Diana Coleman
@drmurtaughcoleman.bsky.social
Islamic Studies and Humanities Prof
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You guys see where this is going? Right?
September 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
You guys see where this is going? Right?
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Long live Sesame Street! 🥹
Had so much fun at the Sesame Workshop gala! Thank you, with all of my heart, for your commitment to coming together to help children grow smarter, stronger, kinder ✨
Had so much fun at the Sesame Workshop gala! Thank you, with all of my heart, for your commitment to coming together to help children grow smarter, stronger, kinder ✨
May 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Long live Sesame Street! 🥹
Had so much fun at the Sesame Workshop gala! Thank you, with all of my heart, for your commitment to coming together to help children grow smarter, stronger, kinder ✨
Had so much fun at the Sesame Workshop gala! Thank you, with all of my heart, for your commitment to coming together to help children grow smarter, stronger, kinder ✨
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award
This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award
This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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I’m old enough to remember when Secretary Hegseth tried to publicly mock Judge Reyes—suggesting that she didn’t know what she was doing when it comes to protecting our national security.
It was … two days ago.
It was … two days ago.
March 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I’m old enough to remember when Secretary Hegseth tried to publicly mock Judge Reyes—suggesting that she didn’t know what she was doing when it comes to protecting our national security.
It was … two days ago.
It was … two days ago.
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"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
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Immigrant women describe 'hell on earth' in ICE detention
No shower for days, cameras trained on the toilet, women crammed into cells 'like sardines,' among the allegations.
www.usatoday.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
"There was no access to a toilet, so guards told the women – whose accounts in some cases occurred on different days or different buses – to urinate or defecate on the floor... "
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month. My mother, who’s 94, wouldn’t call and complain,” he said. “Whoever screams is the one stealing.”
March 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick: “Let’s say Social Security didn’t send out their checks this month. My mother, who’s 94, wouldn’t call and complain,” he said. “Whoever screams is the one stealing.”
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I just checked in at the Atlanta airport and the kiosk wanted me to show a "passport or permanent residence card."
The airline rep who was helping me said "I don't know why it's doing this it's been doing it all morning."
The airline rep who was helping me said "I don't know why it's doing this it's been doing it all morning."
March 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I just checked in at the Atlanta airport and the kiosk wanted me to show a "passport or permanent residence card."
The airline rep who was helping me said "I don't know why it's doing this it's been doing it all morning."
The airline rep who was helping me said "I don't know why it's doing this it's been doing it all morning."
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
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Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.
The average person with the flu gives it to around 1.4 people. The average person with measles gives it to between 12 and 18 people.
Measles cases continue to surge globally, putting millions of children at risk.
More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year.
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More than 10 million people globally were infected with measles in 2023, a 20% increase from the previous year.
bit.ly/48SAtkf
February 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.
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Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.
February 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Some don’t even realize they’re actually eating all the faces.
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GOP Senator Roger Wicker on Pete Hegseth’s NATO speech:
“I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool.” Wicker (who voted to confirm Hegseth) told Politico, adding that he was “puzzled” and “disturbed” by Hegseth’s comments.
“I don’t know who wrote the speech — it is the kind of thing Tucker Carlson could have written, and Carlson is a fool.” Wicker (who voted to confirm Hegseth) told Politico, adding that he was “puzzled” and “disturbed” by Hegseth’s comments.
February 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!
February 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!
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Let me put this as clearly as I can. The Trump administration just instantly cut NIH funding for research on things like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, and all the rest, by 40-60%, depending on the university.
February 8, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Let me put this as clearly as I can. The Trump administration just instantly cut NIH funding for research on things like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, and all the rest, by 40-60%, depending on the university.
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For those asking how unusual it is for NIH review panels to be cancelled: I do not recall study sections ever being cancelled during my 30-year career except for during the “sequestration” period around 2012-2013 when there was, I think, a government shutdown.
