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Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2026). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic. Writing: https://emdillon.substack.com

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Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wadeβ€” yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

14.03.2026 00:16 πŸ‘ 2157 πŸ” 842 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 24
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The National Security Case for Renewable Energy - The American Prospect Turns out oil is vulnerable to price shocks caused by blood-crazed presidents.

"wherever renewables have been installed, they are turning out to be security gold." prospect.org/2026/03/13/i...

13.03.2026 13:37 πŸ‘ 181 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
Joint Lawsuit over Dismantling of National Endowment for the... 7 March 2026On Friday, 6 March 2026, the MLA, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), and American Historical Association (AHA) filed a motion for summary judgment in our case seeking to reverse...

If you want the clearest articulation of DOGE’s actions at #NEH, click on β€œview the motion” to read the motion for summary judgement. It details the misuse of DEI to undermine first amendment rights & equal protection, & how DOGE unconstitutionally made terminations.

www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

13.03.2026 12:35 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just sent a little to help.

13.03.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

NEH's budget is tinyβ€”not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.

07.03.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 324 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump sons back drone startup Powerus targeting Pentagon contracts: WSJ Trump-backed Powerus plans a Nasdaq debut via reverse merger, expanding U.S.

Trump's sons are war profiteers.

seekingalpha.com/news/4562197...

09.03.2026 11:56 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

The Post and Courier, which is leading the investigative work on the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child, looks into the woman’s FBI interview and substantiates many details through public records

09.03.2026 00:34 πŸ‘ 1206 πŸ” 376 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 8

The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill herβ€”and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?

09.03.2026 00:46 πŸ‘ 8510 πŸ” 3143 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 119
Now think about an EV instead. The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium. It travels 93 million miles in about eight minutes and 20 seconds (seven seconds more when our orbit takes us furthest away). Those photons then strike the silicon atoms in a photovoltaic panel, knocking loose electrons that produce a stream of direct current electricity; an inverter, now usually contained in the panel, converts that to AC power, which can be pumped directly into the battery of an EV where the motor uses electromagnetism to create a rotating magnetic field in a stator, which spins the inner rotor to propel the car. There are about 20 moving parts in the engine, and it is 80 to 90 percent efficient. There is no exhaust and almost no noise. That’s it. And if you poured those electrons into an e-bike instead of an EV, it’s even better: a penny’s worth of power is good for three miles or so. The same principles apply to electric buses, electric ferries, and so on.

Now think about an EV instead. The sun produces energy by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium. It travels 93 million miles in about eight minutes and 20 seconds (seven seconds more when our orbit takes us furthest away). Those photons then strike the silicon atoms in a photovoltaic panel, knocking loose electrons that produce a stream of direct current electricity; an inverter, now usually contained in the panel, converts that to AC power, which can be pumped directly into the battery of an EV where the motor uses electromagnetism to create a rotating magnetic field in a stator, which spins the inner rotor to propel the car. There are about 20 moving parts in the engine, and it is 80 to 90 percent efficient. There is no exhaust and almost no noise. That’s it. And if you poured those electrons into an e-bike instead of an EV, it’s even better: a penny’s worth of power is good for three miles or so. The same principles apply to electric buses, electric ferries, and so on.

"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz"

Top @billmckibben.bsky.social post here

billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...

08.03.2026 12:22 πŸ‘ 274 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
Lebanon’s Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed has announced that approximately 454,000 Lebanese people have registered as displaced.

She urged those who have not yet registered to do so, and said the Sports City Stadium in Beirut would be opened as a shelter for families in the municipality. In Akkar there are also multiple shelters.

Sayed added that β€œhot meals and food rations are being distributed in various Lebanese regions in cooperation with organisations and associations, with numbers increasing gradually to ensure no person is left without food.”

Lebanon’s Social Affairs Minister Haneen Sayed has announced that approximately 454,000 Lebanese people have registered as displaced. She urged those who have not yet registered to do so, and said the Sports City Stadium in Beirut would be opened as a shelter for families in the municipality. In Akkar there are also multiple shelters. Sayed added that β€œhot meals and food rations are being distributed in various Lebanese regions in cooperation with organisations and associations, with numbers increasing gradually to ensure no person is left without food.”

