Dr Alina Utrata

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"

Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

A stranger told me to smile at the gym. He didn't know I was miscarrying. A woman recalls being told to smile by a stranger while miscarrying, and why the experience reflects a common form of entitlement women face.

A woman recalls being told to smile by a stranger while miscarrying, and why the experience reflects a common form of entitlement women face.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

There... aren't any trans characters on any current Netflix shows. The number is already zero.

Unbelievable

Once again, it is *unethical* to provide people with inferior treatments when you know a better, more effective one exists

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.

How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

DHS is also emulating the start of Jim Crow, when whites jealous of their well-to-do Black neighbors used threats & violence to murder or drive away thousands of prosperous Black Southerners from the successful businesses & homes they built.

White supremacist led company asks agency of fascist state to permit an unprecedented cluttering of space to generate energy to run machines that undermine human well-being.

This instalment of the Star Wars franchise sucks.

What a turnout at the start of the campaign in Gorton and Denton.

People power.

Fear of ICE is keeping pregnant immigrants in Minnesota from critical care Health care providers in Minnesota said pregnant patients are having more complications linked to stress. But fear of immigration agents is keeping them from prenatal care.

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are

-skipping prenatal care
-requesting home births, even when not medically advised
-going w/o adequate food

Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

This gets us one step closer toward the final form of Tesla, where the only thing it sells is pieces of paper that say “we swear this isn’t a Ponzi scheme.”

We’re hiring! UC Press is looking for an Editorial Assistant (hybrid, Oakland) to support acquisitions, work with authors, and help bring scholarly books into the world: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucop/EMP...

My wife told me she heard at a training she attended that ICE has argued "ALL ARE WELCOME HERE" signs are invitations to enter private spaces and if that don't beat all I don't know what does.

California bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.

ICE agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.

Not the biggest story but bringing back measles for no reason whatsoever is the quintessence of the Trump project’s self-destructive idiocy

Sheep herder announces new skills training courses, sponsored by wolves!

Big tech upskilling

After announcing it in the summer, today the UK government launched free training courses to AI upskill workers. It's free because it's funded by big-tech companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others, and not by local organisations in the UK who have been working with communities->

‘I want my mom’: Kindergartner left without her mother for several days as ICE detains parents in Maine - The Boston Globe A growing number of children across Maine have been left without a parent as immigration enforcement surges in the state.

A kindergartener is one of a growing number of children in Maine who have been left without a parent as the Trump administration carries out a major immigration enforcement effort, according to local officials.

New: Google DeepMind staffers are asking company leaders for "plans and policies" to stop ICE from entering Google's campuses, according to internal messages viewed by WIRED

One GDM staffer alleges that a federal agent tried to enter Google's Cambridge campus in the fall.

400 jobs at risk. A campus set to close.

This film explains what’s happening at the University of Essex and why staff, students and the local community are organising to stop it.

📍 Southend rally | 5 February

Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

István Hont, Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx:
Culture, Needs and Property Rights - eds. Lasse S. Andersen, Béla Kapossy, Richard Whatmore, @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, January 2026
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Thanks to @duncanbell.bsky.social for the link

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“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

After several celebrities said TikTok was limiting their videos about ICE, the platform responded, blaming the issue on an ongoing power outage at a U.S. data center. “Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate. We’re working with our data center partner to stabilize our service. We’re sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it soon.”

LMAO this is not what a data center power outage would do

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."