Catherine Hobbs
@cehobbs.bsky.social
book traveler, UPress evangelizer, engaged in democracy
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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
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May 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...
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Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
April 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Cory Booker, winding down: "We need a greater love in this country a greater fight in this country a greater determination." And re: Strom Thurmond: "I'm not here because of his speech. I'm here despite his speech. The people are more powerful."
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This is going to be remembered for all time as Columbia’s response to having a student protestor kidnapped and held prisoner by a budding authoritarian regime. It is unspeakable cowardice.
March 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is going to be remembered for all time as Columbia’s response to having a student protestor kidnapped and held prisoner by a budding authoritarian regime. It is unspeakable cowardice.
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
"But beyond even the issues of right and wrong and reality and unreality is the issue of language and behavior...There is a long history of this, all around the world, including Hitler in 1933 and Stalin in 1934."
Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...
The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
snyder.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
"But beyond even the issues of right and wrong and reality and unreality is the issue of language and behavior...There is a long history of this, all around the world, including Hitler in 1933 and Stalin in 1934."
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Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...
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Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca
March 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers?
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions.
www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...
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Since the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder, we found a widening disparity in turnout rates between white voters and voters of color. The #JohnLewisVRAA would restore the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination in voting.
March 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Since the Supreme Court's decision in Shelby County v. Holder, we found a widening disparity in turnout rates between white voters and voters of color. The #JohnLewisVRAA would restore the Voting Rights Act’s protections against racial discrimination in voting.
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“Once Trump really cements his fascist power, that’ll be the moment when Senate Republicans will see reason and oppose him.”
Masterful gambit, sir.
Masterful gambit, sir.
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“Once Trump really cements his fascist power, that’ll be the moment when Senate Republicans will see reason and oppose him.”
Masterful gambit, sir.
Masterful gambit, sir.
"For people like us who work in literature, witnessing history is very important. I want to see where this history is headed...You use literary works to record society...For now, if all they do is censor my works, that's fine – I can still witness history. "
Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us about two more of her books now coming to English readers.
5 years after Fang Fang recorded Wuhan lockdown, 2 of her books are being translated
Chinese author Fang Fang posted notes online while being quarantined in Wuhan. They became Wuhan Diary. She talks with us about two more of her books now coming to English readers.
www.npr.org
March 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
"For people like us who work in literature, witnessing history is very important. I want to see where this history is headed...You use literary works to record society...For now, if all they do is censor my works, that's fine – I can still witness history. "
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some helpful reminders:
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
March 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
some helpful reminders:
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
-not all jews support israel
-criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic
-being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas
-arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment
-violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad
"Trust, once destroyed," is the most difficult thing to restore."
Your now-regular reminder that the institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...
Opinion | Trump Is Breaking Things We Can’t Just Fix
The president’s about-face on Ukraine has taught our allies a lesson they won’t be unlearning anytime soon.
www.nytimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"Trust, once destroyed," is the most difficult thing to restore."
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Elon Musk just called Social Security a Ponzi scheme, so it’s worth reiterating: All functional retirement schemes, public or private, pre funded or pay as you go, are claims on future production - there's just no way, at scale, of storing current production for use during retirement
March 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Elon Musk just called Social Security a Ponzi scheme, so it’s worth reiterating: All functional retirement schemes, public or private, pre funded or pay as you go, are claims on future production - there's just no way, at scale, of storing current production for use during retirement
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Excellent read for all of us in Virginia.
The governor and the attorney general are complicit in their silence about what is going on across the Potomac.
And they are both selling out regular working people in Virginia.
The governor and the attorney general are complicit in their silence about what is going on across the Potomac.
And they are both selling out regular working people in Virginia.
Silence of the lambs: Youngkin, Miyares and the rule of law virginiamercury.com/2025/02/14/s...
Silence of the lambs: Youngkin, Miyares and the rule of law • Virginia Mercury
Commentary: Virginia's leaders need to fight for the state's residents and institutions and the rule of law
virginiamercury.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Excellent read for all of us in Virginia.
The governor and the attorney general are complicit in their silence about what is going on across the Potomac.
And they are both selling out regular working people in Virginia.
The governor and the attorney general are complicit in their silence about what is going on across the Potomac.
And they are both selling out regular working people in Virginia.
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So here's a thought.
What if all the rest of the White House press corps stopped showing up until the AP's reinstated?
What if all the rest of the White House press corps stopped showing up until the AP's reinstated?
New: the AP says it was blocked from an Oval Office event after being informed that it would be barred if it didn’t follow President Trump’s guidance on renaming the Gulf of Mexico
February 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
So here's a thought.
What if all the rest of the White House press corps stopped showing up until the AP's reinstated?
What if all the rest of the White House press corps stopped showing up until the AP's reinstated?
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They're trying to nuke democracy by welcoming cyber attacks against election systems. If you're looking for a take-to-the-streets moment, this could be it.
Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
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US cyber agency puts election security staffers who worked with the states on leave
Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local ...
abcnews.go.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
They're trying to nuke democracy by welcoming cyber attacks against election systems. If you're looking for a take-to-the-streets moment, this could be it.
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Trump’s firing of the chair of the Federal Election Commission could be the start of a partisan takeover of an agency that both sides of the aisle have long agreed needs to be independent.
Trump Targets Independent Campaign Finance Watchdog in Latest Ouster
The president moved to fire the Democratic chair of the Federal Election Commission, opening the door to weaponizing the agency for political ends.
www.brennancenter.org
February 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Trump’s firing of the chair of the Federal Election Commission could be the start of a partisan takeover of an agency that both sides of the aisle have long agreed needs to be independent.
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is it woke to want to end cancer?
NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
is it woke to want to end cancer?
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The House of Representatives is considering a bill that will lead to voter purges and widespread disenfranchisement of eligible voters.
The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.
The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.
The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise Millions of Citizens
The SAVE Act would require all Americans to prove their citizenship with documentation unavailable to millions and upend the way every American citizen registers to vote.
www.americanprogress.org
February 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
The House of Representatives is considering a bill that will lead to voter purges and widespread disenfranchisement of eligible voters.
The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.
The SAVE Act stems from baseless claims of voter fraud and is part of a strategic, well-financed effort to suppress voting.
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Community health centers are now starting to shut down across the country because of Trump’s executive orders.
These centers serve 1-in-5 rural patients in America.
These centers serve 1-in-5 rural patients in America.
Virginia community health centers close over federal funding access
Despite pause on federal funding freeze, centers unable to access grants
www.vpm.org
February 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Community health centers are now starting to shut down across the country because of Trump’s executive orders.
These centers serve 1-in-5 rural patients in America.
These centers serve 1-in-5 rural patients in America.