The looting of African resources by outsiders & its tragic consequences for African people is an old story. Gold, diamonds, ivory, rubber... And now coltan, so that we can have fancy phones. apnews.com/article/cong...
AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do
The video of a United States Senator joining the violent removal of U.S. marine from a hearing and hideously breaking his arm in a door is an example of what has been unleashed in this country. They’re tapping in to get in on the violence.
And then he bragged about it on X later.
"the redactions...were sloppy at best and deliberately careless and calculated at worst."
A purple public health graphic shows a large porcupine above the word “WILD” and a small curled-up hedgehog below the word “mild.” The text reads, “A flu vaccine can take flu from wild to mild. Talk to your provider about a flu vaccine,” with a CDC logo and “#FightFlu” in the corner.
Seasonal influenza report for week ending Feb 21: activity remains elevated nationally, Flu A activity is decreasing while influenza B activity is increasing.
There's still time to benefit from getting the flu vaccine.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
The VA has abruptly ended the only low-interest, affordable loan modification option for thousands of vets who are behind on their mortgages. We want to hear your story.
Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Such an amazing thing to have. Also amazing is how well it has survived.
It is also nice to see former interns out in the world doing cool things.🗃️
www.wcvb.com/article/bost...
Austin area folks: Austin Animal Services is over capacity & needs help with foster & adopt. Additionally there is a Central Texas wide name your adoption fee event coming up, March 6-8. Please consider fostering if you can't adopt. Homes without children & pets are unicorn homes for some dogs.
"There's this underage accuser, who included Trump rape allegations in her lawsuit against Epstein. Tell us what we know about that."
@sollenbergerrc.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social to discuss the documents and claims that portions of the investigative files were held by DOJ.
The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...
These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all
Question for #archivists: what is a good way to store video and audio recordings? One that takes up minimal space and will be accessible in decades to come? And that could be attached to a physical scrapbook in some way? #archive #history #rarchivalrecords
This is terrifying.
“Bills to restrain public protests have advanced in Georgia’s House and Senate in the wake of shooting deaths in Minneapolis that shocked the nation.
One would expose people charged with blocking roads to stiffer financial penalties…”
Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century.
Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, & editor of NAACP’s The Crisis Magazine. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/we...
Casey Means’ Surgeon General confirmation hearing is tomorrow.
Means holds a number of extremely disturbing views, including that hormonal birth control is “disrespect for life”.
She isn’t a “fringe” or “alternative” healthcare provider. She is a person who blithely ignores scientific facts.
The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
"Black people make up more than half of the Americans who’ve lost property through eminent domain since World War II, despite making up at most 14% of the country, according to several analyses."
Twelve years stolen from Medicare’s future.
Money collected from workers, promised to the elderly.
Reassigned to those who already have too much.
trump's wealthy donor tax cuts are literally killing us.
The hunger at the top is never satisfied, it only asks who will be trimmed next.
I'm sure the summaries will be spot-on.
If you missed the news about Elsevier and Wiley (and doubtless the rest to follow) remaking themselves as AI companies with plans to profit from selling AI summaries of academic work back to the institutions that produced the original work:
bsky.app/profile/benp...
NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...
"That this is the ethic of his class, albeit pushed to its logical conclusion, goes without saying; even more so, that it’s the motivating belief of the ultra-rich capitalist class in our current moment." 2/2
"Indeed, consent was precisely the target of de Sade’s thinking, for any attribution of agency, independence, or self-possession among those whom he viewed as weaker than himself was the primary ethic he inveighed against." 1/2
"Yet it is precisely because the vigilance committees opened up spaces where fugitives and other abolitionists could exchange ideas that the most absolute dreams of the abolitionist movement could be made thinkable."
Manufactured doubt on the safety of vaccines has led to trying to fast track a “study” in Guinea-Bissau “testing” their efficacy by depriving infants of access to the Hep B vaccine.
the Tuskegee experiment is not just a historical monstrosity, it’s a warning.
