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I wouldn’t call Gantz a “centrist” but this does seem big.
“Gantz said Netanyahu is making ‘total victory impossible’ and that the government needs to put the return of the hostages seized Oct. 7 by Hamas ‘above political survival.’”
www.cbsnews.com/news/benny-g...
Benny Gantz, a popular centrist former military chief, joined Netanyahu's government shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in a show of unity.
www.cbsnews.comThis could be a redux of our last faculty senate meeting. So our BoT ands Chancellor are reading shit from the 1950s?
"There has been a tolerance toward the concept of academic freedom and liberal thinking, far beyond general recognition. There has been less indoctrination and special pleading in recent years than in the earlier period of our educational growth, and sciences has flourished under business guidance."
I’m not sure what “elite” means but CU-Denver, Metro St., CC-Denver, U of Wisc.-Platteville, CCNY, & many others are serving Black & Brown students who work to afford college. When I taught at Columbia, many of my students transferred from Laguardia CC b/c they couldn’t afford 4 years at Columbia.
oh my god David shut the fuck up
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/o...
Isn’t terrorism a crime?
“While teaching a class to high school students on Wednesday, Burlington police officers staged a surprise demonstration in which a masked gunman burst into the room and pretended to open fire.”
Updated at 2:31 p.m. While teaching a class to high school students on Wednesday, Burlington police officers staged a surprise demonstration in which a masked...
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Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas call for US Jewish organizations to help them & call for a ceasefire. Here’s hoping they listen to what many of us have been saying for months, what our students have been asking for, & what most of the world supports.
www.instagram.com/p/C72BVhlP_g...
“The 84-page document, which mentioned India 44 times, said that New Delhi ‘emerged as the second-most significant foreign interference threat to Canada’s democratic institutions and processes.’”
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Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government was taking the document, which was tabled in Parliament this week, very seriously.
scroll.inWhat is happening right now??? Wow.
Holy fucking shit. The US Cricket team just beat Pakistan.
To put that in perspective, it would be like the Pakistan National Cricket team beating the Lakers. In basketball.
GOP: Law and order! More cops.
Also GOP: No, not like that!
“As the two men — both of whom were injured by rioters on Jan. 6 — were introduced, the House floor descended into chaos. According to Democratic lawmakers, several GOP lawmakers hissed and booed…”
Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell were invited to Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives — but several GOP lawmakers booed and some walked out, Democratic lawmakers said.
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This post is for desis and other mango lovers. I love everything about this. #mangophilosopher
www.chicagotribune.com/2024/06/05/m...
For a few brief summer weeks, premium mangoes from all over the Indian subcontinent mingle together in a warehouse in Romeoville.
www.chicagotribune.comHaving an international student that can only work a crap job on campus for 20 hours a week that he needs a co-signer for an apartment managed by his university feels wrong. Sigh.
Yeah, no. Just no. 🤦🏽♀️
Chicago Police Superintendent: “A peaceful protest does not necessarily mean that someone is exercising their First Amendment rights.”
Peaceful protests can still be illegal if organizers trespass or block the public way, police Supt. Larry Snelling said. Activist groups planning to protest the DNC criticized his comments.
blockclubchicago.orgAlso hopeful I may be able to travel to travel to India safely again. 🤞🏽
Modi and his Islamophobic Hindutva politics has been completely rejected by Tamil Nadu not once, not twice, but all three times he has run. Always proud to be Tamil but rarely more than today. #IndianElections
Modi and his Islamophobic Hindutva politics has been completely rejected by Tamil Nadu not once, not twice, but all three times he has run. Always proud to be Tamil but rarely more than today. #IndianElections
If you’re wondering why so many folks are posting with glee about the losing party in the Indian elections, here’s a bit more on why the oppositions’ gains mean so much. The culture of repression in India is terrible. But Modi’s Hindu nationalist govt has targeted citizens in other nations as well.
