Universities are giving up the fight for free speech — students aren’t “We don’t have the luxury of inaction.“

Universities could NOT roll over for a man who's going to persecute them and yank their funding no matter what they do.

art surrounds us

Canadians booking trips to the U.S. has dropped by over 70% according to OAG. This is a COVID-level drop in travel which will have downstream economic impact on hotels, restaurants and more in the coming months.

I still think the market hasn’t priced in how disastrous things are going to get.

Trump's Defense Secretary Hegseth Orders Cyber Command to 'Stand Down' on All Russia Operations Russia is not a significant cyber threat to the U.S. anymore, Trump's new Defense Secretary says.

Putin is running the U.S. government now:
gizmodo.com/trumps-defen...

You made me think of him for the first time in weeks if not months. 🥲

Alternatief:
‘Trump en Vance schofferen Zelensky’
En:
‘Aanwezigheid Russische journalist duidt op vooropgezet plan’

Nou ja, ik heb me wel in wat vreemde bochten moeten wringen. 🤷

Een zak Webercol tegellijm met daarop een foto van twee vrouwen die yoga aan het doen zijn.

Ik heb vragen rondom het beeld wat ze hier in Spanje hebben als het om tegelzetten gaat. Ik zie er zo niet uit als ik aan het tegelzetten ben.

Minister Klever gaat een stapje verder als ik het goed begrijp. Ontwikkelings”hulp” alleen als Nederlandse bedrijven het werk kunnen doen, tegen Nederlandse tarieven.
Dat is geen ontwikkelingssamenwerking, en al helemaal geen ontwikkelingshúlp. Dat is neokolonialisme.

Klavertje drie gemaakt van leisteen, liggend op mijn hand.

Probeersel voor een leistenen sleutel- of kettinghanger.

Black pan, top view, with chorizo

Red coloured broth with morcilla, top view

Bowl of fabada; top view, with white beans, chorizo and morcilla in red liquid. A piece of bread sticks out of the bowl

Fabada asturiana, traditional local stew with creamy white beans, black pudding, chorizo, pork belly and leg. 🍽️🍜🐖

Defuckisditnouweer. 😑

We've been trying to point out how the "Gender Critical" movement is pro Trump and anti feminist for YEARS

They've FINALLY given up trying to hide it

Sunlight filtering through the trees over a forest path, a large dog looking into the trees.

A frost-covered fence post wrapped in metal wire.

Slate roof of an old barn, with misty valleys under a blue sky in the background.

A layer of ice covering a puddle.

Such a stunning morning. I wanted to take a million photos before the sun melted away all the magic. Asturias, te quiero muchísimo. 💕

You couldn't live a few weekends without fucking to fight fascism, now all your fucking is dangerous.

PrEP funding will be gone in days.

Welcome to the 1980s AIDS crisis in 2025.

#gay #lgbtq #hiv

Elections have some awful collateral damage.

The man is signing his angry Facebook posts.

Staffing was ‘not normal’ at airport tower, according to a preliminary F.A.A. report. Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times. The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.

Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Combs all said they were briefed on the collision, so they all knew about this internal FAA report when they went on TV to blame minorities for the crash.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

Opinion | The way to avoid tragedies like yesterday's crash is to use hiring practices that put only the most qualified people in important federal jobs.

by Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr.

Kash Patel confirmation hearing: Dick Durbin asks Patel if he’s familiar with Stew Peters—a right-wing fringe conspiracy theorist. Patel: <long pause> Not off the top of my head. Durbin: You’ve made eight appearances on his podcast.

Checking in on Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:

The SPEED and VEHEMENCE with which he puts the thing down and shoves it away from him

Like he’s just realized it’s radioactive

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If you have students who are trans no you don’t. If you have students of color who may be affected by ICE no you don’t. If anyone asks you gender or racial the makeup of your class you don’t have to tell them.

Protect your class and protect your students by not complying in advance. They trust you.

something that becomes really obvious if you study trans history is that the "transgender umbrella" wasn't created because of an ooey gooey "everyone's valid" feelings-based philosophy but because of a sense of serious political urgency that we mobilize as many people as possible

The Christmas Tree Nebula, processed to feature yellow, teal and purple colors.

The latest work of art from member Francesco Meschia features the region around the Christmas Tree cluster, a well-known and popular winter imaging target. Color balancing has brought out the image's yellow, purple, and teal. 🧪 🔭

I am not hopeless or a doomer because I think that future conditions will be bleak. I am a person filled with hope and joy, because I know what we are and they don't.

That's it, that's all my words. Thanks for reading.

Trump spending freeze upends Washington, triggering legal threats and delays The federal government fell into chaos Tuesday as officials braced for potential interruptions to programs that range from protecting food safety to responding to natural disasters.

vanmorgen al op mijn TL maar nog steeds geen nieuws in Nederland: Trump heeft dus zo'n beetje alle overheidsuitgaven gepauzeerd om te voorkomen dat er ergens een trans een dollar krijgt en aangezien bijna niemand trans is raakt dat vooral anderen

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The Oval Office is back on the market…