James McCorkle

The cruelty of this regime...just it's utter disregard to any form of care astounds: the shrug and the "what's it to me?" "Do you care, really?" and on and on.

Scientists now know that bees can process time, a first in insects | CNN Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a new study has found.

Our study of time processing in bumblebees 🐝 covered by @cnn.com here edition.cnn.com/2025/11/12/s... . Our summary is here youtu.be/hsGxU65OMQk and the original paper royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.... @royalsocietypublishing.org

November 21, 2025 Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today.

November 21, 2025

Sudanese Researcher Lina Yassin on COP30 Climate Talks, UAE-Funded Proxy War in Sudan over Gold & More Sudanese climate diplomacy researcher Lina Yassin is supporting the Least Developed Countries Group at the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The group is composed of 44 countries, including Sudan,...

The UAE has a "long-term vision of taking over Sudan," says Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin.

Which part of our profession? I am still holding out that the humanities, africana studies, ocean studies, even the arts are too marginal or has become marginalized. Its the military-industrial (so old fashioned am i!) of academe...as western civilization disappeared they have no use for us.

A million times spot on.

Well worth the read on elite capture as coup.

The NYTimes is complicit in sustaining Trump.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FKn...

Africana Studies students know all the things. Why? We actually teach all the things — the good and the bad. The most rounded education you can have in the contemporary university. Just sayin’.

I should add: and Africana graduates. LOL. They are a stealth political weapon post graduation. Send your kids to Africana programs. Remake the society.

From a spokesperson for U.S. Senator Elissa Slotkin:

The intent to devalue certain professions such as nursing underscores this regime's penchant for cruelty and malice.

We’re on track to make the Taliban look more scientifically advanced. They banned vaccines for years, killing the very children they claimed to protect.

And it’s that serious. The government can absolutely believe it is saving children and fighting evil, while sentencing you to illness and death.

Feds tell county to cease naturalization ceremonies - The Ithaca Voice ITHACA, N.Y. — Tompkins County officials received a directive from federal immigration officials to cease all local naturalization ceremonies. Naturalization ceremonies are typically held throughout t...

More cruelty from the corrupt regime. Miller must delight in disappointment and molestation: ithacavoice.org/2025/11/feds...

Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’ After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

Sounds a lot like some where else.

This sounds more than eerily like my institution. The process began earlier and is taking longer but the dismantling and rebuilding (?) is very similar.

#GrammarHumor

This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius

This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...

I represent dozens (yes, dozens) of people raped by guards in the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

It sure would be nice if DOJ gave a tenth as much of a shit when it comes to compensating them.

Blood visible from space in Sudan shows evidence of Darfur genocide: Analysts Satellite images and verified videos paint a harrowing picture of door-to-door mass killings in the Darfur region of war-torn Sudan.

Well I missed this from last week and my god

Another brave strong woman speaking out

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Thorbjon Jagland is former PM of Norway

"Putin, if you are listening, release those files"

Alphabets on the Sand In Gaza, language is insufficient to describe the magnitude of our loss, but I write anyway.

Palestinian writer from Gaza Abdullah Hany Daher reflects on the meaning of study amid devastating loss.
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Florida college goes broke—but at least it’s not woke Perhaps you recall that Florida has its own mini Department of Government Efficiency, because Gov. Ron DeSantis is the most juiceless man alive—so maladapted to actual governance that he does ...

New College was once an innovative exciting school--before DeSantis and his Trumpian anti-woke agenda destroyed it. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Greg Sargent tweet on Mikie Sherrill's statement "slamming the Senate's proposed shutdown deal"

Statement from Mikie Sherrill "sharply criticizing Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as 'malpractice' and a betrayal of the people who are 'counting on us to fight for them'." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-... h/t @gregsargent.bsky.social

4/ One of those roles was burying the dead, a highly traumatic duty as many of the bodies were severely mutilated. The cemetery was constructed by the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, an all-Black unit of 260 men under the command of a White officer (as was usual).