dead at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

This alum is sorry to see this outcome, but grateful to @cornellaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org for all they're doing

BREAKING: Following trial, Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, finds that Trump did not properly invoke federal law to call up the National Guard and "permanently enjoins Defendants’ orders to deploy federalized members of the National Guard to Oregon."

Of course @lataco.bsky.social @shoton35mm.bsky.social has the definitive account of what unfolded before and after Saturday’s victory — which illustrates over and over again how LA is completely unprepared to handle celebrating fans

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

170+ (and counting) law faculty from all 5 UC law schools join a letter detailing why the Trump Admin demands to UCLA are unlawful and wrong. cc @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @uofcalifornia.bsky.social #StandUpforUC

Do you have footage of the LA ICE protests, the wildfire mutual aid mobilization, or recent strikes in LA? Would love to use it for a campaign video for a progressive candidate for mayor!

Search request support for archive, vinyl, history, radio, physical media posse: See this 1971 KGIL earthquake reporting record? Seeking similar albums & striking out using words like live news broadcast, disasters, emergencies, etc. What terms would you search for? (Or do you have album recs?!)

We love the cover too! That’s an anonymous European red deer being transported from the Southern Alps of New Zealand by helicopter for the venison industry, c. 1970s. The photographer, Bryan Bassett-Smith has lots of harrowing stories involving tranquilizers, deer, helicopters

The Wall of Moms rises again

This morning, in Broadview, 14 suburban women were arrested during an act of civil disobedience calling for an end to ICE/CBP’s kidnappings throughout the Chicago area. “We want to encourage other people who feel strongly about ICE’s actions to step off the sidelines and take our cities back.”

🎷Get up and get down for higher ed 🎷 Our coalition rejects the compact! We believe that higher education should be free from partisan interference and billionaire influence including that of Marc Rowan, who spearheaded Trump’s dangerous loyalty oath compact! @aft.org

NEWS: In its appeal of the district court's order that November SNAP benefits be fully paid out by today, DOJ this morning asked for an administrative stay or stay by 4p today. The plaintiffs just filed their opposition. Now, we wait on the First Circuit.

The real welfare dependency

Cornell has agreed to pay a 60M$ bribe to unlock illegitimately withheld funds.

Who is someone who does old school operations research on public agencies in the US?

*Globalizing Wildlife*, a book edited by @vbateman.bsky.social, Tom Quick, and myself, is now available for pre-order with @uncpress.bsky.social! Using code 01SOCIAL30 at checkout, you can save 30% www.uncpress.org/book/9781469...

I've got a chapter in here about otter conservation, juxtaposing the free movement of consumer goods and fossil fuel with otter containment in coastal California, but also--wow what a cover!!

The Globalizing Wildlife volume emerging from the Moving Animals project is out soon. I was a great experience to contribute a chapter on #brownbear diplomacy during Cold War 🐻. Check out the details below 👇

Help fight the closure of geography at Leicester. Solidarity with all combatting this

People could take an electric train from downtown, which went down Woodrow St. where it terminated at this blufftop view point called the Vue de L’Eau, “view of the water.” Long before cars, this was where locals came to watch the surf crash.

i see other people also think we need a labor press (in re Teen Vogue) One reason we are where we are is that the FCC declared labor-perspective radio stations to be special-interest "propaganda" uses of the airwaves, nearly a century ago; while nat'l commercial b'casting was proclaimed "neutral"

I'm still appalled that he was high up on the ticket saying this and others in the party did not take this note, in fact ran the other way. Looking at you, Newsom, ofc

if your institution is being assaulted by assclowns and your impulse is to respond to this by taking the assault's demands seriously and throwing your faculty, staff, and students under the bus, you have a bigger problem than being assaulted by assclowns sigh

"don't let ezra klein analyze what happened" from his lips to gods' ears

maybe everyone else already figured this out but it just occurred to me...

it would be nice to see higher ed leadership take a lesson from last night that they don't have to bend over backward in fascist appeasement. am thinking about the compact rejection by several unis as an early indicator of election result, maybe--but a lot of unis are doing repressive things anyway

i am guessing that 12 hours later this has held up relatively well

this person is the mayor of new york city! what a day

i keep seeing posts that say "now maybe tomorrow the mainstream commercial media will wake up about fascists and whether they have a mandate" and while i'd love to be wrong, i don't think this is how this will work. we have a long road ahead *wins will be in spite of them*

This is the line

i am thinking of various ~MENA-background friends and comrades whose community members and families have been visited by the FBI, interrogated, etc., since 9/11 and just wanted to send ❤️ on this day

what's giuliani doing right now??

His Nani must be so proud www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVs...

starting to get a little worried about what a certain someone will do to distract from this set of results

so, so many universities* want to *administrators, boards of trustees