Christina Turner

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

AAAAAAHHHHHHHH

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Look at these cool philosophy of physics postdocs we're advertising here at LSE!

philjobs.org/job/show/30977 and philjobs.org/job/show/30981

Pro-abortion Notre Dame professor withdraws from institute role after fierce criticism from bishops, cardinals Abortion rights advocate Susan Ostermann withdraws from Notre Dame directorship position after facing opposition from at least 19 Catholic bishops and cardinals.

Cancel culture for me but not for thee

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

Cover of The Lancet:

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Men studying a dragon

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Thread: imagine you're a historian surveying 16th century copies of the world's most famous ancient astronomy book, and you see one where somebody with handwriting VERY similar to GALILEO (!?) has transcribed... a psalm.

"Galileo, a prayer? That's something that doesn't work," Ivan Malara thought.

It's unusual for the Secretary of Defense to spend this much time obsessing about children's genitalia, but I guess that's sort of the main theme of the second Trump administration.

powerful academics getting to retire after being linked to a child sex trafficer is not "accountability" or "facing consequences" or "a reckoning" or "justice" it's just them retiring. These institutions continue to beclown themselves. Divest.

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Epstein-Botstein Legal Review Will Take At Least Two Months, Bard Board Announces, as New Calls for Botstein Resignation Surface - The Daily Catch The Bard Board of Trustees announced that the investigation into the ties between Jeffrey Epstein and Leon Botstein will take two to three months.

In lawyer-ese this translates to “We’re pretty sure that if we delay this until after graduation everyone will forget about it.” www.thedailycatch.org/articles/eps...

Why is the word stolen in quotes here

Bloop

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Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

Hey Universities: @columbiauniversity.bsky.social paid the Trump administration’s “protection racket” in full

Did it protect the University, the leadership, or the students? No it did not. Paying off bullies never works.

You can always tell an institution’s values based off of how it *spends* money.

Even in capitalism, the goal isn’t straightforwardly to make money. It’s about power.

And some things are considered worthless no matter the monetary gains while others are considered valuable no matter the cost.

CHRIST this was a bitch to alt text (my phone camera is allergic to this font) but it was worth it so we could enjoy this scorching hot Catholic tea together

they just flat out said the SCOTUS Catholics are going to hell. which we knew, but maybe they’ll hear it from the bishops!

Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish the Police “What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.

Premature death at the hands of armed agents of the state is merely a hazard of being Black in America. It’s not enough to “abolish ICE”; we have to abolish the police force and replace it with a radically different form of public safety.

Remember when Trump yanked funds from Mississippi after learning that the state's welfare chief had directed millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to sports celebrities, including not only Brett Favre, but the Million Dollar man and his two pro-wrestler sons?

Wait. He didn't.

Ben Rosen Follow @ben_rosen REPUBLICANS: we're having the military throw protesters in unmarked vans DEMOCRATS: mark 5:23 • 23 Jul 20 the vans

This, basically:

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General.

Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

And they report the highest sense of belonging on their campus.

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Clarence Thomas is celebrating Black History Month his way: by becoming the first black judge to rule that they don’t have to deliver the mail to you if you’re Black