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Op-ed: New College of #Florida has become a colossal money pit snared in a breathtaking series of cascading scandals, all of which hinge on physical or sexual violence, real or implied. www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/01/18/t... via @sun-sentinel.com
The true tragedy at New College | Opinion
A University of South Florida professor lauds a recent Sun Sentinel editorial on the sad state of affairs at Sarasota’s New College, but writes that there’s even more to the story.
www.sun-sentinel.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Op-ed: New College of #Florida has become a colossal money pit snared in a breathtaking series of cascading scandals, all of which hinge on physical or sexual violence, real or implied. www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/01/18/t... via @sun-sentinel.com
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Dr. King repeatedly reminded us that the inaction of good people was the greatest threat to the pursuit of justice.
Today, in the face of a lawless and tyrannical president, inaction isn't an option. We must continue to stand up, speak up, & fight back.
Today, in the face of a lawless and tyrannical president, inaction isn't an option. We must continue to stand up, speak up, & fight back.
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Dr. King repeatedly reminded us that the inaction of good people was the greatest threat to the pursuit of justice.
Today, in the face of a lawless and tyrannical president, inaction isn't an option. We must continue to stand up, speak up, & fight back.
Today, in the face of a lawless and tyrannical president, inaction isn't an option. We must continue to stand up, speak up, & fight back.
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very difficult to believe that this isn’t calculated to provoke an uprising, but I’ll concede the possibility that they’re just stupid assholes
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 6:23 PM
very difficult to believe that this isn’t calculated to provoke an uprising, but I’ll concede the possibility that they’re just stupid assholes
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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“They will hold this torch high without faltering because they have weathered the battering storms of persecution and withstood the temptation to retreat to a more quiet and serene life.”
These words continue to inspire and guide us, on MLK day and every day that follows.
These words continue to inspire and guide us, on MLK day and every day that follows.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
“They will hold this torch high without faltering because they have weathered the battering storms of persecution and withstood the temptation to retreat to a more quiet and serene life.”
These words continue to inspire and guide us, on MLK day and every day that follows.
These words continue to inspire and guide us, on MLK day and every day that follows.
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In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited New York City on his way home from accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. Speaking to a packed crowd at City Hall, Dr. King said,
"Those who have sat so long in darkness now find themselves lighting the way for others...”
"Those who have sat so long in darkness now find themselves lighting the way for others...”
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited New York City on his way home from accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway. Speaking to a packed crowd at City Hall, Dr. King said,
"Those who have sat so long in darkness now find themselves lighting the way for others...”
"Those who have sat so long in darkness now find themselves lighting the way for others...”
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A special MLK day share of my piece about how MAGA was born from racial resentment. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
Opinion | Trump took the tea party’s racial resentment and made it MAGA
Philip Bump: President Trump said the civil rights movement led to white people being “very badly treated.” It is impossible to overstate how important this idea is to his politics.
www.ms.now
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 PM
A special MLK day share of my piece about how MAGA was born from racial resentment. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Furman is superb simply by virtue of the fact that his work proves we *can* have architectural ornament "nice things" today without it being retrograde (e.g. neoclassicist i.e. fash)
Article on some of my recent work in @wallpapermag.bsky.social www.wallpaper.com/architecture...
Adam Nathaniel Furman on vibrancy in art in the public realm
Designer and artist Adam Nathaniel Furman is a staunch advocate of permanence and vibrancy in the public space - his own art is a case in point
www.wallpaper.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Furman is superb simply by virtue of the fact that his work proves we *can* have architectural ornament "nice things" today without it being retrograde (e.g. neoclassicist i.e. fash)
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Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press.
Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.
Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.
January 19, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press.
Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.
Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.
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Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
A woman left a comment on Facebook criticizing the Mayor of Miami Beach,.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
The Mayor of Miami Beach then sent the cops to her home.
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Cops at her front door, holding a phone to her face, asking if that's her Facebook account.
What the fuck are we doing here?
What the fuck are we doing here?
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In December, I traveled to Montgomery to visit the Legacy Museum, which traces the story of Black America from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. I wanted to understand how the museum & its affiliated sites were operating in a moment where so much of the history they present is under attack.
