Last Friday, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas, represented by United Academics of the University of Kansas, announced a tentative first contract agreement that ensures due process, job security, academic freedom and dignified compensation for all.
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“Ecocide” means unlawful or wanton acts committed with knowledge that there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts
- consensus definition for proposed inclusion of Ecocide as international crime in Rome Statute
Is this bad?
“City officials expect to reach a ‘water emergency’ within months and run out of water next year.“
“The region’s largest industrial users, which collectively consume the majority of the region’s water, remain exempt from emergency curtailment.”
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The overbearing workload required to correctly cast a ballot is a feature of the policy choices made by Republicans, not a bug. Their hope is that, if they erect enough barriers to the ballot box, it will convince the “wrong” type of voters to simply give up.
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News: Commanders across dozens of U.S. military bases told troops the war on Iran is part of "God's plan" so Trump can bring about "Armageddon"
News: so Trump can bring about "Armageddon." The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) has been "inundated" with complaints since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran over the weekend, receiving more than 110 complaints from U.S. military personnel stationed at dozens of sites across the Middle East. Journalist Jonathan Larsen broke the story, sharing specific complaints made by troops. One such complaint made by a noncommissioned officer reported that their commander had "urged us to tell our troops that this was 'all part of God's divine plan' and he specifically referenced numerous citations out of the Book of Revelation referring to Armageddon and the imminent return of Jesus Christ." "He said that 'President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth," the NCO continued. "He had a big grin on his face when he said all of this which made his message seem even more crazy." MRFF told Larsen that over 110 complaints came
The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has received 110+ complaints from US service members across 30+ sites about commanders using religious rhetoric
Including calling the war with Iran "part of God's plan" and Trump "anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon”
The cover of environmental Sociology now, edited by Jordan Fox, Ian Carrillo, J.P. Sapinski, and Diana Stuart
Today is the official publication day of Environmental Sociology Now!
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Camp East Montana in El Paso is currently under quarantine following a measles outbreak and cases of tuberculosis.
My breaking story:
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A Falcon rocket crashing through the atmosphere left a massive metal pollution plume detected from Earth. Researchers say such contamination is rising rapidly as launch activity surges, and they warn that the atmosphere and climate could be harmed.
This isn't about choice.
It's about their desire to eliminate the "weak" in society (based on their inhumane view that the "weak" take more than they contribute and thus don't deserve life) and to profit by selling snake oil to people who reject mainstream meds.
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"knowledge about how greenhouse gases affect hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, flooding & agriculture becomes more detailed every year. The government’s decision today is 'not based on science,' Howarth said. 'It’s a predetermined political decision.' "
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Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
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The FAA has halted all flights into or out of El Paso for 10 days for unspecified "special security reasons," canceling more than 1,000 flights and effectively cutting a major American city off by air. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
I have been informed by U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar and confirmed by the City of El Paso, Texas that there are two known active cases of tuberculosis registered at Camp East Montana. There are also at least 18 cases of COVID-19.
I had been hearing rumors of this from my contacts for weeks.
Tens of thousands of people across Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana have gone a week without power or heat after a brutal ice storm. At least three dozen people have died in connection with the storm, officials have said.
Sharing a recent interview I did with the Texas Standard.
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“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.”
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Another thing I learned in the town hall is that the events in Minneapolis are being well-documented because of the thousands of people who trained to become legal observers after the murder of George Floyd
I am a climate scientist and this is correct.
As the planet warms, storms like the one today are getting stronger… and as the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the mid latitudes, it increases the risk of the “freezer door” swinging open.
Technical explanation here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
This is Rachel Sayre, Emergency Management director of Minneapolis Emergency Management.
Of all the horrific ways that these ICE actions are affecting people's lives, this one took my breath away. I'm a cancer survivor *because of chemo*. Like, there are no home remedies. So much needless suffering and death. Which of course a few at the very top seem to relish.
at some point, someone needs to write something in lancet about how basic human rights principles and norms are being broken left and right with how ICE is going after and weaponizing health services
"People with disabilities face an increased threat of violence at the hands of the federal immigration enforcement agency."
True, and yet it's so much more urgent than these words can convey.
This is the most thrilling podcast I’ve listened to in quite a while: we are in the threshold of something truly transformative (in a good way!)
Expert on the global history of concentration camps* warning us of the things many sense but can't necessarily articulate.
*Strongly recommend - a difficult & essential read:
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I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand
You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen
*Everyone has stories like this*
At a church in Minneapolis that is hosting an anti-ICE singing vigil, which will later process through the neighborhood.
They sing: “This is for our neighbors who are locked inside, together we will abolish ICE.”
Thank you for sharing the entire letter in alt text.
One of the chief virtues of the book is that it’s nearly the only remaining form of media that isn’t constantly being interrupted by ads. Between the covers is the last place on earth where no one is trying to sell you shit, a place where you can still be a human being rather than a mark.