January 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
For those asking how unusual it is for NIH review panels to be cancelled: I do not recall study sections ever being cancelled during my 30-year career except for during the “sequestration” period around 2012-2013 when there was, I think, a government shutdown.
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You can’t have public health without the public. The US public is currently being inundated by well-funded mis- and disinformation efforts on social media. The amplification of these false messages undermines science and public health, and it’s about to get a lot worse.
January 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
You can’t have public health without the public. The US public is currently being inundated by well-funded mis- and disinformation efforts on social media. The amplification of these false messages undermines science and public health, and it’s about to get a lot worse.
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Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 charges but won't face any punishment — and will be back in the White House this month.
Nearly 800 prisoners are now helping to battle Los Angeles fires, making as little as $5.80 per day.
A tale of two justice systems.
Nearly 800 prisoners are now helping to battle Los Angeles fires, making as little as $5.80 per day.
A tale of two justice systems.
Nearly 800 prisoners now helping to battle Los Angeles fires
Incarcerated firefighters working to battle the widespread Los Angeles brush fires are paid between $5.80 and $10.24 per day, plus $1 for active emergencies.
abcnews.go.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 charges but won't face any punishment — and will be back in the White House this month.
Nearly 800 prisoners are now helping to battle Los Angeles fires, making as little as $5.80 per day.
A tale of two justice systems.
Nearly 800 prisoners are now helping to battle Los Angeles fires, making as little as $5.80 per day.
A tale of two justice systems.
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Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
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BREAKING NEWS from Guantanamo Bay: The U.S. military has just delivered 11 Yemeni prisoners to Oman, leaving the population at the detention center at its lowest number in its history. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...
U.S. Sends 11 Guantánamo Prisoners to Oman to Start New Lives
The secret mission left the smallest number of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay since the day the detention center opened in 2002.
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2025 at 9:02 PM
BREAKING NEWS from Guantanamo Bay: The U.S. military has just delivered 11 Yemeni prisoners to Oman, leaving the population at the detention center at its lowest number in its history. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...
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I am dragging myself into this new year & the only forgiveness worth asking for is from Palestinians, especially Palestinians in Gaza, who we are failing every day. I’m so sorry. May this incoming year bring liberation to all who are fighting to be free
January 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I am dragging myself into this new year & the only forgiveness worth asking for is from Palestinians, especially Palestinians in Gaza, who we are failing every day. I’m so sorry. May this incoming year bring liberation to all who are fighting to be free
Adding more music to the mix -highlighting Elizabeth Cotten for my Women in American Arts and Culture course…
Elizabeth Cotten, folk/blues music pioneer, was born on this day in 1895. She taught herself to play the guitar and banjo as a child. She was left-handed but she played a guitar for a right-hander, meaning she played everything upside down. A little thread!
January 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Adding more music to the mix -highlighting Elizabeth Cotten for my Women in American Arts and Culture course…
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Conversation with Silvia Federici
"The new world, if there’s going to be a new world, will not be bursting out of our head, like Minerva out of the head of Zeus. (..)Re-enchanting the world is actually a world where we don’t confront this monster of capitalism alone."
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"The new world, if there’s going to be a new world, will not be bursting out of our head, like Minerva out of the head of Zeus. (..)Re-enchanting the world is actually a world where we don’t confront this monster of capitalism alone."
issa-school.org/reflections/...
Conversation with Silvia Federici - ISSA- Island School of Social Autonomy
The new world, if there's going to be a new world, will not be bursting out of our head, like Minerva out of the head of Zeus. It will be the result of a long process of experimentation.
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December 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Conversation with Silvia Federici
"The new world, if there’s going to be a new world, will not be bursting out of our head, like Minerva out of the head of Zeus. (..)Re-enchanting the world is actually a world where we don’t confront this monster of capitalism alone."
issa-school.org/reflections/...
"The new world, if there’s going to be a new world, will not be bursting out of our head, like Minerva out of the head of Zeus. (..)Re-enchanting the world is actually a world where we don’t confront this monster of capitalism alone."
issa-school.org/reflections/...