Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike.
University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections.
NYU, it’s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!
People waking up across the United States are picking up their phones and thinking: He did what?!? Wait a minute. Wasn’t this the antiwar president?
It’s now up to millions of us stand up and say no. trib.al/z0nqVfW
The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.
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I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both
5 Calls can help you make the call:
5calls.org/issue/iran-i...
Gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/o...
28.02.2026 11:45 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 6This article right under headlines about the US and Israel starting an illegal war with Iran is a real one-two punch 💔
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The depths of self delusion and mendacity—from the DoW, OpenAI, and the NYT—required to bring these twaddley sentences to my eyeballs... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...
28.02.2026 11:36 — 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 4 📌 1
Kotval’s right, NYU’s “call for ‘IRL’ connections might have been compelling if it were paired with a genuine restoration of open spaces… lessening police presence and opening spaces that tolerate discomfort or dissent, even when it is politically inconvenient.”
nyunews.com/opinion/2026...
Breaking News: Immigration agents arrested a Columbia University student after misrepresenting themselves to access a building, the school said. nyti.ms/4u2Z0xw
26.02.2026 16:50 — 👍 163 🔁 87 💬 30 📌 31
Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.
25.02.2026 23:05 — 👍 827 🔁 488 💬 66 📌 72
The Justice Department did not release key records in the Epstein files about a woman who made an unverified accusation against Donald Trump. In 2019, the woman said she had been sexually assaulted by Trump and Jeffrey Epstein decades earlier, when she was a minor. nyti.ms/4ceQAwl
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An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
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February 21 is World Mother Language Day. Al Jazeera looks at the most spoken languages and which ones are endangered.
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"Evidence indicates that indiscriminate digital expansion has weakened learning environments rather than strengthened them." fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...
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“The purpose behind the release of herbicide on the villages remains unclear.”
Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it.
The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it
“On climate, the hour for collective action has already arrived. The science is here. What we need now is courage – courage scaled to the enormity of the task – so we may gift the next generation not only carbon capture, but a planet worthy of their hopes,”
22.02.2026 11:41 — 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story.
And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law.
It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real.
people.com/jeffrey-epst...
Petrochemicals for plastic are, says Beth Gardiner, “expected to be the largest single driver of oil demand in the decades to come."
Oil companies understand that the shift away from fossil fuels is a threat to their profitable business model.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Petrochemicals for plastic are expected to be the largest single driver of oil demand in the decades to come. It’s supply-driven strategy by oil companies to keep profiting despite renewables becoming more efficient than fossil fuels.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.
She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.
Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
Thinking of running an RCT in postsecondary education?
MDRC has created a fantastic set of resources to help you in projecting minimum effect sizes, randomizing, and processing data
Proud to have helped advise this project!
www.mdrc.org/the-rct
This is a fantastic resource for students looking for a paper topic
25 RCTs, with documentation and data
Thank you, @mdrc-news.bsky.social!
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OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
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MDRC has over two decades of experience conducting randomized controlled trials in higher education
And, for some reason, we've decided to give away all our resources and best practices to help other researchers conduct high-quality, efficient RCTs
Check out the website soft launch:
If you aren’t outraged, ‘grab the pitchfork’ angry, you aren’t paying attention.
“What’s driving up Maine’s energy bills? Natural gas…renewable energy could help make electricity more affordable, despite efforts to scapegoat clean power”
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
Thomas Paine proposed a progressive tax on wealth, with the top tax rate being 100%. It's an idea that's as American as Apple Pie. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...
16.02.2026 22:18 — 👍 572 🔁 214 💬 15 📌 5So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
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