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American studies prof. Erstwhile economist. Sometime musician. Habitat builder. Pro-bunny. Earthling. Trying to make more darkness. Ⓥ He/him

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I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.

14.03.2026 20:51 👍 2718 🔁 859 💬 66 📌 50

A week after FIU college republicans were exposed for celebrating Himmler's concept of a "Nazi heaven," UF college republicans are disbanded for doing Hitler salutes.

14.03.2026 22:58 👍 1352 🔁 445 💬 41 📌 37
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

14.03.2026 23:15 👍 149 🔁 46 💬 2 📌 2

Batoul and her loved ones were among the 773 Lebanese people – including more than 100 children – killed by Israel’s campaign in Lebanon since 2 March. They join a growing list of families completely wiped out by Israeli bombings.

14.03.2026 23:20 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

FUCK ISRAEL. A BLIGHT ON THE WORLD.

14.03.2026 19:21 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

The ultimate irony is that TPUSA is organized around the idea that a religious minority (Muslims, who comprise 1% of the population) wants to take over the country & tell us how to live, when TPUSA speaks for a religious minority (maybe 30%) that wants to take over the country & tell us how to live.

14.03.2026 21:55 👍 365 🔁 73 💬 5 📌 2

The first thing he says when trying to define the American Dream is that he wants to be able to get married, and then the first "threat" to that dream he identifies is schools treating LGBT people as equal.

Yeah man, they want to be able to get married to the person they love and everything.

14.03.2026 22:32 👍 762 🔁 152 💬 45 📌 7
Tiny frog giving me a look that clearly says “watch it, Bigfoot”

Tiny frog giving me a look that clearly says “watch it, Bigfoot”

Cricket Frogs are out and about today💚

14.03.2026 22:34 👍 58 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

I hope everyone faving and reposting also commits to doing at least 2 out of the 3 things below:
1) masking in public spaces
2) taking steps to clean the air in local schools
3) adding remote options for people who can’t physically go to stuff in person

Because ignoring this won’t make it go away

14.03.2026 00:24 👍 77 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1

It's International Long COVID Awareness Day. I feel so many things.

I mourn those we have lost. I mourn those of us who are bedbound or housebound and pushed from society. I mourn the lifeline research, funding, and services that have been cut by this administration.

13.03.2026 22:06 👍 173 🔁 56 💬 2 📌 10
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DOGE Depositions : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Members of the Department of Government Efficiency being deposed in the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and...

Videos can be accessed here @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and anyone else interested in watching.

archive.org/details/adam...

14.03.2026 20:18 👍 70 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 3

imagine you’re on a spaceship and then some random guy says that all the water and power on board should be used to generate fake sentences and ugly pics

14.03.2026 21:04 👍 188 🔁 67 💬 0 📌 2
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The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet On Friday, a judge ordered those who uploaded the videos to YouTube to remove them. By Saturday, a backup of the videos was available online as a torrent and on the Internet Archive.

Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.

14.03.2026 16:22 👍 564 🔁 212 💬 24 📌 29
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Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

14.03.2026 20:51 👍 4043 🔁 1806 💬 139 📌 133

"Governments modelling abandonment and cruelty in a time of crisis signal support to fascist, eugenicist and Nazi logic."

14.03.2026 19:38 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 1
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a black and white drawing of a cat with the words `` gimme gimme gimme '' written on it . Alt: a black and white drawing of a cat with the words `` gimme gimme gimme '' written on it .

It’s funny to me that so many socially awkward weirdos (like myself) abhor the very concept of political correctness
like wait there’s *successful human interaction best practices*?! And I can *learn them*?! And thus not be terrified of people finding me distasteful *all the time*?!

14.03.2026 17:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

These videos were deleted for fear of “reputational damage”

And after seeing the videos…. Their reputations should be damaged

14.03.2026 17:40 👍 324 🔁 80 💬 15 📌 1

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

14.03.2026 14:42 👍 1001 🔁 218 💬 8 📌 13

President of Brandeis co-wrote this absolute hot trash of a piece.

Do not go to Brandeis.

14.03.2026 16:18 👍 24 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

It’s like I say to administrators: any gains in retention and increased student outcomes are IN SPITE of all your bullshit programs.

14.03.2026 19:24 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Hala Jaber
@HalaJaber
🚨BREAKING |
Israeli shells struck the Nepali battalion headquarters of UNIFIL in Mays Al-Jabal, southern Lebanon, wounding several peacekeepers & setting parts of the compound on fire.

The Nepalese consulate in Beirut confirmed & condemned the attack targeting the Nepali battalion headquarters within the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon.

Not even UN peacekeepers are spared from Israeli strikes.

Hala Jaber @HalaJaber 🚨BREAKING | Israeli shells struck the Nepali battalion headquarters of UNIFIL in Mays Al-Jabal, southern Lebanon, wounding several peacekeepers & setting parts of the compound on fire. The Nepalese consulate in Beirut confirmed & condemned the attack targeting the Nepali battalion headquarters within the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon. Not even UN peacekeepers are spared from Israeli strikes.