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have displaced more than 454,000 people in just a few days.

454,000 people. Because they felt like bombing Beirut.

07.03.2026 22:13 πŸ‘ 197 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3
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The Israeli military at the direction of its elected government and with the full support of most of its population murdered over 20,000 Palestinian children.

08.03.2026 11:49 πŸ‘ 229 πŸ” 130 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 5

most people don't know this but you can actually care about people who live in other countries

07.03.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

05.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 3208 πŸ” 1347 πŸ’¬ 113 πŸ“Œ 125
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DOJ releases Epstein files with accusations against Trump Over the course of four interviews in 2019, a woman told the FBI that Epstein and Trump sexually abused her in the 1980s.

β€œA DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credibleβ€”and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying.”

@jkbjournalist.bsky.social bringing it home
www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

07.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 4003 πŸ” 1672 πŸ’¬ 59 πŸ“Œ 74
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Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of β€œshould our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but β€œto what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

06.03.2026 03:06 πŸ‘ 1590 πŸ” 493 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 48
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Inside the Underground Safe Houses Sheltering Immigrants From ICE

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...
So we've come to this. Anne Frank hiding in the basement. Underground Railroad. Brave people having to do the right thing under cover as though it's wrong. This regime has no ethics, morals, or compassion, but they should feel deeply ashamed of themselves.

04.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A billion dollars a day to commit wholesale slaughter, not a single fucking penny for health care. America, 2026.

04.03.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 215 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

04.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 2936 πŸ” 1781 πŸ’¬ 168 πŸ“Œ 343

Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.

04.03.2026 14:09 πŸ‘ 4808 πŸ” 1482 πŸ’¬ 119 πŸ“Œ 152

This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.

04.03.2026 13:08 πŸ‘ 1369 πŸ” 316 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 16

Whoever created this needs to get their ass haunted by every dead academic

03.03.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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GW sold Virginia campus for $427 million to Amazon for data center development The deal transfers all of GW’s roughly 122 acres of property in Loudoun County, Virginia, to ADS for $427,299,350 β€” roughly $3.5 million an acre β€” according to real estate records.

Why does this seem like a metaphor and not just your average capitalist catastrophe?

03.03.2026 12:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Pay to play foreign policy.

01.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
DEAR TRANS KIDS, THIS WORLD IS BETTER WITH YOu IN IT AND YOU AR E WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

DEAR TRANS KIDS, THIS WORLD IS BETTER WITH YOu IN IT AND YOU AR E WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

01.03.2026 05:20 πŸ‘ 311 πŸ” 159 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 9
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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His β€˜Girls’

Just wanted to make sure this wasn't lost.

The connection between Epstein, the Dubins, and Mount Sinai Hospital.

Vile stuff.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

01.03.2026 08:09 πŸ‘ 1694 πŸ” 835 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 50

Text from my son.

"It's bad Dad"

Fuck all y'all who led us here. That's all he could say.

28.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 355 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 7
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Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His β€˜Girls’

Appalling. One doctor β€œsent Mr. Epstein’s sexual partners elsewhere for gonorrhea treatment so that when their cases were reported to public health authorities, they wouldn’t be tied to Mr. Epstein. Some doctors also shared patients’ private health information with him”

28.02.2026 17:49 πŸ‘ 1154 πŸ” 397 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 35
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At least 80 children dead as missile reportedly hits school in southern Iran The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s β€˜major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

This is not a headline at ABC or 9Papers or Newscorp papers online. Shame on you all for giving cover AGAIN to Israel’s merciless disdain for human life.

28.02.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œThe children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”

James Baldwin

28.02.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 3009 πŸ” 1182 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

So did the $1 Billion Board of Peace membership fee come with a money-back guarantee?

Asking for several Gulf monarchies.

28.02.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 339 πŸ” 98 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 3