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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.

Damn.

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Not a laughing matter at all but the last line still got me

Appeals Court Opens the Door to Mahmoud Khalil’s Rearrest

The import of this ruling: Foreign citizens in the United States—including green card holders—can be arrested for political speech and imprisoned for months or even years before being given a meaningful opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of their arrest and imprisonment.

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Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for non-fiction for his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, speaking tonight at the awards gala in New York City where he accepted the award.

#NationalBookAwards

Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Yeah good call

‘Forever Canadian’ Results Shock the UCP Government | The Tyee Thomas Lukaszuk delivers petitions signed by over 456,000 citizens, upsetting separatist referendum plans.

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Which is to say in the classes I’ve allowed AI use, I’ve actually been more successful at getting them to NOT use it because I show them what they’re supposed to do, they can’t get their AI to do it, they realize the AI is trash, they write the papers themselves, everyone is happy

We need expanded mental health care and better education and to kill the Internet, maybe

More fields need to establish free open access preprint servers like arXiv.org or these predatory companies will fill the vacuum.

Threads: "tarawinequeenwrites: "l asked ChatGPT" well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing"

Some pure evil from The National Post. Note the quotes. I wonder if the journalists who penned this gave a thought to how normalizing the murder of journalists by calling them terrorists might someday bite them, or someone else whose basic humanity they recognize, in the ass.

+ “Leno’s interview with Trulio, formerly Fox News Digital’s managing editor and head of strategy and editorial operations,..”

I’ve been following AJ+ twitter for a good while. Here’s a video story x.com/ajplus/statu...

A newspaper wrecked on purpose.

We're in the Orbanization of our media system now. It's happening.

CNN's Brian Stelter drew this assessment from Gábor Scheiring, "who experienced Viktor Orbán's autocratic power plays in Hungary firsthand as a member of the Hungarian parliament." view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/175...

#BookSky

I’m embarrassed to have been a Netscape fan

Alberta to ban books deemed sexually explicit from school libraries Students in Grade 10 and above may only access the library material with non-explicit sexual content if province deems it developmentally appropriate for them

Hmm could this from the Min of Ed be relevant
““I am struggling to find the time to read a quarter of any book, let alone four books,” he said.”

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Honored to carry the legacy of NYC's first Black mayor as the inaugural David Dinkins '56 Professor @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social. Mayor Dinkins brought dignity & unity to our city during difficult times. Having an endowed chair in his name sends a powerful message about the values BLS champions

Congratulations. Alexis!

among the things we apparently need to do a better job of going forward - as a society, it seems - is communicating the basic conceit of what learning is and why we value it. a problem that we in higher ed share with our K-12 colleagues

“fragile democratic institutions: elections, the judiciary, political opposition and independent media”

Opinion | Belarus Is a Warning

From @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Belarus is a warning that democracy is fragile and that authoritarianism is not a wrecking ball but a hatchet, which slowly chips away until everything is broken beyond recognition,” Pasha Kritchko writes.

As are media

Ditto that here