@gabantoniosolis.bsky.social
Historian of labor + capitalism in the US-MX border and Taiwan. From the very holy el paso, Texas. Devoted to the immortal science of historical materialism and shared caguamas.
If the space rocket blows up in space, then it is not the most powerful space rocket ever built, sry.
The latest flight of SpaceX’s Starship, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, got all the way up to space, but not all the way back down to Earth. The spacecraft sprang a propellant leak, causing it to break apart and scatter debris in the Indian Ocean. nyti.ms/4jkkRtH
May 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
If the space rocket blows up in space, then it is not the most powerful space rocket ever built, sry.
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Really can't downplay the seriousness of this for all of higher ed. But at the same time you wonder how putting powerful enemies into an unmistakably existential crisis will pay off for a regime still consolidating power
Breaking news: The Trump administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, saying it allowed anti-American agitators.
Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.
Existing foreign students must transfer or risk losing their legal status, DHS said.
Live updates: Trump administration revokes Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students
Get the latest news on President Donald Trump’s return to the White House and the Republican-led Congress.
wapo.st
May 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Really can't downplay the seriousness of this for all of higher ed. But at the same time you wonder how putting powerful enemies into an unmistakably existential crisis will pay off for a regime still consolidating power
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One day after being booed, Columbia President Claire Shipman at university-wide graduation says international students shouldn't be targeted by government for free speech.
"And let me also say, that I know many in our community today are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil."
"And let me also say, that I know many in our community today are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil."
May 21, 2025 at 3:03 PM
One day after being booed, Columbia President Claire Shipman at university-wide graduation says international students shouldn't be targeted by government for free speech.
"And let me also say, that I know many in our community today are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil."
"And let me also say, that I know many in our community today are mourning the absence of our graduate, Mahmoud Khalil."
Tomorrow I get my PhD conferred (cheers) at Columbia University (booing) and now I'm reading beautiful novels again (greater cheering). Please recommend me new beautiful novels!
May 21, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Tomorrow I get my PhD conferred (cheers) at Columbia University (booing) and now I'm reading beautiful novels again (greater cheering). Please recommend me new beautiful novels!
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Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
Detained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prison
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
www.npr.org
April 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
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In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
April 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...
Columbia University may have signed its own death notice.
YouTube video by Katherine Franke
youtube.com
April 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...
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A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social.
We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one.
We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one.
We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
April 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social.
We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one.
We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one.
We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI
The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals
As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.
www.thenation.com
April 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI
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New ACLU video shows the moment ICE arrested Georgetown Scholar Dr. Badar Khan Siri.
Masked agents accosted him on his way home from an iftar.
In just 4 days, he was transferred among 5 different facilities across 3 states. Multiple refused him food or water to break his fast.
Masked agents accosted him on his way home from an iftar.
In just 4 days, he was transferred among 5 different facilities across 3 states. Multiple refused him food or water to break his fast.
April 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
New ACLU video shows the moment ICE arrested Georgetown Scholar Dr. Badar Khan Siri.
Masked agents accosted him on his way home from an iftar.
In just 4 days, he was transferred among 5 different facilities across 3 states. Multiple refused him food or water to break his fast.
Masked agents accosted him on his way home from an iftar.
In just 4 days, he was transferred among 5 different facilities across 3 states. Multiple refused him food or water to break his fast.
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We've finished scanning CD-ROM Today! This was an influential magazine from the height of the multimedia era, and a great record of what was happening in the computer games/software industry in the mid-90s
archive.gamehistory.org/folder/f8071...
archive.gamehistory.org/folder/f8071...
April 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We've finished scanning CD-ROM Today! This was an influential magazine from the height of the multimedia era, and a great record of what was happening in the computer games/software industry in the mid-90s
archive.gamehistory.org/folder/f8071...
archive.gamehistory.org/folder/f8071...
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Reading Phil Spencer talking about how maybe "AI" can help with ports and preservation and feeling my blood boil. What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK.
