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The agreement will also require Northwestern to continue repressing pro-Palestinian students (including Jewish pro-Palestinian students) but honestly I think Northwestern would do that anyway, so I’m not sure the agreement makes much of a difference.
November 29, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The agreement will also require Northwestern to continue repressing pro-Palestinian students (including Jewish pro-Palestinian students) but honestly I think Northwestern would do that anyway, so I’m not sure the agreement makes much of a difference.
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Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Northwestern throws trans women under the bus to please the Trump administration (while also paying off the Trump administration).
No Joke but him growing up in Santa Monica and the west side of Los Angeles actually makes perfect sense.
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
November 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
No Joke but him growing up in Santa Monica and the west side of Los Angeles actually makes perfect sense.
Even doing what you love every day sucks. Time off is great. Everyone deserves it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Even doing what you love every day sucks. Time off is great. Everyone deserves it.
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🇵🇸🇮🇹 Italy will hold a nationwide general strike on Nov. 28, led by unions opposing Giorgia Meloni’s 2026 budget & demanding a dignified minimum wage & retirement at 62. Organizers say the strike also targets Italy’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The slogan “Let’s shut everything down,”...
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
🇵🇸🇮🇹 Italy will hold a nationwide general strike on Nov. 28, led by unions opposing Giorgia Meloni’s 2026 budget & demanding a dignified minimum wage & retirement at 62. Organizers say the strike also targets Italy’s support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The slogan “Let’s shut everything down,”...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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A few Bluesky thankful #FollowFriday starter packs for ya... first, how about some photojournalists? Essential always, but especially right now. go.blacksky.community/NtuLPRp
November 28, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A few Bluesky thankful #FollowFriday starter packs for ya... first, how about some photojournalists? Essential always, but especially right now. go.blacksky.community/NtuLPRp
Glendale is insane. It’s half car dealership and half mall. Cursed place.
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Glendale is insane. It’s half car dealership and half mall. Cursed place.
Parents? Is it parents?
"Something disastrous happened here, and academics are nearly united in the opinion that the problem is not simply a product of the pandemic."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
How Public Education Failed in the Liberal Enclaves That Care About It Most
Student achievement has fallen off a cliff. Neither Trump nor the pandemic is to blame.
nymag.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Parents? Is it parents?
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Here's what these kids are earning, based on interviews with 61 workers. Most of them were born in the US to migrant parents.
prospect.org/2025/11/28/c...
prospect.org/2025/11/28/c...
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Here's what these kids are earning, based on interviews with 61 workers. Most of them were born in the US to migrant parents.
prospect.org/2025/11/28/c...
prospect.org/2025/11/28/c...
Simply awful. This is what Republicans want but also Democrats with the power to make a difference also turn a blind eye. Would Gavin Newsom step up to stop this and ensure these kids and families have enough to live without gruelling underpaid and toxic chemical exposed work??
Today I want to tell you about farmworkers.
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid, and Toiling in Toxic Fields - The American Prospect
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
prospect.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Simply awful. This is what Republicans want but also Democrats with the power to make a difference also turn a blind eye. Would Gavin Newsom step up to stop this and ensure these kids and families have enough to live without gruelling underpaid and toxic chemical exposed work??
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Today I want to tell you about farmworkers.
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid, and Toiling in Toxic Fields - The American Prospect
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
prospect.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today I want to tell you about farmworkers.
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
Really dark. People in no real danger wanting to pack heat jic (fear mongering) and the dude with a cache of guns in Pennsylvania. Unserious people that may end up shooting someone for a petty slight.
Would-be gun owners seeking a concealed carry permit are required to take a safety training course, but with few rules on how they are taught, gun aficionados have stepped in to run them.
New Yorkers Fill Gun Classes as Concealed Carry Applications Surge
Would-be gun owners seeking a concealed carry permit are required to take a safety training course, but with few rules on how they are taught, gun aficionados have stepped in to run them.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Really dark. People in no real danger wanting to pack heat jic (fear mongering) and the dude with a cache of guns in Pennsylvania. Unserious people that may end up shooting someone for a petty slight.
