You think you know stress?
When I grew up, if you missed a TV show you just missed it.
Forever.
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You think you know stress?
When I grew up, if you missed a TV show you just missed it.
Forever.
La rete televisiva di destra statunitense Newsmax pagherà 67 milioni di dollari a Dominion Voting System, in una causa per diffamazione legata alle elezioni del 2020
I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.
A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.
Raskin: "What we have is the Trump Justice Department organizing itself not around the interests of the survivors -- the people who were victimized by Maxwell and Epstein -- but rather organizing itself around protecting the perpetrators."
Yes, the federal government removed two key sections of the Constitution, one dealing with Due Process and the second dealing with States rights, from a Congressional website.
I helped break this story this morning.
The government claims it's a coding error.
Il governo ha nominato due medici scettici sui vaccini nel gruppo di esperti sui vaccini
Exclusive: The Pentagon’s independent watchdog has received evidence that messages from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Signal account previewing a U.S. bombing campaign in Yemen derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET/NOFORN.”
Laura Santi è la nona persona in Italia e la prima in Umbria ad aver ottenuto, dopo un lungo e complesso iter giudiziario civile e penale, il via libera al suicidio assistito. Era affetta da una forma progressiva e avanzata di sclerosi multipla ilpost.link/996GKqZfQ7
More than 1,000 protesters marched across the causeway from West Palm Beach toward President Donald Trump’s resort home of Mar-a-Lago on Saturday morning, chanting “USA!” and waving American flags and “No Kings” signs.
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Breaking news: California sued the Trump administration over its deployment of 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles, a move with little precedent that has dramatically increased tensions between the federal government and America’s largest Democratic-led state.
I survived Lymphoma- surgery, 3 months of chemotherapy, 21 radiation treatments. That was some 20 years ago! Modern medicine saved my life!
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
Update: for now, blocked by judge
"A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order preventing migrants from being sent to Libya or any other third country after immigration attorneys filed an emergency motion Wednesday."
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La giornalista ucraina Viktoriia Roshchyna era sparita nel 2023 mentre stava lavorando: il suo corpo è stato restituito dai russi mutilato e irriconoscibile
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Thank you Greyhound!
Trump’s appointees often seem to be acting out a made-for-television version of their jobs, @ashleyrparker.bsky.social writes. They “perform near-daily tone poems to a certain type of MAGA masculinity, publicly pantomiming their professional responsibilities.”
In an extraordinary on-air rebuke, one of the top journalists at “60 Minutes” directly criticized the program’s parent company, Paramount, in the final moments of its Sunday night CBS telecast, its first episode since the program’s executive producer, Bill Owens, announced his intention to resign.
China, Russia and India have dispatched emergency teams and supplies to earthquake-ravaged Myanmar. So have Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam. The U.S., the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has sent nothing.
There are a lot of reasons not to fuck with indie publishing but I stay in it because in spite of the costs and the struggles and the mistakes making books is one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. I love every book and every author we’ve ever published.
«L’idea di fare una grande manifestazione per l’Europa, incautamente lanciata proprio qui il 10 di febbraio, poi rilanciata in prima pagina su Repubblica, ha provocato un considerevole trambusto» dalla newsletter di Michele Serra:
Nella sua prima visita alla Casa Bianca da quando Trump è tornato alla presidenza degli Stati Uniti, Macron ha provato a far cambiare idea a Trump sull'Ucraina: ha fatto alcune concessioni e al tempo stesso ha smentito le sue affermazioni false
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
If you haven’t read them in a while, here is a partial list of books banned in some school districts/states:
Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
Brave New World
1984
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
Captain Underpants
Anne Frank
Ender’s Game
I know why the caged bird sings
Source: ALA, Chicago
While history repeats itself, I’m contemplating an escape plan. Anybody has suggestions about WHERE one could live without this fascist stink?
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Preparing to live 4 years like this, trying to avoid insanity.
