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They want to control our words more than they control guns. Isn’t that something

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

New: Periodic identity confirmation checks with video recording to ensure authentic, human feedback in your academic and industry research.

Along with bank-grade ID verification, this ensures participants are who they say they are—not bots, duplicates, or fraud.

#AcademicSky #ResearchIntegrity

As 9/11 first responders face cuts to health care, Jon Stewart returns to the public eye to fight Former "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart has led the public fight to fund health care costs for ailing 9/11 first responders.

Anyway.

Today I’m remembering that the EMTs and firefighters who rescued people from Ground Zero and suffered horribly for years afterward only got relief when Jon
Stewart shamed legislators for a solid decade.

May we all be a dog with a bone when it matters.

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I was in NYC on 9/11. I was under the towers, in the subway, between the 1st & 2nd strikes. I watched the them burn from my office rooftop. I was in the ash cloud.

The attack caused a national autoimmune reaction. We've destroyed ourselves over the past 24 years, fighting off a memory of a threat.

Two lockdowns at HBCUs today, and now an “incident” at the DNC HQ. Stay safe out there, my fellow academics, Washingtonians, Americans, and other humans.

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Can someone please build an AI tool that will read all your social media feeds, filter out the ads and garbage, and repackage it in a custom feed that aggregates content from across these services while providing users full control over how it is all displayed?

Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky

Explanations of why something is flagged as misinformation helps!

Seriously weird shit

Who’d a thought?!?!

Too little too late

Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Anthropic is changing its Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy and extending data retention to five years. www.anthropic.com/news/updates...

Love that shirt!!

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Contractor charged after Alabama toddler in state custody died in hot car A contractor for the Alabama agency tasked with child welfare was charged after allegedly leaving a toddler in a hot car for five hours, resulting in his death.

A contractor for the Alabama agency tasked with child welfare was arrested and charged Friday after she allegedly left a 3-year-old boy in a hot car for five hours, resulting in his death, prosecutors said.

Fall 2025 International Student Enrollment Outlook and Economic Impact NAFSA: Association of International Educators is the world's largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education and exchange.

The Fall 2025 International Student Enrollment Outlook and Economic Impact is bleak to say the least.

New Research shows that the U.S. economy could suffer a loss of $7 billion and 60,000 Jobs. www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-in...

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

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States Investigated Noncitizen Voting. Big Surprise — The Results Don’t Match the Right’s Rhetoric. Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

"States Investigated Noncitizen Voting. Big Surprise — The Results Don’t Match the Right’s Rhetoric." www.democracydocket.com/analysis/sta...

Ending Political, Electoral and Social Issue Advertising in the EU in Response to Incoming European Regulation From early October 2025, we will no longer allow political, electoral and social issue ads on our platforms in the EU. This is a difficult decision - one

Meta ends political ads on their platforms in the EU by October because they don't want to comply with new transparency and targeting regulations.

The reasons given here are really weak. And if you do *not* allow these ads, you still need to define what they are.

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Omg I love this so much. Yoga pants ftw

I want to take you back in time to any moment, literally any moment, when someone told this guy that.

Not so smart, now, in a “I can’t believe what this loaded gun in my hands just did!” way after all.

Cool

the NOVA logo over a whirling black hole.

As a reminder, PBS NOVA is one of the coolest science entertainment platforms that we have today!

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Colbert has the highest ratings of any late night host.

"Financial reasons" my ass. This is political.

YouTube video by American Masters PBS Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS

We love you, PBS. "American Masters – Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny premieres nationwide Friday, June 27 at 9 p.m. ET on PBS" youtube.com/watch?v=8aZb...

This is one of my staple shows. Super sad about this.