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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19h

Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Louigi Addario-Berry @louigi.bsky.social · 1d

When this group gets together, it’s always good.

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 4d

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social, and @astra.bsky.social for a town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left, hosted w/ @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

Tuesday, October 14th at 6:00 PM ET

RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Solidarity Against Sadism
Naomi Klein
Chenjerai Kumanyika
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Astra Taylor

An Emergency Town Hall
Tuesday, October 14 at 6:00 pm ET
Sponsored by Haymarket Books and Hammer & Hope

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 2d

They did this to my father in 1970.
He wasn't even allowed to say goodbye to his mother. 55 years later, same abuse and injustice.

Massimo @massimovl.bsky.social · 2d

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‘Inhumane’: 154 freed Palestinian prisoners forced into exile by Israel

Palestinian families awaiting return of imprisoned relatives are shocked to learn they will be deported.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers envision their vaccine being used as both a treatment and a preventive, and as an approach to treating multiple cancer types.
• www.umass.edu/news/article...

The study has been published in Cell Reports Medicine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.cell.com/cell-reports...

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HIGHLIGHTS
•Lipid NPs carrying STING and TLR4 agonists promote synergistic type I interferons
• NPs drain efficiently to lymph nodes and increase polyfunctional T and B cells
• NPs improve tumor-free outcomes with memory against multiple aggressive tumor models
SUMMARY
We report on the utility of a "super-adjuvant" nanoparticle (NP) system as a modular, customizable platform for next-generation cancer vaccination. Using nanomaterials engineering technology, we aim to harness not only the effective adjuvanticity of whole-pathogen vaccines, but also the safety of subunit vaccines.
Our lipid-based NP platform co-encapsulates agonists of the stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) pathways to promote synergistic production of type I interferons and other
proinflammatory cytokines in innate antigen-presenting dendritic cells and macrophages.
Compared to empty NPs and free agonists, dual-adjuvant NPs administered with antigenic peptides or tumor cell lysate promote increased antigen processing and presentation, drain efficiently to nearby lymph nodes, increase polyfunctional tumor-specific T and B cells, and improve tumor-free outcomes upon vaccination and subsequent challenge with multiple aggressive tumor cells.

Graphical Abstract

The vaccine combines two immune-stimulating molecules (adjuvants) in a tiny lipid nanoparticle that enhances both innate and adaptive immune responses. The innate immune system acts as the body’s first line of defense, responding quickly and non-specifically to invaders using cells that release inflammatory signals. The adaptive immune system takes longer to activate but provides a targeted, long-lasting response, training T-cells and B- cells to recognize and remember specific threats. Together, they form a coordinated defense: the innate system alerts and activates the adaptive system, which then delivers precise and durable immunity.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 4d

Lebanese president condemns Israeli attack on Msayleh as a 'blatant aggression' against civilian infrastructure.

Intensive Israeli air strikes kill one, injure seven in southern Lebanon

Lebanese president condemns Israeli attack on Msayleh as a 'blatant aggression' against civilian infrastructure.

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Louigi Addario-Berry @louigi.bsky.social · 4d

The McGill Association of University Teachers just endorsed the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, with over 90% of voters supporting the motion.

Be it resolved that we, the members of MAUT, endorse the Academic and Cultural
Boycott of Israel.
Be it further resolved that we call upon McGill’s administration to take all necessary
steps to implement the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, while ensuring that the
boycott applies to institutional partnerships and agreements, not individual Israeli
academics.
This resolution will sunset in two years unless it is renewed or extended by the
membership of MAUT at another General Meeting.

Resolution to Endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Whereas, the International Association of Genocide Scholars has declared that “Israel’s
policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the
United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (1948)”;1
Whereas, the International Court of Justice has found that Israel’s actions plausibly
constitute violations under the Genocide Convention, and leading international
organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have
described Israel as maintaining a system of apartheid;2
Whereas, in May 2025 the United Nations documented that Israel’s campaign of
scholasticide has destroyed every university in Gaza and killed at least 5,479 students
(as of April 2024) and over 190 university academic staff (as of May 2025);3
Whereas, the complicity of Israeli academic institutions in denying Palestinian human
rights has been comprehensively documented;4
Whereas, McGill has current exchange agreements with four Israeli universities,5 as well
as coordinating a three-week study trip with Hebrew University Business School (under
the banner of the McGill-Israel Entrepreneurship Program);6
Whereas, every one of these partner universities is a pillar of Israel’s system of
apartheid, colonization, and military occupation directed against the Palestinian people
in contravention to international law;7
Whereas, in 2005, 170 Palestinian civil society organizations called for boycott,
divestment, and sanctions against Israel;8

