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Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

“The Trump administration’s decision to not appeal this preliminary injunction means that for the foreseeable future, they cannot use civil rights laws or federal funding as a cudgel to remake the UC in its ideological image.”

—Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel

Painting featuring a black cat behind a row of purple and pink flowers against a white background

Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder (1931-2021) #WomensArt

A perfect evening

Tonight at 7:30 pm at the Aero ❤️ Sold out, but we’ll have a standby line.

YES I DO!!!!!

The booke of love ys long & boringe
No folk kan lyft the damned thinge
Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics
And ynstructiouns for daunsing -
But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me;
And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge.

("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)

Give her what she really wants for Valentine’s Day: A bookshelf with a rolling ladder, a vintage bottle of Château Margaux, a basket of fresh pastries, and a candlelight meal where she can dine on the hearts of all who've wronged her.

Art matters now more than ever, and so it’s no surprise to me that fascists and capitalists are trying to kill art with AI.

Greetings, all

“Those who live to have it and / those who live to give it.”

— Vievee Francis

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This poem appeared in The Shared World by Vievee Francis, published by Northwestern University Press, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

SUPERSTITION I have painted a picture of a ghost Upon my kite, And hung it on a tree. Later, when I loose the string And let it fly, The people will cower And hide their heads, For fear of the God Swimming in the clouds.

Amy Lowell, for your Friday the 13th

People change careers all of the time and this is a good thing.

You are not a robot.
You don't have a programming disk shoved up your ass and proceed to work for exactly 43 years in the same job before being thrown onto a trash heap.

Despite what the typical politician seems to believe about you.

⏰ The countdown is on. The 2026 #SpiritAwards are THIS SUNDAY!

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petition to make this kid mayor of minneapolis

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

There are kind volunteers of the grassroots organization called Haven Watch who support released detainees in MN. They often don’t have a phone, money or clothes for the weather.

www.havenwatch.org

#HavenWatch #AbolishICE

Memphis is under a federal task force occupation that includes DEA, CBP, ICE, National Guard, state troopers, and (I’m not joking) IRS agents (IRS jackets kidnapping people). No national news.

they wanna say "nobody's perfect, you gotta accept people with flaws," which sounds great, and then they say, "like this guy who got a nazi tattoo."

like okay sure let's accept him into group therapy and we'll see how it goes but i don't think he's entitled to immediately be a us senator???

Poster for battle of Algiers

SURPRISE!

We've added on a SECOND Film Club Members-Only screening for this month!

To celebrate its 60th anniversary, we'll be screening Gillo Pontecorvo's THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS!

Make sure to grab your tickets at the RSVP link: thefridacinema.org/purchase/139...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

generative “a.i.” is like cyrano but the poems suck and there is no cyrano; there’s no one and nothing at all. no one loves you; it’s all lies.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Free, onlyne, searchable Middel Englisshe Dictionarye. "The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500."
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Time for a drink or a cup of coffee at Teeter's...

#FilmNoir Out of the Past (1947)

A brief literary history of The Muppet Show. Last week on a Disney+ account near you, Seth Rogen—the hardest working man in show biz—announced the return of the Kerm. A one-off Muppet Show special starring Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Rudolph, and…

Exploring the cultural legacy of The Muppets.
buff.ly/DB2YBlD

"The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.