South River Forest would've still been one of the four lungs of Atlanta had officials followed the law and expert guidance.
In retrospect, this was a dry run for Trump 2.0.
Here's @nonmodernist.com's Atlanta Press Club Award-nominated photo essay for @thexylom.com about what we really lost:
In 2024, my "Cop City" reporting for @thexylom.com won me an Atlanta Press Club Award.
Now, @wabe.org confirms what we knew all along: DeKalb County's parkland swap and open contempt of a judge's order to reopen said park has led to no new park but one emboldened Republican now running for Congress
As news breaks that a union leader just beat a billionaire + Trump backed Republican in a #Texas Senate race, let's remember that the state is attempting to bury anti-ICE protesters with decades in prison.
Building strong movements means fighting repression. newrepublic.com/article/2041...
After a cop got shot, Prairieland ICE protesters face terrorism charges. Will Alex Pretti’s killing sway the jury?
sorry to do this while everyone else is mamdani posting lol
at the end of the day i think stranger things had an interesting premise, a couple of iconic images, and a few moments of accidentally compelling writing… but not much else :/
Welcome to the Public Domain, STRONG POISON (1930) ☠️
📚 With a cover like this, how could we not be intrigued? Read the first story starring Harriet Vane as she stands trial for poisoning her lover & meets Lord Peter Wimsey.
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Georgia Judge Dismisses Racketeering Charges Against 'Cop City' Activists Dozens of protesters had been indicted after the state attorney general said that their movement amounted to a violent criminal enterprise.
A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City
blocking this 🐈 so he can become a cushion !
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
saving this to send my dean
if john podesta wanted to do anything other than vomit buzzwords, he would probably have learned that united auto workers represents over 36,000 academic laborers in the UC system alone
A huge proportion of the instructional college faculty doesn't have access to employer health insurance, let alone a special faculty lounge.
One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.
season 5 of macgyver has an episode about earth first-adjacent forest defenders with a faux judi bari who is trying to unite the loggers and environmentalists in a common cause???? also there’s a yakuza guy in the mix
HIRE BRADFORD NOW!!! literally one of the best sports journalists out there right now
someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
Bruce McGill in Macgyver, circa 1987. He has a huge mustache and sexy forearms
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okay speaking of tubi, i have been watching macgyver on there and i am so hot for 1987 bruce mcgill, it’s embarrassing 🙈
Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station
Forcing all colleges and *high schools* to have chapters of the Right-Wing Teacher Harassment Grift Machine is insane, even by Texas standards
Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans.
If you've got the means, please support them.
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in this episode, the @thedugoutpod.bsky.social crew sit down with members of the DFW Defense Committee to break down the state & federal repression facing the defendants beginning with who they are. they also explore how prosecutors, the DOJ, ICE & the media have misled the public. 1/2
is this Munich ?
bored at the airport pickup lot. let’s fight about the best bond theme song. it’s “the world is not enough”
how long till a rian johnson riff on mikey and nicky starring jgl and noah segan becomes viable
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
I hope our names are touching 🫶
