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That characterization contains a presupposition or three!

And what they've suggested to replace it - White Bro studies for some and vocational training to sort out the plumbers from the prisoners in elementary school (exactly the stupid nightmare they made up about the USSR).

Yes. Of course Right Wing propagandists did pick this week to start yelling about it and did remain silent while the T admin assaulted it. Because propagandists are a type of con artist. bsky.app/profile/upin...

Carl - there is only one way to stop fascists.

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When I think of all the amazing scientists that have lost their jobs here in the states because of Trump/Vought/Musk/RFK Jr/the GOP, it makes my blood boil to see the US interfering in a single overseas postdoctoral appointment matter to advance a white supremacist agenda.

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Ugh… As soon as I see the Belgian US ambassador in a picture, I know it's no good. looool. He's a total moron and an agent of chaos. Incredibly annoying.

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It was beyond his imagination that the US Government would use its power to protect his white supremacist project

WTAF

"such a person" Meaning "a Trump appointee". Yeah, not surprising.

This also makes me wonder what’s happening with Jerry Coyne. Not enough to go peek in on his rancid blog but still. He was once a very good biologist and then he decided that he’d rather complain about “woke” than the 1000x worse threat to science from the right

On the other hand, some academics actually do stand up for academic principles bsky.app/profile/ptrb...

Like teaching warfare and omitting the rise of autonomous and swarming systems … Why is this CO2 rising? Frost free days inching earlier in calendars? Hot days become more frequent and happening both earlier and later in the year? Plenty of records, maybe fewer Druids (Whoops still humans) /sarc

I'm sure the Harper's letter will be out any minute now. Any minute. Could be this minute. Is this thing on

Or, you know, any of the "academic freedom" chuds.

LOL but it would be good to organize such a letter, if only to see the various contrasts that emerge

And each instance a use of state power to regulate speech they don’t like.

There’s really not enough coverage about the fact that they’re still doing it My wife works for an environmental nonprofit. A bunch of their funding survived the first DOGE wave, but as they have made AI crawl through all the back log of PDFs & websites, dozens of programs got cut this year

if “academic freedom” is a legitimate basis for neglect of humanity’s fundamental equality and worth, then it is useless and should go down in flames the only other option is reciprocity

Very small 😉

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yep. Selective outrage isn’t defense of freedom, it’s an attempt to use the concept for one’s own benefit.

"academic freedom" = "ethics in games journalism"

Same people that have been attacking trans rights, appearing on the Epstein list and demanding Palestinians should be silent about being the victims of a genocide

Thank you!

Thank you!

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To committing state terrorism against University students across America protesting genocide in Palestine, perpetrated by colonizers, supported by another colonizer.

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