The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.
A lime-green graph entitled "The Perks of Being an Oligarch" breaking down the untaxed holdings of billionaires, Jeff Bezos, Jensen Huang, Steve Ballmer, Warren Buffett, and Larry Page.
Want an easy way to raise your blood pressure? Picture this graph while you're filing your taxes tonight.
No politician, no academic, no movement organizer, no comedian-there is no role that the person is so irreplaceable that we must overlook sexual assault. Every one of them is replaceable. Good fucking riddance.
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I read it for my medieval history course in undergrad and the professor (who I love) basically said "Read this for the vibes, not the facts. Everything in this is a fever dream."
It’s Thursday morning and my shoulders ache Eyes plagued with the needle-sharp pricks of unshed tears, tears I can't very well shed on a bus going over a bridge My homeland still has bridges — am I relieved? It’s Thursday morning and my world hasn’t ended (yet) and they massacred three hundred people in Lebanon and my beloveds in Palestine are still starving and Iran’s air is still poisoned, her schools are still rubble, and my aunt in Tehran is still alive, I think (there’s still a blackout, so who knows) Am I relieved? It’s Thursday morning and we won, or something, or we paused, or something, and a white woman in my comments is saying “Nobel Peace Prize for Iran” and my people are still being shot in the streets but at least they aren’t being bombed. Am I relieved? It’s Thursday morning and a girl asks It’s Thursday morning and a girl asks if I know where Home Depot is and I can tell she’s Iranian because of her eyebrows and the concealer layered beneath her sunken eyes. (We all aged 24 years in 24 hours based on a fucking tweet. but hey, the videos are funny, right?) And I want to ask her — are we lucky? Can my shoulders drop? Is this what luck looks like? It’s Thursday morning and I want to scream because in this stupid, cruel world I think it is. I think I’m lucky. I think I’m blessed. Shukranalhamdullilah, they only killed a few thousand of us (for now.) What a mercy. What a goddamn relief Sophia Babai
Idk man.
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You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.
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As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.
To me the whole thing could be fixed by having inside the house and outside the house conversations. Why are we letting the right see our discord at all?
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A pair of New York bills would ban surveillance pricing at grocery stores and other retailers.
One bill could ban the use of algorithms and personal data to set prices.
The other would stop grocery stores from using digital price tags that constantly change.
42 people. millions of trans people are being tortured by their governments because of 42 people.
I can’t laugh or meme these people because they made USAID cuts that are currently killing dozens of people - almost a hundred - every single day. Every single day. And I despair of and despise the self-centredness that continues to create this cruelty.
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Divest from these companies today.
AI is not magic. It's human labor.
The opening anecdote in this story made my jaw fall on the floor.
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Yes Lawd!
[L-R] Dr. Betty Shabazz, Dorothy Height, Myrlie Evers-Williams, Coretta Scott King
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The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention “believes that the U.S. is squarely within the early to middle stages of a genocidal process against trans people, the goal of which is to completely erase transgender people not only from public life but also from existence in the U.S. & globally”
Cancer Alley factory to cease production of toxic herbicide banned in more than 70 countries
Syngenta announced last Tuesday (March 3) that it will no longer produce paraquat by June due to competition with other sellers. The company produced the chemical compound at a facility in the middle of…
ICE has a playbook for buying warehouse detention centers: move fast, tell nobody, and let communities find out from property records or news leaks. It's happened in at least 20 towns across the country. A thread. 🧵
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
This is exactly the article I needed today.
Éire go Brách 💚 saoirse do chách.
“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
Idk if I would use the word "new" here?
I just need someone with fire power to follow Trump's example.
It was a trick used by Christians to downplay women's power and the power of magic & prophecy in the late Middle Ages.
“man bad, we killed man, that makes us good” is real baby-brained stuff
Yes, but also how do you feel about polyamory, long distance lovers, and historians who care about environmental justice & Palestine? (shooting my own shot, not asking for a friend)
I see only a problem a wealth tax could solve