Whereas, that call has been interpreted by the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic
and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) to call for a boycott of Israeli academic
institutions, not individual Israeli academics;9
Whereas over the past two years, at least 18 University Faculty Associations in Canada
passed motions calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against the state of Israel
given its ongoing military assault on Gaza;10
Whereas CAUT has reaffirmed that faculty associations have the right to hold political
and even partisan positions and to pass motions calling for boycott and/or divestment
and/or sanctions of the State of Israel;11
Whereas in 1985, McGill became the first Canadian university to announce it would
divest from companies with ties to Apartheid South Africa,12 and in 2006 McGill
divested from companies in Myanmar;13
Whereas in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, MAUT examined its financial
portfolio in view of divestment from Russian companies;14
Whereas, MAUT has a history of calling upon foreign governments to end their
campaigns against universities and to protect academic freedom;15
Whereas, as a faculty association, MAUT has a duty to stand in solidarity with scholars
whose academic freedom and right to education are under attack; therefore,

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10d

"Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder"

Rumi

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 11d

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

msf.org/msf-denounce...

This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza.

All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers.
We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah.

Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 11d

American intelligence officials have now confirmed to CBS News that Netanyahu ordered the drone attacks on the Sumud flotilla while it was docked in Tunisia, an attack launched from Israeli Navy submarines off the Tunisian coast.

Washington - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu directly approved military operations on two vessels early last month that were part of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian supporters including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, CBS News has learned.
Two American intelligence officials briefed on the matter told CBS News that Israeli forces on Sept. 8
and 9 launched drones from a submarine and dropped incendiary devices onto the boats that were moored outside the Tunisian port of Sidi Bou Said, causing a fire. The officials spoke under the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on national security matters.

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Louigi Addario-Berry @louigi.bsky.social · 14d

This seems like the sort of thing a tenants' union might want to be aware of @danieldenvir.bsky.social

Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs

Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”

www.404media.co

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 15d

Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 16d

Wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

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helen, gender goblin @gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social · 16d

'out of the three mass shootings today'

Our Earth Affairs @ourearthaffairs.bsky.social · 16d

Iraq War veteran Thomas Sanford has been identified as the gunman who attacked Grand Blanc Mormon church, killing 2 people and setting it ablaze. Out of the three mass shootings today, two of them have been carried out by Iraq war veterans.

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Asschapel Roan @stochasticburrito.bsky.social · 26d

Meme from the Simpsons, Moe (labeled Francis Fukuyama) throws Barney (labeled History) out of the bar, only for us to see in the third panel Barney standing behind Moe inside the bar

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26d

the history will continue until morale improves

poorly photoshopped die Hard 2 poster with Francis Fukuyama wielding a gun in front of explosion. caption: "History 2"

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 19d

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 19d

My institution had 43 faculty H-1B visas approved in 2024.

"To maintain the current level of hiring of foreign talent under new Trump administration policies, the institution must pay an H-1B fee equivalent to 2.85% of its annual federally funded research and development expenditures."

The Xylom @thexylom.com · 19d

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this…

www.thexylom.com

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Louigi Addario-Berry @louigi.bsky.social · 18d

Speaking as a Montrealer, I basically put my life in the hands of the city’s salting and snow plough crews.

The abbreviation YMMV seems particularly apt here.

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quick13 @quick13.bsky.social · 18d

This is the man that ICE just detained. This isn't about catching criminals, it is about Ethnic cleansing www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-np...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 19d

Kahan was convicted of terrorism in both the US and even Israel, supported imposing Jewish law throughout Israel, opposed Jews marrying non-Jews, called for annexing all of Palestine and ethnically cleansing all Palestinians

Netanyahu is going to appoint a Kahanist as head of Shin Bet

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 19d

Netanyahu gets green light to appoint David Zini, a Kahanist general as the head of the Shin Bet. Someone that Netanyahu himself described two years ago as a "too much of a fundamentalist".

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