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Reposted by Michael McFaul, Cas Mudde, Edward Witten , and 55 more Michael McFaul, Cas Mudde, Edward Witten, Rebecca Solnit, Norbert Schwarz, Joe R. Feagin, Linda R. Tropp, David Kaufman, John McLaren, Iain Davidson, Valerie P. Hans, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild, Erica Chenoweth, Melissa R. Michelson, Richard Waite, Jane E. Fountain, Brian Kelly, Cathy N. Davidson, Sanford F. Schram, John Foot, Shelly Lundberg, Mona Lena Krook, Janet Murray, Michael W. Kraus, W. Andy Knight, Roopika Risam, Scott A. Imberman, Els Torreele, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Anne Norton, Erica Weintraub Austin, Seán Hanley, Dana R. Fisher, Lee Jones, Jason Lyall, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Daryl Adair, Talia Schaffer, José Antonio Noguera, Mark Rice, Helen Schwenken, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Seth Masket, Halley E. Froehlich, Ryan K. Brook, Audrey J. Murrell, David S. Tanenhaus, Manisha Sinha, Aviel Roshwald, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Sally Hadden, Aidan O’Sullivan, Timothy D. McBride, Jesse D. Berman, Susan D. Blum, David Darmofal, Susanne Lachmuth
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#GenerativeAI
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#highereducation
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“The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”
Sept. 23 — the discharge petition will be entered into the record. 7 days later — the House votes.
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Sept. 23 — the discharge petition will be entered into the record. 7 days later — the House votes.
Reposted by Cas Mudde, Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma , and 39 more Cas Mudde, Anna O. Law, Nandita Sharma, Juliet B. Schor, Brian Leiter, David Feldman, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild, American Library Association, Joseph Schafer, Shelly Lundberg, Bonnie Honig, Rebecca Tushnet, Alan Richardson, Michael W. Kraus, Silvia Secchi, McKenzie Wark, Caroline T. Schroeder, Lesley Bartlett, Gerald Friedman, Nazita Lajevardi, Beatriz Gallardo Paúls, Robert B. Reich, Rebecca M. Bratspies, James Goodwin, Jessica Vitak, Manuel Puppis, Mark Rice, Karen L. Cox, Nelson Flores, Greg Linden, Patrick Stokes, Matthew Bodie, Tim Stephens, Meredith Farkas, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Manisha Sinha, Heleen Mees, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Susan D. Blum, Southern Africa
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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This is almost unbearable to watch.
#EjectTrumpTheTraitor
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Authoritarians can do anything they want. They don't care about laws, order, rules, or civility.
Once they have power, they flex it.
I hope Dems finally understand this.
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“New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes”
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