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Assistant Director
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. Doctoral Candidate in English at UMass Amherst.
An Outlier in Irish Politics Has Become the Country’s President
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/w...
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An Outlier in Irish Politics Has Become the Country’s President
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/world/europe/ireland-president-catherine-connolly.html?smid=bs-share
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Looking forward to this on December 5 !
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We at
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are hiring!
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Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani
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Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani
Andrew Cuomo’s concession came as the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in the vote.
https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-0d39764944e7e55a7e26a988d4136a86?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>Andrew
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It’s now incumbent on all members of university communities to understand how the funding for institutions of higher ed works. This interview offers some insight into how complex these issues are and some strategies for protecting academic freedoms.
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Modern Language Association
7 months ago
We've put together a list of resources on legislative threats to higher ed. Visit the site for tips for NEH grantees, webinar recordings, tool kits, MLA statements, and more.
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Resources on Legislative Threats to Higher Education
The MLA is collaborating with other organizations, including PEN America’s Freedom to Learn Network, the ACLS, and the AAUP, to speak out against state and local encroachment on higher education and g...
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Advocacy/Resources-on-Legislative-Threats-to-Higher-Education
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@barackobama.bsky.social
calls on universities to remember that academic freedom might be a little more important than new wings and gymnasiums. 🩵
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WATCH: 'It's up to all of us to fix this,' Obama says about democracy
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
https://youtu.be/J48l41l94HQ
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jon ben-menachem
8 months ago
Princeton has announced that it is considering selling approximately $320 million of taxable bonds. The bonds are a way for the University to raise short-term funds. The major credit-rating agencies rate University bonds AAA, the highest level of creditworthiness.
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Princeton considers issuing bonds same day as federal government pauses grants
The University announced its consideration to sell approximately $320 million of taxable bonds on Tuesday, following a notification from government agencies about the suspension of research grants.
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-news-adpol-issuing-bonds-same-day-federal-government-pauses-grants
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Patrick Radden Keefe
8 months ago
Happy pub day to
@forestissacj.bsky.social
, whose new book GOOD TROUBLE tells the story of how the movement for Catholic civil rights in Northern Ireland was inspired and influenced by the civil rights movement in the U.S.
www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...
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As world commemorates Selma, Forest Issac Jones traces close links between the civil rights struggles in Derry and US
As the world commemorates the 60th anniversary of the seminal events at Selma a fascinating new study has cast fresh light on the affinities between the Civil Rights struggles in the United States and...
https://www.derryjournal.com/news/people/as-world-commemorates-selma-forest-issac-jones-traces-close-links-between-the-civil-rights-struggles-in-derry-and-alabama-5044078
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More good news today.
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I’m struck by criticisms of
@booker.senate.gov
’s record-breaking speech that it still isn’t “doing anything.” This cynicism, while justified, feels misdirected. I read the intention of the speech as a disruption and an acknowledgement that the Democratic Party is broken and has work to do. (1/3)
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Celeste Ng
8 months ago
Also? Really classy and thoughtful to thank the pages, door openers, and other staff.
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One thing about me is that I love a Democratic filibuster.
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Cory Booker: “You cannot lead the people, if you don’t love the people.”
@booker.senate.gov
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Elizabeth Warren
8 months ago
This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties. The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.
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Tufts PhD student on visa arrested by immigration authorities, school says
Rumeysa Ozturk is a Turkish national, according to her lawyer, Mahsa Khanbabai.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/tufts-phd-student-visa-arrested-immigration-authorities/story?id=120176245&cid=social_twitter_abcn
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this will be excellent!
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8 months ago
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Sarah J. Jackson
8 months ago
This is also true for womens/gender studies programs and student spaces like LGBTQ+ resource centers which arrived via not just scholarship but mass movements. While many programs and centers feel institutionalized now, attacks need to be historicized as attacks on the movements that birthed them.
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Sarah J. Jackson
8 months ago
For folks who don’t know, ethnic studies programs like African American/Africana Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicano Studies and the like come directly from civil right era campus activism. Attempts to disempower such programs should be framed as attacks on civil rights same as much else rn.
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Jonathan V. Last
8 months ago
Foreign students pay full tuition so that universities can give financial aid to students from the US.
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This is some dystopian capitalism.
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Joyce White Vance
8 months ago
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” ― George Orwell
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Beth Popp Berman
8 months ago
This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.
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AAUP
8 months ago
The assault on First Amendment rights being jointly committed by the federal government & Columbia University are an attack on all workers who dare to protest, speak out, or exercise their freedom of association under the US Constitution.
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In Shocking Move, Columbia University Fires Union President One Day Before Contract Negotiations Begin, in Further Crackdown on Free Speech - UAW | United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implem...
In the latest assault on First Amendment rights, Columbia University has expelled and fired Grant Miner, President of UAW Local 2710, which represents thousands of Columbia student workers.
https://uaw.org/in-shocking-move-columbia-university-fires-union-president-one-day-before-contract-negotiations-begin-in-further-crackdown-on-free-speech/
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Had the privilege of listening to
@markhennessy.bsky.social
speak today at
@gihnyu.bsky.social
about Common Ground from the
@irishtimes.com
. The project is an impressive display of journalism on an immensely complex topic, and I’m looking forward to reading more.
www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/
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Common Ground | Evolving Islands – Ireland & Britain | The Irish Times
A special Irish Times series exploring the complex relationship between the two islands, the nations within, their cultural and political differences and similarities and what the future lies.
https://www.irishtimes.com/common-ground/
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Imagine having this kind of entitlement.
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Adam Bonica
8 months ago
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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Not to be missed on April 18th at
@umasspress.bsky.social
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Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh, a chairde.
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Aoife Bhreatnach
8 months ago
I buy nearly everything Tramp publishes because they are my jam.
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Sophie Cooper
8 months ago
Striking that in Roald Dahl's open letter on the dangers of measles, he celebrates the American approach to measles immunisation and warns British parents that they are risking their children's lives and health.
www.immunize.org/clinical/vac...
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Measles: A Dangerous Illness | Immunize.org
In 1962, author Roald Dahl suffered a heartbreaking loss: the death of his 7-year-old daughter, Olivia, from complications of measles encephalitis.
https://www.immunize.org/clinical/vaccine-confidence/unprotected-people/story/measles-dangerous-illness-dahl/
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Working Class History
8 months ago
#OtD
12 Mar 1912 the Bread and Roses strike won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. More on the strike:
workingclasshistory.com/2018/12/02/e16-wo...
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Governor Tim Walz
8 months ago
Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.
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The Volatile Mermaid
8 months ago
Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.
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UCD Press
8 months ago
The vast accomplishments of modern Irish feminism would look very different without the courageous, yet often overlooked, efforts of Irishwomen United activists in the years following the Contraceptive Train. Out April Celebrating the journey continue on
#internationalwomensday2025
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Joy-Ann Reid
8 months ago
The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation.
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Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-federal-layoffs-c41ae32800a7f170484de79572543da2
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Michael Sainato
8 months ago
I spoke with Levin Kim, President of
@higheredlabor.bsky.social
and Todd Wolfson, President of
@aaup.bsky.social
about the chaos in higher education and research caused by the Trump Administration
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Chaos on campuses as schools warn Trump cuts could harm US ‘for decades’
President’s slashes to higher education institutions and research funding threaten US public health, workers say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/trump-universities-higher-education-cuts
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The New York Times
8 months ago
A federal judge reinstated Gwynne Wilcox, a Democratic member of the National Labor Relations Board, declaring that President Trump’s attempt to fire her was unlawful.
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Judge Reinstates NLRB Member Fired by Trump
The ruling, which the Trump administration immediately moved to appeal, was a rebuke of Mr. Trump’s expansive view of executive power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-nlrb-member-reinstated.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Ted Smyth
8 months ago
@kevinkenny.bsky.social
and I were delighted to be joined by 200 distinguished guests at Glucksman Ireland House Gala including NYU President Linda Mills, Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason, and Consul General Helena Nolan.
@gihnyu.bsky.social
@csmapnyu.org
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University College Dublin
8 months ago
👩🎓✍️ UCD Professor and Booker Prize winner Anne Enright is this year's recipient of the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters. Awarded by
@gihnyu.bsky.social
– the Centre for Irish and Irish-American Studies at New York University – the honour recognises the best in Irish literature and arts.
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Professor Anne Enright honoured with Seamus Heaney Award for Arts & Letters
https://www.ucd.ie/newsandopinion/news/2025/march/07/professoranneenrighthonouredwithseamusheaneyawardforartsletters/
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Some good news.
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@mayorwu.boston.gov
for the win.
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Dare I say, he’s better than Brando.
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KAMALA NATION
9 months ago
Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.
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Machine Pun Kelly
9 months ago
This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.
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The New York Times
9 months ago
A majority of New York City’s Commission on Gender Equity called on Friday for Mayor Eric Adams to resign if he does not lay out a strategy for defending transgender New Yorkers, women and immigrants against the Trump administration’s threats to those groups’ rights.
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Gender Equity Panel Members Tell Adams to Stand Up to Trump or Quit
Sixteen members of New York’s Gender Equity Commission called Mayor Eric Adams’s response to moves against women, immigrants and transgender people “weak and inadequate.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/nyregion/gender-equity-adams-resign.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Working Class History
9 months ago
#OtD
28 Feb 1969 Black Panthers held an armed protest at the Olympia, WA capitol in protest at state attempts to disarm them. Lawmakers rushed through a ban on carrying weapons, and the NRA didn't oppose it. Learn more about the Panthers in these books:
shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
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James Wilson
9 months ago
The White House has referred to Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister of ‘Great Britain and Ireland’.
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