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3-year degrees don’t solve the problem of affordability of college and don’t consider the neuroscience & cumulative effect of learning. That’s why @aaup.org President @proftwolf.bsky.social & I came out against these degrees in June. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

that's real weird because there were Maine Indivisible groups in your office every single day during the Kavanaugh confirmation repeatedly telling you he was going to do exactly that

The implicit messages we get about neutralizing emotion in our scholarship (even when writing about deeply emotional events) has always bothered me. Ruth Behar's 'Anthropology that breaks your heart' (1996) is a classic, but it's well past time to revive the conversation. Can't wait to read this.

I cannot believe we're talking about Bobby Jindal in 2026 other than to say "hey, remember ol' whatshisname"

Bobby Jindal. Vivek Ramaswamy. Whatcha doin bros? Smh.

Good! This “study” is 💯 dangerous! “The study would deny hepatitis B vaccines to 7,000 newborns in the first six weeks of life, in a country where about one in five adults have the virus. Newborns are particularly vulnerable – but vaccination within 24 hours of birth is safe and highly effective.”

UN experts call on India to stop using ‘excessive force’ against protesters https://aje.news/crtww4

"With a seeming flick of a switch, Musk has the power to alter the course of a deadly conflict. " Nobody should have that kind of power www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

The greatest challenge of our time isn’t to figure out how to get to Mars or become interstellar, but to figure out how to live sustainably on Earth.

@antheabutler.bsky.social ha so I do already follow you here!

On average, scientists find many readers comprehend and recall slightly less information than when reading the exact same text on paper. But e-readers can be easier to bring on the go. Michael J. Coren weighs the pros and cons: https://wapo.st/4s9LNSR

This is a master class in dealing with hostile questions calmly and professionally and exposing the flawed basis of the question.

Come work with us! The Department of Government at the University of Essex has 2 fully-funded PhD positions (to write a PhD) on democracy and violence starting January 2027. Deadline 11 November. Our broader network has more positions🧵 vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Something something right to life but something something guns

If an amendment to your constitution results in children routinely being shot in school then it's time to amend it again.

Absolutely horrifying. My heart is with the Hindu community in the wake of this news, and I'm grateful to the heroes at the Mount Prospect and Palatine Police Departments who helped prevent an unthinkable tragedy. White supremacy and hate have no place in our nation. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

There is something real about Trump hires curing your imposter syndrome. Now that I’ve seen the new press secretary I am convinced that actually I am very good at public speaking. A genius, possibly

Periodic reminder that the biggest scandal in American history outside of Watergate involved a grand total of $9 million (inflation adjusted) changing hands & it resulted in resignations, convictions, jail time, and new legislation, and in the Trump administration that amount is a rounding error

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

zelenskyy has fairly convincingly weighed in on the discourse about if you could stop a rogue AI by turning it off

the muslim hate in this country has become policy, but you don’t get 7,000 think pieces about how that makes american muslims feel.

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

WASHINGTON—Trump’s federal agents raid Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home over decades-old “immigration paperwork” her father filled out when she was a kid. No charges. Breaking DOJ norms. Over the cliff, folks.

Was explaining what was happening in India to my kiddos. 6 yo: why aren’t people protesting trump like this? The youth of India showing the world how it’s done.

Another dimension of this: the Gaza genocide can only be properly and fully understood as a joint venture between the far right Netanyahu government and its centrist enablers in Washington, primarily, but also in London, Berlin and elsewhere.

Always, always read the magnificent Arundhati Roy

Was explaining what was happening in India to my kiddos. 6 yo: why aren’t people protesting trump like this? The youth of India showing the world how it’s done.

Indian authorities have launched a major security crackdown in New Delhi, detaining thousands of protesters who intended to hold a mass demonstration against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. n.pr/4rY8Yzv

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"Glory to the youth" Seen in Paris during the ongoing student uprising across the country.

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Modi the fascist is scared shitless of people in India, even as he constantly evokes “The People of India” as his rationale for ruling over them. Beware nationalism. It is a lie about who “we” are and are not, one that leads directly and inevitably to fascism.

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

Moving from the cruelty is the point to a theater spectacle of state violence. The return of authoritarianism. Act 3

She’s had key roles helping construct international law as a body that tries to regulate violence against people, from serving on the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda to helping establish sexual violence & rape as war crimes. This is good, concise insight from her into some of her work:

Pillay is really well known to people who advocate for & study international human rights; she also couldn’t be more different in some ways than last year’s winner. Selecting Pillay, I imagine, is a way to underscore the value of defending human rights in an increasingly regressive, repressive world

Countries That Have Public and/or Live Streamed Executions Context: www.reuters.com/world/us-li...

Moving from the cruelty is the point to a theater spectacle of state violence. The return of authoritarianism. Act 3

Remember when we all agreed that Al-Qaeda and ISIS’s televised executions were a mark of retrograde bloodthirsty religious fundamentalism?