Liberal arts fields like History English and the arts are becoming more relevant in the AI era not less

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Letter from an English Department on the Brink | Sarah Blackwood I write to you with news about the state of the English major at one nonelite, midsize, regional comprehensive private university in New York City. At

The "death" of English departments and other liberal arts fields is not about their obsolescence but about the fact that they're being actively *killed* by institutions that don't value them on principle, not because of any evidence. Glad ppl are catching up. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

Sunset over water

Every day is Earth Day.

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files.

Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas.

You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.

The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.

Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.

This is digital sovereignty being taken back

Trump is on his hands and knees begging Iran to accept the same deal that Obama had and in return he will give them $20 Billion dollars. We spent one trillion dollars, and 14 service members lives for this? - are you kidding me... What a joke...

Impeach and remove this idiot immediately.

#Impeach

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.”

“I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call.

(Published Feb.)

Sky News: Human penises are shrinking because of pollution, warns scientist.

Greta Thunberg: See you all at the next climate strike :)

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Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.

They're not even trying to hide it anymore...

US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency Most-banned book was Sold, a 2006 novel by Patricia McCormick about sex trafficking in India

The report also found that challenges are becoming more coordinated and politically driven: 92% came from pressure groups, decision-makers or government officials, compared with 72% in 2024. By contrast, 2.7% were attributed to parents and 1.4% to individual[s]."

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Dozens of US lawmakers have been accused of sexual harassment, study finds Analysis finds 53 workplace harassment allegations against 30 lawmakers amid wave of resignations in Congress

Just like in academia where the rot runs deep!

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AOC represents EVERY WOMAN in America right now who is sick and tired of misogyny & misinformation.

She represents us and the rage we feel.

Heatwaves, floods and wildfires pose rising threat to democracy, report finds Research shows natural hazards linked to climate crisis disrupted 23 elections in 18 countries in 2024

"In 2024, those hazards disrupted 23 elections in 18 countries, including Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Senegal, either by damaging infrastructure, displacing voters or precipitating last-minute changes to electoral processes."

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This 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 we are aware of….

No, baby boys aren’t “less social.” That’s just a stereotype.

But boys are nudged toward toughness over tenderness, given fewer chances to practice empathy and subtly discouraged against connection.

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‘Petro-masculinity’ is destroying the planet. Can eco-masculinity help save it? | Andrew Boyd It’s crucial to understanding how gender is affecting our ability to rally behind a shared ecological vision

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Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under Justice Department investigation The nonprofit on Tuesday said it is “the latest organization targeted by this administration.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for its tracking of hate groups, said that the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the nonprofit regarding their use of informants.

Investigating the Good Guys DOJ claims the Southern Poverty Law Center was "paying off" the Ku Klux Klan. The group's track record and common sense suggest otherwise.

A little background on who the Southern Poverty Law Center is and what kind of work they’ve been doing for decades makes it clear that DOJ’s indictment (which is of the center, not of any individuals) is vindictive & malicious, an attack on civil rights work itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

World food systems ‘pushed to the brink’ by extreme heat, UN warns Severe heatwaves in commonly hot regions could leave farmers unable to work outside, with livestock mortality rates expected to rise

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Trump continues to crater. New NBC poll has his approval down to 37-63, which is 26 points underwater.

Crucially, 50% disapprove *strongly.* Has any other president had half the country strongly disapproving?

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Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Fears of looser standards as the FBI and Justice Department scramble to fill a depleted workforce The FBI and Justice Department are scrambling to rebuild a depleted workforce after a wave of departures over the last year.

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Collapse Finance, Part 1: Introduction - Notes - e-flux Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou introduces an essay series on “collapse finance” as a framework for understanding how finance increasingly governs through crisis. Part 1 of 4.

"Categories that once gave structure to financial crisis response—risk, security, recovery, “the market” itself—are becoming increasingly unstable. Risk appears less calculable, volatility continuous+the distinction between breakdown+opportunity difficult to sustain."

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A major US court case could help fix the ills of Citizens United | David Sirota A Maine lawsuit has suddenly become the most significant anti-corruption battle inside America’s legal system

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Can Reading Fiction Actually Make You Happier? Literary fiction, in contrast with popular and nonfiction, has been shown to increase empathy, reduce stress, and improve well-being.

YES

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"The advice seems even louder today, and a lot of it is phrased in the negative. Don’t go into public service, you’ll get death threats. Medicine leads to burnout. Academia — now? Really?"

This Is a Hard Time to Start a Career. These Two Words Can Help.

"Every generation gets a version of 'learn Japanese.' Here’s the path for winners. Don’t get left behind. Hurry up and learn genetics. No, computer science. Study Mandarin. Forget humanities. One word: plastics."

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A justice department opinion arguing the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional could revert the nation to a time when presidents freely burned their papers Presidential records are the public’s property. The Justice Department wants to change that and revert to a time when presidents could do what they wanted with their papers, including burning them.

Presidential records are the public's property, according to a law signed by Jimmy Carter in 1978. The DOJ recently issued guidance that the law is unconstitutional, reverting to a time when presidents could do what they wanted with their papers, including burning and selling them. Expert analysis:

The billionaire Anthropic cofounder who majored in literature says knowing how to ask the right questions beats knowing how to code | Fortune Anthropic’s liberal-arts-educated cofounder says “rote programming” is best avoided.

Guess he would know!

The billionaire Anthropic cofounder who majored in literature says knowing how to ask the right questions beats knowing how to code

#liberalarts #humanities #literature

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