"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next.
All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation."
www.chronicle.com/article/univ...
There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good.
This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it.
A thread on how to do that 🧵
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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I 💙 clear thinkers!
When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed.
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees.
Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary.
#MomSky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Press freedom groups condemn targeted killing of two journalists in Israeli strikes
Another successful LACK conference. Presenting my paper on Lacan and ecocritism here. What a pleasure to be part of this panel and the conference as a whole!
“I shall read a passage of Shakespeare every Sunday at ten o Clock—you read one at the same time and we shall be as near each other as blind bodies can be in the same room.”
— John Keats, in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats, December 1818
Elon Musk is performing a coup on the U.S. Government. In the midst of (and smokescreened by) the current "pillaging of Rome" enacted by the rest of the MAGA movement, following their first attempted coup on January 6th.
1/ Meet Phyllis Fong. She's my new shero—a real badass.
Security agents escorted the inspector general (IG) of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office after she refused to comply with her firing by 47's administration.
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my sadly somewhat timely book has a cover now, which i think is very beautiful 🌿
I'm with her
Check out my book if you are interested in Victorian lit
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174543/
