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A joint investigation by Al Jazeera English and Liberty Investigates found that 12 UK universities paid Horus Security to monitor pro-Palestine activity online. Using AI tools, it flagged organisers and profiled academics.

🔗: aje.news/30ic1p | #Infograph

AFP Video: Sudanese authorities are struggling to clear landmines littered across the capital Khartoum, as remnants of a civil war remain in key locations like parks previously frequented by local families.

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Hey, New Brunswick -- we KNOW there are #authors over there, and we'd love to have you join us! Right now there are NO #NB authors participating in #FictionFest. 😭 #CanLit

Check out our Author FAQ for more info:
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“Many of the books removed are titles were likely sitting on shelves when the people who are banning them were themselves students. That they weren’t a problem them only speaks to the manufactured panic around “inappropriate” books.”

Utah Bans Four More Books, Bringing Total to 32 The state of Utah has banned four more books from every public school statewide. That brings the total of state-sanctioned bans to 32.

The state of Utah has banned four more books, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 32.

Of those, 24 are by women and the average publication date is 2009.

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'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.'

What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

At a certain point, the right-wing education people are going to realize that "Return to the classics" and "Ban all queer and sexual content from education" are not reconcilable objectives.

The American Library Association has released its list of the most challenged books of 2025 The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at libraries across the country – the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the challenged works involved LGBTQ+ subjects or the experiences of peop...

"The ALA says that it documented 4,235 unique titles being challenged in 2025 – the second-highest year on record for library challenges... According to the ALA, 40% of the materials challenged in 2025 were representations of LGBTQ+ people and those of people of color." www.npr.org/2026/04/20/n...

Given that a similar claim was made about German Chancellor Friedrich Merz when he was initially elected, it seems clear that Netanyahu does this quite often: lie blatantly and hope that his European counterparts just don't rebuke him publicly.

These bulldozers have literally one purpose and one only and that's to violate international law via the systematic destruction of civilians property. That's why 40 out of 47 Democrats voted against selling them to Israel.

צה"ל ממשיך להרוס מבנים בכפרים בדרום לבנון בזמן הפסקת האש מפקדים בצבא אמרו ל"הארץ" כי בשבועות האחרונים הובאו לאזור עשרות כלים הנדסיים המופעלים בידי קבלנים אזרחים, שחלקם מתוגמלים לפי מספר המבנים שנהרסו. מקור המעורה בפרטים אמר כי חלק מהקבלנים פעלו גם בעזה

Even during the "ceasefire", the Israelis are still demolishing entire villages in southern Lebanon with armored bulldozers. In fact, civilian contractors hired by the army receive pay which is based on the number of buildings destroyed.

Schumer voted against blocking the sale of these bulldozers.

Update: “My 16-year-old sister, Ritaj, was shot while sleeping 😓

She had surgery to remove shrapnel and stop the bleeding. It was successful, but she’s still in critical condition and may need another surgery.

We need your support and prayers 🙏”

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Imagine going after voters you need to win while being unable to call Netanyahu a war criminals. This man is a weak loser.

These people deserve to lose.

I have largely ignored the new scam discourse.

Idk the details. Don't care to.

I think there are many real people who need help asking for it here and people exploiting that like it is across capitalism.

I find the hyperfixation on discrediting Palestinians here above all else gross though.

It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies

Q is having a rough time right now if you have anything to spare:

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Ask Mayor Zohran Mamdani To mark his 100th day in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani will join WNYC’s Senior Politics Reporter Brigid Bergin for a conversation in front of a live audience at the The Jerome L. Greene Space. The even...

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Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2026 by Peter Heck, Robert Frazier, James Van Pelt, Jenna Hanchey, Octavia Cade, Gu Shi, Preston Grassmann, Paul Di Filippo, David Ebenbach, Adele Gardner, Archi...

I'm sorry what my poem has been out for a whole month and NO ONE TOLD ME?!

"AITA for Killing All the Humans?" 🤔
Find out in, apparently, last month's issue of Asimov's SF 🙃

(Thanks, storygraph, for letting me know my poem is in the world!)

Quick and Meaningless Data Collection Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…

I NEED HELP!

Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!

I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!

Please circulate widely!

This is so wonderful!

Mohamed has continuously inspired me and my family to care for a little garden, which gave us lots of delicious home grown peppers and squash last summer. 💚

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please read!

and help if you can :)

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Amazing

Please note: we're figuring out if and how this can work as we go. For now we'll be doing this through his Telegram account (see bio) and on a "Pay what you think is fair" basis.

Your input helps us find the best way to proceed.

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