many of our problems would have been solved if, in the 80s and 90s, democrats/liberals had responded to gop ideas with a lot more "that's the fucking stupidest thing ive ever heard, shut the fuck up" instead of "that's an interesting idea, i have a different take..."
"in some quarters the West itself was imagined as a source of oppression rather than liberation"
LOL YES. IT'S CALLED COLONIALISM.
He also uses "genocide" to describe the words of protestors NOT you, know, the actual GENOCIDE.
I can't.
From behind the paywall:
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It is DEEPLY important to get non-millionaires, non-tech-industry-hacks, and non-Wall-Street people onto Boards of Trustees of Colleges and Universities. I've seen @syed.nyc in action in the Working Families Party and hope you'll vote for him if you're a Wesleyan grad.
My union @uam-umd.bsky.social did such a good job beating our bosses in the statehouse this year that we figured we'd go ahead and beat the White House too.
With allies from across higher ed and the good people at @democracyforward.org we're suing to stop the latest illegal anti-DEI order.
"our leadership has remained conspicuously silent when faculty members — disproportionately women and faculty of color — have had their scholarship and qualifications impugned by members of Congress and by right-wing outlets like Fox News..."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature.
Eight children were murdered in the shooting.
futurism.com/future-socie...
This is a war based on lies
It's normal in libraries to see a small number of book challenges by parents & patrons who have concerns about content. Today, however, 92% come from organized groups, including officials and dark money groups like Citizens for a New LA. It's time we reclaim our libraries for the people they serve.
Huge props to the colleagues and organizations who voted to divest our pensions from Israel! We will not retire on war crimes.
It’s over to UPP to stop stalling and ACT.
WE REFUSE TO BE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDE.
www.readthemaple.com/university-u...
The UK government just made the spread of disinformation easier, with a bill which fails to understand the distinction between free speech and academic freedom:
“What distinguishes university platforms is that they are credible and influential because they are typically run by experts”
For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote.
A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago.
Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!
“There is absolutely no scientific merit whatsoever in the National IQ database,” Sear told Retraction Watch. “That means that any conclusions drawn from the database will be faulty and worthless.”
When you consider the mysterious deaths of BLM activists over the years, not to mention a century of surveilling Black movement leaders, this is quite something
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
“We call on Emory to make substantive commitments to limit cooperation w/ federal immigration agents to the minimum required by law. We urge Emory to inform the community precisely where ICE may or may not enter without a warrant…”
— Emory AAUP
An obvious way to build true “intellectual diversity” would be to promote the less popular majors, such as Comp Lit (15 majors), Near Eastern Studies (12), Gender Studies (12), Slavic and Romance languages (12 each), and African & Af Am Studies (9).
www.ivyscholars.com/harvards-mos...
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
If the so-called free speech purists and “diversity of thought” crusaders cared about anything but promoting conservative nonsense, this reporting, which shows the most powerful university in the world suppressing research on their ties to slavery, would be a massive scandal.
Today is Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. Since 1974, day is not merely commemorative but definitive in Palestinian consciousness.
This year the occupation’s government has passed a law legalizing execution of Palestinian prisoners.
Understand the struggle snd its demands:
www.addameer.ps/media/5732
Were you reminded of it by this story about a boy who is searching for a new crackless butt? store.doverpublications.com/products/978...
Why would I want to own the shit I paid for lol
Love this explainer of a banger research paper I learned about at lunch: Chimpanzees who used to get along split into distinctive groups at war with one another. Are changes in their network structure the cause?
Some universities are letting Republican politicians dictate what professors can teach in the classroom; others have faculty who mostly vote Democrat.
"Polarization" is not an honest description of this situation. "Viewpoint Diversity" is a project to worsen it.
Please don't use bullshit language.
& that's just in the case of someone whose self-regarding actions we don't like
when it comes to actively undermining liberal democracy & the freedom of others (which surley the republican party as an institution fits into) on liberty takes a . . . stronger tone
This is especially important in an era where the Difficult Conversations are over things like "are woman *human* people or some other thing?" and "perhaps we dispensed with skull-measuring too hastily."
Trotskyists, Stalinists, anarchists, Bundists, Maoists, Fourierists, Green Fundis and Realos all in equal measure I imagine
Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.
Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
Got asked an ideology question during my talk at Chicago and shared that my first question is always "Which viewpoints are y'all looking for? Folks who say I'm not human because I'm Black?"
Say it with your whole chest.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education's Problems A 10-member committee offered a brutal assessment of academia's role in creating the forces challenging American colleges and universities. April 15, 2026Updated 4:04 p.m. ET nytimes.com C
I’ll never understand these performances of institutional guilt at a time of unprecedented state assaults on free expression and academic freedom. Esp since the story of higher ed over the past decade is not a “woke” takeover of campuses but increasing rationales for and mechanisms of that assault.
My mom accidentally took me to event horizon thinking it was just a standard sci fi movie
