Trump’s threat to destroy a whole civilization is already a war crime in this already illegal war. Let’s be clear: the Mad King is calling for genocide. The US military must not comply with these orders.

So we have the Gulf of America, the Department of War, and now the Trump/ Kennedy Center- each an expression of weakness

L'aspetto più sconvolgente del «piano di pace» Usa per l'Ucraina (e i legami tra la cerchia di Trump e gli oligarchi russi)

The demise of diplomacy

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

Outrageous censorship. We must push back: Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Important essay - the whole of the Times’ front page today makes it clear our democracy is in critical condition. We have a lot of work to do!

Profile in cowardice

Harvard just quietly dismantled its undergraduate school’s offices for diversity, equity, and inclusion amid the university’s ongoing battle with Donald Trump’s administration.

Discouraging to see Harvard cave like this - newrepublic.com/maz/post/197...

Another self-inflicted wound for America.

L’historien Pierre Nora est mort Historien, maître d’œuvre des « Lieux de mémoire », publiés en sept volumes à partir de 1984, le créateur de la revue « Le Débat » est mort le 2 juin, à l’âge de 93 ans.

A great scholar www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

Outrageous- Harvard needs to fight this

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

On June 4, Durham Co. Library presents “The End of the World: A History of Apocalypse” at Beer Study in Durham. Duke professor John Jeffries Martin will give a talk on the history of the apocalyptic imagination, and then we’ll bring our own sonic apocalypse. This show is free and all ages.

Trump Administration Cuts Additional $450 Million in Grants to Harvard

This is outrageous. Harvard needs to find a way to continue to resist. A travesty that the national government is attacking this and other universities. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

This is barbarism—Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities

Trump Repeatedly Responds 'I Don't Know' to Constitutional Questions: Live Updates

Trump is consistently anti-constitutional. He needs to be removed from office -- Trump Administration Live Updates: President Repeatedly Responds ‘I Don’t Know’ to Constitutional Questions www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

Steve Bannon, stratège de la première campagne de Trump : « Nous voulons rendre cette révolution permanente, nous emparer des institutions » Celui qui conserve une vraie influence dans la galaxie d’extrême droite MAGA décrypte, pour « Le Monde », les ressorts du deuxième mandat du président des Etats-Unis, « incomparable » avec le premier.

Terrifying www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Harvard resists! Hoping others will follow its lead.

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets (Gift Article) Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

RIP. Always begin my seminar on Conspiracy Theories with The Formation of a Persecuting Society.

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

Here’s how we’d cover this if it were elsewhere: Musk Junta Seizes Key Governmental Offices
February 1, 2025:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup . . .

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Federal Workers Told to Remove Pronouns From Email Signatures After Trump Order (Gift Article) The instructions to employees aimed to fulfill orders from the Trump administration, which told agency heads to remove all references to gender identity from official materials by 5 p.m. Friday.

Not just the LGBTQ community that is in danger. The president has mounted an attack on our many of our major freedoms -- from the military to the judiciary, to the CDC and our public health, and now to free trade. These assaults are not going to stop unless we stand up and fight back. HE/HIS/HIM.

Oooooooooooh looking forward to reading this

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Pacific Palisades Fire Could Test Getty Center’s Efforts to Protect Its Art Collection The museum, which describes itself as the “safest places for art during a fire,” is now in a mandatory evacuation zone. A spokeswoman said it had not sustained damage.

Palisades Fire Could Test Getty Center’s Efforts to Protect Its Art Collection www.nytimes.com/2025/01/11/u...

This is on my list!

Vernacular Bodies Making babies was a mysterious process in early modern England. Mary Fissell employs a wealth of popular sources - ballads, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to produ...

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Excited to see this!

Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court - University of Toronto Press Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.

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Un libro stupendo