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December 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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“The fight to defend American higher education from political attacks is intertwined with the fight to save our democracy.”-
American Association of University Professors president to my BGOV colleague Kate Ackley on @aaup.org's new federal PAC:
news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Designs for embroidery from a volume of designs by Lunardo Fero dedicated to Elena Foscara, #otd 16 Oct 1559. (V&A Museum, London)
October 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Please mark the date and join us later this year at UQ / @visualpolitics.bsky.social for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture with

Prof Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.

With comments by Prof @binadcosta.bsky.social (ANU) and Dr Fiona Terry (ICRC).
July 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Gustave Doré’s depiction of Don Quixote amid his fantasies of chivalric romance: frontispiece to a 1863 edition of the 17th-century masterpiece of Miguel de Cervantes, who died #onthisday in 1616.

More on the imagery of Don Quixote here: publicdomainreview.org/essay/p... #otd
April 22, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Latest podcast is out: Get in everyone, we are going to Resistance Summer School!

Thank you to everyone who indicated they would like to take my course on Race, Media and International Affairs 101.

Please fill out this quick interest form to begin to sign up!
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Columbia Canceled My Course on Race and Media. I'm Going to Teach It Anyway.
This is not a time for media literacy or historical knowledge to be held hostage by institutions bending the knee to authoritarianism.
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April 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/20/trump-musk-oligarchy-russia-far-right
In the global clash between democracy and oligarchy, the US is switching sides | Robert Reich
As Trump empowers Russia and the far right, he is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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I experienced Russian corruption firsthand — and Trump is importing KGB thuggery: Before I became a trial lawyer, I was corporate. Studying legal systems abroad morphed into drafting foreign license agreements, and in the late 90s, I negotiated across the table from Russian oligarchs. These were…
I experienced Russian corruption firsthand — and Trump is importing KGB thuggery
Before I became a trial lawyer, I was corporate. Studying legal systems abroad morphed into drafting foreign license agreements, and in the late 90s, I negotiated across the table from Russian oligarchs. These were men who, through connections with the…
www.rawstory.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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After buying Twitter, Musk welcomed neo-Nazis + far-Right influencers back, purged antifascists, embraced neo-fascist parities like the AfD in Germany, attacked unions and labor organizing + has rallied in support of white nationalist conspiracy theories. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Elon Musk All but Endorses the Great Replacement Conspiracy Theory
Elon Musk kicked off 2024 by amplifying anti-immigration rhetoric tied to the racist Great Replacement conspiracy theory
www.rollingstone.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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A quarter million folks in #Munich #Bavaria demonstrated against rightwing extremism today. As you can see below, they almost filled #Theresienwiese – That's right: The entire venue of #Oktoberfest full of antifascists! 🎉

#LiberalitasBavariae #NieMehrFaschismus

www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/mue...
Demo für Demokratie in München im Live-Ticker: 250 000 Teilnehmer auf der Theresienwiese
250 000 Teilnehmer auf der Theresienwiese - deutlich mehr als erwartet demonstrieren gegen Rechtsextremismus auf der Theresienwiese. Alle Entwicklungen im Ticker.
www.sueddeutsche.de
February 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM