This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Universities Need a New Defense The authoritarian threat is growing. The old playbook won’t work.

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next.
All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation."
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There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.

This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.

A thread on how to do that 🧵

Trump’s Oval Office bling exposed as knockoff £43 plastic sprayed gold Donald Trump’s claim of a “24 karat” Oval Office has been mocked after sleuths revealed his gold décor is nothing more than £43 plastic moulds sprayed gold - bought from America’s answer to B&Q

www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news...

James Cameron calls Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer a ‘moral cop-out’ The Titanic director, who is planning an adaptation of nonfiction book Ghosts of Hiroshima, says Nolan’s film ‘dodged the subject’ of the atomic bomb’s devastating impact on that city

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

EXCLUSIVE: GOP Resolution Declares June ‘Family Month’ Instead Of ‘Pride Month’ WASHINGTON—Republican Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller will introduce a resolution on Tuesday declaring June as “Family Month,” a bid to reclaim the first month of summer from LGBTQ ideo...

Wow. So utterly shameless.

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There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary

When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed.

US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees.

Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary.

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Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes Israel Defense Forces has confirmed it killed Hossam Shabat and Mohammed Mansour, claiming they were terrorists Press freedom organisations have condemned the killing of two journalists in Gaza on Monday, who died in separate targeted airstrikes by the Israeli armed forces. Hossam Shabat, a 23-year-old correspondent for the Al Jazeera Mubasher channel, was killed by an airstrike on his car in the eastern part of Beit Lahiya. Continue reading...

Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes

Another successful LACK conference. Presenting my paper on Lacan and ecocritism here. What a pleasure to be part of this panel and the conference as a whole!

“I shall read a passage of Shakespeare every Sunday at ten o Clock—you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.”

— John Keats, in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 1818

Elon Musk is performing a coup on the U.S. Government. In the midst of (and smokescreened by) the current "pillaging of Rome" enacted by the rest of the MAGA movement, following their first attempted coup on January 6th.

USDA inspector general escorted out of office after defying Trump order Phyllis Fong had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday

1/ Meet Phyllis Fong. She's my new shero—a real badass.

Security agents escorted the inspector general (IG) of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office after she refused to comply with her firing by 47's administration.

BANKSY | Break down the walls | Facebook Break down the walls ! All we need is Love ! ❤️ #SaveSoil 🌱🌿🌳🙏

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"Excluding Indians": Trump admin questions Native Americans' birthright citizenship in court The Trump admin is leaning on a pre-14th Amendment law in its fight to redefine birthright citizenship.

www.salon.com/2025/01/23/e...

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From the TikTokCringe community on Reddit: “You forgot to pardon yourself” 👀 Posted by helloworld_141 - 1,551 votes and 908 comments

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Action without Hope A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿

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