Lisa Covert

Venezuela denuncia un complot para atacar la embajada de Estados Unidos | Tensión en medio del despliegue militar en el Caribe El gobierno de Maduro alertó sobre un supuesto plan para colocar explosivos en la sede diplomática en Caracas. La amenaza fue atribuida a sectores opositores “extremistas” y comunicada a Washington po...

Venezuela denuncia un complot para atacar la embajada de Estados Unidos | Tensión en medio del despliegue militar en el Caribe - www.pagina12.com.ar/863632-venez...

The DEA and Ayotzinapa Washington, D.C., September 26, 2025 - The eleventh anniversary of the enforced disappearance of 43 Mexican students from the Ayotzinapa college brings a grim reckoning. To date, no one has been held ...

Don't miss this riveting new piece from @katidoyle.bsky.social and @cldorfman.bsky.social on the DEA intercepts that contain critical information on the 2014 Ayotzinapa student disappearances @nsarchive.bsky.social nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

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Tonight!

On Cuban Elections and Dissidence On the Mehdi Hasan interview of Cuban Vice Minister Carlos Fernández de Cossío

Wrote a short post over on my substack on Mehdi’s recent interview of the Cuban deputy foreign minister

Interview was great but I wanted to add context which further solidifies Mehdi’s claims

open.substack.com/pub/pertierr...

1/ In August 2020, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, made an extraordinary request to President Trump’s ambassador, Ronald Johnson. A previously undisclosed report tells what happened next, according to a new ProPublica investigation. 🧵 ⬇️

Important thread:

lol this is really wild. @markricehistory.bsky.social maybe the next edition of your book can have a new section about tourists navigating the Sacred Valley with AI

A New Project Exploring Attacks on Academic Freedom Faculty on the Front Lines: AAUP Members Share Stories of Repression and Resistance

When faculty are silenced it's not just about what those individuals. The community is also degraded. A new project is documenting these injustices. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/a-new-proj...

The Real History of Tenure If academics want to protect the idea of tenure, they need to understand how and why it became the norm.

Tenure isn't "just" about academic freedom or free speech, it also about labor, and more - knowing the history helps understand the battles and challenges of the present🗃️ @TIME #madebyhistory time.com/7320703/acad...

+ "Cowardice in the name of pragmatism" doesn't build a broad coalition; "principles+resolve" do—"if what we actually want is a big tent and not just to avoid being impolite about atrocities to people who some of us identify w/more closely than those the atrocities are being inflicted upon"

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others.

Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla:

“People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.”
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Rising tides slowly destroy a fishing village in Mexico - Yucatán Magazine A once-thriving fishing village in Mexico is being slowly eaten away by coastal erosion and residents are up in arms about failed promises to relocate them.

Rising tides slowly destroy a fishing village in Mexico

yucatanmagazine.com/rising-tides...

Opinion

This case … squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us.”

“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.

— Judge William G. Young

#AAUPvRubio

Post card dated June 19, 2025 (On file in Chambers) TRUMP HAS PARDONS AND TANKS ... WHAT DO YOU HAVE? Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

I hope you found this helpful. Thanks for writing. It shows you care. You should. Sincerely & respectfully, Bill Young P.S. The next time you’re in Boston [the postmark on the card is from the Philadelphia area] stop in at the Courthouse and watch your fellow citizens, sitting as jurors, reach out for justice. It is here, and in courthouses just like this one, both state and federal, spread throughout our land that our Constitution is most vibrantly alive, for it is well said that “Where a jury sits, there burns the lamp of liberty.”

the postcard cited in judge young's ruling isn't just at the top, it's a framing device. the whole opinion is a letter to the postcard writer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Huge victory for @aaup.org in AAUP v. Rubio:

Meanwhile, in the US, we're facing shortages of both walkable communities and school bus drivers. To the point where a lot of families have to choose between having their kids spend 30+ minutes on the bus each way and driving to school to wait in long drop off/pick up lines.

Double rainbow over a soccer field

Just sharing this lovely evening sky because I am glad Imelda decided to stay away and I am grateful for my soccer mom moments💕

I fully understand how difficult it is to remain focused on any one particular atrocity but this really ought to be a serious scandal and people need to pay heavy prices for this

Hundreds of people have vanished from ICE's system at the Everglades internment camp. Families don't know where their loved ones are. This isn't deportation, it's kidnapping.

That's why I introduced the SUDEM Act to hold ICE accountable and make this info public.

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

WHEEWWWWWWWWWW:
"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

Are You Still Rebuilding After Hurricane Helene? We Want to Hear From You. We want to hear from North Carolinians whose homes were damaged or destroyed to better understand how well the state housing recovery program, RenewNC, is working for those who need it.

@propublica.org and @theassemblync.bsky.social have been reporting on the impact of Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina, and one year later, we know recovery is far from over.

Fill out the form or email us at helenetips@propublica.org to share your story.

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This: I have been troubled by how I feel about the destruction of a model I knew was problematic - what @tressiemcphd.bsky.social calls the Cold War university model. And it is the absence of another model (at least one that exists in a viable way at this moment) that I think is so troubling.

La IA no es una herramienta, ni una tecnología, ni un conjunto de tecnologías con un nombre engañoso. Es la infraestructura que cimienta una forma de capitalismo que depende de comerciar con datos. Deberíamos enseñar a nuestros estudiantes acerca de esto y no sobre su uso responsable.

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Academic Freedom Syllabus Academic freedom is at the core of what academics do, inside and outside the classroom. It is the oxygen necessary for our profession to exist. Yet academic freedom is often misunderstood by faculty a...

Check out the resources here at AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom, there's a syllabus, a sample slidedeck, and lots of great readings aimed at faculty and student audiences www.aaup.org/academic-fre...

Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond This webinar will explore the historic importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional norms and standards for public higher education and examine the threats a politicize...

An AAUP webinar exploring the importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional standards and examining threats a politicized accreditation system poses to academic freedom. October 6 at 7pm
www.aaup.org/event/politi...

The death of shame and its consequences, especially for public figures, is a huge reason why we are in this place as a country. Shame as a concept is imperfect and can be abused, but we should absolutely be able to say that people with horrific, hateful beliefs must be made pariahs.