Anthony Stagliano

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

Columbia’s capitulation has turned…[it] into…an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing, where faculty and students are told from on high what they can teach and say, under penalty of severe sanctions.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Capitol Hill crystal shop owner and candidate for City Council says launching initiative effort to ban homeless camping in Seattle Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2025 - 7:03 AM by jseattle (Image: Savage Citizens) Rachael Savage, the Capitol Hill business owner and longshot challenger for Alexis Mercedes Rinck’s citywide Seattle City Council Position 8 seat, says she is making her next campaign a citizen initiative “to direct those living on the streets to detox-treatment-shelter or face arrest” and ban camping in the city. “This is the compassionate way,” Savage said in the announcement of the filing.

The Vajra's ugly-ass storefront

Lifehack: Heal your chakras by imprisoning your city's most vulnerable people
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It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released ...

NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration.

Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw.

All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

Julia Hartley-Brewer says many pictures coming out of Gaza of malnourished children are "propaganda". "Often, there's a picture of a mother who's quite chubby at the back with the child. Hey lady, maybe give some of your food to your kid!" @JuliaHB1

Never use the expression 'cancel culture' again.

The point is, there is absolutely no cost saving to this move. None. It's as absurd as trying to rip up already installed electric vehicle charging ports (something the Trump admin has attempted to do) or removing non-English content that is already on government websites.

🚨 This woman tries to call the family of the man being disappeared and ICE will not allow her to get a phone number. One of the “undercover” mobsters nearly backed into her.

At this point, I do not know how anyone denies what is happening in Gaza unless they have no sense of morals. People are starving to death. They are being shot at when they come to get food. What else can you possibly call this but genocide?

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.

My latest.
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One million starved children and no shortage of food

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again.

But inside our borders.

Shooting starving people as they line up for aid has to be one among the worst atrocities a military can commit.

A screenshot from the Ny Times with the headline: "Israeli Troops Kill Dozens Seeking Aid Near Border, Gaza Officials Say Thousands of Palestinians had gathered to try to get aid from U.N. trucks entering the territory."

If there is no hope for those in Gaza then there is no hope for humanity. Conversely, whatever hope remains for humanity is synonymous with whatever can put an end to the IDF and the horrors unfolding there.
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Part of an ongoing conversation between @mbfazi.bsky.social and me on AI/LLMs as "synthetic media" -- more to come!

By no longer having a public broadcasting system, the U.S. joins an international club that formerly consisted solely of Liechtenstein.

Fun politics fact: Zohran Mamdani got 2.4 times as many votes in the mayoral primary as Hakeem Jeffries got in the highest-turnout general election of his career

The I.C.E. Atrocities Should Be the Final Straw for Decent Human Beings. This should be the final straw for us, America.

There is no difference between this moment and all the others we see in the rearview mirror of history and look back upon in disgust.

Our complacency is the same.
Our apathy is the same.
Our silence is the same.
Our culpability is the same.

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Complete collapse of purpose into a morass of “debate me, bro,” civility nonsense, and quantified nothingness. Kind of impressive in in a “staring into the abyss” sort of way…

Neither Republicans nor Democrats give a shit about a an American being beaten to death by a mob of extremists because he’s Palestinian and the murderers are Israeli settlers.

This is as good a description as you’ll find of the definition of American “freedom,” held, as Bragman points out, across party affiliation. I’d add too that it’s a belief the less affluent hold too. it’s core to the USian worldview to equate “being able to afford something” with “freedom” as such.

- California Faculty Association We strongly condemn the abduction of California Faculty Association professor, member and activist Jonathan A. Caravello, Ph.D. and other community

A California State professor dragged off the streets, his whereabouts unknown. How are people still hosting international academic conference in this place??
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After feds fired a tear gas canister towards someone in a wheelchair: "While attempting to assist the disabled bystander who could not see or breathe, Dr. Caravello was abruptly taken down by immigration agents, dragged into an unmarked vehicle, and taken to an unknown location."

SEIU California | SEIU California Demands Release of CSU Faculty Member Brutalized By ICE SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our brother Jonathan Caravello, PhD, a U.S. citizen and union member, who was brutally assaulted and detained by federal agents as he…

A worker was killed. Dozens detained.

Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing.

Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL.

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Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

I think saying that Israel has tacit approval of the U.S. government to kill Americans is not an overstatement at this point.

Isaiah Hodgson, who arrested 2 U.S. citizens, including 20-year-old Adrian Martinez at Walmart and Job Garcia at Home Depot, is accused of entering the women’s restroom and approaching a female while intoxicated and armed with a handgun. lataco.com/border-patro...

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ICE handcuffs 71-year-old grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at San Diego immigration court Barbara Stone was handcuffed and held by federal agents for hours, according to her family; she was accused of pushing an ICE officer, which she denies.

When I say most people are good and we are going to beat these fascists, people like this woman are why I feel so confident:

“The message that it sent was very clear: For us to be afraid to come back and do the work that we’re doing,” Mendez said.

Stone, however, said she would volunteer again.”

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

Papers from 14 academic institutions in 8 countries contained hidden prompts directing AI tools to give them good reviews. The prompts were 1 to 3 sentences long, with instructions such as "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives" 🤔

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A Republican state attorney general is formally investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump He’s threatening them with deceptive business practice complaints.

Every day there’s further evidence that the role of chatbots is to authoritatively present the party line as truth.