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Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...

I’ve read that some think they did let him slip away too. His friend and colleague, Elliot.

Opinion | The End of the University as We Know It (Gift Article) The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

This is not an exaggeration at all.

Read this, and then do the most meaningful thing you can to resist it:

(1) Join @aaup.bsky.social to help fight on national level,

(2) Organize, organize, organize with your AAUP chapter at your university level.

Now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Six Centuries of Type & Printing: New Edition Help create an affordably priced version of this book that spans 600 years of the history of typography, type casting, and printing

Attention printers of all types and those in the allied professions! This should be a great reference by the very knowledgable Glenn Fleishmann! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

I have a “no Radiohead” rule when I’m feeling low. 🤭

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Beautiful.

FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.”

Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College.

Voters *like* politicians who make the right enemies.

Deee-Lite, World Clique, 1990

What’s an album you got based on the cover? I’ll start—

I'm no cook, but as a designer, I've noticed what appear to be incredible new cookbooks rooted in the culture of the food/author rather than appropriated. This article lays it all out.

In 1942, the American President opposed censorship because books were weapons in the fight against tyranny.

Target Loses Web Traffic As Costco Gains On Feb. 28 Economic Blackout Day Target's website traffic dropped 9% on Feb. 28 in the People's Union online shopping boycott with its app usage down 14%, compared with mid-February Friday results.

Seeing what happens >> telling people nothing interesting will happen so don’t try
www.forbes.com/sites/pamdan...

a group of people standing next to each other on a plane . ALT: a group of people standing next to each other on a plane .

“I picked the wrong week to remember I'm a writer” by @andizeisler.bsky.social lurking-glass.ghost.io/i-picked-the...

Red white blue poster featuring stacked cards advertising a City Wide Forum on Democracy as a Personal Experience and Education for Democracy / Des Moines Public Forums

White poster with blue, grey + red text advertising Public forum - Eric Grimwade, journalist and commentator, will discuss focal points of the world crisis, 1940

Poster - white with a blue oval in the center - text in blue, orange, white - Lyman Bryson, famous forum leader, will discuss "Are we done with democracy?" at Roosevelt High 8th year of Des Moines Public Forum /

Yellow poster with black woodcut-type figures - teenage girl and teenage boy -- sitting on the ground, facing each other; blue text box in center; blue headline at top -- text reads: Youth forums Leader E.W. Balduf of Des Moines Public Forums at the Y.W.C.A. Ninth & High Street.

Encountering these WPA posters (URLs below) for Des Moines's public forums (1936-41) at the Library of Congress has made me want to learn more about the Federal Forum Project [1/3]

US Dept of Ed launched this garbage yesterday, for reporting individuals and schools who practice “divisive ideologies and indoctrination” like “critical theory and rogue sex education”
enddei.ed.gov

Watching Trump talk over and raise his voice at Zelensky is truly difficult to watch.

A LOT of people out there saying "I don't like what's going on but a boycott will hurt tipped servers" and "I'm super mad about all this but putting up a protest sticker/flyer seems too radical" and folks, I cannot.

*fyi, buy-nothing day tomorrow focuses on big chains. Use cash @ small businesses

Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn five-star safety rating in Europe Euro NCAP will release new testing guidelines in 2026.

Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.

This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.

(Even better: Tesla will hate this)

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

Travel what’s in my bag edition. Somehow I amassed a lot of purple things. Not mad.💜

Is there a way on Flashes to only see ppl you follow? I looked at settings and Disney find, but maybe one of you are smarter…

Survival book published by the US army. 1970.

After weeks of protests and an investigation from the state, the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles said on Friday it was reversing course and would resume offering hormone therapy for patients seeking gender-affirming care.
laist.com/news/health/...

Over and over again, they advised higher ed leaders: If there isn’t a federal or state law yet—or there’s wiggle room within the law—don’t overcomply.

They want us to think we’re alone. We are not. The Resistance is Everywhere.

Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States.

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

Anticipatory obedience is the key phrase.

Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

I started making photocopies for my students again.

Ai book cover with misspellings in the title.

AI book cover of Elon Musk quotes and facts

AI-Generated slop Is already In your public library:

Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.

🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

A timeline cleanse. 🌊