The times may really be a-changin'!
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The times may really be a-changin'!
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Thank you, Bruce Springsteen, for the song we need right now!
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Certains d'entre nous le qualifient de fasciste depuis 2020
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Sen. Bernie Sanders reads from a piece of paper while Zohran Mamdani raises his right hand to be sworn in during an inauguration ceremony. His left hand is resting on a Quran held by Rama Duwaji. A banner above them reads “Inauguration 2026. Photo by Vincent Alban for The New York Times.
Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor and its youngest in more than a century, was inaugurated in a public celebration outside City Hall on Thursday. See highlights: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Read his inauguration speech: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/n...
A bridge is packed with people, with scattered pride flags in the crowd. A headline reads: "Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Government Ban." Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images.
More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
U.S. Supreme Court acted fast in blocking the deportation of a group of Venezuelans. "[A]sking for a response 'as soon as possible' . . . was not tortoise talk."
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/u...
Looks great! Wish I could be there.
Thank you, MJ! Dartmouth AAUP is with you.
Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is pictured in a handout photo from his office meeting with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia on Thursday in El Salvador. Headline reads: "Maryland Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Man in El Salvador." Photo credit: The Office of Chris Van Hollen.
Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday night that he had met with Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. nyti.ms/3YzXwwg
Trump’s Plan to Crush the Academic Left www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...
"On Tuesday [Harvard] announced that...it would adopt a definition of antisemitism [under which] a professor who accuses Israel of genocidal action in Gaza—as Omer Bartov has—might be subject to disciplinary action."
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Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. These are just the words I needed yesterday
I haven't felt excited about July 4th since reading Fredrick Douglass's speech, and now, given some states' legally enforced amnesia about our past, celebrating July 4th as the beginning of "our" freedom increasingly feels like flying the Confederate flag "because of our southern heritage." #philsky
Thanks for this!
Many people are more deserving of this honor, but I look forward to serving as the next Vice President/President-Elect of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. #philsky
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Huge congratulations to you and Kate! I'm so looking forward to this!
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What he did to this Cosby victim was unforgivable: time.com/3612283/why-...
CFP for an exciting conference that Trica Keaton @trica.bsky.social is co-organizing, entitled Global Black French Studies across Time and Space: The Formation and Future of the Field, October 17-20, 2024, Boston College:
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It's pub day for my good friend and writing buddy Jenny Saul's must-read book, Dogwhistles and Figleaves. Congratulations, Jenny! @jennysaul.bsky.social #philsky
It's pub day for my dear friend Margot's brilliant tenth novel, The Road from Belhaven, and she's reading at the Harvard Bookstore at 7pm tonight!
Oh! I didn't realize until just this moment that I was even on Bluesky! Now I just have to figure out how it works. But knowing you're on it is all the incentive I need. ☺️