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'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

CBP And ICE Rampant Criminality And Corruption Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that one of its own agents or officers was arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. From 2005 to 2024 - 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents were arrested. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

really fucking important to realize that greg bovino is getting fired not in spite of there being no riots, but because there were no riots

Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Only 1 of the 153 was fully vaccinated.

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Happy Feast of the Immaculate Conception!

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Wait until he hears that Reagan didn't trust the Russians.

So, the government will freaking buy beef to lower prices, but it can't just lower tariffs to achieve the same thing? apnews.com/article/beef...;

#Pinks #ProudBlue If you need someone to blame, look in the mirror! This is in his own words - weak as he says! #ThisIsTrumpsShutDown

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

The quantity of UK goods exports is lower now than in 2016 or 2021. The UK is the only country in the G7 that has this record. #Brexit

No need to ask, he’s a Smoot operator.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

"Have you said thank you even once?"

every major streaming service should be $10. they have all gotten too greedy and must be destroyed

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

hundreds of Syrian army personnel chanted "The Syrian people are one", after they defected and refused to point their weapons at the people of #Suwayda, who returned the favor by welcoming them, providing them with food, and not harming them.

The Twitter vs. Bluesky argument often centres around politics but for me this is way more important. De-prioritizing links, "link in bio" BS, and all the other ways Twitter, FB, IG, TikTok, etc., try to wall off their platforms is so antithetical to the idea of an open and connected internet.

Post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains.

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

New book on democratic backsliding finds that it's been misunderstood: "Backsliding is less a result of democracies failing to deliver than of democracies failing to constrain the predatory political ambitions and methods of certain elected leaders." www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/mis...

One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election. Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control

To those still wondering why we lost a close election and what group Dems might have reached better, I say this: All this handwringing ignores the fact that more people voted for the convicted felon, sexual assaulter and insurrectionist. Our problems run deep. Half the voters made an INSANE choice.

This is a great figure. For all the doom & gloom about climate inaction, we have made a big dent over the past 25 years. What started out as 3.5-4°C increase by 2100 is now down to 2-3°C. Of course, more work is urgently needed but this is progress! We don't let up now. h/t @hausfath.bsky.social

Trump will nominate his horse for the Senate.

Today seems like a good day to share this Scientific American story on how vaccines have saved more lives throughout history than any other intervention www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

WI matters. A lot. Especially this year. And it has a fascinating history. Great piece by my colleague, co-author, great historian Nancy Unger "How Wisconsin Became the Ultimate Purple State" 🗃️https://time.com/7093734/wisconsin-purple-state-history/

A soldier, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, was murdered at Ford Hood. Trump had the family to the White House, and offered to cover the costs of the funeral. When he got the bill, he refused to pay: “It doesn’t cost $60,000 to bury a fucking Mexican!” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Survey of Economists: Inflation, Deficits Will Be Higher Under Trump Than Harris. (Wall Street Journal-unlocked) Via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/241014-top...

I believe he is free; I'm not sure about "clean."