In the US private equity has increasingly monopolized industries by buying many small local firms and rolling them into one larger firm, giving them power to simultaneously raise prices and lower quality, especially problematic in healthcare, linked to death. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The preliminary injunction is a major win for universities battling the administration’s campaign to force conservative ideological changes in exchange for federal funding." #highered #USA #academia www.latimes.com/california/s...

"'I lost my wife. I was impacted by the policies in the most horrible tragic way, and it is heavy. It is tough. But I have a purpose,' Ngumezi said. 'In order for me to give Porsha justice, I can’t stay silent.'” 19thnews.org/2025/11/gen-... #USA #abortion

✨ Adventure awaits in South Africa! ⛰️ From stunning coastlines to wildlife safaris and cultural experiences, Cape Town has so much to explore. Book your tours today and turn your #ICA26 trip into an unforgettable adventure. 🔗 kiffkombitours1.rezdy.com/catalog/6276...

After months of increasing grocery prices, Donald Trump is finally admitting he was wrong. Americans are literally paying the price for Trump's mistakes.

The latest files...do not alter the timeline of Trump’s relationship with Epstein as they do with those of Mandelson and Mountbatten-Windsor. But they do suggest #Epstein remained intently focused on Trump up until his arrest on federal sex-trafficking charges in 2019 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/w...

German defence minister Boris Pistorius said the Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine showed Moscow’s “contempt for humanity” and violated international law. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Jeffrey #Epstein advised Steve Bannon during 2018 pro-Trump media campaign. Text messages released by U.S. House show convicted sex offender coaching Maga influencer on political messaging. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

#Detroit ’s Reparations Task Force submitted its report of recommendations to the City Council. Key proposals include cash payments and housing grants, expanding African-centered education, firing “high-risk” police officers and ending water shutoffs. www.michiganpublic.org/social-justi...

Katie Wilson, a community organizer and first-time candidate who pushed for higher taxes on the wealthy, will be #Seattle ’s next mayor. Her election is a Pacific Coast victory for progressive Democrats that matches Zohran Mamdani’s rise in New York. #USA #elections www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. fellow. ... Any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.” www.science.org/content/arti...

Boebert is one of three Republican women in the U.S. House who have signed the petition which calls for a vote on a resolution demanding that the Justice Department within 30 days release all of its investigative files on #Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019. #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

#Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes. The university system will ban advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” without approval. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u... #USA #highered

Call for Proposals - November 15 Deadline for Brief Book Proposals for AEJMC @PeterLangGroup Scholarsourcing Series. View the full call here: higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AEJMC/680a77...

Application for the inaugural George R.R. Martin Summer Writing Workshop (fully funded) is OPEN: Mid-career journalists (full-time, freelance, current, past) who want to write a novel or fictional prose, please apply! www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ap...

🏆 ICA Award Nominations Are Open! Know someone who’s making a difference in our field? This is your chance to recognize their achievements and contributions. 👉 Submit your nominations today: buff.ly/1GGEiZv

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

Platforms need to recognize the performativity of violent language online rather than adopt a purely content-based interpretation, Penna finds, arguing for a coregulatory approach by public authorities, civil society and platform operators. #onlinehate globalresearchpublishing.com/wp-content/u...

In Ireland 45% of respondents have experienced #onlinehate due to identity or beliefs. Women were significantly more likely to receive online hate due to gender compared to men: 38% v 19%. Sexual minorities experienced higher levels of online hate than heterosexual people. www.dcu.ie/antibullying...

Mark your calendar: From 25 November to 10 December 2025, the 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence is putting a spotlight on digital violence. #NoExcuse #fightonlinehate #onlineabuse www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-d...

What would happen if tech companies treated #onlineabuse more like spam? This @penamerica.bsky.social report examines the pros, cons, and nuances involved in this proposal from technical and sociocultural standpoint, concluding with a detailed set of recommendations. pen.org/report/treat...

#DayoftheImprisonedWriter is nearly here! From 15 Nov–10 Dec, we’ll highlight four writers jailed for speaking out: Rory Branker, Yalqun Rozi, Mohamed Tadjadit and Mzia Amaglobeli. Join us to call for their release! #DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli

The longest government shutdown in history could conclude as soon as Wednesday, Day 43, with almost no one happy with the final result.

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"Congress should set a floor that allows for basic access to abortion in every state...Nearly every other high-income country in the world, including European countries with large Catholic populations, provides this access, often with public funding." #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

🌸✨ feminist media studies continues to grow! ✨🌸 in Q3 2025 alone, articles from feminist media studies were downloaded 176,124 times — bringing us to 650,900 total downloads so far this year!