If folks would like to know more about the culture of repression in India, watch this documentary which was just released:
youtu.be/AQOfmhRwfI8?...
A million times this
For the love of God, don’t read the @nytimes.com coverage of India’s election.
It’s comical horserace bullshit. That’s all the NYT seems to do these days.
Meanwhile, evangelicals are in bed with the RSS-a Hindu nationalist paramilitary org in India of which Modi is a member. #hatealliances
mereorthodoxy.com/white-evange...
A key leader in the Hindu nationalist movement in India, which has persecuted Christians for decades, will be at NatCon4 with Al Mohler and Doug Wilson.
mereorthodoxy.com
For those interested in Hindutva tears. here are two of my favs. Turns out folks are big mad at Rama and also begging him to do something. 🤣
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Waking up to election results in India has been such a pleasant surprise! BJP looks like they will lose Ayodhya is amazing. Turns out Islamophobia does not fix massive unemployment. #indianelections
Waking up to election results in India has been such a pleasant surprise! BJP looks like they will lose Ayodhya is amazing. Turns out Islamophobia does fix massive unemployment. #indianelections
This was amazing. Would love to see Kyle Clark moderate more debates.
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🔥 ICYMI — Boebert grilled at a debate for “repeatedly taking credit for projects you voted against” (as @marshablackburn & Tennessee Republicans do also)… and “that theater thing” 👀
@kyleclark9news....
I’m here for the cola wars redux happening on Bluesky right now.
Coke is it. Always and forever.
Very happy for the Dr. but based on the chart I think Sprite deserves respect as well. www.wsj.com/business/dr-...
The fascist revivalism in a global context should be a bigger a story.
“Now you understand. To save your nation, you must fight. The time to respond is now. Franco Friday has begun,” another Proud Boys chapter wrote, apparently referring to fascist dictator Francisco Franco of Spain.”
Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.
www.nbcnews.com
Horrific ethnic cleaning in Darfur. These accounts are from last summer compiled by HRW.
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
I literally made a joke about this last week. This dystopian timeline continues to deliver
Who would be surprised at this point
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Autonomous robots represent the latest entry in campus security.
edtechmagazine.comOrange is the new orange it seems
NEW YORK (AP) — Judge has set Donald Trump's sentencing for July 11, just days before Republicans are set to select him as 2024 nominee.
Scholasticide should be of concern to every academic and every institution.
“Education is not just a means of imparting knowledge; it is a vital pillar of our existence and a beacon of hope for the Palestinian people.”
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
We call on our supporters to help us resist the Israeli campaign of scholasticide and rebuild our universities.
www.aljazeera.com
Next up will be a Hummer ad saying “Now with whale penis.”
‘It is inspired by the original playboy Aristotle Onassis' yacht Christina O, which had bar stool seats made from sperm whale foreskin,” a Dartz spokesman was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.”
www.autoevolution.com/news/the-1m-...
The £1M SUV Comes with Whale’s Penis Interior
www.autoevolution.com
Solid article about how Indian extremist groups like VHP are global.
“the Modi regime [has centered] efforts to purge Islamic history from India. [These include] the Ram temple construction…, renaming of Muslim cities, & rewriting of schoolbooks to minimize Muslim contributions…”
archive.ph/RVtIV
Our politicians are all grotesque.
On the left, you see an image of a post of someone lamenting their whiteness in the terrible academic job market.
On the right, you see an image that tells you who mostly gets the jobs in the terrible academic job market.
Hint: it’s not BIPOCs
Only an absolute ghoul would use the phrase “legally killed child”. And there is no excuse for publishing a defense of killing children. Because there are no good reasons for it. Ever.
This seems bad.
“A handful of…law enforcement agencies are considering using drones as first responders—that is, sending them in response to 911 calls—as police depts across Colorado continue to…embrace the use of…remote-controlled flying machines.”
