Bryan Waterman

WHO verifies 18 attacks on healthcare services in Iran & 25 in Lebanon - a violation of intnl law. WHO warns of deteriorating public health conditions, unsafe water, poor sanitation.

In Iran, fires & smoke from bombings are putting dangerous toxins into the air. www.emro.who.int/media/news/c...

Guy coming to lead half this airport
line to some other security point and all I can think is I hope they’re not getting deported.

Okay maybe the Donner Party had it worse.

Domestic travel has never been more miserable than under this admin. What a total shit show.

Annie Abrams is doing some of the best commentary on ongoing efforts to make k-12 teaching increasingly rigid and unimaginative, with teachers themselves enjoined to be little more than automatons. Strong pressure to use teaching scripts — scripts that encourage children to memorize but not think.

When you build a machine to target people based on gender, race, or any other identity, it ends up targeting Jews too.

New deposition testimony shows a DOGE staffer flagged a Holocaust documentary—about Jewish women forced into slave labor by the Nazis—for termination.

His reason is shocking.

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Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers Andy Ogles said Muslims do not belong in the US and Randy Fine made a comparison of Muslims to dogs

Bigotry and xenophobia are pillars of fascism. Outrage should be a pillar of journalism, but reaction to Ogles and Fine has been muffled in media.
Mike Johnson refuses to condemn anti-Muslim comments by Republican lawmakers
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

US military spent $9 million on crab legs and lobster in the months before Iran war Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth also authorized the $100,000 purchase of a Steinway & Sons grand piano for the Air Force chief of staff’s home, according to a watchdog report

Good morning.

Have you seen this shit?...

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

⬇️ For your consideration: Watch to learn about the $220M taxpayer-funded ad campaign that's tied to a mysterious Delaware LLC and a horse named Gill.

More details: propub.li/4uoc28E

We historians definitely need to see the primary sources and as educators we will use them to teach about historical erasure (past and present). Creating a lesson plan out of these documents as we speak...
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As an adult I realized that my grandparents had inadvertently taught me whole swaths of the American Song Book just by singing fun songs around the house.

Reporter: You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war. But you're the only person in your government saying this. Why?

Trump: Because I just don't know enough about it.

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I'm an art professor I made an art

New idea: all-girl Depeche Mode cover band, Depeche Femme. I am a Dame Gahan in search of my Martina Gore (or vice versa, I've got range).

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the animating force in current Republican politics seems to be a form of dominance, perhaps best encapsulated by the famous "when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything". These are guys who never want to hear no, never want to feel they have to do a single thing they don't want to do

Timeline is putting these threads right up against one another. cc @markhurst.bsky.social

See: enslavement as a foundation for an economic system

None of this is new!

Timeline is putting these threads right up against one another. cc @markhurst.bsky.social

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

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Ruben Ray Martinez: Footage shows US citizen shot by ICE agent in Texas traffic stop The Department of Homeland Security did not disclose Martinez was shot by one of its agents until almost a year later.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.

"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reminds me of this Golden Era gem

DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.

He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.

The grift continues.

singer from brass solidarity band shatters a sheet of ice as the band plays “lovely day” at the abolish ICE benefit festival in minneapolis held across the street from where federal agents murdered alex pretti in january

"They don't know what they're up against."

What they're up against: