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Weaponizing the Watchdog | Walter M. Shaub Jr. Donald Trump’s fascist takeover of government is a comprehensive affair, and sometimes it’s the little things that reveal just how thoroughly his

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Can’t wait until the future

American Nazis: The Aryan Freedom Network is riding high in Trump era With Donald Trump’s return to power, a neo-Nazi group buoyed by his rhetoric is expanding its reach and changing the face of white extremism in America. Its leaders: a Texas couple, both born to Ku Klux Klan leaders.

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In Defense of Jonathan Brown Georgetown suspended a professor for a statement milder than one made by the president of the United States on social media. It should immediately end the practice of arbitrary suspensions without due...

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Opinion | Censored by My Own University Tulane says it values free inquiry — until my work became politically inconvenient.

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Did he kiss the ring as well?

Capitalism is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because everyday we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all decided to produce something else - we would not have capitalism anymore.

There are other ways to do things.

Eddie Palmieri’s 13 Essential Songs and Albums

Eddie Palmieri’s 13 Essential Songs and Albums www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/a... RIP, Mr. EP

What’s the plan for fall vaccines? If you're confused, you're not alone. The dominoes have stalled, which can turn out to be a big problem.

What’s the plan for fall vaccines? If you're confused, you're not alone.
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How US Universities Can Survive State Terrorism BY CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not fee…

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Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem

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The Only Hope Is Total and Unrelenting Resistance Every university must join together to stop Trump, urges Arne Duncan.

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Neo-liberal capitalism is that form that is utterly obsessed with ensuring that it seems that, as Margaret Thatcher so famously declared in the 1980s, “there is no alternative.” In other words, neo-liberalism has largely given up on any serious effort to argue that the current economic order is actually a good order and given up trying to prove it can create a world in which most human beings feel prosperous, safe, and free to spend any significant portion of their life pursuing those things they consider genuinely important. Rather, it is a terrible system, in which even the very richest countries cannot guarantee access to such basic needs as health and education to the majority of their citizens. Yes they say it works badly - but they want you to believe no other system could possibly work at all! - David Graeber

From David Graeber's 'Revolutions in Reverse' (2011).

Hearing Trump speak is often like hearing the voices of enslavers echoing down the centuries.

This is complete fantasy. Just an absurd made up lie. The EU is not giving Trump “$600 billion to invest anyway I want.” They aren’t giving him 1 dollar to invest. It is just astonishing that a president can go on a financial network and lie like this & it barely registers. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Covid-19, mosquitos, hand foot and mouth surging, kinder vaccination rates, Vaccine Injury program at risk and more The Dose (August 4)

Covid-19, mosquitos, hand foot and mouth surging, kinder vaccination rates, Vaccine Injury program at risk and more
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In a Plot Twist, George Mason’s Politically Embattled President Gets a Raise Gregory Washington’s outspoken defense of his diversity efforts and refusal to back down from the Trump administration’s attacks has drawn widespread support.

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Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

What Universities Owe www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... "Higher education has customarily influenced people to advocate for a freer, fairer and more peaceful world, even while universities have hesitated and hedged their bets, always with an outstretched hand and a finger to the wind."

What if we defined the economy as the way we take care of one another? Since that's what it ultimately is/ What wood economic indicators then look like

Instead of the daily stock market - we could have an indicator for the number of homeless people?

A Tiny Conservative News Outlet Pioneered the Attack on Higher Education

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David Renton · What is the meaning of support? With the proscription of Palestine Action early in July, the question of what support for a terrorist group means has...

What is the meaning of support? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... "An academic institution that responds to reasonable criticisms by asking the courts to imprison the students who make them has made itself a supporter of authoritarianism."

Statement of Columbia Alumni for Academic Freedom on the Settlement Agreement between the Trump Administration and Columbia University BY COLUMBIA ALUMNI FOR ACADEMIC FREEDOM The Trump Administration’s abuses have placed Columbia University leadership in an agonizing position, pitting the welfare of Columbia’s faculty, staff…

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Today's jobs report shows what many Americans already knew: despite record highs in the stock market, the “economy” is not working for ordinary people.

Rather than accept reality & try to address it, Trump chooses to fire the bearers of bad news.

This is what authoritarians do.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b... Republicans hate Elmo.

Live Updates: After a Weak Jobs Report, Trump Says He’s Firing That Agency’s Commissioner

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Despite the chaos of its launch, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party has struck a nerve | Andy Beckett Scathing rightwing coverage contains a revealing note of alarm: this is more than just a rebellion, and it’s gaining supporters fast, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Despite the chaos of its launch, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new party has struck a nerve | Andy Beckett

Trump was impeached, twice.

Considering posting this every day until the Smithsonian corrects its exhibit. Feel free to join me.

This is how democracies die.

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

Prominent historian cancels course at Columbia University over Trump deal Rashid Khalidi, in open letter published by Guardian, accuses university of ‘capitulating’ with $200m settlement

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