The Power of Private Museums
The Equal Justice Initiative’s historical sites in Montgomery, Alabama, show what’s possible when history isn’t subject to federal funding cuts or executive orders.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:35 PM
In December, I traveled to Montgomery to visit the Legacy Museum, which traces the story of Black America from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. I wanted to understand how the museum & its affiliated sites were operating in a moment where so much of the history they present is under attack.
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I’m the one in the brown hat.
What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs.
Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car.
#AbolishICE
What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs.
Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car.
#AbolishICE
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I’m the one in the brown hat.
What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs.
Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car.
#AbolishICE
What you might not see is the victim in the car. His feet are pointing out the open car door. An agent is sitting on one of his legs. He’s only wearing crocs.
Bystanders found his legal work visa in his abandoned car.
#AbolishICE
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“Illegal alien” will in retrospect be understood as the dehumanizing language that preceded ethnic cleaning. A disgusting thing to call someone but completely normal among our political elite.
Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped from Minneapolis. He was my neighbor and he died in an American concentration camp. He was not "illegal," he was a human being made in the image of the divine. May his memory be a blessing, and may the rest of us fight like hell until we stop this brutality.
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.
January 18, 2026 at 11:46 PM
“Illegal alien” will in retrospect be understood as the dehumanizing language that preceded ethnic cleaning. A disgusting thing to call someone but completely normal among our political elite.
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"chuck schumer invited a foreign adversary to give a stump speech against a president of his own party" is indisputably true
apparently denmark is not one of the countries where your own party will invite their leader to give a speech in the senate about how the sitting president is a piece of shit and he ought to be removed from power
if we do not push Chuck Schumer out of power, he will not just meekly submit to the right until they put him in the camps, he will blow up NATO as well
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 AM
"chuck schumer invited a foreign adversary to give a stump speech against a president of his own party" is indisputably true
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The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
January 19, 2026 at 2:03 PM
The US is collapsing into fascism and going to war with Europe and the opposition party is like “I’m here to talk about the important thing: how your average grocery bill has risen by two dollars over the last year, which I also have no plan or ability to fix”
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i think shapiro’s post-election behavior proves how much of a bullet harris dodged by not selecting him as her running mate
January 19, 2026 at 7:03 AM
i think shapiro’s post-election behavior proves how much of a bullet harris dodged by not selecting him as her running mate
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Leaking this in bad faith after the fact proves that they were correct not to pick him.
What a pathetic whiner. This is not an "all Jews have dual loyalty" bias, it's a "this specific dude was so into Israel that he implied he was in the IDF when he wasn't."
Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Leaking this in bad faith after the fact proves that they were correct not to pick him.
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As usual, the demand is for Democrats to do what they're already doing. Social security and food stamp fraud are vanishingly rare. Minnesota is stepping up enforcement.
None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?
None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?
January 19, 2026 at 4:54 PM
As usual, the demand is for Democrats to do what they're already doing. Social security and food stamp fraud are vanishingly rare. Minnesota is stepping up enforcement.
None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?
None of these safeguards have stopped Republicans from lying about fraud. Why would even more make a difference?
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I think Democrats are reluctant to say that welfare fraud is a significant problem because welfare fraud is not a significant problem.
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
January 19, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I think Democrats are reluctant to say that welfare fraud is a significant problem because welfare fraud is not a significant problem.
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
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come on man
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM
come on man
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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I published this after Venezuela, where Trump's abduction of a head of state under flimsy US law as pretext is as clear a threat as any to international law. Under Trump the US is the most rogue state its ever been and should be treated accordingly internationalpolicy.org/publications...
Venezuela, force, and the erosion of legal constraint
Trump's legal justifications for his attack on Venezuela threatens the entire international rules-based order.
internationalpolicy.org
January 19, 2026 at 9:28 AM
I published this after Venezuela, where Trump's abduction of a head of state under flimsy US law as pretext is as clear a threat as any to international law. Under Trump the US is the most rogue state its ever been and should be treated accordingly internationalpolicy.org/publications...
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Glad to see Macron following Chirac’s sound maxim of avoiding any American venture that also involves Tony Blair.
FRANCE INTENDS TO DECLINE INVITATION TO JOIN TRUMP’S BOARD OF PEACE AT THIS STAGE - SOURCE CLOSE TO MACRON
January 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Glad to see Macron following Chirac’s sound maxim of avoiding any American venture that also involves Tony Blair.
I mean what can you even say lol.
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I mean what can you even say lol.
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per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 2:58 PM
per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”