!! New article coming soon !! “Archiving Digital Activism Against Sexual Violence: The Challenges for Ethical Witnessing in Research Practice” by Kaitlynn Mendes et al. -Explores how researchers can ethically engage with and preserve digital activism against sexual violence. Contact: [email protected]

"Bachmann was a compulsive crosser of national if not linguistic borders... Even escaping her own dialect of Austrian German proved difficult. In neither Rome nor Berlin nor Cambridge could she leave the native country of her mother tongue" #Austria #USA www.thenation.com/article/cult...

"House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein sent messages to his longtime confidante Ghislaine Maxwell and the author Michael Wolff suggesting that Donald J. Trump knew more about the convicted sex offender’s abuse than he had acknowledged." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

DTE looks to fast-track OpenAI facility, while environmental advocates raise alarms over utilities’ plans to build more gas plants to meet massive energy needs of data centers: planetdetroit.org/2025/11/dte-...

After being sworn in today, Grijalva has pledged to add her name—providing the last necessary signature—to a bipartisan petition to force a vote on a measure demanding the Trump administration to release files on the investigation of deceased sex offender #Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

Discover ways to actively participate in #ICA26 beyond submitting your work — from volunteering opportunities to networking events, there’s a role for everyone! 🔗

House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which #Epstein wrote Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims, among other messages that suggested the convicted sex offender believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

"McBride said that Spanberger’s victory showed the efficacy of keeping the conversation specific to the community and showed how the GOP’s anti-trans attacks are an attempt at division as well as a diversion from issues that voters rank more important like the economy." 19thnews.org/2025/11/elec...

“There’s a huge demand by the public for a tax on billionaires.” Wealth taxes were popular in Europe before: 12 countries had versions in 1990, although in many — including #Germany, Sweden, Denmark, #Austria, Finland, Luxembourg — the taxes were later repealed. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

And that same university president has been eager to comply with Indiana's new state legislation around "intellectual diversity," including by forwarding anonymous student complaints to the state and punishing the faculty members targeted with those complaints. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

The highly anticipated Wicked: For Good is set to release November 21, 2025 following the massive success of the previous film in the franchise, “Wicked”. The film follows up after the the separation of Elphaba and Glinda, showing their paths crossing once more in order to protect OZ. #com2100T

The number of married same-sex couples in the United States doubled in the last decade to 774,000, according to government data. #LGBTQ #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

With yet another liberal woman prematurely departing Swedish politics, we need to be clear about what is happening: #women are being chased out of public life by unconstrained hate groups, #onlinetrolls and far-right extremism. In one of the strongest democracies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This sounds intriguing: Algorithms and AI through the lens of tracing "genealogical connections between historical plantation technologies and current machine learning". Guest talk by Dr. Shaka McGlotten on Thu, Dec. 4, 12:30 pm at Lawrence Technological University. #Detroit ltu.edu/academics-ca...

Der Frauenmachtanteil im Journalismus in Deutschland sinkt nach 10 Jahren positiver Entwicklung das zweite Jahr in Folge auf knapp 38%. Besonders abgeschlagen: Regionalzeitungen und Onlinemedien, mit Anteilen von knapp 20% und darunter. Neue Studie von ProQuote: www.pro-quote.de/onlinemedien...

“This is something I experienced as a woman, but it is something that all women in our country experience. If I don’t file a complaint, where does that leave all Mexican women? If they do this to the president, what happens to all the other women in the country?” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Lidl lohnt sich – für rechte Influencer. Kanäle mit rechtspopulistischen Inhalten profitieren von der Werbung großer Marken. Die könnten eingreifen, tun das oft aber nicht. taz.de/Lidl-Aldi-Am...

Cornell is expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government—a pledge the president of a Cornell faculty rights group called a “bribe”—and to invest $30 million on programs designed to enhance efficiency and lower costs in agriculture and farming. #USA #highered www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Mr. Dunn told reporters outside the courtroom after his acquittal that on the night he let the sandwich fly, he believed he was doing so in defense of immigrants, as a knot of federal agents gathered nearby. “Every life matters no matter where you come from." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

The Trump Administration and its Republican allies are now engaged in a concerted effort to return the United States to the landscape that preceded them, Jelani Cobb writes. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/voting-rights-and-immigration-under-attack

NEW: Following a ProPublica investigation, more than two dozen House Democrats are pressing the Trump administration to reverse a new Department of Veterans Affairs policy that makes it harder for male veterans with breast cancer to get health coverage.

"Parise and more than a half-dozen neighbors underscored in interviews that federal agents have been the catalyst for chaos and clashes." #USA #Chicago www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... #com2100t #featurestoryexample

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