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🔴 Israel shells struck and wounded UNIFIL peacemakers in southern Lebanon:

14.03.2026 18:03 👍 66 🔁 50 💬 2 📌 5

For Batoul Hamdan and her two children, seven-month-old Fatima and Jihad, three, Monday’s iftar, the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan, was special.

For a week, they had eaten to the sounds of bombs in their home in Arab Salim. Hamdan eventually decided to leave for Al-Nimiriya, the sleepy town where she had grown up. Surrounded by her parents and siblings in the family home, she hoped they could finally enjoy the festive mood of Ramadan.

They had just finished their meal when the bomb fell. The Israeli airstrike collapsed the two-storey building instantly, killing all eight members of the Hamdan family: grandparents Ahmad and Najib, their children, including Batoul, and grandchildren Fatima and Jihad – three generations wiped out in a moment.

On Thursday, only snarled rebar and broken concrete remained of the Hamdan family home. The fragments of their lives – a certificate of achievement from the children’s schooldays, cutlery from their cabinet, frayed purses – had been ejected by the force of the blast and now littered the ground.

“There was no warning before the strike. My own two kids started to cry, I picked them up and started to run away from the explosion when it happened,” said Qassem Ayoub, a neighbour and town police officer, as he stared at the wreckage. “Why were they targeted? I don’t know, ask the Israelis.”

For Batoul Hamdan and her two children, seven-month-old Fatima and Jihad, three, Monday’s iftar, the evening meal that breaks the daily fast during Ramadan, was special. For a week, they had eaten to the sounds of bombs in their home in Arab Salim. Hamdan eventually decided to leave for Al-Nimiriya, the sleepy town where she had grown up. Surrounded by her parents and siblings in the family home, she hoped they could finally enjoy the festive mood of Ramadan. They had just finished their meal when the bomb fell. The Israeli airstrike collapsed the two-storey building instantly, killing all eight members of the Hamdan family: grandparents Ahmad and Najib, their children, including Batoul, and grandchildren Fatima and Jihad – three generations wiped out in a moment. On Thursday, only snarled rebar and broken concrete remained of the Hamdan family home. The fragments of their lives – a certificate of achievement from the children’s schooldays, cutlery from their cabinet, frayed purses – had been ejected by the force of the blast and now littered the ground. “There was no warning before the strike. My own two kids started to cry, I picked them up and started to run away from the explosion when it happened,” said Qassem Ayoub, a neighbour and town police officer, as he stared at the wreckage. “Why were they targeted? I don’t know, ask the Israelis.”

Israel's campaign of murderous ethnic cleansing and genocide continues in Lebanon. How can any human hand-wring about this? The 'both sides' are the side of life and the side of death.

Israel is obsessed with mass-murdering children and they must be stopped

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

14.03.2026 18:05 👍 105 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 2
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Tell Wegmans Food Markets to Stop Supporting an Institute that Has Paid to Suffocate, Sicken, and Slice Open Animals | PETA Urge Wegmans Food Markets to restrict its funding to the Food Research Institute’s non-animal research fund and join PETA’s Eat Without Experiments program.

Tell Wegmans Food Markets to restrict its funding to the Food Research Institute’s non-animal research fund👇

14.03.2026 18:00 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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This is the hidden reality behind a slice of bacon. 🥓

👉 See how you can help pigs: https://veganfta.com/resource-hub/pigs/ 🐷

Clip from vivacharity (IG)

#pigs #animalrights #farming #animals #govegan

13.03.2026 09:03 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 0

Everything about him is awful, but I don't understand why, if he wants to come across as an aggro tough guy, he doesn't do something about that grating high-pitched whiny voice.

13.03.2026 18:35 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Help Countless Monkeys and Other Primates Now One page, multiple opportunities to help monkeys and other primates used in experiments and for entertainment. Complete these PETA action alerts today.

Despite decades of promises & hundreds of thousands of dead monkeys, primate experiments haven’t resulted in effective vaccines for HIV, malaria, or other human illnesses.
 
Urge NIH to stop using monkeys in HIV research! www.peta.vg/46ir

12.03.2026 02:17 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

each of those is $1.3 million-$2.2 million depending on what's included in the estimate so X20 in less than 15 seconds there goes the healthcare, education, housing, research and art we couldn't find any way to pay for

11.03.2026 18:47 👍 42 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 1

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it

this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

11.03.2026 15:52 👍 2097 🔁 671 💬 38 📌 42

The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse.

I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders.

The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then.

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09.03.2026 17:13 👍 407 🔁 169 💬 4 📌 8
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Trump’s DHS Nominee Made Profitable Stock Purchases Days Before US Military Strikes As a member of a key Senate committee, Mullin was privy to information regarding planned military actions.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin — Trump’s pick to head the Department of Homeland Security — profited from stocks in oil and security companies that he invested in just days before U.S. military strikes in Venezuela and Iran.

11.03.2026 15:57 👍 59 🔁 34 💬 1 📌 5