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Earlier today, police arrested mass numbers of Jews and people of conscience at the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand in New York City as they chanted, "Let Gaza Live," "End The Siege, and "Let Aid In Now."

The family of Virginia Giuffre responds to the Maxwell prison move: "President Trump has sent a clear message today: Pedophiles deserve preferential treatment and their victims do not matter."

About 147K federal employees work in the state that Earle-Sears is running to govern. She does not want to answer if mass purges of this workforce is a good or bad thing, presenting it as a distraction from the real issues: a project that involved in 800 jobs.

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is now censoring its own exhibits to serve the political goals of the Trump administration. How much longer before we must conclude that it is no longer interpreting American history for the general public? www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Trump’s big proposed cuts to health and education spending rebuffed by US Senate panel • NC Newsline U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Thursday largely rejected Trump administration proposals to slash funding for education programs

The U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Thursday largely rejected Trump administration proposals to slash funding for education programs, medical research grants, health initiatives and Ukraine security assistance. ncnewsline.com/2025/08/01/r... #ncpol

"But what universities are learning, that authoritarian scholars already know and have been saying, is that complying with illegitimate attacks does not make them stop—it makes them continue"

Super useful timeline of the attacks on GMU

The Margaret Walker Center is hiring! We are looking for a Mellon Visiting Scholar.

The Visiting Scholar is a 3-year position and will entail a 1-1 teaching load as well as 2 digital humanities convenings for the community.

Job posting: shorturl.at/L07jt

Questions? Contact mwa@jsums.edu

Allan Bakke applied to eleven different medical schools and was rejected by all eleven, but one of those eleven schools (UC Davis) had racial quotas so he sued them, insisting that racial quotas were the only thing that prevented him from getting a spot there.

New Housing Slows Rent Growth Most for Older, More Affordable Units The nationwide housing shortage has driven rents up more in low-income neighborhoods than in the U.S. overall, but in areas that have recently added large amounts of housing, rents have fallen the mos...

"Maintaining restrictive zoning that exacerbates the housing shortage puts vulnerable tenants in a more precarious position... Allowing enough homes for everyone improves affordability overall, but the evidence shows it benefits low-income renters most."
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Is roughly 300 the total number of active NSF grants at UCLA? I assume so. The pain happens no matter what, but UCLA will feel a lot of pressure to deal. The government has the taste for blood.

I had the same feeling, reading up on how Edward R. Murrow spent his pre-journalism career helping scholars get out of Nazi Germany.

Murrow always described that as the most educational and rewarding experience of his life, and I’d argue it informed every single thing he did as a reporter.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a…

Officers who shatter car windows aren’t being disciplined — they’re being promoted.

One ICE official who smashed a window in front of a local TV reporter now has a senior ICE position overseeing operations on the East Coast.

Killed by….?

Anyone in particular we should maybe….STOP SENDING BILLIONS IN BOMBS AND AID TO AND COVERING FOR?!?!

Groceries are still expensive — and Republicans in Congress hope you won’t notice who’s responsible.

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Registration Recovery Project (RRP) update for July 31
🗳️ 1,154 people cured their registration yesterday
🗳️ 4 people were added to the RRP yesterday
🗳️ 94,073 people remain--9,173 fewer than on July 17

#ncpol #electionadministration

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As Mike Davis said, "Fight with hope, fight without hope, but fight absolutely."

Poll shows decline in belief that Blacks and Asians face racial discrimination Meanwhile, about three in 10 people said DEI increased discrimination against white people.

the idea that “DEI” is to blame for racist assumptions about the ability of nonwhite people and not actual racism is such a perfect example of racecraft www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

New @today.yougov.com national poll out.

Absolutely wild how distorted the public’s view is.

(Murder rate in NYC is down 83% since 1990.)

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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At PhD/post-PhD level, academia is fundamentally dialogical and unless you intend to hide behind a prompt your whole life, you are going to look like a fool when you open your mouth and don't have a working understanding of the things you profess to write about.

Ousted vaccine panel members say rigorous science is being abandoned Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.

Seventeen experts ousted from a U.S. vaccine committee are expressing little faith in what the panel has become.

TORONTO (AP) — Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday.

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Plaudits for Bukele, Magnitsky sanctions for de Moraes. The Rubio way.

Last year, the DOJ brought charges against the CEO of Fat Brands for a range of financial crimes totaling $47 million.

During the 2024 election cycle, the CEO donated nearly $20k to Trump and Republicans.

Today, the DOJ dropped the case against him.

Funny how that works.

Just to be clear - the MAGA freaks are celebrating sugary cola (39g/12oz!) as a “health” victory while they are bringing back asbestos, paraquat (one of the most toxic pesticides to exist), eliminating clean water and air protections, and more than 10 million Americans are losing healthcare coverage

Texas Republicans have unveiled a more extreme new gerrymander that targets 5 Dems by diluting Latino & Black voting power.

Trump won 30 of 38 seats by >10 points & 27 seats by >15 points. All GOP seats likely stay safe, & none that Trump won by <20 got bluer davesredistricting.org/join/b82658a...

The IRS's free tax filing tool is now reportedly "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief.

This comes after Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the government for years to block IRS free file.

Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration.

See how this works?

Poll: Right-Leaning Faculty Likelier to Be “Hostile” to Jews On the other hand, non-Jewish faculty who identified as “extremely liberal” were more likely to be hostile to Israel, a survey found. But 90 percent of all non-Jewish faculty were hostile to neither J...

Well this undermines some widespread narratives out there: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...