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‘Fascism is here now’: the US athletes pushing back on Trump’s America World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era

The times may really be a-changin'!

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Bruce Springsteen releases anti-ICE protest song 'Streets of Minneapolis' On Wednesday Bruce Springsteen released 'Streets of Minneapolis,' a protest song condemning the violence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Minneapolis.

Thank you, Bruce Springsteen, for the song we need right now!

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Les mots qui fâch(isme) : épisode 2/4 du podcast Trump dans l'oeil des philosophes AUDIO • Trump dans l'oeil des philosophes, épisode 2/4 : Les mots qui fâch(isme). Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Les Chemins de la philosophie, et découvrez nos podcasts en lig...

Certains d'entre nous le qualifient de fasciste depuis 2020

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Sen. Bernie Sanders reads from a piece of paper while Zohran Mamdani raises his right hand to be sworn in during an inauguration ceremony. His left hand is resting on a Quran held by Rama Duwaji. A banner above them reads “Inauguration 2026. Photo by Vincent Alban for The New York Times.

Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor and its youngest in more than a century, was inaugurated in a public celebration outside City Hall on Thursday. See highlights: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Read his inauguration speech: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...

A bridge is packed with people, with scattered pride flags in the crowd. A headline reads: "Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Government Ban." Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images.

More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

An Urgent Supreme Court Order Protecting Migrants Was Built for Speed (Gift Article) In an overnight ruling blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, the justices ignored some of their protocols.

U.S. Supreme Court acted fast in blocking the deportation of a group of Venezuelans. "[A]sking for a response 'as soon as possible' . . . was not tortoise talk."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/u...

Looks great! Wish I could be there.

Thank you, MJ! Dartmouth AAUP is with you.

Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is pictured in a handout photo from his office meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia on Thursday in El Salvador. Headline reads: "Maryland Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Man in El Salvador." Photo credit: The Office of Chris Van Hollen.

Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. nyti.ms/3YzXwwg

Opinion | Harvard Has Already Capitulated to Trump’s War on Academia The administration is trying to assert political control over American higher education.

Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

"On Tuesday [Harvard] announced that...it would adopt a definition of antisemitism [under which] a professor who accuses Israel of genocidal action in Gaza—as Omer Bartov has—might be subject to disciplinary action."

#philsky

Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. These are just the words I needed yesterday

I haven't felt excited about July 4th since reading Fredrick Douglass's speech, and now, given some states' legally enforced amnesia about our past, celebrating July 4th as the beginning of "our" freedom increasingly feels like flying the Confederate flag "because of our southern heritage." #philsky

Thanks for this!

Results of Recent APA Elections - American Philosophical Association Over the last few months, members of the APA elected new divisional officers, a new member-at-large of the APA board of officers, and two new members of the Graduate Student Council (GSC). We are pleased to announce the results of those elections.

Many people are more deserving of this honor, but I look forward to serving as the next Vice President/President-Elect of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. #philsky

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Get new edition of AFTERMATH—and all PUP books—for 50% off till May 31!

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Huge congratulations to you and Kate! I'm so looking forward to this!

Eastern-APA members can sign in and vote here for Member-at-Large of the Board of Officers, VP, and members of the Executive and Nominating Committees: www.apaonline.org/surveys/?id=...

Voting remains open through this Sunday, May 19.

What he did to this Cosby victim was unforgivable: time.com/3612283/why-...

Black French Studies Conference Version française de l’appel à communications ci-dessous

CFP for an exciting conference that Trica Keaton @trica.bsky.social is co-organizing, entitled Global Black French Studies across Time and Space: The Formation and Future of the Field, October 17-20, 2024,  Boston College:

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It's pub day for my good friend and writing buddy Jenny Saul's must-read book, Dogwhistles and Figleaves. Congratulations, Jenny! @jennysaul.bsky.social #philsky

It's pub day for my dear friend Margot's brilliant tenth novel, The Road from Belhaven, and she's reading at the Harvard Bookstore at 7pm tonight!

Oh! I didn't realize until just this moment that I was even on Bluesky! Now I just have to figure out how it works. But knowing you're on it is all the incentive I need. ☺️