OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.
Important CFP!
Peace in the Age of Forever Wars @ Temple University, April 3-4, 2026. I will be there.
challengingwar.com/spring-2025/
Some charts for those who don't know the extent of the US public (and private) investment in research (particularly in biomedical research) compared to other countries and institutions. The destruction of the US' scientific institutions has global implications.
Looking forward to reading it!
Danny Postel shows how The Trajectory of Trumpism is being actively resisted today in Chicago:
newlinesmag.com/reportage/ch...
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
I just read Andrew Simon's beautiful remembrance of the great Egyptian singer Ahmad Adawiya. While paying homage to the singer, the essay is about much more--the rise of cassette culture, the need to digitize taped Palestinian music, and much more.
newlinesmag.com/essays/the-m...
useful info from labor movements:
"Working to rule means carrying out your contractual obligations to the letter...Most importantly, it means not working any longer than you are legally required to – which means 35 hours per week for most full-time people."
unitethefca.org/working-to-r...
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
Chicago, baby.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
The Inspectors General refuse to leave until the action is taken legally, which they do not believe it was, and neither do senators like Chuck Grassley. This is what not backing down looks like.
static.politico.com/b3/3e/5baf92...
Even when silvery fish after fish/
comes back belly up, and the country plummets/
into a crepitating crater of hatred, isn’t there still/
something singing?
-Ada Limon, poet laureate of the United States
#sundaysentence