April 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Reading Phil Spencer talking about how maybe "AI" can help with ports and preservation and feeling my blood boil. What a fundamental misunderstanding of not only this tech but how games WORK.
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Harvard tries once again to outdo Columbia--this time by dismissing the leaders of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies without the Trump administration even asking them. So much for not obeying in advance.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Dismisses Leaders of Center for Middle Eastern Studies | News | The Harvard Crimson
Interim Harvard Dean of Social Science David M. Cutler ’87 dismissed the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, professor of Turkish Studies Cemal Kafadar, and its associate director, Hist...
www.thecrimson.com
March 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Harvard tries once again to outdo Columbia--this time by dismissing the leaders of its Center for Middle Eastern Studies without the Trump administration even asking them. So much for not obeying in advance.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming
futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
futurism.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Wow the exact thing genAI creators intended, for their users to become psychologically dependent and chemically addicted to their product, is happening, who could have seen this coming
futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
futurism.com/the-byte/cha...
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My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
www.theguardian.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
My colleague Rashid Khalidi: "We are approaching the status of Chilean universities under Pinochet, where on the orders of an authoritarian government, ideas and books were banned, students were expelled and arrested, departments were taken over & faculty fired."
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Ah look, the rapid rise of the German armaments industry during a lil Transatlantic far right conjecture, I'm sure everything totally okay and chill; no bad vibes or premonitions at all!
March 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Ah look, the rapid rise of the German armaments industry during a lil Transatlantic far right conjecture, I'm sure everything totally okay and chill; no bad vibes or premonitions at all!
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it's so cool how nazis are going to raze an ivy league school and turn it into a snowflake safe space camp for chud student athletes like they did ito third rate florida schools and its own trustees don't even care because the new york times convinced them the students were baader meinhoff
March 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
it's so cool how nazis are going to raze an ivy league school and turn it into a snowflake safe space camp for chud student athletes like they did ito third rate florida schools and its own trustees don't even care because the new york times convinced them the students were baader meinhoff
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He is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance.
This is what "No Other Land" is all about. www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...
This is what "No Other Land" is all about. www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...
Palestinian Oscar winner 'lynched' by Israeli settlers, colleague says
Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning 'No Other Land', returned from Los Angeles three weeks ago
www.middleeasteye.net
March 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
He is still missing after soldiers abducted him, injured and bleeding. Witnesses said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance.
This is what "No Other Land" is all about. www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...
This is what "No Other Land" is all about. www.middleeasteye.net/news/palesti...
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European Commission, I am told, is ready to rip (already fraying) social contract in its enthusiastic march towards the armament economy.
at Social Europe event recently, two punchlines:
European SMEs have a bright future in arms manufacturing chains.
Forget welfare, we're in the age of warfare
at Social Europe event recently, two punchlines:
European SMEs have a bright future in arms manufacturing chains.
Forget welfare, we're in the age of warfare
'An armament economy involves in particular the curtailment of consumption as compared with that which it could have been under full employment'
March 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
European Commission, I am told, is ready to rip (already fraying) social contract in its enthusiastic march towards the armament economy.
at Social Europe event recently, two punchlines:
European SMEs have a bright future in arms manufacturing chains.
Forget welfare, we're in the age of warfare
at Social Europe event recently, two punchlines:
European SMEs have a bright future in arms manufacturing chains.
Forget welfare, we're in the age of warfare
I don't really have a lot of comrades active here but it's nice to scroll thru a dumb media app that isn't all nazi AI stuff.
March 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I don't really have a lot of comrades active here but it's nice to scroll thru a dumb media app that isn't all nazi AI stuff.
This year Columbia University's "anti-discrim + harassment training" is especially egregious. Not only CU's collaboration with ICE to exile Ranjani Srinivasan and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, but also how the training uses cartoon images of protestors in slides that describe forms of harassment.
March 22, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This year Columbia University's "anti-discrim + harassment training" is especially egregious. Not only CU's collaboration with ICE to exile Ranjani Srinivasan and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, but also how the training uses cartoon images of protestors in slides that describe forms of harassment.