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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.

Under pressure from the White House, the Smithsonian censored an exhibit that mentioned Trump’s impeachments, now inaccurately suggesting to visitors that he was never impeached at all (let alone twice). www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Philosophy professor & US Citizen Jonathan Caravello has been brutally detained & effectively disappeared for trying to help a legal observer remove a teargas canister from under their wheelchair during an ICE raid on a California farm.

…is a sentence I've now had to write. What… in the actual fuck

Can anyone tell me if there is or could be something like the GI Rights hotline to help people working for ICE to stop working for ICE? And maybe to help them tell media about their atrocities?

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

I read that children 6-12 are more likely to be killed in Gaza because they’re too big to be carried, and not as fast as children 12+, and I can’t stop thinking about it. We have children running for their lives on the regular so much so that there are patterns as to who survives.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.

So, best we share all the footage we can here!

This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇹🇷 #Turkey

So the FBI could surveil & then assassinate a 21 year old Civil Rights leader in 1969, but is powerless to take any steps to stop--checks notes--a 19 year old who goes by the name Big Balls from defunding and defrauding a $6 Trillion economy? Do I have that right?

THE ASK This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity. DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN TRUMP'S AGENDA Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how: 1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely. 2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process. 3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze. 4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down. 5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues. No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have. Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🧵(1/5) In light of the new EO, just a friendly reminder that *cisgender boys* are the population of minors getting the most surgical gender-affirming procedures, not trans kids. And almost all surgical gender-affirming care in minors is top surgery performed on older teens.

🧵The debate over the failure to place a plaque honoring the agencies that defended the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 is a wonderful case study on the difference between history and memory. In 2022, Congress authorized the a plaque for the west front of the Capitol complex by March 2023. 🗃️

I re-watched Twin Peaks with my teen daughter this summer, and she loved it and got all her friends into it. I felt thankful that DL was still around and weird.

To grieve and celebrate him, I'm gonna re-read this and watch that Badalamenti video about 20 times. #DavidLynch @im.a.whole.damn.town

Sarah Palmer and Doc Hayward in the Palmer’s living room. Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.

Twin Peaks: Sarah Palmer and Doc Hayward in the Palmer’s living room.

This may be the end of the fighting. It certainly won't be the end of the genocide.

Palestinians will need massive amounts of aid as they begin to recover and rebuild. Gazans will still be living in the world's largest open air prison.

Fueled by harsh drug sentences, Idaho leads nation in women's incarceration, report finds Idaho Justice Project calls for drug policy reforms, but lawmakers say public safety is at stake

NEW: Idaho’s tough-on-drugs stance = a sky-high women’s prison population. Our latest report unpacks how policies are driving women behind bars at record rates.

www.investigatewest.org/investigatew...

Join SIT on a fully funded Fulbright-Hays faculty summer program in Tanzania  - School for International Training U.S. educators interested in climate change are invited to apply to School for International Training's 2025 Fulbright-Hays faculty summer program in Tanzania!

Folks interested in studying climate change in Tanzania: Consider this opportunity with SIT.

NB: The deadline is 1/15.

I did an SIT program on decoloniality, sustainability, and epistemic justice in Cameroon last summer and enjoyed it. Feel free to AMA.

#academiasky #academia #academicsky

As Pacific Palisades burns, firefighters report hydrants coming up dry: 'Water supply just dropped' L.A. developer Rick Caruso, who owns Palisades Village, says he received reports that there was 'no water in the fire hydrants' as firefighters battled the Palisades fire.

Some firefighters battling the Palisades fire in LA are reporting that hydrants are coming up dry.

Southern California has gotten approximately .1 inches of rain since this past May.

We need urgent climate action now.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

Meta has repeatedly deleted our articles, including ones about Instagram's censorship and disproportionate moderation against trans people. It put a "fact check" warning on an article we did about hurricane helene AI spam proliferating on the platform

www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

DSA 101: Central Branch Are you new or newly returning to DSA? To Los Angeles? To the Left? Then join us for DSA 101! At this orientation, we’ll talk about what capitalism is, how it functions, and why socialism is ideologi...

Want to learn what DSA-LA is all about? Now’s your chance!

New and not-yet-members are invited to join us on January 15th for a DSA 101 orientation! We’ll talk about what capitalism is, how it functions, and how socialism can fight back.

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Absolutely agreed. Our distinction is somewhat similar to what's in your book; I'd guess we'd agree about Mills's core point. I'd love to hear from anyone who thinks C+D get Mills's point or distinction right. If you know of any defenses, please share.

Section 3 shows that this distinction picks out interesting subsets of work in philosophy of language. We say that ideal theories adopt models of the social world that fail to recognize systemic oppression and are therefore systematically inaccurate. Nonideal theories correct these inaccuracies.

Section 1 summarizes C&D’s argument against Charles Mills’s version of the distinction. Section 2 develops an account of the distinction that’s inspired by Mills’s work but that differs from what C&D take Mills’s view to be.

Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever (C&D) have recently argued that the ideal/non-ideal distinction is ‘useless’ in philosophy of language. This paper responds to C&D’s argument, develops an account of the distinction, and applies it to philosophy of language.

Using the Ideal/Nonideal Distinction in Philosophy of Language (and Elsewhere) Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever (C&D) have recently argued that the ideal/non-ideal distinction is ‘useless’ in philosophy of language. This paper responds to C&D’s argument, develops an account of ...

As folks are making syllabi: If you'll teach/work on philosophy of language or recent stuff on non-ideal theory in the spring, this paper might be of interest. Written with a former student not on bsky, Molly Moran.

Abstract in the comments. #philsky #philosophy #phillanguage #nonidealtheory

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Petition - National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund “The Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund”, H.R. 4529 is a bill introduced by your colleague Rep. Jim McGovern. I urge you to support and become a co-sponsor of the H.R. 4529 because this important legisl...

The Peace Tax would make it so that for conscientious objectors, "the percentage of their tax money [that would otherwise be] spent for military purposes will go [instead] into a separate fund used for non-military purposes." Maybe interesting to @thesatanictempletv.bsky.social?

I was prompted to donate by @jowolff.bsky.social when I read that Musk is trying to destroy Wikipedia, as he is going to try to destroy a lot of things we take for granted as part of civil society - facts, honesty, decency, equality - you get the picture