'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
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Organizers unveil new drive to reverse decline in union membership as workers seek to combat growing wealth inequality
“This crisis has always existed": Nesrine Malik talks to the historian Nikhil Pal Singh about the US's imperialist tendencies overseas, and how they're bound up with its violence at home. Find us on any major podcast app, or visit www.equator.org/podcasts.
Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.
Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities
www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...
absolutely incredible ending to this saga
I don’t even have words for this.
more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out
US President Donald Trump says the US Navy would immediately start blockading the Strait of Hormuz and would also interdict every vessel in international waters that had paid a toll to Iran. https://aje.news/x545rk
We have entered the “you can’t kill me if I commit suicide” phase of American Decline
Not once in this story does @politico.com mention that US factories employ ~89,000 fewer employees than a year ago.
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
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Los Angeles at the ICE Detention Center
The drop in consumer sentiment was almost universal, as demographic groups across age, income, and political party all posted setbacks in sentiment, as did every component of the index, reflecting the widespread nature of this month’s fall.
www.rawstory.com/america-trump/
Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.
“.. The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.”
@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2087...
cc: @nytimes.com
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9m Right so the questions are not at all analogous. 1 Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 7m They certainly are. The Jewish State exists. So does the United States. 1 Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6m no one's asking whether it exists, we're asking what the definition of a jewish state is 1 Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 5m The question is exactly about existence. 5 Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2m right he's asking her to define the terms of that existence. Would you like to do that? 1 Rick Hellman @rickhellman.bsky.social · 1m lol wut no 1 Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social after all that sarcasm about the question "what do you mean by jewish state?" you also can't answer it?
Brutal
Americans suffer from a desperate need to believe in the inherent goodness of the American electorate--the idea that a voter in 2024--after nearly a decade of unfiltered, widely broadcast, deeply fascist rhetoric from Donald Trump--was simply "tricked" by a Facebook algorithm or a Fox News segment.
The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center reveals the “political and planetary stakes” of AI and the threat of “tech-enhanced militarism,” @tisjune.bsky.social , @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social & @nathanckim.bsky.social write in #Academe:
always follow the money
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WE DID IT!
Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.
The huge number of Latino immigration officers is often explained as self-hatred and betrayal—but the officers “believe in the enforcement of immigration laws and that they are protecting, not antagonizing, their communities,” Geraldo L. Cadava argues:
Eyewitness video from the scene of today's ICE shooting in California appears to (you guessed it) contradict officials' claims that the man "weaponized" his vehicle. The car is reversing and the agents appear to be well clear of it.
As Trump says “a whole civilization will die tonight,” JD Vance openly backs him up.
“We’ve got tools in our toolkit that we so far haven’t decided to use,” he threatens.
"Shut Down Palentir!" Protesters STORM Palentir Offices - Mass Arrests - NYC
youtu.be/wLKO7d2pkfc
