Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:
Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%
Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%
This is what a rigged system looks like.
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
Screenshot of the How Reading Made Us BBC Sounds page
If, like me, you have loved reading & writing & words all your life, and you're mystified and a bit lost in a world that thinks reading is inconvenient & slow, this amazing radio series - How Reading Made Us - is for you. Reading DOES matter & this explores how & why.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I am old enough to remember when teenage pregnancy was the sign of civilizational collapse
At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.
wins, in French history related wit, for today (but hey, share others if you got ém)
For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩🚀🚀💕
*All four astronauts went to public schools!
Cover of Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign: The Sonic Afterlives of David Bowie and Prince edited by Daphne A. Brooks. The cover features David Bowie on the left and Prince on the right both in different shades of purple. Between the two artists the title is written in a bold sans serif font in a gradient fading from orange to pink to purple. The subtitle is written vertically to the left of the title in yellow. The editor’s name is below and follows the same gradient of yellow to purple.
Check out @rj-buchanan.bsky.social's interview with Daphne A. Brooks, editor of the new book "Blackstar Rising and the Purple Reign." via @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
buff.ly/kh1eZtH
Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection
Age is a construct
Also, recognising urgency of realising the University's situated role, and students' powerful courage in demanding we engage with that, in our collaborations, esp with regimes complicit in war crimes. Chapeau.
Was an honour to teach with @mkn.bsky.social in the past, and have loved her attention for writing since (the critique of Frontier thesis also always refreshing in our times
Now, this is about International Law, but has more general application. AND @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social is rare among inaugurals here in Netherlands to pay serious, sustained, attention to pedagogy, and pedagogy of care. Inspiring
We do not just protect justice (or try to - see Third World Approaches to international law for critique) but are also RIGHTS HOLDERS, and hold public trust: video.uu.nl/lives/academ...
Today's #PerhapsProtest I make choices about time all the...time. Good one, to livestream colleague @bmcg-leyh.bsky.social Inaugural Professorial. Powerful, analytic, impassioned defence of, and plea for, role of Universities in Architecture of Global Justice. We Teach. Document. Engage. Protect.
It me.
Wins.
a mechanism of control in settler-colonial states is isolation. those who are alienated can more easily be converted into fascists.
build solidarity with the people in your life. with your neighbors, your friends, your coworkers.
Revolution does not start with a Deed, but with compassion.
"The issue is the system, not the subject.”
Professor Charles Forsdick FBA on higher education funding cuts hitting language courses hardest and the wider risks to skills, research and opportunity in Times Higher Education:
bit.ly/4tFzJbD
Cover of book 'Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815' by Morgan Golf-French
My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳
Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work.
In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the...
academic.oup.com/book/62547
When maps speak. Embarrassingly loud.
Today's #PastProtestForPresentStrength also features a book with a GREAT title and one that shows protest and solidarity can work. Interesting to place this "rough-handed solidarity" in conversation with the #BraidedSolidarities #BraidedKnowledges practices and theorisations I do in own work.
This post gets even better when you realise that in the Anglican church calendar today is annunciation day (which recalls Mary being visited by an angel and told she will bear Jesus)
Fascinating. Would pair well with Gianamar Giovanetti-Singh article on Voltaire and racial capitalism in @historyworkshop.org.uk journal which I've used in my History of Racism course before. Will try it!
Must be a German compound word for standing in the house doomscrolling while hoping the relentless grey mid-heavy rain will let up for the few minutes it takes to bike to work? All entries applauded - SchtundUndScrolIAmReinInducedParalysis
*Ventured out and yep. Sucked.
Tom Licence was able to research this topic because the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was available for study rather than being sold to a private, anonymous individual. IYKYK.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Lionel Jospin, the socialist Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002 (he effectively governed France in that time), just died.
He created civil unions for same-sex couples & '35 hours workweek', & made health insurance a lot more universal. He led 'plural left' coalition with many left parties.
