Julia Faisst

This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.

What's so viscerally upsetting about this is that making up words and attributing them to real writers, alive or not, is essentially making and selling deepfakes of the writers. It's incredibly violating.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

but of course 💃🏽

Let's be clear: the U.S. had a deal that could have prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Trump ripped up that deal.

Then he started a war instead of doing the hard work of diplomacy to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

Staatsminister Weimer lässt für einen Preis nominierte Buchhandlungen vom Geheimdienst durchleuchten.
„Die Möglichkeit der politischen Einflussnahme in der Kulturförderung ist rechtlich viel größer, als uns das bewusst und lieb ist. Und wohin das führt, sehen wir in den USA.“
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All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

North American Studies | Master's Degree Program at Leibniz University Hannover YouTube video by Leibniz Universität Hannover

If you’re thinking about a master in North American Studies: look into Hannover! We’re smart, we’re international, and we’re fun! We also have a great promo video!

Teenager und überhaupt jüngere Leute im Viertel stabil: stehen sie mit ihren Protestschildern rund um den AfD Wahlstand und rühren sich nicht vom Fleck.

Mindestens eines davon bis Mitternacht:

- überlegen, welche Freund_innen Lebensfreude ausstrahlen und woher sie die nehmen
- ein persönliches Vorurteil ausmachen und gedanklich bearbeiten
- Tagebuch schreiben beginnen
- Schneeglöckchen applaudieren
- x mit Käse überbacken

#MindestensEines

USA: In den Epstein-Akten fehlen Aussagen, die Trump belasten könnten Rechercheure vermissen in den Akten Interviews mit mutmaßlichen Zeuginnen. Abgeordnete sprechen von einer Vertuschungsaktion, um Trump zu schützen.

„Wir alle haben nach unseren Opferaussagen gesucht“, sagte bei CNN Jess Michaels, die mit 22 von Epstein missbraucht wurde. „Stark redigierte und fehlende Verhörprotokolle deuten darauf hin, dass dieses Justizministerium tatsächlich das ganze Land manipuliert.“

So they’re going to cripple healthcare for the poor in Minnesota to make an example of the state. The warning is “don’t resist.”

UI African American, Gender Studies faculty prepare for program closures University of Iowa faculty in African American Studies and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies are preparing for closure of their programs following a review of "low-enrollment" degrees and majors ...

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

UZH: Senior Assistantship in English Literary Studies The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral teaching and research position (Oberassistenz) in the field of English Literary Studies (British, North Ameri...

Senior Assistantship in British/American/Anglophone Lit+Culture

A US senator sitting down on camera with an ordinary person who can speak to the horrors Trump is perpetrating, and using her position to give that person a soapbox.

An essential, effective tactic, and one that too few Dems have adopted. Very welcome.

Image of Arctic expedition leader listening to infrasound recordings of a glacier via Brian House's macrophone, with a Svalbard glacier and mountains in the background

Thrilled to present a special journal issue--a glorious, monumental issue--on Arctic environment, art, & culture in @regenerationeac.bsky.social: “On the Cold Edge: Creative Meditations on Svalbard,” eds. Hester Blum, Candace Jensen, and Jacinda Russell

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Floor plan for an ICE concentration camp.

(Gift link for the @willbunch.bsky.social piece is in the thread.)

What about enslaved families, Japanese Americans, Indigenous boarding schoolers, family detention.….?

Trump Administration Will Collect Social Media Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens The new requirement poses serious threats to free speech and privacy rights.

"In a blow to the First Amendment and privacy, the Trump administration last week approved a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plan to collect social media handles from both *legal immigrants and U.S. citizens* applying to change their immigration status."

Trump’s Regime is Building Gulags and using Slave Ship Design.

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hab in den letzten Tagen viel mit Freund:innen & Kolleg:innen über Jobs gesprochen.In- und außerhalb der Wissenschaft.Viele Jahre lang war ich #IchBinHanna & hab zig Bewerbungen geschrieben.Ich dachte ich teile mal ein paar Jobportale (außer Indeed&Co).Gerne ergänzen!Wir hatten das mal bei Twitter:

Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.

Take a load off your minds everyone, it was regular old misogyny the whole time

Wie die Organisator*innen schreiben: “The implications of this [visa] refusal are deeply concerning. … When professional records, prior compliance, and institutional support are not enough to overcome a presumption of ‘migration risk,’ it raises serious questions.“

Ocasio-Cortez bei der Sicherheitskonferenz: Über den Bayerischen Hof ins Weiße Haus? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, der Superstar des linken Amerikas, sorgt in München für Aufsehen. Es gibt das Gerücht, sie wolle 2028 fürs Weiße Haus kandidieren.

On a more serious note of content: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ocas...

Just to know she’s gracing my town right now makes my 💙 beat

Mindestens eines davon bis Mitternacht:

- monströses menschliches Verhalten keine Sekunde lang als gesellschaftliche Gegebenheit akzeptieren
- wie einen Muskel trainieren, Gewaltbetroffenen zu glauben
- alles fühlen
- eine Kerze anzünden
- crispy Tofu

#MindestensEines

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Film still from the 2020 Epstein documentary “Filthy Rich,” showing his mansion with palm trees in front of it. The subtitle reads: “and I believe he felt that he would never be caught.”

“and I believe he felt that he would never be caught.” —this central moment in the first part of the 2020 Epstein documentary “Filthy Rich” on Netflix explains so much - about the past & the ongoing present.