professor tools for commensality (red scare edition)

The list of ICE and Customs and Border Protection sex offenders and sex pests is now up to 62.

Highly recommend this guy who really seems to know an alarming amount about shipping, including shipping insurance.

seconded, his feed is amazing

Kamala Harris campaign told how to win by UK Labour strategist Deborah Mattinson — a fixture of the U.K. polling scene — will travel to Washington D.C. next week to brief the Harris-Walz team.

But for real, here's an article from 2024 after Labour's win. They completely misread why they won, attributing it to them shifting rightward (instead of the reality: they were Not The Tories), and Dems solicited disastrous advice from them. www.politico.eu/article/kama...

dodges and also people refusing to match patterns

that's right, they got to hide in plain sight about it

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Collections from around the world and in many languages!

#historians #archives

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Underground Fury: The 1985 Methane Blast That Rocked Los Angeles and Rerouted Its Subways A 1985 methane explosion in L.A.’s Fairfax district turned a Ross Dress for Less into a disaster scene. Photo by Dean Musgrove, courtesy of the Herald-Examiner Collection – Los Angeles …

(from this incident: californiacurated.com/2023/11/03/u... ) #ToxicLA

😂 YES

b&w photo of an exploded Ross Dress For Less

mood

London Review OF BOOKS The absence of justification is not incidental. It is a morbid symptom of an international system in crisis. The certainties of the United States hegemonic stewardship of the 'international rules-based order' have been deformed beyond recognition by the Gaza genocide, but no alternative architecture has cohered in their place. Instead there is a politics of gangster imperialism that has neither international nor domestic consent.

On Iran. Worth your time: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

i haven't posted about this but i had a fight checking into a medical appointment a couple of months ago, because they wanted me to remove my mask to photograph my face

first, sending the entirely wrong message re. whether people in medical settings should mask; second, the TSA/BCP element 😡

Read this: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1289-c...

in fairness, princeton is not a public school

lmao i just saw a take that was like "pete hegseth is what you get when you don't fund public schools" and sorry ma'am but he went to princeton

reimbursement requests are under Extra Scrutiny bc times are lean, ofc

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

absolutely breaking my brain that donations to noncommercial software projects for scholars to use, that i use, can't be reimbursed by my uni's bean counters because they don't generate invoices; meanwhile uni had $3.1M for a ChatGPT contract

sorry, H-Net, no way to prove your worth or legitimacy 🙃

What Will Be Left After the University of Texas Destroys Itself? | The Nation UT-Austin has collapsed its race, ethnic, and gender studies into a single program while a new policy asks faculty to avoid “controversial” topics. But the attacks won’t end there.

All Texas universities are under attack.

ALL universities are under attack.

#LetStudentsLearn

(send Nightmare Torture Barbie to The Hague)

NOEM TAKING QUESTIONS - DOES NOT APPEAR TO KNOW SHE WAS FIRED

seriously, can the international community put out warrants on her so she can't travel? (we also need accountability domestically ofc)

seriously, can the international community put out warrants on her so she can't travel? (we also need accountability domestically ofc)

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Makes me think about this Powerpoint slide from ~seven years ago that I have used in multiple presentations but needs to be updated for climate disasters.

“…both Asian and Black Americans who worked hybrid reported less interpersonal conflict and stress but more positive affect and control when they worked remotely than when in the office”

i'm on the laptop so i blame my fingers--but i have also had this experience on the phone!

uhhh that acronym was supposed to be Customs & Border Patrol (not Birth Control Pill!). unreliable fingers and/or brain

i haven't posted about this but i had a fight checking into a medical appointment a couple of months ago, because they wanted me to remove my mask to photograph my face

first, sending the entirely wrong message re. whether people in medical settings should mask; second, the TSA/BCP element 😡

working as a bartender was probably not a bad survival skill cultivation experience