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Headline referring to Trump’s new “charm offensive”

Really, NYT?

There are approximately 6,000 unionized workers at Columbia, including 3,000 grad/undergrad student workers. The university’s repression of anti-genocide protests has directly led to the Trump regime’s seizure of Mahmoud Khalil.

It cannot be business as usual.

It’s time to strike.

It's hard to engage seriously with this kind of thing when it's so deeply out-of-touch with where Canada *is* right now.

So much of what I see people saying, from annexation fears to imagining Canada embracing economic refugees from the US, is rooted in a version Canada that hasn't existed in decades.

For journalists, writers, artists, historians, photographers and cultural workers -- it's going to be so, so important that we document and bear witness to this moment in history.

It's going to be hard, and many of us will have to move differently. But we must try.

Oh. My. God. Worse and worse!

Today sitting in the knowledge that racism’s power is in its theft of time & spirit. Onwards. Thanks to all those who called Hochul’s office yesterday, please continue to do so (518) 474-8390.

Together let’s insist on a world we want to live in.

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

About Hunter College: Cancelling a Palestine Studies job search because the ad mentions settler colonialism is genocidal thinking. This framework is central to understanding Palestinian--as well as Zionist--historical writing over the last century.

It's ideological denial of the right to History.

Deepfakes, AI Slop, and disinformation are part of MAGA 2.0’s political communication strategy.

This video depicts Elon Musk, Trump, Netanyahu basking in the sun on the shores of Gaza…

It’s a sick and twisted fantasy depicting Gaza without Palestinians.

It’s propaganda for genocide.

Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Opinion | The assault on DEI? It’s aimed at resegregation. The GOP leaders attacking inclusion programs want to go back to an era when White men ran everything

My latest.

As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality.

I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI.

Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"We will break international law. We will do war crimes"

Has The Hague ever had such evidence before?

Where are the news outlets shouting from the rooftops? “Mainstream media is having as much trouble covering Trump’s firehouse of chaos as it did covering his campaign.” @sulliview.bsky.social Read on below.

Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land ‘confiscations’ Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation

The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

BREAKING: The Rafah border crossing has opened for the first time in nearly nine months to allow sick and wounded Palestinian patients in Gaza to travel to Egypt for medical treatment aje.io/fvp5d6

Columbia University professor files grievance over 'termination' Former Columbia University professor Katherine Frank told Middle East Eye her departure was spurred by wider 'anti-Palestinian' sentiment

Columbia University professor files grievance over 'termination' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/columbia-university-professor-files-grievance-termination

This is critical data on the harassment and targeting of 384 media workers by Honest Reporting Canada since October 2023. At #CanadaPressFreedomProject we are recording these as chilling statements. This should be a major concern for anyone with a stake in #pressfreedoms in a democracy.

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask:

"Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?"

And see what happens.

Normalizing spelling out what people actually mean when they cite DEI rather than letting them hide behind the safe cover of a euphemism that's been sapped of meaning

The head of the FAA, Mike Whitaker, resigned on January 20 — one year into his 5 year term — after facing relentless criticism from Musk for not approving SpaceX missions quickly enough.

The Senate confirmed him unanimously in 2023.

No acting FAA head has been appointed.

Thinking the country that groomed dictators all over the world cannot become a dictatorship is so naive. Honey, they wrote the book and made the movie adaptation. Wake up!

After Gaza ceasefire, Israel turns its firepower on the West Bank Two-year-old Laila Al-Khatib is the youngest victim of Israel's campaign in Jenin, while road closures suffocate the entire territory.

www.972mag.com/jenin-israel...

Trump is calling for ethnic cleansing—“clean out that whole thing” was his phrase!—but the NYT manages to make him sound like a humanitarian.

Harvard Medical School Cancels Class Session With Gazan Patients, Calling It One-Sided Harvard Medical School abruptly canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston. By Joey Huang By Elyse C. Goncalves and Akshaya Ravi, Crimson Staff Writers 12 hours ago Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to objections that students would hear from Gazans impacted by the war and not also Israelis.

It’s a horror movie.

pretty big decline in the proportion of Indigenous journalists in Canadian media (from 6.4% in 2021 to 3.7%). while there's some variation in respondents every year, in 2021 there were 248 Indigenous journalists among 209 newsrooms; in 2024, 215 among 270 newsrooms.

what I was hired to do. I have some great colleagues. But there is STILL an aversion in journalism education to wrestle with the question of subjectivity and objectivity—and to sidestep the deep ethical and moral questions of our time.

I got caught up in this by refusing to ignore the genocide.