Tracking U.S. Military Killings in Boat Attacks Known U.S. strikes in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific since Sept. 2, 2025 STRIKES 52 KILLED 180 RESCUED/SURVIVED 3
So like at what point are we gonna ask how many extrajudicial executions at sea it’s supposed to take before they’ve won the war on drugs? Because if they have to keep doing it, doesn’t seem like it’s working.
“Most Harvard faculty do not seek an adversarial relationship with their employer. Will that change if our administration continues to treat the faculty as adversaries?“
By our intrepid @aaup.org chapter president, @kirstenweld.bsky.social 🔥
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
May 2026, Vol 106, no. 2, edition of Hispanic American Historical Review with an image of a Lima telefonista on the cover.
Image of the article: "The Lima Phone Operators' Strike of 1931: The Possibilities and Limits of Women's Labor Action in Peru" by Sofía Pachas Maceda and Mark Rice
It's always great when you see your @hahr21.bsky.social article in print. Even better when they put your article's image on the cover! Sofía Pachas Maceda and I wrote the article to be accessible - please consider using it in LatAm history, gender history, labor history, history of tech.
"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park."
The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!
"Video and photos published by local news organizations show a man standing with a gun on top of one pyramid while people duck for cover."
Not everything is up for debate. Some views are just incorrect and there’s no point in debating perspectives that are not grounded in reality. That’s how we got here in the first place!
Or the contractor who shows you a picture of the attic and says, see those supports for the beams? There should be about twice as many. Like how does that not come up in the inspection?
One of the great things about being a homeowner is the long list of things that you thought maybe should have come up in the inspection. Like for example the electrician asking, do you just want me to fix the small problem or do you want to know about *gestures wildly at the entire attic*
Another day, another round of "Am I filled with incandescent rage because of perimenopause or because of the increasing inequity and inhumanity of society"
From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia E. Butler, 1998:
“The Israeli military has demolished entire villages as part of its invasion of south Lebanon, rigging homes with explosives and razing them to the ground in massive remote detonations.”
#OtD 9 Apr 1944 legendary Palestinian socialist and the first woman to hijack a plane, Leila Khaled, was born in Haifa. Forced to flee during the Nakba, she joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1248...
Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma & Tennessee legislatures are considering bills that will weaken tenure, academic freedom & shared governance at public colleges and universities.
Inside Higher Ed breaks down the harmful impact of the bills and how AAUP chapters & leaders are responding to this threat⬇️
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"It is not hope. It is the specific exhaustion of people who have been denied hope for so long that the mere postponement of catastrophe registers as reprieve. We celebrated nothing. We simply exhaled."
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
Boston University’s student newspaper, The Daily Free Press has been covering flag/free speech issues quite well. I especially love this line from their editorial:
"A university that cannot distinguish between a symbol of hatred and a symbol of belonging has not built an inclusive community...."
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A great opportunity to publish.
"...lithium-rich brine is pumped from deep aquifers to the surface, where it is then extracted....[T]here’s emerging evidence that it can require at least double the amount of fresh water used in traditional mines, opponents say."
Use scarce water to deplete the aquifer? What could go wrong?
This was my first time writing something like this and it was a way to write and express during a period of the pandemic when I found the more academic type of writing almost impossible.
The first page of an essay by Lisa Covert, titled "Looking to the sky in the Antelope Valley"
Here is the first page of the essay:
Watching this has led me to reflect on an essay I published a couple of years ago about where I grew up and its relationship to "aerospace"
Decided to have this on while doing other work tasks and it is a nice distraction from all the other things
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Cover of Blue Power, with cops walking away from viewer
DC folks: I will be speaking about my new book BLUE POWER on Tues 4/21 at the Shaw Library, with @nightschool-dc.bsky.social Details and registration here: actionnetwork.org/events/blue-po…
Haha, was having this conversation today with my parents who also entered the drawing. We might pay up for the cheapest soccer tix, but still🤯
I like it when you promote your book, share you article, tell us about your new job, announce your promotion, brag about your kids, post your pet photos, and post the yummy things you cooked. All of it.
