The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith
the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran
Apparently "Democracy Dies in Darkness" was just Bezos's mission statement.
The Stories from the Field podcast is now back with a second season!
Hopeful thread.
Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
Some top-notch Rhode Island reporters to follow:
@tednesi.bsky.social
@iandonnis.bsky.social
@amandamilkovits.bsky.social
@fitzprov.bsky.social
@waveelection.bsky.social
@antoniafarzan.bsky.social
@steveahlquist.bsky.social
Please follow official updates and only share confirmed updates. This keeps us all safer.
www.brown.edu
On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city.
We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.
1/x For no particular reason, a thread of books to remind you that gender matters to international security. #polisky
@oraszekely.bsky.social, Jessica, and I wrote Insurgent Women to highlight the involvement of women in multiple conflicts.
press.georgetown.edu/Book/Insurge...
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
A protest against ICE in the Park Avenue neighborhood appeared to provoke the federal agents to leave a roofing job site.
www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
6 days after Soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, a Prague paper published these “10 Commandments”:
‘When a Soviet soldier comes to you, YOU:
1. Don’t know
2. Don’t care
3. Don’t tell
4. Don’t have
5. Don’t know how to
6. Don’t give
7. Can’t do
8. Don’t sell
9. Don’t show
10. Do nothing’
Are there any civ-mil scholars who are not alarmed by this?
Anyone?
Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
During McCarthyism, they went after individuals to force their agenda, now they're going after entire institutions.
The Trump administration is doing everything they can to reverse all progress toward creating a higher education system assessable to all.
We must fight back.
#DefendHigherEd
it is genuinely insane that we have just kind of acclimated to the fact that we have masked secret police now
Faceless government goon arrests public official for refusing to hand over a vulnerable person without a warrant.
Guess the country.
Why, it contains no king.
This phone interview contains a detailed description of the wildest fucking shit I've ever heard on television news, hands down
I don't generally give out life advice but one suggestion I have is to not take or remain in a job that requires you to hide your face from your fellow citizens in shame while you do your fucking nazi cosplay on behalf of a paste-brained tyrant
congratulations to Donald Trump on losing the Canadian election
Political Science and IR people are going to be extremely annoying about star wars for a few weeks. You cannot stop it, so I recommend you shelter in place.
Good.
