Johanna Mellis

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A 12,000-seat indoor arena within Tehran’s Azadi Sports Complex was destroyed in a US-Israeli airstrike today, marking the latest in a series of criminal attacks targeting Iranian infrastructure. The strike also leveled dormitories and a newly constructed building belonging to the Cycling Federation, while damaging windows in adjacent facilities, including the complex’s swimming pool. Alireza Sohrabian, president of Iran’s Rowing Federation, condemned the attack as a breach of the Red Cross charter, which prohibits the targeting of sports, educational, and healthcare facilities during conflict.

The US/Israel Epstein Empire have extended their athleticide to Tehran, destroying the national indoor 12,000-Seat Azadi Stadium Hall.

Monstrous.

www.tasnimnews.ir/en/news/2026...

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Opinion | North Carolina's elections offer more hope that 2026 is the year of the progressive Katelyn Burns: Progressive candidates in the pivotal swing state walloped several centrist incumbents who collaborated with Republicans on culture war issues.

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I got paid lol. Its not 7k a post but i def get paid for every Israel mention. Even the troll posts are paid....

There you go. First person I’ve seen confirm firsthand they have been paid to do social media hasbara for Israel.

“Even the troll posts are paid.”

I recently got a DVD player and didn’t realize this was a trend lol. I’m just tired of not owning stuff and everything being a monthly payment

Rebuilding my dvd and cd collections for this very reason!

Florida places temporary ban on H-1B visas in university system The move followed Gov. Ron DeSantis’ call for universities to eliminate the visas. University system decision-makers expressed a willingness to be nimble

Florida prohibits universities from using the H-1B program to hire “new employees” until Jan. 5, 2027. The change will not affect existing H-1B holders, according to system Chancellor Ray Rodrigues.

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Thanks I’m sure that as historians of colonization and empire @sandraduffy.bsky.social and I have not read Hannah Arendt, nor do we have the capacity to understand complexity while also thinking violent US imperial action is never a good idea
What would do without men to explain things to us

Arendt says some racist stuff in that work that reasserts the “need” for western empire, he needs to reread it

And yes, the Iranian regime is violent and oppressive, and yet, I believe that the US/Israel/West’s intentions are not benign and it is naive and ahistorical to believe otherwise

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Dozens exit faculty meeting, cite frustrations over tenure postponement - The Muhlenberg Weekly After an unusual start to the Feb. 13 faculty meeting, with the President’s remarks moved to the end of the agenda, roughly 30 minutes into the meeting, Associate Professor of Psychology Connie Wofle ...

Solidarity with Muehlenberg College colleagues.

MC’s Board postponed tenure decisions to “get more info” ab finances. YIKES.

MC’s said a $10mil operating budget deficit “must be eliminated” ASAP thru faculty, staff cuts. Same $ my school said 🤔

muhlenbergweekly.com/news/dozens-...

They sent the email notifying everyone that she was fired during one of my classes. We had no warning. I just kept teaching, I had no idea…

But yeah, so much student panic. That we were having to deal with. We were trying to keep calm. That was just the beginning, we soon found

I think you are correct 😭😭😭 our board had in last year or so approved a big ⬆️ in the prez’s salary, almost 2x iirc (can find this online). Then they fired her last Oct, a few weeks after she 📢 cutting 30 of us. “we are still moving ahead with the cuts” leadership told us as students panicked

I strongly suspect some of these financial issues are not new nor sudden, but the reactiveness of boards appears to be

Ditto!!!!

Academic freedom simply doesn’t exist if tenure decisions are influenced by *financial concerns.*

A tenure-track job is supposed to be a promise that if the faculty member meets the standards for tenure, the resources will be there to tenure them.

Ghastly

The hashtag 😭😭😭😭😭😭

#neoliberalismkilledmySLAC

Same playbook over and over #neoliberalismkilledmySLAC

Very proud of my AAUP (and non-AAUP) faculty colleagues who participated in the walkout. We all care so much for our community of students, faculty, and staff.

Ahhhhhhh, thanks for chiming in!!!

My uni also had a $10mil budget deficit magically appear (and disappear) when it was time to announce cuts. Wonder which Powerpoint they all copy and pasted from.

And wow, what a thing to be working at such a place where active labor solidarity is a thing. Where faculty see themselves as workers.

Student walkout demands administrative transparency - The Muhlenberg Weekly “As a freshman, I would say ‘Oh you should come here, we should be classmates,’ and now I can’t recommend that anybody come here,” said Ell Torres ‘26 at the Mules for Transparency walkout.  At 12:30 ...

And, students have rapidly organized.

Which means there is communication btw faculty & students, which is fab.

The imagination for what can be done - and belief that students should not be infantilized and deserve to be informed & engaged citizens!!! muhlenbergweekly.com/news/student...

Dozens exit faculty meeting, cite frustrations over tenure postponement - The Muhlenberg Weekly After an unusual start to the Feb. 13 faculty meeting, with the President’s remarks moved to the end of the agenda, roughly 30 minutes into the meeting, Associate Professor of Psychology Connie Wofle ...

AAUP chapter organized a walkout from faculty mtg:

1 prof who left the mtg:

“what it does is break the spirit of the system & of the individuals specifically affected by that lack of communication & lack of certainty of their academic futures at the College.”

muhlenbergweekly.com/news/dozens-...