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Even the Denver Police Department, which long has resisted drones, is now launching its own program and wants to eventually use them to respond to 911 calls across the city.
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Must read piece re: AAPI orgs, ADL, policing, & funding
“This linkage—…organizational & ideological—enacts an analogy of exceptional victimhood that tethers the figure of the violated Asian American to the ADL’s Zionist notion of Jewishness…Greenblatt has…asserted that “anti-zionism is genocide…”
[ TL;DR: AAAS declines a grant of 50k from The Asian American Foundation (TAAF), in solidarity with the ppl of Falastiin! ]
p.s. head of ADL is the only non-Asian board member of TAAF
i'd highly recommend reading this article from Dylan Rodriguez
criticalethnicstudiesjournal.org/blog/2024/4/...
😳
“Any pointless indulgence, like heating the house in the winter, we try to avoid if we can find other solutions,” says Malcolm”
"there's absolutely no reason that I'm dressed and styling my hair as if I'm an extra in a Nazi propaganda film. It's just pure coincidence." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Elon Musk (father of 11) admires them. Thousands follow their ideology. Malcolm and Simone Collins are on a mission to persuade everyone to have multiple children. But are they really model parents?
www.theguardian.com
This orca story just gets better and better.
“a bunch of bored teenage orcas looking for something to do.”
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
An international group of orca experts met to determine why orcas are ramming boats. The leading theory: They're bored and playful.
www.usatoday.com
Truly chilling that this person is permitted to provide health care to anyone much less pregnant persons and babies.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
Dr Ingrid Skop called the supreme court’s overturning of Roe v Wade ‘a victory’ and has argued in favor of abortion bans
www.theguardian.comPSA
if you have AC, please use it
the 'costly luxury' mindworm means people turn it on at the worst times (peak heat), run it hard, then turn it off - where if you just turn it on and leave it on a modern system is going to be *immensely* more energy efficient and you will be *far* more comfortable
This an extremely bad idea among the several bad ideas that are floating around right now.
New bill seeks to extend U.S. military benefits to Americans serving in the IDF
A new bill in Congress would extend some U.S. military benefits to the estimated 20,000 Americans currently carrying out the Gaza genocide as members of the Israeli military.
A new bill in Congress would extend some U.S. military benefits to the estimated 20,000 Americans currently carrying out the Gaza genocide as members of the Israeli military.
mondoweiss.net
If folks would like to know more about the culture of repression in India, watch this documentary which was just released:
youtu.be/AQOfmhRwfI8?...
Important read. India under Modi has launched an intimidation campaign that has threatened US citizens w/impunity.
“Today, even India’s enemies know: This is Modi, this is the new India,” the prime minister said at an April rally. “This new India comes into your home to kill you.”
shorturl.at/8shuy
Narendra Modi’s government is trying to silence US critics of its authoritarian turn — and it's succeeding.
shorturl.atLet me be clear: the admin sent an email to the DU community last night that essentially invited a mob to harass & assault the encampment students. It was either willful incompetence or malignancy. Either way, we were shown that our administration has no will or ability to keep our campus safe.
Historic night at DU. A community came together to defend our students against an admin that was tone deaf and a drunk mob of counter protesters that tried repeatedly to instigate violence. There were no cops and no campus safety. Just faculty and staff in neon yellow vests protecting students.
Important read. India under Modi has launched an intimidation campaign that has threatened US citizens w/impunity.
“Today, even India’s enemies know: This is Modi, this is the new India,” the prime minister said at an April rally. “This new India comes into your home to kill you.”
shorturl.at/8shuy
Narendra Modi’s government is trying to silence US critics of its authoritarian turn — and it's succeeding.
shorturl.atHistoric night at DU. A community came together to defend our students against an admin that was tone deaf and a drunk mob of counter protesters that tried repeatedly to instigate violence. There were no cops and no campus safety. Just faculty and staff in neon yellow vests protecting students.