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I neither condone nor encourage the harm to the two National Guardsmen, but we do things to people we would never allow to be done to us and expect them just to take it.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I neither condone nor encourage the harm to the two National Guardsmen, but we do things to people we would never allow to be done to us and expect them just to take it.
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My first thought was whether he is one of the many Afghanis whose lives were left in shambles when, after being put in danger working for the USG, we abruptly denied him and/or his family the asylum they were long promised and left them to the Taliban.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in an interview with Fox News Digital that the suspected gunman in the D.C. shooting previously worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA, in Afghanistan.
D.C. shooting live updates: Trump orders more troops to D.C. after gunman critically wounds 2 Guard soldiers
Two National Guard troops were shot near the White House on Thanksgiving eve. Officials said the suspect, who was detained, is an Afghan national.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
My first thought was whether he is one of the many Afghanis whose lives were left in shambles when, after being put in danger working for the USG, we abruptly denied him and/or his family the asylum they were long promised and left them to the Taliban.
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They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!
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“A childhood friend, who asked to be identified only as Muhammad because he feared Taliban reprisals, said that Mr. Lakanwal had suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit had caused.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“A childhood friend, who asked to be identified only as Muhammad because he feared Taliban reprisals, said that Mr. Lakanwal had suffered from mental health issues and was disturbed by the casualties his unit had caused.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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“D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan:
The C.I.A. and an Afghan intelligence official said that the shooter had been part of an Afghan “partner force” trained and supported by the agency in the southern province of Kandahar.”
— www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
The C.I.A. and an Afghan intelligence official said that the shooter had been part of an Afghan “partner force” trained and supported by the agency in the southern province of Kandahar.”
— www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
“D.C. Shooting Suspect Worked With C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan:
The C.I.A. and an Afghan intelligence official said that the shooter had been part of an Afghan “partner force” trained and supported by the agency in the southern province of Kandahar.”
— www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
The C.I.A. and an Afghan intelligence official said that the shooter had been part of an Afghan “partner force” trained and supported by the agency in the southern province of Kandahar.”
— www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
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the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 AM
the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity
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No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
The folks at @afghanevac.bsky.social have in hand a new USCIS directive which largely targets Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
In case you needed a reminder that the most loathsome people in the world work for DHS.
November 27, 2025 at 5:19 AM
No idea why an Afghan refugee shot National Guard soldiers within walking distance of the White House, but this new USCIS directive was revealed on Monday. Worth noting.
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The current mayor of New York City, who isn't Jewish, tells the forthcoming mayor of New York City that in order to prove he is not an antisemite he should commit to being part of the Israel Day parade in May 2026.
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The current mayor of New York City, who isn't Jewish, tells the forthcoming mayor of New York City that in order to prove he is not an antisemite he should commit to being part of the Israel Day parade in May 2026.
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Interesting exchange between @sulliview.bsky.social and James Risen over the NYT’s inexplicable and indefensible opacity regarding their (now former) reporter who was soliciting $ from Jeffrey Epstein.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Interesting exchange between @sulliview.bsky.social and James Risen over the NYT’s inexplicable and indefensible opacity regarding their (now former) reporter who was soliciting $ from Jeffrey Epstein.
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/three-ugly...
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Council’s got two real powers: budget and (now reduced but still significant) upzoning/downzoning.
This is a pretty clear coalition on anti-property tax + pro-NYPD-spending + anti-major-upzoning
My bet is we get a ‘stasis’/member deference Council
This is a pretty clear coalition on anti-property tax + pro-NYPD-spending + anti-major-upzoning
My bet is we get a ‘stasis’/member deference Council
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Council’s got two real powers: budget and (now reduced but still significant) upzoning/downzoning.
This is a pretty clear coalition on anti-property tax + pro-NYPD-spending + anti-major-upzoning
My bet is we get a ‘stasis’/member deference Council
This is a pretty clear coalition on anti-property tax + pro-NYPD-spending + anti-major-upzoning
My bet is we get a ‘stasis’/member deference Council